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Blood plasma
Baylor College of Medicine is seeking volunteers to participate in two clinical trials to test the effectiveness of convalescent blood plasma for…
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Syringe Needle
The National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine along with Texas Children’s Hospital’s Center for Vaccine Development has…
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Clinical Sequencing Research
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine led a six-year study with the National Cancer Institute to analyze the tumor genome and microenvironment of…
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Abdomen, stomach and small intestines
Rotavirus is a major cause of diarrhea and vomiting, especially in children, that results in approximately 128,000 deaths annually. The virus…
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Pregnant woman
Predicting preterm birth can be difficult, especially for women who have not given birth. It has long been known that the best predictor of preterm…
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Human breast cancer cells with two different tracers (red and blue) to investigate the interaction of tumor cells.
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and other institutions have applied powerful proteogenomics…
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Hotez Bottazzi lab
Biological E. Limited, Dynavax Technologies Corporation and Baylor College of Medicine announced that BE has initiated a Phase I/II clinical trial of…
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Nicaragua landscape
For more than 20 years, an epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) of unknown origin has severely affected specific coastal communities along South…
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Findings may promote adult heart tissue regeneration
A hormone that helps regulate bone mass also is produced by the heart and could be a treatment for people with a dangerous heart rhythm disorder,…
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drawing of a liver
A new tool aims to determine the risk for long-term poor outcomes in patients with cirrhosis of the liver with more ease and accuracy than current…
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Knees and hips
Recent data published by Baylor College of Medicine show that despite improvements in surgical pathways and overall health profiles among patients…
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Clock with cup
Baylor College of Medicine doctors studying the effects of dawn-to-sunset fasting have found more evidence that when you eat could play a role in…
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Internet access while under quarantine
While society has made changes to accommodate the need for physical distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19, such as grocery deliveries, working…
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BRAIN Initiative to support Baylor doctors studying the neurocircuitry of depression
Dr. Rui Chen, professor of molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine, has been awarded a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Seed…
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DNA illustration
Historically, knowledge of baseline genetic data for African populations has been sparse. To remedy this, the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (…
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Illustration of an astronaut on Mars, as viewed through the window of a spacecraft. NASA hopes to return astronauts to the Moon and test technology there that will be useful for sending the first astronauts to Mars.
The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine is soliciting proposals from postdoctoral researchers…
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