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… person requires waking up earlier to get ready for the day. An expert with Baylor College of Medicine provides tips on … students are just able to get out of bed and jump on to the computer to begin school.” Along with the end of summer … and even car accidents for those who drive. “What we have found is that children have some decrease in function when …
news › researchers-discover-novel-light-gated-potassium-channel
… A key approach to understanding the brain is to observe the behavioral effects of … the same neuronal subpopulations. However, the neuroscience community lacked a fast and potent way to turn off or … containing the closely related sodium-selective CCRs.” “We found that the two channelrhodopsins from H. catenoides — we …
news › dissemination-of-bone-metastasis-linked-with-bone-remodeling
… Years to decades after breast tumors have been removed, cancer may return or metastasize in other organs. Bone is … primary tumor and travel to the bone, but we still don’t completely understand what determines the fate of these … triggering the bone repair process on bone metastasis. They found that activating the process resulted in significantly …
news › study-helps-explain-severe-graft-versus-host-disease-and-potential-solution
… but what leads to such disruption in the microbial community has remained a mystery. Researchers at Baylor … progression of GVHD in the animal models,” Reddy said. “We found that a commonly used drug to reduce iron overload, an … US National Institutes of Health grants P01HL149633, HL152605, CA217156, R01CA148828, 4 R01CA245546 and R01DK095201. …
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… When animals are undernourished in the newborn period, skeletal muscle growth is significantly compromised. Nutritional rehabilitation after weaning does … the risk for long-term cardiovascular dysfunction. We found that, compared to males, young adult females that had …
news › researchers-uncover-the-first-steps-driving-antibiotic-resistance
… Antibiotic resistance is a global health threat. In 2019 … to ciprofloxacin, or cipro for short, one of the most commonly prescribed antibiotics. The findings point at … and microbiology and member of the DLDCCCC. The Herman lab found the repair-RNA-polymerase connection previously, …
news › hnrnpm-a-guardian-of-the-integrity-of-cellular-protein-production
… making mistakes while it is putting together the different components, leading to newly produced proteins. In cancer … cryptic sequences from datasets of RNA sequences. “We found that hnRNPM preferentially binds to introns at regions … supported in part by grants from NIH (R35-CA209919, R01CA262686, R01AG078950 and R35GM131876) and cancer research …
news › study-reveals-new-opportunities-to-develop-cancer-treatments
… Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have uncovered new potential … breadth of possibilities for treating this disease. Using a comprehensive approach that included integrating proteomics, … and differences among gene and protein alterations found in diverse tumor types to illuminate protein targets …
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… Skeletal stem cells (SSCs) are heterogeneous in population and have multipotent capacity to differentiate into bone, … previously identified functionally distinct P-SSCs using a combination of Mx1 and SMA to selectively label resident … and intravital imaging of new TSPC animal models, we found that a distinct TSPC subset newly appears in postnatal …
news › car-t-cell-therapy-targeting-her2-antigen-shows-promise-against-advanced-sarcoma-in-phase-i-trial
… Researchers at Texas Children’s Cancer Center and the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at … I clinical trial of a novel immunotherapy for high-risk sarcomas in the journal Nature Cancer . The therapy uses … In a previous clinical trial, the HEROS study, researchers found that CAR T cells directed at HER2+ tumor cells had a …