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Hall Lecture: Global Health Care Inequities Need Engineering Ingenuity
Rebecca Richards-Kortum | Via Vanderbilt | January 13, 2016New approaches to engineering design are needed to solve inequities in global health care, according to a widely-acclaimed bioengineer who tackles neonatal health and cancer mortality in low-resource settings in the United States and Africa. Rebecca Richards-Kortum will deliver the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering’s John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture Monday, Jan. […]
Professor Michael Sefton Awarded The Terumo Global Science Prize
Michael Sefton | Via U. Toronto | January 12, 2016University of Toronto engineering professor Michael Sefton (ChemE, IBBME) has been named the 2016 recipient of the Terumo Global Science Prize for his achievements in tissue engineering and novel biomaterials discovery. This is only the third time the Terumo Foundation for Life Sciences and Arts has awarded the prize. Sefton joins an elite list of […]
SWHR Announces Urology Network Chair
Margot Damaser | Via SWHR | January 12, 2016The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR®) has selected two chairs to head its Interdisciplinary Network on Urological Health In Women. Please join SWHR in congratulating Dr. Margot Damaser, PhD, Professor of Molecular Medicine in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, and Dr. Elizabeth Mueller, MD, MSME, Division and […]
New Book Highlights Video Bioinformatics
Bir Bhanu | Via UC Riverside | January 11, 2016Video bioinformatics, which enables the intelligent analysis of live imaging data at varying spatial and temporal resolutions, provides an understanding of the dynamic and continuous nature of biological processes. It promises to be an important research tool to address challenges in many areas of life and computational sciences. The first book to review this emerging […]
Prestigious Robotics Journal To Be Led By Imperial Researcher
Guang-Zhong Yang | Via Imperial College London | January 8, 2016Imperial’s Professor Guang-Zhong Yang has been appointed Editor of Science Robotics, the latest offering from Science publisher, AAAS. The journal, which launches this year, will publish cutting-edge research into robotics. Professor Yang is Director of the Hamlyn Centre, where he develops innovative medical technology using cutting-edge robotics, imaging and sensing. His team’s discoveries have enabled […]
Guiseppi-Eli Named IEEE Fellow
Anthony Guiseppi-Elie | Via Texas A&M | January 7, 2016Six current faculty members of Texas A&M University’s Dwight Look College of Engineering have been named Fellows of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Those receiving the prestigious honor include: Dr. Timothy Davis (computer science and engineering); Dr. Anthony Guiseppi-Elie (biomedical engineering); Dr. Jiang Hu (electrical and computer engineering); Dr. Peng Li (electrical […]
B Wayne Bequette Named a Fellow of IEEE
Wayne Bequette | Via IEEE | January 6, 2016Each year the IEEE designates as Fellows individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the electrical and electronics engineering profession. The CSS has two standing committees, with non-overlapping membership, that participate in the Fellow selection process. The chairs of these two committees, who must be IEEE Fellows and CSS members, are appointed by the BoG […]
From Ambitions To Markets: Richard Kitney And More Synthetic Bio Views
Richard Kitney | Via Xconomy | January 6, 2016Last week, Xconomy ran the first part of my conversation with Richard Kitney, a bioengineering professor at Imperial College London and a pioneer in the field of synthetic biology. We met in his campus office in November. Kitney has coauthored hundreds of papers and helped galvanize U.K. government support for synthetic biology. He is also […]
Closer To Detecting When And Why Blood Clots Form
Donald Ingber | Via Harvard | January 6, 2016Scientists at the Wyss Institute have created a better assay for testing blood’s clotting tendency, which could prove to be a lifesaver for patients with abnormal blood coagulation and platelet function. As reported in today’s Nature Communications, this bioinspired advance by the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University takes a biophysical approach […]
UTA Bioengineering Chair Wins $1.24M Grant To Research Brain Injuries In Veterans
