Image of the Month: Celebrating the Human Heart
From the Labs joins the celebration of Heart Month by presenting posts related to groundbreaking basic research on human heart regeneration: Tapping on the healing
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Author: Ana Rodríguez
Welcome to From the Labs new home!
From the Labs has moved to Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network! We invite you to visit our new location and take a look at the
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Childhood condition poses risk for Parkinson’s disease later in life
In recent years, defects in the glucocerebrosidase (GBA) gene have been identified as significant risk factors for Parkinson’s disease and deficiencies in this gene also
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The multi-tasking nature of the hormone asprosin
When Dr. Atul Chopra, a medical geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine, and his colleagues discovered in 2016 a new hormone called asprosin that regulates
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How infrequent seizures may lead to persistent memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease
Even relatively infrequent seizures can lead to long-lasting cognitive deficits in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease; how this happens, however, has been difficult to explain.
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Tapping on the healing capacity of the heart
If your skin is injured, it can heal itself. If you lose blood, your body makes more. If a lobe is removed from a mouse
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Image of the Month: Mouse embryo imaged with confocal microscopy
The Optical Imaging and Vital Microscopy Core Facility at Baylor College opens a window into the microscopic world through a number of methods, state-of-the-art instrumentation
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Top three most viewed articles in 2017
Of the 83 articles we posted in 2017, the following three top the most-viewed list! Autism spectrum disorder: if not vaccines, then what? Timing
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A year in pictures
From the Labs closes 2017 with an Image of the Month photo album that highlights research at Baylor College of Medicine. Happy holidays!
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Friend and foe: Histamine mediates allergies and can fight colorectal cancer
Previous studies have shown that histamine is not only involved in allergic disease, it also may have a potential antitumor effect. At Baylor College of
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