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Tag: Harvard Startups

August 5th, 2026

Chemist’s fix for a stubborn biomanufacturing problem? Engineer the liquid, not the machine

Scaling biomanufacturing is often constrained by how efficiently gases move through liquids—FluxBio, a Harvard startup out of the lab of Jarad Mason in the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at Harvard, found a solution by re-engineering the liquid, not the machine. The microporous water technology received critical early support from the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator to advance while in the lab and ultimately form the basis for FluxBio.

July 31st, 2026

Games as Design Research

Harvard Design Magazine covers how faculty, students, and practitioners use play to generate knowledge, engage community, and rethink urban design. The magazine features MOOT City, an urban planning game developed by Gorata Kgafela during her doctoral research in Botswana for her Doctor of Design degree at Harvard Graduate School of Design.

July 27th, 2026

Xenotransplantation Enters a New Era

Harvard Magazine’s Q&A with Leonardo Riella, the HMS Harold and Ellen Danser Associate Professor of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, on the advancement of xenotransplantation. Reilla discusses what the research and medical teams learned from the first successful kidney transplant using a genetically engineered pig kidney developed by eGenesis, a company founded by HMS Professor George Church and former HMS postdoctoral fellow Luhan Yang with support from the Wyss Institute.

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