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After several years of investigating focused ultrasound as a tool in treating Alzheimer’s, the field took a big leap forward this year. Elisa Konofagou, PhD, a biomedical engineer who runs the Ultrasound and Elasticity Imaging Laboratory at Columbia University in the City of New York, published the results of her team’s groundbreaking research in July, […]
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools. David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. These discoveries hold enormous potential. The diversity […]
Brigham researchers found people with wide-ranging long COVID symptoms were twice as likely to have SARS-CoV-2 proteins in their blood, compared to those without long COVID symptoms A persistent infection could explain why some people experience long COVID symptoms, according to a new study led by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member […]
An award of up to $42 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has been secured by a CMU-led team to accelerate the development of implantable, cell-based bioelectronic devices that deliver patient-specific therapy and monitor disease status, for conditions like hypo- and hyperthyroidism, in real time. A Carnegie Mellon University-led team has […]
People with diabetes take insulin to lower high blood sugar. However, if glucose levels plunge too low—from taking too much insulin or not eating enough sugar—people can experience hypoglycemia, which can lead to dizziness, cognitive impairment, seizures or comas. Emergency treatment with the hormone glucagon (GCG) may be needed. Researchers at the University of California, […]
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham has been named Carnegie Mellon University’s Glen de Vries Dean of the Mellon College of Science (MCS), effective Jan. 1, 2025. Shinn-Cunningham, who will be the eighth dean to lead MCS, joined Carnegie Mellon in 2018 as the founding director of the Neuroscience Institute and the George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor […]
Each year, about 2.2 million bone-grafting procedures are performed worldwide, the gold standard of care being autografting, which uses the patient’s own bone for tooth implantation and to repair and reconstruct parts of the mouth, face and skull. Given drawbacks to autografting that include the need for additional surgery, longer recovery time, complication risks and […]
Northwestern Engineering’s Julius B. Lucks understands the value of lab work. As a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and codirector of the Center for Synthetic Biology (CSB), Lucks and his lab investigate the molecular principles that enable biological systems to sense and adapt to changing environments. They then […]
Heart tissue samples that spent 30 days at the International Space Station (ISS) showed low gravity conditions in space weakened the tissues and disrupted their normal rhythmic beats when compared to earth-bound samples from the same source. The finding has implications for the cardiac health of astronauts on long duration space flights. Johns Hopkins Medicine […]
City of Hope physicians are using artificial intelligence algorithms to help them choose the best candidates for procedures, predict and prevent possible complications, remotely monitor patients’ health status and more With recent leaps in artificial intelligence, more and more attention is being devoted to algorithms and their effect on society. But beyond chatbots, image generators, […]
“Why Healthcare is Broken & is Nano Medicine, personalized healthcare the answer? ” Thomas J. Webster’s degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh & in biomedical engineering from RPI. He has served as a professor at Purdue , Brown , and Northeastern serving as Chemical Engineering Department Chair from Universities and has […]
Dr. Barabino is the president of Olin College of Engineering, as well as a professor of biomedical and chemical engineering with a broad interest in global health and interdisciplinary engineering education and research. Her seminal research in sickle cell disease and orthopedic tissue engineering informed current technologies and formed the basis for novel therapies. A […]
For the first time, scientists are able to directly compare the different kinds of injury that mechanical ventilation causes to cells in the lungs. In a new study, using a ventilator-on-a-chip model developed at The Ohio State University, researchers found that shear stress from the collapse and reopening of the air sacs is the most […]
It uses magnetic fields to display images at the same resolution as a squid’s color-changing skin A flexible screen inspired, in part, by squid can store and display encrypted images like a computer—using magnetic fields rather than electronics. The research is reported in Advanced Materials by University of Michigan engineers. “It’s one of the first […]
Bloodstream infections (BSIs) can be uniquely challenging in trauma victims who are affected by burn and blast injuries—and this is particularly true for fungal infections. DARPA’s (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) new SHIELD (Synthetic Hemo-technologies to Locate and Disinfect) program is honing in on this issue, with an aim to develop a prophylactic treatment that […]
An interdisciplinary group of researchers primarily based at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh presents a novel framework, Spiking Network Optimization using Population Statistics, that can quickly and accurately customize models that reproduce activity to mimic what’s observed in the brain. Developing large-scale neural network models that mimic the brain’s activity is a […]
Nearly one third of concussions in professional American football are due to impacts from the facemask, a part of the helmet that has remained mostly unchanged in the last decade. In a new study presented at the International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury conference today, researchers used data collected from instrumented mouthpieces worn by […]
Since the first astronauts spent time in space, scientists have known that space travel affects the human body in strange ways. Muscle and bone mass decrease; telomeres, the protective end caps on chromosomes, shorten; and the risk of conditions usually associated with old age, such as cancers, cataracts and cardiovascular disease, ticks up. Why the […]
Chronic pain impacts an estimated 20 percent of the world population and persists as a frustrating symptom for innumerable health issues, from sickle-cell disease to arthritis. As part of his lab’s committed focus to improving noninvasive technology solutions for human health, Bin He of Carnegie Mellon University is developing noninvasive neuromodulation strategies to serve as […]
Understanding how cells process nutrients and produce energy—collectively known as metabolism—is essential in biology. Modern biology generates large datasets on various cellular activities, but integrating and analyzing the vast amounts of data on cellular processes to determine metabolic states is a complex task. Kinetic models offer a way to decode this complexity by providing mathematical […]