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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.

Matthew Bennett

Grant backs effort to build useful bacterial colonies

September 20, 2021

Rice scientists have won a grant to advance the development of custom-designed microbial colonies for a variety of applications.

An illustration shows how optical trapping could be used to investigate collective, force-generating properties in a complex of motor molecules. A National Science Foundation grant to Rice University to acquire an optical tweezer will advance researchers’ investigation of biological and inorganic molecules. (Credit: Diehl Lab/Rice University)

Tweezer grant pleases Rice researchers

September 8, 2021

Rice researchers have won an NSF grant to acquire a sophisticated optical tweezer microscope to manipulate, measure and monitor micron-scale particles.

Rice bioengineer Isaac Hilton

Trailblazing Rice bioengineer is turning cells into disease fighters

August 23, 2021

Rice University bioengineer Isaac Hilton has been awarded an NIH Trailblazer Award to create synthetic circular DNA that can be used to reprogram cells as disease fighters.

Rice University has been awarded a $4 million grant by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to establish the Genetic Design and Engineering Center. (Credit: Illustration by Olivia Flynn/Bashor Lab)

CPRIT grant establishes Genetic Design and Engineering Center

August 20, 2021

Rice faculty members led by bioengineer Gang Bao have been awarded a $4 million CPRIT grant to establish the Genetic Design and Engineering Center.

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Rice, Baylor win defense grant to advance metastasis study

August 19, 2021

Rice University chemist Han Xiao and biologist Xiang Zhang at Baylor College of Medicine have won a $2.3 million Department of Defense grant to expand their efforts to halt bone cancer metastasis.

CAPTION: Ruth Adaimoabasi Udo, left, discusses her work with Marcia O’Malley, Rice’s Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science, at the IBB Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. Udo won the Outstanding Poster Award for the EngMed REU program. Photo by Jeff Fitlow

10 winners at IBB Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium

August 12, 2021

Posters by 10 summer interns were the best at this year’s IBB Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Sample trajectories of the paths traveled by fluorescently tagged Myxococcus xanthus cells that were aggregating in mounds. The trajectories are superimposed on a fluorescent image in which the aggregates appear white. (Image courtesy of C. Cotter/UGA)

When many act as one, data-driven models can reveal key behaviors

August 4, 2021

Data science approaches can reveal subtle clues about the origins of such collective behaviors as aggregation of bacteria.

Graduate student Madison Royse demonstrates a laboratory setup for testing blood flow through 3D-printed hydrogel scaffolds for tissue engineering.

Rice team creating insulin-producing implant for Type 1 diabetes

July 26, 2021

Rice University bioengineers are using 3D printing and smart biomaterials to create an insulin-producing implant for Type 1 diabetics.

A “high quality” 3D-printed bioscaffold as designed with help from a machine learning algorithm developed at Rice University. Scale bar equals 1 millimeter. (Credit: Mikos Research Group/Rice University)

AI could expand healing with bioscaffolds

July 22, 2021

Artificial intelligence can speed the development of 3D-printed bioscaffolds that help injuries heal, according to Rice researchers.

Rice University bioengineers have developed hydrogels of various stiffness to see if they are more hospitable to intestinal cells and bacteria in lab experiments. The hydrogels proved far better at supporting cultures than traditional glass and plastic slides.

Pathogens get comfy in designer goo

July 22, 2021

Hydrogels developed at Rice University mimic intestines when lined with epithelial cells. A study by Rice and Baylor College of Medicine proved hydrogels in various stiffnesses are valuable for learning the dynamics of pathogens that cause diarrhea and other intestinal diseases.

The Equalizer is a synthetic circuit that assures consistent gene expression from cell to cell in laboratory-bred colonies. (Credit: Illustration by Jin Yang)

Cell-wrangling circuit simplifies genetic experiments

July 6, 2021

A Rice alumnus' work pays off with The Equalizer, a synthetic circuit that assures consistent gene expression in laboratory-bred colonies.

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Six Rice-TMC research teams earn seed grants

June 28, 2021

Rice's Educational and Research Initiatives for Collaborative Health has announced six seed grants for research collaborations between faculty from Rice and the Texas Medical Center.

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