Bioengineer Gang Bao uses gene editing to repair up to 40 percent of bone marrow cells from patients Scientists have successfully used gene editing to repair 20 to 40 percent of stem and pro... Read more
Rice, Baylor College of Medicine make necessary step on road to 3-D bioprinting In their work toward 3-D printing transplantable tissues and organs, bioengineers and scientists from Rice Uni... Read more
A team spanning Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, Texas Children’s Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has developed a new way to sequence genomes, which can assem... Read more
Rice team’s mobile container can sterilize surgical instruments in low-resource settings Rice University students and their mentors have created a sterilization station for surgical instrume... Read more
Farmers can use fewer resources to grow food With the world’s population exploding to well over 7 billion, feeding the human race is getting even more challenging. Increasing the yield... Read more
Rice-led study shows how particles quench damaging superoxides Injectable nanoparticles that could protect an injured person from further damage due to oxidative stress have proven to be ast... Read more
Mayo Clinic and IBM today announced plans to pilot Watson, the IBM cognitive computer, to match patients more quickly with appropriate clinical trials, beginning with research studies in can... Read more
A hydrogel that knows when to go Rice University bioengineers have created a hydrogel that instantly turns from liquid to semisolid at close to body temperature – and then degrades at precis... Read more
“The theory is that if you have a big heart attack, your doctor can just inject these three genes into the scar tissue during surgery and change it back into heart muscle.... Read more
Heart cells beat in bioscaffold for babies A painstaking effort to create a biocompatible patch to heal infant hearts is paying off at Rice University and Texas Children’s Hospital. The proo... Read more
“These findings suggest that a reversible, oral male contraceptive may be possible” The development of a male contraceptive pill has long proven to be elusive, but findings from... Read more
Up to 30 times more deadly to cancer cells Using light-harvesting nanoparticles to convert laser energy into “plasmonic nanobubbles,” researchers at Rice University, the Universi... Read more
Image via Wikipedia The information is likely to have a major impact on livestock breeding The genome of a female Hereford cow has been sequenced, which could be a starting point for major i... Read more