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A novel instructive role for the entorhinal cortex discovered
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Animal model of West syndrome exhibits progressive symptoms
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An animal model of West syndrome exhibits a progressive increase in epileptic spasms and learning and memory deficits
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Lita Duraine, a certified electron microscopist at Baylor College of Medicine and Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital, won an image contest held by JEOL USA, a leading global supplier of electron microscopes, ion beam instruments, mass and NMR spectrometers.
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have engineered immune cells to control two major life-threatening complications.
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Dr. Huda Zoghbi awarded 2nd Elaine Redding Brinster Prize in Science or Medicine
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Global Collaboration: mapping the whole human brain
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Disruption of MTSS2 function causes a new syndromic intellectual disability
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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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An Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) study led by Dr. Hugo Bellen, investigator at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) at Texas Children’s Hospital and distinguished service professor at the Baylor College of Medicine, has found a spontaneous mutation in MTSS2 gene to be the underlying cause of a new syndromic intellectual disability.
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Texas Children’s Hospital and Faris Foundation team up to advance childhood cancer research
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Dr. Gerarda Cappuccio receives a postdoctoral fellowship from Autism Speaks
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