Vanderbilt researchers have discovered small molecules that turn off cancerous Ras signals in a new way.

A chemical bond discovered by Vanderbilt University scientists that is essential for animal life and which hastened the “dawn of the animal kingdom” could lead to new therapies for cancer and other diseases.

Understanding the regulation of mutant EGF receptors commonly found in lung cancers could lead to new targeted therapies.

Dietary variety – not high-fat or sugary foods – appears to stimulate overeating in a mouse model of an inherited obesity syndrome.

Vanderbilt investigators report new insights to the workings of calprotectin, an immune system protein that “starves” bacterial pathogens of the metal nutrients they require.