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The Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) at the Mind Research Network, in partnership with the University of New Mexico, received a $15 million grant that will position New Mexico as one of the premier brain imaging sites while expanding research on psychosis and mood disorders. This is a second phase of the National Institutes […]
The Summer 2013 issue of the Explore Magazine highlights the research efforts of five faculty members from the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida: Drs. Wesley Bolch, Jon Dobson, Huabei Jiang, Christine Schmidt and Ranganatha Sitaram. The article, “Engineering Better Health: UF Scientists Are Applying Engineering Principles To […]
Fischell Department of Bioengineering (BioE) professor and associate chair John Fisher is the co-editor of and contributor to a new book titled Tissue Engineering: Principles and Practices, available from CRC Press. The book’s three sections, “Fundamentals,” “Enabling Technologies,” and “Applications” are designed to guide readers through the field, covering the latest opinions and research on […]
Rensselaer CATS, a NYSTAR-supported Center for Advanced Technology, is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. B. Wayne Bequette as its Associate Director of Process Technologies. In this new role, Wayne will coordinate process modeling, optimization and control related research in the CATS, with applications to chemical, pharmaceutical, oil, gas and other systems. Wayne will […]
New research enables high-speed customization of novel nanoparticles for drug delivery and other uses. A new coating technology developed at MIT, combined with a novel nanoparticle-manufacturing technology developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, may offer scientists a way to quickly mass-produce tailored nanoparticles that are specially coated for specific applications, including […]
CBE Professor Matt DeLisa, the William L. Lewis Professor of Engineering, has been awarded the 2013 AIChE Division 15c Plenary Lecture. The Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Division (FP&BE) division (“Division 15”) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) provides engineers and scientists interested in the field of food, pharmaceuticals, and bioengineering with places to […]
Marc Ostermeier, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the Whiting School, built a deadline into his summer. He needs to finish his parts before mid-July, when Tanya Maus, an assistant professor of history in Wittenberg University’s East Asian Studies Program, comes to town. They’re working on the next installment of a collaboration that […]
An adhesive inspired by a parasitic worm could help better affix skin grafts in burn patients. Bioengineer Jeffrey Karp is used to finding inspiration in unusual places. He’s looked to porcupines’ barbed quills and the sticky pads of geckos’ feet, for example, to develop medical adhesives. And one afternoon a few years ago he sat […]
Professor Matt DeLisa, the William L. Lewis Professor of Engineering, has been accepted into the 2014-2015 class of the Defense Science Study Group (DSSG). The DSSG is a program of education and study that introduces selected scientists and engineering professors to the challenges facing national security and encourages them to apply their talents to these issues […]
What if we could get our gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel from yeast instead of from oil wells? That’s not as crazy as it sounds. In fact, it’s already happening on a small scale. And there’s a vigorous research effort to ramp this up on a massive scale. One of the more innovative approaches […]
Rashid Bashir, director of the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at Illinois, will be the next head of the Department of Bioengineering, beginning August 16, 2013. As Abel Bliss Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering, Bashir leads two efforts to train the next generation of leaders in nanotechnology and bioengineering: the Integrative Graduate Education and Research […]
Nanoparticles that deliver short strands of RNA offer a way to treat cancer and other diseases by shutting off malfunctioning genes. Although this approach has shown some promise, scientists are still not sure exactly what happens to the nanoparticles once they get inside their target cells. A new study from MIT sheds light on the […]
Nanoparticles that deliver short strands of RNA offer a way to treat cancer and other diseases by shutting off malfunctioning genes. Although this approach has shown some promise, scientists are still not sure exactly what happens to the nanoparticles once they get inside their target cells. A new study from MIT sheds light on the […]
Kick back and shut your eyes. Now stop thinking. You have just put your brain into what neuroscientists call its resting state. What the brain is doing when an individual is not focused on the outside world has become the focus of considerable research in recent years. One of the potential benefits of these studies […]
In a remarkably interesting new paper, “Concepts and implications of altruism bias and pathological altruism,” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Oakland University systems engineer Barbara Oakley argues that intentions to help people all too often hurt them. Unintended harm is the outcome of she what calls pathological altruism. She defines pathological […]
There’s a reason osteoarthritis is often called wear-and-tear arthritis: Repeated stress on joints over time results in degeneration of the soft cartilage that normally distributes loads to the joints. Recreating how joints bear stress could lead to a better understanding of the mechanical and physiological processes involved in the development of osteoarthritis. Cornell engineers have […]
Southern Research Institute today announced that Arthur J. Tipton, Ph.D., has been selected by its Board of Directors to serve as president and CEO of Southern Research effective July 8, 2013. Tipton replaces John A. “Jack” Secrist, III, Ph.D., who served as president and CEO of Southern Research Institute for seven years. Secrist announced his […]
The Department of Bioengineering in the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering has been selected as the recipient of the 2013 Chancellor’s Affirmative Action Award. Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg presented the award to department chair Harvey Borovetz, Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering, during the University Senate Council’s June 12 meeting, held in Posvar Hall. […]
Don’t look now, but your plants are glowing. Research at the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources is investigating this glow, or delayed fluorescence, that may someday help farmers monitor the health of their crops to more accurately apply fertilizers, water and pesticides. “This research is very new,” said Jinglu Tan, […]