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A sweetener commonly found in chewing gum can replace toxic additives in hydrogels used to diagnose and treat a variety of medical conditions. The natural sweetener D-sorbitol was used to improve conductive hydrogels for electronic implants, which are used to diagnose and treat a variety of diseases. Image courtesy of Texas A&M Engineering Imagine treating […]

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When Dr. Ken Mould (DVM’75) picked up the phone on a fall day in 2024, he didn’t expect to hear someone from the Governor General’s office on the other end of the line.

The new AVF awards support interdisciplinary research on protecting food supplies, the climate, sustainable energy production and human and planetary health.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) have proposed a rollback of a decades-old interpretation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that could significantly narrow the scope of legal protections for threatened wildlife.

Laura Goodman was close to finalizing a prototype of a new test that can detect any tick-borne disease. Unlike some current tests, it could provide results even before symptoms occur – and even for unknown diseases.

To satisfy the seafood needs of billions of people, offering them access to a more biodiverse array of fish creates opportunities to mix-and-match species to obtain better nutrition from smaller portions of fish.

Creatures big and small have always fascinated Dr. Aziza Glass.

Dogs share our homes, our habits and sometimes, our diseases. Gastric cancer is rare in dogs, but when it does strike, it closely resembles gastric cancer in humans: subtle clinical signs, comparable tumor subtypes, late-stage diagnosis and poor outcomes. That similarity, combined with unique genetics, makes purebred dogs a powerful model for studying this devastating […]

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