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Nominations for the 2023 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Research Staff Awards are now being accepted. The nomination deadline is Oct. 20.... Read more »

William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, continues to be one of the most in-demand sources about infectious disease in the news. Among the news outlets he has spoken to recently: NBC News, CNN, Voice of America, The Wall Street Journal, Medscape, U.S. News and World Report, Vox, HuffPost, and... Read more »

VUMC Enterprise Cybersecurity (VEC) is issuing a warning to VUMC users to be alert for business email compromise (BEC) attacks with trusted figures. VEC has recently noticed an increase in BEC cybercrime tactics directed at VUMC users. This type of cybercrime is where a scammer uses email to trick someone... Read more »

Vanderbilt University Medical Center laboratory employees, their families and many others involved in the ongoing transformation of the Medical Center's laboratories had a first peek at the new 110,000-square-foot core laboratory space during a recent open house.... Read more »

Debra Friedman, MD, MS, has been awarded a $100,000 Hyundai Hope On Wheels Impact Award to examine outcomes in pediatric, adolescent and young adult sarcoma patients and survivors.... Read more »

Vanderbilt infectious diseases specialist Anna Person, MD, has been named to a four-year term as vice-chair of the board of the HIV Medicine Association .... Read more »

Phishing continues to be one of the most used methods by attackers to gain unauthorized access to an organization’s network. An emerging trend in phishing attacks is the use of QR codes instead of direct links or attachments in phishing emails. Recent examples include fake emails asking the user to... Read more »

Flulapalooza welcomes all VUMC employees to its 11th anniversary flu vaccination event on Wednesday, Sept. 27. The event will take place under the tent between Light Hall and the VA Hospital from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Stop by to get your flu shot, reconnect with fellow colleagues, and interact... Read more »

During his State of the Department of Pediatrics address, Steven Webber, MBChB, MRCP, celebrated the department’s people, highlighted the achievements of the past fiscal year and provided insights into the journey ahead.... Read more »

Vanderbilt postdoctoral researcher Martin Douglass, PhD, has been named a 2023 Hanna Gray Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.... Read more »

Institutional research data administrators from around world got their REDCap on at REDCapCon 2023, held Sept. 10-13 in Seattle.... Read more »

A new study by Vanderbilt researchers provides a remarkably detailed view of the earliest events leading to the development of cancer, and of potential new ways to prevent it.... Read more »

Vanderbilt University Medical Center scientists are launching a research platform called ELVIS that is devoted to molecular underpinnings of early-childhood determinants of health.... Read more »

The profound impact of R. Daniel Beauchamp, MD, former chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was deeply evident at a recent symposium highlighting basic research conducted by numerous surgeons and physician-scientists, all of whom were closely associated with the noted physician-scientist.... Read more »

Science in meter and verse... Read more »

In low- and middle-income nations, snakebite envenoming is more deadly than almost any other neglected tropical disease... Read more »

The disease hits farmworkers and outdoor laborers disproportionately hard... Read more »

An investigative report reveals that new spyware can slip in unseen through online ads—and there is currently no defense against it... Read more »

Calculations determining the climate damage of greenhouse gas emissions—called the social cost of carbon—will be considered in federal agencies’ budgets, permitting decisions and, eventually, government purchases... Read more »

These four researchers are highlighting environmental inequities and improving the health of their communities... Read more »

Generative AI algorithms use probability to create visuals from noise... Read more »

Human scientists—used to the benefits of a centralized, complex brain—have been underestimating what a simple nerve network can do... Read more »

One researcher has been hiring planes to strafe the sky over the Amazon rain forest to collect the air coming off the trees, and what she is finding is cause for alarm.... Read more »

AI is poised to revolutionize our understanding of animal communication... Read more »

The most marginalized people are breathing the most polluted air, and improving it could improve health equity worldwide... Read more »

The equinox is not when day and night have equal lengths. Instead it’s something more nuanced but no less glorious... Read more »

Researchers have adapted the AI network to search for genetic changes linked to ill health... Read more »

