Pathology

  • HIV molecule

    Host countermeasure hinders HIV

    New details about a host mechanism that fights off HIV may reveal strategies for therapies to treat or prevent HIV infection. Read More

    Sep 8, 2011

  • fridge with lock

    Starvation diet kills staph bacteria

    The antibiotics of the future could take a page from the immune system’s playbook – and “starve” bacteria of the nutrients they need. Read More

    Aug 26, 2011

  • Vanderbilt University

    A Grand Experiment

    The Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach puts science in the hands of students Angela Eeds, director of the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt, gives instruction to Chelsea Guo and Augtonia Coleman, freshmen at Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet High School. Photo by Daniel Dubois They treated him like a rock… Read More

    Apr 4, 2011

  • Illustration of human intestinal tract

    Enzyme protects against inflamed colon

    Increasing an enzyme required for a type of colon tissue may help dampen inflammation, a known risk factor for colon cancer. Read More

    Mar 7, 2011