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Old mice regain leg strength after antibody treatment, Stanford Medicine researchers find
Helen Blau | Via Stanford University | November 15, 2022Muscle stem cells, the cells in muscle fibers that generate new muscle cells after injury or exercise, lose their potency with age. But a study by researchers at Stanford Medicine shows that old mice regain the leg muscle strength of younger animals after receiving an antibody treatment that targets a pathway mediated by a molecule […]
Souped-up oncolytic virus warms up cold brain cancer tumors
Michael Caligiuri | Via Fierce Biotech | November 11, 2022Among the hurdles to treating brain cancer is the fact that glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) cells burrow into brain tissue, which makes them difficult to wipe out with conventional treatments like surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Moreover, they’re “cold” tumors, meaning they don’t contain immune cells that can easily be targeted with immunotherapies. Now, scientists from City […]
Clinical trials are underway on a cancer-killing virus
Yuman Fong | Via WQAD | November 11, 2022Colon, lung, breast, ovarian, pancreatic — almost a million people will be diagnosed with one of these cancers in the coming year. Can a virus fight them? Almost everyone knows someone who has battled cancer. Standard care involves chemo and radiation, medication, and immunotherapies. Now, for the first time ever, clinical trials are underway testing […]
Dimension Inx and Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago awarded joint NIH grant to expand fertility restoration options
Ramille Shah | Via News Wise | November 10, 2022Dimension Inx, a regenerative biomaterials company, and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago have been jointly awarded an NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant. The grant focuses on uncovering a novel approach to in vitro growth and maturation (IVGM) of ovarian follicles. Together, Dimension Inx and Lurie Children’s will use the funding to further […]
Walston Chubb Award Presentation
Ge Wang | Via youtube | November 4, 2022Ge’s award talk on the future of medical imaging, Nov. 4, 2022 (2022 Sigma Xi Walston Chubb Award for Innovation: “For pioneering contributions to medical imaging and major impacts on research, development, and healthcare, including his cone-beam CT method and AI-based imaging leadership.”)
Can your phone tell if a bridge is in good shape?
Markus Buehler | Via MIT | November 3, 2022A new study suggests mobile data collected while traveling over bridges could help evaluate their integrity. Want to know if the Golden Gate Bridge is holding up well? There could be an app for that. A new study involving MIT researchers shows that mobile phones placed in vehicles, equipped with special software, can collect useful […]
Extracellular Viscosity Linked to Cancer Spread
Konstantinos Konstantopoulos | Via News Wise | November 2, 2022New research findings show how higher viscosity, or resistance to flow, of the extracellular fluid that surrounds cells enables cancer cells to migrate more rapidly from a primary tumor to other sites in the body. “We deciphered how cells sense and respond to physiologically relevant levels of fluid viscosity that are commonly found in the […]
November 5-6, 2022 – Healthy Masters Forum International Conference
Thomas Webster | Via Healthy Masters | November 1, 2022An AIMBE Fellow and world-renowned expert in nanotechnology and regenerative medicine, Tom Webster, will speak at the 2022 Healthy Masters Forum International Conference in Braga, Portugal. Please click here for more detail.
