The new collaboration will combine the resources of the A&M System’s National Center for Therapeutic Manufacturing and UT’s MD Anderson Cancer Center to develop new cancer-fighting drugs and accelerate the process of getting new cancer treatments to patients.
The earthquake in Haiti has pushed this most impoverished country in the Western hemisphere into the spotlight and has drawn attention to the Cinderella diseases of the world: neglected tropical diseases or NTDs.
Nanoparticles are atmospheric materials so small that they can’t be seen with the naked eye, but they can very visibly affect both weather patterns and human health all over the world.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4.5 million people are bitten by dogs each year. While this is an alarming statistic, most of these bites are preventable.
Despite outside appearances on most days, the air quality over the Bryan-College Station area is poor, so much so that it likely fails federal ozone standards.
There’s about a 50 percent chance of the white stuff starting Friday afternoon, and that local forecast isn’t from the National Weather Service – it’s from students studying weather at Texas A&M.
