# Press ## 2025 [### From Jellyfish to Digital Hearts ](https://www.harvardmagazine.com/science/harvard-artificial-digital-hearts-kit-parker) November 13, 2025 Harvard Magazine [### AI And The Heart: Spinning Up Vasculature And Innovating Care ](https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwerner/2025/11/04/ai-and-the-heart-spinning-up-vasculature-and-innovating-care/) November 04, 2025 Forbes [### Tender Food rebrands as Lasso, expands novel spinning tech beyond alt-meat ](https://agfundernews.com/tender-food-rebrands-as-lasso-expands-novel-spinning-tech-beyond-alt-meat) October 14, 2025 AgFunder News [### Harvard’s salt trick could turn billions of tons of hair into eco-friendly materials ](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250916221913.htm) September 17, 2025 ScienceDaily [### Your Haircut Waste Could Soon Replace Plastic —Harvard Scientists Made It Happen ](https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/09/hair-waste-replace-plastic-harvard/) September 11, 2025 Daily Galaxy [### Startups based on Harvard innovations devise solutions for a warming world ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/startups-based-on-harvard-innovations-devise-solutions-for-a-warming-world/) September 09, 2025 The Harvard Gazette [### NTT Research and Harvard scientists optimize biohybrid ray development with machine learning ](https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2025/02/ntt-research-and-harvard-scientists-optimize-biohybrid-ray-development-machine) February 13, 2025 Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences News ## 2022 [### NTT Research and Harvard Collaborate on Cardiovascular Bio Digital Twin ](https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2022/11/ntt-research-and-harvard-collaborate-cardiovascular-bio-digital-twin) November 16, 2022 Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science [### Making steak from vegetable protein ](https://wyss.harvard.edu/news/tender-food-raises-12-million-seed-round-led-by-chris-saccas-lowercarbon-capital-to-scale-production-of-plant-based-whole-muscle-cuts-of-beef-pork-and-chicken/) May 15, 2022 Wyss Institute [### Step aside 3D printing, there’s a new technique for biofabricating a heart ](https://www.biotechniques.com/bioengineering-biophysics/step-aside-3d-printing-theres-a-new-technique-for-biofabricating-a-heart/) July 13, 2022 BioTechniques [### Harvard researchers develop food packaging that could reduce waste while boosting food safety ](https://www.foodservicedirector.com/sustainability/harvard-researchers-develop-food-packaging-could-reduce-waste-while-boosting) July 05, 2022 Foodservice Director [### Food-packaging system reduces health risks and saves food ](https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news2/newsid=60961.php) June 28, 2022 Nanowerk [### Scientists build a fish out of human heart cells and watch it swim with each beat ](https://www.cnet.com/science/biology/scientists-built-a-fish-out-of-human-heart-cells-and-watched-it-swim-with-each-beat/) March 10, 2022 CNET [### Biohybrid Fish Developed from Human Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes ](https://www.genengnews.com/news/biohybrid-fish-developed-from-human-stem-cell-derived-cardiomyocytes/) February 14, 2022 Gen ## 2021 [### Harvard Licenses Technology to Obatala Sciences to Advance Discovery in Obesity Diabetes and Cancer ](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210602005018/en/Harvard-Licenses-Technology-to-Obatala-Sciences-to-Advance-Discovery-in-Obesity-Diabetes-and-Cancer) June 02, 2021 Businesswire ## 2020 [### Military experience inspires Harvard professor’s nanofiber body armor research ](https://www.stripes.com/news/us/military-experience-inspires-harvard-professor-s-nanofiber-body-armor-research-1.636305) July 04, 2020 Stars and Stripes [### New Super Material Is a Game Changer for Firefighters, Soldiers ](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/new-super-material-is-a-game-changer-for-firefighters-soldiers/ar-BB16iHaK) July 03, 2020 Popular Mechanics [### Nanofiber protects against extreme temperatures and projectiles ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/new-nanofiber-protects-against-extreme-temperatures-projectiles/) June 