June 13, 2013 – Researchers led by Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering David Schaffer and colleagues have developed improved gene insertion techniques that could expand gene therapy to help restore sight to patients with blinding diseases.
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CellScope profiled in The Scientist
June 4, 2013 – The CellScope, a cellphone-based microscope developed in Professor Dan Fletcher’s lab, was profiled in June edition of The Scientist magazine.
Video Interview with Seung-Wuk Lee Lab
June 4, 2013 – USA Today has posted a video interview with BioE Ph.D. Eddie Wang of Professor Seung-Wuk Lee’s lab about their new light-controlled gel.
Seung-Wuk Lee’s work in Scientific American
Research by Bioengineering professor Seung-Wuk Lee was featured in the May 2013 issue of Scientific American, in an article about the future of Nanotechnology.
Lee’s light-controlled gel advances soft robotics
May 28, 2013 – Researchers led by bioengineering professor Seung-Wuk Lee have created a hydrogel that can be manipulated by light.
Wireless signals could transform brain trauma diagnostics
Research from Boris Rubinsky, Professor Emeritus in Bioengineering and Professor of the Graduate School in Mechanical Engineering, is using wireless signals to provide real-time, non-invasive diagnoses of brain swelling or bleeding.
Large-scale production of engineered malaria drug launches
April 11, 2013 – Twelve years after bioengineering and chemical engineering professor Jay Keasling learned how to engineer yeast to produce the potent anti-malarial drug artemisinin, manufacturing plants are launching large-scale production of the medication.
MTM project featured on medGadget
April 5, 2013 – Research by one of our Master of Translational Medicine program research teams is published in JoVE and featured on medGadget — “New Vascular Catheter Remote Controlled Using MRI”. The project involves a new system that uses the magnetic field of an intraoperative MRI to move a catheter through blood vessels with high […]
Amy Herr, Mining the Proteome
April 3, 2013 – Check out an in-depth article on research by bioengineering professor Amy Herr, one of the inaugural cohort of Bakar Fellows at UC Berkeley. Herr is developing a microfluidic approach to protein assay, a way to quickly and efficiently analyze dozens of human proteins at a time.