by Vanderbilt University Medical Center From left, Taylor Smith, MS, Jacek Hawiger, MD, Ph.D., Jozef Zienkiewicz, Ph.D., and Yan Liu, MD, and colleagues developed a peptide that may protect against life-threatening microbial inflammation with underlying metabolic syndrome. Credit: Hawiger lab A cell-penetrating peptide developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center can prevent, in an animal model, the...