GCB News

Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in October 2021:

BONE REPAIR

Ashley Chi was part of a team that showed polydopamine-laced hydroxyapatite collagen material orients osteoclast behavior to an anti-resorptive pattern without compromising osteoclasts’ coupling to osteoblasts, which may help with bone defect repair. Read more

Hilmar Lapp is part of an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional collaboration led by Ohio State that will establish a new field of study called “imageomics” that has the potential to transform biomedical, agriculture and basic biological science. 

Duke University alumnus Henry Taylor, Class of 2018, is among 24 U.S. recipients selected for a Gates-Cambridge Scholarship.

Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in August 2021:

CANCER

Xiling Shen, Greg Crawford, Charlie Gersbach, Purushothama Rao Tata and team investigated chromatin remodeling in metastatic cells in the liver and present a potential strategy to target that chromatic remodeling in metastatic cancer and the promise of repurposing drugs to treat metastasis. Read more

Here are summaries of a sampling of the papers published by GCB faculty in June and July 2021:

NEW METHODS AND MODELS

Cell-mediated living fabrication holds promise for generating materials with versatile, programmable functions. Lingchong You, Xiling Shen and team engineered living material from semi-interpenetrating polymer networks. Their work lays the foundation for programming functional living materials for diverse applications. Read more