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					<author>loriw@bcm.edu (Lori Williams)</author>
					<title><![CDATA[Kline names vice chairs in pediatrics at Baylor]]></title>
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					<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[ Dr. Mark Kline, chair of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine , has named four vice chairs for the department. Dr. Gordon Schutze, professor of pediatrics, will serve as vice chair of educational affairs. Dr. Susan Blaney, professor of pediatrics and associate director of clinical research at the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center at BCM, will serve as vice chair of research. Dr. Sheldon Kaplan, professor of pediatrics and head of the pediatrics infectious disease section at BCM, will serve as vice chair of clinical affairs. Dr. Morey Haymond, professor of pediatrics and head of pediatric endocrinology and metabolism at BCM, will serve as vice chair of special projects. All of the appointments are effective immediately. ]]></description>
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					<author>pathak@bcm.edu (Dipali Pathak)</author>
					<title><![CDATA[Engineered viral vectors target painful nerve diseases]]></title>
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					<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[ Specially designed virus-derived vectors &ndash; engineered not to cause disease &ndash; can take therapeutic genes to the malfunctioning peripheral neurons outside the spinal cord and brain, alleviating the pain and other dysfunction that can result from a chronic disease or drug treatment, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Glasgow in a report in the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation . &quot;These disorders that affect the dorsal root ganglion neurons can be extremely painful and difficult to treat,&quot; said Dr. Lawrence C.B. Chan , director of the BCM Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center and a professor of medicine and molecular and cellular biology at the College. For example, shingles is extremely painful  &#8230;]]></description>
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					<author>picton@bcm.edu (Glenna Picton)</author>
					<title><![CDATA[NIH amps up funding to BCM for involvement in Human Microbiome Project, initiates new pilot studies]]></title>
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					<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[ The National Institutes of Health today announced expanded funding for Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center for its involvement in the Human Microbiome Project, which seeks to understand how the trillions of microscopic organisms that live in or on the human body affect human health and lives. Also announced was that BCM's Dr. James Versalovic will lead one of 15 pilot clinical demonstration projects. Expansion grant The Human Genome Sequencing Center at BCM was one of the centers that took part in the initial phase of the project. This new $3.7 million four-year expansion grant will enable it along with the other original designated centers &ndash; Washington University Genome Sequencing Center in St. Louis, Mo., and the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Md. &ndash; to sequence the genomes of 400 microbes to add to  &#8230;]]></description>
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					<author>picton@bcm.edu (Glenna Picton)</author>
					<title><![CDATA[Fate of fly sensory organ precursor cells could explain human immune disorder]]></title>
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					<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[ Notch signaling helps determine the fate of a number of different cell types in a variety of organisms including humans. In an article that appears in the current issue of Nature Cell Biology , researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine report that a new finding about the Notch signaling pathway in sensory organ precursor cells in the fruit fly could explain the mystery behind an immunological disorder called Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome. &quot;This finding provides a model for how Wiskott Aldrich syndrome &ndash; a form of selective immunodeficiency in children &ndash; occurs,&quot; said Dr. Hugo Bellen, professor of molecular and human genetics and director of the Program in Developmental Biology at BCM. He is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Notch pathway It all begins with the Notch pathway, which controls cell fate. In the fly peripheral  &#8230;]]></description>
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					<author>picton@bcm.edu (Glenna Picton)</author>
					<title><![CDATA[DNA template could explain evolutionary shifts]]></title>
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					<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 CDT</pubDate>
					<description><![CDATA[ Rearrangements of all sizes in genomes, genes and exons can result from a glitch in DNA copying that occurs when the process stalls at a critical point and then shifts to a different genetic template, duplicating and even triplicating genes or just shuffling or deleting part of the code within them, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a report in the journal Nature Genetics . The report further elucidated the effect of the fork stalling and template switching mechanism involved in some forms of copy number variation. &quot;I think this is going to make people think very hard about copy number variation with respect to genome evolution, gene evolution and exon shuffling,&quot; said Dr. James R. Lupski, vice chair of molecular and human genetics at BCM and senior author of the report. Copy number variation The mechanism not only represents a newly  &#8230;]]></description>
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