Rice, Baylor part of research effort to advance genome editing
Researchers from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine are part of a national effort to accelerate genome-editing research and develop gene-editing technologies and therapies.
Bioengineer wins NIH grant to attack cystic fibrosis
Rice chemical and biomolecular engineer Xue Sherry Gao wins a National Institutes of Health grant to develop gene editing to treat cystic fibrosis.
Study could explain tuberculosis bacteria paradox
Tuberculosis bacteria have evolved to remember stressful encounters and react quickly to future stress, according to a study by computational bioengineers at Rice University and infectious disease experts at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
Laura Segatori named AIMBE fellow
Rice bioengineer Laura Segatori has been named a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
UTHealth, Rice advance oral cancer immunotherapy
Researchers at Rice and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston develop a hydrogel that could destroy oral cancer tumors.
Junghae Suh named AIMBE fellow
Rice bioengineer Junghae Suh has been named a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
People, papers and presentations
Rice model offers help for new hips
Simple bioreactor makes ‘gut check’ more practical
Light flips genetic switch in bacteria inside transparent worms
AI-powered microscope could check cancer margins in minutes
Rice's Pumani hailed for reaching 1 million babies
Rice global health institute's low-cost, neonatal CPAP joins Global Innovation Exchange's Million Lives Club.
Rice physicist shares grant to advance imaging
The lab of physicist Junichiro Kono will share in a $1 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to improve imaging of proteins, cells and tissues.
Rice names new round of IDEA winners
Six teams of Rice researchers have won backing from the InterDisciplinary Excellence Awards.
People, papers and presentations October 5, 2020
Rice alumnae Elisa Arango, Susannah Dittmar, Lauren Payne and Sanika Rane are finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition sponsored by the National Inventors Hall of Fame for their Universally Friendly Obturator, a customizable device developed at the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen that simplifies radiation therapy for patients with cervical cancer.
