Recent Work

‘Connectoids’ use microfluid channels to recapitulate and study neural connections.
By Elie Dolgin May 14, 2025
With organoids, assembloids and a growing bioengineering toolkit, scientists are pushing the limits of human brain models.
Picture of scientist handling mRNA, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and vaccine protesters.
By Elie Dolgin May 9, 2025
Drug makers are scrambling to navigate an ‘existential threat’ to a once-celebrated technology.
Ultrasound bioprinting technique, plus printed shapes (star, pinwheel, crescent, teardrop)
By Elie Dolgin May 9, 2025
Ultrasound enables minimally invasive 3D-printing of tissues, therapies, and more.
Two children licking lollipopos
By Elie Dolgin May 7, 2025
3D structure of the tongue’s sweet-sensing protein could guide future food designs.
Tubes of blood, one looks like an hourglass but with a woman's head
By Elie Dolgin April 16, 2025
Circulating biomarkers are quickly becoming a crucial part of diagnosis and disease monitoring for physicians, researchers — and even some consumers.
Zebra wearing video camera-equipped collar
By Elie Dolgin February 13, 2025
Zebras and giraffes offer one another protection without food competition.
By Elie Dolgin February 12, 2025
Next-generation obesity drugs will work differently from Ozempic and Wegovy — aiming to deliver greater weight loss with fewer side effects.
ProtGPS predicts the localization of proteins (green dots), both in their normal and disease-causing
By Elie Dolgin February 10, 2025
A new tool predicts where proteins fit, opening new frontiers in drug discovery.
Hand holding two blue pills
By Elie Dolgin January 30, 2025
The FDA’s nod for suzetrigine bolsters confidence in the pharmaceutical industry’s strategy to target sodium channels.
Mouse brain tissue imaged using expansion microscopy.
By Elie Dolgin January 13, 2025
How a tissue-swelling method brought super-resolution imaging to the masses.
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