Nair wins NIH New Innovator Award
Nikhil Nair seeks new treatment for potentially fatal, rarely-studied congenital "orphan diseases" caused by improper food metabolism.
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Generating human neural stem cells
Process could pave way for engineering innervated tissues such as skin, cornea.
Defying gravity with an inverted pendulum
Summer scholar Anu Gamage, E18, spent her summer developing an inverted pendulum that could continue collecting accurate measurements and balancing itself in the case of a cyberattack.
Student startup takes prize at $100k Competition
Mimir Insights creates researcher database for biotech industries.
Communicating health risks with visualizations
Associate Professor Remco Chang, students, and collaborators at Maine Medical Center created a project to investigate how older men with prostate cancer use visualizations to better understand their own health risk information.
"Smart" thread collects data through sutures
Tufts engineers have developed threads that, when sutured into tissue, collect and wirelessly transmit diagnostic data.
Painting a picture with data
Alvitta Ottley, who recently received her doctorate in computer science, studies visualizations, their users, and how to bring the two together.