Are you ready for robots in the ER?

Electronics - Robotics

Dec 07, 2010 5 / 5 (2) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Three Vanderbilt physicists are members of the scientific team that have reported creating an exotic state of matter with a temperature of four trillion degrees Celsius. It's the hottest temperature ...

Physics - General Physics

Mar 02, 2010 4.7 / 5 (7) 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Knowing the structure of an enzyme essential to the protozoan parasite that causes African sleeping sickness may lead to new drugs to combat the often-fatal disease and several other related disorders that ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Feb 24, 2010 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a sense, Antonis Rokas is an arborist: He is a member of a small cadre to scientists who are applying the growing power of genomics to untangle and correctly arrange the branches of the ...

Biology - Evolution

Oct 08, 2009 5 / 5 (3) 0

A common variation of the gene involved in regulating serotonin and norepinephrine in the brain may be linked to problem behaviors in adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities, new research indicates.

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Jul 21, 2009 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Vanderbilt chemist and a biomedical engineer have teamed up to develop a respiratory virus detector that is sensitive enough to detect an infection at an early stage, takes only a few minutes ...

Chemistry - Analytical Chemistry

Jun 29, 2009 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The day that robot playmates help children with autism learn the social skills that they naturally lack has come a step closer with the development of a system that allows a robot to monitor ...

Electronics - Robotics

Feb 17, 2009 not rated yet 0

Abnormal heart rhythms - arrhythmias - are killers. They strike without warning, causing sudden cardiac death, which accounts for about 10 percent of all deaths in the United States.

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Jan 21, 2009 4 / 5 (1) 0

For risk-takers and impulsive people, New Year's resolutions often include being more careful, spending more frugally and cutting back on dangerous behavior, such as drug use. But new research from Vanderbilt finds that these ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Dec 30, 2008 4.8 / 5 (4) 1

Atherosclerosis – a disease that includes the buildup of fatty, cholesterol-laden lumps of cells inside the artery wall – is the underlying cause of heart attacks and strokes.

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Dec 15, 2008 4.3 / 5 (3) 1

For the first time, structural biologists have managed to obtain the detailed three-dimensional structure of one of the proteins that form the core of the complex molecular machine, called the replisome, that ...

Biology -

Dec 09, 2008 4.3 / 5 (3) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ninety years after the sweeping destruction of the 1918 flu pandemic, researchers at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt have recovered antibodies to the virus — from elderly survivors ...

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Nov 11, 2008 5 / 5 (3) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An interdisciplinary group of scientists has obtained the first detailed information about the structure of the most destructive group of plant viruses known: flexible filamentous viruses. ...

Biology -

Oct 01, 2008 5 / 5 (1) 0

Inventors from across the country can enter a national competition to design a new amphibious infantry fighting vehicle for the U.S. Marine Corps and Vanderbilt University's Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) is ...

Technology - Engineering

Jan 21, 2013 not rated yet 2

Despite the uncertainties surrounding climate change, it is time to start developing effective strategies that will keep the nation's transportation systems and other critical infrastructure running in the face of the adverse ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 22, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 2