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Texas Children’s Pediatrics Brings Specialized Care to Northwest Fort Bend County with Launch of 50th Houston-Area Clinic
Texas Children’s Pediatrics Brings Specialized Care to Northwest Fort Bend County with Launch of 50th Houston-Area Clinic
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Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine Launching Uterine Transplant Clinical Trial to Treat Infertility
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Dr. Huda Zoghbi awarded Elaine Redding Brinster Prize
Dr. Huda Zoghbi awarded Elaine Redding Brinster Prize
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Artist collaborates with young cancer patients to create moving memories of ‘home’
Researchers in the Tolias Lab and the Xiaolong Jiang Lab are part of a global collaborative led by the Allen Institute to map the whole human brain. In what is being called the brain equivalent of the Human Genome Project, this initiative will map 200 billion cells in the human brain by their type and function as well as create a primate brain atlas.
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Duncan NRI at Texas Children’s Hospital Accelerates Neurological Research and Therapies with Historic $10M Gift from The Blue Bird Circle
Duncan NRI at Texas Children’s Hospital Accelerates Neurological Research and Therapies with Historic $10M Gift from The Blue Bird Circle
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Nguyen earns Ambulatory Practitioner Award for Excellence in Patient Experience
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Astros’ mascot, Orbit, delivers Nintendo Switch gaming systems at Texas Children’s Hospital while visiting patients
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Houston-Based Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi Discusses Global Vaccine Equality at the Clinton Global Initiative Meeting
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Texas Children’s Hospital specialized clinic helps prevent childhood cancer
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Dr. Gerarda Cappuccio receives a postdoctoral fellowship from Autism Speaks
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Dr. Gerarda Cappuccio, a physician-scientist at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (Duncan NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital, has been selected to receive the 2022 postdoctoral fellowship award from Autism Speaks to test gene therapy for a rare disorder, MeCP2 Duplication Syndrome, a condition related to the over-expression of a gene MeCP2 linked to autism.
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