Research Videos
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Quantum Potential video: The Faith-Fueled Brain Scanner
Meet Audrey Bowden Audrey Bowden Associate professor of biomedical engineering and electrical engineering and Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow Raised in Nashville, Audrey is a biomedical engineer working in biomedical optics, microfluidics and point-of-care diagnostics. She is focused on development and deployment of low-cost, high-performing technologies for… Read MoreJanuary 7, 2025
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Quantum Potential Video: Vaccine Visionary
Meet Dr. James Crowe Dr. James Crowe Director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Ann Scott Carell Chair and professor of pediatrics and pathology, microbiology and immunology Physician scientist Dr. James Crowe has a broad research portfolio including viral immunology and antibody sciences. His goal is discovering mechanisms… Read MoreDecember 23, 2024
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Quantum Potential Video: AI Unearths Untold Stories
Explore More Meet Jane Landers and Daniel Genkins Jane Landers Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt professor of history and Director of the Slave Societies Digital Archive Jane Landers is a historian specializing in the history of Africans and their descendants in Colonial Latin America and the Atlantic World. Landers directs the… Read MoreDecember 6, 2024
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‘Smart’ prosthetic ankle takes fear out of rough terrain, stairs
The device is from the lab of Professor Michael Goldfarb, perhaps best known for working on a bionic leg with shark attack victim Craig Hutto and later developing the Indego exoskeleton. Read MoreJune 25, 2018
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Expert: Autonomous vehicles could help traffic, but not anytime soon
Engineer Dan Work says his promising research shows adding autonomous vehicles to roadways could end the stop-and-go traffic that drives commuters insane. Read MoreApril 30, 2018
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Unraveling genetic mystery next step in Zika and dengue fight
How a bacteria hijacked insect fertility remained a mystery for five decades, until Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Seth Bordenstein and his team helped solve it. Read MoreApril 23, 2018
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VU Inside: Students dig into super-massive volcanic eruptions
A dozen Vanderbilt students went on a monthlong science adventure of a lifetime, studying super-eruptions, glaciers and earthquakes in New Zealand. Read MoreJanuary 25, 2018
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Sorry, Grumpy Cat—Study finds dogs are brainier than cats
The first study to actually count the number of cortical neurons in the brains of a number of carnivores, including cats and dogs, has found that dogs possess significantly more of them than cats. Read MoreNovember 29, 2017
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Career ended by devastating crash, cyclist turns toward curing sepsis
Sinead Miller was headed for the Olympic games. Now, thanks to a Department of Defense grant to find new sepsis treatments, the Vanderbilt Ph.D. has developed a device that cleans the blood. Read MoreNovember 2, 2017
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Sugars in human mother’s milk are non-toxic antibacterial agents
A new study has found that sugars in mother's' milk do not just provide nutrition for babies but also help protect them from bacterial infections. Read MoreAugust 20, 2017