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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. […]
Cybernetic Model Developed to Predict Shewanella Metabolic Behavior
Doraiswami Ramkrishna | Via Phys.org | April 11, 2013To further the quest to harness microbes for beneficial uses, scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Purdue University developed a promising computational tool for analyzing microbial flux distribution and metabolic engineering. They used the Lumped Hybrid Cybernetic Model (L-HCM), developed by Purdue researchers Dr. Hyun-Seob Song and Dr. Doraiswami Ramkrishna, to predict and simulate […]
Material Screening Method Allows More Precise Control Over Stem Cells
William L. Murphy | Via University of Wisconsin Engineering | April 10, 2013When it comes to delivering genes to living human tissue, the odds of success come down the molecule. The entire therapy – including the tools used to bring new genetic material into a cell – must have predictable effects. Now, a new screening process will simplify non-viral transfection, providing a method researchers and clinicians to […]
UF Researchers Show Brain’s Battle for Attention
Mingzhou Ding | Via UF News | April 10, 2013We’ve all been there: You’re at work deeply immersed in a project when suddenly you start thinking about your weekend plans. It happens because behind the scenes, parts of your brain are battling for control. Now, University of Florida researchers and their colleagues are using a new technique that allows them to examine how parts […]
Khademhosseini Receives Young Investigator Award, Selected as Member of Center for Scientific Review
Ali Khademhosseini | Via Brigham and Women's Hospital | April 9, 2013Ali Khademhosseini, PhD, principal investigator in the Khademhosseini Laboratory in the Division of Biomedical Engineering in BWH’s Department of Medicine, received the Young Investigator Award from the Controlled Release Society. The award recognizes a member of the Controlled Release Society under age 40 who has made outstanding contributions to the science of controlled release and […]
Bioterrorism Threats: Local Scientists Developing Tests for Vaccines Against Bioterror Threats
William Warren | Via Orlando Sentinel | April 8, 2013In their cold, sterile labs near Orlando, some local scientists are creating a hot commodity — biological replicas of the human immune system — that could play a role in saving the planet from a pandemic. That’s one of the goals, at least, of the work at Sanofi Pasteur VaxDesign Corp., the Central Florida unit […]
Adhesive Differences Enable Separation of Stem Cells to Advance Potential Therapies
Todd C. McDevitt | Via Georgia Tech News Center | April 7, 2013The reprogramming technique allows a small percentage of cells – often taken from the skin or blood – to become human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) capable of producing a wide range of other cell types. Using cells taken from a patient’s own body, the reprogramming technique might one day enable regenerative therapies that could, […]
Dr. Gina Bertocci Recognized with 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award for Bioengineering
Gina Bertocci | Via Pitt Engineering | April 5, 2013Over 200 faculty, staff, alumni and friends of the Swanson School of Engineering gathered last night to recognize this year’s Distinguished Alumni Award recipients at the School’s annual banquet in the University of Pittsburgh’s Alumni Hall. Gerald D. Holder, US Steel Dean of Engineering, presented awards honoring alumni from each of the School’s six departments, […]
Dedicated Equipment to Accelerate Neural Processing Research
John White | Via University of Utan | April 3, 2013Six interdisciplinary research groups that focus on neural information processing – Dorval, Rabbitt, Taha, Wachowiak, White, and Wilcox Labs – received matching funds from the U of U to purchase an integrated system for optical and electrophysiological studies in vivo. “These diverse, systems neuroscience groups will utilize the shared equipment to develop new techniques, tools, and […]
Fighting Cancer in 3D
Antonios Mikos | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | April 3, 2013What might accelerate the development of cancer therapeutics? Three-dimensional scaffolds, according to researchers at Rice University, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Mount Sinai Medical Center. Their porous polymer scaffolds were designed to support the growth of biological tissue for implantation, and were used to culture Ewing’s sarcoma cells. The researchers say […]
Professor Ramkrishna Receives the 2013 Faculty Research Award for the Purdue Chapter of Sigma Xi
Doraiswami Ramkrishna | Via Purdue Engineering | April 3, 2013Doraiswami (Ramki) Ramkrishna, the H.C. Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, is the winner of the 2013 Purdue Sigma Xi Chapter Faculty Research Award. The award recognizes outstanding research achievement and contributions to scientific knowledge by a Purdue faculty member.
New Boston Childrens Hospital Program Offers Holistic Approach to Treat the Female Athlete
Martha Murray | Via Boston Children's Hospital | April 3, 2013Boston Children’s Hospital announces the Female Athlete Program, co-directed by Kathryn Ackerman, MD, MPH and Martha Murray, MD, both of the Sports Medicine Division. One of the only programs in the country of its kind, the Female Athlete Program combines sports medicine specialties to help pediatric and adult female athletes stay as healthy as possible while competing. Supported by a team […]
Beating the Odds: After Three Knee Injuries, a Female Athlete Triumphs
Martha Murray | Via Boston Children's Hospital | April 3, 2013There is a special kind of female athlete who is so dedicated that her sport becomes her life. Because research shows that girls and women are prone to higher rates of injuries and other health complications, these female athletes require a level of dedication not only to their sports, but also to their long-term health. […]
Four MIT Researchers Attend White House Announcement of Brain Initiative
Emery Brown | Via MIT News | April 2, 2013Obama invites Boyden, Brown, Desimone and Seung to launch of new federal initiative. Four MIT neuroscientists were among those invited to the White House on Tuesday, April 2, when President Barack Obama announced a new initiative to understand the human brain. Professors Ed Boyden, Emery Brown, Robert Desimone and Sebastian Seung were among a group […]