Research News @Vanderbilt

Health & Medicine

• How nerves may lose their insulation
• New prostate cancer treatment concept
• Grant strengthens breast cancer research efforts

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Education & Psychology

• Preschoolers can do more math than you think
• Toddler brains resist learning from screens, even video chat
• Goldring, Grissom, Rubin commissioned to produce reports on K-12 leadership

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Engineering & Technology

• Cellular soldiers designed to kill cancer cells that get loose during surgery, stop metastasis
• Vanderbilt engineers tripped people 190 times, but it was for a good cause
• Quick DNA test for malaria drug resistance is life-saver, holds promise for other diseases

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Law, Business & Politics

• When it comes to investing, love at first sight doesn’t always pay off
• The momentum myth: Staggering primaries didn’t affect outcome of 2016 nominating contests
• When legislatures can and can’t check executive powers

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Life, Earth & Space

• Rare study of Earth-sized planet uses technique pioneered by Vanderbilt professor
• Rokas to lead budding cross-disciplinary collaboration on evolutionary studies
• Behavioral science models can help identify the greenest dietary changes

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Society & Culture

• Decline of U.S. auto industry linked to midcentury shift in production models
• VanDiver and Lieberman selected for NEH Summer Stipend awards
• Griffith, Bruce co-edit new reference texts on health equity

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Intense look at La Brea Tar Pits explains why we have coyotes, not saber-toothed cats

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