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Looking towards the future through an interdisciplinary lens
a portrait of Yasmina Al Ghadban

Looking towards the future through an interdisciplinary lens

Senior Yasmina Al Ghadban was able to connect her undergraduate education in bioengineering and psychology with her passion for public health through teaching, research, and extracurricular activities.

Erica K. Brockmeier

Science vs science: The contradictory fight over whether electromagnetic hypersensitivity is real

Science vs science: The contradictory fight over whether electromagnetic hypersensitivity is real

Electromagnetic fields are everywhere, and especially so in recent years. To most of us, those fields are undetectable. But a small number of people believe they have an actual allergy to electromagnetic fields. Ken Foster, a professor emeritus of bioengineering, has heard these arguments before.  “Activists would point to all these biological effects studies and say, ‘There must be some hazard’; health agencies would have meticulous reviews of literature and not see much of a problem.”

This L.A. start-up is building tiny injectable robots to attack tumors

This L.A. start-up is building tiny injectable robots to attack tumors

Marc Miskin of the School of Engineering and Applied Science commented on a new startup that is developing remote-control medical microrobots. “I would give them a lot of credit for figuring out a space where they can make an impact and justify how they’ll be competitive with traditional pharmaceutical approaches,” he said.

New bioprinting technique allows for complex microtissues
A rendering of tissue forming a hydrogel in three steps.

The researchers’ new technique allows clumps of cells to be picked and placed into a self-healing hydrogel, which holds them in complex spatial arrangements as they grow together. Once the tissue model is formed, the hydrogel is washed away. (Image: Penn Engineering Today)

New bioprinting technique allows for complex microtissues

Researchers at the School of Engineering and Applied Science have demonstrated a new bioprinting technique that enables the bioprinting of spatially complex, high-cell-density tissues.

Evan Lerner

Penn Dental, Penn Engineering unite to form Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry
Time lapse photo of green circle shows a progressively larger cleared off area where a robot has removed a biofilm

With a precise, controlled movement, microrobots clear a glass plate of a biofilm in this time-lapse sequence.

(Image: Geelsu Hwang and Edward Steager)

Penn Dental, Penn Engineering unite to form Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry

The new Center will bring the two schools together to accelerate the development of new solutions and devices to address unmet needs in oral health.

Beth Adams

Researchers measure different types of curiosity studying ‘hunters and busybodies’
Illustration of person on a computer with two information path bubbles coming out of the computer that describe The Hunter and The Busybody.

Curiosity styles as knowledge networks where each node is a Wikipedia page and the paths between nodes represent the similarity between pages. “The hunter” style is characterized by high clustering and low overall path length, while “the busybody” style is characterized by low clustering and high overall path length. (Image: Melissa Pappas)

Researchers measure different types of curiosity studying ‘hunters and busybodies’

A multidisciplinary study has found a way to readily quantify the information-seeking associated with curiosity and explore mechanisms underlying information-seeking.

From Penn Engineering Today

Ruby Washington is poised to make her mark in bioengineering
Ruby Washington holds a bioengineered cast in the shape of a human leg.

Ruby Washington is poised to make her mark in bioengineering

The senior in Penn Engineering’s Department of Bioengineering weds biomedicine and her pursuit in addressing healthcare disparities in the Black community.

From Penn Engineering Today

One step closer to an at-home, rapid COVID-19 test
A hand in a black rubber gloves holding a cell phone with a sensor attached. A dropper is touching the sensor.

Created in the lab of César de la Fuente, this miniaturized, portable version of rapid COVID-19 test, which is compatible with smart devices, can detect SARS-CoV-2 within four minutes with nearly 100% accuracy. (Image: Courtesy of César de la Fuente)

One step closer to an at-home, rapid COVID-19 test

The lab of César de la Fuente is working on a paper-based biosensor that could provide results in minutes. Clinical trials began Jan. 5.

Michele W. Berger

Using lung-on-a-chip technology to find treatments for chlorine gas exposure
Lung on a chip detail.

Huh’s organ-on-a-chip devices contain human cells, allowing for experiments that could not otherwise be practically or ethically performed. (Image: Penn Engineering Today)

Using lung-on-a-chip technology to find treatments for chlorine gas exposure

The new lung-on-a-chip platforms will help better understand how chlorine damages lung tissues and to discover specific biomarkers of chlorine gas-induced lung injury.

Evan Lerner