Purdue Researchers Prod Plants To Clean Up Pollution
...If grown in areas where soil is contaminated, such bioengineered fruits and vegetables would hold fewer toxins, and people eating them would have healthier diets. While Goldsbrough prods vegetables to change the way they take up toxic metals, another Purdue researcher pushes tobacco plants to clean up radioactive ...Engineering Our Arteries: Replacements And Assisted Healing
... West is developing alternatives like bioengineered arteries -- including assisted healing that will stop clotting and allow healthy cells to grow. She is working to grow arteries by developing scaffolding materials on which genetically engineered cells can be ...Henney To Address Attendees At FDA Science Forum
...lopment and regulation. The program will encompass bioengineered products, novel therapeutic and preventive approaches, diagnostics and detection methodologies, and safety and efficacy assessment. Regulatory issues related to standards, product quality and the impact of the Food and Drug Administration Modernizati...AAPS Co-Sponsors FDA Science Forum
...lopment and regulation. The program will encompass bioengineered products, novel therapeutic and preventive approaches, diagnostics and detection methodologies, and safety and efficacy assessment. The Forum will feature plenary lectures and focused discussion groups that include FDA, industry, and university leade...Engineered Bacteria Scavenge Heavy Metals
...nergy in the bacterial cells is sufficient. -- The bioengineered cell membrane targets and transports only a specif...e thought." His laboratory is close to developing bioengineered bacteriato scavenge cadmium, and next will work on a similar system for cleaning upnickel contaminat...PricewaterhouseCooper's forecasts health care in 2010
... 20years or more. Scientists see great advances in bioengineered organs, humangrowth hormone, organ transplantation, artificial skin and bones, gene therapy,and new vaccines. In the HealthCast 2010 survey, technology was identified ashaving the most impact on healthcare by 2010. However, most industrializednations......lication in tumors compared to normal tissues. The bioengineered bacteria have demonstrated an excellent safety profile in preclinical toxicology studies. Preferential replication allows the bacteria to produce and deliver a variety of anti-cancer therapeutic products at high concentrations to tumors while minimi...Transgenic fish could threaten wild populations
...ir and colleagues hope to extend their research on bioengineered fishto species that may be used in fish farming, such as this tilapia. (Purdue Ag Communications Photo byTom Campbell) A publication-quality photograph is available at the News Service Web site athttp://news.uns.purdue.edu and at the ftp site at ftp:......d the tumor cell. For years, scientists hoped that bioengineered molecules called monoclonal antibodies could be used as therapeutic drugs to provide specific anti-tumor action within the human body. In 1997, Genentech's Rituxan, a lymphoma-fighting drug, became the first monoclonal antibody approved by the U.S. F...Novel, even unlikely drugs may curb childhood leukemia
...d cell death. -- A new type of leukemia drug, the bioengineered compound Glivec, can block the genetic signals tha...ng pathways that cause cancer cells to grow. It is bioengineered to zero in on a cell receptor present in leukemia cells that carry a genetic defect called the Phila......nes or other biological building blocks along with bioengineered materials and technologies. The new institute take... improves blood flow to oxygen-deprived tissues, a bioengineered blood vessel, and a myocardial patch of muscle cells intended to repair heart tissue damaged by hear...Finding of key blood sugar controller could yield new diabetes drugs
...moment," says Spiegelman. In other test with mice bioengineered by Kahn at the Joslin Diabetes Center to lack insulin activity, the scientists found that the absence of insulin spurred a rise in PGC-1, as they would expect if insulin normally acts on PGC-1 to turn down gluconeogenesis....Scientists use gene therapy to correct sickle cell disease in mice
...e Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mice were bioengineered to contain a human gene that produces defective he...ve human beta-hemoglobin gene was removed from the bioengineered mice and genetically "corrected" by the addition of an anti-sickling human beta-hemoglobin gene. Th...Tufts University researchers engineer first 'custom-made' human knee ligaments from adult stem cells
...nt in the body to develop into living tissue. The bioengineered ligaments can be stored until needed by the patient or donor and then implanted immediately following knee joint trauma. To date, no human clinical trials have been reported with tissue-engineered ACLs. Altman plans a long-term, FDA-relevant trial o...NIAID unveils bioterrorism research agenda
...rapid, accurate identification of both natural and bioengineered microbes. Information on a pathogen's sensitivity to available drugs will also help doctors quickly treat anyone who has become infected. New early warning and diagnostic tests are a key part of NIAID's bioterrorism research agenda. Research reso...Small research big on Illinois campus
... blocks could lead to smart drug delivery systems, bioengineered tissues, and novel nanoscale devices for electronic, magnetic and photonic applications. One of the centers research thrusts is aimed at the synthesis and assembly of nanoparticle gels and polymer nanocomposites, Schweizer said. We want to use tailo...Potential of regenerative medicine explored
...ring at the University of Pittsburgh. "Research in bioengineered materials such as artificial blood and organ systems is the future of medicine." Other McGowan Institute faculty will be presenting work that touches on decreasing the risk for blood clotting with artificial respiratory support and easing the physi...Scientists discover chemical switch that determines muscle fiber type
...s Type I fibers. When the scientists studied the bioengineered mice, they found that the muscles normally rich in Type II fibers now had a characteristically reddish color caused by the conversion of the fibers to oxygen-fueled Type I fibers. Futhermore, an endurance test showed that the muscles that had been tr...Observing proteins and cells in the wild
...ely charged molecules - either avidin or protein G bioengineered to bear a positively charged tail. Because avidin and protein G can be made to readily bind antibodies, the researchers could then attach the dots to their protein-specific antibody of choice. The critical test was to determine specificity: can quant...Oxygen key switch in transforming adult stem cells from fat into cartilage
...ints ravaged by osteoarthritis can be relined with bioengineered cartilage. "We don't currently have a satisfactory remedy for people who suffer a cartilage-damaging injury," Guilak said. "There is a real need for a new approach to treating these injuries. We envision being able to remove a little bit of fat, and ...