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Adding immunity to human kidney-on-a-chip advances cancer drug testing
August 23, 2023
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Moving the needle on monitoring skin cancer
August 21, 2023
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Wyss Institute promotes Christopher Chen to a Core Faculty member and appoints Ellen Roche and Michael Springer as new members of its Associate Faculty
July 31, 2023
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From classmates to co-founders
April 21, 2023
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A backpack full of multiple sclerosis therapy
April 21, 2023
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Creating a blueprint for optimized ear tubes and other implantable fluid-transporting devices
April 5, 2023
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Wyss Institute’s Lab-on-a-Molecule Drug Discovery Project Receives Funding from Northpond Labs
April 4, 2023
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DART VADAR harnesses the force of enzymes for better RNA drugs
March 20, 2023
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Designing More Useful Bacteria
March 15, 2023
Community
Tal Gilboa on Opening a Window into the Brain for Parkinson’s Diagnostics
February 22, 2023
Translation News
Wyss Institute at Harvard University partners with Northpond Labs to launch RNA solutions company EnPlusOne Biosciences
December 19, 2022
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A breakthrough in bacterial vaginosis treatment for women’s health
November 28, 2022
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Wyss researchers discover a new type of RNA that inhibits a broad range of viral infections
October 5, 2022
Translation News
Unravel Biosciences licenses Wyss Institute platform technology from Harvard and Tufts University to decode, model, and treat complex diseases
September 27, 2022
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Reimagine the World
September 22, 2022
Community
The Wyss Institute’s 2022-2023 Validation Projects
September 12, 2022
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Deconstructing the mechanics of bone marrow disease
July 11, 2022
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To treat or to tolerate (pathogens), that is the question
June 16, 2022
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Northpond Labs funds second Wyss Institute research project
May 19, 2022
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Nanotechnology enables visualization of RNA structures at near-atomic resolution
May 2, 2022
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Giving old drugs new life…to save lives
February 17, 2022
Translation News
Cantex licenses intellectual property from Harvard University to develop repurposed drug identified by Wyss Institute to treat inflammatory lung diseases including COVID-19
February 23, 2022
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Megan Sperry on Developing Therapeutics for Traumatic Injuries
January 26, 2022
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Devin Burrill on Building a Multidisciplinary Scientific Community
December 1, 2021
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Cystic fibrosis faithfully modeled in a human Lung Airway Chip
November 19, 2021
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Creating a new toehold for RNA therapeutics, cell therapies, and diagnostics
October 28, 2021
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Predicting influenza virus evolution in a human Lung Airway Chip
September 20, 2021
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Sukanya Punthambaker on Multidisciplinary Collaboration
August 25, 2021
Community
Daniel Wiegand on the RNA Revolution
July 28, 2021
Translation News
Harvard’s Wyss Institute initiates industry partnership to facilitate brain-targeted drug delivery
June 10, 2021
Community
How tadpoles can help cure rare genetic diseases
October 20, 2020
Awards
Daniel Bojar Awarded Branco Weiss Fellowship
September 18, 2020
Research Spotlights
Biostasis Project Advances to Next Phase of Development
July 7, 2020
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Ken Carlson on Organizing a Coronavirus Therapeutic Project Team
June 17, 2020
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Repurposing approved drugs for COVID-19 at an accelerated pace
June 16, 2020
Research Spotlights
Decoding COVID-19
June 15, 2020
Research Spotlights
“The world changed, so we changed with it”
April 7, 2020
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The Wyss Institute’s response to COVID-19: Beating back the coronavirus
April 6, 2020
Research Spotlights
DNA nanostructures suit up for future missions
February 21, 2020
Research Spotlights
Don’t hate your guts – heal them
February 10, 2020
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Human Body-on-Chip platform enables
in vitro
prediction of drug behaviors in humans
January 27, 2020
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Successfully predicting bone marrow failure caused by drugs, radiation, and disease
January 27, 2020
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The Next Decade in Science
January 13, 2020
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Investigating the human intestinal mucus barrier up-close and personal
December 3, 2019
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A lifeline for leaky lung cells
December 2, 2019
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Wyss Institute researchers demonstrate machine-guided engineering of AAV capsids for gene therapy
November 28, 2019
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Locking up fats in CAGEs to treat obesity
November 25, 2019
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ELeCt-ing a better candidate for chemo delivery
November 13, 2019
Translation News
Liver-Chip Identifies Distinct Drug Toxicities in Human, Rat, and Dog Models
November 6, 2019
