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Klapperich Demos Power-Free RNA Extraction Device
Catherine Klapperich | Via BU Today | July 30, 2013While the availability of antiretroviral therapy has become more widespread for HIV- positive patients in resource-limited countries, few of these patients are monitored using viral load testing to determine how their treatment is progressing. Monitoring involves periodic measurements based on analyzing RNA extracted from blood samples, a procedure that requires the kind of infrastructure that […]
J.H. David Wu Gives Plenary Lecture on Bacterium’s Potential for Producing Biofuels
J.H. David Wu | Via University of Rochester | July 30, 2013Clostridium thermocellum is an anaerobic bacterium. It thrives at extremely high temperatures. And it has a remarkable ability to convert plant cellulose into ethanol, hydrogen and other chemical feedstocks, which is why researchers like J.H. David Wu, professor of Chemical Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering, are intensely interested in this bacterium’s potential for producing biofuels. […]
Jay D. Miller Appointed Chief Executive Officer
Jay D. Miller | Via PR Newswire | July 29, 2013IMRIS Inc. (NASDAQ: IMRS; TSX: IM) (“IMRIS” or the “Company”) today announced that Jay D. Miller, the company’s current President and COO, will also become the CEO of IMRIS Inc., effective August 1, 2013. Chairman and CEO David Graves will continue as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Corporation. “IMRIS has grown […]
Giving Till it Hurts: An Interview with Barbara Oakley
Barbara Oakley | Via Foundation for Economic Education | July 29, 2013Barbara Oakley is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers and a recent vice president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. She has recently shaken up the academic community and the popular press by suggesting that there are limits to being a do-gooder, and that an inability to […]
Grande-Allen Named Bioengineering Society Fellow
Jane Grande-Allen | Via Rice University News | July 29, 2013Jane Grande-Allen has been elected to the Biomedical Engineering Society’s (BMES) Class of 2013 Fellows for her contributions to the field through investigations into the mechanics of heart-valve disease. Grande-Allen, a professor of bioengineering, joined the Rice faculty in 2003. She directs the Integrative Matrix Mechanics Lab at the BioScience Research Collaborative.
Inaugural Arthur L. Kelly Prizes Honor Faculty Members
Ka Yee Christina Lee | Via University of Chicago News | July 26, 2013Professors Ka Yee Lee and John Frederick are the first recipients of the Arthur L. Kelly Prize for Exceptional Faculty Service in the Physical Sciences Division. The annual prize recognizes University of Chicago faculty members who have made outstanding contributions to the division in addition to their teaching and research. The prize was awarded at […]
Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop Artificial Cells To Study Effects of Molecular Crowding on Gene Expression
Philip LeDuc | Via Carnegie Mellon University | July 22, 2013The interior of a living cell is a crowded place, with proteins and other macromolecules packed tightly together. A team of scientists at Carnegie Mellon University has approximated this molecular crowding in an artificial cellular system and found that tight quarters help the process of gene expression, especially when other conditions are less than ideal. […]
Dr. Bruce Wheeler Elected as BMES Fellow
Bruce Wheeler | Via University of Florida | July 22, 2013Congratulations to Professor Bruce Wheeler on his election as a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)! BMES Fellow is a distinction reserved for only a few select BMES members who demonstrate exceptional achievements and experience in the field of biomedical engineering, and a record of membership and participation in the Society. Only seven Fellows were […]
Pitt’s Dr. William Wagner to Receive 2013 Senior Scientist Award from TERMIS-AM
William Wagner | Via University of Pittsburgh Engineering | July 22, 2013William Wagner, PhD will receive the 2013 Senior Scientist Award during the 2013 Tissue Engineering Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS-AM) conference this November in Atlanta. Dr. Wagner is Director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Professor of Surgery, Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering at Pitt. He is a tremendous colleague and outstanding scholar, as […]
Searching for Meaningful Markers of Aging
Trey Ideker | Via New York Times | July 22, 2013Don’t look to online calculators of “biological age” for an answer. Those focus mainly on risk factors for diseases, and say little about normal aging, the slow, mysterious process that turns children to codgers. In fact, scientists are still hunting for biological markers of age that reliably register how fast the process is unfolding. Seemingly […]
Barabino Named Dean of City College of New York Engineering School
