TDA Gives Texas A&M $50,000 for White Tailed Deer
COLLEGE STATION, TX – Imagine how you would feel if there were no medicine to help your sick puppy get well? This is how the majority of deer breeders feel as there is currently no approved medicine for diseased deer. The deer industry is growing rapidly, but sadly the right medicine and treatment that cervids […]
New hope for breast cancer research from unlikely source
COLLEGE STATION, TX – There’s new hope for breast cancer research, and it’s coming from a very unlikely place. Researchers at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences recently published articles in the journals Molecular and Cellular Biology and Carcinogenesis which indicate that a protein long suspected to play a role […]
Scientists discover closest living relative to primates
COLLEGE STATION, TX – Researchers at Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, in collaboration with scientists representing institutions around the world, have discovered the closest living relative to primates after completing a multispecies genomic comparison within the superordinal group Euarchonta, which includes Primates, Dermoptera (colugos) and Scandentia (treeshrews). Their findings were […]
Copy Cat: First Cloned Cat Produces 3 Kittens
COLLEGE STATION – CC, the world’s first cloned cat, may not have nine lives, but she has produced three kittens whose lives already are unique. CC, short for Copy Cat, was born Dec. 22, 2001 and became the first-ever cloned cat by a team of Texas A&M; University researchers in the College of Veterinary Medicine […]
Successful Cell Engineering May Lead To Mad Cow Prevention, Say Texas A&M Researchers
COLLEGE STATION, March 22, 2006 – Researchers at Texas A&M University have successfully “knocked down” the expression of possible disease causing genes in a cloned goat fetus, perhaps paving the way for breeding disease resistance in other animals, even those genes that might cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as Mad Cow Disease. Researchers […]
Texas A&M Research May Impact the Way We Feed Dogs in the Future
COLLEGE STATION, February 8, 2006 – Researchers at the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University are seeing more clearly the relationships between nutrition and visual performance in puppies. They are studying correlations between dietary intake of docosahexaenoic acid, commonly known as DHA, and its effects on visual stimulus response in […]
Researchers Discover New Chromosome Evolution Pattern
COLLEGE STATION, July 22, 2005 – Breakages in chromosomes in mammalian evolution have occurred at preferred rather than random sites as long thought, and many of the sites are involved in human cancers, an international team of 25 scientists has discovered. The researchers, reporting in the July 22 issue of the journal Science, also found […]
First Cloned Horse in North America Born at Texas A&M
WHAT: In what is believed to be the first success of its kind in North America, researchers at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University have successfully cloned a horse. The privately owned colt named Paris Texas was cloned from the adult skin cells biopsied from its genetic donor by […]
CVM Researchers First to Clone White-tailed Deer
COLLEGE STATION – In what is believed to be the first success of its kind, researchers at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Texas A&M University have cloned a white-tailed deer. A fawn, named “Dewey,” after Duane Kraemer, one of the researchers, was born to “Sweet Pea” a surrogate mother, on May 23, 2003. The […]
Gene Mapping
“Community, Identity, Stability,” describe the Brave New World conceived by Aldous Huxley in 1932; today we stand on the brink of a brave new world characterized by the possibilities contained inside a double helix. Recent technological advances in human and animal genetics have lead to sequencing the human genome, mapping the severe acute respiratory syndrome […]
