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A study has opened a window into the complexity of the genetic changes in a small region of chromosome 17 that lead to two rare conditions.
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Dr. Christie Ballantyne, chief of cardiology
Dr. Christie Ballantyne,  say even if you have lowered your cholesterol and have been prescribed statins, new data shows you may still be at risk.
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Hugo J. Bellen, D.V.M., Ph.D.
A collaborative study suggests potential new therapeutic strategies or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig’s disease.
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Researchers: tool can identify human trafficking victims
Researchers report a screening tool designed specifically to assess for human trafficking was more likely to identify sexual and labor exploitation…
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Findings may promote adult heart tissue regeneration
An international team reports they have been able to open the possibility for treating heart disease by reprograming adult cardiomyocytes to a more…
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Two independent mechanisms are involved in tuberous sclerosis
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital find the development of tuberous sclerosis involves mTORC1 as well as a…
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Benefits of heart health supplements come with cautions
We’ve all heard the advice to take a fish oil with omega-3 fatty acids to improve heart health, but are you actually getting the benefits they claim…
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As microbiome research matures, it is leading to a major reassessment of biological processes within the human body.
In a new study published in Science Advances, an international multi-institutional research team, led by the Human Genome Sequencing Center, reports…
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Sung Poblete, Craig Vosburg, Helen Heslop, Barbara Savoldo, Rayne Rouce, Rusty Robertson and Margaret M. Foti.
Stand Up To Cancer announced at the annual SU2C Scientific Summit the creation of an $8 million Dream Team of top scientists focused on finding…
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Cancer Cells
A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine has discovered that breast cancer cells can shift between two forms of the cell surface…
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Clinical Sequencing Research
PreSeek can provide valuable molecular information for the detection of a wide spectrum of dominant monogenic diseases, according to an initial study…
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Westbrook Lab
A multidisciplinary, international team of scientists has been awarded Cancer Research UK’s Grand Challenge, an ambitious series of £20 million…
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Drs. Yong Xu, Wenjun Zhou, Yanlin He, Zheng Sun and Pengfei Liu.
The search for a mechanism that could explain how the protein complex NCOR1/2 regulates memory has revealed an unexpected connection between the…
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Dr. Martin M. Matzuk (left), director of the Center for Drug Discovery and vice chair of pathology & immunology
A team of scientists found that the Transforming Growth Factor beta (TGF-beta) signaling pathway in uterine cells protects against uterine cancer by…
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A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas at Austin has applied an unconventional approach that used bacteria to discover human proteins that can lead to DNA damage and promote cancer.
A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas at Austin has applied an unconventional approach that used…
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine has developed a mouse model to study the short-term consequences of fungal infection in the brain.
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