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Fats help tag medical implants as friend or foe

March 14, 2023

Rice University bioengineer Omid Veiseh and collaborators found that lipid deposition on the surfaces of medical implants can play a mediating role between the body and implants, knowledge that could help scientists develop biomaterials or coatings for implants that could reduce malfunction rates.

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Theory can sort order from chaos in complex quantum systems

February 23, 2023

Theory can sort ‘order’ from ‘chaos’ in complex quantum systems.

LAB NOTES

Lab Notes for Feb. 20, 2023

February 20, 2023

Rice joins neutrino megaproject. Engineering launches energy transition initiative. McHugh lands cancer research grant. Keck Foundation funds quantum research. West named Cottrell Scholar.

Rice University postdoctoral researcher Chuxuan Li

DNA repair scheme gets closer look for cancer therapy

January 6, 2023

Rice bioscientists took a close look at one of the ways cells repair broken DNA and made a discovery about a promising target for cancer therapy.

Lights used in a process to simplify diamine synthesis

​​​​​​​Lab lights way to simple chemical synthesis

January 5, 2023

Rice University scientists have developed a photochemical process to simplify the synthesis of drug and chemical precursors known as diamines.

A Rice University lab is developing encapsulated cellular “drug factories” to treat patients with HIV through a once-a-year implant.

HIV ‘drug factory’ implant promises once-a-year therapy

December 2, 2022

A Rice University lab is developing encapsulated cellular “drug factories” to treat patients with HIV through a once-a-year implant.

Rice bioengineer Kevin McHugh wins a Distinguished Scientist Award for brain cancer research from The Sontag Foundation.

Brain cancer research draws support

November 21, 2022

Bioengineer Kevin McHugh wins a Distinguished Scientist Award for brain cancer research from The Sontag Foundation.

GDEC Open House

Rice facility is ‘one-stop shop’ for customizing DNA to fight cancer

November 14, 2022

Rice bioengineers, synthetic biologists and cancer researchers celebrated the opening of Rice’s first CPRIT Core Facility, the Genetic Design and Engineering Center, or GDEC, Nov. 10 at the BRC.

Rice University scientists and engineers develop programmable bacteria that sense contaminants and release an electronic signal in real time.

Bacterial sensors send a jolt of electricity when triggered

November 2, 2022

Rice researchers develop programmable bacteria that sense contaminants and release an electronic signal in real time.

Rice University researchers are leading an effort to reveal potential threats to the efficacy of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. From left, Julie Park, Lavanya Saxena, Mingming Cao and Gang Bao. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)

Even good gene edits can go bad

October 24, 2022

A Rice lab leads the effort to reveal threats to the efficacy of gene editing, even when it appears to be working.

Researchers at Rice University and the University of Connecticut modify a gene editing tool to serve as a highly sensitive diagnostic test for the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

RNA-editing tool a fast, sensitive test for COVID-19

September 22, 2022

Researchers at Rice University and the University of Connecticut modify a gene editing tool to serve as a highly sensitive diagnostic test for the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Engineered living materials

Rice lab grows macroscale, modular materials from bacteria

September 22, 2022

Rice bioscientists have created bacteria that self-assembles into a material like putty that could soak up pollutants.

Rice University chemists find a rare genetic pathway that helps mammalian cells become drug factories or sensors by synthesizing noncanonical amino acids. The clues came from an uncommon bird.

Bird’s enzyme points toward novel therapies

September 19, 2022

Rice University chemists find a rare genetic pathway that helps mammalian cells become drug factories or sensors by synthesizing noncanonical amino acids. The clues came from an uncommon bird.

Rice's bead-sized "drug factory" implants

‘Drug factory’ implants eliminate mesothelioma tumors in mice

August 22, 2022

Rice and Baylor researchers have used Rice’s “drug factory” implants to eradicate advanced-stage mesothelioma tumors in mice.

Rice University researchers have modelled a key mechanism by which DNA replicates. The study could help identify new targets to treat disease.

Rice models moving ‘washers’ that help DNA replicate

August 9, 2022

Rice researchers model a key mechanism by which DNA replicates. The study could help identify new targets to treat disease.

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