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  • Vanderbilt University

    Building the basement membrane

    Vanderbilt researchers have discovered steps in the regulation of a key enzyme that builds the basement membrane, a structure that undergirds nearly all animal tissues. Read More

    Nov 21, 2016

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt researchers hit ‘home run’

    Vanderbilt University professor Billy Hudson, Ph.D., and his lab have achieved a scientific “bleacher burner” -- their paper is published, discussed in an editorial and featured on the cover of this month’s Nature Chemical Biology, a high profile journal. Read More

    Sep 12, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    VU study reveals connective tissue’s reinforcing ‘rivet’

    An ancient enzyme that can be traced back 500 million years forms the chemical “rivet” that reinforces connective tissue throughout the body, Vanderbilt University researchers reported this week. Read More

    Aug 2, 2012