U-M scientist to talk about tissue engineering at AAAS
Scientists have a pretty good handle on how to teach human cells to do tricks in a laboratory---things like getting soft cells from the mouth's lining to form bone. But in the real world, accomplishing such feats is more complex. Regenerating the jaw bone of a person undergoing radiation therapy for cancer means managing the constant bacteria bath of a human mouth as well as compensating...Ants Genetic Engineering Leads To Species Interdependency
Findings reported last week reveal how anevolutionary innovation involving the sharing of genes between two antspecies has given rise to a deep-seated dependency between them for thesurvival of both species populations.The new work illustrates how genetic exchange through interbreedingbetween two species can give rise to a system of interdependence at ahigh level of biological organization...Supercomputer Dedicated To Bioengineering, Computational Biology Installed
The University of California, San Diego, with support from the National Institutes of Health and the Whitaker Foundation, has installed a supercomputer dedicated to solving a wide range of challenging biological problems. The 210-node Dell PowerEdge Linux cluster capable of 2.6 trillion mathematical operations per second, the second most powerful computer cluster on campus, will be used to analyz...Programmable cells: Engineer turns bacteria into living computers
In a step toward making living cells function as if they were tiny computers, engineers at Princeton have programmed bacteria to communicate with each other and p...Duke engineers develop new 3-D cardiac imaging probe
Biomedical engineers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have created a new three-dimensional ultrasound cardiac imaging probe. Inserted inside the esophagus, the probe creates a picture of the whole heart in the time it takes for current ultrasound technology to image a single heart cross section. The new probe has considerable potential not only for evaluating the condition...Biomedical engineering conference invites manufacturers
The University of Wisconsin-Madison already puts on an annual design event at the end of each spring semester, but this year...Re-engineering our economy to be sustainable and profitable
Today, sustainability still carries some linguistic baggage, but those same business execs might stick around to tal...Mac attack was unfair, says UW engineer
In that case, it took just 30 minutes for someone...UW Biomedical Engineering awarded $2.9 million research grant
, named for the late biomedical device inventor, has awarded the Biomedical Engineering department at UW-Madison a five-year, $580,000 annual grant for pursuing translational research, the repackaging and rethinking of existing pure research to get it ready for applications in the private sector. At the end...3M donates $1.6 million to UW-Madison engineering building
The gift will take the form of $1.4 million in cash and $200,000 in 3M multimedia...Back injury cured by engineers
According to engineers at Cleavland University, people with back injury use the wrong muscles and thereby put themselves at risk of further problems. Back injury is a common problem. People who have had a back problem tend to find it recurs. Researchers at the Biodynamics Laboratory have found that this is because they tend to protect their injury by creating a big stress on their spine afterward...Regulators Object Drug Produced from Genetically Engineered Farm Animals
European regulators have not given the green signal to a drug produced in the milk of genetically engineered farm animals// . This is a step retrograde to a budding industry that sought to enable low cost pharmaceutical options from farm animals GTC Biotherapeutics, proponents of this drug, have decided to appeal the decision, expressing their opinion that the verdict came about only...Bioengineering production strains - Microbia develops new methods
The recently published issue of Nature Biotechnology outlines a new method developed by Microbia Ltd.'s scientists for rapidly identifying genes required for the production of industrial molecules produced in microbes. This is an advancement in the company's ability to improve the properties// of microbial cells for biomanufacturing pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals. This new technology enables...Stem cell therapy for developing new trachea using Tissue engineering
Researchers from Children’s Hospital of Boston have reconstructed defective windpipes using tissue engineering in fetal lambs. The researchers used amniotic fluid for growing the sections of cartilage tube // and then implanted these living tissues into lambs, while they were in the womb. This technique of tissue engineering is used for altering birth defects. Undifferentiated stem cell from amni...Mixed Opinion Regarding Common Medical And Engineering Entrance Test
There has been a mixed response from private professional colleges regarding the issue of having a common entrance examination for admission into medical and engineering colleges // . Few educational institutions are under the opinion that the admission should be based on higher secondary marks alone. Following the judgment of the Supreme court that private colleges have the right to d...Efficacy of OrbusNeich's Genous Bio-Engineered R Stent Compares Favorably to Drug-Eluting Stents
Risk of Late Thrombosis is Minimized with Genous Stent BARCELONA, Spain, May 23, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- The efficacy ofOrbusNeich's Genous(TM) Bio-engineered R stent compares favorablyto that of drug-eluting stents, while the risk of late thrombosisis minimized with the Genous stent, according to an interimanalysis of post-marketing data presented today by Robbert deWinter, M.D., Ph.D., at...