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Vanderbilt investigators report an improved model for estimating brain health, using MRI.

An enzyme that builds DNA is able to insert the wrong building blocks, which could generate mutations.

A Vanderbilt patient who has battled leukemia for nearly five years was granted a private screening of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” thanks to her medical providers and a local movie theater.

There may be a “silver bullet” for Ebola, a family of hemorrhagic viruses, one of which has killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa in the past two years.

Certain protein factors have been identified as attractive targets for treating diabetic retinopathy, a major cause of blindness in adults.

The brains of children who are obese function differently from those of children of healthy weight, and exhibit an “imbalance” between food-seeking and food-avoiding behaviors, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have found.