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Computer Simulation of Blood Vessel Growth: Early Step Toward Treatment for Diseases that Affect Blood Flow
Jeffrey Weiss | Via University of Utah News | January 22, 2014University of Utah bioengineers showed that tiny blood vessels grow better in the laboratory if the tissue surrounding them is less dense. Then the researchers created a computer simulation to predict such growth accurately – an early step toward treatments to provide blood supply to tissues damaged by diabetes and heart attacks and to skin […]
Going Native: Biomedical Engineers Take Biochemistry from the Test Tube into Living Cells
David T. Yue | Via Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering | January 20, 2014Classic biochemistry has long analyzed isolated biological molecules, or their fragments, within artificial solutions in test tubes. However, the results obtained may belie the actual behavior of these molecules as they function within live cells. Ph.D. graduate students Philemon S. Yang and Manu Ben Johny, along with Johns Hopkins BME professor David T. Yue, have devised methods to translate traditional […]
Laura Marcu Named a Fellow of the Optical Society
Laura Marcu | Via UC Davis Bioengineering | January 17, 2014Laura Marcu, a professor in the UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been named a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA). The nomination and selection process is highly competitive: OSA Fellows are chosen based on their overall impact on optics, as gauged via factors such as specific scientific, engineering and technological contributions; a record […]
Qifa Zhou Elected as SPIE Fellow
Qifa Zhou | Via University of Southern California Biomedical Engineering | January 17, 2014Biomedical Engineering Professor Dr. Qifa Zhou has been elected by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) as a Fellow of the Society. Dr. Zhou is one of about 70 new Fellows elected worldwide in 2013. Dr. Zhou is being recognized for his achievements in integrating ultrasound with OCT and developing photoacoustic bio-imaging system […]
New Injectable Material Could Enable Targeted Drug Delivery, Embedded Sensor Tech
Michael J. McShane | Via Texas A&M University | January 16, 2014A new injectable material designed to deliver drug therapies and sensor technology to targeted areas within the human body is being developed by a Texas A&M University biomedical engineer who says the system can lock its payload in place and control how it is released. The research, led by Michael McShane, professor in the Department […]
Johns Hopkins Students Tackle Engineering Challenges Around the World
Jennifer Elisseeff | Via The Gazette | January 15, 2014The riverside village of Nazaçu appears on preciously few travel itineraries and barely registers on any map. But in the summer of 2012, Nate Nicholes, a doctoral student in the Whiting School’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, found himself with a group of Johns Hopkins faculty and students cruising down the Brazilian Amazon to […]
Unwanted Side Effect Becomes Advantage in Photoacoustic Imaging
Lihong Wang | Via Washington University in St. Louis | January 14, 2014Biomedical engineer Lihong Wang, PhD, and researchers in his lab work with lasers used in photoacoustic imaging for early-cancer detection and a close look at biological tissue. But sometimes there are limitations to what they can do, and as engineers, they work to find a way around those limitations. Wang, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished […]
Academy of Science of St. Louis Honors Lihong Wang
Lihong Wang | Via Washington University in St. Louis | January 14, 2014Wang will receive the James B. Eads Award, which recognizes a distinguished individual for outstanding achievement in engineering or technology. Wang and his lab were the founders of a type of medical imaging that gives physicians a new look at the body’s internal organs, publishing the first paper on the technique in 2003. Called functional […]
Cornell Team Finds Success Sending ‘Cancer-Killing Machines’ Through Bloodstream
Michael King | Via Cornell University | January 13, 2014Biomedical engineers at Cornell University are turning sticky nanoparticles into “cancer-killing machines” to prevent cancer cells from spreading throughout the body. The groundbreaking research could one day pave the way for eliminating 90 percent of cancer deaths. The research team, which recently published its findings in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is led […]
Hopkins researchers building searchable database of children’s brain scans
Michael Miller | Via Johns Hopkins, The Hub | January 10, 2014When an MRI scan uncovers an unusual architecture or shape in a child’s brain, it’s cause for concern: The malformation may be a sign of disease. But deciding whether that odd-looking anatomy is worrisome or harmless can be difficult. To help doctors reach the right conclusions—and make the right decisions—Johns Hopkins researchers are building a […]
