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Synopsis: Domenii: Biotech: Biotech generale: Bioengineering:

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 device was developed by team led by Aydogan Ozcan, a professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at the Henry Samueli School of engineering and Applied science and director of the California Nanosystems Institute."

professor of electrical and computer engineering and a professor of bioengineering. ethane is emitted by natural sources, such as wetlands,

'but without resorting to permanent genetic modification of the entire plant. The foreign genes that are introduced transiently are inherited not by subsequent generations of the plant.

Previously, the timescale required before results were known for just a single protein meant researchers naturally played safe and tended to produce'biosimilars'

An equally important part of the project concerned the genetic engineering of a species of streptomycete which could be used as a kind of'all-purpose'production facility,

##This could really be a game-changer for a lot of applications including diagnostics##say James Collins who is a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at Boston University and a core faculty member at Harvard s Wyss Institute.##

and cost-effective way for arsenic removal says Bin Gao associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering at University of Florida.

whose utility is difficult if not impossible to gauge says senior author Luis Amaral professor of chemical and biological engineering at the Mccormick School of engineering and Applied science and a professor of medicine at Feinberg.

##The problem with engineered tissue is that the mechanical properties are far from those of native tissue##says first author Eleftherios Makris a postdoctoral researcher biomedical engineering department of University of California Davis

##The ramifications of the work presented in the PNAS paper are tremendous with respect to tissue grafts used in surgery as well as new tissues fabricated using the principles of tissue engineering##says Kyriacos A. Athanasiou a professor of biomedical engineering and orthopedic surgery and chair

of the biomedical engineering department who oversaw the work. Grafts from cadavers such as cartilage tendons or ligamentsâ##notorious for losing their mechanical characteristics in storageâ##can now be treated with this new processes to make them stronger

A team led by Selim Ã#nlã#a professor of biomedical engineering electrical and computer engineering and materials science and engineering at Boston University in collaboration with physics professor Bennett Goldberg showed the ability to pinpoint

and bioengineers still face several major obstacles. A silicon chip for example computes with ones and zeros current is

Bioengineers will literally be able to program in future"says Benenson. Source: ETH Zurichyou are free to share this article under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noderivs 3. 0 Unported license e

The work was based in the lab of Jane Grande-Allen of Rice s bioengineering department.

The National institutes of health the Rice Century Scholars Program and a Hamill Innovation Award by the Rice university Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering supported the research.

The majority of patients who succumb to cancer fall prey to metastatic forms of the disease says Jennifer Cochran an associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford university.

Lam is affiliated also with the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.

##Fibrin production is on the back end of the clotting process so we feel that it is a safer place to try to interact with it##says Tom Barker associate professor of biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University and a co-corresponding author of the paper.##

##In addition to providing new treatment options the particles could also cut costs by reducing costly natural transfusions says Lam assistant professor in the biomedical engineering department at Georgia Tech and Emory University.

As part of the research Zaveri who earned her doctorate in biomedical engineering at the University of Florida conducted extensive sensory-perception testing to assess acceptability of the suppositories among women.

says Sherman Fan, professor of biomedical engineering at University of Michigan. or diabetes, acetone is a marker, for example.

#Fabric dissolves to deliver HIV drug faster Bioengineers have developed a new way to protect women from HIV medicated,

says Cameron Ball, a doctoral student in bioengineering at the University of Washington. FAST DELIVERY The team

led by bioengineering assistant professor Kim Woodrow, previously found that electrically spun cloth could be dissolved to release drugs.

associate professor of chemical and biological engineering at the New york University School of engineering. ee known that phosphotriesterases had the power to detoxify these nerve agents,

says Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford university. The first problem was that laboratories were not set up to reliably carry out the CLARITY process.

says principal investigator and senior author Edward Damiano of the Boston University department of biomedical engineering. here no current standard-of-care therapy that could match the results we saw. ne of the key virtues of this device is its ability to start controlling the blood sugar instantly,

adds co-lead author Firas El-Khatib, also of the department of biomedical engineering. Co-lead author Steven Russell of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH

explains Damiano, associate professor of biomedical engineering at BU. And even though the dosage needs of adults are more predictable,

According to Hashemi and his adviser, Guillermo Sapiro, professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering at Duke

when new bone grows Bioengineers have created a hydrogel to help people regrow lost bone and tissue.

and biological engineering at University of Florida. As reported in the journal Water Research Gao ground wood chips that were heated then in nitrogen gas but not burned.

and bioengineers still face several major obstacles. A silicon chip for example computes with ones and zeros current is

Bioengineers will literally be able to program in futuresays Benenson. Source: ETH Zurichyou are free to share this article under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noderivs 3. 0 Unported license N

This is the first time researchers have been able to visually observe these electrical signaling proteins turn on without genetic modification.

and tightly binds the nanotubes together says Martã an assistant professor of chemistry and bioengineering and of materials science and nanoengineering.

Lead author Patrick T. Sadtler a Ph d. candidate in the University of Pittsburgh department of bioengineering compared the study s findings to cooking. uppose you have flour sugar baking soda eggs salt and milk.

and we wanted to find out what that limit looks like in terms of neuronssays Aaron P. Batista assistant professor of bioengineering at University of Pittsburgh.

Byron M. Yu assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering at Carnegie mellon believes this work demonstrates the utility of BCI for basic scientific studies that will eventually impact people s lives. hese findings could be the basis

Now bioengineers have hacked the DNA of yeast and reprogrammed these simple cells to make opioid-based medicines via a sophisticated extension of the basic brewing process that makes beer.

Led by bioengineering Associate professor Christina Smolke the Stanford team has spent already a decade genetically engineering yeast cells to reproduce the biochemistry of poppies with the ultimate goal of producing opium-based medicines from start to finish in fermentation vats. e are now very close to replicating the entire

In the new report Smolke and her collaborators Kate Thodey a postdoctoral scholar in bioengineering and Stephanie Galanie a doctoral student in chemistry detail how they added five genes from two different organisms to yeast cells.

The thrust of Smolke s work for a decade has been to pack the entire production chain from the fields of poppies through all the subsequent steps of chemical refining into yeast cells using the tools of bioengineering.

They must perform another set of bioengineering hacks to connect the two major advances they have made over the past decade.

When laser light contacts the molecules present within the powder it experiences a scattering effect that can be analyzed to construct a sort of molecular ingerprintthat reveals its exact chemical makeup says Vladislav Yakovlev professor in the biomedical engineering department at Texas A&m University. s

or released through the skin. ach of these diseases has its own biomarkers that the device would be able to sensesays Sherman Fan professor of biomedical engineering at University of Michigan

or through genetic modification techniqueswing says. he idea is to create a super-rice that will be higher yielding

says Kwabena Boahen, associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford university. Boahen and his team have developed a circuit board consisting of 16 custom-designed eurocorechips.

professor of electrical and computer engineering and a professor of bioengineering. ethane is emitted by natural sources, such as wetlands,

and bioengineering to characterize the product It turns out different types of coal produce different types of dots.

There s no reason we can t grow extraordinarily large single crystals in the future using modifications of our techniquesays Mirkin who also is a professor of medicine chemical and biological engineering biomedical engineering and materials science and engineering and director of the university s International Institute for Nanotechnology.

Doug Rowland project scientist in the Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging in the department of biomedical engineering contributed X-ray computed tomography scanning of the rock.

This biomimetic robot was developed in the lab of Malcolm Maciver associate professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at Northwestern University and a co-author. e are far from duplicating the agility of animals with our most advanced robotsmaciver says. ne exciting implication of this work is that we might be held back in making more agile machines by our assumption that it s wasteful

or useless to have forces in directions other than the one we are trying to move in.

and bioengineering at Stanford university contribute to the work which was supported by grants from the US Department of energy.

The challenge for Angel Mart assistant professor of chemistry and bioengineering at Rice university and his team of student researchers was to get their large metallic particles through the much smaller pores of a zeolite cage.

is genetic engineering the best option? Cornell University rightoriginal Studyposted by Blaine Friedlander-Cornell on September 30 2013with estimates that 15 to 40 percent of the world s species will be lost over the next 40 years due to warming

Before genetic engineering can be entertained seriously as a tool for preserving biodiversity conservationists need to agree on the types of scenario for which facilitated adaptation managed relocation

says Changhuei Yang, professor of electrical engineering, bioengineering and medical engineering at the California Institute of technology (Caltech).

