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...UCSD medical/bioengineering reseachers show titanium debris satobtage artificial joints
Microscopic titanium particles weaken the bonding of hip, knee, and other joint replacements, according to research published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and the Jacobs School of Engineering. The team demonstrated that titanium implants are safe in large blocks, but at the microscopic...Disease diagnosis, bioengineering covered at state nano summit
Research into the evolution of protein design by a University of Houston professor will be featured among nearly 20 presentations at the 2005 Nano Summit Research Conference July 28. Sponsored by the Nanotechnology Found...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...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...Social engineering - Coming to an IT ship near you?
Have you noticed recently the earnest discussions about a seemingly inalienable right to blog on company time and company topics? OK, maybe that overstates the argument a little bit, but the case in which Apple fired a couple of employees for their blogging activities on what Apple considered competitive secrets is only one of several that have generated furrowed br...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...Medical And Engineering Students Take Out Rally
Medical and engineering students today took out a rally here to oppose the Centre's decision to implement 27 per cent reservation to OBC in higher educational institutions. // The students of Raipur Medical College Hospital, Dental College and engineering colleges today took out a rally and visited the Ravi Shankar Shukla University, Raipur Engineering College and other important pla...Engineering Nutrient-Rich Plants Made For Feasible By New Findings
Research conducted to better understand the mechanisms of micronutrient uptake, distribution, and regulation by Professor Mary Lou Guerinot has led to findings// that make engineering nutrient-rich plants, better able to grow in soils considered marginal and also increasing crop biomass in soils now in cultivation, more feasible. The findings have been presented by Guerinot at the Annual Meeting...