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Doctors closer to using gene analysis to help trauma patients

...uma.?/p> Dr. Ronald G. Tompkins, a surgeon and biomedical engineer at Massachusetts General Hospital, is leading the effort to develop standard operating procedures for the care of burn and trauma patients and increase understanding of the body’s molecular reactions to injury, including inflammation. The le...

Duke engineers develop new 3-D cardiac imaging probe

... tests on animals." Smith and his team, including biomedical engineering graduate student Chris Pua, developed the probe specifically for use in hospitals and clinics. For example, they used the outer casing of a commercially available 2-D TEE probe to house their new 3-D model. The casing design already has b...

Study reveals new technique for fingerprinting environmental samples

...in to the contributions DNA sequencing has made to biomedical sciences. "These DNA sequence fingerprints can be used to provide highly accurate assessments of the vitality of extremely diverse environments," said Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, Director of the DOE Office of Science, which supported the research. "These...

Nano-bumps could help repair clogged blood vessels

...rtificial joints once they are implanted. Now the biomedical engineers have seen the same kind of increased att...es, said Thomas Webster, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Purdue. The stents are small metal scaffolds that are inserted inside arteries to pr...

Disease diagnosis, biodefense among UH chemical research projects

...ed electronics, display technology, biosensors and biomedical devices. Advincula also is sole presenter on the paper "Electropatterning and nanopatterning of conjugated polymer ultrathin films: The precursor polymer approach." # Steven Baldelli, assistant professor of chemistry, will present research with appl...

Gene therapy promising for growing tooth-supporting bone

...," said Giannobile, also an associate professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Michigan Center for Oral Health Research. More work will need to be done before the approach can be tested in humans, Giannobile added. He said he optimistically would like to see initial trials begin in humans in fou...

Polymers with copper show promise for implanted sensors

...s is a major challenge for analytical chemists and biomedical engineers. The problem is, the body responds to th...on, the polymer coating must be very thin for most biomedical applications, which limits the amount of nitric oxide that can be stored and released from the thin ...

Not-for-profit publishers call NIH public access rule a missed opportunity

...fforts; # It will divert federal dollars away from biomedical research at a time of limited domestic discretiona...cted as responsible stewards of the scientific and biomedical literature for more than 100 years," Hogan said. "What we propose would expand this partnership in a...

Probing the promise and perils of nanoparticles

...ts promise, the prospect of using nanoparticles in biomedical applications and consumer products has raised conc... Literature, Science, and the Arts, and focuses on biomedical applications of nanomaterials. Collaborators on this work include James R. Baker, Jr., the Ruth Dow ...

US life expectancy about to decline, researchers say

...ovements in longevity from anticipated advances in biomedical technology. Researchers also believe the life-shortening effect of obesity could rise so rapidly in the United States -- from two to five years in the next 50 years -- that it may eventually exceed the current life-shortening effects of cancer or is...

Vampire bats keep out of trouble by running

... adviser John W. Hermanson, associate professor of biomedical sciences. What seemed like a crazy idea -- challenging these bats on an increasingly speedy treadmill -- revealed a novel ability which the researchers believe evolved independently to facilitate feeding behavior. "What we observed was like a horse ...

Breakthrough method in nanoparticle synthesis paves the way for new pharmaceutical and biomedical applications

... can be used in pharmaceutical synthesis and novel biomedical applications. This groundbreaking research was recently featured in the leading Chemistry journal, Angewandte Chemie, and a United States patent has been filed on the invention. Research Scientist Dr. Yu Han and IBN Executive Director Prof. Jackie ...

New methods of gene delivery using lasers

...ce our understanding of biology and to develop new biomedical devices. Although other research groups have touched on this area, the St Andrews group have greatly simplified the technique by using an extremely simple and versatile miniature violet laser which is compatible with standard microscopes. The method ...

NJIT Presidential Award winner takes stem cell research another step

... to reality. Arinzeh, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at NJIT, is researching the use of ste...hnical superstar," says Mike Jaffe, a professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry at NJIT. "She's at the leading edge of modern biology and if anyone can ta...

Tiny scaffolding allows stem cells to become working fat cells

...iss, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and of biomedical engineering at Ohio State University, reported this progress in the current issue of the journal Tissue Engineering. "There is a serious shortage of transplantable organs available for thousands of patients nationally," Kniss said. "One ultimate goa...

The Shapes Of Life: NIGMS Project Yields More Than 1,000 Protein Structures

...and diseased tissues.?In general, a broad range of biomedical researchers will benefit from the PSI’s technical advances, experimental data, and availability of new materials, such as reagents. “There are a lot of proteins that are incredibly important to understanding human biology and medicine, yet we know v...

Development of portable infectious disease detector

...chnologies mesh," saysJohn P. Wikswo, professor of biomedical engineering, physiology andphysics at Vanderbilt and director of VIIBRE. "We are already makingrapid progress on prototyping portable instruments for clinicaldiagnosis and biodefense.""Today the treatment for AIDS is very expensive and there is alway...

Scientists reveal molecular secrets of the malaria parasite

...ges. In turn, thatmolecular-level data may benefit biomedical scientists who areidentifying new targets for vaccines that would impede the parasiteduring stages when it is particularly vulnerable to intervention. "We hope this project will help vaccine researchers find the besttargets against malaria," says sc...

Probing The Promise And Perils Of Nanoparticles

...ts promise, the prospect of using nanoparticles in biomedical applications and consumer products has raised conc... Literature, Science, and the Arts, and focuses on biomedical applications of nanomaterials. Collaborators on this work include James R. Baker, Jr., the Ruth Dow ...

Scientists develop new color-coded test for protein folding

...ing to Zare, the new sensor may eventually provide biomedical researchers a fast, affordable method for detecting antibodies and other disease-related proteins. Acid and base In their experiment, Zare, postdoctoral fellow Soonwoo Chah and graduate student Matthew R. Hammond created a liquid solution containing...

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