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Scientists Use Modified Silk Proteins to Create New Nonstick Surfaces

Chemical modification of silk proteins molded into shapes and films makes them repel water better than nonstick coatings available today

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Bees and Other Pollinators

Nick Dorian, A16, AG24, urges us to notice and appreciate the huge variety of bees that surround us, and help them survive and thrive

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Infectious Disease

Using mRNA, Tufts Researchers Teach Muscle Cells to Produce Antibodies

With COVID-19 vaccines pushing down costs of mRNA technology, a study in mice from Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine experts sparks hope for next...

Illustration of bacteria inside intestines. A Tufts microbiologist tries three test kits to see how they work and what they reveal about the microbiome

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What Do At-Home Microbiome Tests Tell Us About Microbes Living in Our Guts?

A Tufts microbiologist tries three test kits to see how they work and what they reveal about the microbiome

Life Sciences

Think the deep ocean is dark and lifeless? Think again.

A deep-sea explorer sheds light on the world’s fascinating and fragile oceans

Stars and galaxies in the dark sky. The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most sensitive of its kind, will allow us to detect the first galaxies, says Tufts astronomer.

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New Webb Space Telescope Sees into the Universe’s Deepest Past

The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most sensitive of its kind, will allow us to detect the first galaxies, says Tufts astronomer

Charles Sykes. For groundbreaking work on single-atom catalysts, Sykes and his colleagues receive the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Faraday Division Horizon Prize

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Chemistry Professor and Team Win Prestigious Award

For groundbreaking work on single-atom catalysts, Charles Sykes and colleagues receive the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Horizon Prize

Kyongbum Lee, Interim Dean of the School of Engineering and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

University News

Get to Know Kyongbum Lee, New Dean of the Tufts School of Engineering

The teacher, administrator, and researcher looks to begin a new chapter for the school as he assumes the permanent deanship

Tufts engineering professor Karen Panetta stands at Boston's Logan International Airport; her research has applications that include improving airport screenings.

Points of View

A Trailblazing Engineer Says “Invention Is in Everything I Do”

Karen Panetta, dean of graduate education at Tufts School of Engineering, reflects on her innovative career

Alignment or array of many Earth planet in outer space

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Exploring the Shape of Our Universe–and the Multiverse

A professor of mathematics considers popular culture’s current obsession with multiverse theory and explains how algebraic topology and differential geometry...

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Scientists Use Modified Silk Proteins to Create New Nonstick Surfaces

Everything You Wanted to Know About Bees and Other Pollinators

Using mRNA, Tufts Researchers Teach Muscle Cells to Produce Antibodies

What Do At-Home Microbiome Tests Tell Us About Microbes Living in Our Guts?

Think the deep ocean is dark and lifeless? Think again.

New Webb Space Telescope Sees into the Universe’s Deepest Past

Chemistry Professor and Team Win Prestigious Award

Get to Know Kyongbum Lee, New Dean of the Tufts School of Engineering

A Trailblazing Engineer Says “Invention Is in Everything I Do”

Exploring the Shape of Our Universe–and the Multiverse

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