An antibiotic solution that may help reduce or eliminate capsular contracture, the most common risk associated with cosmetic and reconstructive breast-implant surgery, has been developed by UTSW plastic surgeons (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1-00).
University of Texas investigators have reported in the December 24th issue of Science that a tiny transparent worm has enabled a description of the biochemical steps leading from a genetic mutation to a change in behavior.
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers have discovered a method that may lead to the long-hoped-for efficient and inexpensive production of synthetic antibody substitutes.
UT researchers have developed a new ovarian tumor index that will help physicians accurately diagnose ovarian tumors as either cancerous or benign.
A clinical trial has shown Vagus Nerve Stimulation, an electrical stimulation therapy currently used to combat epilepsy, to be a promising new method for treating patients with severe treatment-resistant depression.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have developed a mouse tumor model for the most common genetic disorder in humans, von Recklinghausen disease, or neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1). With the aid of this model, investigators have learned more about why and how patients with NF-1 develop malignant tumors.
Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas caused the death of human cancer cells by inhibiting telomerase -- the enzyme capable of immortalizing human cells.
A rare but fatal genetic disorder in children is caused by defects in the protein perforin, scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have found.
Three studies from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers show that calcium citrate is better absorbed than calcium carbonate and is effective at preventing osteoporosis in early post-menopausal women.
The Medical Event Reporting System for Transfusion Medicine seeks to stop blood-transfusion errors before they happen.
Investigators at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas are providing insight into a most disturbing crime - the killing of a child by a parent, or filicide.
A substance used for decades in Europe to treat diabetic neuropathy, or nervous-system complications, also functions as an antioxidant in humans, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers are a step closer to understanding how cocaine triggers heart attacks and other cardiovascular emergencies.
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers linked an antibody to a toxin, killing more than 99 percent of the human cells carrying a latent form of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 in a laboratory study.
The crystal structure of an enzyme that hunts down DNA damage caused by sunlight and cigarettes then snaps it up like a Venus' flytrap is described in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Researchers have identified a new component essential for the proper development of all animals.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have discovered how a drug known to help prevent colon cancer inhibits cell growth and prevents inflammation, a discovery that could lead to the design of new cancer pharmaceuticals.
An international team led by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has located the gene for a rare fat-developmental disorder called congenital generalized lipodystrophy.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas a four-year, $1.8 million grant to study lipodystrophy syndrome, a fat distribution disorder that more and more HIV-infected patients are developing.
A new study from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas found both selective and nonselective beta-blockers equally effective in reducing the risk of sudden death in patients with congestive heart failure.
The recent discovery of four genes that can halt lupus, an incurable and potentially fatal autoimmune disease that affects about 1.5 million Americans, could lead to the development of preventive drugs.
The discovery by UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers that an enzyme deficiency is responsible for some infant deaths attributed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) could lead to new postnatal testing to identify those at risk.
Using an infrared, nighttime video camera to study genetically engineered mice lacking a molecule known to affect appetite, UT Southwestern researchers unexpectedly discovered they had created a rodent with the sleep disorder narcolepsy.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have converted specialized cells that normally trigger an immune response into cells that trigger cell death.
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas scientists have used genetically altered mice to help explain two types of human blindness, one that occurs in children and another that develops in approximately one in four adults over 65.
Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have found, in mice, that a hormone is involved in the regulation of testicular descent.
Investigation of two important cell systems has revealed that a large protein complex, previously thought to mainly regulate protein degradation, also plays a significant role in sensitivity to cancer-causing ultraviolet light.
A genetic trait can predispose people to Gulf War syndrome, a new study has found.
A newly discovered gene defines a family that appears integral to the creation of cells, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers reported in the July issue of Human Molecular Genetics.
Imagine planning your life around the location of the nearest restroom or missing out on a nightly walk or tennis match due to the chance of an embarrassing accident.
A molecule that is extremely sensitive to light has proved a highly efficient way of initiating bonding of two proteins. UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers who designed this cross-linking reagent and technique said this will be an important tool in studying multiprotein complexes.
The discovery that a nuclear receptor controls the production of bile acids and works within a pathway that speeds up destruction of cholesterol may lead to new cholesterol drugs, UT Southwestern researchers reported in today's issue of Science.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have developed a method to turn off a gene for telomerase, which activates the continuous division of cancer cells. This finding could aid in the creation of new cancer drugs.
Twenty-eight-year-old artist Leslie Kenegar has a group of her paintings that she hides in her back closet and describes as "just for me - I don't want anybody else to know I've felt that way." On her other walls, however, hang the bright paintings she's done in her sunny moods.
A UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas physician-scientist is offering his interactive, comprehensive computer program for breast-cancer risk assessment at no charge to health professionals providing breast care.
The smallest 3 percent of infants born at term and of the same gestational age are at the greater risk of death or disability - compared to the 10 percent previously believed to be in danger.
Once again researchers have discovered that men and women may not in fact be equal - at least with respect to the pattern of precancerous lesions in the lungs of current and former smokers.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $1.6 million grant to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center to study rare body-fat diseases.
Furthering evidence of the importance of vitamin E, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have identified the pathway that may allow the vitamin to block the trigger of arterial plaque formation at the molecular level.
Investigators at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have developed a new way to isolate purified cancer cells - an important advance that will help unravel the mysteries of tumor biology and cancer development.
Physicians at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas will be participating in the first-ever drug trial for patients with the most rare form of multiple sclerosis, primary progressive MS.
A routine test already in use to diagnose prostate cancer and enlarged prostate could also predict the likelihood of a patient requiring surgery or developing acute urinary retention.
A recently developed electro-analgesia technique may offer new hope to patients who suffer from chronic, debilitating back pain, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have isolated the gene they believe is responsible for the most common genetic cause of heart and facial birth defects.
Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas now have a better understanding of the protective role that estrogen plays in cardiovascular disease.
Borrowing from the ancient practice of Chinese acupuncture, a newly developed electrical nerve-stimulation technique may help alleviate pain associated with cancer that has spread to bones, said researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have shown that human cells grown in the laboratory and immortalized by the introduction of the enzyme telomerase are not transformed into cancer cells.
Discovery of a marker that allows tracking of thymus function also shows how the adult immune system might repair itself after being damaged by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas scientists reported in today's issue of Nature.
Identification of a gene that normally prevents endotoxic shock - which causes at least 20,000 deaths a year in the United States and possibly one million worldwide - was reported by UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas researchers in today's issue of Science.
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have made a critical discovery about blood-flow regulation during exercise and, in the process, have uncovered a clue about a culprit behind Duchenne dystrophy, also known as childhood muscular dystrophy.
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