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Cultivated meat production costs could fall significantly: Bovine muscle engineered to produce their own growth signals
David Kaplan | Via Phys.org | January 26, 2024Cellular agriculture—the production of meat from cells grown in bioreactors rather than harvested from farm animals—is taking leaps in technology that are making it a more viable option for the food industry. One such leap has now been made at the Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA), led by David Kaplan, Stern Family Professor […]
Cancer Mutation That Spurs Cell Division Helps Heart Models Run at Full Gallop
Nenad Bursac | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | January 25, 2024A broken heart will mend over time. However, this isn’t the case for heart tissue following a heart attack. While skin and many other tissues of the body retain the ability to repair themselves after injury, the heart lacks this ability. Heart cells rapidly divide during embryonic and fetal development to form cardiac tissue and […]
AI Harnesses Tumor Genetics to Predict Treatment Response
Trey Ideker | Via UC San Diego | January 18, 2024In a groundbreaking study published on January 18, 2024, in Cancer Discovery, scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine leveraged a machine learning algorithm to tackle one of the biggest challenges facing cancer researchers: predicting when cancer will resist chemotherapy. All cells, including cancer cells, rely on complex molecular machinery to replicate […]
Robotic Garment Improves Stride in Patient With Parkinson’s Disease
Conor Walsh | Via Medscape | January 18, 2024A wearable, soft, robotic device could help patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) walk without experiencing freezing of gait (FoG), early research suggested. The robotic apparel, worn around the hips and thighs, gently pushes the hips as the leg swings, facilitating a longer stride and preventing FoG, a common disorder in PD that affects nearly all […]
Metastatic breast cancer treatments have aided decline in deaths, Stanford Medicine-led study finds
Sylvia Plevritis | Via Stanford University | January 17, 2024Deaths from breast cancer dropped 58% between 1975 and 2019 due to a combination of screening mammography and improvements in treatment, according to a new multicenter study led by Stanford Medicine clinicians and biomedical data scientists. Nearly one-third of the decrease (29%) is due to advances in treating metastatic breast cancer —a form that has […]
Potential treatment relieves symptoms and reduces cancerous colon tumors in animal models, UTSW researchers demonstrate
Andrew Wang | Via UT Southwestern Medical Center | January 16, 2024By taking advantage of mechanisms that allow cancer cells to evade immune attack, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have developed a new strategy in animal models that has potential for treating ulcerative colitis. Their findings, reported in Nature Biomedical Engineering, could eventually provide relief to millions of people worldwide who have this or other autoimmune […]
Brain imaging method may aid mild traumatic brain injury diagnosis
Samir Mitragotri | Via Parkinsons News Today | January 16, 2024A new brain imaging method may help diagnose mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), which according to some studies can be associated with a 50% higher risk of developing Parkinson’s. Available methods, like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), leave most cases of mTBI, or concussions, undiagnosed. They occur when a physical injury such as a violent blow […]
Expert urges adoption of biotech innovations for poverty alleviation
Thomas Webster | Via Ashe News | January 11, 2024Expert urges adoption of biotech innovations for poverty alleviation The Director of Biotechnology, Precious Cornerstone University, Ibadan, Prof. Charles Adetunji says biotechnology innovations can help in alleviating poverty and creating impact in the community. Adetunji disclosed this in a telephone interview on Wednesday in Abuja. He said that adoption of biotechnology innovations would also provide […]
City of Hope Research Reveals an Immune Cell That Can Attack Cancer
Michael Caligiuri | Via Business Wire | January 10, 2024Preclinical findings reported in the journal Cell could lead to a new type of immunotherapy According to preclinical research published online today in Cell, one of the world’s premier scientific journals, researchers with City of Hope®, one of the largest cancer treatment and research organizations in the United States, have discovered that a type of […]
Opinion: Do universities help or hurt innovation?
