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Orion shines a light in the dark for the blind

July 11, 2019 blindness, clinical trial, Orion device, Research, vision

In a dark room inside Baylor College of Medicine, study participants are asked to look at a blacked out computer screen and point to a

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What are you doing this summer? SMART students honed their communication skills in the first elevator pitch competition

July 9, 2019 elevator pitch, Research, science communication, SMART students

Meet this summer’s SMART students, the next generation of scientists in the works. These undergraduate students in the Summer Medical and Research Training, or SMART

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, 2019 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 cells. Calcium signaling in rotavirus

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

June 27, 2019 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 of the total cells, they

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De-escalating breast cancer therapy; can some patients be spared chemotherapy?

June 25, 2019 Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy, Clinical Trials, HER2 gene, lapatinib, PI3K pathway, Research, trastuzumab

About one of every five breast cancers presents with high levels of HER2 proteins. Known as HER2-positive breast cancer, these tumors typically show an aggressive

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To better serve patients, Baylor researchers pioneer and improve reanalysis of clinical molecular data

June 20, 2019 Baylor Genetics, molecular diagnosis, rare disease, Research, undiagnosed diseases

Many physicians and scientists think that the molecular diagnostic rate of undiagnosed diseases has room for improvement. Inspired by this need, a team at Baylor

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From the labs to patent; osteoarthritis gene-therapy product is moving toward clinical trials

June 18, 2019 clinical trial, gene therapy, Il-1, Osteoarthritis, patent, Research

More than 30 million people in the United States alone are affected by osteoarthritis (OA), a degenerative joint disease, and that number is expected to

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New evidence supports the presence of microbes in the placenta

June 13, 2019 bacterial RNA, imaging, microbiome, placenta, Pregnancy, Research

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine previously found evidence that the placenta harbors a sparse but still present community of microorganisms, which they and other

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Afraid of food? The answer may be in the basal forebrain

June 11, 2019 anorexia, basal forebrain, feeding behavior, Obesity, Research

After fasting for 24 hours the typical laboratory mouse spends much time eating. Surprisingly, this is not what Jay M. Patel saw when he was

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This map facilitates the search for epigenetic causes of disease

June 6, 2019 CoRSIV, DNA methylation, epigenetics, genome, Homa Shalchi, Research

More than 15 years after scientists first mapped the human genome, most diseases still cannot be predicted based on one’s genes. Thus, researchers also are