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Rice statistician earns CPRIT award to advance AI-powered precision medicine for prostate cancer

March 18, 2025

Rice statistician Erzsébet Merényi is part of a team of researchers awarded $1 million by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to develop AI tools that can identify lethal forms of prostate cancer earlier and improve treatment selection.

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Rice researchers harness gravity to create low-cost device for rapid cell analysis

February 28, 2025

A team of researchers at Rice has developed an innovative AI-enabled, low-cost device that will make flow cytometry ⎯ a technique used to analyze cells or particles in a fluid using a laser beam ⎯ affordable and accessible.

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New method developed to dramatically enhance bioelectronic sensors

February 26, 2025

In a breakthrough that could transform bioelectronic sensing, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Rice University has developed a new method to dramatically enhance the sensitivity of enzymatic and microbial fuel cells using organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs).

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Rice-led study finds focused ultrasound therapy improves cancer treatment

February 21, 2025

Combining an existing small-molecule protein therapy called tumor necrosis factor related apoptosis-inducing ligand with focused ultrasound can significantly reduce tumor size and burden in prostate cancer models, according to a new study published in Advanced Science by researchers at Rice and Vanderbilt.

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Rice-BCM research achieves gene-editing breakthrough that could improve treatment for liver disease, other disorders

February 13, 2025

The Rice lab of bioengineer Gang Bao and collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new gene-editing strategy that dramatically boosts the effectiveness of gene therapies in the liver, a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for about 700 genetic disorders in this vital organ as well as in other organs and tissues.

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Rice researchers discover new way to customize living materials for tissue engineering, drug delivery and 3D printing

February 5, 2025

Rice researchers have revealed novel sequence-structure-property relationships for customizing engineered living materials (ELMs), enabling more precise control over their structure and how they respond to deformation forces like stretching or compression.

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CPRIT leaders enjoy campus tour showcasing cancer research initiatives and capabilities

November 20, 2024

Senior officials from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas visited Rice Nov.11 for a firsthand, comprehensive look at the university’s cancer-focused collaborative research initiatives and innovation-driven facilities and labs.

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Research institute representative highlights Texas’ collaborative efforts with Rice in cancer battle

October 14, 2024

Abria Magee, senior program manager for the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, gave an overview of the agency’s efforts to fuel innovation in cancer research and drive advancements in prevention and cures at the recent AI in Health Conference hosted by Rice’s Ken Kennedy Institute.

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Ken Kennedy Institute’s annual conference informs the future of AI in health innovation

September 23, 2024

Rice’s Ken Kennedy Institute hosted the third annual AI in Health Conference Sept. 9-12, welcoming over 470 participants to Houston to explore the latest advancements in artificial intelligence.

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Rice’s Aryeh Warmflash awarded $1.6M NIH grant for research on early human development

September 5, 2024

Researchers at Rice are working to understand how a single cell evolves into the complex network of specialized cells that form the human body.

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Rice lab develops protein assembly road map for gas vesicles

September 3, 2024

Rice bioengineers developed a road map for the protein-protein interactions that give rise to gas vesicles, naturally occurring nanobubbles with potential use in biomedical applications.

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Rice bioengineers develop lotus leaf-inspired system to advance study of cancer cell clusters

August 23, 2024

Rice bioengineers have harnessed the lotus effect to develop a system for culturing cancer cell clusters that can shed light on hard-to-study tumor properties. The new zinc oxide-based culturing surface mimics the lotus leaf surface structure, providing a highly tunable platform for the high-throughput generation of three-dimensional nanoscale tumor models.

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Future of bioelectronics takes center stage at Rice Global Paris event

July 16, 2024

The Rice Global Paris Center hosted the BioElectronic Therapeutics (BETx) conference and workshop June 27-28, the first formal event dedicated to the field of bioelectronics to be held at Rice’s Paris campus.

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Rice lab develops smallest free-floating bubbles for medical imaging

July 15, 2024

Bioengineering researchers at Rice have developed ultrasmall, stable, gas-filled protein nanostructures that could revolutionize ultrasound imaging and drug delivery for cancers and infectious diseases.

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Rice research aims to reprogram the genetic code

July 3, 2024

Chemist Han Xiao has been awarded nearly $2 million from the National Institutes of Health Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award.

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