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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A university in Austin, Texas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Instance hypernyms:
university (establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching)
Holonyms ("University of Texas" is a part of...):
Austin; capital of Texas (state capital of Texas on the Colorado River; site of the University of Texas)
Context examples:
Now, a new study led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has confirmed it by finding hard evidence in the hundreds of feet of rocks that filled the impact crater within the first 24 hours after impact.
(Rocks at asteroid impact site record first day of dinosaur extinction, National Science Foundation)
We found the galaxy in a new ALMA survey specifically designed to identify dusty star-forming galaxies in the early universe, said Caitlin Casey of the University of Texas at Austin and lead author of the study.
(ALMA spots most distant dusty galaxy hidden in plain sight, National Science Foundation)
But research conducted by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues has found that while low oxygen environments set the stage, it takes a breath of air to catalyze the fossilization process.
(Fossils may need air to form, National Science Foundation)
A team led by Dr. Thomas Geisbert at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston, in collaboration with Tekmira Pharmaceuticals in Vancouver, Canada, have been developing therapies that can target specific strains of the Ebola virus.
(Lipid Nanoparticle Therapeutic Treats Ebola in Monkeys, NIH)
Scientists at the University of California, Riverside and The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated that it’s possible to achieve photon up-conversion, the emission of higher energy light, when using carefully designed structures containing silicon nanocrystals and specialized organic molecules.
(Making higher energy light to fight cancer, National Science Foundation)
In this laboratory study, researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, the Cleveland Clinic, the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston introduced ZIKV to glioblastoma tissue samples removed from cancer patients as part of their treatment, as well as to healthy human neural tissue cultures.
(Zika virus selectively infects and kills glioblastoma cells in mice, National Institutes of Health)
Researchers from the University of Granada, University Hospital La Paz (Madrid) and the University of Texas (USA) have identified a new molecular mechanism underlying the anti-obesity effects of the chronic administration of melatonin, a naturally occurring hormone released by the pineal gland overnight.
(Study confirms melatonin helps burn calories and curbs weight gain, University of Granada)
The Center accelerates the development of anticancer agents by integrating basic, translational, and clinical research on the University of Texas campus and attracts patients from the community and beyond to join Phase I, II, and III studies.
(Cancer Therapy and Research Center, NCI Thesaurus)
The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and Profectus BioSciences of New York are developing and testing the candidate quadrivalent VesiculoVax vaccine, with support from NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Redeemer’s University in Nigeria.
(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)
Intracerebral hemorrhage is a damaging and often fatal form of stroke for which there are no effective medicines, said Jaroslaw Aronowski, M.D., Ph.D., professor, department of neurology, at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and senior author of the study.
(Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes, National Institutes of Health)
