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Battling Brain
Mingzhou Ding | Via National Academy of Engineering | April 28, 2013“Struggling to concentrate” isn’t just a saying. Engineers are now able to see the way two networks in the brain battle for control when you need to focus.
Adele Boskey, Ph.D., Honored With Symposium on Bone Disease Research
Adele Boskey | Via Hospital for Special Surgery | April 25, 2013Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) will honor biomineralization and osteoporosis investigator Adele Boskey, Ph.D., at a symposium on the latest research in bone mineralization and its role in bone disease on Thursday, May 2. Dr. Boskey, Starr Chair in Mineralized Tissue Research, has investigated bone chemistry at HSS since 1970. Osteoporosis and other bone diseases […]
Dr. Mingzhou Ding Named UF Research Foundation Professor for 2013
Mingzhou Ding | Via UF Biomedical Engineering | April 25, 2013Congratulations to Dr. Mingzhou Ding who was one of thirty-four faculty named UF Research Foundation Professors for 2013! “The recognition goes to faculty who have a distinguished current record of research and a strong research agenda that is likely to lead to continuing distinction in their fields.” Professor Ding’s research is focused on understanding the […]
Trey Ideker and Collaborators Release Cytoscape v3
Trey Ideker | Via UCSD Department of Medicine News | April 25, 2013On April 22, 2013, computational biologists and computer scientists at UC San Diego released version 3 of Cytoscape for general availability. Cytoscape is the leading open source visualization software platform supporting systems biology; it enables researchers to visualize molecular interaction networks and biological pathways and integrate them with annotations, gene expression profiles and other state and […]
Engineering Alumni, Faculty & Staff Honored at 2013 Awards Banquet
Michael Hill | Via Duke Engineering | April 23, 2013Nine outstanding members of the Pratt School of Engineering community were honored at the 2013 Engineering Awards Banquet, held April 20, 2013 at the Washington Duke Inn. The annual event celebrates the honorees for their career accomplishments, service to Duke Engineering and excellence in teaching, mentoring and research. Distinguished Alumni Awards Recipients of the 2013 […]
Deepak Vashishth Named Director of Rensselaer Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies | News & Events
Deepak Vashishth | Via Rensselaer News | April 22, 2013Deepak Vashishth, a bone and tissue engineering expert, and current head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been appointed director of the Rensselaer Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS), effective April 16. He succeeds Jonathan Dordick, who is now vice president for research. “Deepak Vashishth is well recognized as […]
CU Distinguished Professor Kristi Anseth is 2013 Hazel Barnes Prize Winner
Kristi Anseth | Via University of Colorado Boulder | April 22, 2013Distinguished Professor Kristi Anseth of the University of Colorado Boulder’s chemical and biological engineering department has been selected to receive the 2013 Hazel Barnes Prize, the highest faculty recognition for teaching and research awarded by the university. Anseth, also a faculty member at CU-Boulder’s BioFrontiers Institute, will receive an engraved university medal and a $20,000 […]
By George: BIO Announces Jay Keasling its 2013 George Washington Carver Award Winner
Jay Keasling | Via Biotechnology Industry Organization | April 18, 2013Chemical Engineering Professor at University of California, Berkeley Honored for Innovation in Industrial Biotechnology The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) named Dr. Jay Keasling as the recipient of its 2013 George Washington Carver Award for innovation in industrial biotechnology. A panel selected Keasling, a professor of biochemical engineering at University of California, Berkeley; associate laboratory director […]
Q&A with Joseph DeSimone
Joseph DeSimone | Via UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School | April 18, 2013Joseph DeSimone, who was appointed as director of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise last summer, talks about the vision, plans and priorities for the Institute. What first appealed to you about taking the position of Director of the Kenan Institute? Frank Hawkins Kenan’s original vision for the Institute talks of fusing entrepreneurship […]
A Brief Discussion with AAAS Mentor Award Recipient Dr. Cato T. Laurencin
Cato T. Laurencin | Via AAAS Member Central | April 17, 2013At this year’s AAAS annual meeting, Dr. Cato T. Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D., was the recipient of the 2012 AAAS Mentor Award “for his transformative impact and scientific contributions toward mentoring students in the field of biomedical engineering.” Dr. Laurencin has also been awarded with a number of other honors including the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award […]
