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Student success, collaborations highlight Wodicka’s legacy at Purdue
George Wodicka | Via Purdue University | September 21, 2022Culture of innovation helped distinguish biomedical engineering program Simply saying George Wodicka is a big thinker would undersell what he accomplished in two-plus decades leading Purdue’s biomedical engineering program. His thinking has been bigger than big, transforming a small research center into the renowned Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, whose work impacts millions of patients […]
Northwestern Receives $16 Million Grant to Support Faculty Recruitment and Equity
Eric Perreault | Via Northwestern University | September 20, 2022The grant will fund hiring of 15 new tenure-track faculty and emphasize DEI values A transformative grant awarded to Northwestern totaling $16 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) aims to disrupt systemic barriers that impede the full participation of underrepresented groups by funding the cluster hiring of new faculty in […]
Laser light offers new tool for treating bone cancer
Lihong Wang | Via CalTech | September 19, 2022Label-free intraoperative histology of bone tissue via deep-learning-assisted ultraviolet photoacoustic microscopyOf the many ways to treat cancer, the oldest, and maybe most tried and true, is surgery. Even with the advent of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and more experimental treatments like bacteria that seek and destroy cancer cells, cancers, very often, simply need to be cut […]
Painless, Bloodless Tattoos Possible With New Microneedle Technique
Mark Prausnitz | Via Everyday Health | September 19, 2022Tattoos may seem like they’re everywhere, and no longer taboo. But widespread medical use of tattoos has been limited because of the need for repeated needle injections that can be painful and carry risks of bleeding and infection. Now scientists have developed a way to avoid these deterrents: a tattoo patch containing microscopic needles that […]
Expert in Engineered Cell-Based Cancer Therapies Appointed USC Viterbi BME Chair
Peter Wang | Via University of Southern California | September 16, 2022Peter Yingxiao Wang, a specialist in CAR T-cell cancer therapies, joins USC in January 2023 as the new chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Research leader in the field of precision medicine, Professor Peter Yingxiao Wang, will join the USC Viterbi School of Engineering on January 1, 2023, as the new chair of the […]
Researchers Use Genetic Sequencing and Wastewater Analysis to Detect SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Monkeypox within Communities
Rob Knight | Via Dark Daily | September 12, 2022Researchers surprised that process designed to detect SARS-CoV-2 also identifies monkeypox in wastewater Early information about an outbreak in a geographical region can inform local clinical laboratories as to which infectious agents and variants they are likely to see when testing patients who have symptoms. To that end, wastewater testing has become a rich source […]
Leading Tissue Regeneration Expert to Chair UVA’s Department of Biomedical Engineering
Shayn Peirce-Cottler | Via UVA Health | September 9, 2022Shayn Peirce-Cottler, PhD, an international leader in biomedical engineering and a University of Virginia faculty member since 2004, has been named chair of UVA’s Department of Biomedical Engineering. She succeeds Frederick H. Epstein, PhD, who has served as chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering – a joint program of UVA’s School of Medicine and […]
Analyzing the potential of AlphaFold in drug discovery
James Collins | Via MIT | September 6, 2022Study finds computer models that predict molecular interactions need improvement before they can help identify drug mechanisms of action. Over the past few decades, very few new antibiotics have been developed, largely because current methods for screening potential drugs are prohibitively expensive and time-consuming. One promising new strategy is to use computational models, which offer […]
New Experimental Drug Protects Against Sudden Death
Samuel Wickline | Via SciTechDaily | September 5, 2022The drug could pave the way for treatments for those who are at risk of sudden rupture due to abdominal aortic aneurysms. A study conducted by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that an experimental drug therapy protects mice against sudden death brought on by the rupture of a major […]
New technology offers pathways to finding treatments for kidney disease
