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… HIV Vaccines … In the Virus-Like Particle Translational Oncology Laboratory, Qizhi Cathy Yao, M.D., … other factors that affect these responses. For example, we found that VLP vaccines activate conventional B2 cells and … to identify responders to therapies Agency: Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center Seed Fund Developing a New SCID …
research › ... › disease-modeling-unit
… challenges posed by undiagnosed diseases have solutions in animal models that precisely model human disease-associated … verified the pathogenicity of a p.E66K variant in AXIN2 found in individuals with phenotypic expansion of … abnormalities in mouse. Left Images: Representative micro-computed tomography imaging of a wild-type E18.5 embryo. No …
news › relearning-to-smell-after-covid-19
… Many people recovering from COVID-19 have reported prolonged … pandemic. Current research shows this symptom may be more common in COVID-19 patients because the SARS-CoV-2 virus binds to receptors found in the part of the nose that controls smell, according …
news › platelet-rich-plasma-treatment-shows-efficacy-for-osteoarthritis
… conducted by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine combined wearable technology and patient-reported outcomes to assess the efficacy of … with functional outcomes. “In the current study, we found that a single injection of LR-PRP into the knee does …
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… “Growing up in Taiwan, I was very curious about biology. This curiosity of … and graduate studies in nutritional sciences. I completed my Ph.D. study in Nutritional Sciences at … projections to scBAT. In my free time, I can often be found playing chess, humming to a new song every day …
research › ... › how-behaviors-are-learned-the-abc-model
… We can understand why challenging behaviors happen and how to … that without even realizing it. For example, think about a common situation that many caregivers have found themselves in. You are getting your child ready to …
news › researchers-reveal-a-map-to-study-novel-form-of-cell-to-cell-communication
… An international team led by researchers at Baylor College … the National Institutes of Health Extracellular RNA Communication Consortium and the Bogdan Mateescu laboratory … study, published in the journal Cell Genomics , lays the foundation to examine how exRNA and its carrier proteins …
news › how-a-mutation-in-the-skd3-enzyme-can-cause-mgca7-disease
… and collaborating institutions report in the journal Nature Communications how a mutation in the enzyme SKD3 can cause a … to a family of proteins called unfoldases, which are widely found in microbes. Here, Tsai and his colleagues focused on … the University of Texas System-Rising Stars Award 26532 and the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of …
news › findings-support-repurposing-rheumatoid-arthritis-drug-auranofin-for-diabetes
… for existing drugs that might affect both conditions. “We computationally screened a small-molecule dataset and … higher than normal – in the mouse model. In addition, we found that auranofin accumulation in white adipose tissue … grant #1-18-IBS-105 and NIH grants (R01DK114356, R01DK126042, R01DK109001, R01AG065197 and R01DK121348). Further …
news › dhx9-variations-underly-wide-spectrum-of-human-neurodevelopmental-disorders
… 20 patients with undiagnosed neurodevelopmental disorders ranging from severe to mild has now received a genetic … to believe that these patients had a genetic diagnosis in common. It was after we analyzed the results of their genome … laboratory experiments in which the different DHX9 variants found in patients were introduced into cells and their …