said Jeffrey Fredberg, professor of bioengineering and physiology at the Harvard Chan School and one of the senior authors of the study,
Mooney is also the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences.
Kills Cancer cells Biological engineers from MIT have designed a modular system of proteins that can detect a particular DNA sequence in a cell
says James Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science in MIT Department of Biological engineering and Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).
a professor of biotechnology and bioengineering at The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Zurich, described this experiment as an legant proof of conceptthat could lead to greatly improved treatments for viral infection. entinel designer cells engineered with the DNA sense
the Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical engineering. anoparticles are large enough to keep from going through the skin surface,
Yang Deng, a postdoctoral associate in biomedical engineering, and Yale medical student Asiri Ediriwickrema were co-first authors of the paper.
who is in the Department of Biomedical engineering; and Julia Lewis, from the Department of Dermatology.
said Conor Walsh, a contributing author of the study, a Wyss Institute core faculty member, an assistant professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering AT SEAS,
when you combine some biomimicry, metamaterials and nanowires? It turns out to be integrated the first circularly polarized light detector on a silicon chip.
who earned his doctorate in biomedical engineering at Rutgers University. The lab-on-chip device, which employs microfluidics technology,
"said Martin Yarmush, professor of biomedical engineering at Rutgers University. Until now, animal research on central nervous system disorders, such as spinal cord injury and Parkinson's disease, has been limited
"Professor Molly Stevens, co-corresponding author from the Departments of Materials and of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, said:"
says Warren R. Zipfel, associate professor of biomedical engineering and a former Webb research associate. or decades,
Led by Rohit Bhargava, U. of I. professor of bioengineering and member of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology,
and biomimetic materials reproducing the advanced mechanical properties of many natural structures. The University of Manchester in Manchester, UK has performed 3d in situ imaging of crack growth using Xradia Ultra Load Stage in nanoindentation mode to understand how cracks grow in dentin, the nanocomposite that forms the bulk of teeth.
#Heart-on-a-Chip Device Holds Promise for Drug-Screening When UC Berkeley bioengineers say they are holding their hearts in the palms of their hands,
Photo by Anurag Mathur, Healy Lab) Instead, the research team led by bioengineering professor Kevin Healy is presenting a network of pulsating cardiac muscle cells housed in an inch-long silicone device that effectively models human heart tissue,
who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard SEAS."
professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical engineering at Duke university, thought his team could do better.
who earned his doctorate in biomedical engineering at Rutgers and now works in biopharmaceutical research and development at Glaxosmithkline.
''said Martin Yarmush, the Paul and Mary Monroe Chair and Distinguished Professor of biomedical engineering at Rutgers and Ghodbane's adviser.
"said Shu Chien, a professor of bioengineering and medicine, director of the Institute of Engineering in Medicine at UC San diego,
Slowing things down The lab of Aleksandra Radenovic at EPFL's Institute of Bioengineering has now overcome the problem of speed by using a thick,
"says Nicholas Abbott, a UW-Madison professor of chemical and biological engineering.""It's quite a versatile approach."
"explained Stephen T. C. Wong, Ph d.,P. E.,Chair of the Department of Systems Medicine and Bioengineering at Houston Methodist Research Institute."
. a professor of circuits and systems and biomedical engineering expert who is the Director of Virtus, the Centre of Excellence in IC Design, at NTU's School of Electrical and Electronic engineering."
One of Tkaczyk co-authors on the research was Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Rice Malcolm Gillis University Professor, director of the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering and of Rice 360°:
#Prosthetic Hands with Macro-Sieve Peripheral Nerve Interface Can Feel Hot and Cold and Sense of touch Daniel Moran, Phd, professor of biomedical engineering in the School of engineering & Applied science and of neurobiology,
and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences s
#Innovative Light-Sensing System Reconstructs Human Postures Continuously and Unobtrusively A Dartmouth College team has created the first light-sensing system that reconstructs human postures continuously
says a Texas A&m University biomedical engineering researcher who is developing the technology. The wearable technology combines motion sensors and the measurement of electrical activity generated by muscles to interpret hand gestures,
says Roozbeh Jafari, associate professor in the university Department of Biomedical engineering and researcher at the Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems.
