Understanding the specialized environment where stem cells reside is important for developing stem-cell based regenerative therapies.

Cannabidiol (CBD) oils reduced seizures in patients with difficult-to-treat epilepsy, Vanderbilt investigators have found.

Newly discovered features in an RSV protein may be useful for rational structure-based vaccine design.

New findings suggest that oxidative stress damages mitochondrial DNA, and they link this damage to a disease state.

A team of researchers, led by David Calkins, PhD, vice chair and director of Research at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute, has made a breakthrough discovery in the field of glaucoma showing new hopes for treatments to preserve vision.

Vanderbilt investigators have discovered that a sirtuin protein has oncogenic properties in neuroblastoma cells — and that blocking it reduces their growth and tumor-like characteristics.

Vanderbilt investigators have conducted the first systematic evaluation of cognitive function in children with a rare genetic disorder.