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Biomimicry and beauty
Joanna Aizenberg's development of biologically inspired materials is the focus of a stunning slideshow in Technology Review. “One specific feature that interests me more than anything else at the moment is how nature creates adaptive materials that optimize performance in response to changing environmental cues,” says Aizenberg.
Celebrating the creative process
"The Lab at Harvard," David Edwards' experiment in melding science and art, opens with great fanfare.
New uses for paper in research
Stacks of filter paper provide a realistic, easy-to-use medium for growing cells, according to George Whitesides, Don Ingber and members of their labs.
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Founding Director Wins Three Prestigious Awards
The Biomedical Engineering Society has awarded Dr. Donald Ingber its 2009 Pritzker Distinguished Lectureship for outstanding achievements, originality and leadership. He was also recently recognized by the Tufts University School of Medicine and the American Society for Investigative Pathology for a body of work that is both innovative and important.
Whitesides honored with inaugural chemistry prize
George Whitesides was named the first recipient of the Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences, a $250,000 award which recognizes exceptional and original research.
Engineered circuits count cellular events
Wyss faculty, James J. Collins and George Church, working with collaborators at MIT and Boston University have designed cells that can count.
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