Daily Archives: June 11, 2020

Myosin VB (MYO5B) is an essential trafficking protein for membrane recycling in gastrointestinal epithelial cells. The inactivating mutations of MYO5B cause the congenital diarrheal disease, microvillus inclusion disease (MVID). MYO5B deficiency in mic… Continue reading →

As the world begins to slowly open back up after months of living in a safer-at-home mode, many families are wondering how best to re-introduce their children to society. Continue reading →

REDCap, the research data management tool created and powered by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is serving extra duty as research teams and public health authorities around the world grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue reading →

For members of VUMC’s workforce who plan to be on the Medical Center’s downtown Nashville campus, or at other locations, the first stop upon arrival will be at one of the COVID-19 screening stations. Continue reading →

Vanderbilt University and the global biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca have signed a new agreement that will enable AstraZeneca to advance two coronavirus-neutralizing antibodies discovered by the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center (VVC) into clinical devel… Continue reading →

The pharmacists were looking for a gray-haired man in a brown shirt. That’s how he’d described himself a few minutes before, as he was pulling off the interstate. He’d just driven 165 miles west, through much of Tennessee — crisscrossing the crooks in… Continue reading →

The greatest current threat to global health involves the pandemic outbreak of the novel coronavirus (CoV) that is structurally related to the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV) or Middle East respiratory syndrome, and is kn… Continue reading →