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Digitizing Biology

Engineers design new diagnostic and imaging technologies for personalized health monitoring

Imagine a computerized toothbrush capable of routinely testing saliva for glucose and cholesterol levels, a basketball jersey capable of measuring heart rate and blood pressure,... Read

Proactive Health

Researchers test and validate wearable sensors to improve health management

As health professionals find increasingly more evidence linking physical activity to health, new devices like the “Fitbit” and smartphone apps like “My Fitness Pal” have made... Read

Battling Super Bugs

Novel delivery system holds promise for first Chlamydia vaccine

Microbiologist Wilmore Webley is unraveling one of the great mysteries in the world of vaccinology. His development of a novel delivery mechanism for vaccine antigens holds hope... Read

On Target

Polymeric nanogels aid in more efficient drug delivery

Many therapeutic drugs can cause collateral damage to healthy cells—a high price to pay for medical treatments—which is why scientists across the globe are working on drug... Read

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Announcements

Chemist Vince Rotello to Bring Low-Cost, Inkjet-printed Nano Test Strips to Pakistan for Drinking Water Tests

Invention hold promise to improve health for millions around the world.

Shelly Peyton, UMass Amherst Chemical Engineer, Named 2013 Pew Scholar in Biomedical Science

Governor Patrick Announces $100.5M Mass Life Sciencs Center Award to UMass Amherst and Baystate for Western Mass Life Science Initiatives

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State Invests $100.5M in UMass Amherst Life Sciences Initiatives

In Pictures

Scanning electron micrograph of a human T cell in shades of blue
Delivery Breakthrough: Unlocking and Manipulating T-Cells to Advance Immunology

The scanning electron micrograph above shows a human T cell. Until recently, medical researchers had little hope of experimentally...