UMass Sesquicentennial
Skip to main content

Life & Health

Close up detail of flask containing cell cultures in Roberts lab
Cell Culture: Enhancing Taxol Productivity to Fight Cancer
Part of the NanoEmboss tool used in advanced roll-to-roll nanofabrication.
Roll-To-Roll: Fabricating Nanoscale Materials to Produce “Smart Skin”
UMass Amherst Food Science Professor Hang Xiao and citrus fruit.
Food vs Cancer
Enhancing cancer-fighting effects of what we eat
Detail of plant and red blood cells (some infected with malaria parasites).
Breaking the Cycle: Developing a Whole Plant Therapy to Treat Malaria
Photo of pre-malignant breast tissue.
Registering Hope
Patient registry provides scientists and clinicians unique view of breast cancer
See video
Economist James Boyce: 20,000 People a Year Die From Effects of Fossil Fuel Generation
Wexler with tribal community members at the circumpolar EAGER meeting in DC
Indigenous Resilience
Community health project charts path for youth in Alaskan tribal communities
See video
Protein Folding Pioneer: Lila Gierasch looks at protein misfolding and its role in disease
See video
Testing the Waters: Chemists Develop Biosensors to Detect Bacteria
Hawk moth in the palm of biologist Lawrence Schwartz
Muscles and Metamorphosis: The Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Death
Scanning electron micrograph of a human T cell in shades of blue
Delivery Breakthrough: Unlocking and Manipulating T-Cells to Advance Immunology
Pioneering Health Technologies
Undergrad conducts life-changing research on diabetics