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Human-Gut-On-A-Chip Model Offers Hope For IBD Sufferers
James Collins | Via Harvard | December 15, 2015It’s estimated that as many as a million Americans suffer from inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease, which cause mild to severe symptoms that at best can be managed and at worst lead to life-threatening complications. While abnormal immune responses are largely responsible for these diseases, issues relating to gut […]
Chewing Slowly Helps Prevent Excessive Weight Gain in Children
Geert Schmid-Schonbein | Via UC San Diego | December 15, 2015San Diego, Calif., Dec. 15, 2015 — Waiting 30 seconds in between bites of food allows children to realize they’re no longer hungry before they overeat—preventing excessive weight gain. That’s the conclusion of a study published in the Dec. 15 issue of the journal Pediatric Obesity by an international team of researchers, including bioengineers at the […]
Distinguished Professor Shu Chien Elected Fellow of National Academy of Inventors
Shu Chien | Via UC San Diego | December 15, 2015Two researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have been named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. Shu Chien, Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine, and Michael Sailor, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, were among 168 new fellows announced by the academy today.. … Read the full story from the UC San […]
Designing a Real Life BB-8
Wolfgang Fink | Via R&D Magazine | December 15, 2015In three days “The Force Awakens.” It’s undeniable the Star Wars franchise has had a lasting effect on popular culture, bringing science fiction to the mainstream and creating a sub-culture all its own. In 1977, “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope” hit theaters. Despite studio expectations the film would flop, it ended up dazzling […]
Prof. Helen Lu Wins $1.125M Grant on New Approach to Rotator Cuff Repair
Helen Lu | Via Columbia | December 14, 2015Biomedical Engineering Professor Helen H. Lu has won a three-year $1.125 million Translational Research Award grant from the Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs for her research on tendon-to-bone integration for rotator cuff repair. Lu is collaborating with William Levine, chairman and Frank E. Stinchfield Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Columbia University Medical […]
New Center Focuses On Regenerative Medicine
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert | Via Washington U. in St. Louis | December 11, 2015A new center has been formed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to facilitate research that explores the regenerative properties of cells and tissues. The goal of the Center of Regenerative Medicine is to develop new medical treatments that might one day allow doctors to regrow or replace a damaged heart or […]
Biomedical Engineering’s Anant Madabhushi, Team Awarded Two Patents
Anant Madabhushi | Via CWRU | December 10, 2015Anant Madabhushi, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD), and his team were issued two patents—U.S. patent 9,177,105 and U.S. patent 9,177,014—in pattern recognition of cancer from digital pathology and imaging data. US Patent 9,177,105, titled “Quantitatively Characterizing Disease Morphology with Co-Occurring Gland Tensors in Localized […]
‘Star Wars’ Science: How Would BB-8 Work?
