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Dr. Cheryl Lyn Walker
New research shows that, in animal models, the liver epigenome is permanently changed when exposed to certain chemicals in the environment early in…
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Researchers led by a Baylor College of Medicine physician found the prevalence of ES and other gynecological lesions was substantially higher than…
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Baylor collaboration with BillionToOne provides non-invasive prenatal test for sickle cell disease
Researchers are closer to finding novel ways to effectively regulate triglycerides in the blood to help manage these potentially life-threatening…
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Baylor College of Medicine’s fight against COVID-19 has received a boost from Tito’s Handmade Vodka through a $1 million grant from the brand’s…
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Researcher in a vaccine testing lab
The National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children's Hospital are…
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Coronavirus Preparedness
Baylor College of Medicine and the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center have teamed up to procure COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma from appropriate donors…
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