Improving long-term outcomes after kidney transplant
Kidney transplant recipients need to take drugs to prevent their immune systems from rejecting their new organs, but the drugs themselves can cause cardiovascular and kidney problems.
Emory scientists played a key role in developing belatacept, which has a better record of patient and graft survival, a long term study has shown.
Neurons dominate GDBBS contest-winning images
Neurons, neurons and more neurons. Congratulations to Stephanie, Amanda and Jadiel.
Rescuing existing antibiotics with adjuvants
Many of the points Gerald Wright made at Thursday’s Antibiotic Resistance Center Symposium on combination drug discovery strategy could apply to approaches taken by Emory researcher Cassandra Quave.
Galectins defend against bacterial wolves in sheeps’ clothing
Sean Stowell explains the connection between gaps in our immune systems, which bacteria have to potential to exploit, and proteins that could become the basis of new antibiotic treatments.
Sidestepping the placebo effect when studying depression
Studying symptoms of depression in people who are being treated for something else
NINDS director: neuroscience now largest ‘bucket of money’
Neuroscience research is spread out among several institutes of the NIH.
Device for viewing glowing brain tumors
A hand-held tool for precisely defining tumor margins, via fluorescence, during surgery.
Ancient protein flexibility may drive ‘new’ functions
Insights on how proteins evolve new functions from studying the steroid receptor family: conformational flexibility is key.
Grady Trauma Project — DICER link to PTSD plus depression
The Grady Trauma Project continues to yield scientific fruit. Here, PTSD plus depression is linked to changes affecting the microRNA processing enzyme Dicer.
IgG4-related means mysterious
It sounds like each case of IgG4-related disease has the potential to be an episode of House. Emory rheumatologist Arezou Khosroshahi is an expert on this mysterious autoimmune condition.