Community hails Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long legacy gift

May 8, 2008

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, close on the heels of the annual Fiesta in San Antonio, held its own Fiesta-style ceremony today to recognize the generosity of Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long and name the university’s original San Antonio campus for them.



MicroCT of skeleton can ID even the subtlest birth defects

April 29, 2008

A technique called microscopic X-ray computed tomography (microCT) is affording scientists the ability to visualize even the subtlest birth defects in prenatal and postnatal bats, mice, opossums and primates, which one day may lead to new understandings about human birth defects, said Charles Keller, M.D., of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.



Biochemists solve 3-D structure of cellular ‘fuel gauge’

April 28, 2008

Biochemists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio have deciphered the three-dimensional, atomic-level structure of an enzyme that acts as a ‘fuel gauge’ sensing when cells are low in energy and signaling it is time to refuel.