Smart fabrics monitor body and environment with bioactive inks
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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T-TRIPODS summer updates
Tufts TRIPODS Institute names graduate research fellows and summer research undergraduates for 2020.
Modeling traumatic brain injuries
A team led by Tufts biomedical engineers developed a 3D contusion model that could be used to study the effects of traumatic brain injuries.
Cervical precancer identified with fluorescence
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.
When the pandemic struck, this class struck back
PhD student Sara Rudolph and classmates in her Medicinal Chemistry class quickly pivoted to studying COVID-19 this spring.
3D brain model links Alzheimer’s disease with herpes
Engineers and researchers design unique in vitro model to study the causes and treatments of neurological disease.
A new way to study the brain
An NIH grant powers collaborative stem cell and silk research on Alzheimer’s disease.
Staff nominated for Distinction Awards
The School of Engineering congratulates 11 staff members who were nominated for Tufts Distinction Awards.
Going to great wavelengths
Assistant Professor Srivalleesha Mallidi and the iBITLab are using sound and light waves to better understand tumors and to direct treatment.