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HeartCare study tests genetic risk of cardiovascular disease
A Superfund Research Program grant will fund researchers to study how toxicity of environmental chemicals emanating from Superfund sites impacts…
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The National School of Tropical Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development have formed a new partnership with PATH to…
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Two people exercising outdoors while wearing face masks.
With COVID chaos slowly dying down, people may be heading back to work soon. Dr. Asim Shah dives into the anxieties of returning back to a normal…
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BRAIN Initiative to support Baylor doctors studying the neurocircuitry of depression
Researchers led by Dr. Yong Xu have identified a group of unique glucose-sensing neurons in the brain and how they work together to prevent severe…
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and four other institutions around the country are working to find out if the vaccine prevents tuberculosis…
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Dr. Huda Y. Zoghbi
Dr. Huda Zoghbi has been awarded what is considered one of the world’s most prestigious prizes in brain research, the Lundbeck Foundation Brain Prize…
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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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