“Singing in the Mud”, Message from the Dean
April 13, 2020Former UT Chancellor, retired Admiral, and retired Navy Seal William H. McRaven wrote a story in the Washington Post that is worth sharing widely- “For a would-be Navy SEAL, Hell Week is the worst week of the toughest military training in the world. It …
Familial Cancer: Highly aggressive thoracic desmoid tumors in adolescent siblings with fatal outcomes in an FAP kindred: a need for increased vigilance and intervention in at-risk AYAs
April 13, 2020Mohamed M. Gad, Anne-Marie Langevin, Aaron J. Sugalski & Gail E. Tomlinson Abstract Desmoid tumors are a manifestation of familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), associated with mutation of the APC gene. Although considered benign tumors, desmoids ca …
Pipette Gazette: Unknown Pathogenic Agents: When Common Decency Is Better Than Nothing (Aune Lab)
April 6, 2020Originally Published, Pipette Gazette: By: Brian Iskra, The pandemic of COVID-19 is a challenging situation for every member of society; we all have our role to play in mitigating the mortality caused by the infection. Medical professionals are at the …
BMG Medical Genomics: Convolutional neural network models for cancer type prediction based on gene expression
April 3, 2020Milad Mostavi, Yu-Chiao Chiu, Yufei Huang & Yidong Chen Abstract Background Precise prediction of cancer types is vital for cancer diagnosis and therapy. Through a predictive model, important cancer marker genes can be inferred. Several studies hav …
Pain Reports: Reliable approaches to extract high-integrity RNA from skin and other pertinent tissues used in pain research
March 27, 2020Peter M LoCoco 1, Jacob T Boyd 1, Claudia M Espitia Olaya 2, Ashley R Furr 1, Dawn K Garcia 3, Korri S Weldon 3, Yi Zou 3, Erin Locke 1, Alejandro Tobon 4, Zhao Lai 3 5, Shivani B Ruparel 1, Nikita B Ruparel 1, Kenneth M Hargreaves 1 Abstract Introduct …
KLRN: The Gene San Antonio | Dr. Gregory Aune
March 27, 2020https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKvk6YL-MVg Aune Lab
Katsumi Kitagawa, Pharm.D., PhD Awarded $1M NSF Grant
March 16, 2020Overview: Centromeres are essential for chromosome segregation during mitosis. The kinetochore is the protein complex associated with the centromere. Dysfunction in centromeres causes chromosome instability and can result in aneuploidy. The overall goa …
bioRxiv : Assessing the Heterogeneity of Cardiac Non-myocytes and the Effect of Cell Culture with Integrative Single Cell Analysis
March 4, 2020Abstract Cardiac non-myocytes comprise a diverse and crucial cell population in the heart that plays dynamic roles in cardiac wound healing and growth. Non-myocytes broadly fall into four cell types: endothelium, fibroblasts, leukocytes, and pericytes. …
Greehey CCRI Receives Its First NIH K99 Award (Chen Lab)
March 2, 2020Yu-Chiao Chiu, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute (GCCRI), received the prestigious NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The highly co …
Clinical Cancer Research: EGFR Amplification Induces Increased DNA Damage Response and Renders Selective Sensitivity to Talazoparib (PARP Inhibitor) in Glioblastoma
March 1, 2020Shaofang Wu 1, Feng Gao 1, Siyuan Zheng 2, Chen Zhang 1, Emmanuel Martinez-Ledesma 1 3, Ravesanker Ezhilarasan 4, Jie Ding 1, Xiaolong Li 1, Ningping Feng 5, Asha Multani 6, Erik P Sulman 4, Roel G Verhaak 2, John F de Groot 1, Tim P Heffernan 5, W K A …