United Nations secretary-general António Guterres is proposing a $500-billion annual stimulus package to meet the Sustainable Development Goals to preserve the environment and end poverty and hunger... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 38, September 2023. <br/>... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 38, September 2023. <br/>... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 38, September 2023. <br/>... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 38, September 2023. <br/>... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 38, September 2023. <br/>... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 38, September 2023. <br/>... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 38, September 2023. <br/>... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 38, September 2023. <br/>... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 38, September 2023. <br/>... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 38, September 2023. <br/>... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 38, September 2023. <br/>... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 38, September 2023. <br/>... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 38, September 2023. <br/>... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 38, September 2023. <br/>... Read more »

Inspired by their daughter and son's experiences at the University of Michigan, Philip and Nicole Hadley were eager to support recreation, health and well-being opportunities for students on campus.... Read more »

Michael Wellman, the Richard H. Orenstein Division Chair and Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, testified this week in front of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs to alert lawmakers to the potential dangers to security, safety and equity posed by AI's use... Read more »

Little Amal, a 12-foot puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee child, will be making her way onto the University of Michigan campus this week as part of a 6,000-mile walk across the U.S.... Read more »

The University of Michigan, Black Hills State University in South Dakota and Benedictine University in Illinois have received a $1.125 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to recruit students of diverse backgrounds into the field of physics.... Read more »

The University of Michigan is among 13 institutions that will receive funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to be part of a national network of centers focused on predicting and responding to future disease outbreaks.... Read more »

The latest report from University of Michigan public health researchers studying how COVID-19 affected Michiganders found that the severity of illness or negative impact of the pandemic is strongly linked to where one lives.... Read more »

The University of Michigan Exercise & Sport Science Initiative has launched a research partnership with Samsung Electronics Co. to explore smartwatch technology in an effort to help runners manage their health and physical activity by providing more reliable and accurate data.... Read more »

Could future opioid overdoses, fatalities and other harms of opioid addiction be prevented if hospital emergency departments made better use of effective medications for opioid addiction?... Read more »

Across the facade of Alumni Memorial Hall—a neoclassical building that opened in 1910 to commemorate U-M students and staff who served in the Mexican-American, Civil, and Spanish-American wars, and home to UMMA—is the experimental installation, "GIFT," commissioned by artist Cannupa Hanska Luger.... Read more »

University of Michigan researchers will lead a new effort to strengthen the climate change resilience of vulnerable communities that span international boundaries and jurisdictions. The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $5 million to U-M to establish the Global Center for Understanding Climate Change Impacts on Transboundary Waters. Partners in... Read more »

Many pathogens, including the virus that causes COVID-19, are thought to have originated in wild animals before spilling into human populations.... Read more »

Indicators of high school grades and standardized test scores that consider the levels of school, neighborhood and family resources available to students are strongly associated with students' success in college, according to new University of Michigan research.... Read more »

Research led by the University of Michigan generated a record 580 new inventions last year and launched 25 startup companies ranging in scope from innovative therapies for the treatment of fibrosis to technologies that aid in substance abuse monitoring.... Read more »

People who bought firearms during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic have much higher rates of recent suicidal thoughts, self-harm behaviors and intimate partner violence, compared with other firearm owners and people who do not own firearms, a new study suggests.... Read more »

Write about biology. Spread good ideas. Win up to $10,000.... Read more »

Books, papers, courses, and blogs to help you get started.... Read more »

Reflections on three years of Codon.... Read more »

Plus: Memes, growing rat neurons to play DOOM, and Nobel Laureates are less productive.... Read more »

How to make a machine that turns bits into molecules.... Read more »

Plus: Green light for cultivated chicken, LLMs make molecules & caffeine-free coffee trees.... Read more »

It's good that we are not our ancestors.... Read more »

Plus: A protein that edits cell membranes.... Read more »

A Q&A with Mary Gehring, plant biologist at MIT’s Whitehead Institute, about synthetic apomixis.... Read more »

Plus: Epigenome editing cuts cholesterol in monkeys.... Read more »

Plus: The F.D.A. makes an unexpected decision.... Read more »

Watch now (38 secs) | Research Roundup // Plus: Yeast evolve in the lab.... Read more »

Plus: More problems for lab-grown meat.... Read more »

If you want to kill mosquitoes, sometimes you gotta make more of ‘em.... Read more »

