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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 […]
Alternative to the Handshake Developed by UConn Doctors
Cato Laurencin | Via UConn Today | May 12, 2020Did you know a single handshake can transfer 124 million bacteria? That’s why in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic in the journal Science’s Editor’s Blog entitled “The end of the handshake?,” UConn Health doctors are recommending a new alternative to the handshake to reduce human contact, protect public health, and diminish the spread […]
Coventor-A COVID-19 Ventilation System
Arthur Erdman | Via Earl E. Bakken MDC | May 12, 2020In response to COVID-19, the Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center has built a homemade ventilator. This device represents a rapidly scalable opportunity for healthcare providers to provide life sustaining mechanical ventilation to patients for whom no other option currently exists. The mechanical ventilator is simple to use for ICU-trained medical providers, it is compact […]
What they’re trained for
Paul Dayton | Via NC State University | May 11, 2020Biomedical engineers at UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State respond to COVID-19 by teaming to speed the development of an emergency ventilator Biomedical engineering student Kathlyne Bautista always knew that her coursework and training would set her on a path to make a life-changing difference for people. But before the coronavirus pandemic, she didn’t realize just […]
Seeing Through Opaque Media
Changhuei Yang | Via Caltech | May 11, 2020Caltech researchers have developed a technique that combines fluorescence and ultrasound to peer through opaque media, such as biological tissue. “We hope that one day this method can be deployed to extend the operating depth of fluorescence microscopy and help image fluorescent labeled cells deep inside living animals,” says Changhuei Yang, Thomas G. Myers Professor […]
Dissolving Pacemaker in the Works
Igor Efimov | Via Medpage Today | May 11, 2020An experimental temporary pacemaker that is miniaturized, externally powered, and fully bioresorbable is being developed. The 1-cm-diameter device successfully triggered ventricular activation in mouse, rabbit, and human heart tissue and in live animals, according to an early study released at the virtual annual conference of the Heart Rhythm Society. The device could pace the heart […]
COVID-19 Puts Spotlight on Artificial Intelligence
Russ Altman | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | May 11, 2020As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to infect people across the world, a technological application already familiar to many in the biotech field is lending a key supporting role in the fight to treat and stop it: artificial intelligence (AI). AI is currently being used by many companies to identify and screen existing drugs that could […]
Inhibiting thrombin protects against dangerous infant digestive disease
Samuel Wickline | Via Medical Xpress | May 6, 2020Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a rare inflammatory bowel disease, primarily affects premature infants and is a leading cause of death in the smallest and sickest of these patients. The exact cause remains unclear, and there is no effective treatment. No test can definitively diagnose the devastating condition early, so infants with suspected NEC are carefully monitored […]
Researchers to develop AI to help diagnose, understand COVID-19 in lung images
Maryellen Giger | Via University of Chicago | May 6, 2020UChicago, Argonne study hopes to learn to identify cases and guide treatment As physicians and researchers grapple with a rapidly-spreading, deadly and novel disease, they need all the help they can get. Many centers are exploring whether artificial intelligence can help fight COVID-19, extracting knowledge from complex and rapidly growing data on how to best […]
Carnegie Mellon, Pitt Researchers Launch Ventilator Project
Keith Cook | Via Carnegie Mellon University | May 6, 2020Low-cost device could address current and future shortages Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine are developing a new, low-cost ventilator they say will address the ventilator shortage, both now and in the future, that has been made evident by the COVID-19 pandemic. Dubbed Roboventilator, the device will employ […]
Focused Ultrasound Opening Brain to Impossible Treatments
Richard Price | Via UVA Health Newsroom | May 6, 2020University of Virginia researchers are pioneering the use of focused ultrasound to defy the brain’s protective barrier so that doctors could, at last, deliver many treatments directly into the brain to battle neurological diseases. The approach, the researchers hope, could revolutionize treatment for conditions from Alzheimer’s to epilepsy to brain tumors – and even help […]
The Covid Recovery Comes Down to Engineering
Guru Madhavan | Via Wall Street Journal | May 5, 2020Don’t believe it? Look at the logistics required for the broadband everyone teleworking enjoys. Reopening the country in the midst of a pandemic is akin to charging an enemy position at the top of a hill. Recovery and rebuilding will test us at every step with the risk of losing hard-won ground. But an old […]
ALung Announces Commercial Development of its Breakthrough Next Generation Artificial Lung
William Federspiel | Via Business Wire | May 5, 2020ALung Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of low-flow extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal (ECCO2R) technologies for treating patients with acute respiratory failure, announced the recent initiation of commercial development of its next generation artificial lung, which expands the Company’s focus on highly efficient gas exchange devices and also broadens its applicable market. The Company’s current product, […]
Light-based DBS Method Can Alleviate Motor Symptoms of Parkinson’s, Animal Study Shows
Warren Grill | Via Parkinsons News Today | May 5, 2020Scientists have developed a new light-based deep brain stimulation method that when applied to neurons located in the subthalamic nucleus (STN) — a brain region involved in controlling movement — alleviated motor symptoms in a rat model of Parkinson’s disease. The study detailing that research, “Frequency-Specific Optogenetic Deep Brain Stimulation of Subthalamic Nucleus Improves Parkinsonian […]