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‘Give me the calcium!’ Tulane virus takes over cellular calcium signaling to replicate

November 12, 2019November 13, 2019 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments gastrointestinal virus, human norovirus, NS1-2, Research, rotavirus, Tulane virus, viroporin

Some gastrointestinal viruses need calcium. They need calcium ions to carry out several essential aspects of viral life, such as

Still image to accompany July 2019's Video of the Month (Hyser lab) Cells expressing a fluorescent calcium sensor (green) were infected with rotavirus, a virus that causes acute gastroenteritis. The rotavirus-infected cells (pink) trigger an intercellular calcium wave that increases calcium in surrounding uninfected cells. (Scale bar = 100 μm; courtesy of the Hyser lab).

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Video of the Month: A calcium storm

July 2, 2019July 24, 2019 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments calcium indicator, gastroenteritis, Research, rotavirus, video

From the Labs opens July 2019 with a Video of the Month, showing the calcium ‘storm’ rotavirus triggers in infected

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‘Can you hear me, now?’ A new strategy ‘raises the volume’ of hard-to-detect gut-body communication

June 27, 2019June 27, 2019 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments enteroendocrine cells, enteroids, gut-body communication, microbiome, neurogenin-3, Norovirus, Research, rotavirus, serotonin

Throughout the gastrointestinal tract there are specialized hormone-producing cells called enteroendocrine cells and, although they comprise only a small population

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Image of the Month: Assembling a rotavirus factory

January 3, 2019January 3, 2019 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments CK1 alpha, NSP2, phsophorylation, Research, rotavirus, rotavirus factory

Making new viruses requires assembling intracellular replication factories via a complex, little known process that involves both viral and cellular

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Baylor College of Medicine faculty members elected fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

December 18, 2018December 18, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments Alzheimer's, Cancer, NAI, National Academy of Inventors, Norovirus, Research, Rett Syndrome, rotavirus

Drs. Mary K. Estes, Bert O’Malley and Huda Zoghbi of Baylor College of Medicine were three of the 148 renowned

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Most viewed images of 2018

December 4, 2018December 4, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments heart. retina. ovarian cancer, Image of the month, mosquito, Research, rotavirus, space

Our last post of the Image of the Month of 2018 celebrates the most viewed images of the year. Click

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Sugars in mother’s milk influence neonatal rotavirus infection

November 29, 2018December 13, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments breast milk, Research, rotavirus, rotavirus infection in neonates, rotavirus vaccine

Lea este artículo en español. Rotavirus infection causes diarrhea and vomiting primarily in children younger than 5, with the exception of

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Type of injury matters, when healing the small intestine

March 20, 2018April 27, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments intestinal stem cells, radiation damage, Research, rotavirus, rotavirus injury, small intestine repair, WNT

New insights into how the small intestine, one of the fastest renewing tissues in the human body, repairs itself are

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Image of the Month: Repairing rotavirus-damaged intestinal cells

March 1, 2018March 9, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 0 Comments gastroenteritis, intestinal stem cells, Mary Estes, Norovirus, Research, rotavirus

When rotavirus infects and damages intestinal cells, the small intestine fails to absorb nutrients and diarrhea develops. Rotaviruses and noroviruses

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From the Labs to Commercialization: the Estes lab and ImmuCell Success Story

February 6, 2018February 9, 2018 Ana Rodríguez 1 Comment Baylor Licensing Group, calf gastroenteritis, gastroenteritis, ImmuCell, Mary Estes lab, rotavirus, rotavirus vaccine, scours, virus-like particles

Research discoveries at Baylor College of Medicine can potentially reach the point where they evolve into practical applications that improve

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