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Building Tissues From Scratch
Jennifer Elisseeff | Via John Hopkins Medicine | February 1, 2011Facing a limited supply of donor tissues and organs, scientists seek to grow their own using stem cells and biodegradable materials. Cornea transplantation is the most common transplant procedure. In the United States alone, surgeons perform 40,000 of the operations each year. Corneal tissue, however, is in tight supply in this country, and worldwide there […]
Pitt Researchers Grow Arteries With Highest Level of Elastic Protein Reported, Important Step for Living Vascular Transplants
Yadong Wang | Via University of Pittsburgh News | January 31, 2011University of Pittsburgh researchers have grown arteries that exhibit the elasticity of natural blood vessels at the highest levels reported, a development that could overcome a major barrier to creating living-tissue replacements for damaged arteries, the team reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team used smooth muscle cells from adult […]
Bioengineers among UC San Diego Researchers Awarded CIRM Grants in Support of Innovative Technologies
Shu Chien | Via UC San Diego | January 28, 2011The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has awarded three grants totaling nearly $5.8 million to researchers at the University of California, San Diego – including bioengineering professors Shu Chien and Shyni Varghese — for development of innovative technologies designed to advance translational stem cell research. The grants are part of $32 million in Tools […]
US, UK Join Forces for Nano Safety
Vicki Colvin | Via Rice University | January 27, 2011Environmental and scientific agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom have formed a joint $5 million scientific effort to develop new risk-management tools that government officials can use to effectively regulate nanomaterials. The Nanomaterial Bioavailability and Environmental Exposure (Nano-BEE) Consortia includes investigators from three universities each in the U.S. and the U.K. “Regulators […]
Universal Solvent No Match for New Self-Healing Sticky Gel
Ka Yee Christina Lee | Via University of Chicago News | January 27, 2011Scientists can now manufacture a synthetic version of the self-healing sticky substance that mussels use to anchor themselves to rocks in pounding ocean surf and surging tidal basins. A patent is pending on the substance, whose potential applications include use as an adhesive or coating for underwater machinery or in biomedical settings as a surgical […]
Prof. Ding Edits Book on The Dynamic Brain
Mingzhou Ding | Via UF Biomedical Engineering | January 26, 2011UF BME Professor Mingzhou Ding has edited a newly published book, The Dynamic Brain, by Oxford Press. His co-editor is Dr. Dennis Glanzman, the Program Chief of the Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Program at the National Institute of Mental Health. This carefully edited volume, with contributions from leading researchers around the world, is the first […]
Prof. Guo Leads Bone Strength Study
Edward Guo | Via Columbia Biomedical Engineering | January 24, 2011Biomedical Engineering Professor X. Edward Guo is part of a team of researchers that has produced a study finding that pre-menopausal Chinese-American women have far greater bone strength than their Caucasian counterparts, as determined by a breakthrough technological advance.
Medtronic Seeks Ideas with New Web Portal
Michael Hess | Via Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal | January 21, 2011If you’re a physician or inventor who’s dreamed up the next big innovation in medical technology, Medtronic Inc. wants to hear from you. The medical device giant has launched an online idea portal, called Innovate with Medtronic, that allows individuals to submit product proposals to the company via a website. Overall, the idea-portal concept isn’t […]
Columbia Study Finds That Chinese-American Women Have Greater Bone Strength Than Caucasian Women
Edward Guo | Via Columbia Engineering | January 15, 2011A team of researchers at Columbia Engineering and Columbia University Medical Center announced today the results of the first study comparing bone structure in Chinese-American women to Caucasian women. The report, just presented at the Orthopaedic Research Society’s annual meeting at Long Beach, CA, found that pre-menopausal Chinese-American women have far greater bone strength than […]
Two Engineering Professors Honored by AAAS Scientific Society
John Gore | Via Vanderbilt School of Engineering | January 13, 2011John Gore and John Wikswo are among seven Vanderbilt University faculty members elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor bestowed upon them by their AAAS peers. They are among 503 AAAS members from around the country who achieved this honor because of their distinguished efforts to advance science […]
