(AUGUST 27, 2024) Joseph Kennedy, M.D., director of toxicology education, spoke with the New York Times about people’s concerns about the effect of DEET bug spray on human health.

(AUGUST 23, 2024) Christopher Brady, M.D., M.H.S., associate professor of surgery, commented to Healio about his research on the use of large language models (LLMs) in generating scientific abstracts.

(AUGUST 23, 2024) UVM Extension 4-H has partnered with UVM Larner College of Medicine to offer a series of interactive Health Heroes Workshops for Youth for teens this fall that promote practical health and wellness knowledge, the Rutland Herald reports.

In a recent paper, titled “Vasohibin Inhibition Improves Myocardial Relaxation in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction,” Matthew Caporizzo, Ph.D., assistant professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, along with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, have created a powerful small molecule vasohibin inhibitor (VASHi) to block MTN detyrosination in live animals. Detyrosination is the enzymatic removal of the tyrosine (an amino acid that is used by cells to build proteins) residue from the C-terminal end of tubulin (a protein that forms microtubules), which makes the microtubules sticky, impeding the heart cells from relaxing properly.