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The ‘Enormous’ Promise of Focused Ultrasound Now Coming True
Elisa Konofagou | Via Medscape | October 11, 2024After 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, […]
They cracked the code for proteins’ amazing structures
David Baker | Via The Nobel Foundation | October 9, 2024The 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 […]
Study finds persistent infection could explain long COVID in some people
David Walt | Via EurekAlert | October 9, 2024Brigham 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 […]
Carnegie Mellon lands ARPA-H award for implantable bioelectric medicine project
Burak Ozdoganlar | Via Carnegie Mellon University | October 2, 2024An 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 […]
Hypoglycemia Controlled by Glucose Responsive Glucagon-Loaded Micelles
Heather Maynard | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | October 2, 2024People 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 Named Mellon College of Science Dean
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham | Via Carnegie Mellon University | September 30, 2024Barbara 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 […]
Building better bone grafts
Peter X. Ma | Via University of Michigan | September 26, 2024Each 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 […]
Synthetic Biology Empowers Farmers with Cutting-Edge Crop Diagnostics
Julius Lucks | Via Northwestern University | September 24, 2024Northwestern 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 […]
Space travel disrupts normal rhythm in heart cells
Deok-Ho Kim | Via Cardiovascular Business | September 24, 2024Heart 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 […]
Surgeons Harness AI to Boost Patient Outcomes
Yuman Fong | Via City of Hope | September 23, 2024City 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, […]
The broken healthcare system and can nano medicine, virtual healthcare correct it?
Thomas Webster | Via YouTube | September 22, 2024“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 […]
Congratulations to the recipient of the 2024 Dickson Prize in Science, Dr. Gilda A. Barabino.
Gilda Barabino | Via Carnegie Mellon University | September 19, 2024Dr. 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 […]
New ventilator-on-a-chip model enables real-time detection of lung injury at cellular level
Samir Ghadiali | Via Medical Xpress | September 19, 2024For 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 […]
This screen stores and displays encrypted images without electronics
Joerg Lahann | Via University of Michigan | September 16, 2024It 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 from Combat Injuries Focus of DARPA-Funded Prophylactic Approach
Samir Mitragotri | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | September 16, 2024Bloodstream 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 […]
Automated tuning of large-scale neuronal models
Byron Yu | Via Carnegie Mellon University | September 16, 2024An 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 […]
Researchers find facemask impacts are leading source of higher severity impacts in professional American football
Kristy Arbogast | Via EurekAlert | September 11, 2024Nearly 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 […]
How space became a place for the study of aging
Joseph Wu | Via Stanford University | September 6, 2024Since 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 […]
Battling chronic pain with noninvasive focused ultrasound
Bin He | Via Carnegie Mellon University | September 5, 2024Chronic 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 […]
AI tool maps out cell metabolism with precision
Vassily Hatzimanikatis | Via Phys.org | August 30, 2024Understanding 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 […]