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news › baylor-receives-nih-funding-to-study-neuronal-anatomy-of-the-knee-joint
… Baylor College of Medicine has been named a site for the Restoring Joint Health and Function to Reduce Pain (RE-JOIN) Consortium, part of the National Institutes of Health’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term® (HEAL) Initiative . Baylor … Baylor receives NIH funding to study neuronal anatomy of the knee joint …
news › baylor-receives-nih-funding-to-examine-structural-racism-and-perinatal-health-disparities
… Medicine, Texas Southern University (TSU) and UTHealth Houston will receive $2.6 million from the Eunice Kennedy … area. Women of color have higher rates of poor pregnancy outcomes than non-Hispanic whites in the U.S. Black women bear … and in combination with one another. Investigators plan to apply epidemiologic methods as well as machine learning …
news › researchers-at-bcm-and-tch-create-mouse-model-to-mimic-parkinsons-disease
… created a mouse model that recapitulates the early non-motor symptoms as well as the motor difficulties in … disease is still largely a mystery. Scientists believe a combination of genetic and environmental factors is most … difficulties and loss of dopamine-producing neurons do not appear until about 8-10 months of age when the G51D mice …
news › dr-carolyn-smith-to-lead-research-mission-at-baylor-college-of-medicine
… dean of research at Baylor College of Medicine following approval by the Board of Trustees earlier this week. She … CEO and executive dean at Baylor. “She has been a great mentor to faculty and trainees and will continue to advance the … focus on the molecular pharmacology of estrogen receptors, regulation of gene expression by transcriptional …
news › baylor-awarded-grant-to-establish-the-houston-nutrition-and-obesity-research-center
… Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to establish the Houston Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (H-NORC). The … at Baylor, and Dr. Kristin Eckel-Mahan of UT Health Houston, serve as co-principal investigators. The center’s … with the University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, Ben Taub Hospital, Baylor St. Luke’s Medical …
news › oracle-and-bcm-collaborate-to-advance-research-into-alcohol-related-liver-disease
… Health and Life Sciences and Baylor College of Medicine today announced they will collaborate to advance research and clinical insights into … challenge, and earlier identification is key to changing outcomes,” said Seema Verma, executive vice president and … Oracle and BCM collaborate to advance research into alcohol-related liver disease …
news › collaboration-to-advance-immune-targeted-drug-discovery-at-baylor-college-of-medicine
… College of Medicine and Site Tx, Inc. are collaborating to develop novel small-molecule drugs that allow for the … library screening and the synthesis of drug-like compounds, the collaboration aims to identify compounds for … drug candidates. Working together with Site Tx allows us to apply this capability to a cutting-edge platform focused on …
news › new-center-provides-resources-to-develop-and-test-new-genome-editing-technologies
… of Health’s Office of Research Infrastructure Programs to establish the Baylor/Rice Genome Editing Testing Center (GETC). The new center will assist investigators from across the country with somatic cell genome … in mouse models. Somatic cell genome editing, the ability to edit DNA within the body’s non-reproductive cells, is a …
news › mutated-bone-stem-cells-caught-in-a-loop-leading-to-osteogenesis-imperfecta-type-v
… institutions reveals the molecular events leading to osteogenesis imperfecta type V, a form of brittle bone … fractures, bone deformities, chronic pain and other complications. The findings, published in The Journal of … kinase signaling or SOX9 with pharmacologic or genetic approaches, we were able to restore normal bone development …
news › biking-revealed-to-be-associated-with-less-knee-pain-later-in-life
… knee pain, radiographic osteoarthritis (ROA) and symptomatic radiographic osteoarthritis (SOA). Rheumatologists often encourage regular physical activity for the prevention of osteoarthritis, the most common form of arthritis. However, some exercises are more …