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… tangle in ways that can be difficult to undo. In the case of DNA, if this overwinding is not dealt with, essential … techniques reveal first step to untangle DNA “We typically picture DNA as the straight double helix structure, but inside cells, DNA exists in supercoiled loops. Understanding the molecular interactions between the …
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… Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research … fire electrical impulses. Interestingly, the impulses, also called action potentials, originate from tumor cells that … studying the role of these newly identified cells in both glioma and normal brain function. “Gliomas are the most …
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… Members of the CVRI Theme “Aortic, Vascular and Valvular Disease Research” lead a broad range of translational and clinical investigations spanning … Statistics and Machine Learning for the Advancement of Surgery) The ATLAS platform takes a data-driven approach …
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… The fulcrum of the Global TB Program is based in Mbabane, eSwatini where … referral center for pediatric TB and host a broad range of translational research projects. Our program has been … center is a free standing 178 square meters structure completed adjacent to the existing HIV COE with the purpose …
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… June 4, 2019 - Nick Young receives an American Society of Mass Spectrometry Research Award. June 4, 2019 - Nick … " One-Pot Quantitative Top- and Middle-Down Analysis of GluC-Digested Histone H4 " Holt MV, Wang T, Young, NL *, … gives the Biochemistry Department Seminar at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. Mar. 27, 2019 - Matt …
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… Dr. Timothy Palzkill is a professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular … and received his Ph.D. from the University Of Iowa. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford … Dr. Nancy Moreno was appointed chair of the newly named Department of Education, Innovation and …
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… for winning the Somerfield-Ziskind award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP). She will receive the award … on her first co-first author manuscript, ”A biophysically constrained brain connectivity model based on … on advanced intracranial electrophysiology for studying neuropsychiatric disorders. Kelly’s talk will focus on the use …
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… According to some estimates, hundreds of genes may be associated with autism spectrum disorders … at Baylor College of Medicine shows that a novel computational approach can effectively identify genes most … of the potential outcomes in their child and how to best involve external support in early development …
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… Ellie Kolb joins us for a second summer as part of BCM’s SMART program. Jeremy gives an invited talk at the … new lab space at Dynamic One. CPSB student Feng-Cheng Hsieh officially joins the lab for his thesis work. February Jeremy gives an invited talk at University of Houston. Rina gives a talk for the BCM RNA & Chromatin …
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… The virus arrived in the United States in the summer of 2016. Zika virus is transmitted primarily by mosquitoes … Zika virus is a member of a family of viruses known as Flaviviruses. This is the … to humans via the bite of infected arthropods, most commonly mosquitoes and ticks. They are maintained in nature …