Orion turns on a light in the dark for the blind
In a dark room inside Baylor College of Medicine, study participants are asked to look at a blacked out computer
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From The Labs
What are you doing this summer? SMART students honed their communication skills in the first elevator pitch competition
Meet this summer’s SMART students, the next generation of scientists in the works. These undergraduate students in the Summer Medical
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Video of the Month: A calcium storm
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
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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De-escalating breast cancer therapy; can some patients be spared chemotherapy?
About one of every five breast cancers presents with high levels of HER2 proteins. Known as HER2-positive breast cancer, these
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To better serve patients, Baylor researchers pioneer and improve reanalysis of clinical molecular data
Many physicians and scientists think that the molecular diagnostic rate of undiagnosed diseases has room for improvement. Inspired by this
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From the labs to patent; osteoarthritis gene-therapy product is moving toward clinical trials
More than 30 million people in the United States alone are affected by osteoarthritis (OA), a degenerative joint disease, and
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New evidence supports the presence of microbes in the placenta
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine previously found evidence that the placenta harbors a sparse but still present community of
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Afraid of food? The answer may be in the basal forebrain
After fasting for 24 hours the typical laboratory mouse spends much time eating. Surprisingly, this is not what Jay M.
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This map facilitates the search for epigenetic causes of disease
More than 15 years after scientists first mapped the human genome, most diseases still cannot be predicted based on one’s
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