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A collaborative study reveals the ataxin-1 gene, which is known to cause the rare neurodegenerative disease called spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (…

The National Institutes of Health has conducted a four-year study to harmonize and standardize clinical genetic reporting. 

Planning children’s meals during the school week can be made simple when providing nutritious foods. Alicia Beltran, research dietitian, maps out…

A new study led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reveals a previously unknown gut-brain connection that helps explain how eating extra…

Researchers were awarded $3.2 million by the National Institutes of Health to develop an improved way to evaluate umbilical venous blood flow using…

Researchers have been studying Hurricane Harvey's effect on public health and the emergency response by healthcare providers during a major…

Currently, 80 percent of donor lungs are not being used for transplant, but a portable device to house and transport lungs could make more of the…

In an effort to identify surgical errors that could be prevented, researchers conducted an analysis of surgeries that resulted in adverse events over…

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have conducted a  study of TP53 mutations to better understand the processes leading to the inactivation of…

Researchers report that Dictyostelium discoideum, the soil-dwelling single-celled amoeba that feeds on bacteria, builds a barrier around its colonies…

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health has awarded postdoctoral fellowships to six outstanding early career scientists working in…

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine suspected that folic acid could be a part of the puzzle of dolutegravir’s negative side effects.

The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has honored Dr. Huda Zoghbi with the 2019 Victor A. McKusick Leadership Award.

A team of researchers have discovered several methods that individuals use to get antibiotics without a prescription.

A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine found an association between diet quality and microbiome composition in human colonic mucosa.

The prevalence of anal high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions, which precede anal cancer, is much higher in women living with HIV than…