Silk provides the building blocks to transform modern medicine
Tufts researchers harness protein from silk to make virus-sensing gloves, surgical screws that dissolve in your body, and other next-generation biomedical materials.
Human health and bioengineering
Silk can keep your food fresher—and make your glue stickier
Researchers discover surprising new uses for materials made from the proteins of the ancient fiber.
A taste of life beyond the lab
Doctoral candidates at Tufts’ Center for Cellular Agriculture tour Bay Area companies creating lab-grown meat products.
When the syllabus includes “Jurassic Park” and genetic engineering
Assistant Professor Nisha Iyer illustrates the latest science by referring back to classic sci-fi films for an introductory class on biotechnology.
Measuring metabolism at the speed of light
Professor Irene Georgakoudi delivered a lecture on label-free, high-resolution imaging at the National Institutes of Health.
Alumni Spotlight: Abby Niesen, E14
Tufts alumna makes her mark on international scale at UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Timko receives NSF CAREER Award
The prestigious grant award will further Assistant Professor Brian Timko’s research on bioelectronics-embedded hybrid brain tissues.
Graduate student receives poster award
PhD student Aaron Love recently won a Best Poster Award at the Boston Bacterial Meeting for his research on protein coding schemes.
Cowen elected ISCB Fellow
Professor Lenore Cowen was named a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology for her leadership in the interdisciplinary field.