Case for IBD combination therapy comes from research at Baylor, MIT and Hebrew University
Snowmass, Co. (September 10, 2004) - Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, comprised of Crohn's Disease and ulcerative colitis, are for the most part incurable and their causes are still unknown. About 1 million Americans suffer from IBD and research around the world on new therapeutic strategies against IBD is being reported at a conference sponsored by the American Physiological Society. ... ...On one t...Baylor researchers show way to diabetes cure with gene therapy
HOUSTON (April 21, 2003) A gene therapy developed by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine has apparently cured diabetes in mice by inducing cells in the liver to become beta cells that produce insulin and three other hormones.... "It's a proof of principle," said Dr. Lawrence Chan, professor of medicine and molecular and cellular biology as well as chief of the division of diabetes, endocr...Baylor College of Medicine garners research grants to sequence rat genome
. HOUSTON--(Feb. 28, 2001)--Baylor College of Medicine today announced two significant research grants that will support the Human Genome Sequencing Centers effort to determine the DNA sequence of laboratory rats. Baylor is the only medical school involved in the rat-sequencing project.. . The grants, a donation from the Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation and a joint award from the Na...