Ana Rodríguez, Author at Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network

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Research advances toward more effective, long-lasting and side effect-free cancer treatments

March 26, 2026 Breast Cancer, cancer treatment, cold tumor, glioblastoma, hot tumor, lung cancer, melanoma, Prostate Cancer, Research, SRC-3, Tregs

The Baylor team is building the case for SRC-3 as a promising therapeutic target for next-generation cancer immunotherapy.

From The Labs

Weaning, more than a change of food: it shapes a life-long, healthy gut

March 24, 2026 antibiotics, babies, DNA methylation, epigenetic change, gut immunity, MHC Class II, microbiome, Research, weaning

In animal models, weaning reshaped the gut microbiome, which in turn ‘trained’ intestinal stem cells to respond better to microbes later in life.

A Band-Aid being applied to a child's arm after they were given a vaccine.

From The Labs

Experimental hookworm vaccine shows promising protection in phase 2 human trial

March 19, 2026 clinical trial, hookworm vaccine, Na-GST-1, parasitic disease, Research

Hookworm infects an estimated 113 million people globally primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and South America. It is a major cause of iron-deficiency anemia in children and pregnant women.

Astronaut in space looking away from Earth.

From The Labs

TRISH opens commercial spaceflight database to scientific community

March 17, 2026 call for proposals, EXPAND dataset, Research, space science, Spaceflight

TRISH is seeking scientific proposals for secondary analysis of de-identified commercial astronaut health and performance data in the EXPAND Database and Biorepository.

From The Labs

Study reveals how a rare pediatric liver cancer emerges

March 12, 2026 hepatoblastoma, hepatoblastoma with carcinoma features, hepatocellular carcinoma, pediatric liver cancer, Research, WNT

The findings provide a new developmental model of pediatric liver cancer

From The Labs

Redefining tubulin’s role in neurodegeneration: from passive casualty to active protector against disease

March 10, 2026 alpha-synuclein, Alzheimer's Disease, microtubules, Parkinson's Disease, Research, tau, tubulin

The findings suggest that modulating the tubulin pool could offer a selective therapeutic strategy.

From The Labs

A potential new approach for treating Rett syndrome

March 5, 2026 MECP2, MeCP2 duplication syndrome, morpholinos, potential treatment, Research, Rett Syndrome

This work lays the foundation and provides preclinical evidence for a therapeutic approach for Rett syndrome that increases MeCP2 and confers functional improvement.

From The Labs

There is more than one way for triple-negative breast cancer to become resistant to therapy

March 3, 2026 cancer resistance to therapy, macrophages, neutrophils, Research, triple-negative breast cancer, tumor cell composition

The findings point out a potential new approach to treatment in which physicians could take actions to prevent resistance, increasing the chances of patient survival.