The celebrated US scientist and inventor on not being in it for the money, why diversity improves problem-solving, and his dedication to exercising

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The Imperial College London scientist creates materials for tissue regeneration and ultrasensitive diagnostics. Read the story, produced in collaboration with ACS Central Science

It’s easy to miss Langer’s fingerprints on several ventures that have drawn considerable media coverage during the coronavirus pandemic, but at 71, the MIT science superstar is “working more than...

Robert Langer isn't impressed with incremental scientific milestones. The rock star scientist, known as the "Edison of Medicine," sets and usually reaches the loftiest of goals.

The MIT spinout Frequency Therapeutics uses a new kind of druggable regenerative therapy that targets progenitor cells to create hair cells of the inner ear and reverse hearing loss.

Islet transplantation for type 1 diabetes treatment has been limited by the need for lifelong immunosuppression regimens. This challenge has prompt...

A University of Toronto chemical engineering professor has won the $1 million Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal, the country’s top science prize, for her work designing gels that mimic human tissues.

In preclinical testing, resistance-sensing injector allows researchers to more safely and effectively deliver drugs to the body

How to generate digital blueprints and physical templates for vascular networks that resemble those in nature.

This is a clip from my unedited TEDMED talk when I forgot my lines and paused for 15 seconds!!! Imagine this...I was speaking at the John F. Kennedy Center ...

The MIT chemical engineering head is charting a course into the start-up world with LayerBio

Injectable hydrogels are one of the most widely investigated and versatile technologies for drug delivery and tissue engineering applications. Hydrogels’ versatility arises from their tunable...

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.” – Dr. Jane Goodall Dr. Jane Goodall (@JaneGoodallInst) was born on April 3rd, 1934, in London, England. At the young age of 26, she followed her passion...

While the first Covid-19 vaccines relying on mRNA technology speed toward U.S. approval, it’s worth remembering the vehicle that gets them where they need to go.

The Boston Biotech Working Group released a report that shows male faculty at MIT start companies at a higher rate than their female peers, and it outlines an action plan to close the gap.

PureTech Acquires Remaining Interest in Founded Entity Alivio Therapeutics

A new daughter helped microbiology PhD student Alejandra Falla gain perspective on life — and her tiny regalia, a replica of MIT’s doctoral tam and gown, stole the show at Commencement.

Nature Protocols - This protocol describes the fabrication of 3D collagen scaffolds used to culture human colonic crypts derived from primary intestinal epithelial cells.

BOSTON (WHDH) - Local researchers are working on a new way to prevent the spread of COVID-19 when wearing a mask is not an option.WhileRead More

Nature Biomedical Engineering - Organoid models of intestinal stem cell differentiation into Paneth cells allow for the identification, via high-throughput phenotypic screening, of biological...

Paris, France, August 31, 2021 – TISSIUM, a privately-owned medtech company developing biomorphic programmable polymers for tissue reconstruction, announced it has closed a Series C round of financ...

Frequency Therapeutics prices $84m IPO - Drug Delivery Business

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Massachusetts General Hospital surgeons announced that, for the first time, they had transplanted a kidney from a CRISPR gene-edited pig into a living patient.

Nature Materials - Nanoparticle retention inside tumours has been associated with lymphatic vessel collapse. It is now shown that nanoparticles exit from solid tumours through lymphatic vessels in...

The glue used similar design principles as slug slime to stick to and seal bloody pig tissue

A fascination with magic leads Institute Professor Robert Langer to solve world problems using the marvels of chemical engineering.

Canadian inventor and researcher Jeff Karp writes about how he and others can get beyond distraction and achieve their dreams.

Nature Reviews Materials - Lipid nanoparticle–mRNA formulations have entered the clinic as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines, marking an important milestone for mRNA therapeutics....

Scientists used 3D “mini-organs in a dish” to identify a molecule that boosts protective cells in the gut.

Biomimicry is an approach to innovation that seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by looking to nature’s time-tested strategies for…

MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine in recognition of his work on nanoparticles, which enabled, which enabled the...

The Brigham-Wyss Diagnostics Accelerator aims to create new diagnostic technologies through deep collaborations driven by unmet diagnostic needs

Join Wildtype Media Group CEO Dr. Juliana Chan as she chats with biotechnology trailblazer Professor Robert Langer about the role that science plays in the fight against COVID-19.

Self-regenerating bacterial hydrogels could open the door to new intestinal wound healing strategies

How do you get a drug from the lab into a device and deliver it to the tiniest area of the human body? Ask Prof Robert Langer.

Nature - Six experts offer advice on producing a manuscript that will get published and pull in readers.

The report refers to this idea of a central support organization as a “united, hybrid hub” — a physical location for in-person workshops and networking combined with a digital database.

How do you get a drug from the lab into a device and deliver it to the tiniest area of the human body? Ask Prof Robert Langer.

Nature Communications - Exposition to insecticides can be dangerous. Here, authors developed an oxime-fabric body suit and facemask that chemically deactivate insecticides and prevent...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine has gone in this fourteenth edition to Katalin Karikó, Robert Langer and Drew Weissman “for their contributions to messen...

TISSIUM to present study results at the 76th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand

Melissa Fensterstock, CEO of Landsdowne Labs, said they’re developing a battery coating...

Nature - Many doctoral curricula aim to produce narrowly focused researchers rather than critical thinkers. That can and must change, says Gundula Bosch.

Nature - Many doctoral curricula aim to produce narrowly focused researchers rather than critical thinkers. That can and must change, says Gundula Bosch.

Nature Biotechnology - The rabbit uterus is reconstructed using synthetic scaffolds seeded with cells.