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Biomedical Engineering Chair to Be Inducted in National Academy of Inventors
Igor Efimov | Via George Washington University | December 10, 2018School of Engineering and Applied Science Professor Igor Efimov is set to be inducted into the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) next spring, a prestigious distinction for leaders in academic innovation. Dr. Efimov is the Alisann and Terry Collins Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the George Washington […]
Researchers evaluate pMSCs sheets for engineered repair and regeneration of heart tissue
Joyce Wong | Via EurekAlert | December 7, 2018The placenta offers an abundant source of placenta-derived mesenchymal stem cells (pMSCs), which a new study has shown can readily form cell sheets that could be implanted in children with congenital heart defects and offer benefits for heart repair and regeneration compared to commonly used synthetic material-based scaffolds. Congenital heart disease is the leading cause […]
DeSimone receives prestigious National Academy of Sciences prize in convergent science
Joseph DeSimone | Via University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | December 6, 2018Joseph M. DeSimone, Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry at Carolina and William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at NC State University, is the recipient of the 2018 National Academy of Sciences Award for Convergent Science. The $350,000 prize recognizes significant advances in convergence research — the integration of two or more of […]
World’s Smallest Wearable Device Warns of UV Exposure, Enables Precision Phototherapy
John Rogers | Via Northwestern University | December 5, 2018The world’s smallest wearable, battery-free device has been developed by Northwestern Medicine and Northwestern Engineering scientists to measure exposure to light across multiple wavelengths, from the ultra violet (UV) to visible and even infrared parts of the solar spectrum. It can record up to three separate wavelengths of light at one time. The device’s underlying […]
CMU Welcomes New Head of Chemical Engineering
Anne Skaja Robinson | Via Carnegie Mellon University | December 5, 2018Internationally renowned researcher Anne Skaja Robinson has joined Carnegie Mellon University as head of its Department of Chemical Engineering. Robinson comes from Tulane University, where she was chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering since 2012. She succeeds Lorenz Biegler, who served as the department head for five years. Robinson’s lab has two […]
Flu’s clues: A new approach to studying influenza
Daniel A. Fletcher | Via Washington University in St. Louis | December 3, 2018Scientists have known for decades that a flu virus in a human body can be a lot different than viruses grown in a lab. As opposed to the uniform, spherical, textbook-style viruses in a petri dish, in humans they vary in shape and composition — particularly the abundance of certain proteins — even if they […]
New Spinal Discs Grown from Stem Cells
Robert L. Mauck | Via Pain News Network | November 30, 2018Scientists have moved a step closer to being able to replace degenerated spinal discs with new ones grown in a laboratory from a patient’s own stem cells. Spinal discs are soft tissues that cushion the vertebrae and enable our backs to conform and perform the tasks of everyday movement. Over time, the discs can wear […]
With these nanoparticles, a simple urine test could diagnose bacterial pneumonia
Sangeeta Bhatia | Via MIT | November 29, 2018Pneumonia, a respiratory disease that kills about 50,000 people in the United States every year, can be caused by many different microbes, including bacteria and viruses. Rapid detection of pneumonia is critical for effective treatment, especially in hospital-acquired cases which are often more severe. However, current diagnostic approaches often take several days to return definitive […]
Potential arthritis treatment prevents cartilage breakdown
Paula Hammond | Via MIT | November 28, 2018Osteoarthritis, a disease that causes severe joint pain, affects more than 20 million people in the United States. Some drug treatments can help alleviate the pain, but there are no treatments that can reverse or slow the cartilage breakdown associated with the disease. In an advance that could improve the treatment options available for osteoarthritis, […]
Andrew Zydney named recipient of Alan S. Michaels Award
Andrew Zydney | Via Penn State University | November 28, 2018The Division of Biochemical Technology of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has named Andrew Zydney, Bayard D. Kunkle Chair and professor of chemical engineering at Penn State, as the 2019 recipient of the Alan S. Michaels Award in the Recovery of Biological Products. The award recognizes outstanding research and practice contributions in the field of […]
Glenn Prestwich honored as 2018 AAAS Fellows
Glenn Prestwich | Via University of Utah | November 27, 2018University of Utah professors Shelley Minteer and Glenn Prestwich are among the 416 newly-elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. AAAS members have been awarded this honor because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to […]
Guillermo Ameer named AAAS fellow
Guillermo Ameer | Via Northwestern University | November 27, 2018Three Northwestern University faculty members have been elected 2018 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. Guillermo Ameer, Jian Cao and Frederic Rasio have been recognized for their distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. They will be honored on Saturday, Feb. 16, at […]
Quantitative Analysis Improves Breast Screening: Research Highlights from RSNA
Elizabeth Burnside | Via PR Newswire | November 27, 2018Quantitative analysis improves breast cancer screening, according to four abstracts at the 104th Annual Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting, November 25–30, 2018. The investigators all used Volpara Solutions’ breast imaging analysis tools, including assessment of volumetric density and compression pressure, in their research. In the study “Using Quantitative Breast Density Analysis to Predict […]
Guiseppi-Elie named associate dean of EnMed
Anthony Guiseppi-Elie | Via Texas A&M University | November 27, 2018Dr. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie has been named associate dean of Engineering Medicine (EnMed) at Texas A&M University. He is currently a TEES Research Professor and professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. EnMed is Texas A&M University’s innovative engineering medicine school option at Houston […]
Citrate-based biomaterial fuels bone healing with less rejection
Jian Yang | Via The Pennsylvania State University | November 26, 2018A material based on a natural product of bones and citrus fruit, called citrate, provides the extra energy that stem cells need to form new bone tissue, according to a team of Penn State bioengineers. Their new understanding of the mechanism that allows citrate to aid in bone regeneration will help the researchers develop slow-release, […]
US Scientists Win the Three Highest Medical Awards by Hamdan Medical Award
Vijay Goel | Via PR Newswire | November 22, 2018Three American scientists are included among the winners of the International Awards given by the Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences, according to an official announcement that was given recently in Dubai. H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, UAE Minister of Finance and the Patron of […]
Brain implant lets people with limb paralysis compose and send emails, select videos and even play music, just by thinking
Krishna Shenoy | Via Stanford Medicine | November 21, 2018New clinical trial results show that people with paralysis who have been equipped with a technologically advanced, baby-aspirin-sized brain implant can learn to directly operate an off-the-shelf computer tablet, just by thinking about making cursor movements and clicks on a wireless mouse paired to the device. The implant-enabled trial participants were able to carry out […]
Accelerating health care innovation by connecting engineering and medicine
Jeffrey Holmes | Via The Conversation | November 19, 2018Artificial heart valves, prosthetic hips, bedside monitors, MRI machines – these and so many other innovations that we now take for granted emerged at the interface of engineering and medicine. In an era of big data, personalized medicine and artificial intelligence, the importance of engineering, especially in medicine, is increasing. In my own field of […]
Human images from the world’s first total-body medical scanner unveiled
Simon Cherry | Via UC Davis | November 19, 2018EXPLORER, the world’s first medical imaging scanner that can capture a 3-D picture of the whole human body at once, has produced its first scans. The brainchild of UC Davis scientists Simon Cherry and Ramsey Badawi, EXPLORER is a combined positron emission tomography (PET) and x-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner that can image the entire […]