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Understanding the cellular and molecular responses of the eye to blast injury could guide new treatment development.

Early weight regain after gastric bypass surgery does not reverse metabolic improvements, and the "hunger hormone" ghrelin might indicate who is susceptible to weight regain.

Vanderbilt’s David Penson, M.D., MPH, director of the Center for Surgical Quality and Outcomes Research, has been named to serve as chair of the Health Services Organization and Delivery Study Section in the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) of the National Institutes of Health. He will serve a two-year term.

Inhibition of BMP growth factor signaling reduces breast tumor burden and metastasis.

An enzyme therapy may prevent skeletal abnormalities associated with the genetic disorder neurofibromatosis type-1, Vanderbilt investigators have discovered.

Vanderbilt researchers have found that selenium deficiency may contribute to the racial disparity in lung cancer incidence.

Vanderbilt investigators have constructed a network map that could guide the development of new targeted cancer therapies.