2024 Article Archive
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Study recommends nutrition coaching for young athletes
– Young athletes face an array of nutritional risks that could hamper their performance, recovery from injury, and overall wellness, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Scottish Rite for Children found.
Pathway tied to cancer-driving genome alterations identified
Cancer cells appear to hijack a genetic pathway involved in DNA repair to drive malignancy and overcome treatment, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows. Their findings, published in Cell, explain how chromosomes in some tumors undergo massive rearrangements and could lead to new strategies to avoid cancer drug resistance.
UTSW’s Simmons Cancer Center awarded more than $11.5 million in CPRIT funding
Eight scientists and physicians in the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at UT Southwestern have been awarded more than $11.5 million in grants from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to support the state’s fight against cancer.
$25 million donation from Hamon Charitable Foundation will help UT Southwestern, Children’s Health develop joint pediatric campus
UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children's HealthSM announced a $25 million gift from the Hamon Charitable Foundation in support of the $5 billion transformative pediatric campus to be built in Dallas’ Southwestern Medical District across from UTSW’s William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital.
Widespread disparities exist in treating advanced cancers
A study led by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center reveals significant disparities across the country in the use of immunotherapy for patients with advanced kidney and bladder cancers.
Computer model boosts detection of cell-to-cell communication
A computer model developed by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers significantly enhances the ability of scientists to detect communication between cells according to a new study published in Nature Methods.
Diabetes drug metformin may protect against radiation exposure
Metformin, a well-tolerated diabetes drug prescribed to as many as 150 million people worldwide, may also protect cells from radioactive damage, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report.
Proteins for skin strength also control cell signaling
An extensive family of proteins that gives human skin mechanical strength also appears to organize molecular signals that control skin cell activity, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows. Their findings, published in Developmental Cell, could lead to new ways to fight a host of skin diseases, including ulcers and skin cancer.
Children’s Research Institute at UT Southwestern scientists discover kidney cancers rely on mitochondrial metabolism to metastasize
Contrary to how tumors operate while still in the kidney, metastatic kidney cancers rely heavily on mitochondrial metabolism, according to new research from Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) published in Nature.