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Nature Communications published the findings, emerging from a collaboration with Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research and Emory University.

Co-first author Alice Eunjung Lee, Phd, from the lab of Peter Park, Phd, at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical school, developed the study's retrotransposon analysis tool,

It is a major topic of biomedical research and has been shown to be a central regulator of cell proliferation, growth, and death.

Columbia University School of engineering and Applied science-Opening new doors for biomedical and neuroscience research, Elizabeth Hillman, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering and of radiology at Columbia University Medical center

"The ability to perform real-time 3d imaging at cellular resolution in behaving organisms is a new frontier for biomedical

The emergence of fluorescent proteins and transgenic techniques over the past 20 years has transformed biomedical research,

Hidde Ploegh, an MIT professor of biology and member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, is also a senior author of the paper.

The project biomedical engineers combined algorithms and statistical models to enable analysts to accurately predict the outcome of planned treatments for individual patients. here is quite often missing data.

Customised biomedical parts are another MUPROD application. For example, the end-of-line production defect rate for the tiny catheters (flexible tubes) used for treating patients with cardiovascular disease is as high as 80%.

and Sophia-Antipolis (FR), leaders in the field of biomedical image processing and grid computing for biomedical applications.

but designed generically so as to accommodate new services for other biomedical communities in the short term. neugrid provides integrated and reusable services ranging from simple access to distributed images and clinical data, to advanced imaging pipelines execution and monitoring

Biomedical a company developing microneedle-based products for ocular delivery. This potential conflict of interest has been disclosed and is overseen by Georgia Institute of technology and Emory University.

Biomedical engineers exploring ways to toughen up engineered cartilage and keep natural tissues strong outside the body report new developments in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.##

This study was conducted jointly with collaborators from the Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya the Institute for Research in Biomedicine Universitat Polit cnica de Catalunya and Universitat de Barcelona in Barcelona Spain

Zaveri notes that some may be surprised that biomedical research is done in the food science department. But she says it seemed natural given her collaboration on the study with Gregory Ziegler who has expertise in biopolymers such as carrageenan

The biomedical use of a food additive a material widely used in the food industry for its gelling thickening and stabilizing properties as a medium for a drug-delivery system is a novel idea

with several unique properties making them especially useful in biomedical applications. BETTER THAN MICROBUBBLES Previously, most ultrasound imaging agents were based on small gas bubbles,

Since pretty much any material can be deposited on the scaffolds the method could be particularly useful for applications in optics energy efficiency and biomedicine.

and implantable biomedical devicesgreer says the work could fundamentally shift the way people think about the creation of materials. ith this approach we can really start thinking about designing materials backwardshe says. can start with a property

but has the beam output of a simple presentation pointer. hile working on biomedical imaging I began exploring additional applicationsdantus says. e soon learned how effective it was for detecting traces of hazardous substances from distances up to 10 meters away. s described in the journal Applied Physics Letters the bomb-detecting

Fine control over these light beams will enable improvements for on-chip biomedical devices and super resolution imaging. or all these applications,

or implanted as components of new biomedical technologies says Robert Hurt an engineering professor and one of the study s authors.

But smartphones are also capable of transforming into competitive diagnostic tools as a team of biomedical engineers out of Columbia University is showing with their new attachment that can detect both HIV and syphilis in a single 15-minute test.

The new device is described in a paper published on the journal Biomedical Optics Express and freely available to the public c

Products that use silica-based nanoparticles for biomedical uses such as various chips drug or gene delivery and tracking imaging ultrasound therapy and diagnostics may also pose an increased cardiovascular

#According to Carnegie mellon biomedical engineer Christopher Bettinger, a flexible biodegradable battery just may be what the doctor ordered.

The biomedical engineer, decided to create a device that would help his child and millions of others better manage their disease.

Mice are used widely in biomedical research as a model for humans and these maps could give scientists insight into how mice brains are similar

#'Astroskin'smart shirt monitors astronauts'health in Antarctica Remember that pivotal scene in the movie"Apollo 13"in which crewmembers rip the biomedical sensors off their bodies?

This provoked Graham Wiggins of the Center for Biomedical Imaging at New york University's Medical center to build his own version.