Wolfgang Fink | Via Arizona | December 9, 2015The real star of the upcoming "Star Wars" movie may not be a human or a Wookie. Instead, it may be a round, 2-foot-tall astromech droid named BB-8. It may look great on the screen, but could BB-8 exist in real life? University of Arizona researcher Wolfgang Fink would know, as an expert in artificially […]
U.S. Scientists Picked for Top China Panel
Cato Laurencin | Via ECNS | December 8, 2015The CAE, one of the most prestigious academic institutions in China, announced on Monday in Beijing its newest group of 70 Chinese members and eight foreign members, often known as academicians. The foreign members include five Americans, one Briton, one Canadian and one Austrian, bringing CAE’s foreign members to 49. Dr. Laurencin is one of […]
Dr. Cato T. Laurencin Receives Society for Biomaterials’ Highest Honor
Cato Laurencin | Via U Conn | December 7, 2015UConn’s Dr. Cato T. Laurencin is the recipient of the 2016 Founders Award, the highest honor of The Society For Biomaterials. As a leading surgeon-scientist in orthopaedic surgery, engineering, and materials science and a pioneer of the field of regenerative engineering, Laurencin received this prestigious honor for his landmark and long-term contributions to the field […]
Pitt’s Innovation Challenge Awards $375,000
Yadong Wang | Via Pitt Chronicle | December 7, 2015Three projects that aim to solve health issues across the lifespan were each awarded $100,000 prizes in the third Pitt Innovation Challenge (PInCh™). Three other projects received $25,000 awards. PInCh is sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), the Office of the Provost, and the Innovation Institute. During the first […]
Study To Explore Spinal Cord Stimulation To Ease Paralysis
Peter Konrad | Via Vanderbilt | December 3, 2015A Vanderbilt neurosurgeon is looking to recruit patients with paraplegia to investigate whether intraspinal microstimulation technology can restore complex body movements. The implantation of tiny electrodes along the spinal cord has caused paralyzed animals to walk, but it has yet to be tested with humans. Peter Konrad, M.D., Ph.D., and his research team are seeking […]
Professor Michael Shuler Receives Lush Science Prize
Michael Shuler | Via Cornell Engineering | December 1, 2015Congratulations to Professor Michael Shuler on winning a 2015 Lush Science Prize, an award that recognizes projects and individuals who work towards replacing animals in toxicity testing. Dr. Shuler received the prize in London, and is pictured with it on the Lush Prize website. Michael Shuler is the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering. He […]
Susan Margulies Appears on Charlie Rose Brain Series
Susan Margulies | Via Charlie Rose | December 1, 2015The Charlie Rose Brain Series, Year Three. In our fourth episode, we consider Sports-Induced Brain Trauma, focusing specifically on its effect on children. We are joined by Tori Belluci was an All-Met soccer player at Huntingtown High School in Maryland. She turned down a full scholarship to play soccer in college after she suffered her […]
Drs. Hickman & Shuler of Hesperos Awarded 2015 Lush Prize
James Hickman | Via Hesperosinc. | December 1, 2015ORLANDO, Fla. — Hesperos Inc., utilizing technology developed by UCF and Cornell University scientists to enable a more accurate way to test pharmaceuticals without using animal subjects, has been awarded a major international prize. This innovative technology, known as Body-on-a-Chip or Human-on-a-Chip, was recently awarded the 2015 Lush Prize for Science over 11 finalists from Japan, […]
A Better Way to Change the Fate of Stem Cells
David Mooney | Via Harvard | November 30, 2015Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have developed a new, more precise way to control the differentiation of stem cells into bone cells. This new technique has promising applications in the realm of bone regeneration, growth and healing. The research […]
Jon Dobson has been Named AAAS Fellow
Jon Dobson | Via U. Florida | November 25, 2015Jon Dobson, a professor at the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dobson will be recognized during a ceremony for new fellows Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, during the 2016 AAAS annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The 347 new […]
AAAS taps Sakiyama-Elbert as 2015 fellow
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert | Via Wash. U. in St. Louis | November 23, 2015Three faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis are among 347 new fellows named by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. David W. Piston, PhD; Shelly E. Sakiyama-Elbert, PhD; and Jeffrey M. Zacks, PhD, will receive the highest honor awarded by AAAS in recognition of […]
Shu Chien Named Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
Shu Chien | Via UC San Diego | November 23, 2015Six University of California, San Diego professors have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. They are among 347 members selected this year by colleagues in their disciplines to be honored for “scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.” […]
U of T Engineers Talk Regenerative Medicine and Space Junk at TEDxToronto
Molly Shoichet | Via U. Toronto | November 19, 2015Professor Molly Shoichet (ChemE, IBBME) and Natalie Panek (AeroE MASc 0T9) were among the inspiring roster of speakers and performers at this year’s TEDxToronto conference, held October 22. Shoichet’s talk focused on her research into regenerative medicine and it’s potential to be a game-changer in the treatment of disease. “When I look back on medical […]