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A new gelatinous robot that crawls, powered by nothing more than temperature change and clever design, brings “a kind of intelligence” to the field of soft robotics. “It seems very…

New research findings show how higher viscosity, or resistance to flow, of the extracellular fluid that surrounds cells enables cancer cells to migrate more rapidly from a primary tumor to…

Three doctoral candidates in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering were named Siebel Scholars for 2023 on October 4. Zachary Schneiderman, Tatsat Banerjee and Justin Lowenthal were among five scholarship…

Autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis happen when the immune system is inadvertently activated, mistakenly attacking the body’s tissues and organs. Though it is known that genetics…

Ammonia-scented pathway may lead to cleaner, greener energy

David Bowie famously asked if there is life on Mars – to which humankind has repeatedly tried to supply an answer. But is there life on Titan? Paulette Clancy thinks…

A Johns Hopkins University team led by Michael Betenbaugh, professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Pricila Hauk, assistant research scientist, are part of a $20.6 million…

With a three-year grant from the Department of Energy, a team of researchers from Johns Hopkins and partner organizations are launching the Synthesis and Processing Informed by Rational Algorithmic Learning…

Reported in the February 11, 2021 issue of Nature Catalysis, a research team led by Chao Wang, associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, successfully developed a…

Using a $125,000 grant from the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust, Stavroula Sofou, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and a researcher with the Institute for NanoBioTechnology, is developing…

Inspired by a parasitic worm that digs its sharp teeth into its host’s intestines, Johns Hopkins researchers have designed tiny, star-shaped microdevices that can latch onto intestinal mucosa and release…

ChemBE's Konstantinos Konstantopoulos leads colleagues in seeking to understand the role that dorsoventral polarity plays in cancer cell migration.