Engineering in Biological Technology

Rapid heating prepares energy-saving zeolite for greater role in industrial separations

... Tsapatsis, Amundson Chair Professor of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of ... Hae-Kwon Jeong, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M University; Mark A. Snyder, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; ...

Cardium Announces New Orthobiologics Product Initiative Extending Gene Activated Matrix Technology to Deliver Bone Growth Factors

... expression in the areas of periodontal tissue engineering and bone-grafting applications. Published data for periodontal tissue engineering include: (1) Platelet-Derived Growth Factor Gene ... Tissue Eng . 2003 August; 9(4): 745-756); (2) engineering of Tooth-Supporting Structures by Delivery of ...

PROTOMED SA Chooses HyperWorks to Simulate Implantable Medical Devices

... global provider of simulation technology and engineering services that empower client innovation and ... SA has chosen Altair Engineering's computer-aided engineering (CAE) software suite, HyperWorks, to enhance its ... in validation processes. "Altair engineering is happy to work with PROTOMED in its use of ...

Ricardo Launches Consortium to Evaluate Lubricant Challenges of Future Low Carbon Engine Technologies

... provider of technology, product innovation and engineering solutions to the world's automotive, defense, ... provider of technology, product innovation, engineering solutions and strategic consulting to the world's ... offers TVFE(TM), its Total Vehicle Fuel Economy engineering service, to transportation manufacturers and ...

NASA Extends Bioastronautics Contract With Wyle for Total Value of $976 Million

... will be done by Wyle's Integrated Science and engineering Group, headquartered in Houston. Under the ... is a leading provider of high tech aerospace engineering and information technology services to the ... networks, and other government assets; and other engineering services to the aerospace, defense, nuclear ...

Synthetic Genomics Inc. and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company Sign Exclusive, Multi-Year Agreement to Develop Next Generation Biofuels Using Photosynthetic Algae

... agreement with ExxonMobil Research and engineering Company (EMRE) to develop next generation ... of our respective expertise in science, research, engineering and scale-up should unlock the power of algae as ... metagenomics, synthetic genomics, and genome engineering as a platform, SGI and EMRE believe that biology ...

Professor Fisher receives ASEE's Beer and Johnston Award

... New Educator Awards by the American Society of engineering Education (ASEE). Fisher was selected on the ... as a member of the Department of Mechanical engineering in 2004 after earning his doctorate in Mechanical engineering from Northwestern University. The award, ...

Helix BioPharma Announces Q3 2009 Financial Results and Provides Product Development Update

... program with the successful production of engineering batches of L-DOS47, and is currently making ... recent challenges in successfully producing GMP engineering batches to date, including third party scheduling ... associated with the scale-up manufacturing of GMP engineering batches in preparation for clinical trial batch ...

Hill-Rom Innovative Envision(R) E700 Wound Surface Receives Gold Medical Device Excellence Award

... The award recognizes excellence in medical device engineering and design. This is the third consecutive year ... are evaluated on the basis of their design and engineering features, including innovative use of materials, ... product development team to overcome design and engineering challenges so that the product meets its clinical ...

A-WIT Technologies Releases World's First Low Cost C Stamp(TM) Based Biotechnology Laboratory in a Box

... mission of social entrepreneurship and improving engineering education across the world, we have put together ... Continuing to speak about these innovative engineering kits, Dr. Hernandez went on to say, "We have ... a novel approach that will be of great benefit to engineering students across the world." About A-WIT ...

NCIIA Honors Top Collegiate Biomedical Engineering Teams

... /PRNewswire/ -- Today three collegiate biomedical engineering teams received cash prizes from the NCIIA. The winners in the annual Biomedical engineering Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Award ... Scientific; and is endorsed by the Biomedical engineering Society (BMES) and the Council of Chairs of ...

University of Texas 'Picosatellite' to be launched from space shuttle to begin milestone mission

... of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University engineering students will be launched into orbit this month ... Bishop, chairman of the Department of Aerospace engineering and engineering Mechanics and principal investigator of the ...

Genomatica Produces Pure BDO From Natural Sugars

... company, announced today that the company's engineering team has achieved an important milestone toward ... the feasibility of critical downstream process engineering elements of Genomatica's manufacturing method for ... plant in 2010. "By proving the process engineering operations, Genomatica now offers the complete ...

