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A Survey Will Help UCR Clear the Air About Tobacco Use
Victor Rodgers | Via UCR Today | December 12, 2012All UC property will be designated as smoke/tobacco-free as of Jan. 2, 2014, part of a systemwide effort to make campuses safer and healthier. The UCR Smoke/Tobacco-Free Policy Implementation Committee, chaired by Victor G. J. Rodgers, professor and chair of bioengineering and co-chaired by Julie Chobdee, Wellness Program coordinator, will use the results of this […]
Battling Brittle Bones … With Broccoli and Spinach?
Deepak Vashishth | Via Rensselaer News | December 11, 2012A study from engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows, for the first time, how the little-understood protein osteocalcin plays a significant role in the strength of our bones. The findings 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 […]
Why Porcupine Quills Go In Easily but Are Hard to Pull Out
Jeffrey Karp | Via National Geographic | December 11, 2012In August of this year, Allison Noles rushed her bulldog Bella Mae to the vet. The dog’s face looked like a pincushion, with some 500 spines protruding from her face, paws and body. The internet is littered with such pictures, of Bella Mae and other unfortunate dogs. To find them, just search for “porcupine quills”. […]
Inspiration from a Porcupine’s Quills
Jeffrey Karp | Via Massachusetts Institute of Technology | December 10, 2012Understanding the mechanisms behind quill penetration and extraction could help engineers design better medical devices. Anyone unfortunate enough to encounter a porcupine’s quills knows that once they go in, they are extremely difficult to remove. Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital now hope to exploit the porcupine quill’s unique properties to develop new […]
Inspiration from a Porcupine’s Quills
Robert Langer | Via Massachusetts Institute of Technology | December 10, 2012Anyone unfortunate enough to encounter a porcupine’s quills knows that once they go in, they are extremely difficult to remove. Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital now hope to exploit the porcupine quill’s unique properties to develop new types of adhesives, needles and other medical devices. In a new study, the researchers characterized, […]
Peppas Awarded Honorary Doctorate from the University of Ljubljana
Nicholas Peppas | Via Cockrell School of Engineering | December 5, 2012Nicholas A. Peppas, chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and professor of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering and pharmacy, was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Ljubljana Dec. 4 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Attendees of the official ceremony included the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr. Danilo Türk, the President of the Slovenian Academy of Science, […]
Duke’s First MOOC: A Very Preliminary Report
Roger Barr | Via Duke CIT | December 4, 2012Duke’s first Coursera MOOC, Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach which launched on September 24 wrapped up last week. Congratulations to Dr. Barr and his students from all of us at Duke University! We won’t have a complete analysis of this MOOC available until January – we’re still collecting feedback and reviewing data. In the meantime, in […]
Bioengineering Chairman Named IEEE Fellow
Khosrow Behbehani | Via University of Texas at Arlington | December 4, 2012Khosrow Behbehani, chairman of the Bioengineering Department, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Behbehani, also a bioengineering professor, was honored for his contributions to the development of respiratory therapy devices in chronic pulmonary diseases. He becomes the seventh UT Arlington faculty member to be elevated to IEEE Fellow. […]
Genomics X Prize Competitor Says It’s Too Soon to Commit to a Sequencing Technology
George M. Church | Via Techonomy | December 4, 2012When genomics pioneer George Church recently announced that he and his team at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering will vie in a September 2013 competition to rapidly and accurately sequence 100 whole human genomes at a cost of $1,000 or less each, he did not say which technology they would use to do […]
Organic Metamaterial Flows Like a Liquid, Remembers its Shape
Dan Luo | Via Cornell Chronicle | December 3, 2012A bit reminiscent of the Terminator T-1000, a new material created by Cornell researchers is so soft that it can flow like a liquid and then, strangely, return to its original shape. Rather than liquid metal, it is a hydrogel, a mesh of organic molecules with many small empty spaces that can absorb water like […]
Tech-savvy Market Demands Crash Dummies with Smarts, Sensitivity
Cynthia A. Bir | Via Crain's Detroit Business | December 2, 2012The Plymouth headquarters of Humanetics Innovative Solutions Inc. is part office, part plant and part medieval torture chamber. Specially calibrated tools perform sadistic tests — a catapult hurls dummy heads into a block of steel, a battering ram crushes rib cages and falling anvils flatten appendages. But the tests — and the hundreds of soulless […]
Seven Named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Shuming Nie | Via Georgia Tech News Center | December 2, 2012Seven Georgia Institute of Technology faculty members have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. They were awarded this honor by AAAS because of their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. This year’s AAAS Fellows were announced in […]
I’m Very Enthusiastic About Israel’s R&D capacity
Stephen Oesterle | Via Globes | December 2, 2012Medtronic senior VP Stephen Oesterle: It’s best for me to invest, let the start up grown and then acquire it. …Tell us about the exciting products that Medtronic is developing today “We joined forces with Ford in creating Onstar, a system which monitors the car at all time and transfers information about the driver’s wellbeing […]
Vince D. Calhoun Named 2013 Fellow to Both AAAS and IEEE
Vince D. Calhoun | Via UNM School of Engineering | November 29, 2012UNM School of Engineering Professor Vince D. Calhoun was elected to Fellow by AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) for 2013. The grade of Fellow is the highest grade of membership in both organizations and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor […]
Biomedical Equipment Training Program Adopted by Honduran Educators
Robert Malkin | Via Duke Global Health Institute | November 27, 2012Engineering World Health (EWH) and the GE Foundation have signed an agreement with Instituto Nacional de Formacion Profesional (INFOP) in Honduras that lays the foundation for expansion of the BMET Training Program. Since 2010, EWH and Duke University have led a continuing education program for biomedical equipment technicians from 12 public hospitals in Honduras. The […]
Medtronic Partnership Allows Visible Heart Lab Research to Flourish
Paul Iaizzo | Via University of Minnesota | November 26, 2012You could call it a long-term, heartfelt commitment. In addition to its large, ongoing research contract, Medtronic recently committed another $350,000 to the University of Minnesota’s Visible Heart® Laboratory—the only place in the world where human hearts (donated, not suitable for transplantation) are reanimated so scientists can see exactly how they work from the inside. […]
Improving Health By Our Own Devices
Tejal Desai | Via UCSF Medical Center | November 26, 2012Innovation can be born of necessity, conscience, creativity, luck, or more likely, all of the above, all at once. Whatever the impetus, the active ingredient of invention is collaboration. The five scientists highlighted here — bioengineers Tejal Desai and Shuvo Roy, MD/PhD candidate Mozziyar Etemadi, microbiologist Joe DeRisi, and physician/surgeon Dr. Michael Harrison — trace […]
M.I.T. Lab Hatches Ideas, and Companies, by the Dozens
Robert Langer | Via New York Times | November 24, 2012HOW do you take particles in a test tube, or components in a tiny chip, and turn them into a $100 million company? Dr. Robert Langer, 64, knows how. Since the 1980s, his Langer Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has spun out companies whose products treat cancer, diabetes, heart disease and schizophrenia, among […]
Biomarking Time: Methylome modifications offer new measure of our “biological” age
Trey Ideker | Via UC San Diego | November 21, 2012Women live longer than men. Individuals can appear or feel years younger – or older – than their chronological age. Diseases can affect our aging process. When it comes to biology, our clocks clearly tick differently. In a new study, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues elsewhere, describe […]