Michael Cho | Via CBS Local | January 6, 2016University of Texas at Arlington Bio Engineering Chair, Dr. Michael Cho is leading research efforts on the forefront of understanding brain injuries in hundreds of thousands of military veterans. It’s all thanks to a $1.24 million dollar grant recently awarded by the office of Naval Research. The specific injuries he is looking into are caused […]
Cartilage micromechanics
Dawn Elliot | Via U Daily | January 4, 2016Research shows that tiny non-fibrous regions within fibrous tissue affect behavior Injury and degeneration of fibro-cartilaginous tissues, such as the knee meniscus and the intervertebral disc, have significant socioeconomic and quality-of-life costs. But the development of effective treatment strategies to address pathologies in these load-bearing tissues has been hindered by a lack of understanding of […]
Artificial Pancreas System Aimed At Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
Francis Doyle | Via Harvard | January 4, 2016Researchers will soon undertake one of the largest-ever long-term clinical trials of a system designed to help regulate blood sugar levels of individuals with type 1 diabetes mellitus. If the scientists’ so-called artificial pancreas system performs in patients as they hope, it could lead to commercial trials and eventual regulatory approval in the United States […]
Synthetic Biology Primer: In Conversation With Richard Kitney
Richard Kitney | Via Xconomy | December 31, 2015“Synthetic biology” has always been a puzzling term to me. Prosthetic limbs are synthetic. Knee replacements are synthetic. Splicing the gene from one organism into another, a practice that began in the 1970s and gave rise to the biotechnology industry, is also a synthetic act. But those things are not “synthetic biology” in the way […]
Humans Aren’t Alone In Our Ear For Pitch
Xiaoqin Wang | Via Hopins HUB | December 30, 2015Humans apparently aren’t alone in the ways we perceive pitch. A new Johns Hopkins study finds evidence that marmoset monkeys share distinct features with humans in the way they distinguish between high and low notes. The research sheds light on the evolution of vocal communication and song, suggesting that aspects of pitch perception might have […]
CWRU Professor To Build Much Desired Chemical Imager
Ozan Akkus | Via THINK Case | December 28, 2015CLEVELAND—Before Case Western Reserve University Professor Ozan Akkus applied for federal funding to build a souped-up version of a chemical analyzer, 11 fellow professors from various disciplines, as well as an art conservation group at the Cleveland Museum of Art, signed on in support, wanting to use the new device. Akkus, a professor of mechanical […]
CWRU Researchers Tailor Power Source For Wearable Electronics
Liming Dai | Via THINK Case | December 28, 2015CLEVELAND—Wearable power sources for wearable electronics are limited by the size of garments. With that in mind, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed flexible wire-shaped microsupercapacitors that can be woven into a jacket, shirt or dress. By their design or by connecting the capacitors in series or parallel, the devices can be tailored […]
Dr. Laurencin to Receive National Medal of Technology & Innovation
Cato Laurencin | Via U. Conn | December 22, 2015The White House has announced today that UConn’s Dr. Cato T. Laurencin will be a recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from the president of the United States. The award is the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement that is bestowed by the president on America’s leading innovators. “I am excited to […]
Suzie Pun named 2015 National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Suzie Pun | Via U. Washington | December 22, 2015Suzie Pun, the UW Bioengineering Robert F. Rushmer Professor of Bioengineering, was recently named a 2015 National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow. She is one of 168 leaders of invention and innovation selected for this honor in 2015. Dr. Pun and other 2015 NAI Fellows will be inducted on April 15, 2016 as part of […]
New Hybrid Electrolyte For Solid-State Lithium Batteries
Joseph DeSimone | Via Berkeley | December 21, 2015Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a novel electrolyte for use in solid-state lithium batteries that overcomes many of the problems that plague other solid electrolytes while also showing signs of being compatible with next-generation cathodes. Berkeley Lab battery scientist Nitash Balsara, working with collaborator Joseph […]