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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is considered to be the gold standard to treat an episode of refractory depression. However, over the last decade,…
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Baylor College of Medicine’s top educational leaders were honored at Faculty Awards Day, held earlier this month in the College’s Cullen Auditorium.
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A microscopy image of a typical neuroblastoma
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Cancer Center and collaborating institutions report interim results from a first-in-human…
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Somatic mosaicism occurs when somatic cells, or the body’s non-reproductive cells, are genetically different from one another. Although somatic…
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Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common and second deadliest cancer. How colorectal cancer develops is not well understood, but a team led by…
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MDA-MB-453 human breast cancer cells
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have identified a strategy cancerous tumors use to remotely disrupt the…
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Neuropathy is a type of chronic pain triggered by nerve injury or certain diseases. It affects millions of people worldwide, significantly…
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As people get older, they aspire to live healthy lives as free as possible from the natural decline of cognitive abilities that occurs with aging. At…
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Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Space Medicine and Translational Research Institute for Space Health leadership (left) celebrate the new agreement with leadership from the Korea National Institute of Health (right) at NASA HRP Investigators' Workshop in February 2023.
A new agreement between Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Space Medicine and the Korea National Institute of Health (KNIH) will enable new…
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Research supports the promise of psychedelics in treating conditions like depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, but the future regulatory…
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have unraveled the processes that give astrocytes, the most abundant glial cell in the brain, their special…
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Type 2 diabetes and prediabetes are major public health burdens among adults, and Hispanics and Latinos in the United States are at increased risk…
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The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) recently announced new funding for participating centers…
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A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children’s…
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Jalali Lab
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions report in the journal Nature Communications how a mutation in the enzyme…
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Throughout a woman's reproductive life, the endometrium, the mucous membrane lining the uterus, goes through cyclical remodeling. It thickens…
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