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Pay attention to the ‘noise’ in your brain

August 23, 2018 attention, brain function, brain noise, Research, visual cortex

Take a look at your favorite mug; it probably looks the same as it always has, but your neurons may not think so. Neurons are

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Revealing unique features of the ‘antennae’ on light-sensing neurons

August 21, 2018 cilia, non-syndromic blindness, photoreceptors, Research, retina, SPATA7

Practically all cells in the body have a single cilium, and antennae-like structure called the primary cilium, that seems to allow cells to sense their

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From the labs to commercialization: Companies merge to implement Baylor College of Medicine-developed therapies for cancer

August 16, 2018 cancer therapy, commercialization, Marker Therapeutics, Research, T cells, TapImmune, tumor cells

Despite major advances in cancer therapy, conventional cancer treatments continue to be associated with devastating side effects for patients and are not always curative. In

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Healthy fat cells uncouple obesity from diabetes

August 14, 2018 inflammation, insulin resistance, insulin sensitivity, interferon gamma, miR-30a, Obesity, Research, subcutaneous white fat, type 2 diabetes

About 422 million people around the world, including more than 30 million Americans, have diabetes. Approximately ninety percent of them have type 2 diabetes. People

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A simpler, faster CRISPR

August 9, 2018 bacterial genetics, CRISPR, gene editing, Research

CRISPR technologies can be programmed to target specific sequences of genetic code and to edit DNA at precise locations. This strategy allows research scientists to

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Together, big data, bench science and genome-wide diagnostics predict genomic instability that can lead to disease

August 7, 2018 Alu elements, bench science, BigData, copy number variation, genome-wide diagnostics, genomic structural variation, Research

They are the most common repeated elements in the human genome; more than a million copies are scattered among and between our genes. Called Alu

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Connecting Tau aggregates, transposable elements and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease

August 2, 2018 Alzheimer's Disease, genomic instability, neurlogic diseases, Neurodegeneration, Research, tau, transposable elements

Although it’s been known for years that the accumulation of Tau protein within brain cells in combination with progressive cell death is one of the

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Heart NLRP3 inflammasome linked to atrial fibrillation

July 31, 2018 arrhythmia, inflammatory response, NLRP3 inflammasome. atrial fibrillation, Research, Stroke

Atrial fibrillation is the most common heart arrhythmia, and it is particularly observed in the elderly human population, which is growing worldwide. Atrial fibrillation is

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Looking at DNA repair defects may help identify elusive form of breast cancer

July 27, 2018 Breast Cancer, DNA damage repair defects, Research, tumor resistance to endocrine treatment

Endocrine treatment-resistant estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer has historically been extremely difficult to detect at the time of diagnosis, although as many as a

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The dark side of antibiotic ciprofloxacin

July 25, 2018 antibiotics, aorta tears and ruptures, aortic aneurysms and dissections, ciprofloxacin, extracellular matrix, fluoroquinolones, mouse model, Research

UPDATE: A few months after this article was posted, the work by Baylor researchers has begun to have international impact. Read the details here. The use