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Wyss Institute Faculty member Sangeeta Bhatia elected to National Academy of Medicine
October 24, 2019
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Listening in to how proteins talk and learning their language
October 21, 2019
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Wyss Symposium Offers Glimpse into the Future of Diagnostics
September 26, 2019
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Painting the molecular canvas in super-resolution
September 16, 2019
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Trust your gut to be healed with probiotic hydrogels
August 12, 2019
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Take Two
E. coli
and Call Me in the Morning
June 28, 2019
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Discovery of performance-enhancing bacteria in the human microbiome
June 24, 2019
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Enhanced human Blood-Brain Barrier Chip performs
in vivo
-like drug and antibody transport
June 13, 2019
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Hansjörg Wyss, Harvard M.B.A. ’65, Gives Unprecedented Third Major Gift to Harvard to Support the Wyss Institute’s Mission to Develop and Commercialize World-Changing Technologies
June 7, 2019
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SABER tech gives DNA and RNA visualization a boost
May 20, 2019
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Organ Chips Featured at Barbican Centre in London
May 16, 2019
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Human gut microbiome physiology can now be studied
in vitro
using Organ Chip technology
May 13, 2019
Awards
Hansjörg Wyss Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 18, 2019
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Human microbiome metabolites tip the scale in intestinal
E. coli
infections
March 20, 2019
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Renal reabsorption in living devices
March 4, 2019
Research Spotlights
Harnessing Nature to Beat Cancer
February 28, 2019
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Platelet “Decoys” Outsmart Both Clots and Cancer
February 13, 2019
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Engineered miniature kidneys come of age
February 11, 2019
Awards
Daniel Wiegand receives Bayer Protein Challenge award
February 6, 2019
Awards
Wyss Institute Director Donald Ingber Wins Grand Challenge Funding from Cancer Research UK
January 23, 2019
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Harvard’s Wyss Institute commences multidisciplinary project to identify mechanisms and means to induce a state of suspended animation
December 17, 2018
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Small molecules come into focus
December 7, 2018
Awards
David Walt and George Church receive grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to enable better diagnosis and monitoring of Parkinson’s disease
December 5, 2018
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Donald Ingber appointed to Friedrich Merz Guest Professorship at Goethe University
December 5, 2018
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Sasan Jalili-Firoozinezhad honored with 2018 Lush Young Researcher award
November 19, 2018
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Sangeeta Bhatia Joins Wyss Institute
November 13, 2018
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FDA expands award to Wyss Institute for radiation treatment studies using Organ Chips
November 1, 2018
Research Spotlights
Fewer steps in the lab, one more leap for organs-on-chips
October 29, 2018
Awards
Wyss Institute Receives Grant from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
October 17, 2018
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Wyss Institute Faculty member Peng Yin receives NIH Director’s Pioneer Award
October 2, 2018
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A golden ticket to faster muscle recovery
October 1, 2018
Community
Putting their heads together: when engineers and clinicians talk medicine
September 27, 2018
Awards
Wyss Core Faculty member Peng Yin receives award to accelerate Human BioMolecular Atlas Program
September 26, 2018
Research Spotlights
Expanding the scope of cell-free protein expression
September 12, 2018
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Printing with sound
August 31, 2018
Research Spotlights
A 3-D model of a human heart ventricle
July 23, 2018
Awards
Synthetic biology researchers receive 2018 Massachusetts Life Science Innovation Day prize
July 16, 2018
Research Spotlights
Delivering insulin in a pill
June 25, 2018
Research Spotlights
Human intestine on-a-chip: state-of-the-art and into the future
May 3, 2018
Translation News
Predicting side effects before they happen
May 1, 2018
Community
Wyss Institute Entrepreneur in Residence Tina Liu and Research Scientist Ying Kai Chan present next-generation gene therapy project at venture capital symposium
April 12, 2018
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A new model for an old killer
March 8, 2018
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Personal cancer vaccines get their own boost
March 5, 2018
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A gut reaction…on a chip
February 14, 2018
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True to type: From human biopsy to complex gut physiology on a chip
February 13, 2018
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Stop the clots, spare the coagulation
January 15, 2018
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Fast-tracking T cell therapies with immune-mimicking biomaterials
January 15, 2018
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A vision of 3D Organ Engineering
December 16, 2017
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A 100-fold leap to GigaDalton DNA nanotech
December 6, 2017
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Antibiotics alter the infectious microenvironment and may reduce the ability of immune cells to kill bacteria
November 30, 2017