Jafari is associate professor in Texas A&m Department of Biomedical engineering, associate professor in the Department of computer science and Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering,
#MIT Develops Protein-Based Sensor Capable of Killing Cancer cells MIT biological engineers have developed a modular system of proteins that can detect a particular DNA sequence in a cell
says James Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science in MIT Department of Biological engineering and Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).
a professor of biotechnology and bioengineering at The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Zurich, described this experiment as an legant proof of conceptthat could lead to greatly improved treatments for viral infection. entinel designer cells engineered with the DNA sense
and Weiss is Professor of Biological engineering and also Professor of Electrical engineering and Computer science at MIT.
Ph d.,Wyss Institute Core Faculty member and the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering & Science and Professor of Biological engineering at MIT, is also a co-investigator
. who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences s
Daniel Moran, Ph d.,professor of biomedical engineering in the School of engineering & Applied science and of neurobiology, of physical therapy and of neurological surgery at Washington University School of medicine in St louis
the Cecil H. Green Distinguished Professor in MIT departments of mechanical engineering and biological engineering. f you want realistic models of these processes,
"said Zhen Gu, co-senior author of the paper and an assistant professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at NC State and UNC-CH."
Jewett, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern Mccormick School of engineering, and his team worked with Yale colleagues led by Jesse Rinehart.
Ghodbane advisor, Martin Yarmush, the Paul and Mary Monroe Chair and Distinguished Professor of biomedical engineering at Rutgers, said the results are as accurate and sensitive as the standard benchtop assay. ith our technology,
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,
chair of the Department of Biomedical engineering at Duke. e can now, with a flick of a switch and a temperature jump, make a huge range of biological molecules that either assemble
#Targeting DNA MIT biological engineers have developed a modular system of proteins that can detect a particular DNA sequence in a cell
James Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science in MIT Department of Biological engineering and Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).
a professor of biotechnology and bioengineering at The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Zurich, described this experiment as an legant proof of conceptthat could lead to greatly improved treatments for viral infection. entinel designer cells engineered with the DNA sense
Corresponding author Zhen Gu, an assistant professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North carolina State university and the University of North carolina Chapel hill, said there are two significant benefits in using platelet membranes to coat anticancer drugs.
lead author of the paper and a Ph d. student in the joint biomedical engineering program. The process works by isolating platelets from a blood sample
Hoffman-Kim lab collaborated with fellow biologists and bioengineers at Brown faculty colleagues Julie Kauer, Jeffrey Morgan
and the Center for Biomedical engineering, said she hopes the mini-brains might proliferate to many different labs,
led by bioengineering professor Shyni Varghese at the University of California, San diego and Colin Jamora, a biologist at the IFOM-instem Joint Research Laboratory in India, published the findings in the Oct 15 issue of Nature Communications. ee identified a new component that hasn previously been studied as a factor contributing to fibrosis,
and Bioengineering (grants U01eb15521 and R01eb007615), the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, the Walkabout Foundation and the Russian Scientific Fund. hese encouraging results provide continued evidence that spinal cord injury may no longer mean a lifelong sentence of paralysis
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;
said senior author Christina Smolke, Phd, associate professor of bioengineering. Now, though the output is small it would take 4,
but even after the Stanford bioengineers added this enzyme into their microbial factory, the yeast didn create enough of the opioid compound.
'Optogenetics uses genetic modification to alter cells so that they can be activated by light. Until now, it has mainly been used to activate individual cells
or sample preparation,"said Tomasz Tkaczyk, associate professor, Department of Bioengineering, Rice university, Houston, Texas."Many systems which work for point-of-care applications have quite expensive cartridges.
"Tkaczyk co-authors on this research included Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Fellow of The Optical Society and a professor in Rice's Department of Bioengineering.
The worldwide scientific consensus on the safety of genetic engineering is as solid as that which underpins human-caused global warming.
In 1983, Marc Van Montagu and Jeff Schell at the University of Ghent in Belgium introduced the world to modern plant genetic engineering.
"said paper co-author Alexis Vallée-Belisle, a University of Montreal chemistry professor and the Canada Research Chair in bioengineering and bionanotechnology."
#British scientists set to genetically modify embryos for the first time Genetic modification of human IVF embryos could be carried out for the first time in British history,
Despite the optimism of those who think the new techniques may calm qualms about genetic engineering,
'Optogenetics uses genetic modification to alter cells so that they can be activated by light. Until now, it has mainly been used to activate individual cells
. professor of biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering and associate professor of surgery at U-M. The models were printed by Ann arbor-based Thingsmiths.
or sample preparation,"said Tomasz Tkaczyk, associate professor, Department of Bioengineering, Rice university, Houston, Texas."Many systems which work for point-of-care applications have quite expensive cartridges.
