Monthly Archives: August 2019

Jane Park, School of Medicine faculty member for 60 years, dies at 94

Jane Park, PhD, an active member of the Vanderbilt University faculty for 60 years, died Aug. 19 in Nashville. She was 94. Continue reading

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Healthy adults ages 18-45 needed for research study

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“Nashville Lifestyles” Women in Business issue honors Traci Nordberg, Julie Carell Stadler

Nashville Lifestyles has honored 12 trailblazing women who are creating lasting legacies in each of their fields, including hospitality, health care, money management, retail management and everything in between. Continue reading

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Quitting smoking associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease

A Vanderbilt study recently published in the “Journal of the American Medical Association” documents the great incentive for current smokers to quit. Continue reading

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Can retrospective studies confirm the causation of drug induced liver injury?

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The Histone Demethylase KDM3A, Increased in Human Pancreatic Tumors, Regulates Expression of DCLK1 in and Promotes Tumorigenesis in Mice

The histone lysine demethylase 3A (KDM3A) demethylates demethylates H3K9me1 and H3K9Me2 to increase gene transcription and is upregulated in tumors, including pancreatic tumors. We investigated its activities in pancreatic cancer cell lines and its reg… Continue reading

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Neonatal life events and the risk of inflammatory bowel disease

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Activation of Hedgehog Signaling Promotes Development of Mouse and Human Enteric Neural Crest Cells, Based on single-cell Transcriptome Analyses

It has been a challenge to develop fully functioning cells from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). We investigated how activation of hedgehog signaling regulates derivation of enteric neural crest (NC) cells from hPSCs. Continue reading

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Reply to “Incidence and Etiology of Drug-Induced Liver Injury in Mainland China”

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Eradication of Helicobacter pylori in Children Restores the Structure of the Gastric Bacterial Community to That of Non-infected Children

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