Low oxygen – and the activation of factors that respond to this situation – may be protective in chronic kidney disease.

Cells in the back of the developing brain can give rise to brain tumors, suggesting they may be a target for treatment.

A new statistical tool developed by Vanderbilt biostatisticians will help medical researchers make sense of a commonly encountered – but hard-to-analyze – type of data.

Understanding how an environmental hazard damages DNA may shed light on processes of tumor formation.

Enhancing stem cell survival is key to improving cell-based therapies for regenerative medicine, and a new drug could help.

The epithelial cells that line the intestines have a newly discovered mechanism for protecting us against microbes: they fire anti-bacterial "bullets" into the gut.