18 Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic – Are We Doing Anything Right?
A year and a half into what the World Health Organization officially declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, it’s an understatement to say that…
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Cholesterol-Lowering Statins May Improve Survival for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Patients
A study led by researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found a significant association between cholesterol-lowering drugs commonly known as statins and…
Engineered Natural Killer Cells Can Eliminate Glioblastoma Cancer Stem Cells
Deleting the TFG-β receptor in NK cells overcame immune suppression and enabled anti-tumor activity in preclinical models. Preclinical research from The University of Texas MD…
Mediterranean Diet May Help Men With Prostate Cancer
In a study to examine a Mediterranean diet in relation to prostate cancer progression in men on active surveillance, researchers from The University of Texas…
SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Has a “Camouflage” That Causes Cells Not to Recognize It – “Fundamental Advance in Our Understanding of the Virus”
Discovery lays groundwork for designing novel antiviral drugs. With an alarm code, we can enter a building without bells going off. It turns out that…
COVID-19 Can Cause Cardiac Injury – Even in Patients Without Underlying Heart Conditions
COVID-19 can have fatal consequences for people with underlying cardiovascular disease and cause cardiac injury even in patients without underlying heart conditions, according to a…
Researchers Surprised That Gut Bacteria Penetrates Tumors – Improves Cancer Therapy
Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and University of Chicago have discovered that bacteria that usually live in the gut can accumulate…
Researchers Find New Pathway to Regulate Immune Response
Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have found a potential new pathway to regulate immune response and potentially control inflammatory diseases of the…
New Cell Dysfunction Discovery Sheds Light on HIV
A team of chemical and biomedical engineers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with researchers from…
Nanotweezers Open the Door to New Innovations in Medicine, Mobile Tech
It’s difficult to conceptualize a world where humans could casually manipulate nanoscale objects at will or even control their own biological matter at a cellular…
Ultra-Thin ‘Atomristors’ Pave the Way for More Powerful Computing
Engineers worldwide have been developing alternative ways to provide greater memory storage capacity on even smaller computer chips. Previous research into two-dimensional atomic sheets for…
Supercomputers Help Tailor Cancer Treatments to Individual Patients
Attempts to eradicate cancer are often compared to a “moonshot” — the successful effort that sent the first astronauts to the moon. But imagine if,…
Astronomers Discover Eighth Planet Circling Kepler-90
The discovery of an eighth planet circling the distant star Kepler-90 by University of Texas at Austin astronomer Andrew Vanderburg and Google’s Christopher Shallue overturns…
Advanced Chemical Oscillator Offers New Level of Molecular Control
DNA molecules that follow specific instructions could offer more precise molecular control of synthetic chemical systems, a discovery that opens the door for engineers to…
How Dietary Fat Affects Stem Cell Differentiation
You are what you eat when it comes to fat, report scientists from McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at…
Magma Ocean Reshaped the Moon’s Crust
The Earth’s Moon had a rough start in life. Formed from a chunk of the Earth that was lopped off during a planetary collision, it…
XSEDE ECSS Program Helps Probe Space Oddities
Black holes make for a great space mystery. They’re so massive that nothing, not even light, can escape a black hole once it gets close…
SOFIA Investigates Cool Dust Around Energetic Active Black Holes
Using observations from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), scientists at the University of Texas San Antonio found that the dust surrounding active, ravenous…