Another#700#million will pay to create a cell-processing centre at the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation in Kobe,

As recently as 2010, the biomedical sector was responsible for US$48#million of $67#million in total quantum dot revenues, according to BCC Research of Wellesley, Massachusetts.

But the lead plaintiff on the case, James Sherley of the Boston Biomedical Research Institute in Watertown, Massachusetts, says that the decision will not end his efforts"to emancipate human embryos from research slavery sponsored by the NIH.

#Europe bets on drug discovery Two sites shuttered by the pharmaceutical giant Merck, one in Scotland and one in The netherlands, will soon be humming again with the work of drug discovery.

Led by Amy Kistler at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in Emeryville California, the team responded to an outbreak of Theiler's disease at a farm in

Biomedical Research, the UCSF Diabetes Center Obesity Pilot program, and the National institutes of health b

#New ALS Gene and Signaling Pathways Identified Using advanced DNA sequencing methods, researchers have identified a new gene that is associated with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),

and tested in clinical trials by Taris Biomedical, co-founded by Cima and Langer, a longtime collaborator and entrepreneur.

Now Stephanopoulos and colleagues at MIT and the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have identified a new way to boost yeast tolerance to ethanol by simply altering the composition of the medium in

The work might enable new kinds of biomedical or microfluidic devices or solar panels that could automatically clean themselves of dust and grit.

The Stanley commitment the largest ever in psychiatric research and among the largest for scientific research in general will support research by a collaborative network of researchers within the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute a biomedical research institution

Biomedical researchers have struggled for years to understand the molecular causes of serious ailments such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Formally founded in 2004 to fulfill the promise of the Human genome Project by facilitating collaborative biomedical research across disciplines

and students from throughout the MIT and Harvard biomedical research communities and beyond with collaborations spanning more than 100 private and public institutions in more than 40 countries worldwide e

Working with researchers at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Switzerland, the MIT team also tested Jaws ability to restore the light sensitivity of retinal cells called cones.

Since the phenomenon peaks at particular rates of shear he says Our results might suggest additional design criteria for biomedical devices which should operate outside this range of shear rates when possible either faster or slower.

a former postdoc in MIT Laser Biomedical Research center (LBRC) and one of the lead authors of a paper describing the technology in the Oct 2 issue of the journal Scientific Reports.

The research was funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and Nanoscope Technologies, LLC n

""Another advantage of this core/shell imaging contrast agent is that it could enable biomedical imaging at multiple scales, from single-molecule to cell imaging,

Finding low-cost solutions to limiting bacterial attachments is key, especially in biomedical and food processing applications."

and are tricky to remove in biomedical clean rooms and in equipment parts that are hard to reach or clean,

#Researchers find exposure to nanoparticles may threaten heart health Nanoparticles extremely tiny particles measured in billionths of a meter are increasingly everywhere and especially in biomedical products.

with biomedical electronic and photonic applications. The new technique is significantly less expensive than conventional methods

Nanosilver is used also in biomedical applications toys sunscreen cosmetics clothing and other items. We were surprised to see significant upset of the human gut community at the lowest concentration of nanosilver in this study says Dr. Das.

Hydrogels are used biodegradable materials in a number of biomedical applications because of their compatibility with the body and its processes.

"These 2d, silicate nanoparticles are unprecedented in the biomedical field, and their use promises to lead to both conceptual and therapeutic advances in the important and emerging field of tissue engineering, drug delivery, cancer therapies and immune engineering,

He is supported by faculty staff and Ph d. students in the Joint Department of Biomedical engineering a partnership between NC State and UNC-Chapel hill that tackles urgent biomedical problems.

The wires could also be applied in the biomedical field to maximize heat production in hyperthermia treatment of cancer.

Published in Nature Nanotechnology researchers from Cardiff University have unveiled a new method for viewing nanodiamonds inside human living cells for purposes of biomedical research.

There is a growing consensus among scientists that nanodiamonds are one of the best inorganic material alternatives for use in biomedical research, because of their compatibility with human cells,

Danny Porath, the Etta and Paul Schankerman Professor in Molecular Biomedicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, reports reproducible and quantitative measurements of electricity flow through long molecules made of four

and Jean-François Masson, an expert in biomedical instrument design, investigated how to simplify the measurement of methotrexate concentration in patients.

