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A New Way to Count

With a new method developed by Professor M. Selim Ünlü’s lab, researchers can determine a much more exact measurement by continually observing molecular reactions throughout the test. Their work has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. More

David Bishop Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

When Professor David Bishop checked his phone last Thursday afternoon, he was stunned by what he saw. After a 50-year research career, Bishop received the news that he had just been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the premiere professional society for engineers. More

Christopher Chen to Deliver DeLisi Lecture

To recognize their contributions to engineering and society, Professor Christopher Chen (BME, MSE) is the recipient of this year’s Charles DeLisi Award and Lecture, and Assistant Professor Sahar Sharifzadeh (ECE, MSE, Physics) has received the Early Career Excellence Award. More

How Cells Remember

In new research published in Cell, Assistant Professor Ahmad ‘Mo’ Khalil, graduate student Minhee Park and colleagues engineered a fully synthetic epigenetic system to better understand, study, and control its behaviors. Using synthetic biology, they constructed molecular modules that mimic features of natural epigenetic systems and found that they were able to induce epigenetic activities in mammalian cells, such as storing cellular memory. More