In this new paper, we collaborated with the wonderful Omid Veiseh group to encapsulate engineered bacteria in hydrogel spheres to enhance their survival through the GI tract and ability to diagnose intestinal inflammation. Congrats to the team! doi.org/10.1016/j.biom…

Very exciting mechanistic study from the Shapiro Lab on #gasvesicle interactions with blood components and how they influence ultrasound imaging, circulation lifetime, and immunogenicity of GVs.

Welcome to our department and Rice. Looking forward to the new leadership and the opportunities to work together.

#BMES2023 is here! Come visit us at booth #607 to network with Rice Bioengineering faculty 🦉

Can we image intracellular calcium with ultrasound? Yes, w/ultrasonic reporters of calcium - URoCs! Congrats to Zhiyang Jin and co-authors on creating the first genetically encoded acoustic biosensors of this universal cell signal based on #gasvesicles. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Serum markers are very useful, but they can't track many processes in the body. What if we could make synthetic serum markers to track any process? What if we could measure gene delivery or neuronal activity with a blood test? see our paper Nature Biotechnology nature.com/articles/s4158…

Rice is breaking new ground in synthetic biology with the launch of the Rice Synthetic Biology Institute. Led by Caroline Ajo-Franklin, this initiative aims to foster collaborative research and technological advancements for the benefit of society. bit.ly/3vpojje

How condensates can help bacteria float? Check out the amazing study spearheaded by the George Lu lab, Rice University Bioengineering. George's tweetorial on the preprint: x.com/georgeluPhD/st…

Breaking scientific bounds! 🧫 Our own bioengineering assistant professor George Lu and doctoral student Zongru Li Zongru Li have pinpointed a key protein responsible for gas vesicle clustering in bacteria, promising exciting advancements in biotech and medicine. Dive into

Excited to share that our study on virus-size gas-filled nanostructures is published in Advanced Materials and selected to be featured as one of the cover stories. Thanks to our collaborating labs, Richard Bouchard and Han Xiao, and all the heroes who conducted the research:

Excited to share our latest publication, which will be featured on the cover of The EMBO Journal in the upcoming October issue. doi.org/10.1038/s44318…. Please also refer to the news article news.rice.edu/news/2024/rice…. In this study, we constructed a systematic interaction map of all

Thanks to CPRIT awards over the last 14 years, Rice University has been steadily advancing #cancer research while recruiting 25 investigators who are discovering better ways to treat and prevent the disease. This is how we #EndCancer! research.rice.edu/r3/winter-2025…

Tomasz Tkaczyk, RICE BIOENGINEERING professor Rice University, was inducted by AIMBE into its prestigious College of Fellows, a distinction granted to only 2 percent of medical and biological engineers. Congratulations, Tomasz! Read more: engineering.rice.edu/news/tomasz-tk…

#gasvesicles as reporter genes can impose cellular burden. Inspired by how their shell protein and assembly factors are separately regulated in nature, we designed a genetic circuit to recapitulate this regulation and alleviate stress. Cheers to @zongruli & Sumin,