Battlefield DNA Sensors, 2040

A sol­dier return­ing from the bat­tle­field is unknow­ingly car­ry­ing a con­t­a­m­i­nant. But sen­sors embed­ded on a small elec­tronic chip detect the harm­ful mat­ter, alert­ing per­son­nel to treat the sol­dier, poten­tially sav­ing his life and avoid­ing harm to fel­low troops. Such a scene could play out. Mate­ri­als sci­ence and engi­neer­ing Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor Seong Jin Koh leads a team at work on tiny sen­sors that could detect […]

Optical Tweezers, 2050

When dis­cussing ways to fight deadly forms of can­cer, tweez­ers rarely enter the con­ver­sa­tion. But two UT Arling­ton researchers are chang­ing that. By manip­u­lat­ing cells with focused laser beams, or opti­cal tweez­ers, they’re enabling drug-carrying nanopar­ti­cles to deliver med­i­cine to can­cer cells. Bio­engi­neer­ing Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor Kytai Nguyen and physics Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor Samaren­dra Mohanty are part of the inter­dis­ci­pli­nary effort in the Bio­physics and Phys­i­ol­ogy Lab […]

Biomask, 2025

Deal­ing with seri­ous burns is a chal­leng­ing med­ical prob­lem, but researchers at UT Arlington’s Automa­tion and Robot­ics Research Insti­tute (ARRI) are mak­ing progress treat­ing the deep facial burns often suf­fered by sol­diers. In col­lab­o­ra­tion with the U.S. Army Insti­tute of Sur­gi­cal Research at the Brooke Army Med­ical Cen­ter in San Anto­nio, the approach involves a “bio­mask.” ARRI research sci­en­tist Eileen Moss calls it a par­a­digm […]

Adult Stem Cell Center, 2030

If you could cure any dis­ease, what would it be? Can­cer? Dia­betes? Stroke? Bio­engi­neer­ing Pro­fes­sor Lip­ing Tang and Ramesh Sax­ena, an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor at UT South­west­ern Med­ical Cen­ter at Dal­las, are shoot­ing for all of the above with their research on stem cell pro­duc­tion and har­vest­ing. They have dis­cov­ered that by uti­liz­ing med­ical devices such as catheters, they can cre­ate 200 times as many adult […]