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An interdisciplinary team of researchers has created a new, ultra-sensitive technique to analyze life-sustaining protein molecules.

The technique may profoundly change the methodology of biomolecular studies and chart a new path to effective diagnostics and early treatment of complex diseases.

(Tufts University) Researchers at Tufts and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign demonstrate a new way to make silk-based optical waveguides that are biocompatible, biodegradable and readily functionalized with active molecules.

This opens up opportunities in biologically based modulation and sensing and ability to integrate light delivery in living tissue.

(Tufts University) Tufts' School of Engineering researchers have launched a study to determine the extent to which service-learning might help engineering programs attract and retain students, particularly women.

The research, which is funded by a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, will address two prevailing, but unproven, beliefs about service-learning in the engineering classroom.

(Tufts University, Health Sciences) Researchers identify a protein that regulates the physical state of blood vessels.

The biochemical processes involved in this regulation are important in the study of cardiovascular health.