Vanderbilt researchers provide hope with innovative breast cancer vaccine
Michael King | Via Vanderbilt University | October 27, 2022As a child, Jenna Dombroski was at her grandfather’s bedside when cancer took his life. A scientist, he was her inspiration. Years later, the Vanderbilt University Ph.D. student and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow is honoring him by leading the development of what appears to be a promising treatment for breast cancer metastasis, and […]
Popular Pharmaceutical Target in Cells May Prove Even More Useful
Jin Zhang | Via UC San Diego | October 26, 2022Researchers at University of California San Diego have identified a new signaling process involving G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), a cellular target already exploited by hundreds of diverse drugs. The discovery, published in the October 26, 2022 issue of Nature, opens the possibility of new therapies, including for multiple forms of cancer. GPCRs are the largest […]
Chad Mirkin receives IET Faraday Medal for ‘contributions that helped define the modern age of nanotechnology’
Chad Mirkin | Via Northwestern University | October 21, 2022The United Kingdom Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) today (Oct. 20) awarded Northwestern University professor Chad A. Mirkin the 2022 Faraday Medal. Among the most prestigious honors for engineers and scientists, the Faraday Medal is the IET’s highest award and is given for notable scientific or industrial achievement. Mirkin is being recognized “for inventing […]
Even good gene edits can go bad
Gang Bao | Via Rice University | October 21, 2022A Rice University lab is leading the effort to reveal potential threats to the efficacy and safety of therapies based on CRISPR-Cas9, the Nobel Prize-winning gene editing technique, even when it appears to be working as planned. Bioengineer Gang Bao of Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering and his team point out in a […]
Researchers receive $3.7M to attempt robotic heart surgery inside MRI scanner
Cenk Cavusoglu | Via Cardiovascular Business | October 20, 2022Researchers from Case Western Reserve University have received a four-year, $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to try and make a bit of history. The group—which includes engineers, cardiologist, radiologists and other specialists—will attempt to perform a robotic-controlled left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) on a patient inside an MRI scanner; if […]
What causes severe COVID symptoms? Research examines role of immune systems
Melody Swartz | Via UChicago News | October 20, 2022UChicago study examines how autoantibodies could cause complications in some patients Since the earliest months of the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians and scientists worldwide have been working to understand how exactly the virus makes us sick. That task, already complicated by COVID’s rapid spread, is made more challenging by some of its unusual, seemingly inexplicable symptoms, […]
Krishna Shenoy elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Krishna Shenoy | Via Stanford University | October 17, 2022Six Stanford professors elected to the National Academy of Medicine The National Academy of Medicine has elected six professors at Stanford University to its membership. They are among the 90 regular members and 10 international members elected this year to the academy, which provides policymakers, professionals, business leaders and the public with independent, scientifically informed […]
Farshid Guilak elected to National Academy of Medicine
Farshid Guilak | Via Washington University in St. Louis | October 17, 2022Adeoye, Guilak, Gutmann, Kipnis elected to National Academy of Medicine Election is one of the highest honors for contributions to health, medicine Four faculty members at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, a part of the National Academy of Sciences. They are Opeolu M. […]
Katherine Pollard Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Katie Pollard | Via Gladstone Institutes | October 17, 2022Gladstone Data Scientist Elected to the National Academy of Medicine Data scientist and statistician Katie Pollard, PhD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the highest honors in health and medicine. Through its election process, the Academy recognizes individuals who […]
NIBIB Director Bruce Tromberg Elected to National Academy of Medicine
Bruce Tromberg | Via National Institutes of Health | October 17, 2022Engineering and physical science play an essential role in the development of new tools and technologies that drive biomedical discoveries and save lives. The election of NIBIB director Bruce J. Tromberg, Ph.D., on Oct. 17, 2022, to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), underscores this deep connection. His work includes pioneering research contributions to the […]
Audrey Bowden receives NIH funding to develop point-of-care detection of jaundice in newborns
Audrey Bowden | Via Vanderbilt University | October 13, 2022Audrey Bowden, Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow and associate professor of biomedical and electrical engineering, has won a grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to develop a novel noninvasive smartphone-integrated device to provide accurate, point-of-care detection of jaundice in newborns of all skin tones. Newborns have immature liver function […]
11th International Conference on Ethics in Biology, Engineering, and Medicine
Subrata Saha | Via UW School of Dentistry | October 11, 2022Dr. Subrata Saha, Fellow of AIMBE and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Restorative Dentistry, and Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Washington, is organizing the 11th International Conference on Ethics in Biology, Engineering, and Medicine, which will be held April 28-30, 2023, in Seattle, WA. AIMBE is a co-sponsor of this […]