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Nerem Gift to Fund IBB Faculty Position
Robert M. Nerem | Via Georgia Tech News Center | January 6, 2014Nerem’s work has helped to significantly advance medical science and improve quality of life. To many on North Avenue, he has been one of the pioneers in the field, instrumental in leading the effort in the areas of bioengineering and bioscience on the campus and beyond. After 26 years on the Tech faculty — and […]
Metastatic Cancer Cells Implode on Protein Contact
Michael King | Via Cornell Chronicle | January 6, 2014By attaching a cancer-killer protein to white blood cells, Cornell biomedical engineers have demonstrated the annihilation of metastasizing cancer cells traveling throughout the bloodstream. The study, “TRAIL-Coated Leukocytes that Kill Cancer Cells in the Circulation,” was published online the week of Jan. 6 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “These circulating […]
Piggy-Backing Proteins Ride White Blood Cells to Wipe Out Metastasizing Cancer
Michael King | Via Cornell Media Relations | January 6, 2014Cornell biomedical engineers have discovered a new way to destroy metastasizing cancer cells traveling through the bloodstream – lethal invaders that are linked to almost all cancer deaths – by hitching cancer-killing proteins along for a ride on life-saving white blood cells. “These circulating cancer cells are doomed,” said Michael King, Cornell professor of biomedical […]
Kala Pharmaceuticals Appoints Howard B. Rosen as Chairman of the Board of Directors
Howard B. Rosen | Via Businesswire | January 6, 2014Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading developer of innovative products that enhance penetration of therapeutic agents into ocular tissue based on the Company’s proprietary Mucus Penetrating Particle (MPP) technology, today announced the appointment of Howard B. Rosen as Chairman of the company’s board of directors. “Howard’s extensive track record of building and guiding successful companies will […]
Gene Testing Still Not Widely Adopted
George M. Church | Via The Boston Globe | December 30, 2013In early December, Harvard geneticist George Church addressed a crowd of about 150 life science professionals gathered at Google’s Cambridge office and asked how many of them had had their genomes sequenced. Not a single person raised a hand. Church appeared to have expected the negative response, even at an event where people paid $150 […]
How Cells Remodel After UV Radiation: Researchers map cell’s complex genetic interactions to fix damaged DNA
Trey Ideker | Via UC San Diego | December 19, 2013Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in The Netherlands and United Kingdom, have produced the first map detailing the network of genetic interactions underlying the cellular response to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The researchers say their study establishes a new method and resource for exploring in greater detail how […]
Easy On, Easy Off: Reversible Hydrogel Seals Wounds
Mark Grinstaff | Via Boston University | December 16, 2013Researchers at Professor Mark Grinstaff’s (BME, Chemistry, MSE) lab and Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have developed a highly absorbent hydrogel that not only seals wounds, but can later be dissolved and gently removed. Intended for wounds that must be quickly closed to stem blood loss and prevent infection, but later reopened for […]
Timing is Everything in New Nanotechnology for Medicine, Security and Research
J. Paul Robinson | Via Purdue University | December 16, 2013Researchers working to advance imaging useful to medicine and security are capitalizing on the same phenomenon behind the lingering “ghost” image that appeared on old television screens. A team of researchers from Purdue University and Macquarie University in Sydney has created a way to control the length of time light from a luminescent nanocrystal lingers, […]
Duke Engineers Make Strides Toward Artificial Cartilage
Farshid Guilak | Via Duke Biomedical Engineering | December 13, 2013A Duke research team has developed a better recipe for synthetic replacement cartilage in joints. Combining two innovative technologies they each helped develop, lead authors Farshid Guilak, a professor of orthopedic surgery and biomedical engineering, and Xuanhe Zhao, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and materials science, found a way to create artificial replacement tissue that […]
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Awarded to Robert Langer
Robert Langer | Via Breakthrough Prize | December 12, 2013December 12, 2013 (San Francisco) – The names of the 2014 Breakthrough Prize winners in Fundamental Physics and Life Sciences were unveiled at an exclusive ceremony at the NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA. At a total awarded amount of $21 million, sponsored by Sergey Brin & Anne Wojcicki, Jack Ma & Cathy Zhang, […]
Device Developed at UI Could Make HIV Testing Easier, Faster
Rashid Bashir | Via The News-Gazette | December 10, 2013Much like the blood sugar test which allows diabetics to quickly and easily monitor glucose levels, a new handheld device developed at the University of Illinois aims to quickly and accurately diagnose HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. It’s called a “microfluidic biochip” and it’s smaller than our palm, about the size of a credit […]
Galloway Joins Editorial Board of IEEE Biomedical Engineering Journal
Robert L. Galloway | Via Vanderbilt Engineering | December 10, 2013Robert L. Galloway Jr. has accepted a position on the editorial board of Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, a journal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Galloway, whose expertise is in technology-guided therapies, medical devices and medical imaging, is a professor of biomedical engineering, professor of neurosurgery and professor of surgery at Vanderbilt University. […]
110 Patents: Three UCF Profs Lauded as Top Innovators
Sudipta Seal | Via UCF Today | December 10, 2013THree University of Central Florida professors are being recognized for their prolific spirit of innovation, which has benefitted economic development, quality of life and the well-being of society. The three have distinguished themselves for creating inventions in the areas of photonics and nanotechnology, which have everyday applications. For their work, the National Academy of Inventors […]
New Biochip Diagnoses HIV/AIDS on the Spot
Rashid Bashir | Via University of Illinois ECE | December 9, 2013A new sensor technology developed by researchers at the University of Illinois and collaborators at Daktari Diagnostics can diagnose HIV/AIDS using just a drop of blood. The device could provide less costly, easy-to-use, immediate disease diagnostics, especially useful in remote areas of the world and locations with limited resources. Developed by the research group of […]
A NonStop Biosensor
Hyongsok Soh | Via American Chemical Society C&EN | December 9, 2013A biosensor that could continuously measure drugs and biomolecules in the blood of living patients promises to aid early diagnosis of disease and help physicians customize drug doses to individuals, a key goal of personalized medicine. The technology has been used to monitor drugs in live rats and human blood but not yet in people. […]
Surviving Ovarian Cancer: Rutgers Scientists Attack Drug Resistant Cancer Cells
Tamara Minko | Via Rutgers University News | December 6, 2013Scientists at Rutgers University have developed a targeted drug delivery system that they believe could make ovarian cancer more treatable and increase survival rates for the most deadly gynecological cancer in the United States. Tamara Minko, professor in the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, and Lorna Rodriguez, professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences […]
After Season-Ending Injury, Boston Skier is Olympics-Bound
Martha Murray | Via Boston Children's Hospital | December 4, 2013What happens when an adrenaline-addicted athlete slows down? Julia Marino thrives at high speed and from great heights. In 2009, 17-year-old Julia was at the top of her game. Coaches and fellow slopestyle skiers had pegged her as a rising star on the World Cup circuit. Salomon, a top winter sports gear manufacturer, had signed […]
Prof. Jacobs Awarded Van C. Mow Medal
Christopher Jacobs | Via Columbia BME | December 3, 2013We are pleased to announce that Professor Christopher R. Jacobs of the Department of Biomedical Engineering has been awarded the 2014 ASME Van C. Mow Medal in bioengineering. The coveted ASME Van C. Mow Medal is bestowed upon an individual who has demonstrated meritorious contributions to the field of bioengineering through research, education, professional development, […]
Kristi Anseth Presents “Dynamic Cell Scaffolds Through Photochemical Reactions” at the Materials Research Society Meeting in Boston
Kristi Anseth | Via University of Colorado Boulder | December 3, 2013Kristi Anseth will present the group’s work on dynamic cell scaffolds in a talk entitled “Dynamic Cell Scaffolds through Photochemical Reactions” at 1:30 PM on December 3rd in the Back Bay B room on the secon floor of the Sheridan. She hopes to see you all there!
Chemical Engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Collaborate To Advance Battlefield Biomanufacturing Technology
Steven Cramer | Via RPI | December 2, 2013Two chemical engineering professors at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are contributing to a collaboration among academia, industry, and the federal government to develop a method for rapidly manufacturing biologic drugs. The project, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), aims to provide front-line military medics […]