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Late-Night Snacking? UT Southwestern Researchers Pinpoint Brain Cells That May Be Driving It
by Quincy Preston | Oct 15, 2025
Researchers at UTSW identified a set of neurons in the "brain's timekeeper" that may drive nighttime snacking—and in mice, control up to 7% of body weight. The discovery could pave the way for new weight-loss strategies.
by Lance Murray |
Sep 18, 2025
UT Southwestern in Dallas will lead three liver cancer projects on prevention, recurrence, and immunotherapy. It joins Mayo Clinic and MD Anderson as a national NCI SPORE site, a program that moves discoveries into clinical trials.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 11, 2025
The discovery reveals why people may be more susceptible to infections at certain times of day—and could open new paths for cancer immunotherapy and infection treatments.
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by Lance Murray |
Sep 9, 2025
Eric Olson has spent decades dedicated to what he calls “the biggest prize of all”: a cure for the devastating disease. Nearly half of the scientists awarded Columbia’s Horwitz Prize over the past 58 years went on to win a Nobel, UTSW said.
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Jacobs said the project comes as the pediatric population in North Texas is expected to double by 2050. [Rendering: Children's Health]
Jacobs Tapped to Guide $5B Pediatric Hospital Campus Project in Dallas
by Lance Murray | Aug 18, 2025
The Dallas-based firm will provide program management and oversee construction activity for the new medical campus from Children’s Health and UT Southwestern.
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by Maddie Preston |
Aug 8, 2025
The funding supports UT Arlington researcher Junzhou Huang, whose team recently ranked first in protein contact prediction and placed sixth overall in an international AI challenge competing against Google DeepMind, the University of Washington, and others.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 24, 2025
Using a new tool developed at UT Southwestern Medical Center, researchers identified a gene that seems to be key in regulating food intake, offering a different pathway for potential obesity treatments.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 16, 2025
The protein—implicated in blood cancers like leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma—was decoded in near-atomic detail by UT Southwestern researchers, including Nobel Prize winner Bruce Beutler. In lab models, turning off midnolin wiped out up to 92% of cancer cells—with minimal impact on healthy ones, according to UT Southwestern.
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The same concept behind dental implants is helping amputees walk again. UT Southwestern surgeons used titanium implants to anchor Scott Bryson’s prosthetic limb.
This UT Southwestern Surgery Gave a North Texas Amputee a New Way to Walk—And a Promise to Keep
by Lance Murray | May 25, 2025
The Dallas-based medical center is one of just two in Texas offering osseointegration, a revolutionary implant technique that gives amputees better control, comfort—and for 50-year-old Scott Bryson, the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle.
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by Lance Murray |
May 6, 2025
To recognize the foundation's "record-breaking" support, the hospital at the new Dallas pediatric campus will be named Moody Children's Hospital upon completion in 2031.
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by Lance Murray |
May 2, 2025
A UT Southwestern study of blind fruit flies and mice reveals a brain-wide stress response, shedding light on the biological link between sensory loss and dementia.
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by Glenn Hunter |
Apr 30, 2025
Dallas Innovates, in partnership with the Dallas Regional Chamber, once again is recognizing the most innovative leaders in AI in Dallas-Fort Worth. From visionaries and mavericks to transformers and academics, AI 75's class of 2025 are the AI pacesetters you need to know now.
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National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing team members Logan Ardrey, Dr. Arum Han, Dr. Baley Reeves, and Dr. Andrew Syvyk [Photo: NCTM]
UT Arlington and Texas A&M to Launch Biomanufacturing Hub at Dallas’ Pegasus Park
by Quincy Preston | Feb 20, 2025
The new center at Bridge Labs will train the workforce powering North Texas’ biotech boom—helping startups speed therapies, vaccines, and breakthrough biologics from lab bench to patients. Funded in part by Lyda Hill Philanthropies, the National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing Satellite Campus is set to open this summer.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 14, 2025
A clinical trial led by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas could help bring an experimental treatment for depression closer to approval from the U.S....
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 5, 2025
Dr. Kirk Calhoun was named interim president following the resignation in January of UNTHSC President Sylvia Trent-Adams.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 12, 2024
Each $50,000 Early-Stage Research Grant helps fuel critically important medical and scientific research in North Texas. To date, the 21 researchers supported by The Cary Council have gone on to secure more than $21 million in additional funding.
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