Media Coverage

Boston Globe
Scientists working with The Whitesides Research Group have developed a soft plastic gripper for a robot, one that can grasp an egg without cracking it or hold a mouse without crushing it.

Nanotechnology Now
BIOMOD 2011 is a "highly interdisciplinary" international bio-molecular design competition which will challenge students to engineer biological molecules that can assemble into nanoscale structures or systems capable of performing useful technological and scientific tasks...

The Harvard Crimson
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering will host its first undergraduate science competition this year, encouraging students to combine biology and nanotechnology to solve global challenges...

Science News
A physician-researcher at Mass General Hospital and a mathematician from Harvard have developed a mathematical model reflecting the way red blood cells change in size and hemoglobin content during their four-month lifespan.

World News
Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute have engineered photosynthetic bacteria to produce simple sugars and lactic acid, an innovation that could lead to new, environmentally friendly methods for producing commodity chemicals in bulk...

Harvard Gazette
By rethinking what happens on the surface of things, engineers at Harvard University have discovered that biofilm colonies exhibit an unmatched ability to repel a wide range of liquids — and even vapors.