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How the Brain Loses and Regains Consciousness
Emery Brown | Via MIT News | May 4, 2013Study reveals brain patterns produced by a general anesthesia drug; work could help doctors better monitor patients. Since the mid-1800s, doctors have used drugs to induce general anesthesia in patients undergoing surgery. Despite their widespread use, little is known about how these drugs create such a profound loss of consciousness. In a new study that […]
Kristi Anseth Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Kristi Anseth | Via University of Colorado Boulder | May 2, 2013Our congratulations to Kristi Anseth, who has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Kristi, who is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine, now joins a very select group of scientists/engineers (approximately 15) who are members of all three branches of the National Academies.
Two CU-Boulder Faculty Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Kristi Anseth | Via University of Colorado Boulder | May 1, 2013Two University of Colorado Boulder professors have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, a top honor recognizing scientists and engineers for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The new members are Distinguished Professor Kristi Anseth of the chemical and biological engineering department and Professor Henry Kapteyn of the physics department. […]
Distinguished Professor Sang-Yup Lee Received 2013 Amgen Biochemical Engineering Award
Sang Yup Lee | Via Kaist | April 30, 2013Previous award winners are world-renowned scholars of biochemical engineering including James Bailey, Michael Shuler and Daniel Wang KAIST Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department’s Professor Sang-Yup Lee has been selected to receive the 2013 Amgen Biochemical Engineering Award. The award ceremony will take place this June at the International Biochemical and Molecular Engineering conference in Beijing, […]
‘Super-Resolution’ Microscope Possible for Nanostructures
Ji-Xin Cheng | Via Purdue University | April 29, 2013Researchers have found a way to see synthetic nanostructures and molecules using a new type of super-resolution optical microscopy that does not require fluorescent dyes, representing a practical tool for biomedical and nanotechnology research. “Super-resolution optical microscopy has opened a new window into the nanoscopic world,” said Ji-Xin Cheng, an associate professor of biomedical engineering […]
Patterned Hearts
Ali Khademhosseini | Via Brigham and Women's Hospital | April 29, 2013A team of bioengineers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is the first to report creating artificial heart tissue that closely mimics the functions of natural heart tissue through the use of human-based materials. Their work will advance how clinicians treat the damaging effects caused by heart disease, the leading cause of death in the […]
Battling Brain
Mingzhou Ding | Via National Academy of Engineering | April 28, 2013“Struggling to concentrate” isn’t just a saying. Engineers are now able to see the way two networks in the brain battle for control when you need to focus.
Adele Boskey, Ph.D., Honored With Symposium on Bone Disease Research
Adele Boskey | Via Hospital for Special Surgery | April 25, 2013Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) will honor biomineralization and osteoporosis investigator Adele Boskey, Ph.D., at a symposium on the latest research in bone mineralization and its role in bone disease on Thursday, May 2. Dr. Boskey, Starr Chair in Mineralized Tissue Research, has investigated bone chemistry at HSS since 1970. Osteoporosis and other bone diseases […]
Dr. Mingzhou Ding Named UF Research Foundation Professor for 2013
Mingzhou Ding | Via UF Biomedical Engineering | April 25, 2013Congratulations to Dr. Mingzhou Ding who was one of thirty-four faculty named UF Research Foundation Professors for 2013! “The recognition goes to faculty who have a distinguished current record of research and a strong research agenda that is likely to lead to continuing distinction in their fields.” Professor Ding’s research is focused on understanding the […]
Trey Ideker and Collaborators Release Cytoscape v3
Trey Ideker | Via UCSD Department of Medicine News | April 25, 2013On April 22, 2013, computational biologists and computer scientists at UC San Diego released version 3 of Cytoscape for general availability. Cytoscape is the leading open source visualization software platform supporting systems biology; it enables researchers to visualize molecular interaction networks and biological pathways and integrate them with annotations, gene expression profiles and other state and […]
Engineering Alumni, Faculty & Staff Honored at 2013 Awards Banquet