That allows us to integrate electronics on flexible substrates like clothing shoes and wrist bands for real time monitoring of biomedical diagnostics and athletic performance.

Using these optical properties to characterize the nanosheets Kim determined that he could approximate ph. Kim envisions biomedical engineers wrapping drugs inside of scrolled nanosheets

Carbon nanotubes are rapidly becoming more common because of their usefulness in nanoelectric devices composite materials and biomedicine.

and working with leaders in the biomedical field can really accelerate the path to adoption for these new materials.

the method could be particularly useful for applications in optics, energy efficiency, and biomedicine. For example, it could be used to reproduce complex structures such as bone,

and chemists itching with excitement mesmerised by the possibilities starting to take shape from flexible electronics embedded into clothing to biomedicine (imagine synthetic nerve cells) vastly superior forms of energy storage (tiny

Beyond catalysis, Ying predicts these new materials could be useful in electronics, chemical sensing and even biomedicine.

nanotechnologists and biomedical researchers with the aim of developing a so-called plasmonic nanobiosensor for the detection of proteins.

I believe this approach has significant value as a platform for more detailed investigations of realistic systems important for these new biomedical applications of DNA NANOPARTICLE pairings,

"Nanoparticles are extraordinarily small particles at the forefront of advances in many biomedical, optical and electronic fields,

in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Michigan, have developed a 3-D artificial enzyme cascade that mimics an important biochemical pathway that could prove important for future biomedical and energy applications.

"said Walter. The work also opens a bright future where biochemical pathways can be replicated outside the cell to develop biomedical applications such as detection methods for diagnostic platforms."

Recently biomedical researchers have found ways to increase the effectiveness of certain contrast agents by associating them with nanoparticles.

Such clothing could power biomedical monitoring devices a patient wears at home providing information to a doctor at a hospital Dai said.

Associate professor Baohua Jia led a team of researchers from Swinburne's Centre for Microphotonics to create a micrometre thin film with record-breaking optical nonlinearity suitable for high performance integrated photonic devices used in all-optical communications, biomedicine

"says Zaman, now a biomedical engineer at Boston University. The bogus-drug trade isn't just a problem for the world's poorest patients:

and may be able to bridge the communication divide between cells and biomedical implants. Genetic engineering and Biotechnology News explains:

The researchers demonstrated that it is possible in principle to coat the structures with interesting biomedical materials by connecting antibodies to the surface of the spiral motors.#

Superparamagnetic Twist-Type Actuators with Shape-Independent Magnetic Properties and Surface Functionalization for Advanced Biomedical Applications.

and his team of researchers from the Department of Systems and Control engineering and the Centre for Biomedical Cybernetics at the University of Malta who have developed a music player that can be controlled by the human brain.

and biomedicine there are a number of issues with moving this highly successful laboratory experiment to every day human life as previous iterations used wire electrodes

For example, wearable/biomedical devices and electronic skins (e skins) should stretch to conform to arbitrarily curved surfaces and moving body parts such as joints, diaphragms, and tendons.

It can open avenues for power supplies in universal wearable and biomedical applications as well as self-powered ultra-stretchable electronics."

and highlight top biomedical research. Vindigni's group also contributed to a second paper that was published as back-to-back in the same issue of the Journal of Cell biology on the role of a key homologous recombination factor in the formation of reversed replication forks:

Massimiliano Zecca holds a Ph d. in Biomedical Robotics from the Scuola Superiore Santnna Pisa,(Italy),

and of the NIHR Leicester-Loughborough Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activity Biomedical Research Unit. Zecca M. IJARS Video Series:

Juan M. Banda, a biomedical informatics researcher at Stanford, has created a tool that helps patients

brain-controlled walking after a complete spinal cord injury,"said biomedical engineer Zoran Nenadic, who led the research.

Virologists at Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San antonio prepared the viral samples for testing. The system combined a microfluidic chip for sample preparation and an optofluidic chip for optical detection.

and published the results, in collaboration with the University of Aveiro (Portugal), in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research.

and scaffolds for regenerative biomedicine that will speed up bone regrowth, while the polymer-based support dissolves efficiently.

building the product up layer-by-layer until you have a complete implant. 3d printing has significant advantages over traditional manufacturing methods, particularly for biomedical applications.

