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Hasini Jayatilaka, a postdoctoral fellow in the Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences-Oncology Center, is featured on Academic Minute discussing a new insight into the way cancer behaves and what that means for future medications. Jayatilaka is an alumna of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

Third-year PhD candidate Yi Li is planning a career as an industrial research scientist because she wants to help create new products to treat cancer. In her ChemBE lab, she’s…

Researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering have discovered a way to fold ultrathin materials, creating three-dimensional structures with significantly altered shapes and properties. Their Oct. 6 paper…

Tactic could produce 'smart' medical devices that don't rely on cumbersome wires, batteries, tethers.

Brain tumors present special challenges for treatment because the blood-brain barrier, the protective mechanism that keeps most substances carried by the blood from entering the brain, prevents sufficient concentrations of…

Hypoxia, explains second-year PhD candidate Inês Godet, is counterintuitive. While most cells die if removed from a source of oxygen, some breast cancer cells are so mutated that a lack…

When second-year PhD candidate Natalia Majewska was completing an internship at MedImmune after her junior year of college, little did she know she’d return to the research and development company…

For an engineer who loves basic science like fourth-year PhD candidate Hao Su, the specifics of a research project are just one avenue into the heart of the matter: understanding…

A team of researchers led by Johns Hopkins engineers create system that considers wide array of factors in one comprehensive aging assessment.

  A team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has discovered a biochemical signaling process that causes densely packed cancer cells to break away from a tumor and spread the disease…

Dr. Rong Li, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, discovered an unexpected route for cells to eliminate protein clumps that may sometimes be the molecular…

  Cancer cells need oxygen to survive. But scientists had never tracked cancer cells’ search for oxygen in their early growth stages until now—moving medicine a step closer to understanding…