29, 2020 Harvard Gazette [### Multifunctional nanofiber protects against explosions ](https://phys.org/news/2020-06-multifunctional-nanofiber-explosions.html) June 29, 2020 Phys.org [### AIP Publishing Names Kit Parker, Ph.D., as Editor-in-Chief of Biophysics Reviews ](https://publishing.aip.org/about/news/aip-publishing-names-kit-parker-ph-d-as-editor-in-chief-of-biophysics-reviews/) April 30, 2020 AIP Publishing [### From petri dish to plate, Harvard researchers make lab-grown meat a reality ](https://www.boston.com/news/science/2020/02/18/harvard-lab-grown-meat#) February 18, 2020 boston.com [### The unseen toll of traumatic brain injuries: One veteran asks, "What if they could just cut my head off?" ](https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/14/politics/home-front-traumatic-brain-injuries/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2020-02-14T23%3A00%3A24&utm_source=fbCNN) February 14, 2020 CNN [### Slaughter-Free Steak Served Up At Harvard Laboratory ](https://www.wgbh.org/news/science-and-technology/2020/01/02/slaughter-free-steak-served-up-at-harvard-laboratory) January 02, 2020 WGBH ## 2019 [### Soldier Center Harvard collaborate to advance soldier technologies ](https://www.army.mil/article/229831/ccdc_soldier_center_and_harvard_university_are_collaborating_to_advance_soldier_technologies?fbclid=IwAR1uw6DDK--t27DXKzvke2xNIX2ZSn3wnwKxpanNsoMabi9ODzzISm6Eh1A) November 14, 2019 US Army [### At Harvard Lab-Grown Meat Edges Closer To Reality ](https://www.wgbh.org/news/science-and-technology/2019/11/25/at-harvard-lab-grown-meat-edges-closer-to-reality) November 14, 2019 WGBH [### Lab-Grown Meat That Doesnt Look Like Mush ](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/science/lab-meat-texture.html) October 27, 2019 The New York Times [### Lab-Grown Meat: Its Not All About Flavor ](https://xtalks.com/lab-grown-meat-its-not-all-about-flavor-2074/#) October 23, 2019 xtalks [### Scientists Are Literally Spinning Up Lab-Grown Meat ](https://www.wired.com/story/gelatin-fibers-lab-grown-meat/) October 22, 2019 Wired [### Harvard researchers grew meat in a lab from cow and rabbit cells. It looks a lot like the real thing. ](https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/21/us/harvard-lab-grown-meat-trnd/index.html) October 21, 2019 CNN [### Real texture from lab grown meat ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/10/lab-grown-meat-gains-muscle-as-it-moves-from-petri-dish-to-dinner-plate/) October 21, 2019 The Harvard Gazette [### New Ultra-Soft Robotic Gripper Safely Catches Jellyfish \[Video\] ](https://scitechdaily.com/new-ultra-soft-robotic-gripper-safely-catches-jellyfish-video/) September 08, 2019 Scitech Daily [### 몸 밖에 만든 인조 뇌로 치매와 싸운다 (Fight dementia with an artificial brain made outside the body) ](http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/09/02/2019090201748.html) September 02, 2019 Chounsunilbo [### 5㎜ 미니 뇌 만들어 뇌치료 혁신… 치매 실험비용 99% 줄였다 (5mm mini brain makes brain treatment innovation… 99% reduction in dementia testing) ](http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/08/31/2019083100164.html) August 31, 2019 Chounsunilbo [### Pancreas on a chip: Harvard scientists have combined organ-on-a-chip and stem-cell technologies to make a powerful tool for diabetes research and beta-cell transplantation ](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/08/islet-on-a-chip-technology-streamlines-diabetes-research/) August 29, 2019 Harvard Gazette [### Ultra-soft underwater gripper safely catches and releases jellyfish ](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190828143057.htm) August 28, 2019 Science Daily [### Taking the brain apart to put it all together again ](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180820113035.htm) August 20, 2019 Science Daily [### Summary of Alfalfa Nanofibers for Dermal Wound Healing. ](https://www.bioportfolio.com/resources/pmarticle/2440167/Alfalfa-Nanofibers-for-Dermal-Wound-Healing.html) August 01, 2019 BioPortfolia [### Research opens possibility of developing single-dose gene therapy for inherited arrhythmias ](https://www.news-medical.net/news/20190717/Research-opens17possibility-of-developing-single-dose-gene-therapy-for-inherited-arrhythmias.aspx) July 17, 2019 News-Medical [### Proposed gene therapy for a heart arrhythmia based on models made from patient cells ](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/1907170842179.htm) July 17, 2019 ScienceDaily ## 2018 [### Fluidically linked blood-brain barrier and Organ Chips offer new method for studying effects of drugs on the brain ](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-08-fluidically-linked-blood-brain-barrier-chips.html) August 20, 2018 MedicalXpress [### La historia de una joven latina que ganó beca para cumplir su sueño en Harvard ](https://www.univision.com/shows/noticiero-univision/la-historia-de-una-joven-latina-que-gano-beca-para-cumplir-su-sueno-en-harvard-video) July 31, 2018 Univision [### Bioengineers build 3D model of human heart ventricle ](https://www.news-medical.net/news/20180724/Bioengineers-build-3D-model-of-human-heart-ventricle.aspx) July 24, 2018 The Medical News [### A tissue engineered heart ventricle for studying rhythm disorders, cardiomyopathy ](https://vector.childrenshospital.org/2018/07/tissue-engineered-heart-ventricle/) July 24, 2018 Boston Childrens Hospital [### A 3-D model of a human heart ventricle ](https://phys.org/news/2018-07-d-human-heart-ventricle.html) July 23, 2018 Phys.org [### BBC World Service Podcast ](http://diseasebiophysics.seas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/SCIENCE-IN-ACTION-POD-310518_BBC-WORLD-SERVICE.mp3?_=1) May 31, 2018 Science in Action Podcast [### A photosynthetic engine for artificial cells ](https://phys.org/news/2018-05-photosynthetic-artificial-cells.html) May 29, 2018 Phys.org [### Domestic research team, implements artificial cell for photosynthesis … "Close to life" ](http://imnews.imbc.com/replay/2018/nwtoday/article/4623550_22669.html) May 29, 2018 SBS News [### Researchers develop artificial cells that harness photosynthesis ](http://www.arirang.com/News/News_View.asp?nSeq=218105) May 29, 2018 Arirang [### A photosynthetic engine for artificial cells ](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180529132017.htm) May 29, 2018 Science Daily [### 스스로 광합성하는 인공 세포…인공 생명체 첫걸음 ](https://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPage.do?news_id=N1004778082) May 29, 2018 SBS News [### Young burn victims death spurs soldier to develop new healing treatment ](http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-full-episode-1.4607942/young-burn-victim-s-death-spurs-soldier-to-develop-new-healing-treatment-1.4606588) April 06, 2018 CBC.ca [### Failure To Save A Child In Wartime Inspires Wound-Healing Tech ](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/04/02/596593646/failure-to-save-a-child-in-wartime-inspires-wound-healing-tech) April 02, 2018 NPR.org [### U.S. Army, Harvard University enter R&D agreement to produce nanofibers ](https://www.army.mil/article/200987/) February 23, 2018 Army.mil [### "Heart-on-a-chip" process aims to speed up drug testing ](https://phys.org/news/2018-01-heart-on-a-chip-aims-drug.html) January 01, 2018 Phys.org ## 2017 [### Are people ready for human-made organs? ](http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/10/10/are-humans-ready-for-man-made-organs/EoS9JE3Jcc2oE3qystVUWI/story.html) October 01, 2017 Boston Globe [### Nicholls student interns at Harvard laboratory ](http://www.houmatoday.com/news/20170827/nicholls-student-interns-at-harvard-laboratory) August 01, 2017 Houma Today [### French Twist: A New Photographic Series ](http://http//nashvillearts.com/2017/06/carla-ciuffo-2/) July 01, 2017 Nashville Arts Magazine [### Robots biológicos… y lo que sigue ](http://www.milenio.com/firmas/martin_bonfil_olivera/robots_biologicos-ciencia_ficcion-genetica-biotecnologia_18_1006879338.html) June 01, 2017 Milenio [### Taking Cues from Spiders ](https://www.healthcarepackaging.com/sites/default/files/digital_edition/MayJune2017HCP/HCP_May_2017/index.html/) May 01, 2017 Healthcare Packaging Magazine [### Four new ways to prepare protect and investigate body ](http://www.dn.se/nyheter/vetenskap/fyra-nya-satt-att-laga-skydda-och-undersoka-kroppen/) April 21, 2017 Dagens Nyheter [### Celebrating Failure in a Tough Drug Industry ](https://www.wsj.com/articles/celebrating-failure-in-a-tough-drug-industry-1488568710) March 03, 2017 The Wall Street Journal ## 2016 [### These Tiny Cyborg Stingrays are Made out of Rat Parts ](https://www.wired.com/2016/12/kit-parker-cyborg-stingrays/) December 05, 2016 Wired [### Weird Science: Kit Parker's Breakthrough Work on Artificial Hearts and Brain Injuries ](https://news.