2018 Article Archive

The ‘Big Bang’ of Alzheimer’s Scientists ID genesis of disease, focus efforts on deadly shape-shifting tau protein

 

Scientists have discovered a “Big Bang” of Alzheimer’s disease – the precise point at which a healthy protein becomes toxic but has not yet formed deadly tangles in the brain.

UTSW scientists identify body’s microreactors for innate immunity

 

A DNA-sensing enzyme forms droplets that act as tiny bioreactors creating molecules to stimulate innate immunity – the body’s first response to infection, UT Southwestern researchers report.

New tools used to identify childhood cancer genes

 

Using a new computational strategy, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified 29 genetic changes that can contribute to rhabdomyosarcoma, an aggressive childhood cancer.

UTSW algorithm identifies hypertensive patients who will benefit most from more intensive treatment

 

Using data from large clinical trials, UT Southwestern researchers developed a way to predict which patients will benefit most from aggressive high blood pressure treatment.

UT Southwestern partners with Perot Museum on new exhibit

 

The UT Southwestern imprint is heavy in the Perot Museum of Nature and Science’s reboot of the Being Human Hall, the first exhibit hall to be fully reimagined since the opening of the Perot Museum in 2012.

Quality forum highlights Sim Center advantages

 

The forum showcased the advantages to be gained from UT Southwestern’s new state-of-the-art Simulation Center that will provide students, trainees, and practicing physicians vastly expanded opportunities to hone surgical and decision-making skills.

Researchers discover new vulnerability in deadly form of lung cancer

 

Researchers at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered a new metabolic vulnerability in small cell lung cancer (SCLC) that can be targeted by existing drug therapies.

UTSW researchers solve structure of major brain receptor that is treatment target for epilepsy and anxiety

 

UT Southwestern researchers today published the first atomic structure of a brain receptor bound to a drug used to reverse anesthesia and to treat sedative overdoses.

Don’t let depression keep you from exercising

 

Exercise may be just as crucial to a depression patient’s good health as finding an effective antidepressant.

Caring for your heart during cancer treatment

 

Mrs. Goins is seeing a cardiologist as part of her cancer treatment because anthracyclines, a class of chemotherapy drugs used to treat breast cancer patients, can weaken the heart and lead to congestive heart failure years down the road in some patients.