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Personalized Virtual Heart Can Predict the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death
Natalia Trayanova | Via Johns Hopkins | May 10, 2016When electrical waves in the heart run amok, the results can be deadly. Current treatment for the condition, called arrhythmia, includes implanting a small defibrillator which senses the onset of arrhythmia and jolts the heart back to a normal rhythm. But a thorny question remains: How should doctors decide which patients truly need an invasive, […]
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert Named New Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert | Via U. Texas Austin | May 10, 2016The Cockrell School of Engineering has named Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, an accomplished biomedical engineer and university administrator, as the next chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Sakiyama-Elbert currently serves as vice dean for research at the Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science in St. Louis, where […]
‘Second Skin’ May Reduce Wrinkles, Eyebags, Scientists Say
Robert Langer | Via New York Times | May 9, 2016The idea sounds like fantasy: an invisible film that can be painted on your skin and give it the elasticity of youth. Bags under the eyes vanish in seconds. Wrinkles disappear. Scientists at Harvard and M.I.T. have discovered that it is not fantasy at all. Reporting on Monday in the journal Nature Materials on pilot […]
Gilda Barabino Awarded Honorary Degree by Xavier University
Gilda Barabino | Via Xavier | May 7, 2016Dr. Barabino is Berg Professor and Dean of The Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY). She holds appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering and the Sophie Davis School of Medicine. She is a noted investigator in the areas of sickle cell disease, cellular and tissue […]
Rebecca Richards-Kortum Wins AIMBE Pierre Galletti Award
Rebecca Richards-Kortum | Via Photonics | May 6, 2016Houston, May 6, 2016 — The American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering (AIMBE) presented its highest honor, the 2016 Pierre Galletti Award, to Rice University bioengineer Rebecca Richards-Kortum. Rebecca Richards-Kortum has been awarded the 2016 Pierre Galletti Award for her contributions to global health care and bioengineering technology. Richards-Kortum was acknowledged for her “global […]
Science AMA Series: I’m Gang Zheng, Senior Scientist
Gang Zheng | Via Reddit | May 6, 2016Hi Reddit! I’m Gang Zheng, Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Center in Toronto, Canada. Our lab focused on creating clinically usable nanotechnology to combat cancer. Inspired by how plants use porphyrins to do photosynthesis, our colourful porphyrins self-assemble into biodegradable nanoparticles called “porphysomes”, which target cancer. Once they’re there, the now-coloured tumours can […]
Finding Zika One Paper Disc at a Time
James Collins | Via PHYS.org | May 6, 2016An international, multi-institutional team of researchers led by synthetic biologist James Collins, Ph.D. at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, has developed a low-cost, rapid paper-based diagnostic system for strain-specific detection of the Zika virus, with the goal that it could soon be used in the field to screen blood, urine, […]
“Back to Health” – Lori Setton’s Collaborative Research
Lori Setton | Via Wash. U St. Louis | May 6, 2016Maybe it happened after you hauled a house’s worth of boxes to and from a moving van while helping a friend move. Maybe it startled you after a seemingly innocuous fender bender. Or maybe you noticed it after spending day in and day out — for years — hunched over your laptop keyboard. Whatever the […]
Albert Folch’s “Art on the Nanoscale and Beyond” featured on Advanced Materials Cover
Albert Folch | Via Washington U. | April 27, 2016A review article recently published by UW Bioengineering Associate Professor Albert Folch and collaborators was featured as the cover article of the March 2016 issue of Advanced Materials. In “Art on the Nanoscale and Beyond,” Dr. Folch and collaborators discuss applications of nano and microscale materials in art, and the medium’s utility in communicating science to […]
Cancer Treatment Goes Local
Mark Grinstaff | Via Boston U. | April 25, 2016When it comes to treating cancer, one BU researcher is going local. Professor Mark Grinstaff (BME, MSE, Chemistry, MED) recently published two studies that offer new approaches to the treatment of two intractable cancers—mesothelioma and esophageal cancer—by delivering therapeutic agents directly to the tumor site. “Local drug delivery allows us to maximize drug dose at […]
