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UT Southwestern mourns loss of W.A. “Tex” Moncrief Jr., whose generosity extended academic medical care and research through generations: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/moncrief-jr-obit.html
W.A. “Tex” Moncrief Jr., whose extraordinary generosity has and will benefit many generations of Texans by expanding UT Southwestern Medical Center programs in Dallas and especially Fort Worth, as well as surrounding communities, died Dec. 28 at age 101.
Neuropathic bladder patients face complications after hip surgery : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2026/jan-neuropathic-bladder-patients-hip-surgery.html
Patients with neuropathic bladder (NB), a condition in which nerve damage affects bladder function, have a significantly higher risk of joint infections, blood clots, and other adverse events after receiving total hip replacement (THR), UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers found.
Birds’ songs may help unlock brain patterns behind speech : Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2026/jan-birds-songs-brain-patterns.html
Like falling dominoes, a sequence of activity in an area of the zebra finch brain plays to completion once initiated, allowing these birds to produce their full courtship song, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows.
Lipid nanoparticles carry gene-editing cancer drugs past tumor defenses: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2022/june-gene-editing-cancer-drugs.html
As they grow, solid tumors surround themselves with a thick, hard-to-penetrate wall of molecular defenses. Getting drugs past that barricade is notoriously difficult.
For oxygen-deprived newborns, rewarming after cooling therapy can trigger seizures: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/oxygen-deprived-newborns.html
Oxygen-deprived newborns who undergo cooling therapy to protect their brains are at an elevated risk of seizures and brain damage during the rewarming period, which could be a precursor of disability or death
National Cancer Institute renews Simmons Cancer Center’s prestigious comprehensive designation: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/nci-renews-scc.html
The National Cancer Institute has renewed the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center’s comprehensive designation, reaffirming its place among the country’s elite cancer institutes.
Type of KRAS mutation may guide more effective cancer treatments: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2026/feb-kras-mutation-cancer-treatments.html
KRAS is the most frequently mutated oncogene across all human cancers. Although different KRAS mutations have long been thought to exert the same cancer-driving effects, a new study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers suggests that different KRAS mutation types can variously impact how
Two UTSW faculty elected to prestigious National Academy of Sciences: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/national-academy-sciences.html
Two UTSW faculty elected to prestigious National Academy of Sciences
Studies identify lipids necessary for immune molecule activation: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2026/feb-lipids-immune-molecule-activation.html
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified two lipids that work together with a quintessential protein known as stimulator of interferon genes (STING) to launch an immune response in the human body.
COVID-19 hospitalizations increase among unvaccinated pregnant women: Newsroom - UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas
https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2021/covid-19-hospitalizations-pregnant-women.html
Unvaccinated pregnant women are increasingly being hospitalized with COVID-19 during a nationwide surge of the Delta variant, according to research from UT Southwestern Medical Center.