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Katherine Ferrara Collaborates on New $3.8 Million Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center
Katherine Ferrara | Via UC Davis Biomedical Engineering | September 26, 2011The National Institutes of Health today awarded $3.8 million to the University of California, Davis, to fund a new mouse-based research center devoted to studies of the physiology and genetics of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular health. Katherine Ferrara is one of the collaborators in the new Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center. A major focus for the […]
Protein ‘Switches’ Could Turn Cancer Cells into Tiny Chemotherapy Factories
Marc Ostermeier | Via Johns Hopkins University News Releases | September 23, 2011Johns Hopkins researchers have devised a protein “switch” that instructs cancer cells to produce their own anti-cancer medication. In lab tests, the researchers showed that these switches, working from inside the cells, can activate a powerful cell-killing drug when the device detects a marker linked to cancer. The goal, the scientists said, is to deploy […]
How to Reverse General Anesthesia
Emery Brown | Via MIT News | September 22, 2011When patients awaken from surgery, they’re usually groggy and disoriented; it can take hours for a patient to become fully clearheaded again. Emery Brown, an MIT neuroscientist and an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), thinks it doesn’t have to be that way. Brown and colleagues at MGH are studying the effects of stimulants that […]
Science on Tap to Highlight Funding Research for Third World Needs
J. Paul Robinson | Via Purdue University | September 20, 2011A leading international researcher at Purdue University working to create a low-cost tool for diagnosing AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa and other Third World countries is the featured speaker at the next Science on Tap on Thursday (Sept. 22) in downtown Lafayette. J. Paul Robinson, a professor in Purdue’s schools of biomedical engineering and veterinary medicine, […]
Transformative NIH Grant Will Support Development of Tissue Regeneration Therapeutics
Todd C. McDevitt | Via Georgia Tech News Center | September 20, 2011The five-year project focuses on developing biomaterials capable of capturing certain molecules from embryonic stem cells and delivering them to wound sites to enhance tissue regeneration in adults. By applying these unique molecules, clinicians may be able to harness the regenerative power of stem cells while avoiding concerns of tumor formation and immune system compatibility […]
Transformative NIH Grant to Support Imaging of Lung Cancer During Surgery
Shuming Nie | Via Emory University | September 20, 2011If a tumor is more visible and easier to distinguish from surrounding tissues, surgeons will be more likely to be able to remove it completely. That’s the rationale behind a new $7 million, five-year “transformative” grant from the National Institutes of Health to a team of researchers from Emory, Georgia Tech and the Perelman School […]
Prof. Konofagou Uses Short Ultrasound Pulses to Reach Neurons Through The Blood-Brain Barrier
Elisa E. Konofagou | Via Columbia University Engineering | September 19, 2011A team of researchers, led by Elisa Konofagou, associate professor of biomedical engineering and radiology, has developed a new technique to reach neurons through the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and deliver drugs safely and noninvasively. Up until now, scientists have thought that long ultrasound pulses, which can inflict collateral damage, were required. But in this new […]
Coulter Foundation Awards Pitt $3.54 Million for Translational Bioengineering
Pratap Khanwilkar | Via University of Pittsburgh News | September 16, 2011The Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh has received a $3.54 million grant from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation. Pitt is one of only five universities nationwide to receive the foundation’s Coulter Translational Partnership II Award; the five-year grant to the Swanson School’s Department of Bioengineering will fund research that employs engineering […]
Coulter Foundation Awards Pitt $3.54 Million for Translational Bioengineering
Harvey Borovetz | Via University of Pittsburgh | September 16, 2011Pitt is one of only five universities nationwide to receive the Coulter Foundation Translational Bioengineering Research Award Award’s goals are the development of health care improvements through engineering research, accelerating the introduction of new technologies into patient care The Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh has received a $3.54 million grant from […]
Cancer Center Imaging Researcher Receives Two International Awards
Harrison Barrett | Via University of Arizona | September 16, 2011Harrison H. Barrett, PhD, Regents’ Professor of optical sciences and professor of radiology at the University of Arizona and University of Arizona Cancer Center member has received recognition from two international professional organizations. Dr. Barrett has been honored with the SPIE 2011 Gold Medal, and the IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology. The Gold […]
George Church on the Future of Stem Cells
George M. Church | Via MIT Technology Review | September 14, 2011Q&A with the Harvard geneticist. Earlier this year, I had breakfast with George Church, professor of genetics and director of the Center for Computational Genetics at Harvard Medical School. (Click here to read my profile of Church in the New York Times.) A pioneer in developing DNA sequencing technologies, and in researching everything from epigenetics […]
Professors Agrawal and Ramkrishna Elected Foreign Fellows of the Indian National Academy of Engineering
Doraiswami Ramkrishna | Via Purdue Engineering | September 9, 2011Rakesh Agrawal, the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Doraiswami Ramkrishna, the Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, have been elected as Foreign Fellows of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.
