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Expanding the Oval and Opening Doors: The Inauguration of Olin President Gilda Barabino
Gilda Barabino | Via Olin College | May 9, 2022On May 5, 2022, Olin College celebrated a milestone event two years in the making—the long-awaited and much celebrated inauguration of its second president and first Black woman president, Dr. Gilda A. Barabino. Joined by delegates, trustees, students, staff, faculty, alumni, parents and guests from far and wide, the Olin Community gathered on a perfect […]
New Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Education
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert | Via UW Medicine | May 6, 2022On July 1, Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, PhD, will join UW Medicine as the new vice dean for Research and Graduate Education. She succeeds John Slattery, PhD, who is retiring after holding the position since 2005. Her husband, Don Elbert, PhD, will also join UW Medicine as an associate professor in the Department of Neurology. “I am […]
Alyssa Panitch Chosen as Chair of Coulter BME
Alyssa Panitch | Via Georgia Tech | May 3, 2022Alyssa Panitch, Edward Teller Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, has been selected as the new chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. Panitch currently serves as executive associate dean of academic personnel and planning in the College of […]
Repairing Tendons with Silk Proteins
Ali Khademhosseini | Via Terasaki Institute | May 3, 2022Just mentioning a ruptured Achilles tendon would make anyone wince. Tendon injuries are well known for their lengthy, difficult and often incomplete healing processes. Sudden or repetitive motion, experienced by athletes and factory workers, for example, increases the risk of tears or ruptures in the tendons; thirty percent of all people will have a tendon […]
Marijuana linked to heart disease; supplement may mitigate risk, researchers report
Joseph Wu | Via Stanford Medicine | April 29, 2022People who use marijuana have an increased risk of heart disease and heart attack, according to a large study led by researchers at Stanford Medicine. The study also showed that the psychoactive component of the drug, known as THC, causes inflammation in endothelial cells that line the interior of blood vessels, as well as atherosclerosis […]
Sweat Sensor Makes Big Strides in Detecting Infection Indicators
Shalini Prasad | Via University of Texas at Dallas | April 29, 2022University of Texas at Dallas bioengineers in collaboration with EnLiSense LLC have designed a wearable sensor that can detect two key biomarkers of infection in human sweat, a significant step toward making it possible for users to receive early warnings of infections such as COVID-19 and influenza. The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer […]
Seven UChicago scholars elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022
Raphael Lee | Via University of Chicago | April 29, 2022Seven members of the University of Chicago faculty have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. They include Profs. Christopher R. Berry, Raphael C. Lee, Peter B. Littlewood, Richard Neer, Sianne Ngai and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, and Prof. Emerita Wadad Kadi. These scholars […]
Plug-and-play organ-on-a-chip can be customized to the patient
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via Science Daily | April 27, 2022Engineered tissues have become a critical component for modeling diseases and testing the efficacy and safety of drugs in a human context. A major challenge for researchers has been how to model body functions and systemic diseases with multiple engineered tissues that can physiologically communicate — just like they do in the body. However, it […]
Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste
Hal Alper | Via University of Texas at Austin | April 27, 2022An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin can break down environment-throttling plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to days. This discovery, published today in Nature, could help solve one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems: what to do with […]
Can a blood test help diagnose skin cancer?
Sunitha Nagrath | Via EurekAlert | April 20, 2022New research in Advanced NanoBiomed Research indicates that testing an individual’s blood can reveal the presence of circulating melanoma cells. Such tests may allow patients to forego invasive skin biopsies to determine whether they have skin cancer. The test uses what’s called the Melanoma-specific OncoBean platform conjugated with melanoma-specific antibodies. Investigators at the University of […]
Flexible Printable Electrical Patches for Accelerated Wound Healing
Ali Khademhosseini | Via Terasaki Institute | April 19, 2022There are myriad ways in which people can experience physical wounds – from minor scrapes and abrasions to the effects of surgery, critical injuries, burns and other major traumas. The healing process for these wounds can also vary among individuals and may be adversely affected by underlying health conditions such as vascular insufficiencies, diabetes, obesity […]
Tumors partially destroyed with sound don’t come back
Zhen Xu | Via University of Michigan | April 18, 2022Noninvasive sound technology developed at the University of Michigan breaks down liver tumors in rats, kills cancer cells and spurs the immune system to prevent further spread—an advance that could lead to improved cancer outcomes in humans. By destroying only 50% to 75% of liver tumor volume, the rats’ immune systems were able to clear […]
Rensselaer Professor Jonathan Dordick and Collaborators Work To Develop Nasal Spray To Combat COVID-19 and Other Respiratory Infections
Jonathan Dordick | Via Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | April 12, 2022Rensselaer Professor Jonathan Dordick and collaborators from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Albany Medical College have been awarded $500,000 from the New York State Biodefense Commercialization Fund to engage in research for the development of a Pentosan Polysulfate (PPS)-based nasal spray to block COVID-19. “Despite advances in both therapeutics and vaccines for COVID-19, there remains a […]
Engineered bacteria could help protect “good” gut microbes from antibiotics
James Collins | Via MIT | April 11, 2022Antibiotics are life-saving drugs, but they can also harm the beneficial microbes that live in the human gut. Following antibiotic treatment, some patients are at risk of developing inflammation or opportunistic infections such as Clostridiodes difficile. Indiscriminate use of antibiotics on gut microbes can also contribute to the spread of resistance to the drugs. In […]
Innovative Therapy that “Tricks” and Destroys Cancer Cells Advances to Clinical Trial
Kathleen Schmainda | Via PR Newswire | April 8, 2022A novel therapy studied at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) Cancer Center has led to a clinical trial for the treatment of glioblastoma, a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer, yet the most common primary brain tumor in adults. Despite decades of research globally, only incremental gains have been made to extend or […]
Nicholas Peppas, a chorus of healthcare materials
Nicholas Peppas | Via Advanced Science News | April 7, 2022A pioneer of advanced healthcare materials, Nicholas Peppas continues to innovate in the fields of healthcare materials and drug delivery. Few active scientists could be considered pioneers. Often, it is through the lens of hindsight that we appreciate an individual’s or group’s contribution to a field, but Nicholas Peppas has truly pioneered the development of […]
The quest for safer, more effective drugs for irregular heartbeat
Jianmin Cui | Via Washington University in St. Louis | April 7, 2022Irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia, affects about 5 million people in the United States, and interestingly, some of the drugs used to treat the condition can also cause it. A biomedical engineer in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis is going deep into the basic mechanisms that lead to arrhythmia to […]
Study reveals the dynamics of human milk production
Bonnie Berger | Via MIT | April 5, 2022For the first time, MIT researchers have performed a large-scale, high-resolution study of the cells in breast milk, allowing them to track how these cells change over time in nursing mothers. By analyzing human breast milk produced between three days and nearly two years after childbirth, the researchers were able to identify a variety of […]
Artificial intelligence may improve diabetes diagnosis
Ronald Summers | Via EurekAlert | April 5, 2022Using a fully-automated artificial intelligence (AI) deep learning model, researchers were able to identify early signs of type 2 diabetes on abdominal CT scans, according to a new study published in the journal Radiology. Type 2 diabetes affects approximately 13% of all U.S. adults and an additional 34.5% of adults meet the criteria for prediabetes. […]