Parasitic Worm Inspires Better Sticky Medical Tape
Jeffrey Karp | Via National Geographic | April 16, 2013Say you’re looking to make the next generation of medical tape. You want something that will hold skin and other organs together while they heal. You want it to be more convenient than sutures and less brutal than staples. It has to stick easily, hold on tightly, and come off painlessly. There are worse places […]
Pitt Research Team Receives NIH R21 Grant to Develop Adipose Stem-Cell Based Vascular Grafts
David Vorp | Via University of Pittsburgh Engineering | April 15, 2013Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering is moving toward the production of an adipose stem-cell based vascular graft for bypass patients, thanks to a new R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health. Led by David A. Vorp, PhD, William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Bioengineering and Associate Dean for Research at […]
The Factory Phenotype
Jay Keasling | Via Berkeley Science Review | April 11, 2013Each year, 300 to 500 million cases of malaria are diagnosed worldwide, of which 1.5 to three million, mostly in children, result in death. Drugs to treat malaria are too expensive for people in developing countries, hence the lack of proper treatment and the high mortality rate. Fortunately, a new, much less expensive anti-malarial drug […]
Launch of Antimalarial Drug a Triumph for UC Berkeley, Synthetic Biology
Jay Keasling | Via UC Berkeley News Center | April 11, 2013Twelve years after a breakthrough discovery in his UC Berkeley laboratory, professor of chemical engineering Jay Keasling is seeing his dream come true. On April 11, the pharmaceutical company Sanofi will launch the large-scale production of a partially synthetic version of artemisinin, a chemical critical to making today’s front-line antimalaria drug, based on Keasling’s discovery. […]
Cybernetic Model Developed to Predict Shewanella Metabolic Behavior
Doraiswami Ramkrishna | Via Phys.org | April 11, 2013To further the quest to harness microbes for beneficial uses, scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Purdue University developed a promising computational tool for analyzing microbial flux distribution and metabolic engineering. They used the Lumped Hybrid Cybernetic Model (L-HCM), developed by Purdue researchers Dr. Hyun-Seob Song and Dr. Doraiswami Ramkrishna, to predict and simulate […]
Material Screening Method Allows More Precise Control Over Stem Cells
William L. Murphy | Via University of Wisconsin Engineering | April 10, 2013When it comes to delivering genes to living human tissue, the odds of success come down the molecule. The entire therapy – including the tools used to bring new genetic material into a cell – must have predictable effects. Now, a new screening process will simplify non-viral transfection, providing a method researchers and clinicians to […]
UF Researchers Show Brain’s Battle for Attention
Mingzhou Ding | Via UF News | April 10, 2013We’ve all been there: You’re at work deeply immersed in a project when suddenly you start thinking about your weekend plans. It happens because behind the scenes, parts of your brain are battling for control. Now, University of Florida researchers and their colleagues are using a new technique that allows them to examine how parts […]
Khademhosseini Receives Young Investigator Award, Selected as Member of Center for Scientific Review
Ali Khademhosseini | Via Brigham and Women's Hospital | April 9, 2013Ali Khademhosseini, PhD, principal investigator in the Khademhosseini Laboratory in the Division of Biomedical Engineering in BWH’s Department of Medicine, received the Young Investigator Award from the Controlled Release Society. The award recognizes a member of the Controlled Release Society under age 40 who has made outstanding contributions to the science of controlled release and […]
Bioterrorism Threats: Local Scientists Developing Tests for Vaccines Against Bioterror Threats
William Warren | Via Orlando Sentinel | April 8, 2013In their cold, sterile labs near Orlando, some local scientists are creating a hot commodity — biological replicas of the human immune system — that could play a role in saving the planet from a pandemic. That’s one of the goals, at least, of the work at Sanofi Pasteur VaxDesign Corp., the Central Florida unit […]
Adhesive Differences Enable Separation of Stem Cells to Advance Potential Therapies
Todd C. McDevitt | Via Georgia Tech News Center | April 7, 2013The reprogramming technique allows a small percentage of cells – often taken from the skin or blood – to become human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) capable of producing a wide range of other cell types. Using cells taken from a patient’s own body, the reprogramming technique might one day enable regenerative therapies that could, […]