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Mary Jo Ondrechen This study examines HAD superfamily proteins, predicting and confirming functions through chemical properties analysis. Substrate promiscuity is observed in sugar phosphatases. Mary Jo Ondrechen Affiliated...

Abbas Yaseen Professor Abbas Yaseen and team developed a framework to co-register microvascular blood flow data from DLS-OCT with 2PM angiograms, enabling precise analysis of cerebral blood flow distribution in mice. Abbas Yaseen Assistant Professor,  Bioengineering...

James Monaghan This protocol explains the fabrication of DNA nanosensors with pHAb dye used for stability analysis, its characterization, and the detailed protocol of the DNA scaffold stability study over a period. Here, the DNA nanosensor and Acetylcholinesterase...

Ke Zhang Professor Ke Zhang is researching a new drug delivery method using oligonucleotides to treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), with potential applications in other genetic diseases, offering hope for more efficient treatments.Ke Zhang Affiliated...

Ke Zhang Findings from CILS member Ke Zhang and colleagues: Of 11 water-soluble polymers, polyethyleneimine is the most potent inhibitor of metal absorption. Polymers with such effects may be used to reduce the contamination of (pseudo)metals in crops.Ke Zhang...

Meni Wanunu From Wanunu Lab, Mehrnaz Mojtabavi's latest work that shows how nanopores in MXene layers, when subjected to a transverse electric field, can change their thickness in a reversible manner.Meni Wanunu Professor,  PhysicsProfessor,  BioengineeringAffiliated...

Ambika Bajpayee BioE Assistant Professor Ambika Bajpayee received a $630K NSF CAREER Award for “Developing electrically charged biomaterials for targeted drug delivery to negatively charged complex tissue environments.” Her research will investigate how to improve...

Mark Niedre CILS member and bioengineering professor Mark Niedre was awarded a $2.7M grant for 5 years along with co-PI Chiara Bellini. The grant project is titled "Continuous, Non-Invasive Optical Monitoring of Circulating Tumor Cell-Mediated Metastasis in Awake...

Neel Joshi From The New York Times: Scientists have created a bacterial ink that reproduces itself and can be 3D-printed into living architecture.Neel Joshi  Associate Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology    

Neel Joshi New paper from the Joshi Lab and Pinto Lab focuses on a new, simple procedure for concentrating viruses from wastewater using bacterial biofilm protein nanofibers known as curli fibers.Neel Joshi  Associate Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology  ...

Steven Lopez Associate Professor Lopez has been awarded the early-career grant that is based off of the high potential of current and expected research.Steven Lopez Associate Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology    

Meni Wanunu Latest from the Wanunu Lab: A new device for electrical capture of DNA into Zero-Mode Waveguides (ZMWs), which enables low-input DNA capture for future studies.Meni Wanunu Professor,  PhysicsProfessor,  BioengineeringAffiliated Faculty,  Chemical...