Congratulations to David Kaplan, Stern Family Professor in Engineering, Distinguished Professor, and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, on being elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
Engineers and researchers design unique in vitro model to study the causes and treatments of neurological disease.
Assistant Professor Madeleine Oudin and biomedical researchers at Tufts discover a new way in which fat promotes the spread of cancer.
Researchers create neurotransmitter-lipid hybrids that help ferry therapeutic drugs and gene editing proteins across the blood-brain barrier.
Researchers demonstrate that a silk fibroin derivative can be an ideal candidate to enhance integration between bioelectronic devices and tissues.
Assistant Professor Srivalleesha Mallidi and the iBITLab are using sound and light waves to better understand tumors and to direct treatment.
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Zharia Akeem, a double major in computer science and biomedical engineering, plans to make an impact in her hometown of Detroit.
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Alum Shounak Bose worked with hundreds of fellow volunteers to develop a cost-effective ventilator that could be produced quickly.
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Tufts engineers devise a way to directly deliver gene-editing packages efficiently across the blood brain barrier and into specific regions of the brain, into immune system cells, or to specific tissues and organs.
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Associate Research Professor Thomas Nieland is a recipient of a new endowment that supports education, research, and civic engagement initiatives designed to support those who have been affected by the opioid crisis.
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Engineers at Tufts have developed biomaterial-based inks that respond to and quantify chemicals released from the body or in the surrounding environment by changing color.
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A team of researchers from the School of Engineering, the School of Medicine, and physicians at Tufts Medical Center have developed a method using fluorescence to detect pre-cancerous metabolic and physical changes in epithelial cells.
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Researchers at Tufts’ Laboratory for Living Devices link materials like silk and paper with technology, medicine, and diagnostics.
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Cultured meat could reduce resources required in meat production, with a smaller environmental footprint relative to animal farming.
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Scientists engineer on-demand high resolution wrinkling for reversible printing and thermal regulation.
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Fiorenzo Omenetto, Dean of Research and Frank C. Doble Professor, discusses the potential of silk to shape future technologies in Scientific American.
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Assistant Professor Madeleine Oudin explains how they start and how they can migrate throughout the body.
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Researchers used lipid nanoparticles to deliver CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tools for potential treatment of hyperlipidemia.