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Unique ‘home built’ device provides fast disease analysis in kidneys affected by diabetes
Enrico Gratton | Via EurekAlert | May 28, 2020The amount of scarring in damaged kidneys as a result of diabetes or acute injury, is a key factor in determining treatment. But it has not been possible, using traditional techniques, to quickly and accurately assess how widespread this kind of wounding extends within the organ. Now, however, a physicist and chemist at Georgetown University […]
This Year on Memorial Day, We Honor the Heroes
Rory Cooper | Via HERL | May 27, 2020Memorial Day serves as a time to reflect on the sacrifices made by members of the Armed Forces, their families, friends, and all their loved ones. This year on Memorial Day, we honor the heroes, including people on the front lines of COVID-19, who gave their lives to defend our freedoms and way of life. […]
Tampa company, Kaligia Biosciences, developing portable, rapid, saliva-based COVID-19 screening devices
Stephen Liggett | Via Tampa Dispatch | May 27, 2020The reopening of the world economy is largely reliant on easy and accessible COVID-19 screening. Kaligia Biosciences, a medical device company, is working with major Florida medical institutions to develop a portable, saliva-based device that can produce results in less than three minutes. Kaligia Biosciences is starting clinical trials of the Rapid Biofluid Analyzer 2 […]
Extraction of Skin Interstitial Fluid Using Microneedle Patches
Ali Khademhosseini | Via Terasaki Institute | May 27, 2020The interstitial fluid is a major component of the liquid environment in the body and fills the spaces between the body’s cells. In contrast, blood circulates only within the circulatory vessels of the body and is composed of blood cells and the liquid part of the blood, plasma. Both fluids contain special components called biomarkers, […]
Decreasing the Time from Antibody Idea to IND Approval
Ram Sasisekharan | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | May 26, 2020In 2015, Ram Sasisekharan, PhD, the Alfred H. Caspary professor of biological engineering and health sciences & technology at MIT, founded Tychan. The company concentrates on one key goal: decreasing the time from antibody idea to investigational new drug (IND) approval. Now, the company claims it can cut the average time in half and more. […]
IBEC researchers find a new way to effectively transport drugs to the brain
Silvia Muro | Via Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia | May 26, 2020An international group of researchers from the University of Maryland (United States) and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) led by ICREA Research Professor Silvia Muro, has identified a new way of transporting drugs to the brain, one of the major challenges of the pharmaceutical science today, that could help to come up with […]
Prophylactic Drug Delivery System for COVID-19
Heather Sheardown | Via McMaster University | May 22, 2020The Heather Sheardown lab (McMaster University, Canada) is home to an interdisciplinary team of scientists and trainees with expertise in ophthalmology, polymer and biomaterial engineering, chemistry, pharmaceutical formulation and drug delivery, animal/ex-vivo/in-vitro models of disease and drug delivery, early stage material design and synthesis, and synthetic method scalability optimization. As the availability of a SARS-CoV-2 […]
Combinatorial screening approach opens path to better-quality joint cartilage
Ali Khademhosseini | Via Terasaki Institute | May 22, 2020Cartilage is far from being like cartilage. As a rubber-like elastic tissue with widely varying properties, it lubricates our joints to keep them healthy and in motion, and forms many of our internal structures such as the intervertebral discs in our spine, the flexible connections between our ribs, and our voice box, as well as […]
Go behind the virus on its entry way with targeted pharmacological therapy: the inhalation route of anti SARS-Cov2 active substances.
Ruggero Bettini | Via AIMBE Public Documents | May 21, 2020BACKGROUND SARS-Cov2 is the last appeared coronavirus that developed a pandemic infection with huge number of fatal cases. No vaccines are yet available that protect from this infection. However, a number of therapeutic tactics against COVID-19 have been empirically started. According to Mehra et al., 2020, in COVID-19 illness, a structured approach to clinical is […]
Go behind the virus on its entry way with targeted pharmacological therapy: the inhalation route of anti SARS-Cov2 active substances.
