In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers have determined that genetics may play a role in how wounds heal. Caleb Phillips, an assistant professor at Texas Tech University and director of the Phillips Laboratory in the Department of Biological Sciences, and doctoral student Craig Tipton led the study, “Patient genetics is linked to chronic wound microbiome composition and healing,” published Thursday (June 18) in the open-access, peer-reviewed medical journal PLOS Pathogens.
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Exploring the Zoonotic Origins of COVID-19
Around the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a lot of dialog surrounding its zoonotic origins, or its transmission from animals to humans. A new study explores how zoonotic origins are communicated can influence risk perception and preventative behaviors, including how people interact with animals that are known to be possible sources of a disease.
Texas Tech University’s College of Education Names New Dean
Jesse Perez Mendez, the dean of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis School of Education, will begin in his new role Aug. 1. Jesse Perez Mendez has been named dean of Texas Tech University’s College of Education, the university provost announced…