Rice, Texas Heart Institute to use nanoparticles to track stem cells
The National Institutes of Health has awarded researchers at Rice University and the Texas Heart Institute a two-year $1 million Challenge Grant to develop an advanced stem-cell-tracking technology based on an ultrasensitive class of magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents invented at Rice in 2005.
Texas Children's is first TMC institution to join Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative
Texas Children's Hospital became the first Texas Medical Center institution to lease space in Rice University's new BioScience Research Collaborative, a place where scientists and educators from the university and TMC institutions will work together on research that benefits human medicine and health.
Rice's patent portfolio has best impact factor
Rice University has leapt to the forefront of American research universities for the impact on industry of its accumulated patents, according to a company that analyzes intellectual property. The Patent Board, a Chicago firm that ranks companies for the prowess of their properties, raised Rice to No. 1 in the "Industry Impact" category on its first public ranking of research universities.
Rice wins stimulus funding for physics building
Rice University was awarded $11.1 million in federal stimulus funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for construction of the Brockman Hall for Physics, a new state-of-the-art research facility.
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Historian's book on 19th-century US-Arab encounter wins Franklin Prize
The first encounters between Americans and Arabs were disastrous, but they led eventually to a mutually beneficial outcome. Rice historian Ussama Makdisi's chronicle of those encounters, "Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East," received the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize from the American Studies Association Nov. 6.
Grand Opportunity grant funds rapid saliva test using lab-on-a-chip
The National Institutes of Health has awarded researchers in Rice University's new BioScience Research Collaborative a $2 million Grand Opportunity grant to develop a fast, inexpensive test for oral cancer that a dentist could perform simply by using a brush to collect a small sample of cells from a patient's mouth.
Rice pioneers method for processing carbon nanotubes in bulk fluids
Rice University scientists this week unveiled a method for the industrial-scale processing of pure carbon-nanotube fibers that could lead to revolutionary advances in materials science, power distribution and nanoelectronics.
Rice evolutionary biologists Queller, Strassmann redefine the meaning of 'one'
What if your foot refused to work with your leg? Or your heart just wouldn't play well with your liver? All kinds of bad things could happen, but the fact that all your parts mesh is no accident. The cooperative of cells that makes up our bodies makes us whole.
Rice professor's first book nabs top prize
In his book, "Captives and Voyagers," Rice's Alexander Byrd tells the story of British colonialism by examining the colonial world's intersection with the African diaspora. When others tell the story of the book, they'll have another plot point to add: It was awarded the 2009 American Historical Association Wesley-Logan Book Prize.
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