Tag: Jeffrey Fredberg

  • Health

    How growing cells move together

    Our cells are more than inert bags of proteins and genes whose complex signaling networks confound the world’s most powerful computers. They also have a physical side whose brawny feats may guide our basic good health. For the first time, researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have directly measured the physical forces at…

    3–5 minutes
  • Health

    “Heart of glass” may be more than just a metaphor

    Jeffrey Fredberg is a professor of bioengineering and physiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. His primary research interest is asthma. Fredberg was intrigued by the plasticity of the smooth muscle cells that surround the lung’s airways, and which are impaired in asthma, so he and some colleagues began to probe the mechanical properties…

    1–2 minutes