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Secret alter ego of well-known protein fights leaky blood vessels
November 13, 2017
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Driving drug resistance out of fungi
October 30, 2017
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Lung cancer research gets a breath of fresh air
October 10, 2017
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Fresh blood for damaged tissues via alginate hydrogels
September 26, 2017
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Brain guides body much sooner than previously believed
September 25, 2017
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Harvard’s Wyss Institute launches human Organ Chip project to model influenza virus infection and develop new therapies
September 13, 2017
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To improve health monitoring, simply trip the ‘nanoswitch’
September 11, 2017
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The secret life of bacteria, revealed
August 31, 2017
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Introducing ‘Immuno-Materials’ to immunotherapy
June 28, 2017
Research Spotlights
Dangerous cell detachment decoded
August 15, 2017
Research Spotlights
Gene Therapy for Canine Heart Failure
July 6, 2017
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A mechanical trigger for toxic tumor therapy
June 15, 2017
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Wyss Institute’s Organ Chips get smart and go electric
June 14, 2017
Research Spotlights
Bioelectricity is a new weapon to fight dangerous infection
May 26, 2017
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Pulmonary Thrombosis-on-a-Chip provides new avenue for drug development
May 22, 2017
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Engineering human stem cells to model the kidney’s filtration barrier on a chip
May 10, 2017
Community
Seeing Is Believing: Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines
April 5, 2017
Translation News
FDA to evaluate Organs-on-Chips
April 11, 2017
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Renowned regenerative and developmental biologist Michael Levin of Tufts University joins Wyss Institute as Associate Faculty
March 28, 2017
Awards
Zika diagnostic named finalist for the Katerva Award
March 24, 2017
Research Spotlights
Firing up bacterial metabolism to fight antibiotic resistance
February 6, 2017
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Wyss Institute’s human gut-on-a-chip goes viral
February 1, 2017
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David Mooney elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
December 13, 2016
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First entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensors
October 24, 2016
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Launching the field of Biologically Inspired Engineering
October 18, 2016
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A step forward in building functional human tissues
October 11, 2016
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Stiffening a blow to cancer cells
October 10, 2016
Translation News
Wyss Institute launches ReadCoor to commercialize 3D
in situ
gene sequencing technology
September 28, 2016
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Just add water: Biomolecular manufacturing ‘on-the-go’
September 22, 2016
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Wyss Institute welcomes new Core and Associate Faculty members
July 6, 2016
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Finding Zika one paper disc at a time
May 26, 2016
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A guide to CRISPR gene activation
May 23, 2016
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Designing Better Drugs
April 15, 2016
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qPAINT counts biomolecules inside cells
March 28, 2016
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Seeking new strategies for improving antibiotic efficacy
March 21, 2016
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Democratizing high-throughput single molecule force analysis
March 17, 2016
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Scaling up tissue engineering
March 7, 2016
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Crossing a barrier in the study of neurological disease
March 1, 2016
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Fluorescent biosensors light up high-throughput metabolic engineering
February 17, 2016
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Testing the power of stem cell-derived heart muscle cells
February 16, 2016
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Breaking cell barriers with retractable protein nanoneedles
February 11, 2016
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Sensing the future of molecule detection
January 27, 2016
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Detecting when and why deadly blood clots form
January 6, 2016
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Two Wyss Institute core faculty named 2015 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine
December 23, 2015
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Modeling COPD and asthma in a human small airway-on-a-chip
December 21, 2015
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Two of Harvard’s Wyss Institute core faculty members elected as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
December 15, 2015
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Changing the fate of stem cells
November 30, 2015
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Drug-device combination opens potential new path to treat stroke
October 27, 2015
Translation News
Harvard’s Wyss Institute launches Ultivue to facilitate super-resolution microscopy
October 13, 2015
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Filling a void in stem cell therapy
September 14, 2015
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Inciting an immune attack on cancer cells
August 25, 2015
