
Health & Environment
Parents’ lifestyle choices echo through future generations
Oct 17, 2025 • 4 min. readTexas A&M Health researcher explores how epigenetics link parents’ habits to long-term health outcomes in their children.
Chemicals might be hitching a ride on nanoplastics to enter your skin
Oct 16, 2025 • 4 min. readResearchers discover that environmental coatings on microscopic plastic particles help them evade immune responses in skin cells.
Mass timber takes root in Texas architecture
Oct 15, 2025 • 5 min. readArchitecture and forest researchers explain what cross-laminated timber is and how it can lead to sustainable construction.
A phone book-sized surgical kit designed for the world’s most extreme environments
Oct 14, 2025 • 4 min. readA portable pack brings the operating room directly to the patient — enabling lifesaving surgery in military, disaster, wilderness and humanitarian care missions.
Biomedical engineering researchers are exploring a novel treatment for alcohol-related liver disease using nanoparticles a thousand times smaller than a human hair.
Multidisciplinary study finds estrogen could aid in therapies for progressive multiple sclerosis
Oct 13, 2025 • 3 min. readResearchers studied the protective effects of estradiol and estriol on the myelin sheath.
Texas A&M engineers pioneer light-driven molecular machines to target cancer cells
Oct 8, 2025 • 4 min. readResearch reveals how nanoscale motors can disrupt disease from within, offering a new frontier for cancer therapies without chemical agents.
Abandoned land drives dangerous heat in Houston, Texas A&M study finds
Oct 7, 2025 • 4 min. readResearch highlights how a lack of vegetation and shade exposes vulnerable residents to heightened health risks.
30 years of post-traumatic epilepsy research: Where do we stand?
Oct 6, 2025 • 5 min. readNeuroscientist leads a sweeping study on efforts to understand and treat epilepsy after traumatic brain injury, offering eight recommendations to advance the research.
What is the New World screwworm, and why does it matter to Texas?
Oct 1, 2025 • 6 min. readTexas A&M AgriLife experts offer education and answers about the invasive insect that threatens the well-being of livestock and wildlife in Texas and across the southern United States.
