Posts Tagged ‘research’
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.
Read MoreMTM 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…
Read MoreAmy 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.
Read MoreMofrad Lab models how cells interact with surroundings
March 21, 2013 – Cells interact constantly with their surroundings, but it’s very difficult to observe the main player in this interaction – a protein called integrin. Professor Mohammad Mofrad and bioengineering graduate student Mehrdad Mehrbod have developed a computer model of integrin that gives researchers a new way to explore how the protein connects a cell’s inner…
Read MoreFletcher Lab squeezes breast cancer cells
December 19, 2012 – This week researchers from Professor Dan Fletcher’s lab presented exciting findings showing for the first time that mechanical forces alone can revert and stop the out-of-control growth of cancer cells.
Read MoreAmy Herr’s Lab has shrunk the Western Blot
December 10, 2012 – Bioengineering professor Amy Herr and BioE graduate student Alex Hughes have published a groundbreaking research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Herr and Hughes have successfully created a microfluidic Western blot device which can run 48 assays in an hour or less.
Read MoreCellScope featured in Economist
December 1, 2012 – The CellScope, a cellphone-powered diagnostic microscope pioneered by Professor Dan Fletcher’s laboratory, was featured in an article in The Economist.
Read MoreArkin Lab adds predictability to genetic engineering of microbial circuits
October 8, 2012 – For synthetic biology to reach its promise, the design and construction of biological systems must be as predictable as the assembly of computer hardware. An important step has been taken by bioengineering professor Adam Arkin and a team of researchers, who have developed an “adaptor” that makes the genetic engineering of…
Read MoreNew Energy Biosciences Building opens
The new Energy Biosciences Building, a state-of-the-art facility of five stories and 113,000 gross square feet, is completed and welcoming researchers this week at the corner of Hearst Ave and Oxford St.
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