Showing posts with label BCM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BCM. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

BCM becomes a major player in new pediatric cancer Dream Team

While cancer research over the last two decades have made enormous strides forward, there is one area that has been falling behind: Children’s cancer treatment. To combat the dearth of new innovations in the field of children’s cancer, the St. Baldrick’s Foundation and Stand Up to Cancer (SU2C) have been working with the American Association for Cancer Research to create a Dream Team in the field of pediatric cancer. Included in this new cancer-fighting powerhouse will be the Baylor College of Medicine’s Texas Children’s Cancer Center.

http://bionews-tx.com/news/2013/04/15/bcm-becomes-a-major-player-in-new-pediatric-cancer-dream-team/

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

BCM Researchers Discover Overfed Newborn Mice Retained Obesity As Adults

Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine recently discovered that mice overfed from the first few weeks of life became sluggish and obese as compared to their normally fed counterparts, which were more active and less prone to obesity. According to the journal online journal Diabetes, the cause of this was epigenetic changes to DNA in the brain.

http://bionews-tx.com/news/2013/04/02/bcm-researchers-discover-overfed-newborn-mice-retained-obesity-as-adults/