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Blood test may find liver cancer earlier, improve survival
Kang Zhang | Via San Diego Union Tribune. | October 11, 2017Liver cancer can be caught at an early stage through a newly developed blood test, improving the odds for survival, according to a study led by University of California San Diego scientists. The test looks for changed gene activity, caused by a process called methylation, that indicate liver cancer, said Kang Zhang, M.D., the study’s […]
Novel catheter combines FLIm, IVUS to assess plaque buildup in heart patients
Laura Marcu | Via Health Imaging | October 11, 2017A newly developed, single-catheter probe that combines intravascular ultrasounds with fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIm) in one device could be the answer to physicians’ difficulties predicting plaque rupture, a study published in Scientific Reports suggests. The catheter was developed by Laura Marcu, PhD, and colleagues at her UC Davis-based lab. The device was a response to […]
Imaging a killer
Rohit Pappu | Via Washington University in St. Louis | October 9, 2017Huntington’s disease is a progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disorder that is caused by mutations in one specific gene called huntingtin (Htt). In the 20-plus years since the Htt gene was identified, researchers have focused on the protein encoded by the Htt gene, called Httex1. This protein accumulates in the brains of Huntington’s disease patients, and the […]
Michael I. Miller – Director of Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering
Mike Miller | Via YouTube | October 6, 2017Biomedical engineering is at the center of medicine. Our students and faculty are creating technologies that will change the way the world moves forward.
‘Squirtable’ elastic glue seals wounds in 60 seconds
Anthony Weiss | Via University of Sydney | October 5, 2017Biomedical engineers from the University of Sydney and the United States collaborated on the development of the potentially life-saving surgical glue, called MeTro. MeTro’s high elasticity makes it ideal for sealing wounds in body tissues that continually expand and relax – such as lungs, hearts and arteries – that are otherwise at risk of re-opening. […]
Scientists Develop “Body-on- a-Chip” System to Accelerate Testing of New Drugs
Anthony Atala | Via News Wise | October 5, 2017Using the same expertise they’ve employed to build new organs for patients, scientists at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and colleagues have engineered micro hearts, lungs and livers that can potentially be used to test new drugs. By combining the micro-organs in a monitored system, the researchers aim to mimic how the human body […]
Coming a step closer to understanding how gastric bypass works
Martin L. Yarmush | Via Medical Xpress | October 5, 2017A study by a team of researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine (MGH-CEM) and Shriners Hospital for Children has made a technological advancement toward accelerating the discovery of drug targets for obesity, type II diabetes and other metabolic diseases. The novel experimental and computational workflow involves the first use of […]
Novel PET tracer identifies most bacterial infections
Sanjiv Sam Gambhir | Via Medical Xpress.com | October 5, 2017Stanford University medical scientists have developed a novel imaging agent that could be used to identify most bacterial infections. The study is the featured basic science article in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine’s October issue. Bacteria are good at mutating to become resistant to antibiotics. As one way to combat the problem of antimicrobial resistance, […]
Internationally acclaimed scholar, with over 400 publications and 40 patents, joins UB RENEW
Thomas Thundat | Via University at Buffalo | October 4, 2017BUFFALO, N.Y. — Thomas Thundat, an internationally recognized expert on nanomechanical sensors, network of sensors and quasi-wireless transmission of electricity, has joined the University at Buffalo’s RENEW Institute and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Thundat will serve as Professor of Empire Innovation in RENEW— an interdisciplinary institute dedicated to research and education on globally […]
Joseph Moskal Receives Top Biotechnology Innovator Award
Joseph Moskal | Via Northwestern University | October 3, 2017Northwestern Engineering professor Joseph Moskal has received the iCON Innovator Award from the Illinois Biotechnology Innovation Organization (iBIO), an industry association of more than 200 companies, academic institutions, and service providers dedicated to making Illinois and the Midwest a leader in life sciences ventures and technology. The iCON Innovator Award recognizes an active researcher within […]
Cynthia Reinhart-King named Biomedical Engineering Society Fellow
