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Juxtaposing genetics and philosophy.
Monday, August 20, 2018
Grad student profile: Jeremy Huang, Ph.D. ’21

Biomedical engineering Ph.D. candidate works where science, religion, and philosophy collide

Monday, August 20, 2018
Taking the brain apart to put it all together again

Fluidically linked Blood-Brain Barrier and Brain Organ Chips offer new method for studying the effects of drugs and disease on the brain and its blood vessels

Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Soft multi-functional robots get really small

A new approach for fabricating soft materials at the millimeter scale paves the way to a new generation of flexible microrobots for medical and environmental tasks

(Left) Renita Horton, Ph.D. ’14 and Sydney Reed, an undergraduate who works in Horton’s lab at Mississippi State University, collaborated on research at Harvard this summer. (Photo by Adam Zewe/SEAS Communications)
Monday, August 13, 2018
Chain reactions

Summer research program at Harvard brings alumna full circle

Researchers converted their three-finger soft manipulator to a two-finger version, seen here performing a pinch grasp on an extremely delicate sea cucumber. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
A soft, on-the-fly solution to a hard, underwater problem

Soft grippers can be 3D printed on board ships to safely sample different types of sea life

Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Tapping into educational opportunities

Engineers Without Borders students build water catchment system at Tanzanian schoolhouse

endoscope (Credit: Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital)
Monday, July 30, 2018
Nano-optic endoscope sees deep into tissue at high resolution

Researchers adopt metalens technology in a new endoscopic optical imaging catheter to better detect disease, including cancer

This three-dimensional model of a left heart ventricle was engineered with a nanofiber scaffold seeded with heart cells. It could be used to study diseases, test drugs and develop patient-specific treatments for heart conditions such as arrhythmia. (Luke MacQueen and Michael Rosnach/Harvard University)
Monday, July 23, 2018
A 3-D model of a human heart ventricle

Bioengineers build a scale model of a heart ventricle that beats, survives for months in the lab

Monday, July 23, 2018
Reprogrammable Braille

Researchers develop a framework to encode mechanical memory in a featureless structure – an elastic shell

This flow battery uses a new organic molecule that outlives and outperforms its predecessors, offering the longest-lasting high-performance organic flow battery to date. (Image courtesy of Eliza Grinnell)
Monday, July 23, 2018
Organic Mega Flow Battery transcends lifetime, voltage thresholds

Dubbed “Methuselah”, new molecule outlives previous chemistries

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