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Five Minutes with VaxDesign’s Bill Warren
William Warren | Via Orlando Business Journal | March 28, 2013This week, Sanofi Pasteur VaxDesign Corp. in Orlando announced it got a $15.1 million U.S. Department of Defense contract. So what will it be doing? And, more importantly, is it classified? The short version is it will be testing vaccines for two viruses and a toxin. VaxDesign — acquired in 2010 for $60 million by […]
WUSTL Engineer Helping Unravel Mystery of Traumatic Brain Injury
Philip V. Bayly | Via Washington University in Saint Louis Newsroom | March 28, 2013The American Academy of Neurology issued new guidelines last week for assessing school-aged athletes with head injuries on the field. The message: if in doubt, sit out. With more than 3 million sports-related concussions occurring in the U.S. each year, from school children to professional athletes, the issue is a burgeoning health crisis. While concussions […]
From Fat to Fuel: Genetically Modified Bacteria Could Convert Waste into Energy
Ka-Yiu San | Via Mother Nature Network | March 25, 2013Plant waste has long been seen as a possible source of sustainable biofuels, and new research out of Rice University could unlock some of the energy that scientists say lies waiting in organic material. According to materials provided by Rice, bioengineer Ka-Yiu San and his lab have developed a way to turn plant waste into […]
Flipping Chemistry Classrooms
Vicki Colvin | Via Chemical and Engineering News | March 25, 2013Gabriela C. Weaver doesn’t lecture to her general chemistry students—at least not in class. She records short lecture snippets that the students watch online before showing up. During the class period, the students work problems while the Purdue University chemistry professor wanders around the room, observing students, answering their questions, and looking for concepts that […]
Mechanical Forces Control Assembly and Disassembly of a Key Cell Protein
Larry McIntire | Via Georgia Tech News Center | March 20, 2013Researchers have for the first time demonstrated that mechanical forces can control the depolymerization of actin, a critical protein that provides the major force-bearing structure in the cytoskeletons of cells. The research suggests that forces applied both externally and internally may play a much larger role than previously believed in regulating a range of processes […]
CII Investigator Recognized at the American Red Cross National Awards
George Pantalos | Via Cardiovascular Innovation Institue | March 20, 2013The Hall of Service, American Red Cross National Headquarters in Washington, D.C. hosted a recognition dinner on March 20, 2013 in honor of exceptional works with the American Red Cross. Dr. Pantalos was an honoree at the event. Dr. George Pantalos, Ph.D. is a member of the River Valley Blood Services Region Advisory Board, a dedicated platelet […]
International Technology Partnership to Focus on Water Problems
Matthew Tirrell | Via UChicago News | March 19, 2013The University of Chicago and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have signed an agreement to begin exploring a research partnership that would create new water production and purification technologies for deployment in regions of the globe where fresh water resources are scarce… …Leading the Chicago side of the collaboration will be Matthew Tirrell, the Pritzker […]
Wearable Artificial Lung to Be Developed at Pitt Through $3.4 Million Grant
William Federspiel | Via University of Pittsburgh News | March 19, 2013Each year, nearly 350,000 Americans die of some form of lung disease, with another 150,000 patients needing short- and long-term care. Unfortunately, current breathing-support technologies are cumbersome, often requiring patients to be bedridden and sedated. Now, with the support of a $3.4 million National Institutes of Health grant, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh will […]
New Nanotechnology Research Study Turns Brain Tumors Blue
Ravi Bellamkonda | Via Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta | March 18, 2013Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and the Georgia Institute of Technology announce new technique that increases precision in brain tumor removal In an article published this week in the journal Drug Delivery and Translational Medicine, researchers from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and the Georgia Institute of Technology have reported the development of a technique that assists […]
Bio for Nano: Engineers Work to Create New Biomaterials with Energy Technology Applications
Kristi Kiick | Via University of Delaware | March 18, 2013When automotive engineers want to create a new car, they don’t build thousands of prototypes. Instead, they create computer models and run simulations for performance, efficiency and desirability before a model is selected for fabrication. University of Delaware materials science professors Darrin Pochan and Kristi Kiick are taking a similar approach to building new nanomaterials […]