Plexus Awarded Development Contract With QIAGEN

... stated Steve Frisch, Sr. Vice President, Global engineering Services. "Plexus sees this relationship as an indication of how we can utilize our full suite of engineering capabilities, coupled with our complete Product ... enhanced by value-added product design and engineering services. Plexus specializes in mid- to ...

Microbia, Inc. Names Alex Chu as Vice President of Process Development

... Alex earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. in biochemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. ... company applying proprietary metabolic engineering utilizing fermentation technology to create ...

Tiens Biotech Group (USA) Reports First Quarter Results

... by, Tianjin Tianshi Biological engineering Co., Ltd. ("Tianshi Engineering") the affiliated ... for a direct selling license in China, Tianshi engineering is required to produce a part of the products ... Engineering. The application of Tianshi engineering for a direct selling license in China is still ...

Solar cells, geological storage research receive DOE funding at the University of Texas at Austin

... interdisciplinary team in the Cockrell School of engineering and the Jackson School of Geosciences at the university and the engineering Sciences Center at Sandia National Laboratory combines expertise in basin analysis, reservoir engineering and fine-scale geophysical and geochemical ...

SiliconSky GPS Designs First AGPS-Enabled Asthma Inhaler for Landmark Research Program

... great GPS product inventor, stands an innovative engineering team ( www.SiliconSkyGPS.com ) ready to design ... better understand the triggers of asthma and an engineering firm that is dedicated to bringing the most ... interpreted. SiliconSky GPS brought its engineering heritage to the table when designing the ...

Novel CU-Boulder technique shrinks size of nanotechnology circuitry

... McLeod of the electrical, computer and energy engineering department. But the new system developed by ... Christopher Bowman of the chemical and biological engineering department and graduate students Benjamin ... Sullivan of the electrical, computer and energy engineering department. Sullivan is now a professor at Agnes ...

Life sticks: UC San Diego bioengineer's sticky insights published in journal Science

... like we have here at UCSD with the Institute for engineering in Medicine." Engler's primary appointment is ... Stem Cell Institute and the UCSD Institute for engineering in Medicine. Engler is a bioengineer and ... by training. He earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and went on ...

Researchers peer into nanowires to measure dopant properties

... assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University's McCormick School of engineering and Applied Science, has provided an atomic-level ... C. Engelhart Professor of Materials Science and engineering at Northwestern, created a model that relates the ...

UB engineers prove that carbon nanotubes are superior to metals for electronics

... Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental engineering and director of the Electronics Packaging Lab in UB's School of engineering and Applied Sciences. "Now we know that's not ... Engineers (ASME) International Mechanical engineering Congress and Exposition in Orlando. The ...

Quantum dots and nanomaterials: Ingredients for better lighting and more reliable power

... grants to help fund the research led by ASU engineering professor Ghassan Jabbour. Jabbour's work ... the study of the materials science, physics and engineering solutions necessary to produce the next ... Jabbour says. One of the major scientific and engineering challenges of Ghassan's project involves how to ...

Improved Cryopreservation Outcomes in Potential $100B Tissue Engineering Market Enabled by BioLife Solutions CryoStor(TM)

... in the January 2009 online issue of Tissue engineering Part C. This reports the results of experiments ... BioLife's chairman and CEO, noted, "The tissue engineering market is highly strategic for BioLife. Our ... evaluations at other key companies in the tissue engineering market." According to a 2009 analysis and ...

IEEE Celebrates Its 125th Anniversary Presenting Emerging, World Changing Technologies During Its 'Embracing Human Technology Interactions' Media Event

... called SyNAPSE, Dr. Modha and his team are engineering computing systems that simulate the brain's ... 125 years of ingenuity and innovation in engineering and technology with events and activities ... the anniversary theme "Celebrating 125 Years of engineering the Future." The year-long IEEE celebration ...

Buckyballs could keep water systems flowing

... fellow in Duke's environmental and civil engineering department. The results of his experiments were ... said Claudia Gunsch, assistant professor of civil engineering at Duke's Pratt School of engineering and senior member of the research team. "These ...

