Vanderbilt University, Author Profile

First Step Toward a Better Prosthetic Leg? Trip People Over and Over

June 21, 2019

Vanderbilt team builds device to capture stumble response

Stalagmite Holds Key to Predicting Droughts, Floods for India

March 26, 2019

Each year, monsoon rains between June and September provide water for roughly 1.5 billion people in India

Findings on Eye-Signal Blending Re-Examines Nobel-Winning Research

January 18, 2019

Vanderbilt team's results counter to those that garnered the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Lifespan and Sexual Maturity Depends on Your Brain More Than Your Body

October 31, 2018

'Brain Soup' research connects number of neurons to longevity

Earth's Oldest Animals Formed Complex Ecological Communities

September 18, 2018

A new analysis is shedding light on the earth's first macroscopic animals: the 570-million-year-old, enigmatic Ediacara ...

Vanderbilt Team Finds Potent Antibodies against Three Ebola Viruses

August 2, 2018

Researchers are a step closer to developing a broadly effective antibody treatment against the three major Ebola viruses...

Characterizing 'Keyhole' Is First Step to Fighting Obesity at the Cellular Level

April 20, 2018

The team determined the first crystal structure for a neuropeptide Y receptor, deciphering the thousands of carbon, oxygen, n...

Opioid Use Increases Risk of Serious Infections

February 14, 2018

The increase in opioid use in the U.S. over the past several years has led to an increased interest toward well-known and als...

Sugars in Human Mother's Milk Are Non-Toxic Antibacterial Agents

August 22, 2017

Researchers have discovered that some of the carbohydrates in human milk not only possess antibacterial properties of th...

Ultrathin Device Harvests Electricity from Human Motion

July 24, 2017

The new device generates small amounts of electricity when it is bent or pressed even at the extremely low frequencies charac...

Decoding Ants' Coat of Many Odors

July 11, 2017

Now that researchers have an effective method for decoding the ants' odorant receptors, the biologists can now begin decipher...

Study Shows High-Salt Diet Decreases Thirst, Increases Hunger

April 19, 2017

This counterintuitive discovery by scientists at Vanderbilt University and in Germany has upended more than 100 years of conv...

Tapping Vast Plant Pharmacopeia to Make More Effective Drugs

April 17, 2017

The revolutionary new approach is based on the observation that plants produce biologically active compounds in response to s...

DNA Duplicator Small Enough to Hold in Your Hand

January 12, 2017

A new method for controlling the DNA duplication process makes it possible to shrink the current desktop machines to handheld...

Early Study Finds Antibody That 'Neutralizes' Zika Virus

November 8, 2016

Similar protection studies in primates are warranted, and if the findings hold up, ZIKV-177 could be developed as a protectiv...