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news › gift-division-neuropsychiatry-at-bcm
… College of Medicine has received a $25 million gift from an anonymous donor to establish the Drs. Beth K. and Stuart … remarkable gift honors Drs. Beth and Stuart Yudofsky’s compassionate care of the mentally ill, their vision for … life’s mission to understand, treat and prevent disorders found at the intersection of psychiatry and neurology," said …
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… interactions in the gastrointestinal tract using a range of techniques that include computational and structural biology, global metabolomics … culture and humanized disease models. These studies have found that gut astrocytes are important regulators of …
news › treatment-shows-reduction-in-heart-failure-after-myocardial-infarction
… therapies for heart failure after a significant heart attack, a serious condition that has a very … However, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have found a potential treatment that has shown promising results … in humans. It often occurs over a few years; a person becomes weaker and weaker and eventually they die,” said Dr. …
news › fluorescent-dye-helps-guide-pediatric-liver-tumor-resection
… tumor. Pediatric surgeons at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital believe a fluorescent dye … and blood vessels in the liver. In the study, surgeons found that ICG guidance helped identify small malignant … the edges of the tumors more clearly for successful complete resection. “I can use the fluorescence to navigate …
news › targeting-mapk4-potential-therapy-for-prostate-cancer
… The battle against late-stage prostate cancer might have found a potential new strategy to combat this deadly disease. Research led by Baylor College …
news › cryptic-transcription-in-mammalian-stem-cells-linked-to-aging
… in mice and human stem cells and cultured cells. When compared to young stem cells, older ones had increased … transcription. They also looked into other aging cells and found that, in the majority of cells spanning a range of … This work was funded by NIH grants R01AG052507, R01AG053268, R01HL134780, R01HL146852 and T32AG000183; CPRIT award …
news › variants-of-mrtfb-gene-linked-to-novel-neurodevelopmental-disorder
… at Baylor College of Medicine have linked specific variants or mutations of the gene myocardin-related … genes involved in making the structure of the cell and communication between brain cells. MRTFB is thought to be … liver and brain. To understand the effect the mutations found in the patients had in the activity of the protein, …
news › novel-molecule-disrupts-several-molecular-pathways-that-lead-to-cancer-growth
… with several pathways that promote cancer growth. Combining 5D4 with another cancer inhibitor, talazoparib, … toxicity to normal tissues,” Weei-Chin Lin said. “We also found that combining 5D4 with other compounds such as PARP … supported by funding from NIH grants (R01CA203824 and R01CA269971), Department of Defense Grants (W81XWH-18-1-0329, …
news › understanding-the-link-between-vital-exhaustion-and-heart-health
… looked at vital exhaustion as a measure of chronic stress and found that higher levels of vital exhaustion increase … exhaustion? … Vital exhaustion, which may manifest as a combination of symptoms such as extreme fatigue, feelings of …
departments › ... › human-t-lymphotropic-virus
… Human T-lymphotropic viruses, HTLV, comprise a family of four … sequence, and it may share its molecular properties. They found that Tax-3 has a similar distribution within cells and …
