Fertility and cancer survivors: Medicine’s growing pains
Knowing that most pediatric patients will overcome cancer, it’s essential to discuss its implications on future fertility.
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Image of the Month: E. coli bacteria growing on mini-guts
Infectious microorganisms, including disease-causing E. coli bacteria (pink) shown in the image, cause a third of all deaths world-wide.
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Growing pains: Clinical training during COVID-19
A third-year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine reflects on hospital training during COVID-19.
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Slow-growing rotavirus mutant reveals early steps of viral assembly
Rotavirus is responsible for more than 130,000 deaths annually in infants and children younger than five years. The virus causes severe, dehydrating diarrhea as it
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From my perspective: Victoria Tenge shares her experience as a graduate student at Baylor
From the Labs interviewed Victoria Tenge to learn about her experience as a graduate student at Baylor College of Medicine. She shared her love for
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A steady supply of sugar is good news for colorectal cancer
The current thought is that sugar is harmful to our health mainly because consuming too much can lead to obesity. Research shows that obesity increases
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Searching for supplements that prevent folic acid-resistant neural tube defects
Folic acid supplementation is considered one of the most significant public health breakthroughs in recent years. By providing mandatory folic acid fortification, as 87 countries,
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From the labs to commercialization: Baylor College of Medicine graduate starts Speratum CR to bring his own discovery to cancer patients
Dr. Christian Marín-Muller’s grandmother died of cancer before he was born. It saddens him that he never had the chance to meet her, but thanks
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‘Superbugs’ might have found their match: Bacteriophages can combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Envision the following possible future clinical scenario: a patient in a hospital develops an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection that is untreatable or only treatable with the
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Mouse blood vessels and immune system can team up against cancer metastasis
Picture a shapeless, small mass of tumor cells inside an otherwise healthy organ. The tumor is growing, thanks, among other things, to its ability to
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