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… Bacillus anthracis ( B. anthracis ). The name anthrax comes from the Greek word for coal and refers to the black skin lesions it produces. Descriptions of a disease affecting both … animal products enter a break in the skin; black lesions occur at the site of infection. Other symptoms include …
research › ... › lab-photos
… View group photos through the years from the Zechiedrich Lab: … Left to right: Mason A. Galliver (CPSB rotation student), Jonathan M. Fogg, Ph.D. (Senior Staff … Ameen (Research Technician II), Shanti Astra (Undergraduate from BCM SMART program), Eleanor Friedland (High School …
news › compassion-art-of-medicine-series-2010
… The annual Compassion and the Art of Medicine series hosted by Baylor College … and community medicine presents the series with a grant from The Community Hospital Foundation, Inc. The 2010 series … to helping the less fortunate of the world. "Helen Keller Revisited: A Journey from Darkness to Light" – Drs. Rubina and …
research › ... › sense-of-self
… There is a long journey of discovery that many women with physical … and their womanhood. That journey is fraught with assaults from every sector. For women disabled at birth or early in … fulfillment and are active, contributing members of their community. We entered the study with questions about what …
news › research-paves-way-improved-colorectal-cancer-test
… at Baylor College of Medicine and other institutions have identified specific types of bacteria that seem to … be abundant in individuals with colorectal cancer. Using a combination of markers specific for these fecal microbes, … the tools required to reprocess microbial sequence data from its original format. “Manasi had the interest, and we …
news › scientists-unexpected-results-research-tool
… Puzzled by their experimental results, a team of scientists from Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s … why a research tool that was expected to suppress neuronal activity actually was stimulating it. Their findings … the activity of the neurons and then observe the outcomes, just like in genetics where scientists modify a gene …
news › a-path-to-aggressive-breast-cancer
… at Baylor College of Medicine have followed the progression of breast cancer in an animal model and discovered a path … to therapy and never returns, but in others, the cancer comes back, grows rapidly, aggressively metastasizes to … in cancer behavior was related to where the cells came from,” said Xu, a member of Baylor’s Dan L Duncan …
news › promising-approach-to-mitigate-complications-of-leukemia-treatment
… at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have engineered immune cells to control two major life-threatening complications, namely graft-vs-host disease (GvHD) and … functions, the patient receives an infusion of stem cells from a healthy donor, which repopulate the patient and …
news › sticky-coat-boosts-triple-negative-breast-cancers-ability-to-metastasize
… ways to prevent it. These findings, published in Nature Communications , highlight new possibilities for developing clinical … therapies. “Metastasis occurs when cells break away from the main tumor and travel through the bloodstream to …
departments › ... › mosquitoes
… such as the chikungunya and Zika viruses have emerged only very recently. Factors such as urbanization, global travel, and human population growth have increased the potential for mosquitoes to … the Spanish for “small fly”, is a type of insect that belongs to the family Culicidae. There are thousands of species …
