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Newly developed gel helps improve the effectiveness of immunotherapy in glioblastoma
Frances Ligler | Via News-Medical.Net | October 7, 2021Pairing a newly developed gel with immunotherapy that was delivered to post-surgical mouse brains with glioblastoma, a highly malignant and deadly cancer, improved the immunotherapy’s effectiveness, report researchers from the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and colleagues. The findings appeared on Oct. 6, 2021, in Science Advances. The researchers used CAR-T cell […]
Honorary Doctorate of Silesian University of Technology
Metin Akay | Via EHTIC | October 7, 2021Prof. Akay, a well renowned scientist and engineer, has played a key role in promoting biomedical research and education in the world. He is currently the President of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology which is the oldest and largest Biomedical Engineering Society in the world. Prof. Akay was among the most cited in the […]
Bio-Inspired Autonomous Materials
Megan Valentine | Via UC Santa Barbara | October 5, 2021Megan Valentine, a professor of mechanical engineering and co-director of the California NanoSystems Institute at UC Santa Barbara, has been awarded a $1.8 million collaborative grant by the National Science Foundation to design and create next-generation materials inspired and empowered by biological cells. Valentine will be working alongside a team of physicists, biologists and engineers, […]
Patch could give new life to weak heart
Kibret Mequanint | Via Western University | September 30, 2021A new cardiac patch developed by a collaborative team co-led by Western University is just the stuff that could get your blood pumping – literally. The ultra-flexible cardiac patch, designed by Western Engineering professor Kibret Mequanint and his collaborators at the University of Manitoba, may one day be used to restore function to a damaged […]
Patch could give new life to weak heart
Malcolm Xing | Via Western University | September 30, 2021A new cardiac patch developed by a collaborative team co-led by Western University is just the stuff that could get your blood pumping – literally. The ultra-flexible cardiac patch, designed by Western Engineering professor Kibret Mequanint and his collaborators at the University of Manitoba, may one day be used to restore function to a damaged […]
A ‘tremendous’ impact: Tributes abound for Dr. Freddie Fu
Freddie Fu | Via Pittsburgh Post Gazette | September 26, 2021Tributes to Dr. Freddie Fu, the pioneering sports medicine doctor and orthopedic surgeon, poured in Saturday following his death at age 70 on Friday. Athletes, government officials and healthcare leaders paid respects to the man who helped treat star athletes and everyday alike for injuries, concussions and other conditions. “Dr. Freddie Fu, thank you for […]
Flying Microchips The Size Of A Sand Grain Could Be Used For Population Surveillance
John Rogers | Via NPR | September 23, 2021It’s neither a bird nor a plane, but a winged microchip as small as a grain of sand that can be carried by the wind as it monitors such things as pollution levels or the spread of airborne diseases. The tiny microfliers, whose development by engineers at Northwestern University was detailed in an article published […]
Institute Professor Paula Hammond named to White House science council
Paula Hammond | Via MIT | September 22, 2021Paula Hammond, an MIT Institute Professor and head of MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering, has been chosen to serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the White House announced today. The council advises the president on matters involving science, technology, education, and innovation policy. It also provides the White House […]
Northwestern-invented biomaterial technology moves from lab bench to the orthopaedic market
Guillermo Ameer | Via Northwestern University | September 22, 2021Resorbable anti-inflammatory tendon fixation technology used in patients for the first time Northwestern biomedical engineer Guillermo A. Ameer has achieved a rare, major accomplishment. A medical product based on novel biomaterials pioneered in his laboratory will be widely available for use in musculoskeletal surgeries to directly benefit patients. The biomaterial technology, called CITREGEN™, developed by […]
Computational methods for modelling 3D structures of protein complexes
Daisuke Kihara | Via Open Access Government | September 21, 2021Proteins are key working molecules and building blocks in a cell. They are involved in almost all functional activities within and between cells, which include metabolic and signalling pathways, gene expression, cell duplication, diseases, and viral infection. Proteins carry out these functions through physical interactions with other proteins and different molecules, such as DNA and […]