Tom Webster | Via Open Access Government | January 10, 2024Do Universities help or hurt innovation? Find out in this 25-year academic entrepreneur’s anecdotal perspective of starting companies and developing implants. Thomas J. Webster shares his opinion here Top research U.S. Universities and others worldwide, sometimes along with respective government funding agencies (like the NSF and the NIH in the U.S.), have spent billions of […]
Injectable hydrogel electrodes open door to a novel painless treatment regimen for arrhythmia
Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez | Via Science Daily | January 9, 2024A breakthrough study led by Dr. Mehdi Razavi at The Texas Heart Institute (THI), in collaboration with a biomedical engineering team of The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) Cockrell School of Engineering led by Dr. Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez, sets the foundation of a ground-breaking treatment regimen for treating ventricular arrhythmia. Their study published in […]
Novel test holds promise for detecting Parkinson’s disease early
David Walt | Via EurekAlert | January 8, 2024In the development of Parkinson’s disease (PD), the changes that will lead to neurodegeneration take place in the brain long before patients show any symptoms. But without a test that can detect these changes, it’s difficult to intervene early to more effectively slow disease progression. To address this need, researchers from the Brigham and Women’s […]
Inhalable sensors could enable early lung cancer detection
Sangeeta Bhatia | Via MIT | January 5, 2024The diagnostic, which requires only a simple urine test to read the results, could make lung cancer screening more accessible worldwide. Using a new technology developed at MIT, diagnosing lung cancer could become as easy as inhaling nanoparticle sensors and then taking a urine test that reveals whether a tumor is present. The new diagnostic […]
Monoclonal Antibody HCP Challenges
Abraham Lenhoff | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | December 27, 2023One longstanding and ongoing challenge for bioprocessors is the removal of host-cell proteins (HCPs). “The entire HCP field has taken off in the last several years and numerous groups have contributed to it,” says Abraham Lenhoff, PhD, Allan P. Colburn Professor of Chemical Engineering in the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University […]
Dog Age Deconstructed: UCSD Researchers Offer a Precision Formula
Trey Ideker | Via Business Northeast | December 26, 2023Curious about your dog’s age in human terms? Many pet owners share that interest. Historically, individuals have employed a formula of multiplying a dog’s age by 7 as a reference point. However, it prompts consideration – given the diverse range of dog breeds, body types, and genetics, using a uniform method for calculating dog age […]
March of Dimes Global Crowdsourcing Effort Yields Pair of Predictive Models for Preterm Birth
Marina Sirota | Via March of Dimes | December 21, 2023Machine Learning (ML) experts from around the world have come together to build two successful predictive models for preterm birth risk as part of the first March of Dimes DREAM Challenge. The effort’s findings were recently published in Cell Reports Medicine. Led by Dr. Marina Sirota at the University of California, San Francisco Prematurity Research […]
Using AI, MIT researchers identify a new class of antibiotic candidates
James Collins | Via MIT | December 20, 2023These compounds can kill methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that causes deadly infections. Using a type of artificial intelligence known as deep learning, MIT researchers have discovered a class of compounds that can kill a drug-resistant bacterium that causes more than 10,000 deaths in the United States every year. In a study appearing today […]
Engineered human heart tissue shows Stanford Medicine researchers the mechanics of tachycardia
Joseph Wu | Via Stanford Medicine | December 19, 2023Researchers engineered stem cell-derived heart tissues to study how tachycardia affects the heart and to uncover the inner workings of our body’s engine. Heart rates are easier to monitor today than ever before. Thanks to smartwatches that can sense a pulse, all it takes is a quick flip of the wrist to check your heart. […]
Next-Generation Wearable Technologies
Jill Higginson | Via University of Delaware | December 19, 2023UD engineers are researching and refining innovative nanomaterial-based sensors for human health applications From keeping us warm and dry during a downpour to showcasing our Blue Hen spirit at Homecoming, clothing is essential for our comfort, protection and self-expression. But what if our clothing could do even more — what if, for example, our clothes […]
Marvin J. Slepian appointed to federal patent advisory committee
Marvin Slepian | Via University of Arizona | December 14, 2023Dr. Marvin J. Slepian, Regents Professor of medicine, medical imaging and surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and biomedical engineering at the University of Arizona College of Engineering, has been appointed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Public Advisory Committee. His three-year term started Dec. 1 and lasts […]