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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 […]
Alper Receives TAMEST’s 2019 O’Donnell Award in Engineering
Hal S. Alper | Via The University of Texas at Austin | November 14, 2018Hal S. Alper, Ph.D. is the recipient of the 2019 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Engineering from TAMEST (The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas). Dr. Alper’s research looks for sustainable ways to create new molecules that can be used for plastics, drugs and other products that typically require petroleum products as […]
Moths and magnets could save lives
Gang Bao | Via Rice University | November 12, 2018A new technology that relies on a moth-infecting virus and nanomagnets could be used to edit defective genes that give rise to diseases like sickle cell, muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis. Rice University bioengineer Gang Bao has combined magnetic nanoparticles with a viral container drawn from a particular species of moth to deliver CRISPR/Cas9 payloads […]
Researchers Develop ‘Bio-patch’ to Monitor Post-surgical Success of Breast Reconstruction
Guang-Zhong Yang | Via Breastcancer News | November 9, 2018An international team of researchers has developed a wireless device that can detect early problems after a patient undergoes breast reconstruction surgery. The work, led by Imperial College London in the U.K., and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), was part of the Smart Sensing for Surgery project. Breast reconstruction surgery […]
Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust commits $12 million to the UI College of Engineering to improve human health
Joseph Reinhardt | Via University of IOWA | November 8, 2018The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust has committed a transformational $12 million grant to fund life-changing research and discoveries in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the University of Iowa College of Engineering. With this grant, the department will build on its exceptional contributions to the field of pulmonary and respiratory biomedicine to find solutions […]