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A Quest to Improve Treatment of Lung Disease
Donald Gaver | Via Tulane University | January 23, 2012For 250,000 patients in the U.S. suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), mechanical ventilation is a necessary part of treatment. But the life-saving treatment also can cause great damage to the lungs. Tulane researchers Donald Gaver and Will Glindmeyer are investigating a new strategy that could improve the outcomes for ARDS patients. “In the […]
Drs. Howard Matthew and Yinlun Huang Receive NSF Grant for Mathematical Modeling of Fatty Liver Predictors
Howard Matthew | Via Wayne State University | January 19, 2012Predicting problems in one of the body’s most complex organs soon may become easier because of work being done by Wayne State University researchers. Howard Matthew, Ph.D. and Yinlun Huang, Ph.D., professors of chemical engineering and materials science, recently received a $550,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a mathematical model of […]
NSF Grant To Help Wayne State Predict Fatty Liver Problems
Howard Matthew | Via CBS Detroit | January 19, 2012Predicting problems in one of the body’s most complex organs soon may become easier because of work being done by Wayne State University researchers. Howard Matthew and Yinlun Huang, professors of chemical engineering and materials science, recently received a $550,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a mathematical model of liver metabolism that can […]
Making Safer Chemicals: New NIH Grant Helps Researchers Study How Chemicals in Drugs and Around Us Impact Stem Cells
Jonathan Dordick | Via RPI News | January 17, 2012Chemicals in pharmaceutical drugs can obviously save lives. But as more and stronger chemicals have been introduced, our basic knowledge of the broader health impact of all these chemicals has not kept up with the rapid pace of innovation. There is exceptionally little information on how chemicals in our drugs and also in the environment […]
Researchers Develop “Smart” Nanotherapeutics that Deliver Drugs Directly to Pancreas
Donald Ingber | Via Wyss Institute | January 12, 2012A research collaboration between the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Children’s Hospital Boston has developed “smart” injectable nanotherapeutics that can be programmed to selectively deliver drugs to the cells of the pancreas. Although this nanotechnology will need significant additional testing and development before being ready for clinical use, it could […]
Bashir Elected Fellow of AAAS
Rashid Bashir | Via University of Illinois ECE | January 12, 2012ECE Professor Rashid Bashir has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was one of eight Illinois faculty members elected to this distinction. “This is great honor,” said Bashir, an Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering and the director of the Micro and Nanotechnology Lab. “I am very […]
University of Minnesota Researchers to be Featured on Big Ten Network’s New ‘Impact the World’ Series
Bin He | Via University of Minnesota | January 9, 2012University of Minnesota researchers will be featured in the Big Ten Network’s debut of “Impact the World,” a powerful new original series that highlights the academic side of Big Ten universities. The debut program airs Tuesday, Jan. 10, at 8:30 p.m. CST and features the work of University of Minnesota biomedical engineering professor Bin He […]
Clearing a Potential Road Block to Bisabolane
Jay Keasling | Via Berkeley Lab News Center | January 9, 2012The recent discovery that bisabolane, a member of the terpene class of chemical compounds used in fragrances and flavorings, holds high promise as a biosynthetic alternative to D2 diesel fuel has generated keen interest in the green energy community and the trucking industry. Now a second team of researchers with the U.S Department of Energy […]
Prof. Konofagou Develops Single-Heartbeat Diagnosis for Arrhythmia
Elisa E. Konofagou | Via Columbia University Biomedical Engineering | January 6, 2012Thanks to a new study from Columbia Engineering School, doctors may now be able to diagnose in their offices non-periodic arrhythmias-noninvasively and at low cost-within a single heartbeat. Non-periodic arrhythmias include atrial and ventricular fibrillation, which are associated with severely abnormal heart rhythm that can in some cases be life-threatening. Using Electromechanical Wave Imaging (EWI), […]
Rice’s Grande-Allen Wins AHA Established Investigator Award
Jane Grande-Allen | Via Rice University News | January 5, 2012Rice University’s Jane Grande-Allen, one of the world’s foremost experts on the biomechanics of heart-valve tissue, has won an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association. The award, which includes a five-year research grant, recognizes midcareer scientists who have shown “unusual promise and an established record of accomplishments.” Grande-Allen, associate professor of bioengineering and […]
