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Omer Oralkan Inducted into the 2024 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows
Omer Oralkan | Via AIMBE | March 27, 2024WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Omer Oralkan, Ph.D., Professor at North Carolina State University to its College of Fellows. Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to medical and biological engineers, comprised of the top two percent […]
Julio Ottino Inducted into the 2024 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows
Julio Ottino | Via AIMBE | March 27, 2024WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Julio M. Ottino, Ph.D., R.R. McCormick Institute Professor at Northwestern University to its College of Fellows. Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to medical and biological engineers, comprised of the top […]
Michelle Oyen Inducted into the 2024 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows
Michelle Oyen | Via AIMBE | March 27, 2024WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Michelle L. Oyen, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis to its College of Fellows. Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to medical and biological engineers, comprised of the […]
Deep learning model detects COVID-19 infection using lung imaging
Bisi Bell | Via Health IT Analytics | March 26, 2024A deep neural network-based automated detection tool could assist emergency room clinicians in diagnosing COVID-19 effectively using lung ultrasound images. Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a deep learning-based model to detect COVID-19 infection using lung ultrasound images, according to a study published recently in Communications Medicine. The automated detection tool uses deep neural networks (DNNs) […]
This implant will tell a smartphone app when you need to pee
Guillermo Ameer | Via Popular Science | March 25, 2024The stretchy, wireless sensor could keep patients with bladder issues informed in real-time. For people dealing with spina bifida, paralysis, and various bladder diseases, determining when to take a bathroom break can be an issue. To help ease the frequent stress, researchers at Northwestern University have designed a sensor array that attaches to the bladder’s […]
Using Polarization to Improve Quantum Imaging
Lihong Wang | Via Caltech | March 19, 2024Quantum imaging is a growing field that takes advantage of the counterintuitive and “spooky” ability of light particles, or photons, to become linked, or entangled, under specialized circumstances. If the state of one photon in the entangled duo gets tweaked, so does the other, regardless of how far apart the two photons might be. Caltech […]
A lung-mimicking sealant helps repair surgical leaks
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via Advanced Science News | March 12, 2024A superior surgical sealant mimics the structural and mechanical properties of lung tissue to repair air leaks after surgery. A new sealant meant to mimic lung tissue has been shown to rapidly cork air leaks following surgery. Moreover, the protein-like molecules within the sealant were found to potentially help with wound repair. “Our lung-mimetic sealant […]
How AI-powered handheld devices are boosting disease diagnostics – from cancer to dermatology
Irving Bigio | Via Nature Medicine | March 12, 2024In the past, artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare was mostly in the hands of specialists — experts in marrying supercomputers to hefty hospital devices. Now, thanks to a new breed of compact, handheld AI-assisted disease-detection devices, that is changing. Healthcare AI is increasingly in the hands (and the pockets) of non-specialists. Lightweight, battery-powered handheld healthcare […]
The 16th US-Japan Symposium on Drug Delivery Systems
Robert Langer | Via Langer Lab | March 7, 2024The US-Japan Symposium on Drug Delivery Systems offers presentations by researchers from a number of disciplines, from the life sciences to engineering, who will address a range of topics including peptide and protein delivery, gene delivery, cell delivery, vaccines, transdermals, pulmonary delivery, new materials, and other subjects, from varied disciplines while focusing on the central […]
Researchers develop small, bioabsorbable stickers to detect life-threatening GI complications
John Rogers | Via Fierce Biotech | March 7, 2024Researchers may have found a way to make the invisible visible when it comes to detecting small yet life-threatening complications after surgery. Leaks of the acidic fluid from the digestive tract into the body’s surrounding tissues following a gastric or colorectal procedure can become a severe problem—especially so because the condition can be hidden from […]
Metal-Organic Nanoparticles Enable Better Vaccine Delivery, Stronger Immune Response
Ana Jaklenec | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | March 6, 2024Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and elsewhere have published a paper in Science Advances that describes a type of nanoparticle for delivering vaccines called a metal organic framework (MOF) that can potentially provoke a strong immune response at lower doses. The paper is titled “Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks Activate Endosomal Toll-like Receptors and […]
Using AI to Predict the Spread of Lung Cancer
Changhuei Yang | Via Caltech | March 6, 2024For decades, scientists and pathologists have tried, without much success, to come up with a way to determine which individual lung cancer patients are at greatest risk of having their illness spread, or metastasize, to other parts of the body. Now a team of scientists from Caltech and Washington University School of Medicine in St. […]
Win Phillips, longtime UF leader, dies at 83
Winfred Phillips | Via University of Florida | February 26, 2024Win Phillips, a longtime UF leader known for his depth of knowledge of the university, versatility and thoughtful advice to the many people who sought it, died Saturday. He was 83. The cause was cardiac arrest, said his son, Stephen Phillips. Phillips, who arrived at UF in 1988 as dean of engineering, served in several […]
Human stem cells coaxed to mimic the very early central nervous system
Jianping Fu | Via University of Michigan | February 26, 2024The first organized stem cell culture model that resembles all three sections of the embryonic brain and spinal cord could shed light on developmental brain diseases The first stem cell culture method that produces a full model of the early stages of the human central nervous system has been developed by a team of engineers […]
AI Predicts Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Seven Years in Advance
Marina Sirota | Via Psychology Today | February 25, 2024AI enables precision medicine with early detection of Alzheimer’s disease risk. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) recently developed an AI algorithm that can identify patients at risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease up to seven years in advance, according to a study published last week in Nature Aging. The researchers reported that […]
Study: ‘Hexaplex’ vaccine aims to boost flu protection
Jonathan Lovell | Via University at Buffalo | February 23, 2024Recombinant protein vaccines, like the Novavax vaccine used to fight COVID-19, offer several advantages over conventional vaccines. They’re easy to precisely produce. They’re safe, and potentially more effective. And they could require smaller doses. Because of these traits, there is much interest in developing recombinant influenza vaccines. To date, however, the Food and Drug Administration […]
DNA Melting Curves Could Speed Blood-Borne Pathogen Detection
Stephanie Fraley | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | February 21, 2024Scientists from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and elsewhere have described a method of detecting blood-borne pathogens faster and more accurately than traditional blood cultures. The method, called digital DNA melting analysis, produces results in under six hours, much shorter than traditional cultures which can require 15 hours to several days depending on […]
UofL researchers develop AI-powered tool to diagnose autism earlier
Ayman El-Baz | Via University of Louisville | February 19, 2024University of Louisville researchers have developed a new AI-powered tool that could help doctors diagnose autism at a younger age. Autism is a spectrum of developmental disabilities effecting social skills, language processing, cognition and other functions. The UofL tool has been shown to be 98.5% accurate in kids as young as two, which could give […]
Elevated Glucose Levels in Non-Diabetic Patients = Higher PJI Risk?
Jay Lieberman | Via Orthopedics This Week | February 15, 2024While diabetic total hip arthroplasty (THA) patients are associated with higher levels of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), does that, therefore, imply that non-diabetic patients with elevated glucose levels are also at higher risk of PJI? A research team from the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine designed a 90,830-patient study to answer […]
Nucleic Acid Manufacturing Needs Digital Innovation
Andrew Zydney | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | February 14, 2024Nucleic acid technology came of age during COVID-19 with biopharma firms developing, testing, mass producing, and shipping mRNA vaccines in record time. However, as the pandemic ebbs, the industry now needs to find ways of making DNA and RNA products more efficiently. This is the view presented in a new study by scientists at Penn […]