Dr. Laura Niklason is a world-renowned professor who studies vascular and lung engineering. She is a recent inductee of the National Academy of Engineering, and the founder of her own biotech startup Humacyte. Among many accolades, Time magazine named her work
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Aliens stink—or, at least, there is a strong chance they do. Researchers in Sara Seager’s lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have been looking into biosignature gases––volatile substances produced by life––as a potential
The visual system, as it turns out, may be the key to understanding brain development. Recently, a group of researchers in the Crair lab at Yale have utilized new research techniques, including wide-field calcium imaging allowing for comparison between multiple
Valerie Chen (MY ’20) is no ordinary computer scientist. Motivated by the applications and impact of technology, as well as the difficult questions surrounding building intelligent systems, Chen has conducted research on these fronts, collecting prestigious awards from the White
Cells hold key information for understanding the human body, particularly for diseases associated with cell development. For many years, researchers have struggled to measure cell mechanics without destroying the cell. Most methodologies require squeezing the cell and watching it deform.
Bridging Biology and Art Being different has always been the norm for Christina Agapakis (YC ’06). After receiving her PhD in biological and biomedical sciences from Harvard University in 2011, she became the creative director in 2015 for Ginkgo Bioworks,
Hippos may not be able to do math or solve complicated physics equations, but it turns out that they play a major role as engineers in the environment. A joint team of researchers from Yale University and the Cary Institute