#Microbubble Technology for Delivery of Nanoparticles to Tumours Biomedical researchers led by Dr. Gang Zheng at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have converted successfully microbubble technology already used in diagnostic imaging into nanoparticles that stay

which GEMS can be employed for biomedical uses.""That would require, among other things, further miniaturization.

That would open up many additional biomedical applications. One of the most significant features of GEMS is that they can be tuned"in fabrication to respond to different biochemical states

and produces planetariums, eyeglass lenses, camera and cine lenses and binoculars as well as solutions for biomedical research, medical technology and the semiconductor, automotive and mechanical engineering industries.

thus having the capacity of becoming a standard method of quality control of stem or pluripotent cells before their use in cell therapy or research in biomedicine.

Chen started out as a biochemist working on biomedical devices. After he joined Berkeley Lab around 2000, he learned about quantum dots,

That means the materials aren't durable enough for consumer electronics or biomedical devices.""Metallic materials often exhibit high cycle fatigue,

Virologists at Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San antonio prepared the viral samples for testing. The system combines two small chips, a microfluidic chip for sample preparation and an optofluidic chip for optical detection.

According to the lead researcher, Professor Trevor Lithgow, from the newly launched Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia,

from the newly launched Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) at Monash University. He started working on the process of how proteins

"We bring scientists from across all the biomedical disciplines together with mathematicians, chemists and others to make important discoveries that provide critical new information about how our bodies function.

The international effort needed to unlock this problem is a great example of the global nature of modern biomedical research.

including cancer drug delivery and implantable biomedical devices. However the UT Austin team is thought to be one of the first to pursue the use of polydopamine as a flame retardant.

"Cas9 has emerged as a revolutionary tool allowing us to conquer new biomedical and industrial territory.

said Purvesh Khatri, Ph d.,assistant professor of biomedical informatics research. Sepsis or sterile inflammation? In practice, distinguishing sepsis from sterile inflammation is a toss-up.

and neurodegenerative diseases, validating histone methyltransferases (HMTS) as an important class of drug targets among biomedical researchers.

a biomedical engineer and faculty member at the Center for Nanomedicine at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins. Researchers funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering meanwhile,

The study appears September 21 in Nature Materials. he very simple design rules that we have discovered provide a powerful engineering tool for many biomedical

She wanted to develop a testbed for her lab basic biomedical research. She was interested, for example,

The research was funded by the National institutes of health National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (grants U01eb15521 and R01eb007615), the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation,

director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. he potential to offer a life-changing therapy to patients without requiring surgery would be a major advance;

a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical school and director of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. ut the fact that it did did as well as it is encouraging. here are lots of ways these tools could be beneficial to the research community,

The work was funded by a Hartwell Biomedical Collaborative Research Award with additional support from National institutes of health grants R01gm078238 and RO1DK08752 2

Her research today involves translating molecular imaging research to point-of-care diagnostics describes the fluorescence microscope system this week in a paper published in Biomedical Optics Express, from The Optical Society.

brain-controlled walking after a complete spinal cord injury,"said biomedical engineer Zoran Nenadic, who led the research. 3. 6 metres The steps taken a year ago by the experiment's subject,

Biomedical scientists at the Sanford-Burnham-Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) and UC Santa barbara (UCSB) have discovered now a mechanism by

The German research team led by Professor Till Opatz at JGU's Institute of Organic chemistry participates in the interdisciplinary research consortium Chemical Biomedicine (Chembiomed) funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation

Ph d.,study author from the Department of Biomedicine, at the University of Bergen in Bergen, Norway."

a Phd student in the Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology and lead author of the paper.

Efstathios Karathanasis, a biomedical engineer at Case School of engineering, has developed chainlike nanoparticles that can carry drugs across the blood-brain barrier that keeps standard medicines from reaching their target--a highly aggressive brain cancer called

Her research today involves translating molecular imaging research to point-of-care diagnostics--describes the fluorescence microscope system this week in a paper published in Biomedical Optics Express, from The Optical Society.

