Vanderbilt team builds device to capture stumble response

Each year, monsoon rains between June and September provide water for roughly 1.5 billion people in India

Vanderbilt team's results counter to those that garnered the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

'Brain Soup' research connects number of neurons to longevity

A new analysis is shedding light on the earth's first macroscopic animals: the 570-million-year-old, enigmatic Ediacara biota

Researchers are a step closer to developing a broadly effective antibody treatment against the three major Ebola viruses that cause lethal disease in humans

The team determined the first crystal structure for a neuropeptide Y receptor, deciphering the thousands of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and other atoms involved with it and how they bind to one another

The increase in opioid use in the U.S. over the past several years has led to an increased interest toward well-known and also previously under-recognized adverse effects associated with opioid use

“Eels are essentially batteries immersed in water, and I wanted to solve the question of how powerful those batteries are."

Researchers have discovered that some of the carbohydrates in human milk not only possess antibacterial properties of their own but also enhance the effectiveness of the antibacterial proteins also present

Their research gives oncologists a better shot at overcoming the problems of drug resistance, toxicity to patients, and a host of other barriers to consistently achieving successful gene therapy for cancer

The new device generates small amounts of electricity when it is bent or pressed even at the extremely low frequencies characteristic of human motion

Now that researchers have an effective method for decoding the ants' odorant receptors, the biologists can now begin deciphering the chemical codes that the insects use to communicate

One potential application of the system includes producing capillary systems for artificial organs

This counterintuitive discovery by scientists at Vanderbilt University and in Germany has upended more than 100 years of conventional scientific wisdom