Tag: Bioengineering
Pacemaker powered by light eliminates need for batteries and allows the...
Pengju Li, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
By harnessing light, my colleagues and I designed a...
Anti-cancer CAR-T therapy reengineers T cells to kill tumors – and...
Gregory Allen, University of California, San Francisco
Teaching the body’s immune cells to recognize and fight cancer is one...
Many drugs can’t withstand stomach acid – a new delivery method...
Khatcher O. Margossian, UMass Amherst and Murugappan Muthukumar, UMass Amherst
For patients and physicians, taking medications orally is often...
‘Masked’ cancer drug stealthily trains immune system to kill tumors while...
Aslan Mansurov, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Many cancer treatments are notoriously savage on the body....
The sex of your cells matters when it comes to heart...
Brian Aguado, University of California San Diego
Most mammals, including humans, have two sex chromosomes, X and Y. One...
Microfluidics: The tiny, beautiful tech hidden all around you
Albert Folch, University of Washington
When you think of micro- or nanotechnology, you likely think of small electronics like...
The trouble with using synthetic rhino horn to stop poaching
Diogo Veríssimo, Georgia State University
In 2014, one rhino was killed every eight hours. That was in South Africa alone, where most of the world’s...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
