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Dr. Helen Heslop, director of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and Houston Methodist…
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New specialized treatments available at the Alkek Eye Center in the Cullen Eye Institute at Baylor College of Medicine are helping patients with dry…
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Baylor College of Medicine was ranked third as one of the 2021 Healthiest 100 Workplaces in America and first in Texas in the extra-large employer…
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Image showing different sizes of neurons in motor cortex.
Hundreds of neuroscientists from across the globe, including researchers from the Tolias Lab at Baylor College of Medicine, have built a “parts list…
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2021 DeBakey Award Winners
Baylor College of Medicine faculty are honored annually through the Michael E. DeBakey M.D. Award for Excellence in Research for their outstanding…
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The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine celebrates the success of an innovative medical imaging…
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This school year has seen concerns about the spread of COVID-19, and soon the start of influenza season brings another potential illness that may…
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An illustration of a DNA double helix.
When people think of DNA, they visualize a string-like double helix structure. In reality, the DNA double helix in cells is supercoiled and…
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The International Vaccine Institute (IVI), the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, and Baylor College of Medicine’s National…
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have received a $7.8 million, five-year grant to focus on the impact of prenatal exposure to metformin, a…
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Dr. Paul Klotman and Dr. Mokgweetsi E.K. Masisi, president of the Republic of Botswana
Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Botswana renewed their longstanding partnership last week during a visit from the president of the…
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital have uncovered a potential Achilles heel of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in…
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Clinical Sequencing Research
Baylor College of Medicine and Stanford University received an award for more than $25 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health…
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A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine has discovered a mechanism by which transcription factor KLF4 can help to organize chromatin…
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Photo of moon rise over the Earth taken from the Space Shuttle Discovery
The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine, with consortium partners California Institute of…
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Infectious diseases kill millions of people annually worldwide. However, vaccination has proven to be an effective measure to control infectious…
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