SBHSE student team wins gold for cleaning arsenic from drinking water

SBHSE student team wins gold for cleaning arsenic from drinking water

by Jenn Jurewicz | Dec 20, 2021 | News

A team of School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering students, last month won a gold medal in an international synthetic biology competition. Their accomplishment? Engineering microalgae to bind arsenic in water, reduce it and sequester the toxic...
Advancing the science of fall prevention

Advancing the science of fall prevention

by Jenn Jurewicz | Dec 2, 2021 | News

Professor Thurmon Lockhart talks to Arizona PBS about his app, the Lockhart Monitor, that he created to help prevent falls. WATCH VIDEO
Stem cells help untangle Alzheimer’s, other disease origins

Stem cells help untangle Alzheimer’s, other disease origins

by Jenn Jurewicz | Nov 8, 2021 | News

School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering Associate Professor, Dr. David Brafman, a stem cell expert, explores taking the best molecular clues and tracing them all the way back to the start, to catch the very first manifestations of the the Alzheimer’s...
Placenta may hold key to eliminating immune suppression during organ transplants

Placenta may hold key to eliminating immune suppression during organ transplants

by Jenn Jurewicz | Oct 5, 2021 | News

During the last 70 years, transplantation has saved millions of lives around the globe thanks to the development of cutting-edge surgical techniques that can replace malfunctioning organs, tissues and cells. However, immune suppression is needed to prevent a...
Game on: Innovative online project expands dementia research

Game on: Innovative online project expands dementia research

by Jenn Jurewicz | Sep 28, 2021 | News

Launching an astronaut from one planet to land successfully on another could be the future of detecting cognitive and functional decline in older adults. Not launches initiated by NASA mission control, but by ordinary people playing a simple computer game developed by...
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