A new way to study the brain
An NIH grant powers collaborative stem cell and silk research on Alzheimer’s disease.
Research news
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.
Disorder suppresses chaos
Tufts researchers publish on the flow stability of stretchy fluids in one of the most esteemed journals in the field of physics.
Tracking COVID-19 symptoms in the elderly
A team from the schools of engineering and medicine worked together to devise a solution to monitor health changes using low-tech methods.
Engineering enzymes in high throughput
Chemical engineers develop a directed evolution technique to engineer phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) enzymes.
Heart attack on a chip
Researchers led by biomedical engineers at Tufts University invent a microfluidic chip containing cardiac cells that is capable of mimicking hypoxic conditions following a heart attack.
Black and Xu named AIMBE Fellows
Associate Professors Lauren Black and Qiaobing Xu have been elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows.
Research presented at HPCA
Associate Professor Mark Hempstead presented two papers at IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture.
Emitter for energy conversion
Researchers at the Renewable Energy and Applied Photonics (REAP) Lab design an all-semiconductor selective metamaterial emitter for thermophotovoltaic energy conversion applications.