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… Louisiana State University and collaborating institutions has discovered that abnormal activity in a particular brain … excessively, which leads to severe weight loss. Anorexia has the highest mortality rate among all psychiatric … molecular and cellular biology at Baylor. “The condition has no approved treatment and the underlying cause is …
Baylor led research awarded $31 Million for Resynchronization Therapy in Patients with Heart Failure
news › baylor-led-research-awarded-31-million-for-resynchronization-therapy-in-patients-with-heart-failure
… resynchronization therapy in people with heart failure has just been awarded a $31 million grant by the … contraction of the left heart. Conduction system pacing has the potential to change the treatment of heart failure. … said Chelu, principal investigator of the study. “The study has the potential to fill an important evidence gap relevant …
news › new-drug-potentially-identified-to-expand-rheumatoid-arthritis-associated-interstitial-lung-disease-treatment
… The therapeutic drug pirfenidone has been found to be a potential treatment for rheumatoid … Medicine . “This is one of the first studies that has focused on treating patients with rheumatoid … is classified as an anti-fibrotic medication that has shown effectiveness in treating patients with idiopathic …
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… Dr. Shen has over 20 years of experience in cancer epigenetics. Her work has been published in more than 80 peer-reviewed papers, … at Baylor College of Medicine in 2009, her research team has been conducting basic research using animal models. Our … NIH Training Grant as a basic Postdoctoral Fellow. Peery has been supported by the training grant for two years. His …
news › computational-approach-meets-biology-to-connect-neural-progenitor-cells-with-human-disorders
… For much of the 20th century it was thought that the adult brain was incapable of regeneration. This view has … their biology – and particularly their role in human brain disorders – has remained elusive. In a new study published … , postdoctoral associate in the Maletić-Savatić lab. “With DSA we sifted through complex genetic data to identify …
news › dr-gabriel-loor-lung-transplantation-expert
… on maximizing donor organs for lung transplant recipients, has joined Baylor College of Medicine as director of lung … houses the lungs, originally was developed in Boston. It has a miniaturized ventilator system and pulsatile pump that … the ventilator and out of the hospital sooner. The next phase in this research, the EXPAND trial, currently is …
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… of Molecular Virology and Microbiology in 1991. He has been the chair of the Department of Pharmacology and … and helped Dr. Timothy Palzkill build the lab. She has helped all of the trainees and other scientists who have … carbapenems, also referred to as last-resort antibiotics, has resulted in the emergence of enzymes like KPC-2 that can …
news › too-much-of-a-good-thing-persistent-ifng-depletes-progenitor-blood-cells-via-bst2
… When a person has an infection, the body activates immune responses to … helps fight infections. However, long-term exposure to IFNγ has undesirable consequences – it irreversibly exhausts … marrow,” King said. “BST2 is a fascinating protein that has been mostly studied for its ability to both protect our …
news › baylor-college-medicine-medical-center
… orthopedics, pain management, general surgery and urology. Phase 2, the move of the Dan L Duncan Cancer Center, will be completed in fall 2014, and Phase 3, the next group of clinical practices, in fall 2015. … square feet of space in the new building. Included in Phase 1 will be the opening of the Bobby R. Alford …
news › disruptions-in-brain-sphingolipid-metabolism-reveal-new-insights-into-cause-of-gaucher-disease
… affect millions worldwide. Research on these conditions has largely focused on perturbations in protein metabolism. … at Texas Children’s. “This is a path-breaking study that has uncovered many previously unknown aspects of how sphingolipids are regulated,” Bellen said. “It has revealed a close relationship between glycosphingolipid …