Cynthia Reinhart-King | Via Vanderbilt University | September 28, 2017Cynthia Reinhart-King, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering and professor of biomedical engineering, is a member of the 2017 Class of Fellows of the Biomedical Engineering Society. The BMES is the premier society for biomedical engineering and bioengineering professionals with more than 7,000 members. This year’s class includes 20 members nominated by their peers. Reinhart-King is […]
Smart molecules trigger white blood cells to become better cancer-eating machines
YingXiao Wang | Via UC San Diego | September 28, 2017San Diego, Calif., Sept. 28, 2017 — A team of researchers has engineered smart protein molecules that can reprogram white blood cells to ignore a self-defense signaling mechanism that cancer cells use to survive and spread in the body. Researchers say the advance could lead to a new method of re-engineering immune cells to fight […]
Smart molecules trigger white blood cells to become better cancer-eating machines
Shu Chien | Via UC San Diego | September 28, 2017San Diego, Calif., Sept. 28, 2017 — A team of researchers has engineered smart protein molecules that can reprogram white blood cells to ignore a self-defense signaling mechanism that cancer cells use to survive and spread in the body. Researchers say the advance could lead to a new method of re-engineering immune cells to fight […]
Robert Langer of MIT receives $250,000 Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine from Northwestern
Robert S. Langer | Via Northwestern University | September 27, 2017EVANSTON – Chemical engineer and prolific inventor Robert S. Langer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — known as the “Edison of medicine” — is the recipient of the $250,000 Kabiller Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomedicine for 2017, Northwestern University’s International Institute for Nanotechnology announced today (Sept. 27). The Kabiller Prize is the largest monetary […]
On Hilton Head, the future promises a human heart built with a desktop printer
Anthony Atala | Via The Island Packet | September 27, 2017This is a story of hope and promise. To me, it sounds like science fiction. But it is not. You can hear and see for yourselves at a presentation Oct. 5 at the Sonesta Resort on Hilton Head Island called “Adult Stem Cells: Medicine of the Future.” Two world-famous doctors and researchers — Dr. Keith […]
SHRS Snapshots: The PneuChair
Rory Cooper | Via YouTube - SHRS | September 26, 2017Summer is winding down, but the popularity of our Human Engineering Research Laboratories or HERL’s new waterproof wheelchair is just heating up. In this “SHRS Snapshots” video, see how SHRS researchers have added a new dimension of fun to the world’s first accessible water park. Watch the video here.
MRI contrast agent locates and distinguishes aggressive from slow-growing breast cancer
Zheng-Rong Lu | Via Case Western Reserve | September 25, 2017A new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent being tested by researchers at Case Western Reserve University not only pinpoints breast cancers at early stages but differentiates between aggressive and slow-growing types. “Doing both will help doctors find the right treatment,” said Zheng-Rong Lu, the M. Frank Rudy and Margaret Dormiter Rudy Professor of Biomedical […]
How Artificial Intelligence Could Save Healthcare
Omar Ishrak | Via UBM Americas | September 25, 2017They say the only two certainties in life are death and taxes, but you could also make an argument for adding rising healthcare costs to the list. “There is no end in sight to the amount of healthcare spending because it scales with multiple on the population,” Josh Makower, MD, general partner venture capital firm […]
Partnership for Public Service Honors VA Pittsburgh/Pitt Researcher with ‘Oscar’ of Government Service
Rory Cooper | Via Service to America Medals | September 22, 2017Rory Cooper was in the Army serving in Germany when a bicycle accident left him paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. That event has shaped his life’s work on behalf of the disabled as a research biomedical engineer. In the years following that 1980 accident, Cooper founded the nation’s leading assistive technology research laboratory and […]
Case Western Reserve researcher wins $5.5 million federal grant to develop bioinspired materials and systems
Jeffrey Capadona | Via Case Western Reserve | September 21, 2017With a new $5.5 million, five-year federal grant, a Case Western Reserve University researcher is leading an international team to develop functional materials inspired by some of the most desirable substances found in nature. The bioinspired materials produced in the project will be tested in soft-sided robots, but are expected to have a wide range […]