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Fetal Congenital Heart Block
A congenital heart block is a disruption of the intricate electrical nerve impulse system that regulates the pumping action of the heart.
PolyAMiner-Bulk: A new deep-learning tool developed to an...
Researchers in the lab of Dr. Hari Krishna Yalamanchili, an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine and an investigator at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children's Hospital, have developed a cutting-edge deep-learning algorithm called PolyAMiner to decode alternative polyadenylation status of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) from a variety of bulk RNA-sequencing datasets. The study was published in Cell Reports Methods.
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Our long journey to a SON diagnosis
She feels invincible with her floaties on. I smiled as I thought of my beautiful 7 year-old daughter, Kylie, who enjoys swimming and started public school this fall. I am filled with enormous joy and pride at how far she has come.Kylie is our only child and my pregnancy was fairly smooth until around the 30th week when my doctor noticed the fetus was growing slowly. Since I was also being closely monitored for placenta previa, a condition in which the baby’s placenta partially or fully covers the opening in the mother’s cervix, my gynecologist decided that delivering the baby via an emergency C-section was the best course of action.
A protein implicated in Batten disease is critical for ge...
Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis are a group of devastating neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disorders that begin in childhood.
Atoh1 is Critical to Establish the Diversity of Pontine N...
A recent study published in Science Advances by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital has discovered six distinct neuronal lineages in the pons region of the brainstem and revealed new insights into their differential vulnerability to the partial loss of Atoh1, a gene crucial for the development of pontine neurons.
Astrocyte processing of serotonin regulates olfactory per...
To enjoy the scent of morning coffee and freshly baked cookies or to perceive the warning smell of something burning, the brain needs two types of cells, neurons and astrocytes, to work closely with each other.
A new way to visualize force-sensing neurons
A recent study by researchers at Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, and Scripps Research Institute has discovered fluorescent dye FM 1-43 as an effective and versatile tool to visualize PIEZO2 ion channel activity in mechanosensory neurons.
Researchers find a way to reduce the side effects of deep...
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has emerged as an effective therapy for severe, treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (trOCD) and has received approval under a humanitarian device exemption from the U.S. FDA.
Texas Children’s Hospital Names Russ Williams as Senior...
Texas Children’s Hospital is pleased to welcome Russ Williams as Senior Vice President of Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin Campus