Eight UC San Diego Professors Named New AAAS Fellows
Bernhard Palsson | Via UC San Diego News Center | January 11, 2011Eight professors at the University of California, San Diego have been named new Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. Philip E. Bourne, Xiang-Dong Fu, Kun-Liang Guan, Yishi Jin, Peter J. Novick, Bernhard Palsson and Kang Zhang were among 503 AAAS members selected by colleagues […]
Frances Arnold, 2011 National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Frances Arnold | Via National Science & Technology Medals Foundation | January 10, 2011For pioneering research on biofuels and chemicals that could lead to the replacement of pollution-generating materials. Frances Arnold has never cared much for ‘tradition.’ As a high schooler, she moved into her own apartment and paid the bills as a waitress and cab driver. As a chemical engineer and biochemist, she has found a groundbreaking […]
Giving Children with Physical Challenges the Tools to Speak Out
Tom Chau | Via University of Toronto Engineering | January 7, 2011Professor Tom Chau (EngSci 9T2) of the Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering has been chosen as one of 25 Transformational Canadians. The Globe and Mail’s Transformational Canadians program celebrates 25 living citizens who have made a difference by immeasurably improving the lives of others. Over several weeks this past autumn, a panel of six […]
Researchers Investigate Why a Limited Number of White Blood Cells Are Attracted to Injured Tissue
Richard Waugh | Via University of Rochester | January 6, 2011As any weekend warrior knows, an errant elbow or a missed ball can put a crimp in an afternoon of fun. The bruising and swelling are painfully obvious, but the processes occurring under the skin remain full of mystery. What is known is that leukocytes, or white blood cells, mobilize to protect injured body tissue […]
Software for Programming Microbes
Christopher A. Voigt | Via MIT Technology Review | January 5, 2011Genetically modified microbes could perform many useful jobs, from making biofuels and drugs, to cleaning up toxic waste. But designing the complex biochemical pathways inside such microbes is a time-consuming process of trial and error. Christopher Voigt, an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, hopes to change that with software that automates […]
Detecting Esophageal Cancer with Light
Adam P. Wax | Via Duke Today | January 4, 2011A tiny light source and sensors at the end of an endoscope may provide a more accurate way to identify pre-cancerous cells in the lining of the esophagus. Developed by biomedical engineers at Duke University and successfully tested on patients during a clinical trial at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the device […]
Understanding the Anesthetized Brain
Emery Brown | Via MIT News | January 3, 2011Neuroscientist Emery Brown hopes to shed light on a longstanding medical mystery: how general anesthesia works. Since 1846, when a Boston dentist named William Morton gave the first public demonstration of general anesthesia using ether, scientists and doctors have tried to figure out what happens to the brain during general anesthesia. Though much has been […]
UTSA Biomedical Engineer Joseph C. Salamone Elected by Peers to Join National Academy of Engineering
Joseph Salamone | Via University of Texas at San Antonio | January 1, 2011Joseph C. Salamone, chief scientific officer at Rochal Industries LLP, UTSA adjunct professor of Biomedical Engineering and professor emeritus of Chemistry and Polymer Science at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, Mass., has been elected by his peers to become a Fellow in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The NAE is a member of […]
Purdue Receives $1.35 Million Grant to Develop Cervical Cancer Diagnostic Tool
J. Paul Robinson | Via Purdue University | December 10, 2010Purdue University researchers have received a $1.35 million grant from the National Cancer Institute for developing a next-generation biological tool designed to more accurately detect early stages of cervical cancer. A team led by Purdue professors J. Paul Robinson and Vincent Jo Davisson, whose laboratories are based at Discovery Park’s Bindley Bioscience Center, will use […]
Two from Brigham and Women’s Hospital Receive Society for Biomaterials Young Investigator Award
Jeffrey Karp | Via Brigham and Women's Hospital | December 9, 2010Two researchers from the Center for Biomedical Engineering and the Regenerative Therapeutics Research Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have been awarded the 2011 Young Investigator Award from the Society for Biomaterials (SFB). Jeffrey Karp, PhD, and Ali Khademhosseini, PhD, MASc, will receive their awards at the SFB Annual Meeting and Exposition in Orlando, Florida […]