MIT uses nano-origami to build tiny electronic devices

... now is planar," says Tony Nichol, a mechanical engineering graduate student working on the project. "We want ... brain regions, says Nader Shaar, a mechanical engineering graduate student working on the project. ... by associate professor of mechanical engineering Carol Livermore, has devised a promising method ...

New Genomatica Chemical Process Targets Ailing Ethanol Assets

... the current economic environment. The Genomatica engineering team immediately determined that MEK fit the ... said Jay Keasling, professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering at the University of ... of BDO. The company is now developing the process engineering plans for a demonstration plant to ...

M2S Expert gives address "Applying the Principles of Six Sigma in the Imaging Core Lab" at Imaging for Clinical Trials conference

... at M2S, Inc. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Marra was ... by the Dartmouth College Thayer School of engineering and by the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center ...

New Educational Website Celebrates the Accomplishments of Engineers

... in conjunction with the National Academy of engineering (NAE), has developed a new website for students ... , in conjunction with the National Academy of engineering (NAE) , has developed a new website for students ... life" and highlight the Draper Prize-winning engineering technologies that help a person through his or ...

ECBC Now Accepting Applications for 2009 Minority Undergraduate Summer Internship Program

... weeks, MUSIP will provide students with limited engineering and applied research experience the opportunity ... participate in integrated science, technology and engineering solutions. Selected students, chosen to work ... with an ECBC mentor to conduct science and engineering research, will present their results or findings ...

Sangamo BioSciences Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Financial Results

... enabling technology agreements in cell line engineering for protein production including $3.0 million ... diseases. Sangamo's core competencies enable the engineering of a class of DNA-binding proteins known as zinc finger DNA-binding proteins (ZFPs). By engineering ZFPs that recognize a specific DNA sequence ...

GEN Reports on Growing Reliance on Microfluidics Technology

... $1.9 billion in three years, reports Genetic engineering and Biotechnology News ( GEN ); ( ... ebicovny@liebertpub.com Genetic engineering and Biotechnology News ( www.genengnews.com ), ... John Sterling, Editor in Chief, Genetic engineering and Biotechnology News (914) 740-2196, ...

David Bagley Joins Histogen as President

... experience and background in the field of tissue engineering will be a great asset to Histogen as we move ... more than 20 years of cell biology and tissue engineering industry experience to Histogen. He has been a contributor to operational, scientific and engineering advancements in the development of several ...

Sigma-Aldrich and Sangamo BioSciences Announce the Achievement of Key Throughput Milestone in Research Reagents Agreement

... transcription factors, only ZFPs are amenable to engineering and precise targeting to a particular gene, or genes, of interest. By engineering ZFPs that recognize a specific DNA sequence, ... diseases. Sangamo's core competencies enable the engineering of a class of DNA-binding proteins known as zinc ...

BioNanomatrix Appoints Michael Kochersperger as Vice President of Engineering

... of BioNanomatrix. "He has broad product-focused engineering expertise combined with a record of success in ... to market on time and within budget. Michael's engineering experience and leadership skills will be ... BioNanomatrix, Michael was vice president of engineering at New Brunswick Scientific, a division of ...

Researchers control the assembly of nanobristles into helical clusters

... alike. Researchers at the Harvard School of engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered a way ... Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired engineering at Harvard, expect such work will help further define the emerging science and engineering of functional self-assembly and pattern formation ...

GEN Joins Charles Darwin 2009 Celebration

... honor Darwin's contributions and legacy. Genetic engineering and Biotechnology News ( GEN ) is taking part in ... ebicovny@liebertpub.com Genetic engineering and Biotechnology News (GEN) ( ... Contact: John Sterling, Editor in Chief, Genetic engineering and Biotechnology News (914) 740-2196, ...

Norton & Associates Inc. Adds $3bnUSD Commercial Real Estate Investment P & L Management Holding Group; US Property Portfolio Inc.

... Associates Inc. provides P & L Management, re engineering of existing portfolios with added values (tax ... private investment funding, Development, engineering and Construction Management firm announces the ... that provides receivership asset management, re engineering and marketing to private equity investors. ...

Synthetic Biology Importance in the 21st Century

... an emerging discipline that combines science and engineering in order to design and build novel biological ... scientific field lies in the potential to apply engineering principles to the fundamental components of ... scientific discipline that combines science and engineering in order to design and build novel biological ...