On May 28-29 at Vanderbilt, the Precision Medicine Initiative Working Group of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will hold a public workshop devoted to research cohorts and electronic health records.

A novel mechanism could point to new therapies for a group of inherited diseases that share pathological features.

The protein neurofibromin acts as a brake in a signaling pathway that is important in bone development, Vanderbilt researchers have discovered.

Vanderbilt researchers have discovered a novel mechanism for the development of dendritic spines – sites of nerve cell communication.

Vanderbilt researchers have discovered that profound defects exist in the integrity of structural RNA molecules in patients with relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis.

Changes in the kidney can limit the blood pressure-lowering effects of thiazide diuretics, a new study reports.

New findings suggest that it might be possible to treat diabetes by regenerating insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas.