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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 […]
A Microchip for Metastasis: MIT researchers design a microfluidic platform to see how cancer cells invade specific organs
Roger D. Kamm | Via Massachusetts Institute of Technology | February 2, 2014Nearly 70 percent of patients with advanced breast cancer experience skeletal metastasis, in which cancer cells migrate from a primary tumor into bone — a painful development that can cause fractures and spinal compression. While scientists are attempting to better understand metastasis in general, not much is known about how and why certain cancers spread […]
Njit Distinguished Professor Atam P. Dhawan, of Randolph, Named Aimbe Fellow
Atam Dhawan | Via New Jersey Institute of Technology | January 28, 2014Atam P. Dhawan, of Randolph, a distinguished professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NJIT, has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBA) for contributions in medical imaging. Dhawan, who also serves as the Executive Director of Undergraduate Research and Innovation at NJIT, will be […]
Termis: the Congruent Point of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Todd McDevitt | Via Georgia Tech Pioneer | January 28, 2014Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine International Society – hosts an annual conference which is often found to be eye-opening by many people in the field of tissue engineering as it showcases the field’s latest technologies and groundbreaking research. This year, TERMIS-Americas is hosted by The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia […]
Understanding Concussions: Testing Head-Impact Sensors
James Ashton-Miller | Via University of Michigan Engineering | January 28, 2014The head of a crash-test dummy wore a football helmet as it hung upside-down on a laboratory drop tower. James Eckner, M.D., stood on a ladder next to it holding its tether. He counted to five and let go. The bust smacked into another just like it three feet below – with about the force […]
Harvard Scientists Say Research Subjects Should See Data
George M. Church | Via Bloomberg | January 23, 2014People who give blood or other tissues for research should be able to track their use through the scientific process to see the data their activities or samples generate, Harvard University scientists said. The standard one-way flow of information creates an unequal relationship that blocks participants’ ability to hold scientists accountable for how the data […]
Experiments Show Hypothesis of Microtubule Steering Accurate
William Hancock | Via Penn State News | January 23, 2014Tiny protein motors in cells can steer microtubules in the right direction through branching nerve cell structures, according to Penn State researchers who used laboratory experiments to test a model of how these cellular information highways stay organized in living cells. “We proposed a model of how it works in vivo, in the living cell,” […]
Computer Simulation of Blood Vessel Growth: Early Step Toward Treatment for Diseases that Affect Blood Flow
Jeffrey Weiss | Via University of Utah News | January 22, 2014University of Utah bioengineers showed that tiny blood vessels grow better in the laboratory if the tissue surrounding them is less dense. Then the researchers created a computer simulation to predict such growth accurately – an early step toward treatments to provide blood supply to tissues damaged by diabetes and heart attacks and to skin […]
Going Native: Biomedical Engineers Take Biochemistry from the Test Tube into Living Cells
David T. Yue | Via Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering | January 20, 2014Classic biochemistry has long analyzed isolated biological molecules, or their fragments, within artificial solutions in test tubes. However, the results obtained may belie the actual behavior of these molecules as they function within live cells. Ph.D. graduate students Philemon S. Yang and Manu Ben Johny, along with Johns Hopkins BME professor David T. Yue, have devised methods to translate traditional […]
Laura Marcu Named a Fellow of the Optical Society
Laura Marcu | Via UC Davis Bioengineering | January 17, 2014Laura Marcu, a professor in the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA). The nomination and selection process is highly competitive: OSA Fellows are chosen based on their overall impact on optics, as gauged via factors such as specific scientific, engineering and technological contributions; a record […]
Qifa Zhou Elected as SPIE Fellow
Qifa Zhou | Via University of Southern California Biomedical Engineering | January 17, 2014Biomedical Engineering Professor Dr. Qifa Zhou has been elected by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) as a Fellow of the Society. Dr. Zhou is one of about 70 new Fellows elected worldwide in 2013. Dr. Zhou is being recognized for his achievements in integrating ultrasound with OCT and developing photoacoustic bio-imaging system […]
New Injectable Material Could Enable Targeted Drug Delivery, Embedded Sensor Tech
Michael J. McShane | Via Texas A&M University | January 16, 2014A new injectable material designed to deliver drug therapies and sensor technology to targeted areas within the human body is being developed by a Texas A&M University biomedical engineer who says the system can lock its payload in place and control how it is released. The research, led by Michael McShane, professor in the Department […]
Johns Hopkins Students Tackle Engineering Challenges Around the World
Jennifer Elisseeff | Via The Gazette | January 15, 2014The riverside village of Nazaçu appears on preciously few travel itineraries and barely registers on any map. But in the summer of 2012, Nate Nicholes, a doctoral student in the Whiting School’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, found himself with a group of Johns Hopkins faculty and students cruising down the Brazilian Amazon to […]
Unwanted Side Effect Becomes Advantage in Photoacoustic Imaging
Lihong Wang | Via Washington University in St. Louis | January 14, 2014Biomedical engineer Lihong Wang, PhD, and researchers in his lab work with lasers used in photoacoustic imaging for early-cancer detection and a close look at biological tissue. But sometimes there are limitations to what they can do, and as engineers, they work to find a way around those limitations. Wang, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished […]
Academy of Science of St. Louis Honors Lihong Wang
Lihong Wang | Via Washington University in St. Louis | January 14, 2014Wang will receive the James B. Eads Award, which recognizes a distinguished individual for outstanding achievement in engineering or technology. Wang and his lab were the founders of a type of medical imaging that gives physicians a new look at the body’s internal organs, publishing the first paper on the technique in 2003. Called functional […]
Cornell Team Finds Success Sending ‘Cancer-Killing Machines’ Through Bloodstream
Michael King | Via Cornell University | January 13, 2014Biomedical engineers at Cornell University are turning sticky nanoparticles into “cancer-killing machines” to prevent cancer cells from spreading throughout the body. The groundbreaking research could one day pave the way for eliminating 90 percent of cancer deaths. The research team, which recently published its findings in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is led […]
Hopkins researchers building searchable database of children’s brain scans
Michael Miller | Via Johns Hopkins, The Hub | January 10, 2014When an MRI scan uncovers an unusual architecture or shape in a child’s brain, it’s cause for concern: The malformation may be a sign of disease. But deciding whether that odd-looking anatomy is worrisome or harmless can be difficult. To help doctors reach the right conclusions—and make the right decisions—Johns Hopkins researchers are building a […]