"Tkaczyk's co-authors on this research included Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Fellow of The Optical Society and a professor in Rice's Department of Bioengineering.
Eye and Ear and Dr. Xue Han of the Biomedical engineering Department at Boston University. Other authors include Richie E. Kohman, Kevin Guerra, Angela Nocera, Shrestha Ramanlal, Armine H. Kocharyan and William T. Curry.
alginates and fibrins,"said Adam Feinberg, an associate professor of Materials science and engineering and Biomedical engineering at Carnegie mellon University.
a graduate student in biomedical engineering at Carnegie mellon and lead author of the study.""The challenge with soft materials--think about something like Jello that we eat--is that they collapse under their own weight
says Martin Yarmush, professor of biomedical engineering at Rutgers and Ghodbane adviser. Until now, animal research on central nervous system disorders, such as spinal cord injury and Parkinson disease, has been limited
professor of structural bioengineering, who studies bacterial microcompartments (BMCS), to build the protein. BMCS are self-assembling cellular organs that perform myriad metabolic functions,
BMCS have enormous potential for bioengineering, Kerfeld says. ee showed that we can greatly simplify the construction of these factories.
and a 3d printer, bioengineers and surgeons have created an implant with an intricate network of blood vessels.
A research team led by Jordan Miller, assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice university, and Pavan Atluri, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted the study.
Called Ribo-T, the artificial ribosome was created in the laboratories of Michael Jewett, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering in the Northwestern University Mccormick School of engineering and Applied science
says senior author Christina Smolke, an associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford university. Now, though the output is smallt would take 4,
which enzyme reconfigures reticuline but even after the bioengineers added this enzyme into their microbial factory,
senior author James Collins, Ph d.,professor of medical engineering and science in MIT's Department of Biological engineering and Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES)."
Through genetic engineering, the scientists were able to remove genes integral to the synthesis of the LPS.
a graduate student in biomedical engineering at Carnegie mellon and lead author of the study, in a statement.
when the drug if off patent because biosimilar pathways are still at an early stage.
but its side effects as well,"said Bernhard Palsson, the Galetti Professor of Bioengineering at the Jacobs School of engineering at UC San diego."
Advances in bioengineering had allowed scientists to understand the complex processes within the poppy plant that convert sugar to morphine,
he marveled at how quickly developments had been unfolding in bioengineering--for morphine synthesis and other applications that would require policymakers to sit down with scientists
"The pace of biological engineering is faster than what was expected,"he said.""Why are things moving so fast,
a professor of bioengineering and chemical engineering at MIT who is one of the senior authors on the report.
Dr. Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara, an associate professor of neurological surgery and bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh, who was not involved with the study,
Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in MIT departments of Biological engineering and Mechanical engineering, and a member of MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is the paper senior author.
and bioengineering at Caltech, who is pioneering the development of inertial imaging but was not part of this study. heir application of our approach for simultaneous monitoring position
Slowing things down The lab of Aleksandra Radenovic at EPFL Institute of Bioengineering has now overcome the problem of speed by using a thick,
an MIT professor of biological engineering and the paper senior author. e used the tools of protein engineering to try to boost the magnetic characteristics of this protein.
"said Shu Chien, a professor of bioengineering and medicine, director of the Institute of Engineering in Medicine at UC San diego,
Slowing things down The lab of Aleksandra Radenovic at EPFL's Institute of Bioengineering has now overcome the problem of speed by using a thick,
an assistant professor of bioengineering at Illinois."Previously light emission had an unknown correspondence with molecule number.
"Mirkin is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and professor of medicine, chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering and materials science and engineering.
says Akhilesh Gaharwar, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Texas A&m. The biomaterial, which consists of nano-sized,
and other bioengineering applications. The European Association of Geochemistry is highlighting this work as especially interesting.
through genetic engineering. But this is something that we do not know yet"Researchers from the University of Tübingen, the University of Manchester,
But we are still at an early stage of understanding the bioengineering implications of this discovery"e
the Gene K. Beare Professor of Biomedical engineering in the School of engineering & Applied science, was able to take images of blood oxygenation 50 times faster than their previous results using fast-scanning PAM;
Phd, program director for Optical Imaging at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering."
