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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 […]
Bayly, Team Get $2.25 Million Grant to Study Brain Mechanics
Philip V. Bayly | Via Washington University in Saint Louis Newsroom | February 22, 2013Washington University in St. Louis engineering researchers have received a five-year $2.25 million grant to better understand traumatic brain injuries in efforts to improve methods for prevention and treatment. Philip Bayly, PhD, the Lilyan and E. Lisle Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, is principal […]
McShane Receives NIH Award
Michael J. McShane | Via Texas A&M University | February 22, 2013Dr. Mike McShane, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named recipient of the 2012 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Transformative Research Award. McShane, along with Natalie Ann Wisniewski of PROFUSA Inc., are working to develop highly miniaturized, injectable, sensors for continuous and simultaneous monitoring of […]
Building a Biochemistry Lab on a Chip
Rashid Bashir | Via University of Illinois ECE | February 21, 2013Miniaturized laboratory-on-chip systems promise rapid, sensitive, and multiplexed detection of biological samples for medical diagnostics, drug discovery, and high-throughput screening. Using micro-fabrication techniques and incorporating a unique design of transistor-based heating, researchers at the University of Illinois are further advancing the use of silicon transistor and electronics into chemistry and biology for point-of-care diagnostics. Lab-on-a-chip […]
Case Western Reserve University Joins BrainGate Clinical Trial
Robert Kirsch | Via Case Western Reserve University | February 21, 2013Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and its primary affiliate University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center will begin testing the first of two technologies they plan to combine in a new effort to enable people with paralysis to regain some control of their arms and hands. The physicians and scientists are now enrolling participants in […]
Discovery Spurred by Unique Twist of Fate
Jane Grande-Allen | Via Rice University News | February 20, 2013Antibiotic study inspires new pathways in heart-valve research As people age, or as a result of poor nutrition, heart valves can become damaged by the accumulation of calcium deposits within the tissue. This calcification causes a thickening and hardening of the tissue to the point that it limits normal blood flow. Bioengineering researchers in Rice […]
UTSA’s C. Mauli Agrawal Awarded for Service in Biomaterials Field
C. Mauli Agrawal | Via University of Texas at San Antonio | February 19, 2013C. Mauli Agrawal, the David and Jennifer Spencer Distinguished Chair for the Dean of Engineering and Peter Flawn Professor in Biomedical Engineering at UTSA, has been selected as the sole recipient of the Society for Biomaterials (SFB) 2013 Award for Service. The award honors his significant service to the SFB in establishing, developing, maintaining and […]
Joseph DeSimone: Liberal Arts Education Shapes Startup Founders
Joseph DeSimone | Via Materials Views | February 19, 2013From creating a manufacturing process for making plastics using supercritical carbon dioxide to his latest biomedical venture, Liquidia Technologies, professor Joseph DeSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University has a long and distinguished career as an entrepreneur, as well as a scientist. But what gives an entrepreneur […]
Engineering Cells for More Efficient Biofuel Production
Gregory Stephanopoulos | Via MIT | February 17, 2013In the search for renewable alternatives to gasoline, heavy alcohols such as isobutanol are promising candidates. Not only do they contain more energy than ethanol, but they are also more compatible with existing gasoline-based infrastructure. For isobutanol to become practical, however, scientists need a way to reliably produce huge quantities of it from renewable sources. […]
Cato T. Laurencin Wins 2012 AAAS Mentor Award
Cato T. Laurencin | Via UConn Today | February 15, 2013The 2012 AAAS Mentor Award will be presented to Cato T. Laurencin “for his transformative impact and scientific contributions toward mentoring students in the field of biomedical engineering.” He will receive the award during a 15 February ceremony at the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.
BMES Members Elected to National Academy of Engineers
Raphael Lee | Via Biomedical Engineering Society | February 15, 2013Six Biomedical Engineering Society members were elected to the National Academy of Engineering: James Anderson, Dawn Bonnell, Raphael Lee, Kam Leong, Richard Murray and Stephen Quake. NAE elected 69 new members and 11 foreign associates total, NAE President Charles M. Vest announced this week. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,250 and the number […]
Carbon Nanotubes Help Grow Beating Heart Tissue
Ali Khademhosseini | Via American Chemical Society | February 14, 2013Tissue Engineering: New nanotube-based scaffold mimics heart tissue’s electrical and mechanical properties Heart attacks kill muscle cells called cardiomyocytes, leaving behind tissue damage. If scientists could grow cardiac tissue in the lab, they could perhaps graft patches of healthy tissue onto a patient’s damaged heart. A new carbon nanotube-studded hydrogel acts as a scaffold for […]
CSE’s Clare Rimnac receives ORS Women’s Leadership Award!
Clare Rimnac | Via Case Engineering | February 12, 2013The Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS) recently awarded Clare Rimnac, associate dean of research and the Wilbert J. Austin Professor of Engineering, with the 2013 ORS Women’s Leadership Forum Award. The ORS Women’s Leadership Forum seeks to mentor, foster, encourage and inspire women in orthopaedic research at all stages of their careers, and advise and support […]
Bionic Muscles Toughen Up
Ali Khademhosseini | Via MIT Technology Review | February 11, 2013Hybrid materials made of cardiac cells and carbon nanotubes might patch damaged hearts and provide muscle for robots made of living tissues. The tissues of the heart are mechanically tough and electrically conductive, and they keep a strong, rhythmic beat—properties that are tough to mimic in the lab. But a new hybrid material that combines […]