October 21, 2013 Professor Song Li and his research team have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when inducing mature cells back to a pluripotent stage, capable of becoming any cell type in the body.
BioE News
Alumni profile – Ehsan Saadat
This alumni profile of Ehsan Saadat appeared in the 2013 Bioengineering Department annual report. Ehsan (B.S. 2006) is a third year resident in orthopaedic surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Tim Downing in BMES video
Check out BioE Ph.D. student Tim Downing explaining his research in this video from BMES 2013.
Congratulations CellScope, ASAP finalist
A new cellscope in education project, “Smartphone Becomes Microscope”, is one of six finalists chosen for the Accelerating Science Award Program.
Fletcher in the Wall Street Journal
Bioengineering Professor Dan Fletcher wrote a short opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal Friday, September 20, 2013.
Alum helps run Bioengineering Bootcamp for high school students
BioE undergraduate alum Sasha Denisin, now a PhD student at Stanford, partnered with the Stanford Department of Bioengineering to run a 6-week hands-on design experience in bioengineering for high school students.
Undergrad gets best poster at SRC TECHCON 2013
Cameron Baradar, an undergraduate researcher in professor Amy Herr’s lab, won a Best in Poster Award at the 2013 Semiconductor Research Corporation TECHCON conference in Austin, Tx.
Tekla Labs sponsors “Build My Lab” contest
Tekla Labs, a non-profit founded by BioE graduate students and postdocs, are sponsoring the Build My Lab Contest, a DIY lab equipment design competition along with Instructables.
Alumni Steen and Dietrich in Wired magazine
PhD alumni Eric Steen (’10) and Jeff Dietrich (’11) are featured in “Synthetic Biology 2.0” in Wired magazine online. The article discusses their startup company Lygos and the the up-and-coming garage garage industry of synthetic biology. Read the full article at Wired.