Do you know the third most spoken language in Texas?
Most quickly count out English and Spanish on their fingers, but they always scratch their heads at number three.
The answer won’t come as a surprise to Houstonians who have stopped for pho on Bellaire Boulevard, or those who have visited the annual Children’s Mid-Autumn Festival celebrating this culture’s heritage at Cali Saigon Mall in Garland.
But for those newcomers who haven’t yet had the privilege of meeting this spirited community, I’ll fill you in: it’s Vietnamese.
Texas is home to more than 210,000 Vietnamese-Americans, and when the 2020 Census results are tabulated, I bet we’ll find that population has grown. A large portion have settled in Houston and the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where you’ll find vibrant neighborhoods celebrating their culture.
COVID-19 Infections in U.S. Nearly 3X Greater Than Reported, University Model Estimates February 12, 2021
World health experts have long suspected that the incidence of COVID-19 has been higher than reported. Now, a machine-learning algorithm developed at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center estimates that the number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. since the pandemic began is nearly three times that of confirmed cases.
The algorithm, described in a study published in PLOS ONE, provides daily updated estimates of total infections to date as well as how many people are currently infected across the U.S. and in 50 countries hardest hit by the pandemic.
Prolonged activation of innate immune pathways by a polyvalent STING agonist” published in
Nature Biomedical Engineering shows that a pH-sensitive nanoparticle-based drug developed by Dr. Jinming Gao and team at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) could boost the body’s innate immune pathways in the treatment of multiple cancers with a unique mechanism of activating the
STimulator of
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Genes (STING). OncoNano licensed this technology from UTSW for further development as part of the company’s proprietary pH-activated micelle platform, and Dr. Gao, a co-founder of OncoNano, currently also serves as a consultant for the company.
“We are excited about the study published by our colleagues at UTSW demonstrating that the STING activating polymeric micelle can be selectively triggered in the endosomes and enter the cytoplasm of phagocytic cells to achieve robust antitumor immunity,” said Marty Driscoll, CEO at OncoNano Medicine, Inc. “The
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