A compound that activates a virus-sensing receptor has potent therapeutic effects in a mouse model of breast cancer.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Grant to Gavin R. Price, assistant professor of psychology at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College.

Vanderbilt scientists have taken an important step toward understanding the way in which injured cells trigger wound healing, an insight essential for improving treatments of all types of wounds.

Structural details of a protein that removes DNA lesions shed light on fundamental mechanisms of DNA repair.

Scientists at Vanderbilt University have created a three-dimensional organ-on-a-chip that can mimic the heart’s amazing biomechanical properties in order to study cardiac disease, develop heart drugs.

Tumors cause the intracellular material surrounding them to stiffen. Softening this protective layer could make existing cancer treatments more effective, according to new research.

A novel drug that targets the protein RSK blocked aggressive breast cancers from metastasizing in an animal model.