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Presurgical vaccine may prevent orthopedic device infections: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/dec-presurgical-vaccine-orthopedic-device-infections.html
A UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher and his colleagues developed a novel presurgical vaccine strategy that may prevent dangerous infections in patients receiving hip, knee, and other joint replacements.
Heat boosts antibiotics’ effectiveness against prosthetic infections: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2026/march-heat-boosts-antibiotics-prosthetic-infections.html
Heat generated by alternating magnetic fields (AMF) helps common antibiotics work better against prosthetic joint infections, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center found.
Nanovaccine shows great promise for treating HPV-related cancers: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/nov-nanovaccine-hpv-related-cancers.html
A nanoparticle vaccine designed to fight cancers induced by human papillomavirus (HPV) eradicated tumors in an animal model of late-stage metastatic disease, UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists report in a new study published in PNAS. The findings could ultimately lead to a new type of vaccine
Dallas Mavericks and UT Southwestern strengthen strategic partnership : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/oct-dallas-mavericks-utsw-partnership.html
Today the Dallas Mavericks and UT Southwestern Medical Center announced a multiyear expansion of their strategic partnership. UT Southwestern, the team’s Official Health Care Partner since 2019, will now also serve as the Official Team Doctors for the franchise. The UT Southwestern logo will appear
Rare genetic disorder linked to liver dysfunction, hypoglycemia, lipodystrophy : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/dec-rare-genetic-disorder-hypoglycemia.html
A rare genetic disorder discovered by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers and their colleagues can cause brain damage from dangerously low blood sugar levels and liver damage in infants, along with variable body fat loss, fatty tumors, and metabolic complications in youth and adults.
Findings may move science closer to growing organs in other species: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2025/dec-growing-organs-other-species.html
Failure of human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) to survive when grown with the PSCs of distantly related species occurs because of an innate immune reaction in the nonhuman cells, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers suggests.
UTSW first in Texas to offer novel treatment for rare eye cancer that spreads to the liver : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2026/jan-novel-treatment-rare-eye-cancer.html
A team at UT Southwestern Medical Center this week became the first in Texas and neighboring states to successfully perform a novel procedure to deliver whole-liver chemotherapy to treat metastatic uveal melanoma, a rare and deadly eye cancer.
UTSW researchers and international collaborators find human protein that potently inhibits coronavirus: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/cancer-support-system.html
A protein produced by the human immune system can potently inhibit several coronaviruses, including the one behind the current COVID-19 outbreak, an international team of investigators reports today.
Study identifies why some breast cancers evade treatment : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2026/feb-breast-cancers-evade-treatment.html
Up to 20% of hormone receptor-positive breast cancers don’t respond to antiestrogen therapies. A new study led by researchers at UT Southwestern, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, suggests that a protein secreted by immune cells within these tumors causes them to grow even in the
Changing what heart cells eat could help them regenerate: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2020/regenerating-heart-cells.html
Switching what the powerhouses of heart cells consume for energy could help the heart regenerate when cells die.