Entrepreneurism Center at UC San Diego funds commercialization of lung, shock, other devices
...ow) "For the very first time, each one of the five engineering departments of the Jacobs School is represented among the innovative projects selected in a single round of funding," said Steve Halpern, managing director of the von Liebig Center. "All of the projects demonstrated great promise, and while we are on...Spinal cord injury patients show improvement in early device study
...id Richard Borgens, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering in the Center for Paralysis Research at Purdue. In the IU School of Medicine study, the OFS was surgically removed at 15 weeks and patients were followed for one year. Three tests were used to evaluate sensory recovery: pinprick sensation, light tou...Birth simulator helps physicians I.D. least forceful way to manage problem deliveries
... a novel birthing simulator designed by biomedical engineering faculty, staff and students at the University, hav...en, Ph.D., senior author of the study and a senior engineering lecturer at Hopkins. "Our device provides an opportunity to simulate birth complications and allow ...Animal studies show stem cells might make biological pacemaker
...jeopardize a very promising field." The genetic engineering of the ES cells, accomplished by Tian Xue, Ph.D., ... properly, other more clinically important genetic engineering of the cells also will probably not interfere with the cells' fate, say the researchers. "To our ...Carbon nanotubes yield a new class of biological sensors
...l Strano, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Illinois, explains that the new sensors are based on single-walled carbon nanotubes: cylindrical molecules whose sides are formed from a lattice of carbon atoms. The idea is to exploit the nanotubes' ability to fluoresce, or glow, when illuminated...Selective coatings create biological sensors from carbon nanotubes
...l Strano, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Illinois. "We have developed molecular sheaths around the nanotube that respond to a particular chemical and modulate the nanotube's optical properties." To make their biological sensors, Strano, postdoctoral research associate Seunghyun Baik...Rice cartilage experts win $1.5M NIH grant to bioengineer TMJ discs
...aged or injured TMJ disc. Rice's new TMJ tissue engineering program aims to develop methods for growing replac...have been laying the groundwork for the TMJ tissue engineering program for four years. Earlier this year, he and his students published a review of the complex bio...Encryption, data hiding and watermarking: Subject of new book by NJIT expert
... Akansu, PhD, professor of electrical and computer engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Akansu's book, Data Hiding Fundamentals and Applications: Content Security in Digital Multimedia, (Elsevier-Academic Press 2004), develops a theoretical framework for data hiding techniques, including...Humble Planaria worm offers ideal model for drug withdrawal research
...h pharmacology, he combines his interests in math, engineering and the brain. His primary interest is in figuring out how drugs work and produce their effects. ...New Jersey Institute of Technology pioneers new way to teach engineers
...d studio learning, demonstrate the fundamentals of engineering not by lecture and recitation but by active, hands... Foulds, PhD, an associate professor of biomedical engineering who shepherded the studio method to NJIT. "You will never see students, in my studio classes, asleep...Computer simulation shows how fibrils form
...ies. Dr. Carol Hall, Alcoa Professor of chemical engineering at NC State and Hung D. Nguyen, a graduate student in Hall's lab, used a computer simulation technique, discontinuous molecular dynamics, to visualize the meanderings of small proteins called peptides. Movies of the simulation show that 96 randomly p...Cancer researchers seek to predict tumor growth
...Western Reserve University schools of medicine and engineering have launched a revolutionary investigation in can...tigator of the study and a professor in electrical engineering and computer science at the Case School of Engineering, "We are developing new modeling and analysis...Rehabilitation professionals in nationwide survey cite barriers to assistive technology transfer
...e students for physical therapy and rehabilitation engineering careers by reaching out to high schools and colleg...efits of an undergraduate degree in rehabilitation engineering and a master's in physical therapy, which may provide a wider range of potential career choices. 7. ...NIH funds seven science education partnership awards
..., and minority students remain underrepresented in engineering and science baccalaureate programs. SEPA grants support two phases of the science education projects. In Phase I, the partnership develops and evaluates biomedical and/or behavioral science education models that are based on health-related research. ...Promise of stem cells amplified
...eas of abnormality." The researchers used genetic engineering to turn the cells into delivery vehicles for therapeutic agents. They inserted the gene for tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL). This substance, secreted by the implanted stem cells, is like kryptonite to the hazardous tum...Accelerated heartbeart mystery: Is odd electrical wave the key?
...study, is now an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University. Felipe Aguel, a co-author of the study, was a postdoctoral fellow in Tung's lab when the research was conducted. He is now a staff fellow with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration....Department of Energy announces new agreement with USC, national labs and private company
...ect is one such example where biology, physics and engineering have joined forces to deliver a capability that wi...tion is very unique in that it taps the incredible engineering know-how of the Department of Energy labs, which have some of the most advanced engineering capabili...DOE labs, universities and second sight partner to speed development of 'artificial retina'
...ct is one such example where biology, physics, and engineering have joined forces to deliver a capability that will enable blind people to see. This agreement between the DOE laboratories and the private sector will facilitate transfer of many aspects of DOE technology to a clinical device that has the potentia...Livermore scientists join DOE consortium
...ect is one such example where biology, physics and engineering have joined forces to deliver a capability that will enable blind people to see. This agreement between the DOE laboratories and the private sector will facilitate transfer of many aspects of DOE technology to a clinical device that has the potential...Biotech breakthrough in islet cell replacement for type 1 diabetes
...s science and engineering, chemical and biological engineering and chemistry. The grant will complement other research in Kaufman's National Institutes of Health-funded clinical islet cell transplant program that will serve as the foundation for testing novel sources of insulin-secreting islet calls and new bio...