I. Kim is affiliated also with the Neuroscience Program the Institute for Genomic Biology the Beckman Institute and the departments of bioengineering of materials science and engineering and of nuclear plasma and radiological engineering at the U. of I d

says Daniel Levner, a bioengineer at the Wyss Institute at Harvard university. Levner and his colleagues at Bar Ilan University in Ramat-Gan, Israel, made the nanobots by exploiting the binding properties of DNA.

Phd, a professor of radiology and biomedical engineering at the university. The technology involve a head-mounted display, custom video technology,

Genetic engineering has yet to play an important role in drought tolerance. Only this year did agricultural biotech company Monsanto introduce its first drought tolerant seed variety Droughtgard.

"The research was published online today (April 8) in the journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics s

#Why Does Less Meat Mean Less Heat?(Op-Ed) Josh Balk is food policy director at The Humane Society of the United states (HSUS.

Biomimicry: 7 Clever Technologies Inspired By nature DNA alphabet The field of synthetic biology involves tinkering with DNA to create organisms capable of novel functions in medicine, energy and other areas.

Timothy Lu, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and biological engineering.""It an interesting way of thinking about materials synthesis,

and materials engineering,"said Lingchong You, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke university i

#Poop-powered airport shuttle bus hits the road in the U k. A supermarket powered by its own expired comestibles.

Biomimicry: 7 Clever Technologies Inspired By nature The simplicity is the beauty of this technology said Ray Baughman a chemist at the University of Texas at Dallas

In the latest example of biomimicry or science is inspired by nature a team of researchers in California have turned to cats

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania s Tissue Microfabrication Laboratory, the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative medicine and elsewhere are developing methods for bioengineering functional vessels that could someday be used to ferry blood around 3-D-printed organs.

The study was led by Nenad Bursac, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke university and Lauran Madden, a postdoctoral researcher in Bursac laboratory.

the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical engineering and senior associate dean for research for the Pratt School of engineering,

and William Krauss, professor of biomedical engineering, medicine and nursing at Duke university. The research was supported by NIH Grants R01ar055226 and R01ar065873 from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin disease and UH2TR000505 from the NIH Common Fund for the Microphysiological Systems Initiative.

These biomimetic constructs exhibit aligned architecture, multinucleated and striated myofibers, and a Pax7+cell pool.

Now, as part of a joint international project, a team of young researchers at the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical engineering at Meduni Vienna has succeeded in identifying the mechanisms the spinal cord uses to control this muscle activity.

explains study author Simon Danner, from the Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical engineering of Meduni Vienna.

says Ed Boyden, an associate professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT. Boyden is the senior author of a paper describing the new method in the Jan 15 online edition of Science.

an MIT professor of biological engineering, was quoted as saying by Britain's Science Media Center.""The information in this paper, combined with DNA synthesis,

and bioengineering and Isy Goldwasser, is a wireless device that pairs with an iphone or ipad via a Bluetooth connection (Android app coming soon).

A team of bioengineers and geneticists has designed a device that can suspend a single living cell between magnets and measure its density based on how high it floats.

explains Utkan Demirci, a bioengineer at Stanford university in Palo alto, California. But he and his colleagues were looking for new ways to manipulate

says Will Grover, a bioengineer at the University of California, Riverside, who was involved not in the new work.

You can store very long-term information says Timothy Lu an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and biological engineering.

but our ability to translate this data into usable knowledge is lagging behind says Arup K. Chakraborty the Robert T. Haslam (1911) Professor of Chemical engineering Physics Chemistry and Biological engineering at MIT and director of the MIT Institute

The new center s co-directors are Eric Alm an associate professor of biological engineering at MIT and Ramnik Xavier chief of gastroenterology and director of the Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel

because it gives you the ability to do highly predictive designs with unique targeting capabilities says senior author Mehmet Fatih Yanik an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and biological engineering.

