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Innovators of the Coronary Angioplasty Win 2019 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize
Julio Palmaz | Via National Academy of Engineering | January 3, 2019The National Academy of Engineering and Ohio University announced today that the 2019 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize will be given to Julio Palmaz, Leonard Pinchuk, Richard Schatz, John Simpson, and Paul Yock for innovations leading to the widespread adoption of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), previously known as angioplasty with stent or coronary […]
Innovators of the Coronary Angioplasty Win 2019 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize
Leonard Pinchuk | Via National Academy of Engineering | January 3, 2019The National Academy of Engineering and Ohio University announced today that the 2019 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize will be given to Julio Palmaz, Leonard Pinchuk, Richard Schatz, John Simpson, and Paul Yock for innovations leading to the widespread adoption of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), previously known as angioplasty with stent or coronary […]
Innovators of the Coronary Angioplasty Win 2019 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize
Paul Yock | Via National Academy of Engineering | January 3, 2019The National Academy of Engineering and Ohio University announced today that the 2019 Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize will be given to Julio Palmaz, Leonard Pinchuk, Richard Schatz, John Simpson, and Paul Yock for innovations leading to the widespread adoption of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), previously known as angioplasty with stent or coronary […]
Tiny, implantable device uses light to treat bladder problems
John Rogers | Via Washington University in St. Louis | January 2, 2019A team of neuroscientists and engineers has developed a tiny, implantable device that has potential to help people with bladder problems bypass the need for medication or electronic stimulators. The team — from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern […]
Bridging the Valley of Death in Biotech
Stephen Boppart | Via SPIE | January 1, 2019Stephen Boppart, director of the Center for Optical Molecular Imaging and head of the Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), is fully committed to moving biophotonics technology from the bench to the bedside, and beyond. He encourages research faculty to drive the translation of their work into the commercial sphere—something he […]
6th Convocation Speech of Prof. Bikramjit Basu at NIPER-Ahmedabad
Bikramjit Basu | Via Youtube | January 1, 2019Earl Bakken: Celebrating One Man’s Full Life
Earl Bakken | Via Medtronic @ YouTube | December 24, 2018Reducing head impacts in youth football
Joel D. Stitzel | Via Science Daily | December 21, 2018Recent research has shown that limiting contact in football practice can reduce the number of head impacts. But what is the correct formula to lessen exposure while still developing the skills necessary to safely play the game? To find out, researchers at Wake Forest School of Medicine, a part of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, […]
Rutgers University Researchers Develop Desktop Venipuncture Robot Capable of Drawing Blood Samples and Rendering Analyses Outside of Medical Laboratories
Martin L. Yarmush | Via Dark Daily | December 21, 2018Researchers at Rutgers University have developed a new venipuncture robot that can not only draw blood and perform medical laboratory tests, but also provide immediate analyses of blood samples at point-of-care locations, such as clinics, private doctor’s offices, and rural environments. It’s a development that could give clinical laboratories new opportunities to support physicians. But, […]
Identifying Cancer-Driving Gene Mutations – An Interview by Cancer Network
Rachel Karchin | Via Cancer Network | December 20, 2018Rachel Karchin, PhD, is a professor of biomedical engineering, oncology, and computer science, with joint appointments at the Whiting School of Engineering and School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She is a core member of the Institute for Computational Medicine. A computational biologist, Dr. Karchin develops algorithms and software to analyze genomic […]
Fabrication of Shape-conformable Batteries Based on 3D-printing Technology
Jennifer A. Lewis | Via KAIST | December 20, 2018Flexible, wireless electronic devices are rapidly emerging and have reached the level of commercialization; nevertheless, most of battery shapes are limited to either spherical and/or rectangular structures, which results in inefficient space use. Professor Il-Doo Kim’s team from the Department of Materials Science at KAIST has successfully developed technology to significantly enhance the variability of […]
Novel imaging technique brings diagnostic potential into operating room
Stephen Boppart | Via University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | December 19, 2018A team of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers led by Bioengineering Professor Stephen Boppart has successfully visualized the tumor microenvironment of human breast tissue shortly after it was surgically removed from a patient in the operating room. The researchers achieved this using a new portable optical imaging system developed in Boppart’s lab. This work, […]
Turning Failure into Success: 3 principles of RADICAL SIMPLICITY
Jeff Karp | Via Youtube | December 19, 2018
New Megalibrary Approach Proves Useful for the Rapid Discovery of New Materials
Chad Mirkin | Via Northwestern University | December 18, 2018Different eras of civilization are defined by the discovery of new materials, as new materials drive new capabilities. And yet, identifying the best material for a given application — catalysts, light-harvesting structures, biodiagnostic labels, pharmaceuticals, and electronic devices—is traditionally a slow and daunting task. The options are nearly infinite, particularly at the nanoscale where material […]
Seer Launches to Develop Liquid Biopsy for Cancer, Brain Disease
Omid Farokhzad | Via Xconomy | December 17, 2018Omid Farokhzad has, as he says, “been around the block a few times” in biotech. The cancer nanomedicine researcher has cofounded a handful of companies that have tried to develop nanotech-based and other drugs for cancer and other diseases. But their results have been mixed. BIND Therapeutics had some clinical disappointments and went bankrupt in […]
FDA approves device based on Vanderbilt invention to ID parathyroid during head and neck surgeries
Anita Mahadevan-Jansen | Via Vanderbilt University | December 17, 2018Ten years after Professor of Biomedical Engineering Anita Mahadevan-Jansen discovered that parathyroid tissues glow under near-infrared light, the FDA has approved a device based on the technology for surgical use. She and her team developed the technology at the Vanderbilt Biophotonics Center. The device called “PTeye” has been tested at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and […]
Ingestible capsule can be controlled wirelessly
Robert Langer | Via MIT | December 13, 2018Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule that can be controlled using Bluetooth wireless technology. The capsule, which can be customized to deliver drugs, sense environmental conditions, or both, can reside in the stomach for at least a month, transmitting information and responding to instructions from a user’s […]
Team invents method to shrink objects to the nanoscale
Edward Boyden | Via MIT | December 13, 2018MIT researchers have invented a way to fabricate nanoscale 3-D objects of nearly any shape. They can also pattern the objects with a variety of useful materials, including metals, quantum dots, and DNA. “It’s a way of putting nearly any kind of material into a 3-D pattern with nanoscale precision,” says Edward Boyden, the Y. […]
C.C. Chu named fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
C.C. Chu | Via Cornell University | December 12, 2018C.C. Chu, the Rebecca Q. Morgan ’60 Professor of Fiber Science & Apparel Design, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He is one of 148 academic inventors to receive the honor this year. Chu’s work focuses on biodegradable biomaterials design and development applications, including tissue engineering for human body […]
John Rogers Receives 2019 Benjamin Franklin Medal
John Rogers | Via Northwestern University | December 10, 2018Northwestern Engineering’s John A. Rogers has received the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Materials Engineering from The Franklin Institute, one of the oldest centers for science education and development in the country. Rogers is the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and professor of biomedical engineering in the McCormick School […]