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San Antonio is about to celebrate the opening of a major new science research building: the STRF, or South Texas Research Facility on the campus of the University of Texas Health Science Center. The 190,000sf state-of-the-art research facility is stretched over only three floors, so the building is low and long: 1000 feet long. If you tipped over the Eiffel Tower...well, you get the idea. UTHSCSA started planning the new lab and office space three years ago when it became clear that their research faculty was growing at a healthy rate, but their facilities were not keeping up. When it is fully occupied, the STRF will house 350 faculty and staff members. Plans are to fill 60% of the building with current faculty and their research teams and to use the remaining space for new recruits, specifically 15 to 20 top scientists and their associates to be brought on board.
The four core programs moving to the STRF are:
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Tags: Stem cell research, cancer research, New research facilities, Texas, Southwest, UT Health Science Center San Antonio, Neuroscience
Research by the University of Utah and Omica, Inc. reveal a new computational biology software tool that could dramatically change the way genetic diseases are detected. Published in Genome Research, the Variant Annotation, Analysis and Selection Tool (VAAST) can identify disease causing mutations in individual human genomes.
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Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have recently developed a stem cell technique that will greatly decrease the toxic side effects of chemotherapy for brain cancer patients. The method uses stem cells that have been genetically modified to resist chemotherapy to protect vulnerable bone marrow and blood cells while allowing the chemotherapy to kill brain cancer cells. This Hutchinson Center stem cell research was made possible by nearly $1.8 million in NIH funding.
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The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has received $1 million in new cancer research funding from the W.M. Keck Foundation to study the link between common viruses and cancer.
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Proton beam therapy is a form of targeted cancer treatment that has fewer debilitating side effects than traditional radiotherapy. The Mayo Clinic is a world-class center for cancer research and care in the Midwest, and now it will expand its holdings to include two new proton beam therapy centers, one in Rochester and another at its sister clinic in Phoenix. The type of advanced pencil beam scanning therapeutic equipment that the Mayo Clinic Proton Beam Therapy Center will use is very expensive (the two facilities will have a combined total cost of over $400M for 8 treatment rooms), and the $100 Million outright gift from philanthropist Richard O. Jacobson made earlier this year will go a considerable way toward advancing the project's progress.
Intensity-modulated proton beam therapy is less damaging to the cancer patient's healthy cells (surrounding the cancerous growth) because:
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The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center $4.8 million in new stem cell research funding. The four-year grant will go to research the effect of a patient's DNA on the outcome and success of a stem cell transplant.
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