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Building on advances in genome engineering technologies, researchers at the NSF-funded Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC), headquartered at the University of California, Berkeley, have begun to develop MAGE (Multiplex Automated Genome Engineering), a high-throughput platform for construction of cellular chasses. MAGE allows for simultaneous creation of a variety of chasses in one reaction chamber [...]
Professors from the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston and two high school teachers supported by through the RET program have created an implantable single electrode cuff and a wireless telemetry system allowing researchers to better understand how certain neurons in locusts’ brains process sensory information.
Created by Jack Wolfe and Richard Liu–both [...]
One very important question about preimplantation embryos being used for in vitro fertilization (IVF) is how signals from the environment are transmitted from the outside to the inside of the embryo’s cells. Dr. Carol Warner, a researcher at the Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (Gordon-CenSSIS), and her research team have [...]
During the summer of 2008 the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program conducted two teacher experiences that greatly impacted participants. The two experiences were markedly different with one having an international focus and the other focused on a second consecutive summer of research domestically. The second summer domestic [...]
Gallium nitride (GaN) has become established as an important semiconductor in photonics due to its success in blue light-emitting diodes and lasers; but its applications to digital and power electronics so far are very limited because of the lack of a silicon metal oxide semiconductor (MOS)-like process for building integrated circuits. To overcome this limitation, [...]
The International Genetically Modified Machines (iGEM) competition is an experiential learning program that brings together teams of high school, undergraduate, and graduate students from around the world to learn over the course of a summer how to build biological systems from standard, interchangeable parts. (See http://2008.igem.org/Main_Page) At the end of the summer, each team travels [...]
The 2007 start-up of Healionics Corporation represents a major leap forward in extending the impact of research carried out at the University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials (UWEB) Engineering Research Center. Healionics is a biomaterials company whose mission is to partner with medical device manufacturers to enhance the biocompatibility and performance of implanted medical devices. The [...]
A new hands-on, lab-based, introduction to nanoscience and technology was developed for freshman and sophomores at the University of Virginia. The course uses breadth-first active-learning methods that team members have employed successfully in previous introductory courses. The class builds upon the observation that, while nanoscience has attracted much public attention, popularizations are often based on [...]
Manu Platt’s career has come full circle. Dr. Platt received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Morehouse College in 2001. While he was an undergraduate he was invited to carry out research at the joint Georgia Tech/Emory Center for the Engineering of Living Tissues (GTEC), as a part of the GTEC team. This experience changed [...]
