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Three children sit huddled around a microscope set up at a kitchen table. One child is looking through the microscope while another prepares a slide and the third watches on.

Momentum

Summer camp at Home

August 2, 2022 BioEd Online, Education, summer camp

BioEd Online provides a collection of educational tools and resources to help children have a fun summer and continue their education.

Policywise

Stuck in the middle: Principles for establishing a pediatric intermediate care unit

July 8, 2022 American Academy of Pediatrics, children and infants, children’s hospital, CMS recognition, critical care, critically ill, pediatric critical care, pediatric intensive care unit, Pediatric intermediate care units, Texas Children's Hospital

In 2019, joint authors from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Section on Critical Care (SOCC) and the Society of Critical Care Medicine published an

From The Labs

Emu has improved the accuracy of bacterial identification

July 7, 2022 16S, bacterial identification, microbiome, next-generation sequencing, Research, rRNA

Emu can advance our understanding of the roles of the microbiome in water, soil and the intestinal tract.

From The Labs

A faster, less expensive approach identifies highly specific anti-cancer compounds

June 7, 2022 Bromodomain-containing proteins, cancer drugs, DEC-Tec, DNA-Encoded Chemistry Technology., Research

DEC-Tec can accelerate the development of potentially more effective anti-cancer drugs with reduced side effects.

Policywise

Is Terminator inevitable?

May 27, 2022 artificial intelligence, autonomy, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Morality, robotic technologies, Robots

If you think about ethics and robots, what comes to mind? “The Jetsons?” “2001: A Space Odyssey?” “Terminator?” I recently led a bioethics journal club

From The Labs

Research Spotlight: Dr. Fritz Sedlazeck assists in filling gaps in human genome, sequencing Rice University owl genome and more

May 26, 2022 complete human genome, genetic diagnosis, great horned owl genome, microchromosomes, nanopore DNA sequencing, Research, science teaching

Research Spotlight highlights contributions of Baylor faculty to their field of interest.

Policywise

Environmental justice: How physical, social, and structural surroundings impact health

April 29, 2022 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine, Discrimination, ealth outcomes, Environment, Environmental Justice, ethics, Gulf Coast Center for Precision Environmental Health, Marginalized Communities, policy

The environment—everything from the water we drink to the conditions in which we live—impacts health. Environmental justice is a broad term or movement that at