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From the Labs to Commercialization: the Estes lab and ImmuCell Success Story

February 6, 2018February 9, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 1 Comment Baylor Licensing Group, calf gastroenteritis, gastroenteritis, ImmuCell, Mary Estes lab, rotavirus, rotavirus vaccine, scours, virus-like particles

Research discoveries at Baylor College of Medicine can potentially reach the point where they evolve into practical applications that improve

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Baylor College of Medicine Women of Science

March 14, 2019March 20, 2019 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments Baylor women scientists, Research, Women's History Month

From the Labs celebrates Women’s History Month with a series of posts highlighting the work of Baylor Women of Science.

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Image of the Month: Assembling a rotavirus factory

January 3, 2019January 3, 2019 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments CK1 alpha, NSP2, phsophorylation, Research, rotavirus, rotavirus factory

Making new viruses requires assembling intracellular replication factories via a complex, little known process that involves both viral and cellular

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Baylor College of Medicine faculty members elected fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

December 18, 2018December 18, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments Alzheimer's, Cancer, NAI, National Academy of Inventors, Norovirus, Research, Rett Syndrome, rotavirus

Drs. Mary K. Estes, Bert O’Malley and Huda Zoghbi of Baylor College of Medicine were three of the 148 renowned

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Sugars in mother’s milk influence neonatal rotavirus infection

November 29, 2018December 13, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments breast milk, Research, rotavirus, rotavirus infection in neonates, rotavirus vaccine

Lea este artículo en español. Rotavirus infection causes diarrhea and vomiting primarily in children younger than 5, with the exception of

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Type of injury matters, when healing the small intestine

March 20, 2018April 27, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments intestinal stem cells, radiation damage, Research, rotavirus, rotavirus injury, small intestine repair, WNT

New insights into how the small intestine, one of the fastest renewing tissues in the human body, repairs itself are

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Image of the Month: Repairing rotavirus-damaged intestinal cells

March 1, 2018March 9, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments gastroenteritis, intestinal stem cells, Mary Estes, Norovirus, Research, rotavirus

When rotavirus infects and damages intestinal cells, the small intestine fails to absorb nutrients and diarrhea develops. Rotaviruses and noroviruses

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2017 Michael E. DeBakey M.D. Award for Research Excellence

May 26, 2017 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments 2017 DeBakey Award for Research Excellence, Breast Cancer, Cardiothoracic Surgery, DeBakey award, endocrine cancer, gene regulation, Neuroscience, NK cells, Norovirus, Primary immunodeficiencies, Prostate Cancer, rotavirus

The five winners of this year’s Michael E. DeBakey M.D. Award for Research Excellence exemplify the breadth and depth of

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Surviving bodily defenses: human rotavirus manipulates immune response to maintain infection

January 24, 2017 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments evasion of immune response, Gastrointestinal diseases, human intestinal enteroids, Interferon, model of human gut, rotavirus

The gut of a child infected with rotavirus is like a battleground. On one side, the virus invades the epithelial

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Two Baylor College of Medicine faculty members named to the National Academy of Medicine

October 26, 2016 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments Honors, National Academy of Medicine;

Dr. Malcolm Brenner, founding director of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s

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