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Tracking the Sandman
Patrick Purdon | Via Harvard | November 21, 2014Investigators at the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a system to accurately track the dynamic process of falling asleep, something that has not been possible with existing techniques. In their report in the October issue of the open-access journal PLOS Computational Biology, the research team described how combining key physiologic measurements with a […]
Shu Chien Receives U.C. San Diego Roger Revelle Medal
Shu Chien | Via UC San Diego | November 20, 2014San Diego, Calif., Nov. 20, 2014 — University of California, San Diego bioengineering professor Shu Chien has received the Roger Revelle Medal from UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla with the citation: “Shu Chien is widely known as an exceptional researcher, instructor, mentor and citizen of the university and his professional community.” Chien received the […]
Artificial Retina Maker Second Sight More Than Doubles In Debut
Mark Humayun | Via CNBC | November 19, 2014Shares of Second Sight Medical Products Inc, a maker of artificial retinas designed to partially restore sight to the blind, more than doubled in their market debut. The stock touched a high of $22.45 on the Nasdaq on Wednesday, valuing the company at $777.3 million. Second Sight’s Argus II System – the world’s only approved […]
How Do We Make Batteries More Powerful, Cheaper and Safer?
Esther Takeuchi | Via Scientific American | November 18, 2014Electric vehicles, a modernized electrical grid and even smartphones would be little more than pipe dreams without the ability to store energy. More specifically, they rely on batteries, a centuries-old technology forced to mature ever more quickly to meet our growing demands for portable power. Progress, at least when it comes to technology, poses myriad […]
George Georgiou Named Inventor Of The Year
George Georgiou | Via U. Texas at Austin | November 13, 2014George Georgiou, professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named Inventor of the Year by the university’s Office of Technology Commercialization. The award recognizes Georgiou for commercializing industry-changing technologies, preparing students to follow in his footsteps and proving that What Starts Here Changes the World. In 2013, Nature Biotechnology named Georgiou one of the world’s […]
Dr. Schmidt receives AIChE Women’s Initiatives Committee’s Mentorship Excellence Award
Christine Schmidt | Via U. of Florida | November 13, 2014Dr. Christine E. Schmidt, the Pruitt Family Professor and Department Chair of the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, has received the Women’s Initiatives Committee’s (WIC) Mentorship Excellence Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). The award “recognizes women faculty who have contributed to the development of the next generation of […]
5 Questions With Dean Kamen
Dean Kamen | Via NC State News | November 13, 2014When Dean Kamen was an undergraduate student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, his older brother — a medical student at Harvard — talked about what a shame it was that outpatients had to come into the hospital to receive infusions of intravenous medicine. Wouldn’t it be better if there were some device that could […]
Sang Yup Lee Appointed Honorary Professor
Sang Yup Lee | Via KAIST | November 13, 2014Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at KAIST has been appointed an honorary professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT). Founded in 1958, BUCT is one of the outstanding universities in mainland China, especially in chemistry studies. In addition to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012), […]
With Wires and Electrodes, Tara Bio Builds a Heart on a Chip
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via Xconomy | November 12, 2014Tara is based on the work of two researchers: Columbia professor Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic and University of Toronto professor Milica Radisic. They met several years ago at Bob Langer’s lab at MIT and have since worked together to turn stem cells into mature heart tissue that can be tested as if it were an adult heart. […]
Fulbright Scholar Awards
Roger Narayan | Via NC State | November 12, 2014Biomedical engineer Roger Narayan recently completed his Fulbright project at the Institute of Chemistry at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, where he lectured, taught a graduate course on biomaterials and collaborated on joint research activities. The core Fulbright Scholar Program attracts some 800 U.S. faculty and professionals each year to 140 countries to […]
With Wires and Electrodes, Tara Bio Builds a Heart on a Chip
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via Xconomy | November 12, 2014It’s been pretty clear for some time that there’s a big need to improve the efficiency of drug R&D. By industry’s count, drugs cost over $1 billion to develop, and most of them fail. A big reason why is the preclinical studies in petri dishes and animals don’t accurately predict how a drug will behave […]
With Wires and Electrodes, Tara Bio Builds a Heart on a Chip
Milica Radisic | Via Xconomy | November 12, 2014It’s been pretty clear for some time that there’s a big need to improve the efficiency of drug R&D. By industry’s count, drugs cost over $1 billion to develop, and most of them fail. A big reason why is the preclinical studies in petri dishes and animals don’t accurately predict how a drug will behave […]
Controlling Genes With Your Thoughts
Martin Fussenegger | Via Phys.org | November 11, 2014Researchers led by ETH Zurich professor Martin Fussenegger have constructed the first gene network that can be controlled by our thoughts. The inspiration for this development was a game that picks up brainwaves in order to guide a ball through an obstacle course. It sounds like something from the scene in Star Wars where Master […]
Classification Of Gene Mutations In A Children’s Cancer May Point To Improved Treatments
Ravi Radhakrishnan | Via Science Daily | November 10, 2014Oncology researchers studying gene mutations in the childhood cancer neuroblastoma are refining their diagnostic tools to predict which patients are more likely to respond to drugs called ALK inhibitors that target such mutations. Removing some of the guesswork in diagnosis and treatment, the researchers say, may lead to more successful outcomes for children with this […]
Rudy Named Visiting Professor At Oxford
Yoram Rudy | Via Wash. U. St. Louis | November 6, 2014Yoram Rudy, PhD, the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been given the title of visiting professor in computational medicine by the University of Oxford. The appointment is in the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division and in the Department of Computer Science. In this capacity, Rudy will […]
Shape Of Things To Come In Platelet Mimicry
Samir Mitragotri | Via Think Case | November 5, 2014CLEVELAND—Artificial platelet mimics developed by a collaborative research team from Case Western Reserve University and University of California, Santa Barbara, are able to halt bleeding in mouse models 65 percent faster than nature can on its own. For the first time, the researchers have been able to integratively mimic the shape, size, flexibility and surface […]
Implantable Devices and the Medicine of Tomorrow
Ellis Meng | Via USC Viterbi | November 5, 2014“What we’re trying to do here is build advanced infusion technology for a variety of applications.” Ellis Meng, USC Viterbi professor of biomedical engineering, has known many titles. In 2009, she was named among the TR35 global innovators — MIT Technology Review’s “top 35 young innovators under 35;” and she is one of the 2012 […]
New Research Partnership To Accelerate The Fight Against Musculoskeletal Disorders
John Fisher | Via Arthritis Research UK | November 4, 2014A partnership between Arthritis Research UK and a national centre for innovation is launching a new fund to accelerate the commercial development of treatments and prevention of musculoskeletal disorders. Arthritis Research UK and the Medical Technologies Innovation and Knowledge Centre have joined together to offer funding and project management support to progress research ideas with […]
Six Ways U Of T Researchers Are Engineering Your Health
Milica Radisic | Via U. of Toronto | October 30, 2014Like a scene lifted from Frankenstein, Professor Milica Radisic’s (IBBME, ChemE) “biowire” platform treats immature human cardiac cells, derived from stem cells, to cycles of electric pulses—a process that encourages growth at the same rate as a developing fetus. The result: mature heart tissue that meets a major need in the pharma industry, which, until […]
Vanderbilt Students Travel to Washington, D.C., for Science Policy Event
Todd Giorgio | Via Vanderbilt | October 27, 2014“By far, though, the most valuable part of the program was the opportunity to network with key people in the field. I was very impressed that Vanderbilt was able to recruit such high-level STEM policy professionals to work with us,” said Wesley Bond, a postdoctoral scholar in ophthalmology and visual sciences The program was hosted […]