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How the brain’s GPS helps you know where you are

March 26, 2024 brain GPS, endocannabinoids, epilepsy, hippocampus, memory problems, place cells, Research

Researchers show for the first time the role endocannabinoid signals play in living animals moving about in the environment.

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Help Baylor College of Medicine advance in the STAT Madness Science Competition

March 21, 2024 human virome, Research, STAT Madness, wastewater epidemiology

Learn about the wastewater epidemiology project that has advanced to the final stage of the competition and vote!

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Baylor researchers awarded the National Academy of Sciences 2023 Cozzarelli Prize in Biomedical Sciences

March 19, 2024 Awards, Breast Cancer, Cozzarelli Prize, National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, Prostate Cancer, Research, SRC-3

The research warrants continuing investigations to translate the findings into a novel, more effective and longer-lasting cancer therapy.

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Image of the Month: Flood-tolerant plants

March 12, 2024 anoxia, CAX gene, flood tolerance, limited food supply, plant research, Research

A serendipitous finding set researchers on a path to discover a potential way to make plants more flood tolerant.

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Repurposed credit card-sized technology improves and broadens use of diagnostic stool tests

February 29, 2024 C. difficile, diagnostic tool, dried blood spot, dried fecal spot, fecal bile acids, gastrointestinal problems, Research

Dried fecal spot technology provides reliable results on bile acid content in stool samples while offering the advantages of easier storage and shipping, reduced cost and improved safety.

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Ancestral groups differ in the frequency of disease-causing genetic variants

February 22, 2024 All of Us, Ancestry, disease-causing gene variants, human genome, Research

A lack of diversity in large genomic studies presents a major challenge in understanding how pathogenic or disease-causing variants impact different populations. To address this

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Novel combination therapy offers promising results for treatment-refractory hepatoblastoma

February 20, 2024 Chemotherapy, HDAC, hepatoblastoma, panobinostat, pediatric liver cancer, Research

Hepatoblastoma (HB) is the most common liver cancer in children. Researchers and physicians in the field are concerned because in the last decade HB has

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Genomic study reveals immune factors contributing to pediatric heart transplant failure

February 15, 2024 cardiac immune microenvironment, heart rejection, macrophages, pediatric heart transplantation, Research, snRNA-seq

An unprecedented level of detail helps gain a comprehensive understanding of the immune response dynamics within transplanted hearts.

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Not too late to repair: gene therapy improves advanced heart failure in animal model

February 13, 2024 advanced heart failure, Cardiac regeneration, gene therapy, Research

This work has important implications for the large group of patients with advanced heart failure for whom there are currently no treatments to improve their condition.

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Not committed to fail: novel approach improves heart failure outcomes in animal model

February 8, 2024 ERR agonists, estrogen-related receptors, heart failure, heart hypertrophy, heart metabolism, Heart month, Research

The findings have encouraged the researchers to pursue clinical trials to determine the value of this novel approach to extend survival in people with hypertrophy of the heart.