See also our related blog for the Pediatric Preclinical Testing Initiative.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

3-D Cancer Study

This 3-D Cancer Study was featured on the news. Click here to watch.

Wendy Rigby. "3-D Cancer Study", KENS Channel 5 News (CBS Affiliate, San Antonio plus CBS National Newsfeed), May 10, 2006. [interview, video]

Saturday, May 6, 2006

U. experts help find birth defects' causes

This was an article featured in Deseret Morning News. ...Using a method they call "microCT-based virtual histology," researchers can get a detailed — down to about one-tenth of a human hair width — look at a mouse embryo, inside and out. The U. team turned them into 3D images, eliminating the long process of killing the embryo, embedding it in wax and then thin-slicing, staining the slides and studying it with a microscope. Click here to read more.

Lois M. Collin. "U. experts help find birth defects' causes." Deseret Morning News, front page, Saturday May 6, 2006. [interview, figure]

Monday, May 1, 2006

Amanda McCleish (UTSA Undergraduate Student)

Amanda is a presenter at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students held at Austin, Texas November 2007.

Picture Pefect: New imaging technique stands to improve research of childhood musculoskeletal cancers

An article featured in the Mission Magazine telling how scientists have dramatically increased the usefulness of an imaging technique called micro-CT Imaging. Click here to read more.

Will Sansom, "Picture Perfect: New imaging technique stands to improve research of childhood musculoskeletal cancers," Mission magazine (UTHSCSA), April / May 2006, p.10, [interview, figure]