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New approach shows regeneration of severely damaged lungs
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via EurekAlert | May 7, 2019Lung transplantation, the only lifesaving therapy for an increasing population of patients with end-stage lung disease, is severely limited by the number of available donor organs. Currently, up to 80 percent of donor lungs are rejected for serious but potentially reversible injuries. Since the beginning of transplantation in the 1960s, clinicians and scientists have been […]
Tracking Stem Cell Implants in Cartilage Defects of Minipigs by Using Ferumoxytol-enhanced MRI.
Heike Daldrup-Link | Via National Library of Medicine, NIH | May 7, 2019Abstract Background Cartilage repair outcomes of matrix-associated stem cell implants (MASIs) in patients have been highly variable. Conventional MRI cannot help distinguish between grafts that will and grafts that will not repair the underlying cartilage defect until many months after the repair. Purpose To determine if ferumoxytol nanoparticle labeling could be used to depict successful […]
Jens Nielsen in National Academy of Sciences
Jens Nielsen | Via Chalmers University of Technology | May 2, 2019Jens has been elected into the National Academy of Science in the USA. US-NAS is one of the most prestigious academies in the world, and this is a very special recognition reserved only for the very best among scientists. This is a recognition of Jens’ life-long track record of top scientific achievements and pioneering contributions, […]
Matthew Tirrell elected to National Academy of Sciences
Matthew Tirrell | Via UChicago News | May 1, 2019Matthew Tirrell, the dean and Founding Pritzker Director of the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Tirrell, an influential scholar in the field of polymer science, is one of 100 scientists and 25 foreign associates recognized by their peers for “their distinguished and […]
Ed Boyden elected to National Academy of Sciences
Ed Boyden | Via MIT | May 1, 2019Ed Boyden has been elected to join the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The organization, established by an act of Congress during the height of the Civil War, was founded to provide independent and objective advice on scientific matters to the nation, and is actively engaged in furthering science in the United States. Each year […]
Paula Hammond elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2019
Paula Hammond | Via MIT | May 1, 2019Three MIT professors — Edward Boyden, Paula Hammond, and Aviv Regev — are among the 100 new members and 25 foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Sciences on April 30. Forty percent of the newly elected members are women, the most ever elected in any one year to date. Membership to the National […]
New 3D printed microscope promising for medical diagnostics in developing countries
Bahram Javidi | Via EurekAlert | April 29, 2019Researchers have used 3D printing to make an inexpensive and portable high-resolution microscope that is small and robust enough to use in the field or at the bedside. The high-resolution 3D images provided by the instrument could potentially be used to detect diabetes, sickle cell disease, malaria and other diseases. “This new microscope doesn’t require […]
Kurt Petersen, 2019 IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient, Is Mr. MEMS
Kurt Petersen | Via IEEEE | April 23, 2019It was 1975, and Kurt Petersen was a smart young researcher, fresh out of the Ph.D. program in electrical engineering at MIT and working in the optics group at IBM’s Almaden, Calif., research center. And he was bored. Roaming the massive complex one day, he came across a huge black stain on the linoleum tiles […]
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects Four Berkeley Lab Scientists
Claire Tomlin | Via Berkeley Lab | April 19, 2019Four Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientists have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious, 239-year old honorary society that recognizes accomplished scholars, scientists and artists in academia, the humanities, arts, business, and government. A bit like Berkeley Lab itself, the Academy also serves as a nonpartisan research center […]
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Via Columbia University | April 18, 2019Biomedical engineer Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD, University Professor, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In her laboratory at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Vunjak-Novakovic creates new ways to engineer human tissues that could repair damaged organs, help scientists study development and disease, and provide faster methods for testing new drugs. Her […]
Cato Laurencin Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Cato Laurencin | Via UConn Today | April 17, 2019Two UConn professors, Dr. Cato Laurencin and physics professor Nora Berrah, have been elected as members to the historic and prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This year, more than 200 individuals were elected to the academy with compelling achievements in academia, business, government, and public affairs. “One of the reasons to honor extraordinary […]
Kristi Anseth elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Kristi Anseth | Via CU Boulder Today | April 17, 2019The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced today that CU Boulder Professor Kristi Anseth has been elected to its 2019 class. Anseth is among more than 200 individuals selected this year for their exceptional achievements in the arts and sciences, business, philanthropy and the public sector. Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts […]
Peter Basser, 2019 ASNR Honorary Member Recipient
Peter Basser | Via American Society of Neuroradiology | April 16, 2019ASNR Awards Committee Selects 2019 Gold Medal Recipients, Honorary Member, and FASNR Outstanding Research Award Recipient … The 2019 Honorary Member Award Recipient, Peter J. Basser, PhD, a scientist-inventor whose work has transformed how neurological disorders and diseases are diagnosed and treated, and how brain architecture, organization, structure, and anatomical “connectivity” are studied and visualized. […]
‘Contraceptive jewelry’ promises easier adherence than traditional birth control methods
Mark Prausnitz | Via Healio | April 13, 2019Researchers from Georgia Tech developed and performed initial testing for contraceptive patches administered via jewelry that could provide a new avenue for birth control, according to findings presented in the Journal of Controlled Release. “Approximately 40% of births worldwide are unintended, which means that there is a need for additional contraceptive options to enable better […]
Study discovers the mechanism of bronchial spasms
Andre Levchenko | Via Yale University | April 2, 2019A new study by researchers at Yale and Johns Hopkins University has discovered how asthmatic bronchial spasms — muscle contractions in the airway that cause difficulty breathing in asthma patients— occur by creating a microdevice that mimics the behavior of the human respiratory airways. Led by Andre Levchenko, professor of biomedical engineering, and Johns Hopkins […]
Lasers Open Up New Roads into Understanding Cancer Cells’ Behavior
Lihong Wang | Via Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | April 2, 2019Researchers know that cancer cells are generally much more metabolically active than healthy cells, and some insights into a cancer cell’s behavior can be gleaned by analyzing its metabolic activity. But getting an accurate assessment of these characteristics has proven difficult for scientists, they say, adding that several methods, including position emission tomography (or PET) […]
Model learns how individual amino acids determine protein function
Bonnie Berger | Via MIT | March 31, 2019A machine-learning model from MIT researchers computationally breaks down how segments of amino acid chains determine a protein’s function, which could help researchers design and test new proteins for drug development or biological research. Proteins are linear chains of amino acids, connected by peptide bonds, that fold into exceedingly complex three-dimensional structures, depending on the […]
Like geese and race cars, cancer cells draft their way to new sites
Cynthia Reinhart-King | Via Vanderbilt Engineering | March 30, 2019NASCAR has nothing on cancer cells when it comes to exploiting the power of drafting, letting someone else do the hard work of moving forward while you coast behind. Building on the relatively new discovery that metastatic cancer cells leave tumors and travel in clusters, not singles, a Vanderbilt University team of biomedical engineers learned […]
Polymer heart valves may improve outcomes, reduce costs
Danny Bluestein | Via Plastics Today | March 29, 2019Defective aortic heart valves typically can be replaced with a mechanical or animal-tissue-based valve. Both options have drawbacks: In most cases, patients with a mechanical valve will need to take blood thinners for the rest of their lives to prevent blood clots, while tissue valves have a limited lifespan, requiring younger patients to undergo replacement […]