Ana Rodríguez, Author at Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network

'Listening' to single cells may uncover cancer origins

March 20, 2017 Cancer, cancer cells, gene expression, MATQ-seq, pancreatic cancer, single cell analysis

Listening to a single voice in a crowd can be difficult. In a similar way, determining gene expression in single cells has posed quite a challenge.

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Toys and science connected on new free STEM initiative

March 3, 2017 Community Outreach, Hess Truck and Dragster, Science Curriculum, STEM education

Connecting toys with science is one of the best ways to teach STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education curriculum. And that is what a collaboration between

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Image of the Month: Lighting up blood vessels in a tumor

March 1, 2017 blood vessels, Cancer, cancer treatment, fluorescent quantum dots, radio frequency fields

When a mouse breast tumor is exposed to radio frequency (RF) electric fields the interaction between RF electric fields and the cancer tissue causes tumor vessels to

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Timing exercise with muscle fuel switching could help you lose weight

February 28, 2017 circadiam rhythm, circadian rhythm, Diabetes, exercise endurance, gucose metabolism, HDAC3, lipid metabolism, Muscle fuel switch

Skeletal muscles change their fuel preference according to a circadian rhythm. Mouse muscles, for instance, use glucose as fuel when the animals are awake and

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Autism spectrum disorder: if not vaccines, then what?

February 24, 2017 ASD, Asperger Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorder, brain growth, epigenetics, Global Burden of Disease Study, vaccines and autism

New information gained from major scientific papers over the last two years has shed light on the causes and progression of autism spectrum disorder. Estimates

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Out of sync, out of health: Social jet-lag linked to liver cancer in mice

February 14, 2017 bile acids, CAR gene, circadiam rhythm, circadian disruption, circadian rhythm, liver cancer, social jet lag

Our bodies are in sync with the planet’s day-and-night cycle thanks to an internal timekeeper, the circadian clock that regulates practically all the functions of

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Collaboration matters when looking for answers to undiagnosed diseases

February 10, 2017 data sharing, de novo mutation, developmental delay, Human genetics, NACC1, Rare Diseases, undiagnosed diseases, whole exome sequencing

It used to be that identifying genes involved in a particular disease was like finding a needle in a haystack. Nowadays, scientists still have to

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Opening a window into the world of tumors

February 8, 2017 Breast Cancer, cancer cells, Cancer Genome Atlas, computational analysis, epigenome, International Human Epigenome Consortium, transcriptome

A tumor behaves like a community in which cancerous and normal cells interact with each other. In some cases, these interactions result in tumor growth,