Research Videos

Research shows colon cancer can be decreased up to 90 percent by removing polyps from the colon before they become cancer, yet half of those people, who should be checked, don’t have the screening. Read More

Watch streaming video of a multi-disciplinary panel taking up the controversial topic of state-required vaccinations for sexually transmitted disease on Tuesday, Feb. 5, in the Flynn Auditorium of the Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

A new device, using advanced electrode technology, gives paralyzed patients a helping hand. Read More

A Vanderbilt research team reports, in the largest study of any single gene, that a gene, identified in cancer, is also involved in autism. Read More

Watch video of the Dec. 5 Thinking Out of the Lunch Box lecture with Assistant Professor of Astronomy Keivan Stassun at the downtown Nashville Public Library. Read More

Doctors say it is a massive public health problem - very sick patients in intensive care may get better, but their brains suffer from delirium, an acute brain dysfunction - very likely caused by the care they got in intensive care. Read More

It's just something you have to see to believe: move-in day for more than 1,600 new undergraduates and the official Founders Walk welcome. Our VUCast crew tags along as the new students begin their Vanderbilt journey. Read More

Combine a mechanical arm with a miniature rocket motor: The result is a prosthetic device that is the closest thing yet to a bionic arm. Read More

Vanderbilt University is part of a revolutionary national program aimed at creating more life-like prosthetics for the thousands of amputees in this country. Read More

James Crowe, M.D., is a Vanderbilt professor of pediatrics, microbiology and immunology. Crowe discussed the concerns associated with possible influenza pandemic. Read More

Watch video of DNA expert Sean Carroll delivering the final lecture in the 2006-2007 Chancellor's Lecture Series, "Evolutionary Developmental Biology." Read More

As many as 30 percent of chemotherapy patients suffer from chemo fog causing moderate cognitive brain impairment. With funding help from athlete and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers are studying how to clear chemo fog. Barb Cramer has the story. Read More

It appears to be true – girls can think faster than guys – at least as teenagers. Read More

Atop one of the highest points in the Nashville area, a spiral sculpture of stone is taking shape that will combine art and science in an innovative approach to making science compelling, especially to students. Read More

Atop one of the highest points in the Nashville area, a spiral sculpture of stone is taking shape that will combine art and science in an innovative approach to making science compelling, especially to students. Read More