When discovering drugs for brain disorders, it’s important to test the candidates in multiple ways to avoid advancing those with restricted physiological effects.

New findings point to brain circuitry that communicates about the body’s nutritional status and regulates how nutrients are mobilized.

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.