Biomedical scientists at UC Santa barbara and the Sanford-Burnham-Prebys (SBP) Medical Discovery Institute have discovered now a mechanism by

and biomedical engineers are even looking into using them as a bio-safe internal optical network.

and the Biomedical Research Centre at the University of British columbia funded the work. Bonventre holds patents on kidney injury molecule-1

robotics, gesture recognition, biomedical imaging, personal electronics, and more. A paper describing the research was published in the journal Optics Express E

#Biomedical 3d printing Company Signs Agreement with Xilloc for Licensing, Sale of 3d printed Bones in Europe (3ders. org) NEXT 21 K. K,

. an innovative Japanese biomedical 3d printing company, has created a 3d bone printer capable of producing artificial bone structures for humans.

Despite the complicated physiology involved, NC State biomedical engineer Greg Sawicki and Temple University postdoctoral researcher Ben Robertson show that

a biomedical engineer at the University of Oxford and lead author of the study. ot only is the number of subjects we get to study large,

this week to the world largest international society of biomedical engineers, said the electrical stimulation to the spinal cord appears to reawaken neurons there.

a biomedical engineer at the University of Michigan, told Live Science.""This is very important for quality and design control,

a biomedical engineer at the University of British columbia. t similar to when a grenade goes off

That means the materials aren't durable enough for consumer electronics or biomedical devices.""Metallic materials often exhibit high cycle fatigue,

and defects, says a Texas A&m University biomedical engineer who is part of the team developing the biomaterial.

a biodegradable gel used in several biomedical applications because of its compatibility with the body. When nanosilicates are incorporated into a gelatin matrix, several physical,

Based on our strong preliminary studies, we predict that these highly biofunctional particles have immense potential to be used in biomedical applications

Small, lightweight devices could play life-changing roles as robotic skin or in other biomedical applications.

Phd, program director for Optical Imaging at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering."

This will open the door to new applications for thermal sensors in biomedical devices consumer products and low cost thermal cameras s

#3d bone marrow made from silk biomaterials successfully generates platelets (Nanowerk News) Researchers funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging

""The very simple design rules that we have discovered provide a powerful engineering tool for many biomedical

That means the materials aren't durable enough for consumer electronics or biomedical devices.""Metallic materials often exhibit high cycle fatigue,

Biomedical engineers are interested in recreating these developmental gradients in adults to aid the growth of new tissue in areas that have sustained damage.

noninvasive 3d biomedical imaging photonic chips aerospace photonics micromachines laser tweezing the process of using lasers to trap tiny particles.

which are utilised already increasingly for monitoring critical parameters in biomedical applications, especially for those that may come in contact with human skin

With the rapid advancement of healthcare and biomedical technologies as well as consumer electronics we are optimistic about new possibilities to commercialise our invention,

#Ultrafast lasers offer 3-D micropatterning of biocompatible hydrogels Tufts University biomedical engineers are using low energy,

The laser-based micropatterning represents a new approach to customized engineering of tissue and biomedical implants.

including cancer drug delivery and implantable biomedical devices. However the UT Austin team is thought to be one of the first to pursue the use of polydopamine as a flame retardant.

which in turn has a wide range of applications from biomedical imaging to airport security. The next step for the research team is to present a proof-of-concept experimental realization of this scheme e

The enhanced limit of detection will allow biomedical and environment monitoring of important molecules at high sensitivity by SERS."

the world largest society of biomedical engineers. t will be difficult to get people with complete paralysis to walk completely independently,

The french company Gecko Biomedical, of which Karp is a founder, plans to test the adhesive in humans later this year r

Material that heals itself in the presence of water could extend the usability of biomedical implants

Her research today involves translating molecular imaging research to point-of-care diagnosticsescribes the fluorescence microscope system this week in a paper published in Biomedical Optics Express, from The Optical Society.

For example, wearable/biomedical devices and electronic skins (e skins) should stretch to conform to arbitrarily curved surfaces and moving body parts such as joints, diaphragms, and tendons.

It can open avenues for power supplies in universal wearable and biomedical applications as well as self-powered ultra-stretchable electronics

The novel knowledge is the result of longstanding research in the field of cell surface receptor proteins at the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University."

"says Associate professor Mette Madsen from the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University. With the new knowledge, the hope is that pathologists

"The process can be expanded to biomedical sensor and solar-cell areas, "Ishihara said, "and will also realize stretchable--and even edible--electronics

#Electrical power converter allows grid to easily accept power from renewable energy Doctoral student Joseph Carr developed the system with his adviser, Juan Balda, University Professor and head of the department of electrical engineering.