Bioengineering

Rice establishes COVID-19 research fund, offers nearby hospitals housing on campus for health care workers

As part of a coordinated effort to combat COVID-19, Rice University has established a research accelerator fund to support projects intended to help end the pandemic and prepare for similar outbreaks in the future.

Final faceoff: It’s THI/Rice vs. MIT for STAT Madness championship

Georgia Tech team wins Rice 360⁰ design competition

Global health expert available to discuss COVID-19 threat to hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa

Rice University bioengineer and global health pioneer Rebecca Richards-Kortum is available to discuss how hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa are preparing to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Class acts, from a distance

As the COVID-19 crisis plays out, Rice University faculty have been proactively making the best of a difficult situation for their students.

Heart nanofibers in STAT Madness semifinals

Texas Heart Institute and Rice University’s heart-saving nanotube fibers have advanced to the semifinal round of STAT Madness.

Rice professors named AIMBE fellows

Two Rice University faculty members have been named to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Heart nanofibers in STAT Madness quarterfinals

Texas Heart Institute and Rice University’s heart-saving nanotube fibers have advanced to the quarterfinal round of STAT Madness.

Bioengineers call for scale-up of COVID-19 testing to academic labs

Rice bioengineers are calling on federal officials to draft their lab and thousands like it to rapidly scale up coronavirus testing.

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.