News and Media

11/15/2009

BRC open house celebrates leading research, infinite possibilities

Rice community members, family and friends can see where leading research becomes infinite possibilities at Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC) open house from noon to 3 p.m. Nov. 13.

10/29/2009

BRC-bound lab leads hunt for new zeolites

Thanks to computations by BioScience Research Collaborative-bound Rice University professor Michael Deem and his colleagues, it appears there are -- or could be -- more types of zeolites, compounds of silicon, aluminum and oxygen that gives civilization such things as laundry detergent, kitty litter and gasoline.

10/27/2009

Rice-TMC collaboration wins funds for cancer research

A consortium that includes Rice University and partners in the Texas Medical Center has been awarded a major grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to establish a center to conduct innovative cancer research that draws upon the physical sciences.

10/21/2009

BRC research yields cancer-screening camera-in-a-needle

A low-cost camera-in-a-needle invented by Rice University professors Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Tomasz Tkaczyk and their students is in human trials and being used to look for signs of esophageal and cervical cancer.

10/21/2009

Gates Foundation backs BRC research

The Richards-Kortum lab at Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative has won a $100,000 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant to develop reagent-free, needle-free microscopy for malaria diagnosis.

09/24/2009

Dunn Foundation fuels collaborative research

As part of a 10-year commitment to Rice University's BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC), the John S. Dunn Research Foundation has awarded competitive grants to foster interdisciplinary and interinstitutional research at the BRC.

08/27/2009

Health care: Helping Africa can pay US dividends

Under the leadership of Rice's John McDevitt, engineering researchers from the BRC and Austin-based startup LabNow are putting the finishing touches on a toaster-sized machine that's designed to diagnose virtually any disease or medical condition for a fraction of the cost of modern U.S. clinical assays.

07/29/2009

BRC researcher finds little-known protein is a key player

James McNew and a team of biologists at Rice and the Eugenio Medea Scientific Institute in Italy found that a little-understood protein previously implicated in a rare genetic disorder also plays an unexpected and critical role in building and maintaining healthy cells.