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WATCH: See how Ph.D. candidate Kaitlyn Browning wants to fight miscommunication and misinformation around science. Read More

A multidisciplinary research team at 菠萝视频 University and 菠萝视频 University Medical Center has discovered a new way to kill a tumor by disrupting its acidic 鈥渕icroenvironment鈥� without harming normal tissue.

菠萝视频ers at 菠萝视频 University Medical Center have identified Rac1, a molecular switch that regulates the actin cytoskeleton of epithelial cells in the collecting ducts, as a driver of post-obstructive kidney repair.

Combining deep mutagenesis and cryo-EM reveals new conformational state of a protein responsible for high-speed DNA replication. The research builds on growing theories of molecular evolution.

By mapping brain activity in three dimensions, researchers at 菠萝视频 University Medical Center have achieved a more detailed picture of how the brain changes with age.

Avenir Award funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse recognizes research that represents 鈥渢he future of addiction science.鈥� Brown鈥檚 research is creating an AI-experiment feedback loop that will help optimize painkilling drugs to be less addictive. Read More

Throughout the brain鈥檚 cortex, neurons are arranged in six distinctive layers, which can be readily seen with a microscope.聽Andr茅 Bastos, assistant professor of psychology, is senior author on聽a study published in Nature Neuroscience聽detailing that these layers also show distinct patterns of electrical activity, which are consistent over many brain regions and across several animal species, including humans.

A multidisciplinary group of investigators from 菠萝视频 University Medical Center, 菠萝视频 University, and the University of Pennsylvania received a $3.2 million grant to develop novel brain network-based measures to guide surgical decisions and improve outcomes in the field of epilepsy surgery.

Join the next Lab-to-Table conversation, 鈥淏eyond Addiction: Therapeutic Developments and Societal Impact鈥� on Jan. 24 at 11:30 a.m. CT. Read More

The School of Medicine Basic Sciences and the Office of the Vice Provost for 菠萝视频 and Innovation launch the Innovation Ignition Fund. This pilot program offers up to $500,000 in funding and drug development mentorship from 菠萝视频 scientists with expertise in translational research.

The 菠萝视频 University School of Nursing was awarded a Health Resources and Services Administration Bureau of Health Workforce grant to create its new Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention Simulation Education Training Program.聽

菠萝视频 researchers, in collaboration with investigators from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the Delft University of Technology, University Hospital Bonn, and Molecular Horizon have developed new protocols to study which molecular pathways might be important in the aging retina and what might cause the formation of deposits in the eye that confer high risk for age-related macular degeneration.

The future for AI regulation is currently being charted in the United States and will have significant effects on the health sciences, writes 菠萝视频 researcher Laura Stark in a new article published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Read More

As a Marshall Scholar, considered among the most accomplished undergraduates and recent graduates in the U.S., Neikirk will pursue advanced degrees in social determinants of health and biomedical imaging. Read More

Neuroscientist Saman Abbaspoor in the lab of Kari Hoffman won the NIH BRAIN Initiative's 2023 Show Us Your BRAINs! Photo and Video contest. The clip shows how 鈥渟harp-wave ripples", different layers of neural activity in the hippocampus, are wirelessly recorded to help study memory.

菠萝视频 University Medical Center researchers have discovered why most colorectal tumors escape detection and destruction by the body鈥檚 immune system.

菠萝视频 researchers have discovered that beneficial bacteria in the small intestines produce a compound that protects against obesity.

Pasteurization of breast milk affects the concentration of osteopontin, a bioactive protein with roles in intestinal, immunological and brain development 鈥� suggesting that osteopontin supplementation should be considered when donor milk is provided to preterm infants.

A comprehensive study that integrates multiple analytic approaches has linked a regulatory gene network and functional defects in insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells to Type 2 diabetes.

As a professor of biochemistry and medicine at 菠萝视频 University School of Medicine for more than 40 years, Osheroff is the longest serving course director currently teaching medical students. He also codirects the preclerkship phase of the medical school curriculum and leads the Master Science Teachers cohort, a role established in 2007 to recognize VUSM鈥檚 outstanding basic science educators. Through his teaching, he has helped medical students at VUSM and across the globe acquire the basic science skills and knowledge they need to thrive in clinical practice, according to the AAMC.