Cancer Research UK has awarded a 20-million-pound grant (about $26 million U.S.) to a team of international investigators, including Vanderbilt’s James Goldenring, MD, PhD, to study inflammation-related cancers.
A curriculum directed by husband-and-wife biologists at Vanderbilt University is responsible for helping countless thousands of college students, schoolkids and citizen scientists worldwide contribute to research on microbes using cutting-edge technology.
Vanderbilt’s Alexander Maier, assistant professor of psychology, and Ph.D. student Kacie Dougherty used computerized eye-tracking cameras plus electrodes that can record activity of single neurons in a particular area.
The kidney has a remarkable capacity to repair itself following acute injury, but maladaptive repair can lead to fibrosis (scarring) and chronic kidney disease.
A segment of the multibillion-dollar wearables industry aims to save potential victims from this fate, but a Vanderbilt University engineering professor found a major problem: the devices are measuring the wrong thing.
The Wond’ry, Vanderbilt University’s innovation center, has been awarded a $30,000 grant from VentureWell for its flagship Social Innovations pillar program and its new Social Innovations Think Tank initiative
Cellular signaling pathways involved in everything from the proliferation of fatty tissue to the death of neurons in the brain are tightly regulated by “cascades” of sequentially activated enzymes, MAP kinases.
