Geisinger scientist seeks cure for Lou Gehrig's disease, creating device to find treatment
...ont know which ones to test, Gerhard says. We need bioengineering help to automate this process. Thats why Gerhard turned to the zebrafish and Bucknell University professor Joe Tranquillo and students Erica Andreozzi, Meredith Kalman and Emily Thiel. Several years ago, Gerhard started using the zebrafish, whic...US Department of Defense awards $1.6 million for implantable biochip research
...ical and Biomolecular Engineering and professor of bioengineering says first responders to the trauma scene could inject the biochip into the wounded victim and gather data almost immediately. The device has other long-term potential applications, such as monitoring astronauts vital signs during long-duration space...University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers develop 'off-the-shelf' vascular grafts
...A. Vorp, Ph.D., associate professor of surgery and bioengineering and a faculty member of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, developed its vascular graft by bulk seeding, or spraying, MDSCs inside a biodegradable porous, tubular polyester urethane scaffold ...Study could impact noninvasive treatment of cancer tumors
...ts also better prepares them for future careers in bioengineering research, said Monroe. ...Cellular message movement captured on video
...al and Biophysical Research Communications (BBRC), bioengineering researchers at UC San Diego published videos of a ...senior author of the BBRC paper and a professor of bioengineering at UCSDs Jacobs School of Engineering. But its really very complex and Im not sure were covering muc...Research group gets $7 million to pursue new antibiotic agents
...ave antibiotic or other therapeutic potential; the bioengineering of medically useful phosphonates and their biosynthetic enzymes for economical production; and the use of the latest mass spectrometric technology to discover and engineer phosphonates and enzymes that contribute to phosphonate metabolism. "Our rol...Clemson bioengineer gets national boost
...moted. Wen is a faculty member in the Clemson bioengineering department and works in Charleston in the Clemson ...ity-Medical University of South Carolina (CU-MUSC) bioengineering program. Previously, he has looked at ways to manipulate the microenvironment of the brain to improv...A 'traffic light' for neurons means 'go' for improving brain research
...ram." Karl Deisseroth, an assistant professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry who led the research group that authored the paper, received the NIH award in 2005. "This research provides a tool that we didn't have before, which is precise on-or-off control over specific neural cells in living creatures and i...UT Metroplex institutions to collaborate on biomedical research
...western, and Dr. Jian Yang, assistant professor of bioengineering at UTA. The goal of this project is to design and ... Dr. Georgios Alexandrakis, assistant professor of bioengineering at UTA, and Dr. David Chen, professor of radiation oncology at UT Southwestern. This study will exam...Engineering the heart piece by piece
...hey write, that scientists are closer than ever to bioengineering entire areas of the heart, as well as heart valves and major blood vessels. But hurdles still remain before the products of this tissue engineering are ready to be implanted in patients as replacements for diseased or malformed structures, the tea...Experimental Biology 2007: Today's Research, Tomorrow's Health, April 28-May 2
...vironment. One session focuses on the progress of bioengineering in creating replacement tissues for the heart, eye, skin and other organs. Others describe advances in three- and four-dimensional imaging of the cardiovascular system in living humans and how disruptions in circadian timing affect health. The Ame...Clemson research improves inkjet technology
...ement. Tom Boland, associate professor in Clemsons bioengineering department, along with Catalin Baicu of the Medical University of South Carolina, present their findings today (2-18) at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Conference in San Francisco. Since Bolands discovery in 2004...Woven scaffolds could improve cartilage repair
... are not effective, the researchers said. The only bioengineering approach to such joint repair involves removing cartilage cells from patients and then "growing" them in a laboratory to form new cartilage. However, it can take several months to grow a piece of cartilage large enough to be implanted back into the p...Scientists identify molecular cause for one form of deafness
...erials science and engineering, of physics, and of bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The interior structure of the bundles changes from a rigid, hexagonal array of uniformly twisted filaments, to a liquid crystalline arrangement of filaments," Wong said. "Because the new organizatio...NJIT awarded $1.1M NSF grant to change way inner-city students learn
... Currently in NJIT biomedical classes, freshman bioengineering students use the same kits to complete a two-credit course in engineering design. The NJIT professors realize that the middle and high school students may not be able to work on the same level, but note that kits can be adopted for other age groups. ...Simulating human metabolism to find new diets to new drugs
...searchers led by Bernhard Palsson, a professor of bioengineering in the Jacobs School of Engineering, unveiled the BiGG (biochemically, genetically, and genomically structured) database as the end product of this phase of the research project. Each person's metabolism, which represents the conversion of food sou...'Biomimetic Technologies' project will create first soft-bodied robots
...o Kaplan, the project will bring together biology, bioengineering and micro/nano fabrication. "Our overall goal is to develop systems and devices--soft-bodied robots--based on biological materials and on the adaptive mechanisms found in living cells, tissues and whole organisms," he explains. These devices, he not...Bioengineer wins $500,000 engineering prize
...the human condition. Fung, a professor emeritus of bioengineering at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering, wa...numental achievements and immense contributions to bioengineering that have benefited our society in countless ways," said Shu Chien, director of the UCSD Whitaker In...Barrow receives two grants worth a total of 900,000 from the ABRC
...is study uses the latest in new materials from the bioengineering field that will be put to use against one of our most pressing problems in neurosurgery," says Mark Preul, M.D., Barrow Newsome Endowed Chair of Neurosurgery Research, who heads the grant along with bioengineer, Alyssa Panitch, Ph.D. The brain tumo......ser conducted the research with University of Utah bioengineering graduate students Kavita Gupta and Meredith Roberts, and undergraduates Scott Barnes and Rachel Tangaro. The research is part of Gupta's doctoral thesis, and she did much of the work. Other coauthors of the study were bioengineers David Katz and Dere...