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Wow! This morning’s Houston Chronicle announces that Texas Children’s Hospital has joined the merger talks between Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University. Admittedly, I didn’t see that coming. I knew Leebron was serious when he said he didn’t want to run a hospital, so I was expecting them to sell it off.
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The Houston Chronicle reported yesterday that Dr. Peter Traber is expected to leave his role as President of Baylor College of Medicine. The article says that Dr. William Butler, a former President of BCM, will be announced Wednesday as Traber’s interim replacement.
This is good news for BCM. I don’t think Traber ever understood that BCM’s [...]
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I’ve heard some people blame Houston’s lack of a biotech cluster on the fact that the University of Houston isn’t a tier 1 school like UT Austin and Texas A&M. I don’t think it’s fair to lay all the blame on UH when the TMC’s $1 billion research budget dwarfs that of UH.
Regardless, the state [...]
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Houston lags the major biotech clusters
A lot of energy has been spent in the last 10 years trying to figure out why Houston, with all the research conducted in its world-class medical center, hadn’t spawned more biotech startups. Houston lagged behind the major biotech clusters–San Francisco, San Diego, and Boston–in the number of biotech employees [...]
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Overwinding DNA Forms Pauling-Like DNA (P-DNA)
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