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Rory Cooper is Driven to Solve Problems for Disabled People
Rory Cooper | Via AAAS | August 20, 2018As a young man, facing life after suffering a spinal cord injury in a bicycling accident in 1980, AAAS Fellow and AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador Rory Cooper wanted three things — to become an engineer, to be able to support a family, and to make a difference in the world. But he didn’t think he could […]
ICME Approaches to Innovation in Biomedical Implants Workshop
Bikramjit Basu | Via AIMBE | August 11, 2018Proof-of-concept technique makes nanoparticles attractive for new medications
You Han Bae | Via MD Linx | August 9, 2018Since the development of insulin to manage diabetes, pharmacists have longed to create an insulin pill. Past attempts have failed because insulin does not survive the harsh conditions of the GI system and cannot easily cross the GI wall. Researchers at University of Utah Health developed a proof-of-concept technology using nanoparticles that could offer a […]
Genetic Mutations of Appendix Cancer Identified, May Impact Treatment
Trey Ideker | Via UC San Diego | August 8, 2018The rarity of appendix cancer, accounting for less than 1 percent of tumors that originate in the gastrointestinal tract, and the lack of scientific data for this disease means that current treatment guidelines recommend applying therapies to people with appendix cancer that are intended for those with colon cancer. To understand why some patients with […]
Denali Therapeutics Appoints Dana Andersen, Ph.D., as Chief Technical and Manufacturing Officer
Dana Andersen | Via GlobeNewsWire | August 7, 2018Denali Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing a broad portfolio of product candidates for neurodegenerative diseases, today announced that Dr. Dana Andersen has joined the company as Chief Technical and Manufacturing Officer. Dr. Andersen joins Denali from Genentech, where he served in various roles for nearly 23 years, working most recently as Vice President and Global […]
Gilda Barabino earns second national award this summer
Gilda Barabino | Via CCNY | August 1, 2018The National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers presents its 2018 Dr. Joseph N. Cannon Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering to Gilda A. Barabino, dean of The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering this fall. The award recognizes her excellent achievements in chemical engineering. Barabino will […]
Inexpensive biology kits offer hands-on experience with DNA
James Collins | Via MIT | August 1, 2018To help students gain a better grasp of biological concepts, MIT and Northwestern University researchers have designed educational kits that can be used to perform experiments with DNA, to produce glowing proteins, scents, or other easily observed phenomena. Biology teachers could use the BioBits kits to demonstrate key concepts such as how DNA is translated […]
Student-Built Online Game Accompanies Online Class
Angelique Louie | Via UC davis | July 31, 2018When Professor Angelique Louie needed some help with her online course “Introduction to Research,” she enlisted a little help from experts such as science fiction author H.G. Wells, biochemist Rosalind Franklin and poet Alexander Pushkin. Well, sort of. Wells, Franklin and Pushkin are among the “nonplayer characters” who inhabit an online game developed to accompany […]
Professor Bischof named director of University’s Institute for Engineering in Medicine
John Bischof | Via University of Minnesota | July 30, 2018Distinguished McKnight University Professor John Bischof has been appointed for a three-year term as director of the University of Minnesota Institute for Engineering in Medicine (IEM). He has served as interim director during the past year. As director of IEM, Bischof will report to both the University of Minnesota Dean of the Medical School and […]
Novel polymer foam device receives FDA clearance for cardiovascular treatments
Duncan Maitland | Via Texas A&M | July 27, 2018A lifesaving device more than 20 years in the making has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The clearance allows a company, co-founded by Associate Department Head Dr. Duncan Maitland from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, to begin to market the medical device. Maitland developed the […]
Doctors rely on more than just data for medical decision making
Roger Mark | Via MIT | July 20, 2018Many technology companies are working on artificial intelligence systems that can analyze medical data to help diagnose or treat health problems. Such systems raise the question of whether this kind of technology can perform as well as a human doctor. A new study from MIT computer scientists suggests that human doctors provide a dimension that, […]
“Stable marriages” between microbes, nutrients they eat may explain diverse yet stable communities
Sergei Maslov | Via Illinois IGB | July 19, 2018A mathematical model created by IGB researchers could help scientists better understand an intriguing characteristic of microbial communities: their ability to achieve stability despite being so diverse. Microbial communities are groups of microorganisms that exist in a variety of environments — in the soil, in the oceans, and in our bodies. Though these communities are […]
Magnetized wire could be used to detect cancer in people
Sam Gambhir | Via Stanford Medicine | July 16, 2018A magnetic wire used to snag scarce and hard-to-capture tumor cells could prove to be a swift and effective tactic for early cancer detection, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The wire, which is threaded into a vein, attracts special magnetic nanoparticles engineered to glom onto tumor cells […]
Imperial joint mechanics expert elected to World Council of Biomechanics
Anthony M J Bull | Via Imperial College London | July 12, 2018The Council is the world’s leading professional body dedicated to biomechanics – a field that studies the structure and function of the mechanical aspects of biological systems. Professor Bull, head of Imperial College London’s Department of Bioengineering and its Centre for Blast Injury Studies, focuses on the effects of sports and injuries from blasts on […]
National Workshop on ICME Approaches to Innovation in Biomedical Implants
Bikramjit Basu | Via AIMBE | July 12, 2018Professor Kirk Shung becomes Dwight C. and Hildagarde E. Baum Chair
Kirk Shung | Via University of Southern California | July 11, 2018Professsor K. Kirk Shung has assumed the role of Dwight C. and Hildegarde E. Baum Chair in Biomedical Engineering as of July 1. Joining USC Viterbi’s Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) in 2002, Shung conducts research primarily in the area of high frequency ultrasonic imaging and transducer development. His research has been supported by an […]
New DNA Synthesis Method Could Soon Build a Genome in a Day
Jay Keasling | Via Singularity Hub | July 10, 2018Synthetic biologists are the computer programmers of biology. Their code? DNA. The whole enterprise sounds fantastical: you insert new snippets of DNA code—in the form of a chain of A, T, C, G letters—into an organism, and bam! Suddenly you have bacteria that can make anti-malaria drugs or cells that can solve complicated logic problems […]
Nanoparticles give immune cells a boost
Darrell J. Irvine | Via MIT | July 9, 2018Programming the body’s immune system to attack cancer cells has had promising results for treating blood cancers such as lymphoma and leukemia. This tactic has proven more challenging for solid tumors such as breast or lung cancers, but MIT researchers have now devised a novel way to boost the immune response against solid tumors. By […]
Stem cells restore function in primate heart-failure study
Charles Murry | Via University of Washington Medicine | July 2, 2018Researchers at UW Medicine in Seattle have successfully used human stem cells to restore heart function in monkeys with heart failure. The findings suggest that the technique will be effective in patients with heart failure, the leading cause of death in the world. “The cells form new muscle that integrates into heart so that it […]
Group uses AI to assess mammo interpretation bias
Georgia D. Tourassi | Via Aunt Minnie | June 29, 2018Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, TN, have used artificial intelligence (AI) technology to analyze how radiologists read mammograms, according to research published in the July issue of the Journal of Medical Imaging. Mammography interpretation is subject to context bias, or a radiologist’s previous diagnostic experiences, wrote senior author Georgia Tourassi, […]