Guy Genin | Via Washington University in St. Louis | August 31, 2022Chronic kidney disease and eventual kidney failure are incurable diseases that affect 13% of the U.S. population, particularly those with high blood pressure and diabetes. These diseases degrade the “podocyte” cells of the kidney that maintain the body’s blood filtration system, eventually sending patients to dialysis. The search for effective treatments has been hampered because […]
Researchers in Boston Find COVID-19 Spike Protein Lingers in Long COVID-19 Patients
David Walt | Via Dark Daily | August 31, 2022Viral reservoir could be behind persistence, says study, which also suggests a blood biomarker could be found for clinical laboratory testing Microbiologists and virologists working closely with physicians treating long COVID-19 patients will gain new insights in a study that found coronavirus spike protein in COVID-19 patients’ blood up to 12 months after diagnosis. The […]
This Mighty Brain Chip Is So Efficient It Could Bring Advanced AI to Your Phone
Gert Cauwenberghs | Via Singularity Hub | August 30, 2022AI and conventional computers are a match made in hell. The main reason is how hardware chips are currently set up. Based on the traditional Von Neumann architecture, the chip isolates memory storage from its main processors. Each computation is a nightmarish Monday morning commute, with the chip constantly shuttling data to-and-fro from each compartment, […]
A key step toward growing human kidneys in the laboratory
Joseph Bonventre | Via Phys.org | August 30, 2022Kidney disease affects one in nine adults globally and the incidence of kidney failure is steadily rising around the world. Being able to grow working kidney tissue in a laboratory could help accelerate medical treatments for kidney disease and restore kidney function. The kidney forms normally in humans as a result of two building blocks—metanephric […]
Synthetic Biologists Use Novel Tool to “See” Signal Processing in Real Time
Jeffrey Tabor | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | August 26, 2022Synthetic biologists at Rice University say they have developed the first method for observing the real-time activity of some of most common signal-processing circuits in bacteria, including deadly pathogens that use the circuits to increase their virulence as well as to develop antibiotic drug resistance. Two-component systems are sensory circuits bacteria use to react to […]
Phage-resistant E. coli strains developed to reduce fermentation failure
Sang Yup Lee | Via Phys.org | August 24, 2022A genome engineering-based systematic strategy for developing phage resistant Escherichia coli strains has been successfully developed through the collaborative efforts of a team led by Professor Sang Yup Lee, Professor Shi Chen, and Professor Lianrong Wang. This study by Xuan Zou et al was published in Nature Communications in August 2022 and featured in the […]
New treatment could prevent anaphylactic reactions
Jeffrey Hubbell | Via New Food Magazine | August 23, 2022A new treatment could prevent hypersensitive consumers from having dangerous anaphylactic reactions if they consume an allergen by replacing important gut bacteria. Although many people with dietary allergies experience mild symptoms when exposed to triggering foods, some face potentially fatal consequences as a result of anaphylactic reactions. A bacterial compound called butyrate that’s made by […]
The Locked Library: Disease Causes Cells to Reorder Their DNA Incorrectly
Robert Mauck | Via Penn Medicine News | August 22, 2022Imagine you’re trying to do a job and all of the information you need to do it is in a few books at the library. Except, those books are randomly arranged along with all the other books on shelves across the whole building. Without that vital information from the books you were looking for, you […]
Discovery points to new drug targets that could prevent cancer spread
Sylvia Plevritis | Via News-Medical.Net | August 22, 2022Any cancer cell migrating from a tumor to set up shop elsewhere in the body will face a brutal attack from an immune system programmed to seek and destroy abnormal cells. But two recent studies from Stanford Medicine show that the hearty few that manage to infiltrate nearby lymph nodes carry out a stunning biological […]
Mini Caps for Mini Brains
David Gracias | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | August 19, 2022A research team led by scientists from Johns Hopkins University have developed a tiny EEG electrode cap to measure activity in a brain model the size of a pen dot. Its designers expect the device to lead to better understanding of neural disorders and how potentially dangerous chemicals affect the brain. The researchers published their […]