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… die each year from this disease. It is the fourth most common cancer in men in this country and the eighth most … eye will be shown by the microscope to contain abnormal numbers of red blood cells (microhematuria). This condition … these structures. Through a cystoscope, a biopsy can be performed, and, frequently, if a tumor is found, it can be …
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… Hearing loss is one of the most common disabilities in the United States, with approximately … returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The most common form of hearing loss is caused by the death of cochlear hair … processes do not occur in mammals. In the past 10 years, a number of labs including ours have shown that mammalian …
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… has obtained a Baylor College of Medicine site license for Mathematica. This software is available to all Baylor … staff, postdocs, and graduate students. Mathematica is a computational software program used in scientific, … BigData: Demystifying Large Datasets in Mathematica - See a number of data import topics and how Mathematica handles …
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… on two broadly interrelated areas: ligandomics technology for drug target discovery and biological drug development … drug targets and develop novel therapies. (A) Comparative ligandomics profiling to systematically map … target cell surface receptors. However, only a limited number of extracellular ligands have been successfully …
news › baylor-miehr-center-to-research-environmental-health-disparities-in-pregnancy-outcomes
… sites in the country selected as a Center of Excellence for environmental health disparities research by the … identify key drivers of racial disparities in pregnancy outcomes, such as preterm birth and hypertensive disorders … Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities grant number 1P50MD015496-01. … … Baylor MIEHR Center to research …
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… homeostasis in TNBC to devise therapeutic strategies to overcome chemoresistance. To achieve this, we have robust … We are also repurposing drugs that are already FDA approved for other applications. These studies combine mechanistic … mitochondrial fusion, mitochondrial DNA copy number, as well as mitochondrial DNA damage. Given the …
news › solving-the-cnl6-mystery-in-batten-disease
… that break down waste products into its constituent components that the cell can recycle or discard. In Batten … in CLN6, the lysosomes do not process waste effectively for unknown reasons. This results in waste accumulation. … This project was supported in part by IDDRC grant number 1U54 HD083092 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver …
news › proteomics-analysis-ids-potential-drug-targets-for-aggressive-cancers
… are associated with clinical measures of aggressive disease for each of the seven cancer types studied. Some signatures … co-director of Cancer Bioinformatics at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor. “We analyzed protein … the computational analysis identified alterations in a number of proteins that were associated with aggressive …
news › novel-brain-circuit-discovery-and-therapy-might-tackle-coinciding-obesity-and-depression
… appetite, but of the animals’ change of food preference. Before the treatment, the mice naturally preferred to eat a … provide evidence that supports the involvement of a neural component.” To investigate the neuronal circuits that could … Excellence, COBRE grant (P20 GM135002), IDDRC Grant Number U54HD083092 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National …
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… classmates, teachers and their families outside of school. Fortunately, there are a variety of flu vaccination options … have ever seen, due to the public health measures such as masking and social distancing implemented during the COVID-19 … shot (inactivated and recombinant virus) … There also are a number of inactivated flu vaccines available for individuals …
