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Nanovis Announces FDA Clearance of FortiCore® PLIF and TLIF Spinal Interbodies with Nanosurface Features
Thomas Webster | Via Orthospine News | March 29, 2018Nanovis, today announced the successful FDA clearance of its FortiCore® TLIF and PLIF interbodies featuring a Nanosurface-enhanced deeply porous titanium scaffold intermolded with a PEEK core. “Implant nano surface science has advanced from the early days when we simply created nanoroughness for implants because tissues have nanoroughness. Now we understand the mechanisms by which nanotopographies […]
Humans, Machines Enter a New Orbit
Wolfgang Fink | Via University of Arizona | March 28, 2018For almost 20 years, humans have maintained a continuous presence beyond Earth. The International Space Station has provided a habitat where humans can live and work for extended periods of time. Yet, despite having established a permanent base for life in space, terra firma is always in reach — within 254 miles, to be exact. […]
Our Mission: Your Success – Curious Bots
Wolfgang Fink | Via The University of Arizona | March 28, 2018Student-professor teams at Arizona do big things, like improve the ways humans and machines interact, use technology in new ways to benefit health and the environment, and more. CURIOUS BOTS Because this robotic explorer will have to make decisions on its own, it will need cognitive abilities that until now have been unique to humans, […]
Pettigrew honored with the SEC Faculty Achievement Award recognizing outstanding scholarship
Rod Pettigrew | Via Southeastern Conference | March 27, 2018Pettigrew honored with the SEC Faculty Achievement Award recognizing outstanding scholarship; one award per SEC School: Every year, the SEC selects one faculty member from each school in the conference to receive the SEC Faculty Achievement Award. The award recognizes professors with outstanding records in research and scholarship. More info | Press Release
Antonios Mikos will be the recipient of the 2019 Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal
Antonios Mikos | Via AIMBE | March 27, 2018It is with great pleasure that I inform you that our friend Antonios “Tony” G. Mikos of Rice University has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal. The Acta Biomaterialia Gold Medal “recognizes demonstrated leadership in the field of Science and Engineering of Biomaterials. The awardee is a recognized world leader […]
A fascination with magic leads Institute Professor Robert Langer to solve world problems using the marvels of chemical engineering.
Robert Langer | Via MIT | March 27, 2018Featured video: Magical Bob As a child, Institute Professor Robert S. Langer was captivated by the “magic” of the chemical reactions in a toy chemistry set. Decades later, he continues to be enchanted by the potential of chemical engineering. He is the most cited engineer in the world, and shows no signs of slowing down, […]
Interfacial aspects of carbon composites
Liming Dai | Via Taylor and Francis Online | March 26, 2018Rajib Paul, senior research associate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Liming Dai, the Kent Hale Smith Professor in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, authored a paper titled “Interfacial aspects of carbon composites.” It was recently published in Composite Interfaces. About the paper Carbon-based composites bring great promise for various […]
Mysterious skeleton shows molecular complexity of bone diseases
Garry Nolan | Via Science Daily | March 22, 2018A bizarre human skeleton, once rumored to have extraterrestrial origins, has gotten a rather comprehensive genomic work-up, the results of which are now in, researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine report. The findings stamp out any remaining quandaries about the specimen’s home planet — it’s without a doubt human — but more than […]
Learning to see – New artificial intelligence technique dramatically improves the quality of medical imaging
Bruce Rosen | Via EurekAlert | March 21, 2018A radiologist’s ability to make accurate diagnoses from high-quality diagnostic imaging studies directly impacts patient outcome. However, acquiring sufficient data to generate the best quality imaging comes at a cost – increased radiation dose for computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) or uncomfortably long scan times for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Now researchers […]
New links between genetic abnormality and brain function in Huntington’s disease
Bharat B. Biswal | Via EurekAlert | March 21, 2018While the gene mutation that causes Huntington’s disease has been associated with changes in certain types of functional brain connectivity, a new study that examined connectivity across the whole brain has now identified alterations in functional connectivity in additional brain networks and has also shown significant associations between the extent of the degree of gene […]
