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Kuhn Develops Patent-Pending Process to Create Comfortable Prosthetics for Breast Cancer Survivors
Liisa Kuhn | Via University of Connecticut | December 14, 2023University of Connecticut Professor of Biomedical Engineering Liisa Kuhn credits Willy Wonka’s Everlasting Gobstopper for inspiring her work on designing bone grafts, growth plate repair gel—and most recently—breast prosthetics. “The Gobstopper candy has all these layers, and each layer lets them experience a different course of a meal,” says Kuhn, who has a dual appointment […]
Ravi Kumar Elected as Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
Ravi Kumar | Via University of Alabama | December 13, 2023Dr. Ravi Kumar, Distinguished University Research Professor and founding director of the Center for Convergent Bioscience and Medicine, has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Known for his significant contributions to the field of rationale design of polyesters and their application to nanomedicines, Kumar was the first to propose and […]
Wolfgang Fink elected to the National Academy of Inventors
Wolfgang Fink | Via University of Arizona | December 12, 2023New fellows, both from the College of Engineering, have made substantial contributions to academia, as well as creating inventions that have impacted fields from additive manufacturing to eyesight. The National Academy of Inventors has elected two University of Arizona faculty members to its 2023 class of fellows. Douglas Loy, professor or materials science and engineering, […]
Ana Jaklenec elected to the National Academy of Inventors
Ana Jaklenec | Via MIT | December 12, 2023The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) announced the election of more than 160 people to their 2023 class of fellows, including two members of the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Daniel Anderson and Ana Jaklenec. The highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors, election to the NAI recognizes individuals who have created […]
3 Questions: Darrell Irvine on making HIV vaccines more powerful
Darrell Irvine | Via MIT | December 12, 2023An MIT research team led by Professor Darrell Irvine has developed a novel kind of vaccine adjuvant: a nanoparticle that can help to stimulate the immune system to generate a stronger response to a vaccine. These nanoparticles contain saponin, a compound derived from the bark of the Chilean soapbark tree, along with a molecule called […]
Professor of computer science Lukasz Kurgan inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology
Lukasz Kurgan | Via Virginia Commonwealth University | December 7, 2023Kurgan is a leader in the bioinformatics community who has developed popular bioinformatics tools and databases. Lukasz Kurgan, Ph.D., the Robert J. Mattauch Endowed Professor and vice chair of the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (RSB). As the leading professional body […]
Guillermo A. Ameer Elected a Biomaterials Science and Engineering Fellow
Guillermo Ameer | Via Northwestern University | December 7, 2023With his election, Ameer joins a group of fewer than 500 biomaterials scientists worldwide Northwestern Engineering’s Guillermo A. Ameer has been elected a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering (FBSE) by the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering (IUSBSE), the highest honor the global biomaterials community can bestow on outstanding scientists. With […]
MIT’s Tiny Technologies Go to Washington
Ana Jaklenec | Via MIT | December 4, 2023Cancer nanomedicine showcased at the White House Demo Day On November 7, a team from the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine showed a Washington D.C. audience several examples of how nanotechnologies developed at MIT can transform the detection and treatment of cancer and other diseases. The team was one of 40 innovative groups featured at […]
U of T Engineering researchers develop new method for engineering soft connective tissue
Craig Simmons | Via University of Toronto | December 1, 2023A team of researchers at the University of Toronto, led by Professor Craig Simmons (BME, MIE), have described a novel method for engineering soft connective tissues with mechanical properties resembling those of native tissues. This finding, published in Advanced Functional Materials, has promising implications in the generation of more realistic tissues and organs for regenerative medicine. […]
Spatial Biology: How It’s Transforming Single-Cell Genomics
Rong Fan | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | November 28, 2023A GEN-led panel conversation on spatial biology technology highlights the importance of community—not just among cells, but also among scientists When the sober-minded describe spatial biology, they use words such as fledgling, growing, and maybe even exciting. But perhaps more enthusiasm—and words such as revolutionary and transformative—are in order. Yes, the basic idea behind spatial […]
