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The COVID-19 pandemic not only disrupted children’s education, recreation, and social lives, it also increased the prevalence of obesity in the U.S. pediatric population by roughly 1 million youngsters, according to a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers.

Dysfunctional mitochondria, organelles that serve as cellular power generators, appear to cause the symptoms of Gulf War illness (GWI) among tens of thousands of veterans of the Persian Gulf War, UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists confirmed in a new study.

A single, high dose of radiation delivered before other treatments could completely eradicate tumors in most women with early-stage, operable hormone-positive breast cancer, according to a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers.

More than two-thirds of 16-year-olds today have been through a traumatic event, such as the Central Texas flooding in July that killed over 130 people, including numerous children at summer camp.

By using a genetic technique they developed that forces cells to rid themselves of mitochondria, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers are gaining new insights into the function of these critical organelles.

A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has uncovered the atomic structure of a protein complex pivotal to the function of motile cilia, the hair-like structures extending from the surfaces of many cell types that generate their movement.

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have discovered an RNA pathway that appears to push stem cells to form nephrons, the functional units of kidneys. Their findings, published in Nature Communications, could lead to therapies that increase the number of nephrons in individuals at risk of

An experimental drug already shown to be safe and help some patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma, a deadly form of kidney cancer, effectively disables its molecular target.

Being younger doesn’t protect against the dangers of COVID-19 if you are overweight, according to a new study from UT Southwestern.

Antibodies that target specific tuberculosis (TB) proteins are effective at inhibiting the bacteria that cause TB, the infectious disease that claims the most lives worldwide, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers found.