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A mother watching Mother's Day messages from family on a phone with help from an adult in a face mask.
Infectious diseases expert Dr. Stacey Rose weighs in on how to celebrate Mother’s Day while also protecting mom's health.
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A person wearing a purple protective face mask while sitting on a motorcycle.
Wearing a non-medical grade face mask is an important way to keep COVID-19 from spreading, but the mask can cause skin irritation and acne breakouts…
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Cancerous tissue.
An international team reports that an innovative form of local chemotherapy using a mitomycin-containing reverse thermal gel offers a kidney-sparing…
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An illustration of the lungs.
Baylor College of Medicine is a research site for a clinical trial evaluating the therapeutic benefit and safety of Tocilizumab (TCZ), an…
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This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S.
In an effort to better understand how COVID-19 affects pregnant women, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital…
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A family of three playing at home.
Dr. Robin Kochel explains the challenges families are facing with ASD treatment throughout the pandemic, and offers some solutions.
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Dr. Hugo J. Bellen (right) talks with a colleague in a lab.
Dr. Hugo J. Bellen has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in recognition of distinguished and continuing achievements in…
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Photomicrograph of HER2 targeting T cells seeking, engaging and killing human medulloblastoma cells.
A multi-institutional, international team has developed a novel approach that delivers appropriately-targeted chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell…
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An image of deep space, with brightly colored lights against a backdrop of black void.
As the novel coronavirus pushes the American healthcare system to capacity, relief may come from research aiming to protect astronaut health in deep…
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Dr. Richard Gibbs, director of the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor, and colleague going over data in the Center.
The Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center (BCM-HGSC) recently was awarded a National Institutes of Health grant for acquisition…
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Telehealth Patient
A Baylor College of Medicine orthopedic surgeon and bariatric surgeon offer some tips to maintain good health while you wait for your elective…
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Diabetes supplies
Dr. Daniel DeSalvo explains why those with diabetes are at high-risk from the coronavirus.
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An image of an astrocyte of the adult mouse brain labeled with tdTomato red fluorescent protein.
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reveal that astrocytes, the most abundant cells in the brain, play a direct role in the regulation of…
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A person working at a laptop.
Population scientists at Baylor College of Medicine are recruiting people across the U.S. to share their experiences and how the COVID-19 pandemic is…
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In a recent stud, Dr. Ayse Leyla Mindikoglu found that dawn-to-sunset fasting was associated with proteins protective against cancer as well as…
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This 1981 digitally-colorized transmission electron microscopic (TEM) image revealed some of the ultrastructural morphology of a number of intact rotavirus, double-shelled particles.
After eluding researchers for more than 30 years, the VP3 protein of rotavirus has finally revealed its unique structure and function to a team led…
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