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news › nobel-laureate-dr-william-g-kaelin-jr-to-give-baylor-commencement-address
… commitment to philanthropy and community engagement has yielded more than $100 million in support for various … STEM concepts through engaging play. This initiative has positively impacted hundreds of thousands of children in … in medicine, science and the health professions. Herrera has more than 30 years of experience in public education. He …
news › using-ai-to-improve-diagnosis-of-rare-genetic-disorders
… faster, more efficiently and at a lower cost. This method has effectively doubled the rate of accurate diagnosis,” … the differential genetic diagnoses down to a few genes and has the potential to guide the discovery of previously … Baylor Genetics cohort without any inclusion criteria, AIM has shown superior accuracy. Baylor Genetics is aiming to …
news › mutated-blood-cells-define-clinical-risks-in-langerhans-cell-histiocytosis
… Hospital and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh has proposed a major revision to how Langerhans cell … same chemotherapy that ultimately cures fewer than half and has little effect on LCH-associated neurodegeneration,” … cohort with correlative biology, is unprecedented. It has both an immediate impact and future implications for the …
news › bacteria-help-discover-cancer-causing-protein
… College of Medicine and the University of Texas at Austin has applied an unconventional approach that used bacteria to … “Cancer is a disease of mutations. A normal cell that has accumulated several mutations in particular genes … a light on how human cells and cancer work.” “Our work has significant implications both in basic biological fields …
news › colon-cancer-new-potential-treatments
… produced by colon cancer tissues from patient samples has revealed a more comprehensive view of the tumor that … possibly go wrong. But we don’t know exactly what actually has gone wrong until we analyze the proteins,” said Liu, … to improve colon cancer treatments. For instance, the FDA has approved the use of a biological marker called DNA …
news › novel-disorder-causing-severe-respiratory-dysfunction-linked-to-loss-of-function-tmem63b-variant
… cells in the nerves and the lung. When an individual has a gain-of-function variant, the ion channel remains open … investigator of the Baylor UDN site. When an individual has two loss-of-function variants, the channel is missing entirely. “The brain has other channels that can pick up the slack. But in the …
departments › ... › seed-grants
… the demand for surgeon-scientists dedicated to research has never been more critical. However, early-career surgeons … urgent need, the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery has taken proactive steps to nurture the next generation of … the way in surgical innovation. Since 2014, the department has been providing seed funding to junior faculty for …
news › baylor-college-of-medicine-recognizes-research-excellence-with-debakey-awards
… to new designs. Using this innovative approach, he has identified genes and molecular pathways linked to … variations using long read sequencing data. This research has significantly advanced the understanding of complex … groundbreaking findings published in Science last year. He has made significant contributions to clinical diagnostics …
departments › ... › influenza-virus-flu
… Nearly everyone has experienced the fever, aches and other symptoms of … spread to Europe and Africa. To date, the avian flu virus has not acquired the ability to spread easily from person to … only in humans, and type C is mostly found in humans but has also been found in pigs and dogs. Influenza pandemics …
departments › ... › mentorship-program
… for any questions that may arise. Each rotation also has an upper level paired with first years, to help orient …