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Rise in Treating Sports Injuries Leads to Sports and Trauma Imaging Fellowship at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Responding to a growing number of patients with sports-related injuries, a newly named Sports, Orthopedic and Emergency Imaging Fellowship has been established in the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston.
UT Medical School at Houston radiologists who have routinely dealt with multiple, traumatic injuries from accidents are now spending a great deal of time imaging and treating athletes from Little Leaguers to aging Baby Boomers to the Houston Rockets.
Biochemists Manipulate Fruit Flavor Enzymes
Would you like a lemony watermelon? How about a strawberry-flavored banana? Biochemists at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston say the day may be coming when scientists will be able to fine tune enzymes responsible for flavors in fruits and vegetables. In addition, it could lead to environmentally-friendly pest control.
In the advance online publication of Nature on Aug. 20, UT Medical School Assistant Professor C.S. Raman, Ph.D., and his colleagues report that they were able to manipulate flavor enzymes found in a popular plant model, Arabidopsis thaliana, by genetic means. The enzymes—allene oxide synthase (AOS) and hydroperoxide lyase (HPL)—produce jasmonate (responsible for the unique scent of jasmine flowers) and green leaf volatiles (GLV) respectively. GLVs confer characteristic aromas to fruits and vegetables.
Department of Defense awards $35 million
to support
local brain injury research
Of the more than 1.5 million people who suffer a traumatic brain injury each year in the United States, as many as 75 percent sustain a concussion, a brain injury that is classified as mild yet can lead to long-term or permanent impairments and disabilities. A consortium of physicians and scientists in the Houston region is now undertaking a research initiative to improve diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) and develop innovative treatment strategies.
UT Joins with Memorial Hermann to Offer Congestive Heart Failure Program Meyers to lead new initiative
More than 5 million Americans are living with heart failure, and 550,000 new cases are diagnosed each year.
The University of Texas Medical School at Houston is partnering with Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute – Texas Medical Center to research potential therapies for those patients with heart failure and provide the latest in clinical care.
Deborah Meyers, M.D., has joined the faculty as the director of advanced heart failure at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston and director of congestive heart failure at Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute – Texas Medical Center.