NIH grant awarded to Ferris for groundbreaking study of the brain during locomotor adaptation
Daniel Ferris | Via University of Florida | March 21, 2018Humans possess the ability to walk in a variety of situations – from navigating through crowds to traversing tightropes. However, due to limitations in brain imaging technology, the inner workings of the brain during adaptation of walking patterns have largely remained a mystery. “You walk in different ways all the time. You deal with terrain, […]
Part of the Crowd
Rory Cooper | Via Pitt Med | March 20, 2018Brandon Daveler twisted the throttle on his Yamaha and hit a jump at full speed. It was the first American Motorcyclist Association race of the 2005 season, and Daveler, a 15-year-old thrill seeker who enjoyed working on engines, was confident he could win the District 5 title. But his life changed in midair. Daveler flipped […]
Biomedical engineering’s Anant Madabhushi awarded patent for differential atlas for cancer characterization
Anant Madabhushi | Via Case Western Reserve | March 16, 2018Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason professor II of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics, was awarded U.S. patent 9,851,421 titled “Differential Atlas for Cancer Characterization.” The described invention provides methods and apparatus associated with producing a quantification of differences associated with biochemical recurrence (BcR) in a region […]
Treating the deep brain with ultrasound
Bin He | Via Carnegie Mellon | March 16, 2018For nearly 60 years, doctors have been using cardiac pacemakers to treat patients with abnormal heart rates, otherwise known as heart arrhythmias. These pacemakers—which consist of a battery, computerized generator, and multiple electrodes—send electrical pulses to the heart when they detect any kind of abnormal cardiac activity, like when the heart is beating too slow […]
Obesity may promote resistance to antiangiogenic therapy for breast cancer
Rakesh Jain | Via Massachusetts General Hospital | March 14, 2018Obesity – which is already known to reduce survival in several types of cancer – may explain the ineffectiveness of angiogenesis inhibitors in the treatment of breast cancer. A research team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators describes finding, for the first time, that obesity and obesity-related molecular factors appear to induce resistance to […]
3D printing to keep life flowing
Guillermo Ameer | Via Materials Today | March 13, 2018Life depends on keeping things flowing. Blood in our veins, nutrients in our digestive tracts, or air in our lungs, all need to be kept moving. When disease or damage obstruct the flow, medical stents and scaffolds can save lives. They hold crucial arteries open, while these blood vessels repair themselves, or maintain the necessary […]
3D Printed Vascular Patches with Patterned Channels Used to Grow Organized Blood Vessels in Mice
Christopher Chen | Via 3D Print.com | March 12, 2018Ischemic cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death and disability in the US, and growing fast around the rest of the world as well. Ischemic refers to tissue that has been starved of oxygen – when heart disease results in blocked blood vessels, the tissues can die because the blood cells carrying precious […]
Potential New Clinical Laboratory Urine Test for TB Could Speed Up Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease That Kills 1.7 Million People Each Year
Lance Liotta | Via Dark Daily | March 12, 2018Tuberculosis is a major killer that ranks alongside HIV/AIDS as a leading cause of death worldwide. This deadly disease takes the lives of more than a million people each year. And, unfortunately, traditional medical laboratory testing using X-rays, blood/skin/sputum specimens, or the new molecular diagnostic systems can be time consuming and expensive. Now, scientists at […]
Algorithm identifies lung cancer patients who should have chemotherapy
Anant Madabhushi | Via Health Data Management | March 12, 2018Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic are developing a computerized tissue imaging capability that uses predictive analytics to potentially help identify which lung cancer patients are likely to experience an earlier recurrence of the disease. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently awarded Anant Madabhushi, founding director of the Center for Computational Imaging and […]
3-D mapping babies’ brains
Philip Bayly | Via Washington University in St. Louis | March 9, 2018During the third trimester, a baby’s brain undergoes rapid development in utero. The cerebral cortex dramatically expands its surface area and begins to fold. Previous work suggests that this quick and very vital growth is an individualized process, with details varying infant to infant. Research from a collaborative team at Washington University in St. Louis […]