Led by Timothy Lu an associate professor of biological engineering and electrical engineering and computer science the researchers described their findings in the Sept. 21 issue of Nature Biotechnology.

which in principle could help to combat the spread of antibiotic resistance fueled by excessive broad-spectrum treatment says Ahmad Khalil an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University who was not part of the research team.

This technique could offer a more reliable way to detect malaria says Jongyoon Han a professor of electrical engineering and biological engineering at MIT.

MIT biological engineers have demonstrated now that a new genome-editing technique called CRISPR can disrupt a single parasite gene with a success rate of up to 100 percent in a matter of weeks.

and boost drug-development efforts says Jacquin Niles an associate professor of biological engineering at MIT. Even though we ve sequenced the entire genome of Plasmodium falciparum half of it still remains functionally uncharacterized.

The paper s lead author is Jeffrey Wagner a recent Phd recipient and current MIT postdoc in biological engineering.

Graduate student Randall Platt recent Phd recipient Stephen Goldfless and Feng Zhang the W. M. Keck Career development Assistant professor in Biomedical engineering also contributed to the research.

Led by Ed Boyden, an associate professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, the researchers described the protein in the June 29 issue of Nature Neuroscience.

says Ed Boyden, an associate professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT and one of the leaders of the research team. n short,

an MIT associate professor of biological engineering. here a general recognition that in order to understand the brain processes in comprehensive detail,

and Buck, a biological engineering graduate student, won a grant from the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts program to create a life-support system that could treat waste

and a member of MIT departments of biological engineering and of biology, Center for Environmental Health Sciences,

and also identifies several of the challenges that will need to be addressed moving forward to the development of human therapies says Charles Gersbach an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke university who was not part of the research team.

or diagnostic sensors says Timothy Lu an assistant professor of electrical engineering and biological engineering. Lu is the senior author of a paper describing the living functional materials in the March 23 issue of Nature Materials.

and materials engineering says Lingchong You an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke university who was not part of the research team.

According to Tim Lu, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and biological engineering at MIT, it boils down to the inefficient bacteria-detection assays used in the food industry.

a professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University who was involved not in the research. he authors nicely show that self-assembling nanoparticles can be used to enhance the photosynthetic capacity of plants,

Video Melanie Gonick All of our algorithms and control theory are designed pretty much with the idea that we ve got rigid systems with defined joints says Barry Trimmer a biology professor at Tufts University who specializes in biomimetic soft robots.

This is a clever and inspired technology to develop new exogenous compounds that can detect clinical conditions with aberrantly high protease concentrations says Samuel Sia an associate professor of biological engineering at Columbia University who was involved not in the research.

the better, says Darrell Irvine, a professor of biological engineering and of materials science and engineering, and the senior author of the paper.

Eric Perreault, a professor of biomedical engineering and physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern University, says the group findings present the first insight into how muscle activation alters the ankle mechanical properties over its normal range of motion,

Seeing commercial potential, Langer a chemical engineer, bioengineer, and famed MIT entrepreneur layed matchmakerbetween Loose and Lucchino,

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

Joseph Bonventre, chief of the renal unit and director of the bioengineering division at Brigham and Women Hospital in Boston, agrees that the study represents an important step toward a more personalized approach. ou want the best adhesive possible,

"says researcher Jonathan Lovell, Phd, UB assistant professor of biomedical engineering.""Once such systems are developed, a patient could theoretically go in for one scan with one machine instead of multiple scans with multiple machines."

says Akhilesh Gaharwar, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Texas A&m and member of the research team.

represents a new direction in biomedical engineering. Two-dimensional materials are ultrathin substances with high surface area but a thickness of a few nanometers or less.

At UC Santa barbara researchers in the Department of Chemical engineering and at Center for Bioengineering (CBE) have turned to the human body's own mechanisms for inspiration in dealing with the necessary and complicated process of coagulation.

Williams, a professor of biomedical engineering at UW-Madison.""Without this we may have noticed an overall increase in growth rates,

and toxicity said Dr. Zhen Gu assistant professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical engineering at NC State and UNC-Chapel hill.

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.