New UT Arlington Sleep Apnea Device May Reduce Cost, Time Required for Diagnosis
Khosrow Behbehani | Via University of Texas at Arlington | January 4, 2012UT Arlington bioengineering researchers have designed an innovative, ultrasonic sensor system that can accurately detect whether a person suffers from sleep apnea without the inconvenience or cost associated with an overnight stay in a sleep center. The University of Texas at Arlington has applied for a provisional patent for the concept and technology. Researchers are […]
Blinking bacteria trained in ‘biopixel’ displays | Cutting Edge – CNET News
Jeff Hasty | Via cnet | January 2, 2012To make a new kind of display, researchers have engineered bacteria to be brighter. The University of California at San Diego last month detailed the latest advances toward making a lighting system powered by genetically engineered e. coli bacteria. Bioengineers insert a protein that causes the bacteria to fluoresce. Assembled in colonies, these bacteria act […]
Martha Warren Bidez Named Director of eLearning and Professional Studies; UAB Online Launches
Martha Bidez | Via University of Alabama at Birmingham | January 2, 2012The Office of eLearning and Professional Studies will give traditional students and non-traditional, niche populations access to diverse opportunities via technology in the digital age. UAB has named Martha Warren Bidez, Ph.D., director of the new Office of eLearning and Professional Studies, which launched uab.edu/online in May. Bidez, an internationally renowned biomedical engineer who has […]
Professor Warren Grundfest Appointed to FDA Science Advisory Board
Warren Grundfest | Via UCLA Engineering | January 1, 2012Professor Grundfest has been appointed to the FDA Science Advisory Board, to serve on the Subcommittee for the Center for Devices & Radiological Health (CDRH). This prestigious Committee provides scientific advice and reviews regulatory science issues and programs of the FDA. The panel provides input directly to the Director of the Food and Drug Administration, […]
Cellular-Imaging Center Gets Over $8 Million to Speed Search for Earlier Diagnostic Tests and Treatments for Cancer
Zaver Bhujwalla | Via Johns Hopkins Medicine | December 27, 2011A team of cancer imaging experts at Johns Hopkins has embarked on a five-year research initiative to speed development of early diagnostic tests and new treatments for breast, prostate and other common cancers. Using advanced imaging tools developed or used for the last decade at Johns Hopkins In-Vivo Cellular and Molecular Imaging Center (ICMIC), the […]
Chemical Engineering Professor Judit Puskas Named Austin Chemical Chair
Judit Puskas | Via University of Akron | December 19, 2011University of Akron professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, Judit Puskas, was named the Austin Chemical Company, Inc. Chair holder in the UA College of Engineering. Through a gift to the University’s College of Engineering, Illinois-based Austin Chemical Co., founded in 1976, is funding the position dedicated to education and research. Puskas’ selection as chair […]
Illuminated Bacterial Cells Form “Neon Signs”, Used to Detect Arsenic
Jeff Hasty | Via Daily Tech | December 19, 2011The biological sensor shows the presence and levels of arsenic through the frequency of the oscillations of the cells’ pattern of blinking Just in time for the Christmas season are cells that resemble Christmas twinkle lights. University of California – San Diego scientists have created neon signs made of blinking bacterial cells, which could eventually […]
UCSD Turns Bacteria into “Blinking Light Bulbs”
Jeff Hasty | Via UT San Diego | December 19, 2011University of California San Diego scientists who are exploring how to program cells to perform machine-like tasks such as monitoring the environment found a way to make lowly bacteria glow, blink in unison and spell out the school’s initials. The bacteria were turned into “blinking light bulbs,” as the university describes it, using a technique […]
Researchers Create Living ‘Neon Signs’ Composed of Millions of Glowing Bacteria
Jeff Hasty | Via UC San Diego News Center | December 18, 2011In an example of life imitating art, biologists and bioengineers at UC San Diego have created a living neon sign composed of millions of bacterial cells that periodically fluoresce in unison like blinking light bulbs. Their achievement, detailed in this week’s advance online issue of the journal Nature, involved attaching a fluorescent protein to the […]
Team Designs a Bandage that Spurs, Guides Blood Vessel Growth
Rashid Bashir | Via University of Illinois News | December 15, 2011Researchers have developed a bandage that stimulates and directs blood vessel growth on the surface of a wound. The bandage, called a “microvascular stamp,” contains living cells that deliver growth factors to damaged tissues in a defined pattern. After a week, the pattern of the stamp “is written in blood vessels,” the researchers report. After […]