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Reporting this month in the journal Calcified Tissue International, Jonathan Schoenecker, MD, PhD, and colleagues led by Stephanie Moore-Lotridge, PhD, suggest a new paradigm for HO formation.

In a series of studies, Eric Skaar, PhD, and colleagues have characterized how A. baumannii — a leading cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia — responds to zinc starvation.

A report by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has shattered conventional wisdom about how cells, including cancer cells, shed DNA into the bloodstream: they don’t do it by packaging the genetic material in tiny vesicles called exosomes.

Vanderbilt University’s Nilanjan Sarkar, a mechanical engineering professor, Linda Beuscher, an assistant professor in the School of Nursing, and their team recently finished testing the game in two nursing homes with a total of 15 older adults, both with and without cognitive impairments.

A team of astronomers from Cornell, Lehigh, and Vanderbilt university has identified the most promising targets for this search in the new “TESS Habitable Zone Star Catalog,” published March 26 in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

A new lightweight, low-profile and inexpensive ankle exoskeleton could be widely used among elderly people, those with impaired lower-leg muscle strength and workers whose jobs require substantial walking or running.

In March 2019, six Vanderbilt technologies were issued patents from the USPTO.