Michael Hill | Via Duke Engineering | April 23, 2013Nine outstanding members of the Pratt School of Engineering community were honored at the 2013 Engineering Awards Banquet, held April 20, 2013 at the Washington Duke Inn. The annual event celebrates the honorees for their career accomplishments, service to Duke Engineering and excellence in teaching, mentoring and research. Distinguished Alumni Awards Recipients of the 2013 […]
Deepak Vashishth Named Director of Rensselaer Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies | News & Events
Deepak Vashishth | Via Rensselaer News | April 22, 2013Deepak Vashishth, a bone and tissue engineering expert, and current head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been appointed director of the Rensselaer Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS), effective April 16. He succeeds Jonathan Dordick, who is now vice president for research. “Deepak Vashishth is well recognized as […]
CU Distinguished Professor Kristi Anseth is 2013 Hazel Barnes Prize Winner
Kristi Anseth | Via University of Colorado Boulder | April 22, 2013Distinguished Professor Kristi Anseth of the University of Colorado Boulder’s chemical and biological engineering department has been selected to receive the 2013 Hazel Barnes Prize, the highest faculty recognition for teaching and research awarded by the university. Anseth, also a faculty member at CU-Boulder’s BioFrontiers Institute, will receive an engraved university medal and a $20,000 […]
By George: BIO Announces Jay Keasling its 2013 George Washington Carver Award Winner
Jay Keasling | Via Biotechnology Industry Organization | April 18, 2013Chemical Engineering Professor at University of California, Berkeley Honored for Innovation in Industrial Biotechnology The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) named Dr. Jay Keasling as the recipient of its 2013 George Washington Carver Award for innovation in industrial biotechnology. A panel selected Keasling, a professor of biochemical engineering at University of California, Berkeley; associate laboratory director […]
Q&A with Joseph DeSimone
Joseph DeSimone | Via UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School | April 18, 2013Joseph DeSimone, who was appointed as director of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise last summer, talks about the vision, plans and priorities for the Institute. What first appealed to you about taking the position of Director of the Kenan Institute? Frank Hawkins Kenan’s original vision for the Institute talks of fusing entrepreneurship […]
A Brief Discussion with AAAS Mentor Award Recipient Dr. Cato T. Laurencin
Cato T. Laurencin | Via AAAS Member Central | April 17, 2013At this year’s AAAS annual meeting, Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., was the recipient of the 2012 AAAS Mentor Award “for his transformative impact and scientific contributions toward mentoring students in the field of biomedical engineering.” Dr. Laurencin has also been awarded with a number of other honors including the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award […]
Parasitic Worm Inspires Better Sticky Medical Tape
Jeffrey Karp | Via National Geographic | April 16, 2013Say you’re looking to make the next generation of medical tape. You want something that will hold skin and other organs together while they heal. You want it to be more convenient than sutures and less brutal than staples. It has to stick easily, hold on tightly, and come off painlessly. There are worse places […]
Pitt Research Team Receives NIH R21 Grant to Develop Adipose Stem-Cell Based Vascular Grafts
David Vorp | Via University of Pittsburgh Engineering | April 15, 2013Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering is moving toward the production of an adipose stem-cell based vascular graft for bypass patients, thanks to a new R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health. Led by David A. Vorp, PhD, William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Bioengineering and Associate Dean for Research at […]
The Factory Phenotype
Jay Keasling | Via Berkeley Science Review | April 11, 2013Each year, 300 to 500 million cases of malaria are diagnosed worldwide, of which 1.5 to three million, mostly in children, result in death. Drugs to treat malaria are too expensive for people in developing countries, hence the lack of proper treatment and the high mortality rate. Fortunately, a new, much less expensive anti-malarial drug […]
Launch of Antimalarial Drug a Triumph for UC Berkeley, Synthetic Biology
Jay Keasling | Via UC Berkeley News Center | April 11, 2013Twelve years after a breakthrough discovery in his UC Berkeley laboratory, professor of chemical engineering Jay Keasling is seeing his dream come true. On April 11, the pharmaceutical company Sanofi will launch the large-scale production of a partially synthetic version of artemisinin, a chemical critical to making today’s front-line antimalaria drug, based on Keasling’s discovery. […]