Texas Biomed researchers are working on vaccines, antivirals and other therapies to protect people from highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses. Ahmed Mostafa Elsayed, Ph.D., was in the lab when the news broke: highly pathogenic avian influenza was infecting dairy cows and a farmworker in Texas. The headlines on April 1 caught his attention for two […]

What if instead of 80-year-old lungs, you could have 40-year-old lungs? Or younger versions of your own cells? Or age without frailty or dementia?

With late nights, long days and some friendly bacteria, they did it. Texas Biomed researchers developed a powerful genetics-based tool now powering COVID-19 research worldwide.

While tackling COVID-19, Texas Biomed never lost sight of the world’s most notorious killers: HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.