Posts Tagged ‘research’
Kumar Lab creates biological polymer brushes
Professor Sanjay Kumar and his colleagues have taken proteins from nerve cells and used them to create a biological version of a synthetic coating used in everyday liquid products, such as paint and liquid cosmetics, to keep small particles from clumping together. The synthetic coatings are often called polymer brushes. This marriage of materials science and biology could give birth to a flexible, sensitive coating that is easy and cheap to manufacture in large quantities.
Read MoreHealy and Lee receive Phase 2 Tissue Chip Award
Bioengineering professors Kevin Healy and Luke Lee and collaborators are one of only eleven top university teams nationwide to receive a Phase Two Tissue Chip Award from the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS).
Read MoreBiochip research in the Daily Cal
Pioneering research by Professors Kevin Healy and Luke Lee, aimed at recreating human heart and liver tissues on “biochips”, was featured in the Daily Cal.
Read MoreHealy Lab in Wired News
New research on “organs-on-a-chip” in Professor Kevin Healy’s lab is featured on Wired.com this week!
Read MoreBioE research on Danish TV
Danish TV program, “Tech and City” filmed an episode at UC Berkeley featuring technology from two bioengineering faculty laboratories. They showcased Professor Seung-Wuk Lee’s virus-electric energy work, and the CellScope project from Professor Dan Fletcher’s lab, explained by PhD alum and lecturer Frankie Myers.
Read MoreFirst shipment of malaria drug heads to Africa
The first 1.7 million treatments of semi-synthetic artemisinin, engineered by Professor Jay Keasling’s lab using synthetic biology, has been shipped to malaria-endemic countries in Africa.
Read MoreConboy Lab discovers oxytocin aids muscle regeneration
New research from professor Irina Conboy’s lab shows that oxytocin, known as the ‘trust hormone’, is indispensable for healthy muscle maintenance and repair, and that in mice it declines with age.
Read MoreHerr Lab expands highly specific protein measurements to single cells
Single-cell western blots by Herr and Schaffer labs bring microarray frameworks to highly specific protein separations, expanding the study of single-cell variation to the proteome.
Read MoreLee’s color-based sensor featured in The Scientist
Inspired by turkey skin, Seung-Wuk Lee’s team has devised a bacteriophage-based sensor whose color changes upon binding specific molecules. This research was published in January in Nature Communications.
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