Now, researchers from the A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have synthesized a much smaller molecule,
For some years, Huaqiang Zeng of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology has led a team aiming to produce tubular molecules that could pipe water across membranes.
when inserted into biomimetic membranes. Zeng thinks this and derivative molecules, may become ext-generation nanofiltration membranes for water purification applications,
in collaboration with bioengineers at Mcgill University, uncovered a new kind of synergy in the development of the nervous system,
"Thus, thanks to this unique program, we teamed up with Mcgill's bioengineers and microfluidic and mathematical modelling experts to create the device required for our study.""
said Benoit, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering. We had to figure out how to deliver the antibacterial agent to the teeth and keep it there,
& Biomimetics("Flying over uneven moving terrain based on optic-flow cues without any need for reference frames or accelerometers").
But Ashutosh Chilkoti, professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical engineering at Duke university thought his team could do better.
#Bioengineers identify the key genes and functions for sustaining microbial life (Nanowerk News) A new study led by bioengineers at the University of California,
San diego defines the core set of genes and functions that a bacterial cell needs to sustain life.
"said Bernhard Palsson, the Galetti Professor of Bioengineering at UC San diego and corresponding author on the paper."
Consider, for example, the genetic engineering of microbes to make value-added chemicals. This engineering process is done typically by making changes to the genetic makeup of a cell,
co-senior author of a paper describing the work and an assistant professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at NC State and UNC-Chapel hill.
says John Slater, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Delaware. Now, Slater and a team of researchers from Duke university, Baylor College of Medicine and Rice university have developed an image-based,
biomimetic patterning strategy that produces a more homogeneous cell population for high-throughput cellular assays.
Biomimetic Patterning")."An important feature of the technique is that it could provide a means to decouple the influences of several factors on mechanotransduction-mediated processes,
and Bioengineering at Tufts University and their collaborators have developed successfully a 3-dimensional (3d) tissue-engineered model of bone marrow that can produce functional human platelets outside the body (ex vivo).
chair of the Department of Biomedical engineering at Duke.""We can now, with a flick of a switch and a temperature jump, make a huge range of biological molecules that either assemble or disassemble."
or kill cancer cells MIT biological engineers have developed a modular system of proteins that can detect a particular DNA sequence in a cell
says James Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science in MIT Department of Biological engineering and Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).
a professor of biotechnology and bioengineering at The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Zurich, described this experiment as an legant proof of conceptthat could lead to greatly improved treatments for viral infection. entinel designer cells engineered with the DNA sense
. who is the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital as well as Professor of Bioengineering AT SEAS."
a team of researchers led by Professor Lim Chwee Teck from NUS Department of Biomedical engineering achieves a significant technological breakthrough by adopting a liquid-based pressure sensing method in the design of such sensors.
professor of biomedical engineering and Frank C. Doble professor at Tufts School of engineering and also holds an appointment in physics in the School of arts and Sciences.
the Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical engineering. anoparticles are large enough to keep from going through the skin surface,
an assistant professor of bioengineering at Illinois."Previously light emission had an unknown correspondence with molecule number.
the atomic-resolution structure of peptoid nanosheets. his research suggests new ways to design biomimetic structures,
which could lead to even more biomimetic nanostructures. n
#Analyzing protein structures in their native environment Proteins can fold in different ways depending on their environment.
a team of bioengineers at Rice university and surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania have created an implant with an intricate network of blood vessels that points toward a future of growing replacement tissues and organs for transplantation.
The new study was performed by a research team led by Jordan Miller, assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice,
Bioengineering graduate student Samantha Paulsen and research technician Anderson Ta worked together to develop a proof-of-concept construct--a small silicone gel about the size of a small candy gummy bear--using 3-D printing.
and is chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical engineering at the Georgia Institute of technology and Emory University,
a research associate in the Department of Biological engineering at MIT, and the paper lead author.
and James Fox all professors of biological engineering at MIT had identified the presence of a lesion,
says John Essigmann, the William R. 1956) and Betsy P. Leitch Professor in Residence Professor of Chemistry, Toxicology and Biological engineering at MIT,
explains the study lead author, William Eric Sponsel, MD, of the University of Texas at San antonio, Department of Biomedical engineering.
#Genetically Modified Yeast Yields Narcotics, Raises Regulation Questions When bioengineer Christina Smolke started her own research lab,
what many considered to be a holy grail in bioengineering: yeast that can literally brew narcotic drugs.
