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Collins Elected to National Academy of Sciences: Achieves “Trifecta”
James Collins | Via BU Biomedical Engineering | May 1, 2014Professor James J. Collins (BME, MSE, SE) has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences(NAS), one of the highest honors in science and technology, in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Collins, who is one of the founders of the field of synthetic biology, joins Boston University’s seven other NAS […]
Njit Funds a Record Number of Summer Undergraduate Research Projects
Atam Dhawan | Via New Jersey Institute of Technology | May 1, 2014The NJIT campus will be buzzing with undergraduate research teams this summer as students take advantage of the break from lectures and homework to focus on in-depth projects in fields ranging from the life sciences, to biomedical engineering, to mathematical computation. Still others will be advancing their novel business concepts at the NJIT Summer Lean […]
Professor Michael King Receives Outstanding Speaker Award For 2013 From AACC
Michael King | Via Cornell News | April 28, 2014The American Association of Clinical Chemistry is pleased to honor Prof. Michael King with AACC’s Outstanding Speaker Award for 2013. This award recognizes his achievement in earning a speaker evaluation rating of 4.5 or higher during a 2013 continuing education activity accredited by AACC. King earned this distinction for his presentation at the Upstate New […]
Keck Foundation Grant Awarded to Angelique Louie
Angelique Louie | Via UC Davis Engineering News | April 15, 2014The W.M. Keck Foundation’s Medical Research Program has presented a grant for $1 million to Angelique Louie, a professor and vice chair of the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering. The grant will help fund her project “In Vivo 3D Imaging Using Bioluminescent Gene Reporters and MRI,” which she is undertaking in collaboration with Yohei […]
Stem Cell Engineering with Classmates from Cali to MIT
Todd McDevitt | Via Georgia Tech News | April 7, 2014The 10 graduate students are discussing stem cell population analysis, when it’s time. Before they can continue the discussion, Todd McDevitt, the instructor, has to do one thing — turn on the TV. “That’s the beauty of this class, not only is the topic of stem cell engineering unique, but thanks to video conferencing technology, […]
Erasing a Genetic Mutation
Daniel Anderson | Via MIT News | April 1, 2014Using a new gene-editing system based on bacterial proteins, MIT researchers have cured mice of a rare liver disorder caused by a single genetic mutation. The findings, described in the March 30 issue of Nature Biotechnology, offer the first evidence that this gene-editing technique, known as CRISPR, can reverse disease symptoms in living animals. CRISPR, […]
Distinguished Researcher to Speak at Njit on Preventing Bone Loss
Stephen Cowin | Via NJIT | March 26, 2014Preventing bone deterioration is a critical aspect of combating osteoporosis, improving bone implants, and even making long-term space flight possible, such as voyages to Mars and beyond. On April 9, noted biomedical researcher Stephen C. Cowin will describe a promising model for studying nutrient transport from the vascular system to bone tissue, transport that has […]
SynapDx Corporation CEO Stan Lapidus Named to AIMBE’s College of Fellows
Stanley Lapidus | Via Business Wire | March 25, 2014LEXINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SynapDx Corporation today announced that founder and CEO Stanley Lapidus was inducted to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. This honor recognizes Lapidus’ pioneering contributions to the field of biomedical engineering. In 2010, Lapidus founded SynapDx to develop a novel blood test to enable the earlier detection […]
Catheter Innovation Destroys Dangerous Biofilms
Gabriel Lopez | Via Duke Biomedical Engineering | March 25, 2014For the millions of people forced to rely on a plastic tube to eliminate their urine, developing an infection is nearly a 100 percent guarantee after just four weeks. But with the help of a little bubble-blowing, biomedical engineers hope to bring relief to urethras everywhere. About half of the time, the interior of long-term […]
North American Membrane Society Honors Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Georges Belfort
Georges Belfort | Via RPI | March 20, 2014World-leading bioseparations expert Georges Belfort, Institute Professor and a member of the Howard P. Isermann Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been awarded the Alan S. Michaels Award for Innovation in Membrane Science and Technology from the North American Membrane Society (NAMS). The award, given every three years by NAMS […]
Stanford Researchers Survey Protein Family that Helps the Brain form Synapses
