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With Wires and Electrodes, Tara Bio Builds a Heart on a Chip
Milica Radisic | Via Xconomy | November 12, 2014It’s been pretty clear for some time that there’s a big need to improve the efficiency of drug R&D. By industry’s count, drugs cost over $1 billion to develop, and most of them fail. A big reason why is the preclinical studies in petri dishes and animals don’t accurately predict how a drug will behave […]
Controlling Genes With Your Thoughts
Martin Fussenegger | Via Phys.org | November 11, 2014Researchers led by ETH Zurich professor Martin Fussenegger have constructed the first gene network that can be controlled by our thoughts. The inspiration for this development was a game that picks up brainwaves in order to guide a ball through an obstacle course. It sounds like something from the scene in Star Wars where Master […]
Classification Of Gene Mutations In A Children’s Cancer May Point To Improved Treatments
Ravi Radhakrishnan | Via Science Daily | November 10, 2014Oncology researchers studying gene mutations in the childhood cancer neuroblastoma are refining their diagnostic tools to predict which patients are more likely to respond to drugs called ALK inhibitors that target such mutations. Removing some of the guesswork in diagnosis and treatment, the researchers say, may lead to more successful outcomes for children with this […]
Rudy Named Visiting Professor At Oxford
Yoram Rudy | Via Wash. U. St. Louis | November 6, 2014Yoram Rudy, PhD, the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been given the title of visiting professor in computational medicine by the University of Oxford. The appointment is in the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division and in the Department of Computer Science. In this capacity, Rudy will […]
Shape Of Things To Come In Platelet Mimicry
Samir Mitragotri | Via Think Case | November 5, 2014CLEVELAND—Artificial platelet mimics developed by a collaborative research team from Case Western Reserve University and University of California, Santa Barbara, are able to halt bleeding in mouse models 65 percent faster than nature can on its own. For the first time, the researchers have been able to integratively mimic the shape, size, flexibility and surface […]
Implantable Devices and the Medicine of Tomorrow
Ellis Meng | Via USC Viterbi | November 5, 2014“What we’re trying to do here is build advanced infusion technology for a variety of applications.” Ellis Meng, USC Viterbi professor of biomedical engineering, has known many titles. In 2009, she was named among the TR35 global innovators — MIT Technology Review’s “top 35 young innovators under 35;” and she is one of the 2012 […]
New Research Partnership To Accelerate The Fight Against Musculoskeletal Disorders
John Fisher | Via Arthritis Research UK | November 4, 2014A partnership between Arthritis Research UK and a national centre for innovation is launching a new fund to accelerate the commercial development of treatments and prevention of musculoskeletal disorders. Arthritis Research UK and the Medical Technologies Innovation and Knowledge Centre have joined together to offer funding and project management support to progress research ideas with […]
Six Ways U Of T Researchers Are Engineering Your Health
Milica Radisic | Via U. of Toronto | October 30, 2014Like a scene lifted from Frankenstein, Professor Milica Radisic’s (IBBME, ChemE) “biowire” platform treats immature human cardiac cells, derived from stem cells, to cycles of electric pulses—a process that encourages growth at the same rate as a developing fetus. The result: mature heart tissue that meets a major need in the pharma industry, which, until […]
Vanderbilt Students Travel to Washington, D.C., for Science Policy Event
Todd Giorgio | Via Vanderbilt | October 27, 2014“By far, though, the most valuable part of the program was the opportunity to network with key people in the field. I was very impressed that Vanderbilt was able to recruit such high-level STEM policy professionals to work with us,” said Wesley Bond, a postdoctoral scholar in ophthalmology and visual sciences The program was hosted […]
Professor Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic Elected to the Institute of Medicine
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via Columbia Engineering | October 22, 2014Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, The Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and a Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine) at Columbia University, has been elected to the elite Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies. She joins two Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) faculty members and an adjunct faculty member elected to the IOM’s Class of 2014, […]
New $1 Million NIH Grant Enables Clinical Trials of Artificial Pancreas for Individuals With Type 1 Diabetes
B. Wayne Bequette | Via RPI News | October 21, 2014A multi-university research team led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct clinical trials of their closed-loop artificial pancreas for individuals with Type 1 diabetes. The three-year study, funded by the NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), will test the artificial […]
Tissue Engineering Pioneer Michael Sefton Named to the U.S. Institute of Medicine
Michael Sefton | Via U. Toronto | October 21, 2014This week, University Professor Michael Sefton (ChemE, IBBME) was invited to join the United States Institute of Medicine (IOM)—a rare honour bestowed upon few Canadian scientists and engineers. Sefton is a global leader in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. His research tackles a question central to the field: how can scientists construct or grow blood […]
Joseph DeSimone Elected to All Three Branches of the National Academies | NC State News
Joseph DeSimone | Via NC State News | October 20, 2014Dr. Joseph DeSimone, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University and Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine a […]
Sang Yup Lee Appointed Honorary Professor
Sang Yup Lee | Via KAIST | October 20, 2014Sang Yup Lee, Distinguished Professor of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST, has been appointed an honorary professor at Wuhan University in Hubei Province, China. This is the third time that Professor Lee has received an honorary professorship from Chinese academic institutions. The Chinese Academy of Sciences appointed him an honorary professor […]
Bioengineering Editor-In-Chief Anthony Guiseppi-Elie Has Been Admitted As A Fellow Of The Royal Society Of Chemistry
Anthony Guiseppi-Elie | Via MDPI | October 16, 2014Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Director of the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips at Clemson University (USA), has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). His cross-disciplinary research on integrating biomolecular recognition with electroactive and responsive polymers has resulted in the molecular […]
What I’d Ask Spider-Man, Mascot of Bio-Inspiration
Jeffrey Karp | Via New Scientist | October 14, 2014Taking inspiration from nature seems very popular right now. Why is that? : Bio-inspiration is an idea that has been around a long time, but it’s only recently that we’ve seen tangible examples applied to everyday problems and actively shared by social media. Based on the super-hydrophobic properties of lotus leaves, surfaces have been developed […]
Ravi Kane Named Head of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer
Ravi Kane | Via RPI News | October 14, 2014Nanobiotechnology expert Ravi Kane, the P.K. Lashmet Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been named head of the university’s Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE). “Dr. Kane is an internationally respected scholar known for interdisciplinary research, an award- winning educator, and an exceptional mentor. We are delighted to have him lead […]
Big Data Sharing for Better Health
Lucila Ohno-Machado | Via UC San Diego News Center | October 10, 2014Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have been awarded a $9.2 million grant to help modernize and transform how researchers share, use, find and cite biomedical datasets. The 3-year project, in collaboration with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, is part of a federal initiative to increase the […]
Cato Laurencin Receives NIH Pioneer Award
Cato Laurencin | Via U. Conn | October 7, 2014UConn’s Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, a renowned surgeon-scientist, has won a National Institutes of Health Pioneer Award for his exceptionally creative research in regenerative engineering. The $4 million grant is part of the NIH’s program for high-risk research with potentially high rewards. It will support his cutting-edge work in regenerative engineering, a new field he […]
Cancer-Spotting Yogurt May Offer a Cheap, Simple Test
Sangeeta Bhatia | Via Tech Review | October 2, 2014A spoonful of yogurt could soon offer a cheap and simple way to screen for colorectal cancer. Sangeeta Bhatia, a professor at MIT, is working to replace costly and uncomfortable colonoscopies and MRIs with a helping of yogurt followed by a urine test—a cheap method that could improve the early diagnosis of colorectal cancer. Bhatia […]