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Nanoparticles Attack Aggressive Tumors
Paula Hammond | Via MIT Library News | October 31, 2013MIT chemical engineers have developed a new treatment for an aggressive form of breast cancer whose tumors resist chemotherapy drugs. Led by David H. Koch Professor in Engineering Paula Hammond, the team designed nanoparticles that pack a one-two punch: They deliver a cancer drug along with short strands of RNA that shut off genes used […]
Orthogen LLC Announces Dr. Sachin Mamidwar as New CEO of Company
Sachin Mamidwar | Via SBWire | October 29, 2013Orthogen LLC, a leading provider of bone graft material for dental applications, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Sachin Mamidwar as new CEO of the company. Previous CEO and Chairman of the Board of Orthogen LLC, Dr. Harold Alexander said, “The opinion of the owners was unanimously positive. It is with great pleasure […]
NIH Awards $6.4 Million Grant for Raman Flow Cytometry
John Nolan | Via La Jolla Bioengineering Institute | October 29, 2013The National Institute of Biological Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) of National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded more than $6.4 million for the continuation of the Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP) Raman Flow Cytometry for Drug Discovery and Diagnostics. This multidisciplinary effort, led by LJBI Professor John Nolan, aims to extend the capabilities for multiplexed and […]
Bioengineering Department Renamed Department of Biomedical Engineering
Cheng Dong | Via Penn State News | October 28, 2013The Department of Bioengineering has been renamed the Department of Biomedical Engineering after being approved by the Penn State Board of Trustees. Cheng Dong, distinguished professor of biomedical engineering and head of the department, said the name change more accurately reflects the program’s teaching and research efforts, with a vision that the department will be […]
MEDIC to Kick-Start Personalised Medicine Revolution
Hyongsok Soh | Via Royal Society of Chemistry | October 27, 2013A sensor that can continuously monitor the concentration of a drug in the bloodstream is set to help personalised medicine take off. This technology will let doctors tailor drug treatment courses for each patient with exceptional precision and according to how fast they excrete or metabolise different medicines. Continuous, real time monitoring of specific molecules […]
Farokhzad Awarded Nanotechnology Prize
Omid Farokhzad | Via Brigham and Women's Hospital | October 25, 2013Omid Farokhzad, MD, director of the Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials at BWH and associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology, was recently named one of two 2013 Laureates of the RUSNANOPRIZE, the largest international nanotechnology prize, for his work in advancing nanoparticle technologies. Farokhzad is being recognized in the field of Nanomaterials and Surface Modification […]
Edward F. Leonard: Developing an Artificial Kidney
Edward Leonard | Via Columbia University | October 25, 2013Nearly 500,000 Americans depend for their lives on thrice-weekly, in-clinic kidney dialysis to remain alive. The treatment is costly ($23 billion a year—or about $46,000 per person), very demanding, and provides only a low quality of life. Some 80,000 Americans are on waiting lists for kidney transplants, with 4,000 dying each year before they get […]
Why Engineers Want To Put B Vitamins In 3-D Printers
Roger Narayan | Via NPR | October 25, 2013Almost every day it seems there’s a new use for 3-D printing. In medicine, the printers are already making prosthetic hands, hearing aid cases and parts of human ears. But the materials used in some 3-D printing processes could be toxic to humans, particularly if the products get inside the body. So researchers have been […]
Not All Blood Vessels Are Created Equal: Groundbreaking Research of Endothelial Cells May Someday Lead to Elimination of Organ Transplants
Sina Rabbany | Via Hofstra University | October 25, 2013Research by a group of scientists, including Dr. Sina Rabbany, Hofstra’s Jean Nerken Professor of Engineering and Director of the Bioengineering Program, and his colleagues from Weill Cornell Medical College, found that damaged or diseased organs may someday be restored with an injection of endothelial cells – the cells that make up the structure of […]
Bioinformatics Breakthrough: High Quality Transcriptome from as Few as Fifty Cells
Shankar Subramaniam | Via UC San Diego | October 24, 2013Bioengineers from the University of California, San Diego have created a new method for analyzing RNA transcripts from samples of 50 to 100 cells. The approach could be used to develop inexpensive and rapid methods for diagnosing cancers at early stages, as well as better tools for forensics, drug discovery and developmental biology. The protocols, […]
Danny Alge and Kristi Anseth publish “Thiol-X Reactions in Tissue Engineering” in RSC’s New Book Thiol-X Chemistries in Polymer and Materials Science
Kristi Anseth | Via University of Colorado Boulder | October 23, 2013Danny Alge and Kristi Anseth contributed a chapter to a new RSC book on using thiol-based chemistry in material science. This insightful chapter highlights power applications of this exciting chemistry in tissue engineering applications.
