Genetic Engineering on the Cheap

January 13, 2015

(Boston Globe) – Today, Jensen, Sharei, and several other researchers from their laboratory have amped up their operations and are developing a simple tool that researchers — and, ultimately, practicing physicians — could use to conduct lab work on the cheap. Their company, SQZ Biotech (pronounced “squeeze”), has created a system called the CellSqueeze platform. It pumps up to 1,000,000 cells per second through a system of channels that squeezes them, opening a bunch of small pores that allow foreign molecules to enter.