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbiltmagazine/weird-science-kit-parkers-breakthrough-work-on-artificial-hearts-and-brain-injuries/) November 20, 2016 Vanderbilt Magazine [### 3D-Printed 'Heart-on-a-Chip' Offers Hope for End of Animal Testing ](http://www.newsweek.com/3d-printed-heart-chip-offers-hope-end-animal-testing-513368) October 26, 2016 Newsweek [### This 'Heart On A Chip' Could Lead To The End Of Animal Testing ](http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/heart-on-a-chip-could-lead-to-the-end-of-animal-testing_uk_580f1ddce4b0fce107d1a95d?ir=UK+Tech&utm_hp_ref=uk-tech) October 25, 2016 The Huffington Post UK [### The beating 'heart-on-a-chip': Miniature 3D printed organ could one day put an end to animal testing ](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3867456/The-beating-heart-chip-Miniature-3D-printed-organ-one-day-end-animal-testing.html) October 25, 2016 The Daily Mail [### An Artificial Heart Inspired by Jellyfish ](https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/10/an-artificial-heart-inspired-by-jellyfish/505052/) October 24, 2016 The Atlantic [### This ‘heart on a chip’ could finally spell the end for animal testing ](http://www.wired.co.uk/article/heart-chip-harvard-sensors) October 24, 2016 Wired UK [### Harvard Researchers Print World’s First Heart-on-a-Chip ](http://gizmodo.com/harvard-researchers-print-world-s-first-heart-on-a-chip-1788156733) October 24, 2016 Gizmodo [### The 11 Greatest Engineering Innovations Of 2016 ](http://www.popsci.com/11-greatest-engineering-innovations-year) October 19, 2016 Popular Science - November/December 2016 [### A new spin on nanofibers ](http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2016/10/new-spin-on-nanofibers) October 07, 2016 [www.seas.harvard.edu/news](http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news) [### Duchenne ‘Tongue-on-a-Chip’ Model Captures Shortcomings of Muscle Stem Cells in Patients ](http://musculardystrophynews.com/2016/10/05/duchenne-tongue-on-chip-model-showss-hortcomings-of-muscle-stem-cells) October 05, 2016 Muscular Dystrophy News [### Tongue-on-a-chip could help muscular dystrophy research ](http://us11.campaign-archive2.com/?u=f8609630ae206654824f897b6&id=da5e407ec1) October 04, 2016 Stat News [### Stars, stripes, and science ](https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2016/08/stars-stripes-and-science) August 29, 2016 [www.seas.harvard.edu/news](http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news) [### The art of science ](https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2016/08/art-of-science) August 23, 2016 [www.seas.harvard.edu/news](http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news) [### Tiny 'stingray' robot swims on light-activated rat cells ](http://video.foxnews.com/v/5077242513001/tiny-stingray-robot-swims-on-light-activated-rat-cells/?#sp=show-clips) August 09, 2016 Fox News [### Cyborg stingray swims toward light, breaks new ground ](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/cyborg-stingray-swims-toward-light-breaks-new-ground/2016/08/08/b95831f8-5d24-11e6-84c1-6d27287896b5_story.html#comments) August 08, 2016 The Washington Post [### A Soldier-Scientist’s Insights Expand Understanding Of Brain Injuries ](http://www.npr.org/2016/08/01/488191782/a-soldier-scientists-insights-expand-understanding-of-brain-injuries) August 01, 2016 NPR [### US Army cadets visit Seoul for research program ](http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/phone/news/view.jsp?req_newsidx=210452) July 27, 2016 The Korea Times [### Robot Stingray is part animal, part machine ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTf2M5_NfiI) July 15, 2016 RT America [### Stingray Robot Powered by Light, and Living Rat Cells ](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/science/stingray-robot.html?