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					<author>picton@bcm.edu (Glenna Picton)</author>
					<title><![CDATA[Botswana-Baylor pediatric HIV clinic Teen Club program amping up social support]]></title>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[ Ten years ago, HIV-positive children in Botswana were not expected to reach, much less survive, adolescence. With the opening of the Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence in 2003 and new funding from private and public sources, these children were given access to life-saving therapies and their life expectancy dramatically changed &ndash; for the better. Today, there is an abundance of HIV-positive adolescents in Botswana who must learn how to manage their chronic illness and transition into adulthood. The Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence Teen Club was established shortly after the Botswana children's center opened to help them do just that. &quot;We started basically out of a computer lab in the children's center,&quot; said Ed Pettitt, senior project coordinator for the Baylor College of Medicine International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Texas Children's Hospital. &quot;The program has grown so much over the last  &#8230;]]></description>
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					<author>ggutierr@bcm.edu (Graciela  Gutierrez)</author>
					<title><![CDATA[Scientific discovery sheds light on a genetic cause of heart failure]]></title>
					<link>http://www.bcm.edu/news/item.cfm?newsID=5686&amp;r=1</link>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[ Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have shown how a finely tuned genetic mechanism protects mice from the onset of heart failure. In a study in the current issue of Circulation, researchers in the laboratory of Dr. Antony Rodriguez, assistant professor of molecular and human genetics at BCM, describe the role of a tiny genetic molecule, known as microRNA-22, or miR-22. This molecule's role sheds light on a molecular mechanism that predisposes the heart to heart failure during prolonged stress. Influence of miR-22 on genetic expression, heart function Rodriguez, along with postdoctoral fellow and first author on the study Dr. Priyatansh Gurha, determined that at specific times during stress, miR-22 acts to shutdown key genes by binding to their mRNAs to ensure the heart operates normally. Researchers then removed miR-22 from mice and monitored cardiac physical and morphological changes as compared with mice with an intact miR-22 gene  &#8230;]]></description>
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					<author>picton@bcm.edu (Glenna Picton)</author>
					<title><![CDATA[Erez receives 2012 William K. Bowes Jr. Award in Medical Genetics]]></title>
					<link>http://www.bcm.edu/news/item.cfm?newsID=5681&amp;r=1</link>
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					<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[ Dr. Ayelet Erez, an assistant professor of molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and a medical geneticist at Texas Children's Hospital, has received the 2012 William K. Bowes, Jr. Award in Medical Genetics , given annually by the Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Medicine of Harvard Medical School. The award recognizes an outstanding physician or scientist in medical genetics. Erez is the first BCM geneticist to receive the award. Outstanding trainee &quot;Dr. Erez has been one of our most outstanding physician-scientist trainees. She has embodied the translational approach to genetic medicine,&quot; said Dr. Brendan Lee, professor of molecular and human genetics at BCM and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, whose lab Erez joined in 2005 in parallel to joining BCM's clinical genetics residency program. Erez's research in  &#8230;]]></description>
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					<author>pathak@bcm.edu (Dipali Pathak)</author>
					<title><![CDATA[Jahoor receives Grand Challenges Explorations grant]]></title>
					<link>http://www.bcm.edu/news/item.cfm?newsID=5680&amp;r=1</link>
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					<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[ Dr. Farook Jahoor , professor of pediatrics &ndash; nutrition at the USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, has been named a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation . Grand Challenges Explorations funds individuals worldwide to develop new solutions for persistent global health and development challenges. Jahoor's project is one of more than 100 Grand Challenges Explorations Round 8 grants &ndash; which focus on one of five global health and development topic areas that include agriculture, development, immunization and nutrition. Arginine production Jahoor's research will focus on whether healthy women in India produce less arginine, an amino acid that plays several important roles in pregnancy,  &#8230;]]></description>
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					<author>ggutierr@bcm.edu (Graciela  Gutierrez)</author>
					<title><![CDATA[Neurocritical Care Research Conference returns to Houston]]></title>
					<link>http://www.bcm.edu/news/item.cfm?newsID=5671&amp;r=1</link>
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					<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[ The second Neurocritical Care Research Conference is coming to Houston. Founded by a Baylor College of Medicine researcher and hosted by St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, the conference brings together a diverse group of academic scientists from around the globe with a goal of understanding and advancing neurocritical research and patient care. The conference was created by Dr. Jose Suarez, professor and head of vascular neurology and neurocritical care at BCM and chief of stroke and neurocritical care at St. Luke's Neuromonitoring theme The two-and-a-half day conference will be held May 18-20 at the Houston Marriott at the Texas Medical Center, 6580 Fannin St., will focus on the field of neuromonitoring. There will be presentations and group discussions on the need for the design of adequate clinical studies to test new monitoring techniques as well as determining the  &#8230;]]></description>
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					<author>pathak@bcm.edu (Dipali Pathak)</author>
					<title><![CDATA[New collaboration helps advance research for Chagas disease]]></title>
					<link>http://www.bcm.edu/news/item.cfm?newsID=5670&amp;r=1</link>
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					<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[ Research efforts towards the development of a therapeutic vaccine for Chagas disease just got a significant boost through a new agreement between Baylor College of Medicine and SouthWest Electronic Energy Medical Research Institute. The new joint research program allots $250,000 per year for two years to support ongoing efforts at BCM in the research and development of a vaccine for Chagas disease, a tropical disease spread by insects that is an important cause of heart disease in South and Central America. This therapeutic vaccine would work to treat individuals already affected by this disease, which is common in those living in poverty. &quot;Chagas disease is one of the most devastating diseases of poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean region, including new foci in the Amazon Region,&quot; said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the newly established Baylor College of Medicine National School of Tropical Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital Endowed  &#8230;]]></description>
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					<author>benson@bcm.edu (Dana Benson)</author>
					<title><![CDATA[Protein found to make natural killer T-cells more effective for cancer therapy]]></title>
					<link>http://www.bcm.edu/news/item.cfm?newsID=5645&amp;r=1</link>
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					<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
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					<author>picton@bcm.edu (Glenna Picton)</author>
					<title><![CDATA[Defective carnitine metabolism may play role in autism]]></title>
					<link>http://www.bcm.edu/news/item.cfm?newsID=5633&amp;r=1</link>
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					<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
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					<author>picton@bcm.edu (Glenna Picton)</author>
					<title><![CDATA[Enzyme SIRT7 sabotages tumor suppressor network in cells]]></title>
					<link>http://www.bcm.edu/news/item.cfm?newsID=5634&amp;r=1</link>
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					<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
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					<title><![CDATA[Congenital adrenal hyperplasia focus of monthly genetic series]]></title>
					<link>http://www.bcm.edu/news/item.cfm?newsID=5642&amp;r=1</link>
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					<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
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