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news › chemical-approach-created-to-discover-compounds-for-drug-development
… Baylor College of Medicine have devised a chemical approach for discovering new enzyme-binding compounds that could be developed into drugs for various … processes. To rapidly identify small-molecule lead compounds to target healthcare-associated proteases, the …
news › scully-hecht-levi-scholarship
… generation of bioethics scholars, granting protected time for research and publication. Hecht-Levi Fellows have the … lung transplantation. The ethical challenges surrounding informed consent, medical decision making, novel therapies, … and guide decision making in an increasingly complex patient population. …
news › novel-form-of-stress-longevity
… A newly described form of stress called chromatin architectural defect, or … Huffington Center on Aging and member of the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor. “One of the factors … along chromatin and the structure folds further into more complicated configurations. Everything involving DNA would …
news › new-alkek-center-consolidates-omics-efforts
… The new Alkek Center for Molecular Discovery builds on and expands Baylor College … in one gene," said O'Malley. "The next targets are more complex with multiple gene inputs along with influences of … It will expand the ‘omics' here and could result in BCM becoming an elite national leader in this broad field," he …
news › how-we-remember-could-help-ai-be-less-forgetful
… networks, found in artificial intelligence (AI), from forgetting what they have previously learned. The study, in the current edition of Nature Communications , has implications for both neuroscience and … lose the ability to solve the previously learned task completely. This phenomenon, known as “catastrophic …
news › a-recipe-for-successful-same-day-hip-and-knee-replacements
… in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic may seem daunting for many, so options where patients do not require a … medical problems do they have? We want the best possible outcomes for patients and the optimization process starts from … and the director of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery Outcomes Center at Baylor, emphasizes that this is possible …
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… Center for Research in Obesity and Nutrition Membership Application …
news › set-healthy-sleep-habits-for-the-new-school-year
… up. Like adults who are working from home, it is important for students who are heading back to school to set a routine … healthy sleep habits will assist in improved school performance and overall health: … Know the recommended hours of sleep … are getting the appropriate amount of sleep at night for their age: • Ages 3-5: 10-13 hours. • Ages 6-13: …
news › mapk4-novel-therapeutic-target-for-triple-negative-breast-cancer
… quickly. In a current study published in the journal Nature Communications , a team at Baylor College of Medicine and … TNBC may offer improved treatments. “In this work, we have combined two long-term interests of my lab: studying the … cell growth. Together, these findings support a role for MAPK4 in TNBC growth. Yang and his colleagues then dug …
news › latin-american-participants-needed-for-genetics-of-ocd-study
… Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric condition that … 50 sites in 11 countries aims to collect saliva samples for DNA from 5,000 Latino, Hispanic or Brazilian individuals … study. “Mapping the OCD-specific genes for Latinos and comparing the results to those of European ancestry …