By Ruth SoRelle, M.P.H. The “Swiss Army Knife” of the fruit fly laboratory – dubbed MiMIC (Minos-mediated integration cassette) – provided the basis for building a large protein collection that allows researchers to assess expression of genes and proteins under the microscope in unfixed tissues as well as to assess the consequences of knocking … Continue reading
By Ruth SoRelle, M.P.H. Ever wonder how diseases or disorders get their names? Why aren’t diseases caused by gene mutations named after the gene involved? Dr. Christian Schaaf, assistant professor of molecular and human genetics at Baylor College of Medicine and a faculty member of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas … Continue reading
By Dipali Pathak Baylor College of Medicine’s Emergency Smart Pod was one of 12 ideas selected for President Barack Obama’s challenge to find innovative tools to help fight the Ebola crisis and other public health emergencies around the world. The selection was announced by The United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The Emergency Smart … Continue reading
By Ruth SoRelle, M.P.H. When two separate parental genes fuse through abnormal chromosomal rearrangement to make a particular fusion gene, it may provide a marker for identifying a sub-group of the most common form of ovarian cancer, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears in the Proceedings of the … Continue reading
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By Dipali Pathak In the book The Hobbit, helping the dragon Smaug was the furthest thing from the mind of band of heroes who sought to regain the Dwarven kingdom and its treasure. However, when a 16-year-old, 200 pound Komodo dragon named Smaug at the Houston Zoo needed help in using his right … Continue reading
