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G-quadruplex helps breast cancer survive

February 15, 2018 alternative splicing, Breast Cancer, CD44, G-quadruplex

For breast cancer, expressing the protein CD44s, instead of CD44v, has a survival advantage. And one of the goals of Dr. Chonghui Cheng lab is to

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A new approach to potentially treat Huntington’s disease

February 13, 2018 autophagy, huntingtin, Huntington’s disease, lysosome storage disorder, NCT-504, PIP4Kgamma, PIP4Kγ

In Huntington’s disease, a single faulty gene called huntingtin causes a progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain and severe physical and neurological damage

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A Matter of Health: Low-fat diet may lower postmenopausal pancreatic cancer risk

February 8, 2018 cancer risk, high-fat diet, low-fat diet, pancreatic cancer, women's study, Women’s Health Initiative

Observational studies suggest that diet may influence pancreatic cancer risk in both men and women. However, there has been no clinical trial designed to answer

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From the Labs to Commercialization: the Estes lab and ImmuCell Success Story

February 6, 2018 Baylor Licensing Group, calf gastroenteritis, gastroenteritis, ImmuCell, Mary Estes lab, rotavirus, rotavirus vaccine, scours, virus-like particles

Research discoveries at Baylor College of Medicine can potentially reach the point where they evolve into practical applications that improve the quality of life. After

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Image of the Month: Celebrating the Human Heart

February 2, 2018 DAG1, Gata4, healing the heart, Heart month, sex differences in heart disease, YAP

From the Labs joins the celebration of Heart Month by presenting posts related to groundbreaking basic research on human heart regeneration: Tapping on the healing

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Welcome to From the Labs new home!

January 30, 2018 From the Labs, Science at Baylor College of Medicine

From the Labs has moved to Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network! We invite you to visit our new location and take a look at the

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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