Shrinking and swelling soils cause extensive infrastructure and economic damage worldwide. Shrink-swell soils are of great concern in Texas for two reasons, 1) Texas has the most acreage of shrink-swell soils in the United ...

Clean water availability has been made scarce by droughts in Texas caused by longer and hotter summers. Therefore, adopting new water reuse strategies has become important. A concern with recycled water has been the increase ...

The purpose of this project was to investigate the dynamics of the Jak-STAT3 (STAT3) and Erk-C/EBPβ (C/EBPβ) pathways upon stimulation with inflammatory cytokines such as Interleukin 6 (IL-6) and oncostatin M (OSM), which ...

Endothelial invasion is a crucial step in angiogenic blood vessel formation and has ramifications in wound healing, tumor growth, and may have implications in heart disease. During invasion quiescent endothelial cells (ECs) ...

Numerous studies have been conducted using porphyrin molecules on various substrates to investigate their diverse photoelectrochemical, catalytic, electronic, and biochemical properties. These properties make porphyrin ...

Equine infectious anemia virus is a retrovirus that encodes four accessory proteins in addition to three structural proteins. One of the accessory proteins, designated only as ‘S2’ is of unknown function. S2 has been shown ...

This study intends to elucidate a mechanism of cancer prevention by certain nutrients. The health benefits of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, e.g., docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), and fiber are well documented. It has been ...

While over 500,000 bison exist today, the long-term conservation of this species is not assured because only five percent of all bison are maintained in conservation herds and genetic evidence of domestic cattle introgression ...

In many species, animals must endure environmental stressors such as exposure to heat, toxins, and ultraviolet radiation. To protect cells against such stressors, animals employ an evolutionarily ancient mechanism: the ...

Cotton producers can maximize yield and fiber quality by understanding soil variability throughout the fields, thus receiving premium prices for the cotton lint. A better understanding of how soil water holding capacity ...