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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 […]
High-speed camera captures signals traveling through nerve cells.
Lihong Wang | Via Caltech | October 6, 2022Reach out right now and touch anything around you. Whether it was a key on your keyboard, the wood of your desk, or the fur of your dog, you felt it the instant your finger contacted it. Or did you? In actuality, it does take a bit of time for your brain to register the […]
Novel Gene Editing Platform to Correct Multi-organ Cystic Fibrosis
Mark Saltzman | Via Yale University | October 5, 2022An interdisciplinary team of Yale researchers has developed a novel gene editing platform that has the potential to correct cystic fibrosis (CF), a potentially debilitating and deadly disease. Cystic fibrosis is caused by a mutation in a gene called the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR). It is often thought of as a lung disease […]
Tissue chip developments: what’s the 411?
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via News Wise | October 4, 2022Tissue chips—tiny mimics of human organs, just millimeters in size—represent an alternative to animal models as a way to study disease or evaluate drugs. However, a major limitation of tissue chips is that they do not faithfully imitate tissue interactions, so it’s impossible to know how a treatment for liver disease, for example, might affect […]
Gene Loss Enhances Metastasis and Cancer Progression
Shana Kelley | Via Northwestern University | September 29, 2022Investigators have discovered that the loss of the gene SLIT2 in circulating tumor cells regulates metastasis of prostate cancer tumors, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Science Advances. Metastasis accounts for most cancer-related deaths, yet its underlying mechanisms have remained poorly understood despite recent advances in cancer treatments and care… Continue reading.
Breaking through the mucus barrier
Robert Langer | Via MIT | September 28, 2022A capsule that tunnels through mucus in the GI tract could be used to orally administer large protein drugs such as insulin. One reason that it’s so difficult to deliver large protein drugs orally is that these drugs can’t pass through the mucus barrier that lines the digestive tract. This means that insulin and most […]
Growing Human Kidneys in a Lab – Scientists Have Made a Significant Breakthrough
Joseph Bonventre | Via Scitech Daily | September 26, 2022One in nine adults worldwide has some kind of kidney disease, and kidney failure is becoming more common everywhere. Growing functional kidney tissue in a lab could accelerate kidney disease treatments and restore kidney function. In humans, the kidney forms naturally as a consequence of two building blocks: metanephric mesenchyme and ureteric bud. Seven years […]
Researchers design treatment to protect bones during cancer therapy
Sudipta Seal | Via Phys.org | September 26, 2022University of Central Florida material sciences engineers Melanie Coathup and Sudipta Seal have designed a cerium oxide nanoparticle—an artificial enzyme—that protects bones against damage from radiation. The nanoparticle has also shown abilities to improve bone regeneration, reduce loss of blood cells and help kill cancer cells. Their study, a collaboration with Oakland University, North Carolina […]
Microscopic Robots in the Lungs Treat Bacterial Pneumonia in Mice
Liangfang Zhang | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | September 23, 2022The last decade has brought a lot of attention to the use of microscopic robots (microrobots or nanorobots) for biomedical applications. Now, nanoengineers have developed microrobots that can swim around in the lungs and deliver medication to be used to treat bacterial pneumonia. A new study shows that the microrobots safely eliminated pneumonia-causing bacteria in […]
Gang Han and colleagues develop superfluorescence, light-emitting, nanocrystal alternative to lasers
Gang Han | Via UMass Chan Medical School | September 22, 2022Research may lead to a high-quality, nanosized, clean light source for biomedical applications and beyond Researchers at UMass Chan Medical School and North Carolina State University have developed a superfluorescence crystal nanoparticle that uses near-infrared light, a wave-length of light beyond what humans can see, to safely produce laser-quality light at room temperature. This discovery, […]
Shutting down backup genes leads to cancer remission in mice
Xiongbin Lu | Via University of Michigan | September 21, 2022Cancer cells delete DNA when they go to the dark side, so a team of doctors and engineers targeted the ‘backup plans’ running critical cell functions The way that tumor cells enable their uncontrolled growth is also a weakness that can be harnessed to treat cancer, researchers at the University of Michigan and Indiana University […]