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Bonnie Berger elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2020
Bonnie Berger | Via MIT | May 1, 2020On April 27, the National Academy of Sciences elected 120 new members and 26 international associates, including three professors from MIT — Abhijit Banerjee, Bonnie Berger, and Roger Summons — recognizing their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” Current membership totals 2,403 active members and 501 international associates, including 190 Nobel Prize recipients. The […]
Nanostimulators boost stem cells for muscle repair
Joon Kong | Via UIUC | May 1, 2020In regenerative medicine, an ideal treatment for patients whose muscles are damaged from lack of oxygen would be to invigorate them with an injection of their own stem cells. In a new study published in the journal ACS Nano, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign demonstrated that “nanostimulators” – nanoparticles seeded with a […]
Cellular & Molecular Bioengineering Special Issue on ‘Emerging Technologies for Use in the Study, Diagnosis and Treatment of Patients with COVID-19’
Michael King | Via CAMB | April 30, 2020COVID-19 is predicted to overwhelm healthcare capacity in the US and worldwide. The cellular and molecular bioengineering community has a history of innovative approaches to address pressing biomedical challenges. As a voice for the this community, the journal Cellular & Molecular Bioengineering (CAMB) welcomes commentaries, reviews, and original research articles that reflect the ways in […]
Breakthrough helps fight ‘cold’ tumors that don’t respond to immunotherapy
Jeffrey Hubbell | Via University of Chicago | April 30, 2020Immunotherapy, which unleashes the power of the body’s own immune system to find and destroy cancer cells, has shown promise in treating several types of cancer. But the disease is notorious for cloaking itself from the immune system, and tumors that are not inflamed and do not elicit a response from the immune system—so-called “cold” […]
Breakthrough helps fight ‘cold’ tumors that don’t respond to immunotherapy
Melody Swartz | Via University of Chicago | April 30, 2020Immunotherapy, which unleashes the power of the body’s own immune system to find and destroy cancer cells, has shown promise in treating several types of cancer. But the disease is notorious for cloaking itself from the immune system, and tumors that are not inflamed and do not elicit a response from the immune system—so-called “cold” […]
BrunO2 project, Tripathi Lab earn University COVID-19 Research Seed Fund awards
Anubhav Tripathi | Via Brown University | April 30, 2020Brown Engineering professors Dan Harris, Jacob Rosenstein, Anubhav Tripathi and Roberto Zenit, are among the 15 teams of Brown faculty researchers receiving funds from a newly created University seed fund. Brown established the fund to fast track innovative research proposals that directly address the urgent needs of the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of $350,000 was […]
OHIO researchers win grant to study treatment for possible fatal complications of COVID-19
Doug Goetz | Via Ohio University | April 30, 2020Faculty researchers from Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and Russ College of Engineering and Technology have received a $100,000 grant to investigate possible treatments for mitigating the severity of COVID-19. Kelly McCall, Ph.D., and Douglas Goetz, Ph.D., will measure how effective a number of different chemical compounds are at preventing “cytokine storms,” a […]
Texas A&M Chemist Karen Wooley Elected To National Academy Of Sciences
Karen Wooley | Via Texas A&M | April 29, 2020Texas A&M University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Karen L. Wooley has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Wooley, holder of the W.T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry and one of the world’s top chemists in the burgeoning field of materials and polymer chemistry and in creating new materials at the nanoscale level, is among […]
UC Davis Engineers, Clinician Develop Low-Cost, Portable Ventilator
Tingrui Pan | Via UC Davis | April 29, 2020Engineers at the University of California, Davis, are working with clinicians to create a simple, inexpensive ventilator. They have developed a prototype and plan to make plans freely available online. Versions could be in clinical use in about six months. “This is a critical device to have. It provides the vital functions of a ventilator […]
Sam Stupp elected to the National Academy of Sciences
Sam Stupp | Via Northwestern University | April 28, 2020Three Northwestern University faculty members — mathematician Laura DeMarco, engineer Yonggang Huang and materials scientist Samuel Stupp — have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Membership in the academy is one of the highest honors given to a scientist in the United States. DeMarco, Huang and Stupp are among 120 new members […]
Giving Distressed Lungs a Safer Fighting Chance
William Federspiel | Via Global Health News wire | April 28, 2020A device designed at the University of Pittsburgh could help improve outcomes as a treatment for COVID-19 when used in conjunction with non-invasive or mechanical ventilation, and it recently received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Health records from a New York study showed that close to 90 percent of […]
Dynamic source imaging the brain
Bin He | Via Carnegie Mellon University | April 23, 2020New functional imaging technology dynamically maps a signal’s source and underlying networks within the brain. Marking a major milestone on the path to meeting the objectives of the NIH BRAIN initiative, research by Bin He advances high-density electroencephalography (EEG) as the future paradigm for dynamic functional neuroimaging. The NIH Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies […]
Unique System for Using UVC Light to Sterilize Masks in Bulk Developed at Rensselaer
Deepak Vashishth | Via Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | April 23, 2020New device for making masks reusable in fight against COVID-19 being tested at Mount Sinai The shortage of critical personal protective equipment (PPE) has been a persistent problem for medical and other front-line workers as they battle the COVID-19 pandemic at close range day after day. A team of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has […]
Project Spotlight: Ingestible Impedance Sensors
Christopher Bettinger | Via Health Data Alliance | April 22, 2020Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is an inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal tract that can cause persistent feeding problems, vomiting, and abdominal pain. Currently, diagnosis of EoE is invasive and time consuming, usually involving a process to rule out other conditions with similar symptoms, such as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and the performance of an upper endoscopy […]
UI honors recipients of 103rd Hancher-Finkbine Medallions and Distinguished Student Leader Certificates
Ali Salem | Via University of Iowa | April 22, 2020The University of Iowa’s most prestigious awards for faculty, staff, and students were announced April 21 on the Hancher-Finkbine website. UI President Bruce Harreld and Vice President for Student Life Sarah Hansen introduced the history of the awards and the tradition of the Finkbine Dinner, which was canceled this year due to COVID-19, before recognizing […]
An Interview with Jiayu Liao on Cytokine Storm
Jiayu Liao | Via CBC News | April 21, 2020One-step diagnostic tool receives NSF RAPID grant
Michael Jewett | Via Northwestern University | April 20, 2020Northwestern University synthetic biologists have received funding to develop an easy-to-use, quick-screen technology that can test for infectious diseases, including COVID-19, in the human body or within the environment. Similar to a pregnancy test, the tool uses one sample to provide an easy-to-read negative or positive result. By simplifying testing, the researchers could put diagnostics […]