Stories about bioengineering


A New Approach to Combating Osteoarthritis

Lesley Chow and partners at St. Luke’s University Health Network aim to provide early stage intervention for degenerative joint disease.

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Lehigh Bioengineering Major takes Top Honors at Undergraduate Research Symposium

Several Lehigh students were recognized at the David and Loraine Freed Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 6.

A project by E. Thomas Pashuck could help researchers understand cancer progression.

NIH Funds Protease Research Advancing Understanding of Cancer Progression and Treatments

Lehigh study will visualize activity of proteases, which play a vital role in physiological processes such as tissue development and regeneration and cancer migration and metastasis.

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Anand Jagota Develops New Mechanisms to Improve the Effectiveness of Vehicle Tires

Jagota and his team seek to improve friction of soft materials.

Artistic rendering of Lesley Chow's new method to create continuous, highly organized scaffolds to regenerate two different tissues

A New Approach to Tissue Engineering: Lesley Chow Creates Scaffolds for Tissue Regeneration

Chow and her team have demonstrated a new method to create continuous, highly organized scaffolds for tissue regeneration.

Printer head on a solvent-cast 3D printer depositing the functionalized polymer inks layer-by-layer from a needle in the lab of Lehigh professor Lesley Chow

New Biofabrication Method Creates One Scaffold to Guide Regeneration of Multiple Tissues

Lesley Chow and her team present a new 3D printing platform to fabricate multi-component scaffolds that “steal from nature” to engineer tissues organized like native tissues.

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Scientists Reveal Reversible Superglue Inspired by Snail Mucus

A team of scientists, inspired by snail biology, has created a reversible superglue-like material.

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Three Lehigh Engineering Students Receive Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

The Lehigh students and one recent alumna are among the 2,051 students offered fellowships in 2019.

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Can the Scutoid Shape the Future of Regenerative Medicine?

The discovery of a new three-dimensional shape could advance understanding of cell topology and the field of regenerative medicine.

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Unraveling vWF: A Better Understanding of the von Willebrand Factor's A2 Domain

A team of Lehigh researchers works to characterize blood's mysterious protein.