Ana Rodríguez, Author at Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network

Your microbiome is what you eat

July 30, 2019 Colorectal Cancer, diet, Fusobacteria, microbiome, Research

When you eat, you also feed your microbiome and influence the structure of the microbial community in the gut. Understanding how all this is connected

From The Labs

Chromatin stress: ‘What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger’

July 25, 2019 aging cells, C. elegans, chromatin stress, Longevity, Research, Saccharomyces cerevisiae

An unsuspected form of stress has surprised researchers with the unforeseen consequence of extending life. In his lab at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Weiwei

From The Labs

Immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer shows promise

July 23, 2019 Conference, Immunotherapy, pancreatic cancer, Research, T cell therapy

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most challenging types of cancer to treat, but new therapy using the body’s own immune system is providing new

From The Labs

Connecting seizures, neurogenesis and cognitive functions in Alzheimer’s disease

July 18, 2019 Alzheimer's Disease, neurogenesis, Research, seizures

Whether the normal adult human brain produces new neurons, much less those with Alzheimer’s disease, is a controversial topic in the field. While some groups

From The Labs

This is your brain activity when you name what you see

July 16, 2019 brain activity, Brain dynamics, Research

It’s an apparently simple activity: you see an object, you think of its name and then you say it. This sequence of events engages a

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Orion shines a light in the dark for the blind

July 11, 2019 blindness, clinical trial, Orion device, Research, vision

In a dark room inside Baylor College of Medicine, study participants are asked to look at a blacked out computer screen and point to a

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What are you doing this summer? SMART students honed their communication skills in the first elevator pitch competition

July 9, 2019 elevator pitch, Research, science communication, SMART students

Meet this summer’s SMART students, the next generation of scientists in the works. These undergraduate students in the Summer Medical and Research Training, or SMART

Still image to accompany July 2019's Video of the Month (Hyser lab) Cells expressing a fluorescent calcium sensor (green) were infected with rotavirus, a virus that causes acute gastroenteritis. The rotavirus-infected cells (pink) trigger an intercellular calcium wave that increases calcium in surrounding uninfected cells. (Scale bar = 100 μm; courtesy of the Hyser lab).

From The Labs

Video of the Month: A calcium storm

July 2, 2019 calcium indicator, gastroenteritis, Research, rotavirus, video

From the Labs opens July 2019 with a Video of the Month, showing the calcium ‘storm’ rotavirus triggers in infected cells. Calcium signaling in rotavirus

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‘Can you hear me, now?’ A new strategy ‘raises the volume’ of hard-to-detect gut-body communication

June 27, 2019 enteroendocrine cells, enteroids, gut-body communication, microbiome, neurogenin-3, Norovirus, Research, rotavirus, serotonin

Throughout the gastrointestinal tract there are specialized hormone-producing cells called enteroendocrine cells and, although they comprise only a small population of the total cells, they

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De-escalating breast cancer therapy; can some patients be spared chemotherapy?

June 25, 2019 Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy, Clinical Trials, HER2 gene, lapatinib, PI3K pathway, Research, trastuzumab

About one of every five breast cancers presents with high levels of HER2 proteins. Known as HER2-positive breast cancer, these tumors typically show an aggressive