Professor Niren Murthy, in partnership with School of Public Health Professor Lee Riley, has be awarded a three-year R33 grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
research
Can a simple blood draw yield clues to cancer?
Professor Amy Herr’s microfluidic liquid biopsies are featured in the latest Promise of Berkeley magazine.
Yartsev receives Fay/Frank Seed Grant
Professor Michael Yartsev has received a Fay/Frank Seed Grant from the Brain Research Foundation, which provides start-up monies for new research projects in the field of neuroscience.
Viral infections decrease muscle health, cause damage
Researchers in Prof. Irina Conboy’s lab found that viral infections turn down the intensity of a key oxytocin receptor linked to healing and health of skeletal muscle and bone, mental well-being and prevention of obesity. The pathway was recently shown to be needed for muscle maintenance and regeneration, which declines with age.
Four first-in-animal successes for Magnetic Particle Imaging
Professor Steve Conolly’s lab continues it’s push to make Magnetic Particle Imaging a reality with four first-in-animal demonstrations published this year.
Amy Herr–Changing the World One Cell at a Time
Student Meghana Krishnakumar writes about Professor Amy Herr’s research for the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.
MEng Capstone Project Highlight: Applied Rejuvenative Therapies
A team of BioE Master of Engineering students is working on aging and rejuvenation in the Conboy Lab.
M.Eng. Capstone Project Highlight: Prevention of Early Breastfeeding Cessation
Bioengineering Master of Engineering students are developing a revolutionary breast cream to help mothers continue breastfeeding their newborn children.
Herr Lab advances protein expression profiling of circulating tumor cells using microfluidic western blotting
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are detached primary cancer cells found in the circulatory system that are implicated in the metastasis of cancer. Herr and collaborators have developed a microfluidic western blot for an 8-plex protein panel for individual CTCs, derived from estrogen receptor positive breast cancer patients, that advances the state of the art in CTC characterization with tiny sample sizes.