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New biosensors for managing microbial workers
August 4, 2015
Research Spotlights
Future cancer therapeutics could coax tumor cells back to normal
July 14, 2015
Research Spotlights
Biofilms turned into enzymatic factories
July 13, 2015
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Reenergizing Antibiotics in the War Against Infections
June 23, 2015
Translation News
Emulate Announces Strategic Collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Innovation to Use Organs-on-Chips Platform to Better Predict Human Response in Drug Development Process
June 18, 2015
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Re-booting the human gut
June 16, 2015
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Rethinking aging and life span
June 15, 2015
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Setting the circadian clock
June 12, 2015
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Organs-on-Chips return to the TEDx stage
June 9, 2015
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A practical gel that simply “clicks” for biomedical applications
May 1, 2015
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Activating genes on demand
March 3, 2015
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Bionic leaf uses bacteria to convert solar energy into liquid fuel
February 9, 2015
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DNA Nanoswitches for Drug Discovery, and Beyond
January 29, 2015
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DNA nanoswitches reveal how life’s molecules connect
January 29, 2015
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David Mooney receives grant to develop animal contraceptive vaccine
January 13, 2015
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Bacteria programmed to churn out valuable chemicals
December 23, 2014
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Injectable 3D vaccines could fight cancer and infectious diseases
December 8, 2014
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Harvard’s Wyss Institute welcomes Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a new collaborating institution
December 3, 2014
Translation News
Broad Institute, Harvard and MIT license CRISPR-Cas9 technology to Editas Medicine for therapeutic applications
December 1, 2014
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Computer model sets new precedent in drug discovery
November 18, 2014
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Jennifer Lewis named 2014 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy magazine
November 17, 2014
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New molecular probe tracks cellular forces
October 15, 2014
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DNA nano-foundries cast custom-shaped metal nanoparticles
October 9, 2014
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Airway muscle-on-a-chip mimics asthma
September 23, 2014
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Recruiting bacteria to be technology innovation partners
September 17, 2014
Translation News
Wyss Institute’s technology translation engine launches ‘Organs-on-Chips’ company
July 28, 2014
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Delivering drugs on cue
June 23, 2014
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Researchers use light to coax stem cells to repair teeth
May 28, 2014
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Patient stem cells used to make ‘heart disease-on-a-chip’
May 12, 2014
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Bone marrow-on-a-chip unveiled
May 5, 2014
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Cloaked DNA nanodevices survive pilot mission
April 22, 2014
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Roomy Cages Built From DNA
March 13, 2014
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New shrinking gel steers tooth tissue formation
March 5, 2014
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A bird’s eye view of cellular RNAs
February 27, 2014
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An Essential Step toward Printing Living Tissues
February 19, 2014
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Capturing ultrasharp images of multiple cell components at once
February 3, 2014
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Novel noninvasive therapy prevents breast cancer formation in mice
January 1, 2014
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Measuring life’s tugs and nudges
December 9, 2013
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Wyss Institute Core Faculty member elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
October 21, 2013
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Radical Recoding
October 17, 2013
Translation News
Harvard’s Wyss Institute and AstraZeneca Announce Collaboration on Organs-on-Chips for Drug Safety Testing
October 16, 2013
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DNA nanotechnology opens new path to super-high-resolution molecular imaging
October 3, 2013
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Programmable glue made of DNA directs tiny gel bricks to self-assemble
September 9, 2013
Translation News
Cross-disciplinary team from Harvard University and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute brings novel therapeutic cancer vaccine to human clinical trials
September 6, 2013
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Harvard’s Wyss Institute to use ‘Organ-on-a-Chip’ microdevices to evaluate therapies for lethal radiation exposure
August 12, 2013
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Dodging antibiotic side effects
July 3, 2013
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A Shot in the Arm for Old Antibiotics
June 19, 2013
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A potential new target to thwart antibiotic resistance
June 10, 2013
Awards
Global spotlight
April 1, 2013
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Wyss Institute awarded DARPA contract to further advance sepsis therapeutic device