Statistical model defines ketamine anesthesia’s effects on the brain
Emery Brown | Via MIT | September 21, 2021By developing the first statistical model to finely characterize how ketamine anesthesia affects the brain, a team of researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and Massachusetts General Hospital have laid new groundwork for three advances: understanding how ketamine induces anesthesia; monitoring the unconsciousness of patients in surgery; and applying a new method […]
Plants as mRNA Factories for Edible Vaccines
Nicole Steinmetz | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | September 17, 2021University of California-Riverside (UCR) researchers say they are studying whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories. One of the challenges with this new technology is that it must be kept cold to maintain stability during transport and storage. If this new project is successful, plant-based mRNA vaccines, which can be […]
Robotics Bring the White Cane Into the 21st Century
Cang Ye | Via Health Day | September 16, 2021The “white cane” that many blind people rely on for navigating the world hasn’t been upgraded in a century, but researchers are reporting progress on a “robo-cane” they hope will modernize the assistive device. The prototype cane is equipped with a color 3D camera, sensors and an “on-board” computer designed to guide the user to […]
These fridge-free, no-needle vaccines could be ready for the next pandemic
Nicole Steinmetz | Via fastcompany | September 14, 2021The COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been mired in logistical challenges. Millions of doses have gone to waste, some spoiling after being left unrefrigerated for too long, some expiring before they could physically get to those in need. Most of the vaccines need to be kept at incredibly low temperatures, requiring a cold chain for distribution, […]
How a Plant Virus Could Protect and Save Your Lungs From Metastatic Cancer
Nicole Steinmetz | Via UCSD | September 14, 2021Using a virus that grows in black-eyed pea plants, nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego developed a new treatment that could keep metastatic cancers at bay from the lungs. The treatment not only slowed tumor growth in the lungs of mice with either metastatic breast cancer or melanoma, it also prevented or drastically […]
Study: Reversing aging of skeletal muscle
Stelios Andreadis | Via University at Buffalo | September 14, 2021A University at Buffalo-led research team has shown that a protein named for the mythical land of youth in Irish folklore is effective at reversing aging in skeletal muscle cells. Published Sept. 3 in Science Advances, the study centers on the protein NANOG, which is derived from Tír na nÓg, a place in Irish lore […]
Researchers design sensors to rapidly detect plant hormones
Mary Chan-Park | Via MIT | September 13, 2021Researchers from the Disruptive and Sustainable Technologies for Agricultural Precision (DiSTAP) interdisciplinary research group of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, and their local collaborators from Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), have developed the first-ever nanosensor to enable rapid testing of synthetic auxin […]
UW team’s artificial kidney prototype earns major prize
Jonathan Himmelfarb | Via Mirage News | September 10, 2021A backpack-size kidney-dialysis device, conceived and being developed at the University of Washington Center for Dialysis Innovation (CDI), is one of six winners of a $650,000 prize in an international competition to create components and systems for artificial kidneys. The awards were announced today by KidneyX, a public-private partnership of the American Society of Nephrology […]
UW team’s artificial kidney prototype earns major prize
Buddy Ratner | Via Mirage News | September 10, 2021A backpack-size kidney-dialysis device, conceived and being developed at the University of Washington Center for Dialysis Innovation (CDI), is one of six winners of a $650,000 prize in an international competition to create components and systems for artificial kidneys. The awards were announced today by KidneyX, a public-private partnership of the American Society of Nephrology […]
The Kidney Project successfully tests a prototype bioartificial kidney
Shuvo Roy | Via University of California, San Francisco | September 9, 2021The Kidney Project’s implantable bioartificial kidney, one that promises to free kidney disease patients from dialysis machines and transplant waiting lists, took another big step toward becoming reality, earning a $650,000 prize from KidneyX for its first-ever demonstration of a functional prototype of its implantable artificial kidney. KidneyX is a public–private partnership between the U.S. […]