Postdoc Receives Fellowship to Study the Impact of Poor-Quality Medicines for Tuberculosis on Antimicrobial Resistance
By Liz Sheeley Carly Ching, a postdoctoral associate, has been awarded The USP Quality Institute Fellowship in Quality Medical Products. She will continue to study the role of poor-quality medicines in fostering antimicrobial resistance, which, her advisor, Professor Muhammad Zaman (BME), says “continues to be one of the greatest public health challenges of our time.” […]
How Bad Drugs Turn Treatable Diseases Deadly
Low-quality and counterfeit antibiotics drive drug-resistant infections By Art Jahnke Muhammad Zaman learned at an early age that one did not shop for medicine at the convenient neighborhood pharmacy. In Pakistan, where he grew up, the safer thing to do was walk the extra mile to a pharmacy whose drugs were known to be high […]
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.
$3.3M Awarded to ENG Researchers under NIH BRAIN Initiative
Their research proposal has three specific aims, but overall plans to deliver a systematic understanding of the effects of a non-invasive brain stimulation technique, ultrasound neuromodulation.
Merck Global Health Invests in ENG Drug Testing Technology
Professor Muhammad Zaman and his team at Boston University are partnering with Merck Global Health to further develop PharmaChk, a user-friendly, portable device for testing drugs of questionable quality.
Antibiotic Resistance Without the Antibiotics
Antibiotic resistance is a global threat that leads to more than 23,000 deaths each year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Over exposure to antibiotics has long been blamed, but Assistant Professor Mary Dunlop is flipping that idea on its head, finding that bacteria can also develop resistance without being exposed to antibiotics.
Metamaterials Offer Communications Breakthroughs
Professor Xin Zhang (ME, ECE, BME, MSE) is an expert in the field of metamaterials and recently her lab has developed two new structures that can manipulate sound and electromagnetic waves. Although they are different, both offer two forms of wave control in their own spectrums, performance yet seen in other devices.
New Self-Lubricating Condom Would Revolutionize Safe Sex
Other than adding flavors and colors, it’s been nearly 50 years since a major advancement in the design of condoms. BU researchers may have changed that.
Treating Tumors with Light and Sound
In lumpectomy surgeries, operations where a (usually cancerous) lump is removed from the breast, many small, early-stage tumors can’t be felt by hand during an exam, which makes them difficult to locate during surgery. For tumors like these, a doctor typically inserts a thin guide wire, less than a millimeter wide, into the breast before the […]
Breast Cancer Beacon
New device could make lumpectomies faster and more precise