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

Research reveals clues to HIV risk in Chinese men who have sex with other men.

Study finds no evidence of increased mitochondrial mutations in the children of women treated with radiation for cancer.

A new catalog of human genetic data may help researchers uncover the genetic roots of disease and enable the ultimate realization of personalized medicine.

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.