Collaborative research projects accelerate bioscience innovation in San Antonio

The San Antonio Medical Foundation awarded six grants totaling more than
$1 million to research teams at local health care and bioscience
institutions and organizations, including UT Health San Antonio. Each
project selected to receive funding involves a UT Health San Antonio
researcher.

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UT Health San Antonio physician develops device to relieve hiccups

A neuro-intensive care physician at UT Health San Antonio has invented a science-based way to stop hiccups. The annoying spasming of the diaphragm is even more of a nuisance when one has had surgery.

Viral 'molecular scissor' is next COVID-19 drug target    

Researchers from UT Health San Antonio and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology laid out a novel rationale for COVID-19 drug design- blocking a molecular "scissor" that the virus uses for virus production and to disable human proteins crucial to the immune response.

Coronavirus makes changes that cause cells not to recognize it

With an alarm code, we can enter a building without bells going off.
It turns out that the SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has the same
advantage entering cells. It possesses the code to waltz right in. On July 24 in Nature Communications, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio reported how the coronavirus achieves this.