Dr. Christine Schmidt Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Christine Schmidt | Via University of Florida | March 18, 2013Dr. Christine Schmidt, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS http://www.aaas.org/), the world’s largest general scientific society and the publisher of the journal Science. “AAAS fellows are elected by their peers, and fewer than 1 percent of the association’s members are elected each year. Fellows are selected […]
New MRI Method Fingerprints Tissues and Diseases
Mark Griswold | Via Case Western Reserve University | March 14, 2013A new method of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could routinely spot specific cancers, multiple sclerosis, heart disease and other maladies early, when they’re most treatable, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center suggest in the journal Nature. Each body tissue and disease has a unique fingerprint that can be […]
Lynn, Shusta Earn American Chemical Society Awards
Eric V. Shusta | Via University of Wisconsin Engineering | March 14, 2013Chemical and Biological Engineering Professor David Lynn has received the Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award, an honor sponsored by the journals of the same names and the American Chemical Society. The award honors Lynn, who will give an award lecture at the fall ACS meeting in Indianapolis, for his contributions to polymer science. CBE Professor Eric […]
Women Inspiring Innovation: Medtronic’s Rebecca Bergman to Speak at Local Event
Rebecca Bergman | Via St. Peter Herald | March 12, 2013St. Peter women are celebrating women this month, paying special attention to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields during an annual event meant to laud the achievements of women in the community for their leadership and contributions to society — locally, statewide and in some cases nationally. This year’s Women Celebrating Women celebration will […]
Five Proposals Win Support from Faculty Initiatives Fund
Kyriacos Zygourakis | Via Rice University News | March 11, 2013Studies of braille reading and the impact of skewed sex ratios on plant populations are among the five innovative research proposals chosen to receive grants from the Faculty Initiatives Fund (FIF) for academic year 2013-14. “These grants are intended to help faculty members develop adventurous projects that might enhance the university and that might lead […]
UC Davis Engineering – 50th Anniversary – M. Allen Northrup
Allen Northrup | Via UC Davis Engineering | March 11, 2013Real-world events sometimes catalyze research activity in the blink of an eye. In 1996, biomedical engineer M. Allen Northrup partnered with Thomas L. Gutshall and Kurt Petersen to found Cepheid, a company they hoped would become the reference standard for DNA analysis. Northrup soon became chief technology officer and vice-president of research, and the company’s […]
Practicing Medicine at the Nanoscale
Daniel Anderson | Via Massachusetts Institute of Technology | March 11, 2013Modern medicine is largely based on treating patients with “small-molecule” drugs, which include pain relievers like aspirin and antibiotics such as penicillin. Those drugs have prolonged the human lifespan and made many life-threatening ailments easily treatable, but scientists believe the new approach of nanoscale drug delivery can offer even more progress. Delivering RNA or DNA […]
Prickly Porcupine: Medicine’s Next Top Model?
Jeffrey Karp | Via Health Hub | March 7, 2013The North American porcupine is easily recognizable due to its impressive coat of long, sharp quills. These unique projections are designed so that they can easily penetrate animal flesh, but are extremely difficult to remove. While this may be bad news for a predator or a curious pet, this natural mechanism is a boon for […]
Prickly Porcupine: Medicine’s Next Top Model?
Robert Langer | Via Health Hub | March 7, 2013The North American porcupine is easily recognizable due to its impressive coat of long, sharp quills. These unique projections are designed so that they can easily penetrate animal flesh, but are extremely difficult to remove. While this may be bad news for a predator or a curious pet, this natural mechanism is a boon for […]
X-ray Imaging Sheds New Light on Bone Damage
Marjolein van der Meulen | Via Cornell Chronicle | March 6, 2013From athletes to individuals suffering from osteoporosis, bone fractures are usually the result of tiny cracks accumulating over time – invisible rivulets of damage that, when coalesced, lead to that painful break. Using cutting-edge X-ray techniques, Cornell researchers have uncovered cellular-level detail of what happens when bone bears repetitive stress over time, visualizing damage at […]