Stephen Quake | Via Stanford Engineering | March 18, 2014Neuroscientists and bioengineers at Stanford are working together to solve a mystery: How does nature construct the different types of synapses that connect neurons – the brain cells that monitor nerve impulses, control muscles and form thoughts. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Thomas C. Südhof, M.D., a […]
Stanford Engineers Brave the ‘Vomit Comet’ to Improve Astronauts’ Heart Health
Gregory T. A. Kovacs | Via Stanford Engineering | March 7, 2014The human heart was not meant to pump in space. Early astronauts in the Apollo program performed every conceivable physical test to ensure that they were each at the pinnacle of human fitness. And yet, when they returned to Earth after just a few days in space, they felt dizzy when standing and tests showed […]
A Breakthrough in Endometriosis Research
Douglas Lauffenburger | Via MIT Libraries News | February 26, 2014Over the years Linda Griffith has undergone many surgeries for endometriosis, a condition in which tissue that normally grows in the uterus is found elsewhere in the body and can cause lesions, inflammation, and infertility. The disease is poorly understood, and so it made sense to Griffith, a professor of biological and mechanical engineering, to […]
Johns Hopkins Researchers Establish a Digital Search System for Pediatric Brain MRI Data
Michael Miller | Via Johns Hopkins, Department of Biomedical Engineering | February 24, 2014Herschel and Ruth Seder Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Michael Miller, Susumu Mori (co-principal investigator of the grant) and Thierry Huisman (pediatric radiologist, building the pediatric brain cloud) have received a lot of media coverage about their recent project — a Google-like search system of normal and abnormal children’s brain scans. The pediatric brain data bank […]
Bioengineering at Tech: Past, Present, Future
Robert M. Nerem | Via Georgia Tech News Center | February 24, 2014Georgia Tech faculty member Bob Nerem’s work has helped significantly to advance medical science and improve the quality of life. To many at Georgia Tech, he has been one of the pioneers in the field and instrumental in leading the effort in the areas of bioengineering and biosciences on campus and beyond. Nerem is looking […]
Shedding a Light on Pain: A Technique Developed by Stanford Bioengineers Could Lead to New Treatments
Scott Delp | Via Stanford Engineering | February 19, 2014The mice in Scott Delp’s lab, unlike their human counterparts, can get pain relief from the glow of a yellow light. Right now these mice are helping scientists to study pain – how and why it occurs and why some people feel it so intensely without any obvious injury. But Delp, a professor of bioengineering […]
Peppas Elected to the Academy of Athens
Nicholas Peppas | Via University of Texas as Austin BME News | February 19, 2014Yannis Kevrekidis, a professor of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton University said, “Election to the Order of Sciences in the Academy whose roots go back to Plato’s Academy in this “city that taught the world” is a signal honor. It is also a recognition for the entire field that Nicholas has helped found and […]
Gene Therapy Might Grow Replacement Tissue Inside the Body
Farshid Guilak | Via Duke Engineering | February 18, 2014Duke researchers use gene therapy to direct stem cells into becoming new cartilage on a synthetic scaffold even after implantation into a living body. By combining a synthetic scaffolding material with gene delivery techniques, researchers at Duke University are getting closer to being able to generate replacement cartilage where it’s needed in the body. Performing […]
A New Tool in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life: A Tricked-Out Point-and-Shoot
Wolfgang Fink | Via U. Arizona News | February 7, 2014The next time a NASA rover blasts off to explore Mars or some other planet, it might be equipped with a new type of “do-it-all” camera developed by an engineering team at the University of Arizona. The prototype of the “Astrobiological Imager” – described in a research paper featured on the cover of a recent […]
Illuminating a Complex Disease: New analysis of endometriosis patients could help scientists develop better treatments and more revealing diagnoses
Linda Griffith | Via Massachusetts Institute of Technology | February 5, 2014Endometriosis, the invasive displacement of uterine tissue into surrounding organs, affects at least 10 percent of women. The disease, which is often misdiagnosed, can cause severe pain and infertility, but very little is known about how it arises. In 2009, biological engineer Linda Griffith launched the Center for Gynepathology Research at MIT to study endometriosis […]