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AIMBE Fellowbook collects news stories highlighting the members of the AIMBE College of Fellows. Read the latest stories, jump to the College Directory, or search below to find the newest research, awards, announcements and more for the leaders of the medical and biological engineering community.
New AI tool calculates materials’ stress and strain based on photos
Markus Buehler | Via MIT | April 22, 2021Isaac Newton may have met his match. For centuries, engineers have relied on physical laws — developed by Newton and others — to understand the stresses and strains on the materials they work with. But solving those equations can be a computational slog, especially for complex materials. MIT researchers have developed a technique to quickly […]
Noninvasive technology steps ahead to help epilepsy patients
Bin He | Via Carnegie Mellon University | April 22, 2021Discovering and developing innovative, noninvasive solutions to advance medical technology and, ultimately, help people, is the driving force behind Bin He’s research. His team’s latest work leverages noninvasive EEG technology along with the development of a novel machine learning algorithm to automatically identify and delineate concurrent high-frequency oscillations and epileptiform spikes, a key link related […]
Micro-molded ‘ice cube tray’ scaffold is next step in returning sight to injured retinas
Zhenqiang Ma | Via University of Wisconsin - Madison | April 21, 2021Tens of millions of people worldwide are affected by diseases like macular degeneration or have had accidents that permanently damage the light-sensitive photoreceptors within their retinas that enable vision. The human body is not capable of regenerating those photoreceptors, but new advances by medical researchers and engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison may provide hope […]
Micro-molded ‘ice cube tray’ scaffold is next step in returning sight to injured retinas
Dave Gamm | Via University of Wisconsin - Madison | April 21, 2021Tens of millions of people worldwide are affected by diseases like macular degeneration or have had accidents that permanently damage the light-sensitive photoreceptors within their retinas that enable vision. The human body is not capable of regenerating those photoreceptors, but new advances by medical researchers and engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison may provide hope […]
Micro-molded ‘ice cube tray’ scaffold is next step in returning sight to injured retinas
Sarah Gong | Via University of Wisconsin - Madison | April 21, 2021Tens of millions of people worldwide are affected by diseases like macular degeneration or have had accidents that permanently damage the light-sensitive photoreceptors within their retinas that enable vision. The human body is not capable of regenerating those photoreceptors, but new advances by medical researchers and engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison may provide hope […]
Cancer cells soften as they metastasize, study suggests
Roger Kamm | Via MIT | April 20, 2021When cancer cells metastasize, they often travel in the bloodstream to a remote tissue or organ, where they then escape by squeezing through the blood vessel wall and entering the site of metastasis. A study from MIT now shows that tumor cells become much softer as they undergo this process. The findings suggest that drugs […]
Novel MultiPulse Therapy for Terminating AF Passes Feasibility Hurdle
Igor Efimov | Via TCTMD | April 20, 2021Delivering a sequence of pulses with low energy and low voltage may be a safe and effective—and relatively painless—way to get patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) back into sinus rhythm, according to a first-in-human feasibility study of MultiPulse Therapy (MPT; Cardialen). The approach, tested in patients undergoing catheter ablation, terminated induced AF within 20 […]
UArizona devise concept for NASA’s historic helicopter flight over Mars
Wolfgang Fink | Via KVOA | April 20, 2021A University of Arizona professor explains that NASA’s historic helicopter flight over Mars has a technique behind it. It is known as the tier-scalable reconnaissance paradigm. That’s when aerial vehicles provide a regional overhead perspective for rovers on the planet’s surface while also connecting to technology already in orbit… Continue reading.
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 […]