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
Hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths occur around the world each year because as much as half of medicines in developing countries is either counterfeit or significantly substandard. Procedures used to check their quality are largely inaccurate, as well as slow, expensive, and complicated. A team of Boston University biomedical engineers and public health researchers, […]
The costs of lung-cancer screening overshadow the benefits of swift diagnosis — but ingenious technologies could help. Avrum Spira, a pulmonologist and chief of computational biomedicine at the Boston University School of Medicine in Massachusetts, is looking at patterns of gene expression in cells taken from the airways, which can be sampled with brushes, a […]
Dr. Bennett Goldberg, founder and former director of CNN, and BU’s Cross-Disciplinary Training Program in Nanotechnology for Cancer are featured in this Science article on the importance of interdisciplinary training in cancer research.
For 11 years, the Grinstaff Group, a lab with more than 20 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, has been combining members’ expertise in chemistry, pharmacology, and biomedical and mechanical engineering to tackle complicated medical challenges. Reflecting Grinstaff’s multiple interests and range of expertise, his group never focuses on one problem at a time. Three of […]
Porter’s lab designs nanoparticles—twenty times smaller than red blood cells—that can carry chemotherapy directly into tumors and then release their chemo drug slowly into the tumor—comparable to slow-release cold medicine. Read more
Assistant Professor Wilson W. Wong (BME) has received a 2013 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Awards, which supports exceptionally creative, early-career researchers pursuing highly innovative projects with the potential to transform their field of endeavor and bring about improved health outcomes. The award, which provides up to $1.5 million in funding for […]