Irvine chemist wins national award for new drug techniques
...of Overman's research. "What my laboratory does is engineer and invent new chemical reactions that make structures that are by nature drug-like, and make them efficiently," he said. Overman often works with particular target molecules in mind. For example, a class of promising anti-cancer agents, discovered i...UCI biomedical engineer receives $1.8 million grant
...ine, Calif., Aug. 13, 2003 -- UC Irvine biomedical engineer Steven C. George, who is one of the first U.S. scientists to create three-dimensional living lung tissue, has received a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine how asthma attacks the walls of the bronchial tubes. "People...Enzyme structure holds key to cocaine, heroin metabolism
...te cocaine overdose," the report said. "We need to engineer a more active form of the enzyme that is specific for cocaine. We can do this by generating a small number of changes in the amino acid sequence that would increase the metabolic efficiency," Redinbo said. When injected into an overdose victim, the ...Allentown chemist wins national award for plastic polymer inventions
...hopedic splint compound," said Robeson, a chemical engineer at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Unlike plaster, his compound is lightweight and can support and protect injuries such as cracked ribs; and unlike other plastic splints, it molds at body temperature for a custom fit. Starting with a chain of repea...Engineered blood vessels prove durable and clot resistant
...e chemicals and techniques that could successfully engineer tissue cells from one human into a new blood vessel would also work on cells from other humans. "It was quite conceivable that differences from patient to patient would be so significant that the same recipe for making blood vessels could not be used......n, M. D., and BJC Hospital's Human Performance Lab engineer John Standeven, Ph. D., have enlisted the help of ...at BJC's Human Performance Lab in St. Louis, where engineer John Standeven arranged magnesium headforms (dummies made of material that approximates human head s...Children's Hospital Boston releases results at the American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Meeting
...umbilical cord blood samples for the first time to engineer fetal cartilage tissue in sheep. Until recently, ...was the only way to provide the cells necessary to engineer different types of fetal tissues. The harvesting of fetal tissue from sources other than fetal biop...Researchers track elusive brain tumor cells in mice with neural stem cells modified to deliver IL-12
...ass. This capability led scientists to genetically engineer neural stem cells to produce interleukin 12, an immune stimulating chemical known to kill glioma cells. The interleukin 12 producing neural stem cells were then injected into brain tumors in mice and could kill tumor cells that had spread deep into n...Cardiac MRI provides new 3-D images of beating heart
...ng the heart. The DCMRC is directed by biomedical engineer Robert Judd, Ph.D., and cardiologist Raymond Kim, M.D. They say that MRI provides crisp 3-D views of cardiac anatomy with no interference from adjacent bone or air. Its image quality surpasses that of echocardiography -- a more common imaging techniq...Stanford researcher to find cure for widespread Celiac disease
...espread disease Celiac Sprue, Stanford chemist and engineer Chaitan Khosla today announced the founding of the Celiac Sprue Research Foundation, a non-profit public charity. The Foundation has been established to help improve the lives of the approximately 1 in 200 people afflicted with Celiac Sprue by promo...NIH supports ice slurry at Argonne
...he brain. In 1999, Ken Kasza, a senior mechanical engineer who leads the research at Argonne, and Poeppel worked with collaborators Lance Becker and Terry Vanden Hoek from the University of Chicago Hospitals to develop the Emergency Resuscitation Center -- a center dedicated to studying health problems like ...DARPA to support development of human brain-machine interfaces
...ction. As part of the DARPA support: Biomedical engineer Henriquez and his colleagues will coordinate devel... patients with neurological disorders. Biomedical engineer Patrick Wolf and his colleagues will develop a miniaturized "neurochip" for detecting and analyzing ......software package, Thomas Lu, Ph.D., an electrical engineer from Petaluma, Calif., developed the scanner. Michael Cedars, M.D., a plastic surgeon from Berkeley, Calif., is the philosophical guiding light of the project and is going to implement the system with his patients. The system is not intended to repl...New gene therapy protocol: First successful treatment for 'bubble babies'
...d to all genetic diseases where there is a need to engineer stem cells to produce normal products, especially when patients have no matched donor available for safe bone marrow transplantation," Slavin said. Conventionally, such patients are usually treated with ADA replacement therapy in an attempt to rescu...ORNL adds three R&D 100 Awards to DOE lab-leading total
...rom the database. This technology allows a single engineer to quickly and accurately locate and resolve costly manufacturing problems, replacing a team of engineers conducting time-consuming manual data search and analysis....Futuristic system brings vision to blind
...the visor worn by Geordi La Forge, the blind chief engineer in the science fiction television show Star Trek: The Next Generation. Patients are implanted with devices that act as artificial eyes by stimulating the visual cortex of the brain. Two patients, who had been totally blind before their surgeries in ...New breast cancer therapy trials show dramatic results
...-a kind treatment table designed and built by Duke engineer Thaddeus Samulski, PhD. Samulski also designed the table's heating apparatus and software, through which he delivers radio frequency energy that heats the tumor via a pool of salt water. The water helps distribute the heat evenly around the breast to......way from a working liver. Linda Griffith, a tissue engineer at MIT, says getting all the right cell types to g...nd no one is really looking at that," warns tissue engineer Larry Hench at London's Imperial College. Bacteria love the warm nutrient solutions and would spread...Physics tip sheet #9 April 17, 2002
...in the single-molecule layer, so it is possible to engineer it to have the required properties. These findings should help researchers formulate better replacement surfactants for treatment of premature infants with Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS). Physics News Update: http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2...University of Pittsburgh transplant researchers present findings at international meeting
...ry," reported Don Severyn, M.S., senior biomedical engineer with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Artificial Heart Program. In a second study, Robert L. Kormos, M.D., professor of surgery and director of the Artificial Heart Program, reported that six of 18 patients that underwent echocardiograph...