NJIT taps into solar energy to power new campus center
...st advanced in the state," said Leon Baptiste, the engineer who installed the system. Baptiste, president of LB Electric, Newark, received an electrical engineering degree in 1991 from NJIT. He also participated in NJIT's Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), which helps minority students earn technological...Engineers develop biowarfare sensing elements for future highly sensitive nerve-gas detectors
... developed by a research group led by a mechanical engineer at The University of Texas at Austin. The new sensor technology, which was more sensitive and much more stable than its predecessors, was featured on this week's cover of Applied Physics Letters . The researchers' highlighted study demonstrated the ...Rice's CNST awards Smalley/Curl funds for innovation
...s on the capsule material. Ultimately, he hopes to engineer these patchy capsules for targeted drug delivery and other advanced encapsulation applications."I am thrilled to receive this honor in the first year of its inception, and I look forward to carrying out research with my students to achieve the vision...Promise of 'bladder pacemaker' for people with spinal cord injury
...I) or disease-related spinal cord problems. Neural engineer Warren Grill and biomedical engineering doctoral candidate Joseph Boggs found that applying small electrical currents to the pudendal nerve triggered coordinated contraction of the bladder and relaxation of the urethral sphincter, which controls the ...Rice cartilage experts win $1.5M NIH grant to bioengineer TMJ discs
... the first time that a research group has tried to engineer the entire TMJ disc in vitro in the laboratory," said Kyriacos Athanasiou, the Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering at Rice and the principal investigator on the NIH grant. "This is a tall order because there is scant information about what...Lab study: Protein delivered via genetically engineered virus slowed glioblasoma multiforme growth
...e the genetic viral genes that cause infection and engineer them so that they stop reproducing and also carry therapeutic genes. In this study, researchers from the "Gene Therapeutics Research Institute" team, led by Drs. Castro and Pedro Lowenstein, investigated the effectiveness of an anti-brain tum...Glue-like polymer could replace sutures used for cataract surgery
...Mark W. Grinstaff, Ph.D., a chemist and biomedical engineer with Boston University. "Our hydrogel adhesive could ultimately replace the use of sutures for eye surgery altogether and go a long way toward improving patient care." His co-leader on this project is Terry Kim, M.D., of Duke University Medical Cente...Lab studies show two proteins prevented progressive nerve cell loss in Parkinson's disease
...emove the genetic coding that causes infection and engineer them so that they stop reproducing. The adenoviral vector used in this study, for example, has been genetically manipulated to selectively express proteins that can protect the neurons that are damaged during the course of Parkinson's disease. "Curr...Listening in on the whispering heart
...VF) can be just as bad for your health. Biomedical engineer Kityee Au-Yeung of Duke University, in North Carolina, says there is an urgent need to find a safe and effective treatment for AF. Au-Yeung and her colleagues Chad Johnson and Patrick Wolf, have now developed an implantable electronic device that cou...Calvin professor invents lymphedema sleeve
...n, is a lifelong seamstress and the daughter of an engineer and inventor. Now she has her name on a patent and a product that could help numerous lymphedema patients around the world. When she was diagnosed with lymphedema she got further bad news: she would need an hour a day of physical therapy for four we...Researchers explore gene treatment to obliterate HIV before it does damage
...on & Johnson Research. "The goal is to genetically engineer the cells and make them resistant to infection." The strategy developed by Merigan and his colleagues relies on the fact that the genetic information of HIV is encoded in RNA rather than DNA. Enzymes called ribozymes can chew up RNA at very specific ...University of Colorado tissue engineer to receive NSF's coveted Waterman Award
...tive consciousness, just wait. Anseth, a chemical engineer at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is alrea...at Purdue. A driven researcher, she was the first engineer and the only woman engineer to become an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. A cr......ciplinary collaboration led by Byrd and electrical engineer Shrikanth Narayanan, an associate professor in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering who focuses his research at the interface of speech, engineering and computer science. The team also drew on the talents of MRI systems researcher Krishna Nayak, an...Self-assembling proteins could help repair human tissue
...of these genetically engineered proteins. A tissue engineer could then draw from this collection to create a h... the Harden team's hydrogel mix, allowing a tissue engineer to send multiple signals to the target cells, thereby supporting the simultaneous growth of several ...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2004 class of inventors
...The age of the suspension bridge was ushered in by engineer and inventor Roebling. Roebling saw the potential of steel wire as a bridge building component and invented machinery to twist the wire into cables. Roebling oversaw the construction of many bridges but died before his most famous bridge, the Brook...Researchers pinpoint brain areas that process reality, illusion
...t a new collaborative study involving a biomedical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis shows that sometimes you can't believe anything that you see. The researchers have identified areas of the brain where what we're actually doing (reality) and what we think we're doing (illusion, or perception) ...UCI to lead first public health study exploring link between air pollution and heart disease
...a Malik, toxicologist Michael Kleinman, biomedical engineer Dr. Steven George, psychosocial stress researcher Larry Jamner and biostatistician Christine McLaren. Participating from USC are environmental scientists Philip Fine and Constantinos Sioutas, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering...Tissue-engineered valves give diseased hearts new life
... Furthermore, the recovery time was shorter. To engineer the new valve leaflets, the investigators extracted a small portion of vein from the patients' leg or arm. Then they grew endothelial cells from the vein on a donor valve scaffold in the laboratory. The scaffold had been stripped of cells, leaving ...New breast cancer mannequin to revolutionize teaching of breast cancer awareness
...y nurses approached University of Warwick plastics engineer Dr Nick Tucker to help them create a teaching aid that would assist them in teaching breast cancer awareness and self inspection to people with learning difficulties. The final result is something that will be of great assistance to all women. The ma...UCR scientists to study effects of ethanol in automobile exhaust and emissions
...hout the country," said Durbin, associate research engineer at CE-CERT. Durbin and Miller will test a total of twelve fuels containing various concentrations of ethanol using a fleet of twelve commercial vehicles with advanced emission control technologies. The test fleet will include vehicles ranging from L...