When bioengineer Christina Smolke started her own research lab, she was only 29-years-old.
what many considered to be a holy grail in bioengineering: yeast that can literally brew narcotic drugs.
The adhesive was developed in the lab of Dr. Jeff Karp, a bioengineer at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
U s. Will not Fund Embryo Editing Thanks to new genetic engineering techniques, we can edit DNA with more precision than ever before.
and a current lack of compelling medical applications justifying the use of/genetic engineering in embryos.""The NIH's stance is not particularly surprising,
Published in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, the study is an attempt to understand and then mimic how insects are able to fly safely.
which is titled"Self-Fueled Biomimetic Liquid Metal Mollusk, "including the insertion of the aluminum"fuel"(b)
but for the Univ. of Cincinnati (UC)' s Yoonjee Park, assistant professor in the College of Engineering and Applied science biomedical engineering professor, these words are central to every conversation relating to her cutting edge research on drug delivery vehicles.
or sample preparation,"said Tomasz Tkaczyk, associate professor, Dept. of Bioengineering, Rice Univ.,Houston, Texas."Many systems which work for point-of-care applications have quite expensive cartridges.
"Tkaczyk's co-authors on this research included Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Fellow of The Optical Society and a professor in Rice's Department of Bioengineering.
associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke Univ."Many labs across the world are using these tools on the assumption that they're getting specific effects,
a team of bioengineers at Rice Univ. and surgeons at the Univ. of Pennsylvania have created an implant with an intricate network of blood vessels that points toward a future of growing replacement tissues and organs for transplantation.
The new study was performed by a research team led by Jordan Miller, assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice,
Bioengineering graduate student Samantha Paulsen and research technician Anderson Ta worked together to develop a proof-of-concept construct small silicone gel about the size of a small candy gummy bearsing 3
A conventional approach to diagnosing this cancer would be to look for genetic modification of the receptor
and found that the"Akt pathway"could be activated without genetic modifications. Two proteins; Plc? 1 (pronounced"plc-gamma-1")and Grb2 (pronounced"grab-2),
However, the new production process for such complex biomimetic materials also has other potential applications.
and Andre Berndt, a postdoctoral scholar in bioengineering, were the lead authors on the Science paper.
a fellow professor of bioengineering at Stanford who pioneered a field that combines genetics and optics, called optogenetics.
Researchers bioengineer cells to make them sensitive to specific frequencies of light, then use light pulses to switch cells,
"said Charles Gersbach, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke.""That becomes immediately obvious when you consider that we have over 200 cell types,
was led by Eric Pei-Yu Chiou, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and of bioengineering at the Henry Samueli School of engineering and Applied science.
"said Renny Franceschi, U-M professor of dentistry, biological chemistry and biomedical engineering. Franceschi and colleagues recently discovered a biomarker that they believe achieves this differentiation.
Toxicology, and Biological engineering. Essigmann is cofounder of a pharmaceutical company that is developing mutagenic inhibitors of HIV."
or perhaps as biomimetic surfaces for implantable tissue scaffolds or neural implants. The work was the result of collaboration between Wong's biomedical engineering lab and the lab of Robert Hurt, professor of engineering at Brown,
who focuses on carbon nanomaterials.""This is a new application for graphene, "Hurt said.""We are just beginning to realize all of the innovative ways one can use this atomically thin and flexible building block to make new materials and devices."
#World's first genetic modification of human embryos reported: Experts consider ethics The team injected 86 embryos
-first-genetic modification-of-human-embryos-reported-protein-cell l
#Generating broadband terahertz radiation from a microplasma in air Researchers have shown that a laser-generated microplasma in air can be used as a source of broadband terahertz radiation.
"said Daniel Fletcher, associate chair and professor of bioengineering, whose UC Berkeley lab pioneered the Cellscope."
Current methods use genetic engineering to physically mutate enzymes. However this is difficult to accomplish and requires detailed knowledge of enzyme structure and functional dynamics,
says Gerard Coté, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Texas A&m Engineering Experiment Station's Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems.
says a Texas A&m University biomedical engineering researcher who is developing the technology. The wearable technology combines motion sensors and the measurement of electrical activity generated by muscles to interpret hand gestures,
says Roozbeh Jafari, associate professor in the university's Department of Biomedical engineering and researcher at the Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems.
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