Image of the Month: Repairing rotavirus-damaged intestinal cells
When rotavirus infects and damages intestinal cells, the small intestine fails to absorb nutrients and diarrhea develops. Rotaviruses and noroviruses are the major cause of
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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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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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Image of the Month: Top Three Most Viewed Images of the Month, 2017
Each month, From the Labs posts an image representative of research conducted at Baylor College of Medicine. These three are the most viewed images of
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Image of the Month: The underappreciated astrocyte
The brain has billions of cells of which only 30 percent are neurons. Astrocytes are the predominant cell type of the remaining 70 percent. Surprisingly,
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Image of the Month: An activated human NK cell
NK or natural killer cells are members of the immune system critical for the control of viral infections and cancer. Research at the Emily
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Image of the Month: What causes myotonic dystrophy, type1
Myotonic dystrophy, type 1 (DM1) is the second most common cause of muscular dystrophy and numerous other muscle disorders that affect tens of thousands of
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Image of the Month: Mechanisms of cancer survival
Among other studies, the lab of Dr. Chonghiu Cheng is pioneering research projects to better undertsand the role alternative splicing plays in cancer. “We have been
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Image of the Month: Lipid droplets in the transparent worm C. elegans
Meet Caenorhabditis elegans, a 1-millimeter-long, transparent, free-living roundworm that is the center of attention of many research laboratories around the world, including Dr. Meng Wang‘s
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