Measuring the pulse
Junior Akshita Rao spent her summer investigating the effects of acute hypoxia in cardiac cells.
Research news
Non-invasive cancer imaging
Tufts researchers combine microscopy with automated image analysis algorithms to distinguish healthy and metastatic cancerous tissue at the molecular level.
Inhibiting disease one enzyme at a time
Bright Futures Assistant Professor James Van Deventer received an NIH Outstanding Investigator Award to establish a comprehensive discovery platform that could lead to new classes of enzyme inhibitors.
Water treatment reduces parasitic infections
Tiampo Family Assistant Professor Amy Pickering conducted a study indicating improved drinking water should be a key component of control strategies against parasitic worm and protozoan infections in rural Kenya.
Mallidi recognized for research in image-guided light treatment for cancer
Assistant Professor Srivalleesha Mallidi received a 2019 Early Investigator Award from the International Photodynamic Association.
Summer Scholars in Engineering
Seven engineering students received Summer Scholars funding to work on independent undergraduate research projects at Tufts.
Soldier Technology Day
The Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences (CABCS) was highlighted at the State House as an innovative partnership between the Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center and academia.
Bacteria navigate maze
A research team including Assistant Professor Jeffrey Guasto published a paper in Nature Communications demonstrating the individuality of bacteria cells navigating a maze.
Promising approach to image-based data sets
Associate Professor Shuchin Aeron collaborated with mathematics faculty to publish "A randomized tensor singular value decomposition based on the t-product" in Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications.