7 Current news of Baylor College of Medicine
rss08-27-2010
A new kind of psychiatry built on objective measures derived from functional magnetic resonance imaging (or fMRI) of the brain performed while patients play economic games could provide new insight into the diagnosis and, eventually, treatment of mental disorders, said researchers from Baylor ...
02-22-2010
Analyzing the genomic structure of five men descended from the hunter-gatherers of southern Africa – including famed South African Bishop Desmond Tutu – reveals surprising ways in which the genetic codes of these groups differ from others in the world and from each other, said a consortium of ...
06-08-2009
A rare, deadly developmental disorder of the lungs called alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of pulmonary veins (ACD/MPV) that usually kills the infants born with it within the first month of life results from deletions or mutations in the FOXF1 transcription factor gene, said a ...
10-07-2008
The real world is three-dimensional. That's true even in the laboratory, where scientists have to grow cells to study how they develop and what happens when their growth is abnormal. More and more laboratories are seeking to develop three-dimensional cell culture systems that allow them to ...
The Genome of James Watson is the First to be Sequenced for Less than $1 Million
06-04-2007
454 Life Sciences Corporation, in collaboration with scientists at the Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, announced the completion of a project to sequence the genome of James D. Watson, Ph.D., co-discoverer of the double-helix structure of DNA. The mapping of Dr. ...
Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease and Dementia with Lewy Bodies Targeted in Protein Study Enabled by Applied Biosystems/MDS SCIEX's Advanced Technologies
08-25-2006
Applied Biosystems, an Applera Corporation business, and its joint venture partner, MDS Sciex, a division of MDS Inc., announced the outcome of the scientific research community's most extensive, spinal fluid-based protein study on neurodegenerative diseases to date. Researchers from the ...
04-04-2005
A "color-blind" method of fluorescence detection developed by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University could open new doors that would take DNA sequencing to the patient's bedside, the doctor's office and even the scene of a crime or a battlefield. "We could eventually ...
