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research › ... › zeiss-lsm-780-confocal-microscope
… and CO² for live cell imaging. The microscope also has a motorized stage and software for tile imaging which …
departments › ... › sars-mers
… from the appearance of the virus under the microscope – it has a spiky or crown-like (corona) appearance. Both diseases … Europe, Africa, and Asia. The rate of new infections has since dropped significantly. More recently, late in … MERS is thought to have originated in bats, but MERS-CoV has been passed to dromedary camels, which serve as the …
research › ... › current-fmri-projects
… a window into a new neurobiology for mood disorder therapeutics. Annual review of medicine, 66, 509–523. … Ketamine is the prototype for a new generation of glutamate-based … within hours of treatment. Over the past decade, there has been replicated evidence demonstrating the rapid and …
healthcare › ... › huntingtons-disease
… dominant fashion, so that each child of an affected parent has a 50 percent chance of inheriting the mutated gene and … associated with such testing. Baylor College of Medicine has a unique team of geneticists and genetic counselors to … pattern, which means that each child of an affected parent has a 50 percent chance of inheriting the disease-causing …
research › ... › arrhythmias-channelopathies
… the field of cardiac electrophysiology. Finally, the CVRI has established new training opportunities for cardiology … broad aspects of pediatric electrophysiology. The group has been studying the efficacy and use of antiarrhythmic … agents and anti-arrhythmic drugs. Finally, the CVRI has established new training opportunities for cardiology …
education › ... › tropical-medicine-summer-institute
… people who live below the World Bank poverty level. NSTM has created an introductory course designed to help … experience. The Tropical Medicine Summer Institute program has been structured to give students a broad overview of … Hill Country, Austin, San Antonio and Padre Island. Houston has extensive bus transit. A light rail line connects the …
healthcare › ... › colostomy
… The surgery can be done in two ways. In open surgery, the doctor makes one large cut (incision) in the belly. In laparoscopic surgery, the doctor makes several small incisions in the belly. Then he … the incisions. The tube is called a scope. It lets the doctor see your organs and do the surgery. In either …
news › a-novel-and-unique-neural-signature-for-depression-revealed
… While this correlation between reward and future choice has been used as a well-established paradigm in neuroscience … and things that they once found pleasurable, all of which has a profound negative impact on their quality of life. … with a common mechanism for reward assessment. “Our study has addressed a longstanding fundamental question in …
news › a-promising-potential-therapeutic-strategy-for-rett-syndrome
… Rett syndrome have partially functional MeCP2 that either has decreased DNA binding or is less abundant than normal,” … MECP2 Duplication Syndrome. Reaching this delicate balance has made it challenging to develop safe and effective … of a gene as a recipe for a protein. The recipe for MeCP2 has four ingredients: e1, e2, e3 and e4. To make the …