Harvard Scientists Control Cells Following Transplantation, from the Inside out
Jeffrey Karp | Via Harvard Stem Cell Institute | January 9, 2014Harvard stem cells scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and MIT can now engineer cells that are more easily controlled following transplantation, potentially making cell therapies, hundreds of which are currently in clinical trials across the United States, more functional and efficient. Associate Professor Jeffrey Karp, PhD, and James Ankrum, PhD, demonstrate in this month’s […]
Imaging Technology to Improve Survival of Ischemic Heart Disease Patients
David Wilson | Via Case Think | January 9, 2014Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center hope to improve treatment and survival rates of ischemic heart disease patients by providing doctors an unprecedented look at the stents they place in coronary arteries. The highly collaborative team received a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, […]
Proposal Earns Perfect Score from NIH
Andrew Rollins | Via Case Think | January 9, 2014Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center hope to improve treatment and survival rates of ischemic heart disease patients by providing doctors an unprecedented look at the stents they place in coronary arteries. The highly collaborative team received a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, […]
Nerem Gift to Fund IBB Faculty Position
Robert M. Nerem | Via Georgia Tech News Center | January 6, 2014Nerem’s work has helped to significantly advance medical science and improve quality of life. To many on North Avenue, he has been one of the pioneers in the field, instrumental in leading the effort in the areas of bioengineering and bioscience on the campus and beyond. After 26 years on the Tech faculty — and […]
Metastatic Cancer Cells Implode on Protein Contact
Michael King | Via Cornell Chronicle | January 6, 2014By attaching a cancer-killer protein to white blood cells, Cornell biomedical engineers have demonstrated the annihilation of metastasizing cancer cells traveling throughout the bloodstream. The study, “TRAIL-Coated Leukocytes that Kill Cancer Cells in the Circulation,” was published online the week of Jan. 6 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “These circulating […]
Piggy-Backing Proteins Ride White Blood Cells to Wipe Out Metastasizing Cancer
Michael King | Via Cornell Media Relations | January 6, 2014Cornell biomedical engineers have discovered a new way to destroy metastasizing cancer cells traveling through the bloodstream – lethal invaders that are linked to almost all cancer deaths – by hitching cancer-killing proteins along for a ride on life-saving white blood cells. “These circulating cancer cells are doomed,” said Michael King, Cornell professor of biomedical […]
Kala Pharmaceuticals Appoints Howard B. Rosen as Chairman of the Board of Directors
Howard B. Rosen | Via Businesswire | January 6, 2014Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leading developer of innovative products that enhance penetration of therapeutic agents into ocular tissue based on the Company’s proprietary Mucus Penetrating Particle (MPP) technology, today announced the appointment of Howard B. Rosen as Chairman of the company’s board of directors. “Howard’s extensive track record of building and guiding successful companies will […]
Gene Testing Still Not Widely Adopted
George M. Church | Via The Boston Globe | December 30, 2013In early December, Harvard geneticist George Church addressed a crowd of about 150 life science professionals gathered at Google’s Cambridge office and asked how many of them had had their genomes sequenced. Not a single person raised a hand. Church appeared to have expected the negative response, even at an event where people paid $150 […]
How Cells Remodel After UV Radiation: Researchers map cell’s complex genetic interactions to fix damaged DNA
Trey Ideker | Via UC San Diego | December 19, 2013Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues in The Netherlands and United Kingdom, have produced the first map detailing the network of genetic interactions underlying the cellular response to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The researchers say their study establishes a new method and resource for exploring in greater detail how […]
Easy On, Easy Off: Reversible Hydrogel Seals Wounds
Mark Grinstaff | Via Boston University | December 16, 2013Researchers at Professor Mark Grinstaff’s (BME, Chemistry, MSE) lab and Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have developed a highly absorbent hydrogel that not only seals wounds, but can later be dissolved and gently removed. Intended for wounds that must be quickly closed to stem blood loss and prevent infection, but later reopened for […]