An international research team is perfecting a method to predict the potential clinical implications of new drugs before clinical trials even start. An international research team... Read more
Rice University-led study fine-tunes pyrolysis technique to make soil fertile again Rice University engineers have figured out how soil contaminated by heavy oil can not only be cl... Read more
An invisible particle enters your lungs. The next thing you know breathing becomes difficult. You are having an asthma attack. Asthma is one of the most common and difficult to end... Read more
An international team of researchers has made CRISPR technology more accessible and standardized by simplifying its complex implementation. The simpler, faster CRISPR, which is pre... Read more
Scientists have successfully used gene editing to repair 20 to 40 percent of stem and progenitor cells taken from the peripheral blood of patients with sickle cell disease, accordi... Read more
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 st... 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 fro... 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... 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 surgica... 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... Read more