Promising artists from Southampton have spoken of their delight after their work was chosen from hundreds for a new exhibition in Hampshire.... Read more »

A study conducted at the University of Southampton has shown a significant increase in the risk of patient incidents in mental health and community wards when the majority of shifts in a ward-day are 12 hours or longer.... Read more »

Why are pirates called ‘pirates’? Because they arrr!... Read more »

An international pioneer in silicon photonics, from the University of Southampton, has been awarded a top medal from the Royal Society of Engineering.... Read more »

Cross-national research carried out by the University of Southampton and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA) into public opinion on LGBT+ rights has shown that anti-immigrant prejudices, particularly towards Muslims, contributes to explaining some of the widespread shifts in tolerance towards the LGBT+ community. Findings of a new study show this was... Read more »

A new film offering an insight into one man’s awakening to climate change – and subsequent climate anxiety – will receive a one-off screening in Southampton on Tuesday 3 October 2023.... Read more »

Engineers from the University of Southampton have welcomed a new report which is seeking to upskill British shipbuilding.... Read more »

Archaeologists have discovered a major Palaeolithic cave art site, arguably the most important found on the Eastern Iberian Coast in Europe.... Read more »

A team from the University of Southampton has built a fully functioning replica of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover, to demonstrate how space technology can be lifesaving on Earth.... Read more »

A University of Southampton graduate is preparing to sail in the prestigious Ocean Globe Race 2023, commencing this Sunday (September 10) from Southampton’s Ocean Village.... Read more »

The world’s top polling and politics experts are convening in Southampton to debate current issues and to share their latest research, as the UK edges closer to a General Election.... Read more »

Cancer immunotherapy research in Southampton has been given a boost thanks to new funding by Cancer Research UK.... Read more »

A new study suggests boys who smoke in their early teens risk damaging the genes of their future children, increasing their chances of developing asthma, obesity and low lung function.... Read more »

The UK will experience its second supermoon of August, on the eve of Wednesday 30 August – and stargazers are being urged not to miss out.... Read more »

Lampreys belong to an ancient group of fish called Agnatha that evolved 450 million years ago, predating both dinosaurs and trees.... Read more »

The sun's outer atmosphere was captured at previously impossible extreme ultraviolet wavelengths thanks to a last-minute engineering hack.... Read more »

Here's how your brain might adjust to see color on another world.... Read more »

A landslide in northern Spain has helped unearth two Iron Age gold necklaces that were likely buried in a hoard about 2,500 years ago.... Read more »

The discovery of seemingly home-grown carbon dioxide suggests Europa's ice-covered ocean could be habitable.... Read more »

Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered a hexagonal pyramid that served as a burial site in the Bronze Age.... Read more »

A team of astronomers has used a tricky technique to study an ancient galaxy previously lost in the glare of a blazing quasar.... Read more »

Analysis of the microscopic structure of an ancient shard of Roman glass has revealed how photonic crystals form, and might enable them to be grown.... Read more »

Pharmacogenomic, or PGx, tests predict how your genes might affect your response to medications. But they have their limitations.... Read more »

HopHacks brings college students to Homewood every year to "hack" together apps and programs in just 36 hours to solve real-world problems... Read more »

Approach could help optimize clinical decisions... Read more »

Community is encouraged to offer feedback over the 60–day public comment period... Read more »

They developed the Bronchosleeve, a novel catheter to improve a common chest surgery procedure... Read more »

Plasma from recovered patients, helpful in preventing severe COVID, could also decrease likelihood of post-COVID symptoms... Read more »

The club competed in the 12th Biennial Dragon Boat Races in Baltimore's Inner Harbor Sept. 9 and will take to the water again this Saturday in Cumberland, Maryland... Read more »

Center for Health Security, others from across Hopkins receive CDC funding to help communities prepare for future emerging health threats... Read more »

JHU's Net-Zero Industrial Policy Lab aims to find solutions that can eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from modern supply chains... Read more »

New Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-free Society center will collaborate with international partners to decarbonize global energy sector... Read more »

Committee will be co-chaired by incoming Provost Ray Jayawardhana and Mayo Shattuck, chair of the Johns Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins Health System boards of trustees... Read more »

