Rice awards first COVID-19 research grants
April 20, 2020
The Rice University COVID-19 Research Fund Oversight and Review Committee announced it will support projects to develop affordable diagnostic tools, seals to maximize the efficiency of surgical masks, a system to identify signs of the coronavirus in Houston wastewater and methods to ensure voter safety this fall.
Class acts, from a distance
March 30, 2020
As the COVID-19 crisis plays out, Rice University faculty have been proactively making the best of a difficult situation for their students.
Rice professors named AIMBE fellows
March 26, 2020
Two Rice University faculty members have been named to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Strong signals show how proteins come and go
March 9, 2020
Rice University bioscientists develop a versatile gene signal amplifier that can not only do a better job of detecting the expression of chromosomal genes than current methods but can potentially be used to detect any cellular gene.
Snake-like proteins can wrangle DNA
January 2, 2020
Theoretical simulations at Rice University suggest structural maintenance of chromosome proteins coil not only around each other but also around the strands of DNA they help manipulate. These strands are formed into loops that regulate transcription and other cellular processes.