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… discuss their child’s journey to gene therapy. “Roughly 300 million individuals worldwide are affected with rare …
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… for Experimental Therapeutics. Faculty secure more than $5 million in research funding and publish 48 peer-reviewed …
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… Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine received a $5.9 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and … of obesity and nutritional sciences research by providing access to specialized services, resources and expertise. …
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… Scientific American … Why Aluminum in Vaccines Is Safe—And Often Essential … KIAH CW 39 … Allergy … … How Dorit Donoviel is building healthcare that works millions of miles from Earth (Subscription required) … …
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… of and also slow down the progression of tumors and the accumulation of amyloid-beta, a compound associated with … is increasingly aware that our body’s interactions with the millions of microbes in our bodies, the microbiome, can …
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… trauma centers in the Texas Medical Center. Serving over 1 million Harris County residents, this hospital generates … freestanding cancer center in the world, with over 14 million square feet of equipment and facilities to support … during their 2nd, 3rd and 4th years, respectively. MDACC is a premier research institution, and many residents …
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… 809 individual primates from 233 species and identified 4.3 million common missense mutations. The resulting studies … clinical relevance of genetic variants. Out of the 4.3 million missense mutations identified in primates in this …
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… understand influenza virus, as well as improvements in vaccine and drug development, will enable us to minimize the … United States as a result of the Spanish flu, and up to 50 million people may have died worldwide. Nearly half of those … are Egypt, where almost all cases in 2015 have occurred, followed by Indonesia and Vietnam. H5N1 continues to …
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… of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital were awarded $3.2 million by the National Institutes of Health to develop an … and stroke. “Our research team will initially validate the accuracy and reproducibility of new 3D volume flow … prenatal predictors of clinical problems in newborns.” According to Dr. Lee, identifying the most vulnerable, small …
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… other major cities: an aging population. Yangzhou has 4.6 million people; 25 percent of them are more than 60 years …