October 27, 2020 // Posted In Academics, Research
If you’re a sports fan, the best comparisons for Dr. John Wood coming to Baylor in 2013 might be a top free agent or recruit signing with your team. If fishing is your thing, he’s the “big fish” that didn’t get away.
In the academic world, no metaphor is needed he’s a nationally recognized leader in cancer research, a top scholar and mentor who chose to bring his research operation to Baylor in 2013 and has been leading students in groundbreaking natural product synthesis research from the Baylor Sciences Building ever since.
Wood, the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, applies his discipline in the fight against cancer through a process known as natural product synthesis. Most major brand-name drugs are the result of natural products, such as plants, that have a quality or mechanism that fights disease. Wood and his students re-create these molecules and put them together in different ways to fight
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IMAGE: A UT Southwestern research team has catalogued gene activity in the skeletal muscle of mice, comparing healthy animals to those carrying a genetic mutation that causes Duchene muscular dystrophy (DMD). view more
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center
DALLAS - Dec. 21, 2020 - A UT Southwestern research team has catalogued gene activity in the skeletal muscle of mice, comparing healthy animals to those carrying a genetic mutation that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in humans. The findings, published online recently in
PNAS, could lead to new treatments for this devastating degenerative disease and insights into factors that affect muscle development.
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IMAGE: Luis Echegoyen, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The University of Texas at El Paso, has been appointed by the United States-Mexico Foundation for Science (USMFS) as a member. view more
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EL PASO, Texas - Luis Echegoyen, Ph.D., professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The University of Texas at El Paso, has been appointed by the United States-Mexico Foundation for Science (USMFS) as a member of its Board of Governors.
The binational board consists of 12 recognized leaders from academia, business and government who direct and supervise the foundation s activities. Echegoyen s four-year term, which can be renewed once, begins Jan. 1, 2021.
A Pfizer representative said the drug developer will use GPS-enabled thermal sensors in every container of vaccines to track the location and temperature of each vaccine shipment.
“These GPS-enabled devices will allow Pfizer to proactively prevent unwanted deviations and act before they happen,” said Francesca Marzullo, manager of Pfizer Global Supply Communications.
But the sensors aren’t on each individual vial.
“These electronic temperature sensors are typically used for large shipments of vaccines that are going from the manufacturer to the places where these vaccines are locally distributed,” Baughman said. “They are not used on individual vaccine vials.”
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