Gaining and losing weight during “yo-yo dieting” may contribute to an exaggerated immune response in fat tissue that increases metabolic dysfunction more than steady weight gain alone.

The protein SARM appears to protect cells from inflammation-driven death by stabilizing the nuclear laminin scaffold.

Insight into how the protein neurofibromin participates in the signaling pathway that produces the body’s long bones has implications for fracture healing in some patients.

A motor protein that helps drive cell division may be a promising new target for cancer therapeutics.

Reducing heart muscle response to calcium could decrease the risk of fatal arrhythmias after heart attacks.

The new web application NetGestalt will allow investigators to simultaneously visualize different types of data for the same gene – such as mutation, expression and modification.

Vanderbilt researchers have discovered new roles for a protein involved in cell death processes that are activated to prevent tumor-causing DNA mutations.