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Bioengineers create stable networks of blood vessels

Yale biomedical engineers have created an implantable system that can form and stabilize a functional network of fine blood vessels critical for supporting tissues in the body, according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. For body ...

UCSD study finds anthrax toxins also harmful to fruit flies

...ools could accelerate progress in various areas of biomedical research. Guichard first conceived this study in 2002, to apply her experience in molecular genetic studies to research that had medical application. At that time, after the spate of anthrax-laced letters in 2001, anthrax became a charged topic in ...

Antibacterial coatings cut infection rates

...ntibacterial coatings on hip and knee implants and biomedical devices such as catheters could cut infection rate...ark TM are developing nanometre thin coatings for biomedical implants and biomedical devices that prevent bacterial colonisation of implants that result in septi...

Superconducting magnet attracts molecular research

...her Boston-area universities engaged in NIH-funded biomedical research, will use it around the clock. Experiments usually run in weeklong blocks, though some may run for several weeks at a time, according to Pochapsky. Magnetic resonance is a physical phenomenon based on the magnetic property of an atom's nucl...

Making medicine 'smarter'

...dvancing breast cancer research, train students in biomedical engineering and promote interdisciplinary research at FSU," she said. ...

Mapping alcohol brain damage

...-year, $1.23 million grant from the United States' biomedical funding arm, the National Institute of Health (NIH) to find out. Chronic alcohol abuse kills brain cells in the front of the brain, which affect planning, and social interactions and inhibitions. The UQ team with collaborators from The University...

New methods offer insight into regulatory DNA

...lcome Trust Sanger Institute. "The journey for our biomedical research is from DNA sequence to individual people...mation and transform them into information of real biomedical utility. The methods described here, with the power of the HapMap data and the cell cultures availab...

From one cell, many possible cures

...n Tallahassee, Fla. reports that it has designed a biomedical device that will allow stem cells derived from adu.... Teng Ma, an assistant professor of chemical and biomedical engineering at the Florida A&M University-FSU College of Engineering, and colleagues have create...

Do the Europeans turn ill sitting up so late?

...This EU-financed sleep research project, named"The biomedical and sociological effects of sleep restriction" will last for four yearsand is coordinated by Dr. Tarja Porkka-Heiskanen (Stenberg) MD, PhD, at theUniversity of Helsinki, Institute of Biomedicine. The objective of this sleep restriction research is t...

New understanding of regeneration gained by Forsyth scientists

...ogy of pattern formation, and for developing novel biomedical approaches. Planaria have powerful regeneration c... applications towards induction of regeneration in biomedical settings." Dr. Levin and his team ultimately hope to gain an understanding of how adult stem cells a...

Yale participates in global human genome initiative

...lobal Initiative, an alliance of top international biomedical research centers formed to speed scientific and me... of the Global Initiative have a broad spectrum of biomedical research interests that will provide a forum for sharing research protocols, establishing experiment...

Scientists pinpoint inflammation gene

...elieve this discovery will be of great interest to biomedical and pharmaceutical researchers because of an already heightened understanding of the role of inflammation in so many human disorders. "Practically every common disease involves an inflammation component," said John Blangero, Ph.D., a scientist at th...

Polymer gel can block toxic leakage problem in gene therapy

Duke University biomedical engineers have devised a potentially patentable me...f 100 to 1,000 times," said Fan Yuan, an associate biomedical engineering professor at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering who led the studies. "That's enough of a...

Study Unlocks Insects?Secret for Love in the Dark

...ional biology--to solve major, complex problems in biomedical science that no single laboratory could address on its own. To identify all the genes involved in responding to critical injury, the Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury glue grant team injected healthy volunteers with bacterial endotoxin. ...

Study reveals genomics of inflammation from severe injury

...ional biology--to solve major, complex problems in biomedical science that no single laboratory could address on its own. To identify all the genes involved in responding to critical injury, the Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury glue grant team injected healthy volunteers with bacterial endotoxin. ...

Anti-cancer drugs may hold promise for premature aging disorder

...cal and dental students the opportunity to conduct biomedical research under the direct mentorship of senior NIH research scientists. ...

Scientists determine structure of enzyme that disrupts bacterial virulence

...osis, reduce bacterial biowarfare threatsA team of biomedical researchers from Brandeis University and the University of Texas at Austin has determined the first 3-dimensional structure of an enzyme that may be pivotal in preventing certain bacterial infections in plants, animals and humans, according to a stud...

University of Delaware researchers develop cancer 'nanobomb'

...ectromechanical systems (MEMS), nanotechnology and biomedical research. ...

'Smart' nanoprobes light up disease

...f the spectrum that has no background component in biomedical imaging. Near-infrared light also passes harmlessly through skin, muscle and cartilage, so the new probes could alert doctors to tumors and other diseases sites deep in the body without the need for a biopsy or invasive surgery. The probe's design m...

Researchers learn how blood vessel cells cope with their pressure-packed job

...ellow Roland Kaunas, now an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Texas A&M University, with the help of UCSD laboratory assistant Phu Nguyen, found that unstretched cells or cells that were stretched only 1 percent of their length contained actin fibers with no directional orientation. However, ...

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