Bioengineering

Heart nanofiber project makes STAT Madness round 3

A Texas Heart Institute/Rice project to use nanotube fibers to repair damaged hearts advances to round 3 of STAT Madness.

'Smart' wound-healing patch: DARPA awards $22 million grant

Rice University engineers are part of a team that's developing an 'intelligent' bandage to regrow muscle tissue for wounded soldiers.

Strong signals show how proteins come and go

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.

Mikos receives Controlled Release Society’s 2020 Founders Award

Antonios Mikos, the Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has received the 2020 Founders Award of the Controlled Release Society

Snake-like proteins can wrangle DNA

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.

Quantum-dot tattoos hold vaccination record

Keeping track of a child’s shots could be so much easier with technology invented by a new Rice University professor and his colleagues.

Newborn baby deaths in Africa targeted in $68M initiative

A new global health initiative with Rice University roots could save the lives of hundreds of thousands of babies.

Malawi study confirms lasting impact of life-saving technology

A new study finds Malawi made sustained improvements in the survival of babies with respiratory illness by adopting CPAP nationwide.

The Way I See It: Engineering healthy environments inside and outside the lab

Inspired by their professor, Rice bioengineering students find their mojo on the running track.

Houston’s new poet laureate: ‘Rice absolutely helped me get to this place’

Organ bioprinting gets a breath of fresh air

Bioengineers have cleared a major hurdle on the path to 3D printing replacement organs with a breakthrough technique for bioprinting tissues.