JHU also ranks among the nation's top colleges in terms of student indebtedness, undergraduate research, and innovation... Read more »

The Ten for One consists of 10 goals spanning the full range of JHU's activities, from discovery and translation, to education and community partnerships... Read more »

Yayuan Liu recognized for her work creating carbon-capture devices... Read more »

Technology developed by JHU engineers could eventually treat an aggressive type of breast cancer... Read more »

With the right combination of chemicals, the underground ocean is where life can begin. Unfortunately for planetary scientists, it’s difficult to see past a planet’s…... Read more »

Before the work of the James Webb Observatory, it was thought that there were very few disk galaxies in this part of the Universe that…... Read more »

According to new high-resolution 3D simulations, spinning black holes twist space-time around them, eventually ripping apart the violent maelstrom of gas (or accretion disk) that…... Read more »

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers observed the galaxy cluster PLCK G165.7+67.0. The observation campaign led to the discovery…... Read more »

Quantum entanglement is a physical process in which pairs of particles connect and remain connected even when separated by large distances. This fascinating phenomenon has…... Read more »

credit: University of Tsukuba The study of how individual stars are born and die in galaxies, how new stars are born from the remains of…... Read more »

Spatial distribution of stars near NGC 55-dw1. Credit: McNanna et  An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new faint ultradiffuse and diffuse…... Read more »

Image source: NASA The James Webb Space Observatory looks beyond the youth of the universe. It will also help you discover the secrets of the…... Read more »

An international team of astronomers using the Dark Energy Survey (DES) has discovered a new ultra-diffuse dwarf galaxy. The new galaxy is named NGC 55-dw1,…... Read more »

Repetition in the brain gives rise to two peculiar phenomena: déjà vu and its lesser-known counterpart, jamais vu. The latter makes familiar experiences feel eerily new and unsettling.... Read more »

Researchers are grappling with vast datasets to unravel brain mysteries. A team employed new software to analyze MRIs from 300 infants, revealing that myelin in white matter grows slower after birth.... Read more »

Using a comparison to vinyl record collectors, researchers delve into the concept of matching—a behavior where decisions are based on reward expectations—observed from pigeons to humans. In a recent study, the team found that fruit flies also demonstrate this behavior, deciding based on their reward predictions.... Read more »

Jellyfish, despite lacking centralized brains, can learn similarly to more advanced organisms, a new study reveals. Scientists trained Caribbean box jellyfish to dodge obstacles, showcasing the animal's capability for associative learning.... Read more »

Claudio's unique head orientation—rotated nearly 180 degrees—allowed researchers to explore the evolutionary and experiential factors in face recognition. While most people struggle to recognize inverted faces, Claudio's distinct vantage point put this ability to the test.... Read more »

Researchers have shed light on the vital role of the locus coeruleus in regulating REM sleep and its effects on cognitive processes. Located deep in the brain, this nucleus manages noradrenaline, influencing memory, emotions, and sleep initiation.... Read more »

Trigonelline (TG), a compound in coffee and certain vegetables, is believed to improve cognitive decline in aging. Researchers administered TG to aging mice, noting enhancements in spatial learning and memory.... Read more »

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects 2% to 10% of trauma survivors, manifesting as intense anxiety from emotional disbalance. Researchers employed brain scans on 104 trauma survivors to determine which ones were more susceptible to PTSD.... Read more »

Psychological loss, be it from job loss or the death of a loved one, affects well-being immensely, yet its molecular mechanism in the brain remains enigmatic. Researchers utilized the method of enrichment removal (ER) to discern these elusive processes. The study spotlighted a specific brain area central to psychological loss... Read more »

Researchers have unveiled the brain's chemical mechanism behind our attention span. Historically, the neurotransmitter acetylcholine was considered the sole regulator of attention.... Read more »

Researchers discovered that neural activity in the left ventral temporoparietal junction (vTPJ) and the lateral anterior temporal lobe (lATL) during sentence processing is tied to social-semantic working memory. Previously, these regions were attributed to general language processing. Using fMRI experiments, the study demonstrated that these regions respond to sentences with... Read more »

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