Paolo Colombo | Via AIMBE Public Documents | May 21, 2020BACKGROUND SARS-Cov2 is the last appeared coronavirus that developed a pandemic infection with huge number of fatal cases. No vaccines are yet available that protect from this infection. However, a number of therapeutic tactics against COVID-19 have been empirically started. According to Mehra et al., 2020, in COVID-19 illness, a structured approach to clinical is […]
UC Davis Engineering Projects Fight COVID-19
Cristina Davis | Via UC Davis | May 20, 2020With new seed grants from the UC Davis Office of Research’s COVID-19 Research Accelerator Funding Track (CRAFT), three teams of UC Davis engineers are applying their expertise toward the pandemic response to help people become safer, healthier and better-tested. Mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE) professor and chair Cristina Davis and chemical engineering (CHE) faculty Priya […]
Regenerative medicine center led by School of Dentistry gets $31.4M
Dave Kohn | Via University of Michigan | May 19, 2020A $31.4 million federal grant will allow a regenerative medicine resource center led by the School of Dentistry to continue its important research into the restoration of dental, oral and craniofacial tissues lost to disease, injury or congenital disorders. The five-year grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research is the largest research […]
Lipid-Specific Labeling of Enveloped Viruses with Quantum Dots for Single-Virus Tracking
Dai-Wen Pang | Via ASM Journals | May 19, 2020Quantum dots (QDs) possess optical properties of superbright fluorescence, excellent photostability, narrow emission spectra, and optional colors. Labeled with QDs, single molecules/viruses can be rapidly and continuously imaged for a long time, providing more detailed information than when labeled with other fluorophores. While they are widely used to label proteins in single-molecule-tracking studies, QDs have […]
Johns Hopkins researchers to use machine learning to predict heart damage in COVID-19 victims
Natalia Trayanova | Via Johns Hopkins University | May 18, 2020Johns Hopkins researchers recently received a $195,000 Rapid Response Research grant from the National Science Foundation to, using machine learning, identify which COVID-19 patients are at risk of adverse cardiac events such as heart failure, sustained abnormal heartbeats, heart attacks, cardiogenic shock and death. Increasing evidence of COVID-19’s negative impacts on the cardiovascular system highlights […]
New Retinal Imaging System May be Used to Detect an Alzheimer’s Biomarker
Adam Wax | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | May 15, 2020Biomedical engineers at Duke University say they have devised a new imaging device capable of measuring both the thickness and texture of the various layers of the retina at the back of the eye. The advance could be used to detect a biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease, potentially offering a widespread early warning system for the […]
Carlsbad biotech to test drug that targets gut in COVID-19 patients
Geert Schmid-Schönbein | Via San Diego Union Tribune | May 15, 2020Leading Biosciences hopes that its drug will keep digestive enzymes from spilling into the bloodstream and triggering the airway inflammation seen in COVID-19 COVID-19’s worst symptoms are felt in the lungs — where the airways of some patients fill with dead cells and fluid, triggering a deadly spiral of inflammation. A local biotech company thinks […]
Researchers, scholars, inventors and mentors recognized
Ali Salem | Via University of Iowa | May 15, 2020Like much else this spring, the Office of the Vice President’s annual Celebrating Excellence awards event had to be tabled because of the COVID-19 outbreak. While glasses weren’t raised on April 28, when the awards program was scheduled to take place at Hancher, OVPR still wants to recognize, faculty, staff, and students who stand out […]
“Microbubbles” and ultrasound bombard cancer cells in mice
Katherine Ferrara | Via Stanford University | May 14, 2020In the lab of Katherine Ferrara, PhD, bubbles spell trouble for cancer cells in mice — and maybe one day for humans, too. Specifically, Ferrara, a Stanford Medicine professor of radiology, is using “microbubbles” to damage the structure of cancer cells and cause them to die. The tiny gas-filled spheres are approved by the U.S. […]
Northeastern Professor Partners With Audax Medical Inc., to Combat Covid-19
Tom Webster | Via Northeastern University | May 12, 2020The Problem At Hand The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of daily modern life; employees work from home, students attend class online, and individuals have been encouraged to stay inside, only leaving isolation for the essentials. The response has provided a mild reprieve from the rapid spread of the virus, though it is a […]