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Childhood condition poses risk for Parkinson’s disease later in life

January 22, 2018 Gaucher disease, GBA gene, Lysosome Storage Disorders, Parkinson's Disease

In recent years, defects in the glucocerebrosidase (GBA) gene have been identified as significant risk factors for Parkinson’s disease and deficiencies in this gene also

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The multi-tasking nature of the hormone asprosin

January 19, 2018 AgRP neurons, apetite control, appetite control, asprosin, blood-brain barrier, endocrinology, extreme thinnes, hypothalamus, neonatal progeroid syndrome, ovesity, POMC neurons

When Dr. Atul Chopra, a medical geneticist at Baylor College of Medicine, and his colleagues discovered in 2016 a new hormone called asprosin that regulates

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How infrequent seizures may lead to persistent memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease

January 10, 2018 Alzheimer's Disease, calbindin, deltaFosB, epilepsy, epileptic seizures, hippocampus, memory loss

Even relatively infrequent seizures can lead to long-lasting cognitive deficits in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease; how this happens, however, has been difficult to explain.

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Tapping on the healing capacity of the heart

January 5, 2018 Heart disease and regeneration, heart failure, Hippo pathway, injured heart, mouse model, regeneration

If your skin is injured, it can heal itself. If you lose blood, your body makes more. If a lobe is removed from a mouse

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Image of the Month: Mouse embryo imaged with confocal microscopy

January 2, 2018 3D imaging, image analysis, Microscopy, vital microscopy

The Optical Imaging and Vital Microscopy Core Facility at Baylor College opens a window into the microscopic world through a number of methods, state-of-the-art instrumentation

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A year in pictures

December 21, 2017 Image of the month, research at Baylor College of Medicine

From the Labs closes 2017 with an Image of the Month photo album that highlights research at Baylor College of Medicine. Happy holidays!

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Friend and foe: Histamine mediates allergies and can fight colorectal cancer

December 19, 2017 Allergies, Colorectal Cancer, histamine, histidine decarboxylase, inflammation, L. reuteri, probiotics, tumor growth, tumorigenesis

Previous studies have shown that histamine is not only involved in allergic disease, it also may have a potential antitumor effect. At Baylor College of

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What matters the most to cells

December 14, 2017 DNA biology, DNA repair, DNA transcription, E. Coli, eXOnucleases sequencing, fidelity of transcription, GreA, protein synthesis, RNA

“If you asked a group of scientists which is more important for a cell, maintaining the integrity of its DNA containing all of the organism’s

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Atoh1, a potential Achilles’ heel of Sonic Hedgehog MB

December 12, 2017 Atoh1, brain cancer, brain tumor in children, Cerebellum, Jak2, medulloblastoma, Sonic Hedgehog, Tyrosine 78

Medulloblastoma is the most common type of solid brain tumor in children. Current treatments offer limited success and may leave patients with severe neurological side