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Since it was founded in 2012, the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Baylor College of Medicine has been hosting an annual symposium that offers an exceptional

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Three Minute Thesis® Competition at Baylor College of Medicine

April 18, 2019 3MT, career development, competitions, deep brain stimulation, muscle wasting, Research, retinal degeneration

In less than an hour, 15 graduate students from nine of our 16 graduate school programs summarized what took years of work. Not a small

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SRC-1 gene is an important regulator of body weight

April 16, 2019 body weight, hypothalamus, Obesity, Pomc, Research, SRC-1

Maintaining a healthy body weight is no simple matter. In his lab at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Yong Xu and his colleagues investigate the

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A ‘road map’ to the new exRNA cell-cell communication system

April 11, 2019 cell-to-cell communication, computational deconvolution, exRNA, NIH exRNA Communication Consortium, Research

About 10 years ago, scientists discovered the first clues about a new communication system between cells that is mediated by extracellular RNA (exRNA). This year,

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Stopping antibiotic resistance before it happens

April 9, 2019 antibiotic resistance, bacterial evolution, ciprofloxacin, edaravone, fluoroquinolones, Research, ROS

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most urgent threats to public health. One way bacteria develop resistance is by generating new mutations in their DNA

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Extending the body’s expiration date may involve the ends of the chromosomes

April 4, 2019 Aging, ends of chromosomes, liver fibrosis, NAD+ precursor, NMN, Research, sirtuin, telomeres

Scientists may have found a strategy to achieve the science-fictional greeting “Live long and prosper.” In his lab at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Ergun

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Image of the Month: Art meets science to visualize the fruit fly’s brain

April 2, 2019 ALS, autophagy, fruit fly, Lou Gehrig's disease, lysosomes, proteasome, rare disease, reseach, ubiquilin

Studying the brain of the fruit fly helps understand the human brain, both in health and disease. Working in the lab of

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A steady supply of sugar is good news for colorectal cancer

March 28, 2019 APC gene, Colorectal Cancer, FASN, fructose, KHK, mouse model, Research, sweet drinks

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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17p11.2 syndromes are much more than deletions and duplications

March 26, 2019 17p11.2, chromosome deletions, chromosome duplications, Potocki-Lupski syndrome, Research, Smith-Magenis syndrome

Having duplications or deletions of an entire group of genes spells trouble for living organisms. Potocki-Lupski syndrome, for instance, is a condition that results from

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Baylor College of Medicine Women in Science

March 21, 2019 Baylor women of science, Research, Women in Science, Women's History Month

From the Labs celebrates Baylor College of Medicine Women in Science!