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Similar therapies for improving heart health outcomes following a heart attack are already in the works. In a study published in November of 2025, Texas A&M University created a patch loaded with microscopic particles called interleukin-4 (IL-4), which helps regulate the immune system. This creates what the researchers call “a healing-friendly environment” by encouraging macrophages (a type of immune cells) to switch from their inflammatory wiring to a more healing state, reducing scar formation in the process.
"Once we get more than about a quarter inch of ice on those lines, the lines either start sagging and failing, or more likely, you actually get the vegetation above it, the trees, to fall on the lines, and that causes potentially a larger number of outages," said Thomas Overbye, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Texas A&M University.
Texas leads the nation in supplying new residents to other states
The Associated Press • Jan 22, 2026“The obvious and primary answer is size,” said Dudley Poston, professor emeritus of sociology at Texas A&M University. “There’s got to be more people leaving Texas than leaving other states because of the population size of Texas.”
Professor Audra Jones of the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences says that recognizing stress early and responding appropriately is essential to keep your pet healthy and happy.
China’s new condom tax will prove no effective barrier to country’s declining fertility rate
The Conversation • Jan 15, 2026I have studied China’s demography for almost 40 years and know that past attempts by the country’s communist government to reverse slumping fertility rates through policies encouraging couples to have more children have not worked. I do not expect these new moves to have much, if any, effect on reversing the fertility rate decline to one of the world’s lowest and far below the 2.1 “replacement rate” needed to maintain a stable population.
Texas A&M has big plans for building small nuclear reactors for its program in College Station
Houston Chronicle • Jan 15, 2026Texas A&M has big plans for small reactors as it expands the nation’s largest nuclear engineering program and partners with six startups to develop new power plant technologies.
Galveston-based researchers turn to space to measure Gulf plastic pollution
The Galveston County Daily News • Jan 14, 2026Dr. Karl Kaiser, professor of marine and coastal environmental science in the College of Marine Sciences and Maritime Studies at Texas A&M University at Galveston is turning satellite-based remote sensing — technology typically focused on stars and planets — toward spotting microplastic pollution in the Gulf.
Kellie Casavale, director of the Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Evidence Center with Texas A&M AgriLife Research, spoke to Texas Standard about how these guidelines are written, and how they’re applied. Listen to the interview above or read the transcript below.
U.S workers just took home their smallest share of capital since 1947, at least
Fortune • Jan 13, 2026“That decline in the share of labor has got to be either falling earnings or falling numbers of people,” Raymond Robertson, a labor economist at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government, told Fortune. “The falling share of income is having to do with the shift towards capital.”
Farming on Mars may sound like science fiction, but Texas A&M University researchers are studying how plants could one day grow on Martian soil with experiments sent to the International Space Station.