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Research probes why COVID-19 seems to spare young children May 28, 2020
Lung disease experts at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and their colleagues have determined a key factor as to why COVID-19 appears to infect and sicken adults and older people preferentially while seeming to spare younger children.
VUMC News and Communication
Probing innate immunity May 19, 2020
Manuel Ascano team validates an inhibitor of the cGAS-STING signaling pathway, which is important for cellular innate immunity against bacteria, viruses, and our own damaged DNA.
Leigh MacMillan
New method captures early viral-host protein interactions May 7, 2020
Researchers have developed a method to identify the primary interactions between incoming viral RNA genomes and host proteins.
Bill Snyder
A dual-purpose metabolic switch May 5, 2020
John York and colleagues have demonstrated that the protein Vip1 is a rare type of bifunctional enzyme: it can both synthesize and destroy key cellular signaling molecules.
Leigh MacMillan
Ascano, Zanic named Basic Sciences Dean’s Faculty Fellows April 24, 2020
The School of Medicine Basic Sciences has established a new Dean’s Faculty Fellows program designed to recognize the efforts of faculty in the early stages of their careers.
Vanderbilt Division of Communications
Transporter’s role in gut barrier April 21, 2020
A disease-associated mutation in a transporter protein impairs gut barrier function, leading to gastrointestinal disease and chronic infections.
Leigh MacMillan
‘Tuning’ cell shape for division April 20, 2020
Dylan Burnette and colleagues have discovered that two forms of the molecular motor protein myosin have distinct roles in regulating cell shape during cell division.
Leigh MacMillan

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