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People, papers and presentations for Oct. 31, 2022

October 31, 2022

Lydia Kavraki and Marcia O’Malley are among 35 scientists named Oct. 25 to a list of the world’s top women scientists in robotics, energy and science at the iROS Kyoto 2022 Conference in Japan.

Rice University researchers are leading an effort to reveal potential threats to the efficacy of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. From left, Julie Park, Lavanya Saxena, Mingming Cao and Gang Bao. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)

Even good gene edits can go bad

October 24, 2022

A Rice lab leads the effort to reveal threats to the efficacy of gene editing, even when it appears to be working.

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People, papers and presentations for Oct. 24, 2022

October 24, 2022

Naomi Halas, the Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and professor of chemistry, bioengineering, physics and astronomy and of materials science and nanoengineering and the director of Rice’s Smalley-Curl Institute, touted the findings of a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office study on women inventors Oct. 19 in Houston as part of the Society of Women Engineers’ annual meeting.

Lovett Hall at sunset

NSF awards $15 million to Rice, partners to create southwest hub

September 9, 2022

The founding partners of the National Science Foundation Southwest I-Corps Node, co-established by Rice University, have been awarded a $15 million grant to form a hub that will expand the partnership to five additional universities.

Researchers at Rice University will team with counterparts at MD Anderson to improve cancer therapy with the support of seed funding from the John S. Dunn Foundation.

Research teams win Dunn Awards to fight cancer

September 1, 2022

Researchers at Rice University will team with counterparts at MD Anderson to improve cancer therapy with the support of seed funding from the John S. Dunn Foundation.

Illustration of Tabor lab's homo-FRET method for real-time observations of phosphorylation in two-component sensory systems in live bacteria

Glowing tags reveal split-second activity of pathogenic circuitry

August 25, 2022

Rice bioengineers have created the first tool for observing the real-time activity of biology’s most ubiquitous signal-processing circuits.

The Rice University NLM Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science has been awarded a $4.16 million grant by the National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health.

Biomedical, data science training wins new grant

August 22, 2022

The Rice University NLM Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science wins a $4.16 million National Library of Medicine grant.

Rice's bead-sized "drug factory" implants

‘Drug factory’ implants eliminate mesothelioma tumors in mice

August 22, 2022

Rice and Baylor researchers have used Rice’s “drug factory” implants to eradicate advanced-stage mesothelioma tumors in mice.

Rice University receives National Science Foundation support to turn living cells, starting with bacteria, into random-access memory devices. These will be able to store and report data about their environments.

Rice team eyes cells for sophisticated data storage

August 18, 2022

Rice University receives National Science Foundation support to turn living cells, starting with bacteria, into random-access memory devices. These will be able to store and report data about their environments.

17 graduate students at Rice University have been named 2022 Fellows of the National GEM (Graduate Education for Minorities) Consortium.

Record 17 Rice University graduate students named GEM Fellows

August 15, 2022

A record 17 graduate students at Rice University have been named 2022 Fellows of the National Graduate Education for Minorities Consortium.

Tiny "drug-factory" implants from the lab of Rice University bioengineer Omid Veiseh

Rice, Baylor developing implants to heal heart attack injuries

August 8, 2022

Rice and Baylor College of Medicine are creating tiny implants that can heal damage from heart attacks.

Peter Nordlander and Naomi Halas

Halas, Nordlander win prestigious Eni Energy Transition Award

August 8, 2022

Rice’s Naomi Halas and Peter Nordlander have won the prestigious 2022 Eni Energy Transition Award.

Bioengineering PhD student Amanda Nash and Professor Omid Veiseh with jars of bead-like implants like the ones they created to treat cancer

Rice lab’s ‘drug factory’ implants cleared for human trials

August 3, 2022

Federal regulators have approved the first human clinical trial of cancer-killing “drug factory” implants created by Rice bioengineers.

Bioengineers used deactivated Cas9 fusion proteins to synthetically control gene expression and reveal new details about natural processes in human cells.

Synthetic tools conduct messages from station to station in DNA

July 15, 2022

Bioengineers used deactivated Cas9 fusion proteins to synthetically control gene expression and reveal new details about natural processes in human cells.

Students pose with the feeder designed for the red river hogs at the Houston Zoo.

Rice OEDK team creates new feeding device for Houston Zoo’s red river hogs

June 21, 2022

Just steps away from Rice University, you can meet Neptune, Luna, Vidalia, Artemis and Ophelia, the Houston Zoo’s resident red river hogs.

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