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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 […]
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 […]