The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announces 2019 Graduate Fellows
From designing safer robots to repairing damaged nervous systems, many of this year's Fellows apply an interdisciplinary approach while addressing ...
Tag: Biomedical/Environmental/Chemical Engineering
UTSA faculty receive $2 million in CAREER Awards to advance research
Credit: The University of Texas at San Antonio (San Antonio, April 16, 2019) - Four University of Texas at San ...
New report examines the safety of using dispersants in oil spill clean ups
A multi-disciplinary team of scientists has issued a series of findings and recommendations on the safety of using dispersal agents ...
Best in snow: New scientific device creates electricity from snowfall
The first-of-its-kind nanogenerator designed by UCLA researchers and colleagues also acts as a weather stationCredit: Stuart Wolpert/UCLA UCLA researchers and ...
Low-calorie sweetener derived from lactose gets manufacturing boost from yeast
Credit: Photo courtesy Yong-Su Jin CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The quest to satisfy the sweet tooth without adding to the waistline ...
Synthetic peptide can inhibit toxicity, aggregation of protein in Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer's is a disease of aggregation. Neurons in the human brain make a protein called amyloid beta. Such proteins on ...
Princeton scientists discover an interaction that helps cancers spread to bone
Credit: Image courtesy of Mark Esposito and Yibin Kang A Princeton-led team of researchers have discovered a factor that promotes ...
Engineering ‘hairpins’ increases CRISPR accuracy
Added piece of RNA could improve the precision of CRISPR 50-foldCredit: Les Todd DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers at Duke ...
Artificial intelligence singles out neurons faster than a human can
Deep-learning algorithm maps active neurons as accurately as humans in a fraction of the time.Credit: Yiyang Gong, Duke University DURHAM, ...
Scientists develop artificial chemical receptor to assist viral transduction for T cell engineering
Credit: CAI Lintao Engineered T cell immunotherapy, such as chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) and T cell receptor T ...
‘Molecular scissors’ for plastic waste
Enzyme MHETase decodedCredit: Martin Künsting/HZB Plastics are excellent materials: extremely versatile and almost eternally durable. But this is also exactly ...
UC Davis designer receives STEM grant from Johnson & Johnson
One of six faculty in nation to receive mentoring and fundingCredit: Courtesy photo Melding computing, chemistry, biotech, anatomy, human behavior, ...
New imaging technique reveals ‘burst’ of activity before cell death
Novel dual-PWS platform reveals connections between macromolecular structure and dynamic movement in the chromatin within eukaryotic cells Studying the movement ...
New SCATTIRSTORM microscope could improve bioenergy production
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The construction of a new multimodal optical microscope, SCATTIRSTORM, that could enable more efficient bioenergy production, ...
The right polymers for the job
Technology makes fuel cells more powerful, more durable, less expensiveCredit: Photo illustration by Joy Smoker One of the most promising ...
Getting closer: Finding out why the immune system attacks itself
B cells gone bad could be the culprit in rheumatoid arthritisCredit: University of Houston Biomolecular researcher Navin Varadarajan has published ...
Bright spot analysis for photodynamic diagnosis of brain tumors using confocal microscopy
Credit: Kanazawa University Photodynamic diagnosis using 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) is now widely used for neurosurgical resection of brain tumors. Distinguishing ...
CNIO researchers succeed at removing some types of pancreatic cancer in animal models
Researchers from the Experimental Oncology Group, led by Mariano Barbacid at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), have published ...
New center founded to develop more efficient flexible solar cells
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- New organic materials for creating advanced, flexible, light-weight solar cells and electronics for military and civilian ...
Ultrasound aligns living cells in bioprinted tissues
Credit: Rohan Shirwaiker, NC State University North Carolina State University researchers have developed a technique to improve the characteristics of ...
