2018 Article Archive

UTSW’s community-based care initiative grows

 

UTSW’s community-based care initiative grows

Welcome to the future of brain science

 

Accelerating research breakthroughs into treatment advances

Bioinformatics computer model predicts most aggressive forms of lung cancers

 

It’s all in the numbers: Bioinformatics computer model predicts most aggressive forms of lung cancers.

Clerkship phase gives medical students earlier patient care exposure

 

2015, second-year students are now getting that exposure to patient care six months earlier in their four-year program.

A national effort to understand acute liver failure – two decades and 3,000 study participants later

 

A multicenter study on acute liver failure initiated by UT Southwestern 20 years ago and funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has increased understanding of this sometimes- fatal condition, leading in turn to improved, lifesaving patient care.

Unraveling the mysteries behind America’s No. 1 cause of acute liver failure

 

Unraveling the mysteries behind America’s No. 1 cause of acute liver failurefunded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has increased understanding of this sometimes- fatal condition, leading in turn to improved, lifesaving patient care.

Zeroing in on a gene that limits the desire to drink alcohol

 

In the largest study of its kind, UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists collaborated with researchers in Europe to identify a gene variant that suppresses the desire to drink alcohol.

Using 3-D weapons of science to fight infectious diseases

 

Pathogens responsible for some of the world’s most deadly infectious diseases are being studied at the atomic level to find their weak points by UT Southwestern researchers and other colleagues.

Study reveals endocrine-producing microenvironment in embryonic pancreas

 

UT Southwestern researchers report that development of the endocrine pancreas is promoted by a weblike network of epithelial tubes that exist only transiently in the developing embryo.