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Translate Bio Announces Key Leadership Additions and Promotions
Greg Troiano | Via Translate Bio | April 19, 2021Translate Bio (Nasdaq: TBIO), a clinical-stage messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics company developing a new class of potentially transformative medicines to treat or prevent debilitating or life-threatening diseases, today announced several key leadership appointments, including Brendan Smith as Chief Financial Officer, Greg Troiano as Chief Manufacturing Officer, and Jim Sullivan as Senior Vice President, Pulmonary Discovery. […]
Sweat sensor could alert doctors, patients to looming COVID cytokine storm
Shalini Prasad | Via ACS | April 16, 2021Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors recognized that patients who developed a “cytokine storm” — a surge of pro-inflammatory immune proteins — were often the sickest and at highest risk of dying. But a cytokine storm can also occur in other illnesses, such as influenza. Today, scientists report preliminary results on a sweat sensor that […]
New method of artificially creating genetic switches for yeast
Akihiko Kondo | Via Phys.org | April 14, 2021A group of researchers from Kobe University and Chiba University has successfully developed a flexible and simple method of artificially producing genetic switches for yeast, a model eukaryotic organism. The group consisted of Researcher Tominaga Masahiro, Associate Professor Ishii Jun and Professor Kondo Akihiko (of Kobe University’s Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation/Engineering Biology […]
Researchers Receive Grant to Improve Cellular Therapies to Treat ‘Incurable’ Diseases
Raj Rao | Via University of Arkansas | April 13, 2021Two U of A researchers received a $480,000 National Science Foundation grant to investigate how engineered coatings that imitate the tissue matrix surrounding cells would affect the behavior of therapeutic human mesenchymal stromal cells, or hMSCs. Jorge Almodovar, assistant professor of chemical engineering, and Raj Rao, professor and head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, […]
Exercise benefit in breast cancer linked to improved immune responses
Dai Fukumura | Via EurekAlert | April 12, 2021Exercise training may slow tumor growth and improve outcomes for females with breast cancer – especially those treated with immunotherapy drugs – by stimulating naturally occurring immune mechanisms, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have found. Tumors in mouse models of human breast cancer grew more slowly in mice put […]
Rao Elected President-Elect of Institute for Biological Engineering
Raj Rao | Via University of Arkansas | April 12, 2021Raj Rao, professor and department head of biomedical engineering at the U of A, has been elected president of Institute for Biological Engineering. The IBE is a professional organization formed in 1995 that encourages inquiry and interest in biological engineering. Collegiate members from all over the nation make up the organization that Rao has been […]
Therapy with New Biosealant can Improve Healing After Injury
Robert Mauck | Via AZo Materials | April 12, 2021According to a recent animal-based study performed by scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, a novel biosealant therapy could help stabilize injuries that cause the disintegration of cartilage tissues, opening the door for a future fix or—even better—start working directly with new cells to improve healing. The researchers’ study […]
Therapy with New Biosealant can Improve Healing After Injury
Jason Burdick | Via AZo Materials | April 12, 2021According to a recent animal-based study performed by scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, a novel biosealant therapy could help stabilize injuries that cause the disintegration of cartilage tissues, opening the door for a future fix or—even better—start working directly with new cells to improve healing. The researchers’ study […]
SQZ Biotech Presents Preclinical Data on its mRNA-based enhanced APCs and the Potential of the SQZ APC Platform in KRAS Driven Tumors
Howard Bernstein | Via OA Online | April 10, 2021SQZ Biotechnologies (NYSE: SQZ), a cell therapy company developing novel treatments for multiple therapeutic areas, today shared preclinical data from its next generation SQZ™ APCs, enhanced APCs or eAPCs, and the potentially broader applicability of the platform at the American Association for Cancer Research ( AACR ) 2021 Annual Meeting. “One of the advantages of […]
Screening for skin disease on your laptop
Metin Akay | Via EurekAlert | April 6, 2021The founding chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Houston is reporting a new deep neural network architecture that provides early diagnosis of systemic sclerosis (SSc), a rare autoimmune disease marked by hardened or fibrous skin and internal organs. The proposed network, implemented using a standard laptop computer (2.5 GHz Intel Core […]
Ultrashort peptides go a long way for tissue engineering