_r=0) July 11, 2016 The New York Times [### Flight of fancy ](http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21701746-robotic-stingray-powered-real-muscles-and-guided-light-flight-fancy) July 09, 2016 The Economist [### Artificial stingray is ‘living robot’ ](http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36748076) July 08, 2016 BBC News [### This robo-stingray made from rat heart cells is controlled by light ](http://www.wired.co.uk/article/robotic-stingray-rat-heart-cells) July 08, 2016 WIRED UK [### A Bio-Hybrid Stingray Robot Powered By Rat Muscle ](http://www.popsci.com/soft-robotic-stingray) July 07, 2016 Popular Science [### Robotic Stingrays Made with Rat Heart, Algae, and Plastic Fins ](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601834/robotic-stingrays-made-with-rat-heart-algae-and-plastic-fins/) July 07, 2016 MIT Technology Review [### Robotic Stingray Powered by Heart Cells From Rats ](http://www.wsj.com/articles/robotic-stingray-powered-by-heart-cells-from-rats-1467914400?mod=videorelated) July 07, 2016 The Wall Street Journal [### With gold and rat heart cells, scientists make a robot stingray ](http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-robotic-stingray-cells-20160707-snap-story.html) July 07, 2016 Los Angeles Times [### To Make a Heart from Scratch, First Build a Robot Stingray ](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/to-make-a-heart-from-scratch-first-build-a-robot-stingray) July 07, 2016 VICE Motherboard [### This Swimming Stingray Robot Is Powered by Real, Living Rat Cells ](http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a21716/swimming-stingray-robot-rat-cells/) July 07, 2016 Popular Mechanics [### Synthetic Stingray May Lead To A Better Artificial Heart ](http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/07/07/484950849/synthetic-stingray-may-lead-to-a-better-artificial-heart) July 07, 2016 NPR – Shots – Health News from NPR [### Looking at the Brain for Hidden War Wounds ](http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/looking-at-the-brain-for-hidden-war-wounds/) July 01, 2016 Science Friday [### An Army Buddy’s Call For Help Sends A Scientist On A Brain Injury Quest ](http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/08/480608042/an-army-buddys-call-for-help-sends-a-scientist-on-brain-injury-quest) June 08, 2016 NPR – Shots – Health News from NPR [### Soldier Scientists Inventing Lighter Bullet Proof Vests, and More ](https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/lighterweightbodyarmor.jsp) May 23, 2016 National Science Foundation – Science Nation [### Muscles on-a-chip provide insight into cardiac stem cell therapies ](http://www.rdmag.com/news/2016/02/muscles-chip-provide-insight-cardiac-stem-cell-therapies) February 09, 2016 R&D Magazine [### Carla Ciuffo ](http://www.boulevardquarterly.com/bq-photography/carla-ciuffo) January 05, 2016 Boulevard Quarterly ## 2015 [### Harvard Visiting Artist Carla Ciuffo Merges Art With Cutting-Edge Science ](http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/9911-harvard-visiting-artist-carla-ciuffo-merges-art-with-cutting-edge) November 14, 2015 Art Fix Daily [### Harvard Smoker ](https://review.bellmedia.ca/view/393102230) September 15, 2015 Discovery Channel, Daily Planet [### Learning to Engineer a Better Brisket ](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/business/learning-to-engineer-a-better-brisket.html?_r=2) July 18, 2015 The New York Times [### How 16 Harvard Students Built the Ultimate BBQ Bot ](http://www.wired.com/2015/07/high-tech-bbq/) July 01, 2015 Wired Magazine [### Meet the Innovator: Harvard Professor Kit Parker ](http://www.toryburch.com/blog-post/blog-post.html?bpid=120752) May 29, 2015 Tory Daily [### The Engineer Making Meat Taste Better ](http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150522-is-this-the-perfect-barbecue-method) May 25, 2015 BBC [### At Harvard, Even the Meat Smoker is Smart ](http://www.marketplace.org/topics/education/harvard-even-meat-smoker-smart) May 25, 2015 Marketplace [### Karlson and McKenzie Fat Guy Moment: Harvard Professor’s Perfect Smoker ](http://wzlx.cbslocal.com/2015/05/14/km-fat-guy-moment-harvard-professors-perfect-smoker/) May 14, 2015 100.7 WZLX [### Harvard engineering students devise ultimate BBQ smoker ](http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/05/05/harvard-class-cooks-ultimate-bbq-smoker/0O4fLQ0rbt9qMGsllPoTjK/story.html) May 05, 2015 The Boston Globe [### Blast Force: The Invisible War on the Brain ](http://www.nationalgeographic.com/healing-soldiers/blast-force.html) February 01, 2015 National Geographic ## 2014 [### Modeling the mitochondrial cardiomyopathy of Barth syndrome with induced pluripotent stem cell and heart-on-chip technologies ](http://www.nature.com/nm/podcast/index-2014-06-05.html) June 05, 2014 Nature Medicine Podcast [### Quality Assurance Techniques Proposed for Stem Cells ](http://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=17072) March 07, 2014 Science & Enterprise [### Establishing standards where none exist; researchers define ‘good’ stem cell ](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140306130417.htm/) March 06, 2014 ScienceDaily [### Reject! Study Sets Sights on Substandard Stem Cells ](http://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/reject-study-sets-sights-on-substandard-stem-cells/81249594/) March 03, 2014 Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology [### Cuttlefish 'Chameleon of the Sea' to Offer Human Camouflage? \[Video\] ](http://guardianlv.com/2014/01/cuttlefish-chameleon-of-the-sea-to-offer-bioinspired-human-camouflage/) January 29, 2014 Liberty Voice [### Secrets Of The ‘Chameleon Of The Sea:’ Cuttlefish’s Ability To Change Colors Can Inspire Protective Camouflage For Soldiers ](http://www.ibtimes.com/secrets-chameleon-sea-cuttlefishs-ability-change-colors-can-inspire-protective-camouflage-soldiers) January 29, 2014 International Business Times [### Science turns to ‘chameleon of the sea’ for camouflage inspiration ](http://www.ibtimes.com/secrets-chameleon-sea-cuttlefishs-ability-change-colors-can-inspire-protective-camouflage-soldiers) January 29, 2014 Science News ## 2013 [### Creativity and Former Soldiers Work To Solve Battlefield Problems From A Harvard Labthe Art of Annoyance ](http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/life-art/201307/creativity-and-the-art-annoyance) July 10, 2013 Psychology Today [### Former Soldiers Work To Solve Battlefield Problems From A Harvard Lab ](http://www.wgbhnews.org/post/former-soldiers-work-solve-battlefield-problems-harvard-lab) July 10, 2013 WGBH [### Finding drugs for the faint of heart ](http://diseasebiophysics.seas.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/scibx-2013-617.pdf) June 27, 2013 Science-Business eXchange [### The Army’s Mad Scientist ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b0o4THLyqA) May 08, 2013 The Daily Conversation [### Using fashion to teach innovation at Harvard ](http://www.boston.com/news/science/blogs/science-in-mind/2013/05/08/using-fashion-teach-innovation-harvard/EUnCcVGMJEE0YsCiCTsbTL/blog.html) May 05, 2013 The Boston Globe [### Counterinsurgency Cops: Military tactics fight street crime ](http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50146229n) May 05, 2013 60 Minutes [### From soldier to mad scientist: Kit Parker’s lab ](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57582930-10391709/from-soldier-to-mad-scientist-kit-parkers-lab/) May 05, 2013 60 Minutes [### Maj. Parker: We can’t “kill our way” out of war ](http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50146235n) May 05, 2013 60 Minutes ## 2012 [### To counter gangs, Springfield adopts tactics from war zones ](http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/massachusetts/2012/08/19/harvard-team-analyzes-springfield-policing-effort-inspired-military-counterinsurgency-tactics/U61eU3c4dr7TzFhN6inmKL/story.html) August 20, 2012 The Boston Globe [### What Would It Take to Really Build an Artificial Jellyfish? ](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/2012/07/25/what-would-it-take-to-really-build-an-artificial-jellyfish/) July 25, 2012 Scientific American [### How to Build a Jellyfish — and Why You’d Bother ](http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2120119,00.html) July 23, 2012 Time