Study Finds Natural Compound Can Be Used for 3-D Printing of Medical Implants
Roger Narayan | Via NC State Newsroom | October 23, 2013Researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Laser Zentrum Hannover have discovered that a naturally-occurring compound can be incorporated into three-dimensional (3-D) printing processes to create medical implants out of non-toxic polymers. The compound is riboflavin, which is better known as vitamin B2. “This opens the door […]
Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Chairs Named
Robert Kirsch | Via Case Western Reserve University | October 22, 2013Case Western Reserve University has appointed Robert F. Kirsch chairman of the biomedical engineering department and Kenneth A. Loparo chairman of the electrical engineering and computer science department. Kirsch and Loparo are prolific researchers, proven leaders among their peers and consistently highly regarded in annual student reviews. “They are doers who will take action and […]
Duke Launches Global Women’s Health Technologies Center
Nimmi Ramanujam | Via Pratt School of Engineering | October 22, 2013Around the world, nearly 800 women die every day due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth—and even more from breast and cervical cancer. Duke’s expertise in biomedical engineering and global health are merging to address these issues and improve the lives of women by accelerating research in areas of women’s health, while increasing the number […]
Wyss Institute Core Faculty Member Elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
David Mooney | Via Wyss Institute | October 21, 2013David Mooney, Ph.D., a Core Faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies, which is one of the highest […]
Northwestern Joins Network to Improve STEM Education
Robert Linsenmeier | Via Northwestern University | October 21, 2013Northwestern and 21 other universities that are part of the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) recently received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will expand CIRTL, a nationwide collaboration with the goal of improving the education of the diverse populations of undergraduates who pursue degrees […]
Li Lab Shows Physical Cues Help Mature Cells Revert into Embryonic-Like Stem Cells
Song Li | Via UC Berkeley Bioengineering | October 21, 2013Professor Song Li and his research team have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when inducing mature cells back to a pluripotent stage, capable of becoming any cell type in the body.
Physical Cues Help Mature Cells Revert into Embryonic-Like Stem Cells
Song Li | Via UC Berkeley Research | October 20, 2013Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when nudging mature cells back to a pluripotent stage, capable of becoming any cell type in the body. The researchers grew fibroblasts – cells taken from human skin and mouse ears – on surfaces with parallel grooves measuring 10 […]
Rice Scientists Create a Super Antioxidant
Vicki Colvin | Via Rice University | October 14, 2013Common catalyst cerium oxide opens door to nanochemistry for medicine Scientists at Rice University are enhancing the natural antioxidant properties of an element found in a car’s catalytic converter to make it useful for medical applications. Rice chemist Vicki Colvin led a team that created small, uniform spheres of cerium oxide and gave them a […]
New Drug-Delivery System Will Improve Lives of Patients with Chronic Eye Diseases
Tejal Desai | Via UC San Francisco | October 14, 2013Patients suffering from eye diseases such as glaucoma and macular degeneration benefit from the availability of highly effective medicines. However, the methods for delivering these drugs to the eye keep patients trapped in a cycle of constant maintenance with monthly injections or cumbersome eye drops multiple times a day. Robert Bhisitkul, MD, PhD, a professor […]