March 25, 2013
Translation News
Wyss Institute and Sony DADC Announce Collaboration on Organs-on-Chips
March 18, 2013
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Wyss Institute’s Lung-on-a-Chip wins prize for potentially reducing need for animal testing
February 26, 2013
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Scientists Notch a Win in War Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
February 4, 2013
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Researchers Create Versatile 3D Nanostructures Using DNA “Bricks”
November 29, 2012
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Injectable sponge delivers drugs, cells, and structure
November 13, 2012
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Wyss Institute Models a Human Disease in an Organ-on-a-Chip
November 7, 2012
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Researchers at Harvards Wyss Institute Engineer Novel DNA Barcode
September 24, 2012
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Tough gel stretches to 21 times its length, recoils, and heals itself
September 5, 2012
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Harvard’s Wyss Institute Develops Novel Nanotherapeutic that Delivers Clot-Busting Drugs Directly to Obstructed Blood Vessels
July 5, 2012
Awards
Dan Huh takes top innovation honors at SLAS event
July 1, 2012
Community
Special themed issue of Lab on a Chip inspired by the Wyss
June 15, 2012
Community
Don Ingber discusses “radical innovation” at the 2012 World Science Festival
June 6, 2012
Awards
Wyss Institute Research Honored at the Massachusetts Life Science Innovation Day 2012
May 31, 2012
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Wyss Institute Develops New Nanodevice Manufacturing Strategy Using Self-Assembling DNA “Building Blocks”
May 30, 2012
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Harvard’s Wyss Institute Creates Living Human Gut-on-a-Chip
March 27, 2012
Awards
Leading Industry Event Honors Wyss Researchers for Organ-on-Chip Advances
March 26, 2012
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New “Magnetic Yeast” Could be Significant Step in Harnessing Nature’s Magnetic Capabilities
February 28, 2012
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Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute Develop DNA Nanorobot to Trigger Targeted Therapeutic Responses
February 16, 2012
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Researchers Develop “Smart” Nanotherapeutics that Deliver Drugs Directly to Pancreas
January 12, 2012
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Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber Receives 2011 Holst Medal
December 16, 2011
Community
Danish Nano Artists Take Home Grand Prize in BIOMOD Design Competition
November 7, 2011
Awards
James Collins Receives 2011 World Technology Award for Biotechnology
October 28, 2011
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Latest Milestone in Wyss Institute Technology Offers Hope for Treating Traumatic Brain Injury
July 26, 2011
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Wyss Institute’s Lung-on-a-Chip Named Finalist for 2011 INDEX: Design for Life Award
June 9, 2011
Research Spotlights
New Nanoscale Tool May One Day Build Molecular Structures that Treat Disease
March 25, 2011
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Harvard’s Wyss Institute Receives Multiple Honors for Innovative Organ-on-Chip Technologies
March 11, 2011
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James J. Collins Elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering
February 9, 2011
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Founding Director of Harvard’s Wyss Institute Elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
February 4, 2011
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Harvard’s Wyss Institute Announces International Competition on Biomolecular Nanotechnology
January 10, 2011
Awards
Wyss faculty member receives Milton Fund Award
December 20, 2010
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Wyss Institute Researchers Develop DNA-Based Extracellular Matrix
November 1, 2010
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Harvard’s Wyss Institute Welcomes Swiss Delegation
October 29, 2010
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Wyss Institute Awarded $3.3 Million from NIH-FDA to Develop “Heart-Lung Micromachine” for Drug Safety Testing
October 4, 2010
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New Research Finds Evidence of Charitable Behavior in Bacteria
September 1, 2010
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Don Ingber joins National Space Biomedical Research Institute’s Board of Directors
July 7, 2010
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Living, breathing human lung-on-a-chip: A potential drug-testing alternative
June 24, 2010
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Researchers create self-assembling nanodevices that move and change shape on demand
June 20, 2010
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Wyss Founding Director Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of In Vitro Biology
June 7, 2010
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ASIP Award Lecturer Donald Ingber to Discuss Mechanobiology
April 25, 2010
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First cancer vaccine to eliminate tumors in mice
November 25, 2009
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Dr. Donald Ingber cited for outstanding achievements
October 5, 2009
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Getting better visualization of joint cartilage
September 1, 2009
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Nanoscale origami from DNA
August 6, 2009
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Scientists create custom three-dimensional structures with “DNA origami”
May 20, 2009
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Collins Wins Exceptional Achievement Award
May 14, 2009
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