A group of researchers from the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A*STAR has taken the health benefits of green tea to the next level by using one of its ingredients to develop a drug delivery system

#Blades of grass inspire advance in organic solar cells Using a biomimicking analog of one of nature's most efficient light-harvesting structures blades of grass an international research team led by Alejandro Briseno of the University of Massachusetts Amherst

To develop the nanoprobe Jackie Ying at the A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology and co-workers in Singapore Taiwan and Japan devised a relatively simple procedure that uses standard laboratory equipment

A team led by bioengineer Jeffrey Jacot and chemical engineer and chemist Matteo Pasquali created the patches infused with conductive single-walled carbon nanotubes.

and bioengineering research said Samir Mitragotri co-author and professor of chemical engineering and director of the Center for Bioengineering at UCSB.

Detection and diagnostics are a key area of bioengineering research at UCSB and this study represents an excellent example of UCSB's multifaceted competencies in this exciting field.

#Biomimetic photodetector'sees'in color (Phys. org) Rice university researchers have created a CMOS-compatible biomimetic color photodetector that directly responds to red green

Biomimicry was no accident. The color photodetector resulted from a $6 million research program funded by the Office of Naval Research that aimed to mimic cephalopod skin using metamaterials compounds that blur the line between material and machine.

Bob has created a biomimetic detector that emulates what we are hypothesizing the squid skin'sees'Halas said.

and composition by a seed-mediated growth route,"explains lead researcher Jackie Ying from the A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

"Halas, the Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical and Computer engineering and a professor of biomedical engineering, chemistry, physics and astronomy at Rice, said the potential applications for SECARS include chemical and biological sensing as well as metamaterials research.

After several years of innovative research, they developed a series of biomimetic nanochannels, delivered a strategy for the design

entitled"Construction of biomimetic smart nanochannels for confined water",was published in National Science Review. Nature has inspired always greatly technology, engineering and significant inventions.

they provided a strategy for the design and construction of biomimetic smart nanochannels. Importantly, they have applied the abiotic analogs to energy conversion systems.

heart problems and deep vein thrombosis has been developed by researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN).

and we rationally design molecular nanoscaffolds to achieve biomimicry at the molecular level, "Yan said,

and Biochemistry and directs the Center for Molecular Design and Biomimicry at the Biodesign Institute.

#MEMS nanoinjector for genetic modification of cells The ability to transfer a gene or DNA sequence from one animal into the genome of another plays a critical role in a wide range of medical researchncluding cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and diabetes.

CRISPR has a certain protein in it called Cas9 that acts like a scissor Lu associate professor of biological engineering electrical engineering

Genetic engineering and Biotechnology News explains: The team began studying reflectin to discern how it enables the squid to change color

In a paper published in Bioinspiration and Biomimetics today, a team from LIS, EPFL and NCCR Robotics propose a new kind of flying robot that can also walk.

#What happens when quantum physics meets genetic engineering? Nature has had billions of years to perfect photosynthesis, which directly or indirectly supports virtually all life On earth.

Lloyd and Belcher, a professor of biological engineering, were reporting on different projects they had worked on,

former director of professional development programs who now is the graduate programs director in Purdue's Weldon School of Biomedical engineering.

The Old Way Vickie Maris, former director of professional development programs who now is the graduate programs director in Purdue's Weldon School of Biomedical engineering,

bioengineer Prakash told The Atlantic.""The biggest thing we're trying to do is to make people curious,

said Dr. Paul S. Cederna, professor of plastic surgery and biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan.

Ranzani is lead author on a new study on the project appearing today in the journal Biomimetics

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

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,

MIT biological engineers have devised a new mix-and-match system to genetically engineer viruses that target specific bacteria.

an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and biological engineering. hese bacteriophages are designed in a way that relatively modular.

they had to create a new system for performing the genetic engineering. Existing techniques for editing viral genomes are fairly laborious

and demonstrate that it can be engineered to edit the genomes of human cells. his has dramatic potential to advance genetic engineering,

says Zhang, the W. M. Keck Assistant professor in Biomedical engineering in MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive sciences.

Sherry Harbin, an associate professor in Purdue's Weldon School of Biomedical engineering and Department of Basic Medical sciences

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,

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