Media Coverage

Harvard Magazine
Portraits of faculty members suggest the University’s growing engagement with bioengineering research.

Technology Review
A new approach to cancer treatment called immunotherapy could spare patients at least some of the grueling battery of chemotherapy treatments

New Scientist
Joanna Aizenberg and her team have found a way to make nanospirals self-assemble. They start with an array of epoxy-resin bristles, each 300 nanometres thick and 4 to 9 micrometres long. These are immersed in a mixture of ethanol and water and then taken out and left to dry.

Science Daily
Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered a way to synthesize and control the formation of nanobristles, into helical clusters.

Science Centric
From the structure of DNA to nautical rope to distant spiral galaxies, helical forms are as abundant as they are useful in nature and manufacturing alike. Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered a way to synthesise and control the formation of nanobristles, akin to tiny hairs, into helical clusters...

Boston Magazine
For the right fee, a Cambridge firm called Knome will unravel all the secrets hiding in your genes. But what happens when those secrets include a higher risk of getting cancer?