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July 20, 2016
Mecklin Ragan is a third year medical student at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Becoming a doctor is something the Corpus Christi native knew she wanted to do since the summer of 2006. A summer where her world flipped upside down. Watch the full story at News 4
July 20, 2016
Studies are providing basic new understanding about ‘heat shock proteins,’ also called’chaperone proteins. Researchers presented data that show how heat shock proteins break apart protein complexes. Read the full story at Science Daily
July 14, 2016
Researchers found that the nuclei from brain cells of patients with Alzheimer’s disease contained tunnels (arrows) not found in normal brain cells. “We have identified multiple new cellular processes that go awry in Alzheimer’s disease because of pathological tau,” said Bess Frost, Ph.D., assistant professor, Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies.
July 11, 2016
Jesse Rettele started working at a local orthotic and prosthetics facility at the young age of 17. “I always loved working with my hands and tinkering with things,” Rettele said.
July 5, 2016
A long-used drug called methylene blue may rev up activity in brain regions involved in short-term memory and attention, a small study suggests. Methylene blue has been used in medicine for more than a century, said Timothy Duong, the senior researcher on the study and a professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
July 5, 2016
You’ve seen the pictures of flesh-eating bacteria making the rounds on social media. You’ve probably also heard the stories saying, ‘Avoid coastal waters’. But local doctors explain what you need to know to be able to enjoy that visit to Texas beaches. The gruesome pictures you’ve been seeing are from what doctors call a more […]
