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‘Label-free’ Imaging Tool Tracks Nanotubes in Cells, Blood for Biomedical Research
Ji-Xin Cheng | Via Purdue University | December 5, 2011Researchers have demonstrated a new imaging tool for tracking structures called carbon nanotubes in living cells and the bloodstream, which could aid efforts to perfect their use in biomedical research and clinical medicine. The structures have potential applications in drug delivery to treat diseases and imaging for cancer research. Two types of nanotubes are created […]
College of Engineering Dean Kenneth Lutchen Featured on AAAS Podcast
Kenneth Lutchen | Via Boston University | November 30, 2011The College of Engineering’s Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen was featured on an American Association for the Advancement of Science podcast last week for Science Translational Medicine magazine. During the interview, Dean Lutchen discussed biomedical engineering innovations and technology transfer, the process by which inventions made via university research transition into the private sector as new […]
E. Coli Bacteria Engineered to Eat Switchgrass and Make Transportation Fuels
Jay Keasling | Via Berkeley Lab News Center | November 29, 2011A milestone has been reached on the road to developing advanced biofuels that can replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuels with a domestically-produced clean, green, renewable alternative. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have engineered the first strains of Escherichia coli bacteria that can digest switchgrass biomass and synthesize […]
Researchers Awarded $3.2M from NIH to Pioneer Advanced Biomolecule Discovery Technology
Hyongsok Soh | Via UC Santa Barbara Engineering | November 28, 2011The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have awarded $3.2 million to a team of preeminent engineering, chemistry, and biology researchers to develop a highly efficient system of generating nucleic acid molecules, called aptamers. The technology provides an entirely new method of discovering and mass producing new high-performance aptamers for a broad range of applications, including […]
Tissue Engineering Moves from Sci Fi to Reality, Mikos Shows
Antonios Mikos | Via NIH Record | November 25, 2011If you ever want to gain a fresh appreciation of how well made the human body is, try building replacement parts for missing or damaged elements of the original equipment. It will require all the biology, chemistry, physics and engineering you can marshal, and then some. In a recent Wednesday Afternoon Lecture he titled “Biomaterials […]
A First: UCF Lab Creates Cells Used by Brain to Control Muscle Cells
James Hickman | Via UCF Office of Research & Commercialization | November 22, 2011University of Central Florida researchers, for the first time, have used stem cells to grow neuromuscular junctions between human muscle cells and human spinal cord cells, the key connectors used by the brain to communicate and control muscles in the body. The success at UCF is a critical step in developing “human-on-a-chip” systems. The systems […]
How Cancer Cells get by on a Starvation Diet
Gregory Stephanopoulos | Via MIT | November 21, 2011Cancer cells usually live in an environment with limited supplies of the nutrients they need to proliferate — most notably, oxygen and glucose. However, they are still able to divide uncontrollably, producing new cancer cells. A new study from researchers at MIT and the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center helps to explain how this […]
Onaral Receives Israel America Chamber of Commerce Recognition
Banu Onaral | Via Drexel University | November 16, 2011Drexel University’s Dr. Banu Onaral has been bringing together leaders in technology and industry for years as an H.H. Sun professor and the director of the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems. Her visionary work to further international collaborations for translational research and technology transfer were recognized by the America-Israel Chamber of Commerce […]
Duerk Named Dean of Case Western Reserve University’s Case School of Engineering
Jeffrey Lewis Duerk | Via Case Western Reserve University | November 16, 2011Biomedical Engineering Department Chair Jeffrey L. Duerk, PhD, will become the next dean of the Case School of Engineering, effective Jan. 1, Case Western Reserve University President Barbara R. Snyder announced. An alumnus of the school, Duerk has been a member of the university faculty since 1988 and has held leadership positions of increasing responsibility […]
Boppart Presents at Congressional Briefing
Stephen A. Boppart | Via University of Illinois Engineering | November 15, 2011On November 17, 2011, Professor Stephen Boppart will take part in a congressional briefing convened by the Optical Society of America (OSA). The briefing is being held under the auspices of the Advisory Committee for the Congressional Research and Development Caucus. Boppart, a professor of electrical and computer engineeirng and of bioengineering at Illinois, will […]
New Journal on Disruptive Science and Technology Launching in 2012
