Daily Archives: February 4, 2020

Josh Ferris was sitting in a hunting blind on Nov. 15, 2018, the first day of deer season in Michigan and the one-year anniversary of his stem cell donation, when he received an email from Todd Adams of Nashville, the recipient of his life-saving gift…. Continue reading →

The program focuses on training young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities for jobs in health care Continue reading →

Stimulating neural activity between the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens — a brain region associated with pleasure — impairs social function even though mice find the stimulation rewarding, a new study published by Vanderbilt researchers in “The Jo… Continue reading →

Esophageal adenocarcinomas (EAC) are heterogeneous and often preceded by Barrett’s esophagus (BE). Many genomic changes have been associated with development of BE and EAC, but little is known about epigenetic alterations. We performed epigenetic analy… Continue reading →

Celiac disease could be treated, and potentially cured, by restoring T-cell tolerance to gliadin. We investigated the safety and efficacy of negatively charged, 500 nm, poly(lactide-co-glycolide) nanoparticles encapsulating gliadin protein (TIMP-GLIA) … Continue reading →

Gastric chief cells, a mature cell type that secretes digestive enzymes, have been proposed to be the origin of metaplasia and cancer, through dedifferentiation or trans-differentiation. However, studies supporting this claim have had technical limitat… Continue reading →