Drug doubles down on bone cancer, metastasis
July 16, 2021
Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine develop an antibody conjugate called BonTarg that delivers drugs to bone tumors and inhibits metastasis.
Enzyme from fungi shows molecules which way to turn
July 15, 2021
A small fungal enzyme could play a significant role in simplifying the development and manufacture of drugs, according to Rice University scientists.
Rice, Rutgers developing inhalable COVID-19 vaccine spray
July 7, 2021
Scientists at Rice and Rutgers developing two COVID-19 vaccine strategies that do not require cold storage, one of which can be inhaled.
Soft shell makes hard ceramic less likely to shatter
July 7, 2021
Coating ceramic schwarzites, 3D-printed lattices, with a thin polymer helps keep them from shattering under pressure.
NIH grant will help streamline chemical synthesis
July 5, 2021
Rice University chemist Julian West has won a five-year, $1.8 million National Institutes of Health grant to advance his lab’s efforts to simplify the synthesis of organic chemicals.
Reversal speeds creation of important molecule
June 29, 2021
A Rice lab’s reverse approach to making halichondrin B is the shortest route to a “rather complex and important molecule."
Six Rice-TMC research teams earn seed grants
June 28, 2021
Rice's Educational and Research Initiatives for Collaborative Health has announced six seed grants for research collaborations between faculty from Rice and the Texas Medical Center.
Keck backs Rice bid to ‘build a brain’
June 28, 2021
A $1 million Keck Foundation grant will support work by Jacob Robinson to understand neural pathways.
Quantum dots keep atoms spaced to boost catalysis
June 24, 2021
Rice engineers use graphene quantum dots to trap transition metals for high atom loading in single atom catalysis.
Nightside radio could help reveal exoplanet details
June 22, 2021
Rice scientists enhance models that could be used to detect magnetosphere activity on exoplanets. The Rice model adds data from nightside activity that could increase signals by at least an order of magnitude.
June 21, 2021
Lillian Wieland’s freshman-year presentation for the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium (RURS) “went terribly,” as she recalls it.
Odd angles make for strong spin-spin coupling
June 18, 2021
HOUSTON – (May 25, 2021) – Sometimes things are a little out of whack, and it turns out to be exactly what you need.
Seismic study will help keep carbon underground
June 17, 2021
A Department of Energy grant to Rice geoscientists enables development of fiber-optic sensors to find and evaluate small faults at underground carbon dioxide storage reservoirs.
Sickle cell advance incorporates Rice lab's tech
June 16, 2021
Rice University bioengineer Gang Bao, a pioneer in the search for a way to treat and perhaps cure sickle cell disease, is co-author of a significant step forward revealed in Science Translational Medicine and led by his colleagues at Stanford University.
Biologists construct a ‘periodic table’ for cell nuclei
May 27, 2021
A team of biologists studying the tree of life has unveiled a new classification system for cell nuclei, and discovered a method for transmuting one type of cell nucleus into another.