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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues into a new school year, there are many challenges that families are facing, including the isolation and anxiety of…

Research has shown that a mutation in the ATAXIN-1 gene leads to accumulation of Ataxin-1 (ATXN1) protein in brain cells and is the root cause of a…

The vast majority of breast cancer patients will undergo surgery as part of their treatment, and most of those patients will choose a lumpectomy to…

Baylor College of Medicine’s Human Genome Sequencing Center and the Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research is partnering with local…

Baylor College of Medicine’s Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit is one of approximately 90 sites selected to participate in the Phase 3 clinical…

CAR-T cell therapy, which attacks cancer cells using a person’s reprogrammed immune cells, has been used to treat Hodgkin lymphoma with remarkable…

Dr. Martin Matzuk has been named chair of the Department of Pathology & Immunology at Baylor College of Medicine. He has been serving as interim…

With more than 33.5 million people worldwide being affected by atrial fibrillation, researchers are focused on trying to uncover exactly what causes…

A new program developed by mental health experts at Baylor College of Medicine gives parents the tools they need to help their children cope with…

An international team of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine and Houston Methodist has discovered a strategy that can potentially address a…

In a clinical trial evaluating a novel immunotherapy option for cancer treatment, a child with rhabdomyosarcoma, a form of muscle cancer, that had…

The androgen receptor is the primary driver of the initiation and growth of prostate cancer, the second-leading cause of death in men. Looking to…

Research has shown that the tumor microenvironment (TME) can help cancers grow and evade the immune response. The TME has even been shown to inhibit…

Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine have devised a chemical approach for discovering new enzyme-binding compounds that could be developed into…

A study led by Dr. Ivan Rosas at Baylor College of Medicine and Dr. Naftali Kaminski from Yale School of Medicine develops the largest single-cell…

There are about 75 different types of cells in the human brain. Although different cell types from the same organism carry the same DNA, they look…