Material Research Society (MRS) held its bi-annual meeting in Boston November 30-December 4, 2015. BUnano faculty Klapperich, Bansil, and graduate students from Dal Negro’s and Grinstaff’s labs delivered oral and poster presentations. The advances described varied from biomaterials, drug delivery, optics, nanolayers and plasmonic applications to teaching.
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), under the direction of Sam Thiagalingam, PhD, have identified a new regulatory pathway that may play an important role in basal-like breast cancer (BLBC), a particularly aggressive form of breast cancer often referred to as “triple negative.” This pathway may serve as a target for the development of […]
MED’s Anurag Singh wins grant to study gene in deadly skin cancer. Singh, a MED assistant professor of pharmacology and medicine and XTNC mentor, is tackling this poorly understood melanoma by investigating how NRAS transforms healthy, normal skin cells into aggressive cancerous cells. The work is funded by a three-year, $150,000 grant from the Melanoma […]
Thirty-two hand-picked Boston University researchers convened for a day in September to participate in the Alan Alda Communicating Science Workshop held at BU and led by actors and journalists. The workshop was designed to teach scientists to be tuned-in and persuasive when they communicate their work to lawmakers, federal agencies, and the public…
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 […]
Darren Roblyer, CNN faculty member and an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is developing technology to monitor tumors to optimize the treatment selection for patients. Roblyer was awarded a $4 million grant last month from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs to pursue this research.
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 […]
By late January 2014, 1.4 million people in Liberia and Sierra Leone could be infected with the Ebola virus. That’s the worst-case scenario of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa recently offered by scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC warns that those countries could now have 21,000 cases of […]