Alan Russell | Via Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publishers | November 14, 2011Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers announces the launch of Disruptive Science and Technology, a highly innovative, bimonthly peer-reviewed journal that seeks to publish game-changing research that has the potential to significantly improve human health, well-being, and productivity. The Journal will present new and innovative results, essential data, cutting-edge discoveries, thorough syntheses and analyses, and publish […]
Gilda Barabino Elected BMES President
Gilda Barabino | Via Georgia Tech News Center | November 8, 2011Gilda Barabino was elected president of the Biomedical Engineering Society, it was announced at the 2011 BMES Annual Meeting in Hartford, Connecticut. She begins her two-year term in October 2012 at the Society’s next annual meeting in Atlanta. Barabino is the first underrepresented minority and second woman to be elected president of BMES since it […]
Carnegie Mellon’s Phil LeDuc and Mary Beth Wilson Receive Prestigious Gates Foundation Grant for Fighting Child Malnutrition in Africa
Philip LeDuc | Via Carnegie Mellon University | November 7, 2011Carnegie Mellon University researchers are adjusting the cell mechanics of certain leafy vegetables in Africa in an effort to make the vegetation more palatable for malnourished infants and children. Phil LeDuc, a professor of mechanical engineering, and Mary Beth Wilson, a Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering, have won an extremely competitive Grand Challenges Explorations Award […]
Cancer Research Grants Awarded
Liping Tang | Via UT Arlington | November 4, 2011The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas has awarded two University of Texas at Arlington bioengineering researchers – Baohong Yuan and Liping Tang – more than $1.2 million to explore better methods of detecting cancer. Yuan, an assistant professor who joined UT Arlington in 2010, this week won a $1 million award that he […]
New Vaccine that Elicit Pulmonary Cytotoxic T Cell Responses
Jeffrey Hubbell | Via École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne | November 2, 2011Nanoparticle conjugation of antigen enhances cytotoxic T-cell responses in pulmonary vaccination. Disulfide-linked nanoparticle-antigen conjugates could be useful for creating vaccines that elicit pulmonary cytotoxic T cell responses. As shown by the groups of Prof. Jeffrey Hubbell (LMRP – Merck Serono Chair in Drug Delivery) and Prof. Melody Swartz (LLCB – Laboratory of Lymphatic and Cancer […]
Scientist’s Revolutionary Drug Pump Draws NSF Support
Ellis Meng | Via University of Southern California News | November 2, 2011Last month, for the first time in 11 years, USC associate professor Ellis Meng found herself raising her hand and asking questions in the classroom – not answering them. Meng, whose research at USC focuses on developing a tiny, implantable medication-delivery system, is enrolled in a business crash-course sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), […]
Paul Benkeser, Ph.D: Reflections of the Outgoing Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Paul Benkeser | Via Pioneer | November 1, 2011Stemming from the tremendous growth of the department, several changes were made within the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering’s administration faculty shortly before the commencement of the 2011-2012 academic year. Paul Benkeser, Ph.D. was the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies for almost ten years, and has been with the Coulter Department since its […]
Harvard Med School Researchers Help Direct Stem Cells
Jeffrey Karp | Via Boston Business Journal | October 31, 2011Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and other hospitals have taken a step toward making stem cell therapies more effective by adding homing receptors to those cells. Attaching the chemical receptors to stem cells has the potential to increase the concentration of cells at target locations in the body, according to the researchers, who published […]
Lung Regeneration Closer to Reality With New Discovery by Weill Cornell Medical College Researchers
Sina Rabbany | Via Weill Cornell Medical College | October 28, 2011Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College say they have taken an important step forward in their quest to “turn on” lung regeneration — an advance that could effectively treat millions of people suffering from respiratory disorders. In the Oct. 28 issue of the journal Cell, the research team reports that they have uncovered the biochemical […]
Programming Cells to Home to Specific Tissues may Enable More Effective Cell-based Therapies
Jeffrey Karp | Via Brigham and Women's Hospital | October 27, 2011Stem cell therapies hold enormous potential to address some of the most tragic illnesses, diseases, and tissue defects world-wide. However, the inability to target cells to tissues of interest poses a significant barrier to effective cell therapy. To address this hurdle, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have developed a platform approach to chemically […]