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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 […]
Unreported Side Effects of Drugs Are Found Using Internet Search Data, Study Finds
Russ Altman | Via New York Times | March 6, 2013Using data drawn from queries entered into Google, Microsoft and Yahoo search engines, scientists at Microsoft, Stanford and Columbia University have for the first time been able to detect evidence of unreported prescription drug side effects before they were found by the Food and Drug Administration’s warning system. Multimedia Using automated software tools to examine […]
UCF Professor, Researcher Recognized for Engineering Excellence
Sudipta Seal | Via UCF Today | March 6, 2013University of Central Florida professor was awarded for his outstanding contribution to engineering during the 2013 Central Florida Engineers Week Awards Banquet. Sudipta Seal, an engineering professor and director of the Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center and Nanoscience Technology Center at UCF, was the recipient of the Technical Excellence award for Academia. Seal was […]
New Material Developed at Texas A&M Could Improve Ultrasound Technology
Vladislav V. Yakovlev | Via Texas A&M Engineering | March 6, 2013Ultrasound technology could soon experience a significant upgrade that would enable it to produce high-quality, high-resolution images thanks to the development of a new key material by a team of researchers that includes a professor in Texas A&M University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering. The material, which converts ultrasound waves into optical signals that can be […]
Sean Kirkpatrick Named SPIE Felllow
Sean J. Kirkpatrick | Via Michigan Tech | March 5, 2013Sean Kirkpatrick, chair of biomedical engineering, has been named a Fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. He is one of 69 new Fellows announced by SPIE on Monday, March 4. Kirkpatrick was chosen for his achievements in theory and application of laser speckle in biomedical fields. In a news release announcing the […]
Palecek to Receive PNAS Paper Honor
Sean Palecek | Via University of Wisconsin Engineering | March 4, 2013During the National Academy of Sciences annual meeting awards ceremony, April 28, 2013, in Washington, D.C., Chemical and Biological Engineering Professor Sean Palecek will receive the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012 Cozzarelli Prize. This prize recognizes Palecek’s PNAS paper, “Robust cardiomyocyte differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells via temporal modulation of canonical […]
International Consortium Builds ‘Google Map’ of Human Metabolism
Bernhard Palsson | Via UC San Diego News Center | March 4, 2013Building on earlier pioneering work by researchers at the University of California, San Diego, an international consortium of university researchers has produced the most comprehensive virtual reconstruction of human metabolism to date. Scientists could use the model, known as Recon 2, to identify causes of and new treatments for diseases like cancer, diabetes and even […]
What Causes Fractures in Healthy Bones
Deepak Vashishth | Via The Times of India | March 4, 2013The findings by engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could lead to new strategies and therapeutics for fighting osteoporosis and lowering the risk of bone fracture. Funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the study details how fractures in healthy bones begin with the creation of incredibly tiny holes, each measuring only about 500 […]
Bone Marrow Cells, Synthetic Scaffold Used in Bladder Regeneration
Guillermo Ameer | Via Northwestern Engineering | March 1, 2013For patients suffering from spina bifida, the most common disabling birth defect in the United States, bladder dysfunction is common. Surgery is often considered the best treatment, but it comes with a host of complications, and today’s bladder tissue engineering strategies are unable to sufficiently reform bladder tissue without causing other problems. In a new […]
Researchers Make Science Fiction Reality with Brain Controlled Prosthetics
Robert Kirsch | Via The Observer | March 1, 2013Last May, news broke that the world was speeding into the realm of science fiction. Cathy Hutchinson, a woman left paralyzed in all four limbs due to a stroke, was able to drink a bottle of coffee using a robotic arm simply by imagining the action. Directed solely by Hutchinson’s thoughts, the robot gave Hutchinson […]
Modified Bacteria Turn Waste into Fat for Fuel
Ka-Yiu San | Via Rice University News | February 28, 2013“Green” chemistry developed at Rice University is at the center of a new government effort to turn plant waste into fatty acids, and then into fuel. The Rice lab of bioengineer Ka-Yiu San is part of a recently announced $25 million United States Department of Agriculture project to develop a new generation of renewable energy and bio-based […]
Changing Shape Makes Chemotherapy Drugs Better at Targeting Cancer Cells
Samir Mitragotri | Via UCSB Convergence | February 27, 2013Bioengineering researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara have found that changing the shape of chemotherapy drug nanoparticles from spherical to rod-shaped made them up to 10,000 times more effective at targeting and delivering anti-cancer drugs to breast cancer cells. Their findings could have a game-changing impact on the effectiveness of anti-cancer therapies and reducing […]
Rodgers, Mourikis and McBride Earn Engineering Council Awards
Victor Rodgers | Via UCR Engineering | February 27, 2013Professor and Chair of Bioengineering Victor G. J. Rodgers, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Anastasios Mourikis, and bioengineering Ph.D. student Devin McBride have been recognized by the Orange County Engineering Council with the organization’s 2013 Distinguished Engineering Educator and Outstanding Engineering Student awards. The awards were presented during the National Engineers’ Week Awards Banquet held […]
Lung-on-a-Chip Wins Prize
Donald Ingber | Via Harvard Gazette | February 26, 2013Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber received the NC3Rs 3Rs Prize from the U.K.’s National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement, and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) for his innovative Lung-on-a-Chip — a microdevice lined by human cells that recapitulates complex functions of the living lung. “We believe that our human breathing Lung-on-a-Chip, and other organ […]
Two Engineers Among UW-Madison Romnes Faculty Fellowship Recipients
Eric V. Shusta | Via University of Wisconsin Engineering | February 26, 2013Two engineering faculty are among eight promising young UW-Madison faculty who have been honored with Romnes Faculty Fellowships. The Romnes awards recognize exceptional faculty members who have earned tenure within the last four years. Selected by a Graduate School committee, winners receive an unrestricted $50,000 award for research, supported by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation […]
Predicting cancer’s response to therapy | Research News @ Vanderbilt | Vanderbilt University
Thomas E. Yankeelov | Via Vanderbilt News | February 24, 2013Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is increasingly used in women with locally advanced breast cancer before surgical treatment. Early assessment of response to NAC would allow clinicians to identify patients who are not responding and adjust their therapy. Thomas Yankeelov, Ph.D., Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research, and colleagues obtained two types of magnetic resonance imaging – diffusion-weighted […]