Light Biology, a Biotech Company, Bought by Nimblegen Systems
UT Southwestern Medical CenterLight Biology Inc., a startup biotech company, has been acquired by NimbleGen Systems Inc. of Madison, Wisconsin.
Light Biology Inc., a startup biotech company, has been acquired by NimbleGen Systems Inc. of Madison, Wisconsin.
Mrs. Morehead, 67, has had Parkinson's disease for 20 years. Just over a year ago, her motor skills rapidly declined, causing her to oscillate between having too little mobility and having excessive, uncontrolled movements. She opted to undergo a surgical procedure called deep brain stimulation.
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Pediatric researchers have received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a pharmacology research center at Children's Medical Center Dallas to study how children react to drugs.
Physicians may not need to prescribe antibiotics when treating a common skin infection in children, according to researchers.
A specific outer-surface protein found in the bacterium that causes tick-borne Lyme disease is essential to survival of the bacterium in its natural life cycle and colonization in the insect, researchers have found.
Scientists have spent the past 50 years taking apart biological systems piece by piece. Now the future of biological research depends on putting them back together, says Nobel Laureate Dr. Alfred Gilman.
A major grant from the Cecil and Ida Green Foundation, combined with a bequest from the late Mr. Green through his Trust, will provide $12.8 million to establish a center to help scientists link basic research on molecules and cells with analysis of the function of entire biological systems.
Increasing leptin, a protein involved in regulating body weight, in laboratory animals transforms fat-storing cells into unique fat-burning cells, researchers report. They speculate that these findings could provide "a quick and safe solution" to the obesity problem in humans.
A membrane protein, NCX1, that transports sodium and calcium into and out of cells, may determine the frequency as well as strength of the heartbeat, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas report.
Exercise is known to help relieve stress, boost spirits and fight symptoms of depression. But can a regular exercise routine combined with targeted medications actually cure major depressive disorder?
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Dermatologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have begun offering a new, localized form of phototherapy that is more effective for several skin diseases than older methods.
Thanks to new software developed by bioinformatics researchers, scientists can now easily identify obscure commonalities in research data and directly relate them to their studies, saving money and speeding the process of discovery.
People with McArdle's disease "“ a condition marked by low tolerance for exercise and high risk of activity-related muscle injury "“ can dramatically improve their exercise tolerance by consuming a soft drink or equivalent before physical activity, investigators have discovered.
Drugs reduce risk of prostate enlargement and other complication of BPH by more than 65 percent.
Drug treats form of spasticity in multiple sclerosis patients.
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Deleting a particular ion channel from sperm cells causes those cells to lose the power needed for fertilization, researchers found while expanding studies into male infertility.
Researchers have shown that the absence of a key oxygen-sensing molecule can lead to multiple developmental defects "“ from an enlarged heart to eye problems.
Researchers have shown that insulin family signaling is important for male sex determination, a discovery that furthers the understanding of testes formation and eventually could lead to treatments for reproductive disorders.
Two decades of caring for the sickest of newborns and their anguished families has taught Aziza Young quite a bit about joy and sorrow.
Southwestern Medical Foundation honored civic leaders Jerry Farrington and F.B. Pete Goldman with the 2003 Charles Cameron Sprague Community Service Award at the foundation's annual dinner last night at the Wyndham Anatole Hotel.
Record-setting new gifts and pledges to UT Southwestern Medical Center's Innovations in Medicine capital drive have brought the total raised to date to $301 million, and the enthusiastic donor response has persuaded campaign leaders to raise the overall goal from $450 million to $500 million.
A slew of recommendations made in 1997 by a committee commissioned to review the National Institutes of Health's efforts in clinical research has had a positive effect, according to a report.
Dr. David J. Mangelsdorf, professor of pharmacology and biochemistry at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and an associate investigator in the university's Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been awarded Germany's highly respected Heinrich Wieland Prize for his research on lipids.
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When conventional therapies for glaucoma have been exhausted, ophthalmologists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have a new surgical technique in their arsenal to arrest this blinding disease caused when there is too much pressure on the inside of the eye.
Dr. Luis Parada, director of the Center for Developmental Biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, has been awarded this year's only American Cancer Society basic research professorship, making him one of 20 such designated professors nationwide.
The sale of unregulated and unmonitored contact lenses is a reckless endangerment of the ocular health of the U.S. public, warns the editor-in-chief of a scientific journal.
Researchers have been awarded $15.1 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to study anthrax, ricin, plague, tularemia and Lassa fever "“ all pathogens that can be used as biological weapons.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have tested and validated novel proteins, created by California-based Xencor, that block activity of a major molecule involved in the onset of inflammation, an innovation that may translate into new therapeutic options for people with rheumatoid arthritis.
Nearly half of childhood cancer survivors have at least one fairly significant health problem later in life caused by their cancer or cancer treatment, according to a landmark study of nearly 10,000 survivors at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and 25 other institutions.
An unusually high number of veterans of the 1991 Gulf War are becoming ill and dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which typically does not strike until decades later in life.
Research has led to the formation of Reata Discovery Inc., a Dallas biopharmaceutical company with $5.2 million in start-up financing and statewide and international business partnerships.
Certain enzyme inhibitors may slow tumor formation within weeks and could lead to treatments that retard or prevent recurrences of cancers, researchers have discovered.
Two diabetes medications taken by more than 6 million Americans may lead to serious side effects, including the onset of congestive heart failure and pulmonary edema.
The notoriously long and arduous process of diagnosing multiple sclerosis may soon be simplified, a researcher has reported.
Physicians are hoping patients and their families will observe today's national Take A Loved One to the Doctor Day on Sept. 16 by seeking preventive care and undergoing simple screenings that could detect potentially life-threatening diseases.
There's a powerful new way of looking at disease at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. It's called the cryo-electron microscope, or cryo-EM.
A drug commonly used as an anti-inflammatory medication could also help children with an inherited form of rickets avoid complications from their disease, according to researchers.
Obese individuals traveling to a high-altitude destination should take extra precautions, according to researchers.
Researchers have discovered a second gene responsible for a rare syndrome that causes the loss of bone from the lower jaw, fingers, toes and collarbone.
Researchers have discovered a system to create antibodies in mice up to 10 times faster than previous laboratory techniques allowed.
Researchers have identified a main regulator of the system that controls membrane trafficking, debunking what scientists for a decade had thought controlled this process.
Physicians and pharmacists should be more proactive in reporting adverse drug reactions that result in liver damage after medications are approved by the FDA, writes a researcher.
AIDS patients with primary central nervous system lymphoma who receive the HAART "cocktail" therapy live much longer than those not treated with the therapy, researchers found.
Researchers have discovered that the presence of a particular protein can predict whether the most common childhood brain tumor will continue to grow or return following surgery.
Researchers have discovered a way to inhibit a biochemical process that accompanies labor and to postpone delivery for one to two days in pregnant mice.
Abnormally high calcium levels spurred on by a mutated gene may lead to the death of neurons associated with Huntington's disease, an inherited genetic disorder, characterized by mental and physical deterioration, for which there is no known cure.