Gilda Barabino | Via Biomedical Engineering Society | July 21, 2013BMES President Gilda Barabino was named Dean for the Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York, according to Maurizio Trevisan the CCNY provost. Barabino currently serves as professor of biomedical engineering in the Coulter Department of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, where she also serves as Associate Chair […]
National Awards Presented to Ohio State Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Leaders
Stuart L. Cooper | Via Ohio State University | July 19, 2013Two faculty from the William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering were recently recognized for their research accomplishments. Stuart L. Cooper, professor and chair, received the American Chemical Society Rubber Division’s 2013 Chemistry of Thermoplastic Elastomers Award for his outstanding research on the chemistry and microphase morphology of polyurethane multiblock polymers, as well […]
Magnets Steer Stem Cells to Specific Locations
Gang Bao | Via Georgia Tech | July 18, 2013Magnets could be a tool for directing stem cells’ healing powers to treat conditions such as heart disease or vascular disease. By feeding stem cells tiny particles made of magnetized iron oxide, scientists at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology can then use magnets to attract the cells to a particular location in […]
New Ph.D. Emphasis at UC Santa Barbara Offers More Robust Bioengineering Training
Samir Mitragotri | Via UC Santa Barbara | July 17, 2013Imagine an artificial pancreas device that frees diabetics from constant blood glucose testing, nanoparticles that selectively deliver chemotherapy to tumors with minimal impacts to healthy tissue, or brain imaging that detects serious conditions that escape conventional scans. These are only a few of the innovations that have been born from the marriage of biology and […]
Peppas Receives Benjamin Garver Lamme Award for Teaching Excellence
Nicholas Peppas | Via Cockrell School of Engineering | July 16, 2013Nicholas A. Peppas, Biomedical Engineering Department Chair, Director of the Center on Biomaterials, Drug Delivery and Bionanotechnology and professor of biomedical engineering, chemical engineering and pharmacy at The University of Texas at Austin, received the Benjamin Garver Lamme Award at a special awards ceremony held at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference […]
Overcoming Drug Delivery Barriers
Justin Hanes | Via Johns Hopkins INBT | July 11, 2013Nanotechnology bears a multitude of possibilities to systematically and specifically treat many well-characterized and currently untreatable diseases. Despite this, there exist multiple barriers to its development including challenges related to delivery in the human body. Justin Hanes, a professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, highlighted some of the exciting advances that […]
New Finding May Slow Spread of Alzheimer’s Disease
Christina Chan | Via Michigan State University | July 10, 2013In what could be a step toward slowing the spread of Alzheimer’s disease in the brain, a team of researchers from Michigan State University found that a particular substance, when injected into mice, lowers levels of a peptide linked to the disease. The scientists found that when a compound known as L-cylcoserine was injected into […]
BME-Powered Startup Wins First Place in Memphis Tech Event
COF-0338 Todd D. Giorgio | Via Vanderbilt School of Engineering | July 9, 2013BioNanovations, a startup company based on technology developed at Vanderbilt, claimed first place at the NewME Accelerator PopUp event held in Memphis June 28-30. According to The Daily News in Memphis, the company was awarded prizes worth $45,000 and earned a seat in the 12-week NewME Accelerator program in Silicon Valley. BioNanovations focuses on bringing […]
Cooper’s Research on Polyurethane Polymers and Use of Polyurethanes as Biomaterials Recognized with ACS Rubber Division Award
Stuart L. Cooper | Via Ohio State University | July 9, 2013In recognition of Professor Stuart L. Cooper’s outstanding research on the chemistry and microphase morphology of polyurethane multiblock polymers, as well as for his contributions in evaluating these polyurethanes as biomaterials, the American Chemical Society Rubber Division named him the 2013 recipient of the Chemistry of Thermoplastic Elastomers Award.
Microparticles Create Localized Control of Stem Cell Differentiation; Reduce Growth Factor Use
Todd C. McDevitt | Via Georgia Tech News Center | July 9, 2013Researchers are now reporting advances in these areas by using gelatin-based microparticles to deliver growth factors to specific areas of embryoid bodies, aggregates of differentiating stem cells. The localized delivery technique provides spatial control of cell differentiation within the cultures, potentially enabling the creation of complex three-dimensional tissues. The local control also dramatically reduces the […]