Charlotte Hauser | Via EurekAlert | April 5, 2021A new automated process prints a peptide-based hydrogel scaffold containing uniformly distributed cells. The scaffolds hold their shapes well and successfully facilitate cell growth that lasts for weeks. “Bioprinting” — 3D printing that incorporates living cells — has the potential to revolutionize tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Scientists have experimented with natural and synthetic “bioinks” […]
A new leaf for cellular agriculture
Glenn Gaudette | Via Boston College | April 1, 2021Spinach, a cost-efficient and environmentally friendly scaffold, provided an edible platform upon which a team of researchers led by a Boston College engineer has grown meat cells, an advance that may accelerate the development of cultured meat, according to a new report in the advance online edition of the journal Food BioScience. Stripped of all […]
Ameer Named Fellow of Materials Research Society
Guillermo Ameer | Via Northwestern Engineering | April 1, 2021Northwestern Engineering’s Guillermo A. Ameer has been named a fellow of the Materials Research Society for his contributions to regenerative engineering through pioneering work developing antioxidant citrate-based polymers that are useful for musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, dermal, and urological applications, rendering them enabling technologies to improve health. Ameer is the Daniel Hale Williams Professor of Biomedical Engineering […]
New tool assesses patients’ home dialysis experience
Jonathan Himmelfarb | Via EurekAlert | March 30, 2021Researchers have developed a new tool to assess patients’ opinions and experience concerning home dialysis care. The tool is described in an upcoming issue of CJASN. Home dialysis, which includes both peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis, allows patients to receive their dialysis treatments at home, gives patients independence and flexibility with their treatment schedules, and […]
Connecting the dots between engagement and learning
Byron Yu | Via Carnegie Mellon University | March 29, 2021We’ve all heard the adage, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,” but new research from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh finds that it isn’t all about repetition. Rather, internal states like engagement can also have an impact on learning. The collaborative research, published today in Nature Neuroscience in new […]
Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data Analysis Boosted via Machine Learning
Dong Xu | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | March 26, 2021Researchers from the University of Missouri and the Ohio State University say they have created a new way to analyze data from single-cell RNA-sequencing by using machine learning. The method uses the power of computers to intelligently analyze large amounts of data and help scientists draw faster conclusions and move to the next stage of […]
Exploiting cancer cells to aid in their own destruction
Melody Swartz | Via UChicago News | March 24, 2021Immunotherapy, which recruits the body’s own immune system to attack cancer, has given many cancer patients a new avenue to treat the disease. But many cancer immunotherapy treatments can be expensive, have devastating side effects, and only work in a fraction of patients. Researchers at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of […]
UNO Faculty Sweep NU System Honors
Nick Stergiou | Via University of Nebraska Omaha | March 24, 2021Ramazan Kılınç (Political Science); Nick Stergiou (Biomechanics); and Christine Cutucache (Biology) each earned system honors for teaching, research, and engagement. A trio of UNO faculty have been recognized by the University of Nebraska system in a historic sweep of awards recognizing the fields of teaching, research, and community engagement. The recognized faculty members also join […]
Recurrent neural network advances 3D fluorescence imaging
Aydogan Ozcan | Via EurekAlert | March 23, 2021Rapid 3D microscopic imaging of fluorescent samples has gained increasing importance in numerous applications in physical and biomedical sciences. Given the limited axial range that a single 2D image can provide, 3D fluorescence imaging often requires time-consuming mechanical scanning of samples using a dense sampling grid. In addition to being slow and tedious, this approach […]
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic Receives AIMBE’s Highest Award
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via AIMBE | March 22, 2021AIMBE is honored to recognize Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic with its Pierre Galletti Award, the Institute’s highest accolade. Including years of contributions to AIMBE and the BME community, Vunjak-Novakovic is recognized for impactful innovations in technologies to generate, understand and utilize functional human tissues, especially in regenerative engineering, studies of development and disease, while inspiring the next […]