Huda Zoghbi honored with prestigious Breakthrough Prize
Dr. Huda Zoghbi, pioneering neurologist at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, was awarded a prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences at a
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Healthy Habits: Dr. Huda Zoghbi jogs, hikes to improve fitness
Taking care of your health is a priority and nobody knows that more than physicians and healthcare providers. It can sometimes be difficult to find
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Huda Zoghbi: A lab of her own
Immigrants make the journey to the United States for a number of reasons. For physician and medical researcher Huda Zoghbi, her journey began with a
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Single cells reveal genetic connections of neurodevelopmental disorders
A novel computational approach helps researchers identify connections between genes involved in different neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Regulating gene regulatory regions offers a novel mechanism to control ATXN1 levels
Researchers identified a novel mechanism that regulates ATXN1 levels and reduces SCA1 symptoms in animal model.
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PolyA-miner accurately assesses the effect of alternative polyadenylation on gene expression
PolyA-miner enables scientists to evaluate the contribution of alternative polyadenylation to gene regulation in health and disease.
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Molecular profiling of meningioma hints at tumor behavior
Meningiomas, the most common primary brain tumors, are typically benign. One-fifth of them, however, recur despite complete surgical removal. Reliably predicting whether a patient’s tumor
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Congratulations Dr. Peggy Goodell, Baylor’s new member of the National Academy of Medicine!
Dr. Margaret “Peggy” Goodell, chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
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Ataxin-1: One gene, two different neurodegenerative diseases
Certain variants of the ataxin-1 gene cause a rare neurodegenerative disease called spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1). Years ago, the lab of Dr. Huda Zoghbi
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Congratulations Dr. David Moore, Baylor’s newest member of the National Academy of Sciences
Dr. David Moore, professor of molecular and cellular biology, medicine and molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine, has been elected to the
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