Imagine the state-of-the-art 21st-century life sciences and engineering lab. It would bring together forward-thinking researchers from the hottest fields in bioengineering. These scientists would combine genomic technologies like DNA sequencing and synthesis, 3-D printers, and robots to make new molecules, tissues, and entire organisms. They would tinker in pursuit of cutting-edge questions like these: How […]
Honoring senior and junior faculty each year for major contributions to their fields and to society at large, the College of Engineering has bestowed its inaugural Charles DeLisi Award and Lecture on Professor Mark Grinstaff (BME, Chemistry, MSE), and its Early Career Excellence Award on Assistant Professor Mac Schwager (ME, SE). Read More Here
After diagnosing a patient with metastatic breast cancer, physicians routinely administer highly toxic chemotherapy drugs for months at a time, and then use an MRI or other imaging device to determine if tumors have shrunk or expanded. But changes in the size of a tumor may appear long after it becomes resistant to the administered […]
Imaging techniques using UV-VIS spectroscopy hold promise for a range of clinical applications. But despite years of development leading to robust technologies that have undergone thorough testing, commercialized instruments are having a tough time finding their way into the clinic. BioPhotonics checks in with developer Irving Bigio to get a sense of why, and to […]
Kamil Ekinci and a team of researchers at Boston University and Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a new model to study motion patterns of bacteria in real time and to determine how these motions relate to communication within a bacterial colony. Read More Here