Endostatin also effective on head and neck cancers
...ld treat these patients with an implanted delivery device that dispenses a sustained, therapeutic drug concentration right where it is needed the most where the tumor was," she continued. "Such a treatment option not only provides a constant therapeutic drug level, it also eliminates concerns regarding pat...Popular Science announces second annual 'Brilliant 10:' the country's top young scientists
.... For her PhD project, Desai built an implantable device that eliminates the daily insulin injections diabe...tector. By interacting with the quantum world, his device could make coded messages uncrackable. For a complete profile on each of the scientists and his or ...Jaws of clamworm are hardened by zinc say UCSB scientists
... of UCSB. For example, they used a nanoindentation device in the lab of Thomas Schberl of the Austrian Academy of Sciences to test for mechanical properties -- flexibility, hardness and elasticity. Besides nanoindentation, a number of state-of-the-art methods were used to study the jaws, including x-ray sca......s polluting synthesis of important chemicals. The device was used by more than 30 Navy, NASA, university and industry research groups for many applications, including investigation of new cost-effective methods for producing carbon nanotubes; understanding the dynamics of hydrogen defects in silicon; and i...In men chronically exposed to magnetic fields, no disruptions of melatonin exists
...control subjects wore the magnetic field recording device throughout the workday. At home, they placed it in a "public" room. The weekly geometric mean of individual exposures ranged from 0.1 to 2.6 T. The results are compared with those for 15 unexposed men who served as controls. Blood samples were taken ...OHSU researcher publishes first measurements of 'free-base' nicotine in cigarette smoke
...e free-base form. It employed a laboratory smoking device and a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS) to collect and analyze smoke from 11 brands of cigarettes purchased at various U.S. retail outlets. These cigarettes were tested against a "reference" cigarette -- a standardized cigarette used only b...Three Pacific Northwest National Laboratory inventions win R&D 100 Awards
...from vegetable oil or chemical weapons agents. The device can also unmask hidden packages, reveal secret compartments and determine a container's fill level. PASS can save time and protect law enforcement and border inspectors from potentially hazardous materials. Aaron Diaz, PNNL senior research scientist,...Von Liebig Center awards funding to six projects to commercialize UCSD faculty research
...optical signals at high speed, Professor Yu favors device concepts that allow massive integration of semiconductor waveguide components on the same substrate. Under this project, Dr. Yu's team will develop two technologies -- multifunction waveguide modulators and photodetectors -- using inner stepbarrier q...Miniature biolab embedded on silicon chip
...emperatures at specific times, it fits into a tiny device (5 cm x 5 cm x 3 cm) that handles the cycling of t...ed the fluorescence, Cady expects they will have a device roughly the size of a shoebox that will be capable of real-time automated detection of biological ag...Nanotech strategy could create new organs
...weeks. They also implanted an experimental liver device into rats which lasted a week. The device was only a single layer (researchers expect it could take from 30 to 50 layers to represent a fully ...Researchers use lab cultures to create robotic 'semi-living artist'
...ost notably, the group developed the first robotic device whose movements are controlled by a cultured neural network capable of adaptive behavior and learning. They call the hybrid robot a "Hybrot." The neural activity recorded by the electrodes is transmitted over a two-way communication system and proces...New technique for sorting sperm could improve fertility treatment
...encing and sorting cell cultures. In this case, a device about the size of a penny was built with two chann...rm, inseminates eggs and grows embryo all within a device the size of a stamp," Smith says. "Maybe more importantly these microfluidic devices have the poten...ORNL wins four R&D 100 awards, pushing total to 116
...le filter technology. Outside the laboratory, this device can perform qualitative analysis of chemical and biological samples in seconds. RAMiTS can identify hundreds of substances, including toxic chemicals, by-products from explosives, biomedical markers, pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs. RAMiTS also cou...Novel bacterium detoxifies chlorinated pollutants
...ueuses a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) device to test fieldsites. Loeffler is hopeful about the use of BAV1 and related organisms in bioremediation. He speculates that this group of bacteria might also be useful to treat sites contaminated with polychlorinated dibenzo-dioxins (PCDDs) and polyc...Non-drug treatment for hypertension found effective in hard-to-control refractory hypertensives
...15-minutes daily self treatment with the Resperate device significantly reduced the blood pressure of patien...ed, published studies examining the effects of the device in the general uncontrolled hypertensive patient population and a recent mechanism-of-action review ...Artificial organ research findings presented by University of Pittsburgh researchers
... Growing functioning liver tissue in a fist-sized device that works in a way similar to kidney dialysis has...sed lungs on a temporary basis during healing. The device is undergoing extensive testing in animal models and is being developed commercially by a spin-off c...A tiny pump promises big time performance
...ention-a chip-sized pump with no moving parts. The device is also expected to find its way into myriad indus...tent on the low-power, electrically driven pumping device is one of the reasons the State University of New York has broken into the U.S. Patent and Trademark...UC Riverside research featured on the cover of JALA
...e of Engineering at UC Riverside. A biosensor is a device involving a biological sensing element that conver... "We are now working on developing a full portable device that can be used by others to do brain research. The methodology developed can also have an impact ...Researchers combine electronics with living cell to create potential toxicity sensor
...ping dramatically when it dies. "The beauty of the device is that it detects the viability of a cell directl...lable online. "This MEMS (micro-electromechanical) device will be invaluable in the detection of a biochemical attack because there you don't have the luxury ...Dr. Robert Langer, distinguished leader in the field of biomedical engineering, to lecture at NIH
...harmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology and medical device companies; a number of these companies were launched on the basis of these patent licenses. He served as a member of the United States Food and Drug Administration's SCIENCE Board, the FDA's highest advisory board, from 1995-2002 and as its Chairman...