Human health and bioengineering

The Tufts Center for Cellular Agriculture is leading the effort to overcome fundamental technical challenges in the field, develop standards, and share knowledge.

Engineering students gain meaningful research experience at Tufts thanks to NSF REU supplemental funding.

Associate Professor Ayse Asatekin and a team from Massachusetts General Hospital bioengineered a hydrogel that allows wounds to be treated with significantly less pain.

Associate Professor Valencia Koomson and colleagues are addressing the shortcomings of pulse oximeters and engaging with senators to push for action.

Tufts researchers devise an mRNA-based cancer vaccine delivered directly into the lymphatic system, leading to a more potent response than other cancer vaccines.

Researchers at Tufts University and the University of Oxford report a causal link between activating dormant shingles and herpes viruses, inflammation, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Kenneth and JoAnn G Wellner Professor Jamie Maguire and Assistant Professor Aseema Mohanty received the award to simultaneously measure the activity of multiple neuronal populations in vivo.

Associate Professor Valencia Koomson discusses her pulse oximeter device, which includes technology that can measure a person's skin tone to provide more accurate results.

Silk-based material under skin changes color in response to oxygen, and in the future might be adapted to track glucose and other blood components.