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Centenary alumnus Taylor Teague was recently awarded the Ascension Delgado Smith Excellence Award while attending LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine.

When cancers spread into the bloodstream, they often take on different characteristics, requiring different therapies.

Cancer has long been thought to be primarily a genetic disease, but in recent decades scientists have come to believe that epigenetic changes - which don't change the DNA sequence but how it is 'read' - also play a role in cancer.

A Texas epidemiologist said Central American children crossing the southwest border pose little if any threat when it comes to spreading disease.

The first, scheduled for Monday, Aug. 4, at 7 p.m. will be a special conversation with Professor Ross K. Baker, a member of the Political Science Department of Rutgers University and member of the board of contributors of USA Today, speaking on Bipartisanship: A Mixed Blessing? His talk will be followed by a question and answer session and ... (more)

Statins, a class of drugs commonly used to lower cholesterol levels, significantly reduce a patient's risk of developing Barrett's esophagus, according to a new study in Gastroenterology1, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association.

Cancer has long been thought to be primarily a genetic disease, but in recent decades scientists have come to believe that epigenetic changes - which don't change the DNA sequence but how it is 'read' - also play a role in cancer.

From the Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine and Department of Pathology and Immunology , Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; John Cochran VA Medical Center, St Louis, MO ; Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine , Naples, Italy ; and Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, ... (more)

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Statins, a class of drugs commonly used to lower cholesterol levels, significantly reduce a patient's risk of developing Barrett's esophagus, according to a new study in Gastroenterology , the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association.

A team of scientists from around the world led by Baylor College of Medicine and Washington University in St. Louis has completed the genome sequence of the common marmoset - the first sequence of a New World Monkey - providing new information about the marmoset's unique rapid reproductive system, physiology and growth, shedding new light on ... (more)

A team of scientists from around the world led by Baylor College of Medicine and Washington University in St. Louis has completed the genome sequence of the common marmoset - the first sequence of a New World Monkey - providing new information about the marmoset's unique rapid reproductive system, physiology and growth, shedding new light on ... (more)

An upcoming Postdoctoral Fellow position and a Lab Technician position are potentially available after September 2014 for highly motivated and creative individuals in the lab of Dr. Zheng Sun at Baylor College of Medicine.

The Department of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine invites applications for multiple faculty positions in broad areas of neuroscience, including circuit analysis, computational neuroscience and cellular imaging.

Jyoti Malhan, the principal of the Baylor College of Medicine Academy, a magnet school in the Houston Independent School District.

The government is expanding its "mystery disease" program, funding a network at six universities around the country to help diagnose patients with diseases so rare they've been told they're undiagnosable.

The government is expanding its "mystery disease" program, funding a network at six universities around the country to help diagnose patients with diseases so rare they've been told they're undiagnosable.

The government is expanding its "mystery disease" program, funding a network at six universities around the country to help diagnose patients with diseases so rare they've been told they're undiagnosable.

Deficits in neurocognitive functioning are evident within days of a type 1 diabetes diagnosis in children and are associated with glycemic control over one year postdiagnosis, according to a study published online June 26 in Diabetes Care .

Half of Texans who are eligible for premium subsidies under the Affordable Care Act and who looked for health plans in the ACA's Health Insurance Marketplace said cost was the main reason they didn't enroll in a plan.