Magazine [### Artificial jellyfish created from heart cells ](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18953034) July 23, 2012 BBC News [### Quest to build a heart gets lift from jellyfish. ](http://articles.boston.com/2012-07-23/business/32786960_1_jellyfish-john-dabiri-rat-heart-cells) July 22, 2012 Boston Globe [### 'We Took a Rat Apart and Rebuilt It as a Jellyfish' ](http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/we-took-a-rat-apart-and-rebuilt-it-as-a-jellyfish/260161/) July 22, 2012 The Atlantic [### Lab-Made Jellyfish Hints at Heart Fix. ](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444097904577539081426736516.html) July 22, 2012 Wall Street Journal [### With Green Beret Tactics, Combating Gang Warfare ](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/us/springfield-mass-fights-crime-using-green-beret-tactics.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0) April 30, 2012 NY Times [### A Data-Driven War on Crime. ](http://www.nature.com/news/a-data-driven-war-on-crime-1.10389) April 04, 2012 Nature [### Can War Injuries Spawn Massacres. ](http://the-scientist.com/2012/03/21/can-war-injuries-spawn-massacres/) March 21, 2012 The Scientist [### The Traumatized Brain. ](http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/03/the-traumatized-brain) March 01, 2012 Harvard Magazine [### Engineering a New Line of Attack On a Signature War Injury. ](http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6064/33.full) January 06, 2012 Science ## 2011 [### A Battle He Refuses to Lose. ](http://articles.boston.com/2011-08-01/lifestyle/29839464_1_tbi-traumatic-brain-injury-cellular-level) August 01, 2011 Boston Globe [### How Blasts Injure the Brain. ](http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6042/506.2.full?sid=6e90fa4b-489b-4a8d-b5d2-6dccd3343294) July 29, 2011 Science [### The Mechanics of Blast Injuries – Two studies mimic the effects of traumatic brain injury in cells, helping to explain how explosions harm soldiers’ brains. ](http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38113/) July 22, 2011 Technology Review [### Bomb-Blast Brain Injuries Explained – Researchers identify protein pathway involved in traumatic brain injury. ](http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110722/full/news.2011.434.html) July 22, 2011 Nature [### Soldier Fights Brain Injuries in Lab. ](http://edition.cnn.com/video/?/video/health/2011/07/05/hf.kit.parker.cnn) July 05, 2011 CNN [### Building a Human on a Chip, Organ by Organ. ](http://ndsram.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/maxis-building-a-human-on-a-chip-organ-by-organ/) June 22, 2011 New Scientist [### Tapping Carnival Tech, Researchers Create Nanofibers Inspired by Cotton Candy. ](http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-05/tapping-carnival-tech-researchers-produce-nanofibers-inspired-cotton-candy) May 25, 2011 Popular Science [### The Blasted Brain: Traumatic Brain Injury on the Battlefield. ](http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/one-mind-for-research/the-blasted-brain-traumatic-brain-injury-on-the-battlefield) May 24, 2011 The Science Network ## 2010 [### Testimony of Kevin Kit Parker Before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Domestic Policy Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives. ](http://oversight.house.gov/hearing/from-molecules-to-minds-the-future-of-neuroscience-research-and-development/) September 29, 2010 [YouTube Part 4: 04:50-12:00/25:05] democrats.oversight.house.gov [### Growing Organs and Helping Wounds Heal – A strong, stretchy material could provide a scaffold for growing organs or making wounds heal faster. ](http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/25918/) August 02, 2010 Technology Review [### Inspired by a Cotton Candy Machine, Engineers Put a New Spin On Creating Tiny Nanofibers. ](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100525094925.htm) May 25, 2010 Science Daily ## 2009 [### Making Heart Muscle. ](http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=23746) October 16, 2009 Technology Review ## 2008 [### Why Is It So Hard to Fix a Damaged Heart? 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