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The Translational Research Institute for Space Health at Baylor College of Medicine with consortium partners California Institute of Technology and…
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Rice University’s Synthesis X Center (SynthX) and Baylor College of Medicine’s Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center have jointly awarded their…
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TIME named Dr. Peter Hotez, professor and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and co-director of the Texas…
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Clear skies, warm days and free time set the stage for more people being active during the approaching summer months. A dermatologist at Baylor…
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Children’s sporting events are a fun time to cheer on the kids and socialize, but they can quickly go south if parents act excessively competitive. A…
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Dr. Shanda Blackmon
Dr. Shanda H. Blackmon, renowned in the field of thoracic surgery, specializing in minimally invasive lung segmentectomy and complex thoracic surgery…
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Diagnosing rare Mendelian disorders is a labor-intensive task, even for experienced geneticists. Investigators at Baylor College of Medicine are…
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Researchers at Texas Children’s Cancer Center and the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and…
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People say “When pigs fly” to describe the impossible. But even if most mammals are landlubbers, the ability to glide or fly has evolved again and…
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Illustration of COVID cells.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID has the unsettling ability of often generating variants of itself. Other viruses also mutate, but as SARS-CoV-…
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Stress impacts us all, both personally and professionally and in a variety of ways. While we are aware of the visible symptoms of stress, the silent…
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in collaboration with the University of Arizona led a study that can help surgeons obtain biofeedback of…
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Dr. Mary Dickinson, senior vice president and dean of research at Baylor College of Medicine, has been named a 2023 Fellow by the American…
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One potential underlying cause of symptoms in individuals with depression is an emotion- processing bias which causes them to have a stronger…
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An exercise accessible to most, walking is one of the best movements you can incorporate into your daily life. An expert with Baylor College of…
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Picture in your mind a traditional “landline” telephone with a coiled cord connecting the handset to the phone. The coiled telephone cord and the DNA…
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