Healthy diet, healthy brain is a great New Year’s resolution

December 15, 2023

Here is an important New Year’s resolution backed by science: “In 2024, I will eat a diet that keeps my brain healthy.” For elaboration, let’s consult Debora Melo van Lent, PhD, a nutrition scientist and epidemiologist at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (also called UT Health San Antonio). During her […]




Novel AI algorithm quantifies brain lesions to inform risk of stroke

November 30, 2023

Listen to Texas Public Radio’s Science & Medicine, a podcast that explains how scientific discovery at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio advances the way medicine is practiced around the world. Artificial intelligence may be somewhat unsettling, but it also has the potential to improve and even save lives, according to Mohamad Habes, PhD, assistant professor of radiology at […]




Healthy diet for a healthy brain

November 16, 2023

Listen to Texas Public Radio’s Science & Medicine, a podcast that explains how scientific discovery at the UT Health Science Center San Antonio advances the way medicine is practiced around the world. Researchers have suspected that foods which cause inflammation speed up brain aging and cognitive decline, but UT Health San Antonio’s Debora Melo van Lent […]




ASBMB Today: Beauty at a geographic intersection

October 30, 2023

Sandeep Burma, PhD, FNASc, professor, vice chair (research), Biochemistry ands Structural Biology and Neurosurgery, UT Health San Antonio and the Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio, authored this article.   Read More