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Weaving barrels from DNA

A team of Harvard students designed a tiny container made entirely of DNA that could be used to deliver drugs or gene or protein-based therapies to specific tissues in the body (Technology Review)

In good company

Computer Science graduate student Emanuele Viola has won a (SIAM) Student Paper Prize for "Pseudorandom Bits for Constant Depth Circuits with Few Arbitrary Symmetric Gates"

Cool courses

The Crimson has picked ES 221: Drug Delivery, taught by recent arrival Debra Auguste, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, as one of the 15 courses to shop for '06-'07 (Crimson)

Good sports

Faculty and students from Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School's Engineering Technology program fabricated six plastic 'membrane stretchers' (SouthCoast Today)

Hot wired

Computer scientist Matt Welsh has found another mountain to climb - a volcano to be precise

Faster than a ...

Researchers at Harvard University have shown that nanowire transistors can be at least four times speedier than conventional silicon devices (Technology Review)

Rewarding research

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Maurice Smith has been awarded a Wallace H. Coulter Foundation Early Career Award

Bioengineering,

Soda fountain

Applied Physicist Dan Blair appeared on NECN to explain what happens when Mentos, those tiny candy mints, meets Diet Coke (NECN)

Bursting on the scene

Bioengineers Nicholas Lesica, Garrett Stanley, and their colleagues have published a new study on thalamic neurons

Active thinker

The Crimson profiles John A. Armstrong '56, longtime supporter for engineering and applied sciences at Harvard, in its special section on the class of '56 (Crimson)