Texas A&M Researchers Awarded Grant to Establish “Tissue Chip” Center
Testing drug safety and efficacy is challenging, expensive, and time consuming. Recent advancements have given way to what is known as “tissue chips.” These tiny bioengineered systems mimic the larger, complex organs and tissues of the human body. The chips may improve our ability to ensure that a drug is safe before clinical trials begin […]
Texas A&M Professor a Lead Investigator in the Largest Prospective Veterinary Cardiology Study Carried Out to Date
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Mitral valve disease (MVD) accounts for approximately 75 percent of all canine heart disease. However, a recent global clinical trial led by a Texas A&M University veterinarian was published in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Sept 2016) and shows that early treatment can slow progression of the disease, prolonging overall […]
Texas Has No Need for Second Veterinary College, Coordinating Board Study Concludes
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – A new report issued by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board concludes that a second veterinary college would be expensive to create and operate and is unnecessary in the state of Texas, particularly with the opening of a $120 million veterinary teaching complex at Texas A&M University. “The high cost of […]
Texas A&M Researchers Examine How Video Games Can Improve Bird Health
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Playing video games has been a favorite pastime of young and old alike, and now the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) is investigating the benefits of video games on an unconventional gamer-birds. Researchers at the CVM’s Schubot Exotic Bird Health Center are in the process of […]
Texas A&M’s College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences Researcher’s Study Reveals the Underlying Genetic Diversity of One of the World’s Most Abundant Fish
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The Atlantic herring-one of the world’s most abundant fish and historically a staple of the Northern European diet-has recently helped scientists understand how species adapt and evolve. Previous studies only examined a few genes and suggested that different groups of the Atlantic herring were genetically indistinguishable despite marked differences in behavior, […]
Texas A&M Researcher’s Team Discovers Evolution in Action in Darwin’s Finches
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Long and pointy, short and blunt, large and prominent: these are just a few of the beak variations of Darwin’s finches. Beaks are not only highly variable among species, but also they are shaped by evolution. In a study published in Science, a research team led by Leif Andersson, professor at […]
Texas A&M Researchers “Paint” the Congo African Grey Parrot’s Chromosomes
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Congo African grey parrots are well known for their intelligence and beloved by many as pets, but little is known about their genetic make up. Researchers at the Texas A&M; College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) are changing that by studying the parrot’s chromosomes. In a paper published in […]
Texas A&M Faculty and Researchers Develop Chagas Case Study Learning Module
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Faculty and researchers at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) have turned the recent increase in Chagas disease cases in Texas into a learning opportunity by developing an online case study learning module. The case study was one of only 15 selected for webpublication by the […]
Texas A&M Professor Leads Team Awarded $1 Million Food Safety Grant from USDA
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The USDA recently announced 35 Food Safety Grants, one of which was awarded to a team led by Texas A&M professor Dr. H. Morgan Scott, from the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM), based on its research on antimicrobial resistance. The grant funding […]
Texas A&M Researchers Discover How Hexavalent Chromium Impacts Early Ovarian Development
Hexavalent chromium (CrVI), a toxic form of the heavy metal chromium, is widely used in more than 50 industries such as welding and painting. Due to increased usage and improper disposal, CrVI contaminates the environment, including drinking water. New research from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVM) indicates that, despite […]