Pratt Team Receives Grant for HIV Treatment ‘Pouch’
Robert Malkin | Via Duke Chronicle | September 6, 2011Thousands of lives may soon be saved through an action as simple as tearing open a packet of ketchup. Over the past three years, researchers at the Pratt School of Engineering have developed a small foil packet, called a “Pratt pouch,” that holds single drug doses to give to newborn babies of HIV-positive mothers—significantly reducing […]
Lin Uses Imaging Technology to Chart Brain Development
Weili Lin | Via UNC Gazette | September 2, 2011Few people can say they have turned their favorite childhood hobby into a career. But Weili Lin still spends his days taking pictures, just as he did as a kid. Only now, the images he captures are of the developing brain, not rocks and dragonflies. Lin, director of the Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), uses […]
Violence of the Lambs
Barbara Oakley | Via Times Higher Education | September 1, 2011Polyglot polymath and scholar Barbara Oakley takes a incisive look at the cult of the victim. Matthew Reisz reports When the National Enquirer reported on a Utah trial in April 2007 under the lurid headline “Woman Marries for Love – THEN KILLS FOR SURVIVAL”, it seemed to be exactly what Barbara Oakley was looking for. […]
Glowing, Blinking Bacteria Reveal How Cells Synchronize Biological Clocks
Jeff Hasty | Via UC San Diego News Center | September 1, 2011Biologists have long known that organisms from bacteria to humans use the 24 hour cycle of light and darkness to set their biological clocks. But exactly how these clocks are synchronized at the molecular level to perform the interactions within a population of cells that depend on the precise timing of circadian rhythms is less […]
Game Change: On the Verge of a Revolution
Sylvia K. Plevritis | Via Stanford Medicine | September 1, 2011Sylvia Plevritis was excited. It was December 2003, and she had just learned that the National Cancer Institute was offering millions of dollars to researchers in a variety of non-biological fields to study how cancerous tumors behave and grow. She told her boss, Gary Glazer, MD, chair of Stanford’s radiology department, “This is my Christmas […]
Making Good
Kenneth Lutchen | Via Bostonia | September 1, 2011First, Ken Lutchen gave engineering students a more meaningful education. Now he wants them to have more meaningful lives. What works in a lab doesn’t always work in the field. That’s lesson number one Amy Canham brought back from Zambia when she went to the African nation two years ago to figure out the best […]
Grant Bolsters Liver Tumor Surgery Techniques
Michael I. Miga | Via Vanderbilt University Engineering | August 29, 2011A team led by Vanderbilt University biomedical engineer Michael Miga, Ph.D., has been awarded a five-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to enhance image-guided surgery techniques for safely removing liver tumors. While aggressive surgery is a highly effective treatment, it risks injury to the liver, which can lead to post-operative liver failure. […]
Engineering New Weapons in the Fight Against Juvenile Diabetes
B. Wayne Bequette | Via Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | August 26, 2011Engineering researchers at Rensselaer are combining automation techniques from oil refining and other diverse areas to help create a closed-loop artificial pancreas. The device will automatically monitor blood sugar levels and administer insulin to patients with Type 1 diabetes, and aims to remove much of the guesswork for those living with the chronic disease. For […]