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Rice U. and UTHealth Awarded Department of Defense Grant For Regenerative Tissue-Engineering Research
The Department of Defense has awarded a five-year, $75 million grant to Rice University and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) for research focused on improving...
Rice University Researchers Reveal a 'Vicious Cycle' That Shields, Spreads Cancer Cells
New research from Texas-based Rice University suggests that tumor cells of the pancreas and uterus are protected by a ‘vicious cycle’ of mucus production that prevents cancer cells from host...
The National Science Foundation Awards Multi-Million Dollar Grant to Rice University Neuroengineers
The competition to receive the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) grant awarded by the National Science Foundation is rigorous. And with good reason -- as the $2.8...
Texas Research Institutions Reveal New Combination of Bismuth and Nanotubes To Improve CT Scan Images in Tracking Stem Cells
Scientists recently created a new nanotube device containing bismuth to track stem cells by X-ray. Bismuth is used as the active element in a popular stomach-settling elixir and also used in...
BCM Researcher Reveals New Insights Into Synesthesia
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital, are studying the unusual neural connections that...
NIH-Funded Study By Rice University, MD Anderson Researchers To Show Detailed Protein Networks In Cells
Researchers at Rice University and the MD Anderson Cancer Center have received a $1.3 million 4-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create processes that will clarify the...
NEETs, Newly Identified Proteins, Could Be Therapeutic Targets Against Breast Cancer
Researchers from Rice University Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP), the University of North Texas, Denton (UNT), the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the Hebrew...
Rice-Discovered "Farmer" Amoebae D. Discoideum Carries Edible and Weapon Bacteria
Recently, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and Harvard University collaborated to take a closer look at Dictyostelium discoideum, which is a single-celled organism discovered in 2011...
Rice U. Verduzco Lab Team Discovers Quality Of Silicone That Mimics Human Tissue
A team of scientists at Rice University's Verduzco laboratory in Houston have discovered that the liquid crystal phase of silicone becomes 90 percent stiffer when silicone is gently and repeatedly...
Hydrogels Containing Laminin Peptides Could Provide Scaffold For Blood Vessel Development
Next-generation hydrogels can perform as synthetic scaffolds to support the formation of replacement tissues and organs in the emerging field of regenerative medicine. This technology is expected to...
Rice U.'s Zhong Lab Analyzes Mutant Worms' Movements To Study Gene Networks
The idea that worms can be seen as waveforms has allowed scientists at Rice University's Zhong Lab in Houston to find new links in gene networks that control movement. The work led by Rice...
Rice U. Biologists Find Continued Light-Dark Exposure Enhances Vegetables' Anticancer Potency After Harvest
Whole and natural food advocates have long contended that vegetable produce remains alive until it is prepared for the table and eaten. The fact that root vegetables like potatoes, turnips, carrots...
UTHealth Professionals Team With Rice University Students to Manage Cardiac Disease in Fiji
A group of Rice University students have invented a medical device physicians from UTHealth are bring to Fiji to help manage patients with heart disease. Engineenering seniors Glenn Fiedler,...
BioNews Texas Attends Inaugural eHRI Forum To Promote BioTech Collaboration; MD Anderson, Baylor, Rice In Attendance
Houston-based eHRI's inaugural meeting at the BioScience Research Collaborative facility attracted biotech influencers across the state of Texas to talk about how the Texas biotech sector can...
Biofuel News: Rice University Participates in Analysis of the Future of Corn-Based Ethanol
Rice University, alongside the University of California at Davis, recently published a study analyzing the future of biofuel production and how the changing climate will affect current regulations....
Quantum Materials' New San Marcos, Texas Lab's Tetrapod Quantum Dots Break Kasha's Rule
Quantum Materials Corporation, which recently relocated its tetrapod quantum dot laboratories to San Marcos, an Austin, Texas, suburb, to take advantage of facilities at STAR Park (Science,...
Baylor College of Medicine, Rice Biologists Take Snapshot of Fleeting Protein Process
Investigators from Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University have made an important discovery that can potentially help in understanding the pathogenesis of different diseases and cancers....
Rice University Engineering Students Invent Mobile Seizure Monitoring Device
A small group of students from Rice University have created a mobile monitoring device designed to monitor possible signs and indicators of epileptic episodes, which could prove very useful for...
Dr. Peter Hotez Shames G20 In New Op-Ed Piece
Dr. Peter Hotez, a Fellow in Disease and Poverty at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of...
Rice University Sends Spring-Loaded AutoSyP Infusion Pump Prototypes to Fiji
A team of students who call themselves "Chemomatic" from Rice University has developed a spring-loaded device called AutoSyP, which is designed to dispense controlled, round-the-clock doses of...
Rice University Bovine Blood Discovery Could Simplify, Enhance Biomedical, Industrial Nano Applications
New research by the labs of Rice University chemists Stephan Link and Christy Landes has revealed that a protein from cow blood has the remarkable capacity to keep gold nanoparticles from clumping in...
Rice University Students Create PediPower Shoes That Can Charge Gadgets
Engineering students from the William Marsh Rice University at Houston have developed for their culminating project, the PediPower shoes, that have a sort of pedometer-based technology which allows...