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Rice team’s mask strategy passes muster

February 7, 2022

During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a team at Rice University went looking for and found a way to make standard surgical masks better at keeping out small airborne droplets that might contain the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

A protein known as Lefty pumps the brakes as human embryos begin to differentiate into the bones, soft tissues and organs that make us.

‘Lefty’ tightens control of embryonic development

January 25, 2022

A protein known as Lefty pumps the brakes as human embryos begin to differentiate into the bones, soft tissues and organs that make us.

A moderate amount of a peptide-enhanced cancer drug goes a long way in treating breast cancers that metastasize to the bone.

Antibody with engineered peptide targets bone metastasis

January 24, 2022

A moderate amount of a peptide-enhanced cancer drug goes a long way in treating breast cancers that metastasize to the bone.

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Awards boost biomed advances

December 16, 2021

Four faculty members and their collaborators win Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health seed grants.

False-color image of myxobacterial colonies reminiscent of "The Starry Night."

Swirling bacteria mimic Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’

December 13, 2021

Scientists discovered a way to transform millions of predatory bacteria into swirling flash mobs reminiscent of painter Vincent Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” as the unexpected result of experiments on a genetic circuit the creatures use to discern friend from foe.

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Rice’s Technology Development Fund backs faculty projects

December 10, 2021

Nine projects proposed by Rice researchers have been granted seed funding by Creative Ventures' Technology Development Fund.

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NEST360 wins 2021 Innovating for Impact Partnership Award

December 8, 2021

NEST360, an international alliance with roots at Rice University’s Rice 360º Institute for Global Health, has won the Global Health Technologies Coalition 2021 Innovating for Impact Partnership Award for its efforts to end preventable newborn deaths in African hospitals.

A ring of red cells representing the mesoderm germ layer appear in a stem-cell gastrulation model developed by the Rice University lab of bioscientist Aryeh Warmflash. The lab has received National Science Foundation backing to model how individual embryonic cells process the signals that prompt them to differentiate.

NSF grant supports study of cells’ early decisions

December 7, 2021

Rice University receives National Science Foundation support to build a model of cell differentiation during the earliest stage of life. The model could help improve researchers’ ability to direct stem cells to a given fate.

Nicolaou and Mikos

Rice profs among historic Greek heroes

December 1, 2021

Two Rice professors are among physicians and biomedical researchers honored on the Greece bicentennial.

Pedro Alvarez and Tony Mikos

Alvarez, Mikos elected to Chinese Academy of Engineering

November 19, 2021

Pedro Alvarez and Antonios Mikos have been elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Scale-model of a 3D printed lung-mimicking air sac

Rice professor, grad student strike $45 million deal for startup

October 28, 2021

A startup biotech company founded by a Rice professor and a graduate student in 2018 has been acquired in a deal that could be worth as much as $400 million.

Baker College senior Magdah Omer debuted their first solo art exhibition Oct. 15 at Sleepy Cyborg, the student art gallery formerly known as Matchbox

Be water, my friend

October 18, 2021

Baker College senior Magdah Omer debuted their first solo art exhibition Oct. 15 at Sleepy Cyborg.

Jerzy Szablowski

Packard Foundation backs Rice bioengineer

October 14, 2021

Rice University bioengineer Jerzy Szablowski wins a prestigious Packard Fellowship to pursue noninvasive brain research.

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NSF-backed ‘team of teams’ raises stakes for master’s students

September 27, 2021

Four institutions will share an NSF grant of nearly $5 million to support scholarships for students seeking master’s degrees in engineering and related fields.

Kevin McHugh

Rice lands grant to improve time-release drugs

September 21, 2021

HOUSTON – (Sept. 21, 2021) – Time-released drugs are about to get a geometry lesson, thanks to bioengineers at Rice University.

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