Keasling Selected For Membership in American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Jay Keasling | Via Daily Cal | April 22, 2016Nine UC Berkeley professors will join 234 other campus faculty in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, it was announced Wednesday. The nine new members are part of a class of 213 scholars, scientists, artists and leaders selected this year for their contributions to their disciplines. The new members were chosen by current ones, […]
Joshua Jacobs, M.D. Elected as ABOS Director
Joshua Jacobs | Via Ortho | April 20, 2016The Board of Directors of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) recently elected Joshua Jacobs, M.D., Chairman of Orthopedic Surgery at Rush University Medical Center, as a new director. He begins service on the Board immediately. Dr. Jacobs completed his orthopedic residency training at the Combined Harvard Orthopaedic Residency Program in Boston and his […]
Researchers Discover Moving, Electrically “silent” Source Initiates Brain Waves
Dominique Durand | Via Case THINK | April 20, 2016Brain waves that spread through the hippocampus are initiated by a method not seen before—a possible step toward understanding and treating epilepsy, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University. The researchers discovered a traveling spike generator that appears to move across the hippocampus—a part of the brain mainly associated with memory—and change direction, while […]
Donald Ingber elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Donald Ingber | Via Harvard | April 20, 2016Donald E. Ingber has been elected to Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honor societies and a leading center for independent policy research. Ingber, the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology and Professor of Bioengineering and the founding director and core faculty member of […]
New Technology Quantifies Effects Of Prostate Tumor Laser Ablation
Anant Madabhushi | Via Case THINK | April 19, 2016CLEVELAND—Prostate cancers are either low-grade, low-risk forms that may be monitored but otherwise untreated. Or they’re serious enough to require surgery and radiation. Monitoring can cause patients anxiety. Radical treatment comes with complications. For those patients with a low-risk form who still want to take action, MRI-guided laser ablation is a growing treatment that occupies […]
In Memoriam: Laurence Clarke, Chief of Medical Imaging Technology Development at US National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Imaging Program
Laurence Clarke | Via SPIE | April 19, 2016SPIE mourns the death of SPIE Fellow Laurence P. (Larry) Clarke, who was a visionary leader of the Cancer Imaging Program (CIP) at the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) and steadfast supporter of new and emerging quantitative imaging technologies that address the cancer problem. Clarke, the longtime NCI branch chief for imaging technology development, died […]
To Save Energy, Fish Use Their Heads
James Liao | Via U. Florida | April 18, 2016Scientists used to think a fish’s head motions were just a byproduct of swimming. Using 3-D printed fish, University of Florida scientists Otar Akanyeti, James Liao* and collaborators at Harvard showed that head motion can make a fish’s movement and respiration more efficient. The Nature Communications study sheds light on how other undulating animals — […]
Professor Cato T. Laurencin to Receive 2016 Connecticut Medal of Technology
Cato Laurencin | Via UConn | April 14, 2016Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, a world-renowned physician-scientist in orthopaedic surgery, engineering, and materials science, has been named the 2016 recipient of the Connecticut Medal of Technology. Laurencin, of the University of Connecticut will accept the award at the 41st Annual Meeting & Dinner of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) on May 24. […]
CREATE Grants Boosts U of T Engineering Research
Milica Radisic | Via U. Toronto | April 14, 2016Two collaborative research programs led by U of T Engineering professors have received major grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. The funding will help train a new generation of experts in leading edge technologies, from more efficient data transfers for cloud computing to new treatments for disease based on lab-grown human tissues. […]
Schmidt Organized 25th Anniversary AIMBE Meeting in D.C.
Christine Schmidt | Via U. Florida | April 13, 2016The 25th Anniversary Meeting of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), organized by Dr. Christine Schmidt, UF BME Pruitt Family Professor and Chair, in collaboration with Dr. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic at Columbia University, was held in Washington, D.C. April 3-4, 2016. AIMBE is an honorific society, in which fellows are nominated each year […]