A new way to see the activity inside a living cell
Edward Boyden | Via MIT News | November 28, 2023Using fluorescent labels that switch on and off, MIT engineers can study how molecules in a cell interact to control the cell’s behavior. Living cells are bombarded with many kinds of incoming molecular signal that influence their behavior. Being able to measure those signals and how cells respond to them through downstream molecular signaling networks […]
Paul Ducheyne Honored with 2023 ISCM Hironobu Oonishi Memorial Award
Paul Ducheyne | Via Penn Bioengineering | November 15, 2023Paul Ducheyne, Professor Emeritus in Bioengineering and Orthopaedic Surgery Research, has won the 2023 Hironobu Oonishi Memorial Award from the International Society for Ceramics in Medicine (ISCM). This award, the ISCM’s top honor, will only be awarded ten times in total, with previous honorees hailing from Japan and France and focusing on clinical research and […]
New ‘Patch’ Uses Natural Body Motion to Fix Disc Herniation
Robert Mauck | Via Penn Medicine | November 15, 2023The tension-activated repair patch used in animal trials plugs holes in discs in the spine like car tire patches and could prevent further disease progression A new biologic “patch” that is activated by a person’s natural motion could be the key to fixing herniated discs in people’s backs, according to researchers at the Perelman School […]
Yeast engineering leads to new frontiers in jasmonate biosynthesis
Jay Keasling | Via Phys.org | November 15, 2023A research team led by Prof. Luo Xiaozhou from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Prof. Jay D. Keasling from the University of California, Berkeley, has developed an engineered yeast to produce vital plant hormones known as jasmonates, including jasmonic acid and its derivatives, methyl jasmonate […]
CRISPR High-Throughput Screening Identifies Master Regulator That Could Enhance Cancer T-Cell Therapy
Charles Gersbach | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | November 9, 2023Researchers at Duke University have adapted CRISPR technologies to enable high-throughput screening of gene function in human immune cells, and discovered that a single master regulator of the genome can be used to reprogram a network of thousands of genes in T cells and greatly enhance cancer cell killing. The master regulator transcription factor (TF) […]
Brain imaging identifies biomarkers of mental illness
Yihong Yang | Via Medical Xpress | November 9, 2023Research and treatment of psychiatric disorders are stymied by a lack of biomarkers—objective biological or physiological markers that can help diagnose, track, predict, and treat diseases. In a new study, researchers use a very large dataset to identify predictive brain imaging-based biomarkers of mental illness in adolescents. The work appears in Biological Psychiatry. Traditionally, psychiatric […]
Take Aim: The Five Hottest Problems in Electrical Engineering
Wolfgang Fink | Via Online Engineering Programs | November 8, 2023“Wherever there’s a will, there’s a way. That’s engineering.” Deidra R. Hodges, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida International University Electrical engineering is a rich field with challenges for tomorrow’s engineers. Sitting at one of the most interesting crossroads of science and technology, its territory stretches across microelectronics, energy […]
Low-dose CT screening can catch lung cancer early – but most people overlook it
Denise Aberle | Via UCLA Health | November 8, 2023CT was shown to be the first and most effective way of reducing lung cancer mortality,’ says UCLA Health’s Dr. Denise Aberle. Most people at greatest risk of lung cancer are overlooking a non-invasive screening that can detect cases early, when treatment can best save lives. November marks Lung Cancer Awareness Month and UCLA Health […]
Anesthesia technology precisely controls unconsciousness in animal tests
Emery Brown | Via MIT | November 7, 2023An advanced closed-loop anesthesia delivery system that monitors brain state to tailor propofol dose and achieve exactly the desired level of unconsciousness could reduce post-op side effects. If anesthesiologists had a rigorous means to manage dosing, they could deliver less medicine, maintaining exactly the right depth of unconsciousness while reducing postoperative cognitive side effects in […]
Dr. Marvin Slepian Named Biomedical Engineering Society Fellow
Marvin Slepian | Via University of Arizona | November 6, 2023Marvin J. Slepian, MD, JD, Regents’ Professor of Medicine, Medical Imaging and Surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and Biomedical Engineering at the UArizona College of Engineering, has been named a 2023 Biomedical Engineering Society(link is external) Fellow. “Being selected as Fellow in BMES is a major honor for which […]