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news › study-reveals-pathway-neurological-disorders
… are not synthesized. Mutations in genes encoding NMD components have been identified in some individuals with … is unknown. Thus, there are no current treatment options for these conditions. Together with investigators in … we found that there was a significant increase in the total number of immune cells in the brain of the mice lacking …
news › qa-ricin
… toxic. … Q: How are you exposed to ricin? … There are a number of ways you can be exposed to ricin. One way is … being sent via the mail. … Q: Where is ricin found? … Ricin comes from the castor bean plant. It’s possible to obtain the beans and isolate the toxin and use that for harmful purposes. However, this is a very crude way to …
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… ventricular assist devices (VADs) s and more than 7,000 complex aortic reconstructions have been performed at Baylor St. Luke's. This hospital has twelve … Medicine as leaders in cardiovascular surgery at BSLMC, a number of clinical trials involving contemporary devices in …
news › norovirus-strains-differ-in-sensitivity-to-the-bodys-first-line-of-defense
… growth of HuNoV strain GII.3, but not of GII.4, the most common strain worldwide. The findings, published in the … a type III IFN response, including activation of a number of IFN-stimulated genes, as well as increases in a … to regulate gene expression, had never been reported before for gastrointestinal virus infections,” Lin said. Next, …
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… detailed transcriptional and RNA-inferred genomic profiles for each cell: (1) cell type transcriptional annotation … Here, we introduce COORS (Cell of ORigin like CellS), as a computational tool trained on developmental human brain … the top-performing single-cell models, RNA-inferred copy number variation (CNV) signals, and the initial bulk model …
news › gender-disparities-in-atherosclerotic-cardiovascular-disease-treatment
… and women receive less than optimal preventative care when compared to men among this group of young patients with … therapy and had poor adherence to statins. And more so for women for both treatment and adherence.” The most … Service, VA Information Resource Center (Project Numbers SDR 02-237 and 98-004). … … Gender disparities in …
departments › ... › training-locations
… ventricular assist devices (VADs) s and more than 7,000 complex aortic reconstructions have been performed at Baylor St. Luke's. This hospital has twelve … Medicine as leaders in cardiovascular surgery at BSLMC, a number of clinical trials involving contemporary devices in …
news › the-equalizer-an-engineered-circuit-for-uniform-gene-expression
… Equalizers. The findings, in the current edition of Nature Communications , show how researchers engineered these … circuits to buffer protein output from variations in the number of copies of the gene inside the cell, thereby … negative feedback and post-transcriptional incoherent feedforward loops. These loops counteract the presence of extra …
news › neuroscientists-create-ultra-detailed-map-of-brain-region-that-controls-movement
… today in the journal Nature . This includes a core-companion article describing research led by Dr. Andreas … Endowed Chair of Neuroscience and director of the Center for Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence at Baylor. The … into many different cell-type categories — the actual number of different brain cell types in this region depends …
healthcare › ... › intrauterine-insemination-iui
… collected and frozen. … The IUI procedure is often combined with ovulation induction therapy, a fertility … treatment that uses medications to improve ovulation, for a greater chance of conception. Combining the two … uterus using a long thin catheter (tube), maximizing the number of sperm that reach the fallopian tubes and …
