Tag: Biomedical/Environmental/Chemical Engineering

April 22, 2019

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Surplus industrial carbon dioxide creates an opportunity to convert waste into ...

Study shows continuing impacts of Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Findings reveal that restoration of marsh vegetation is key to overall recoveryCredit: © D. Johnson/VIMS. Nine years ago tomorrow--April 20, ...

Through thick and thin: Neutrons track lithium ions in battery electrodes

UVA Engineering research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory aims to gain insights into the electrochemical characteristics of lithium-ion batteries' materials ...

On-chip drug screening for identifying antibiotic interactions in eight hours

Credit: KAIST A KAIST research team developed a microfluidic-based drug screening chip that identifies synergistic interactions between two antibiotics in ...

Using Edge AI to listen to the ‘silent voices’ of cattle

Field testing commenced with aim to improve animal welfare in dairy farming and livestock industriesCredit: Research Center for the Earth ...

In distinguished company

Four UC Santa Barbara professors join the 2019 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences UC Santa Barbara ...

Bioengineers add cooperative molecules to their toolkit for programming signal processing

Credit: Image courtesy of Rice University Elaborate molecular networks inside living cells enable them to sense and process many signals ...

Bioengineers program cells as digital signal processors

Synthetic biologists add tunable, analog-to-digital converter to their toolkitCredit: Rice University HOUSTON -- (April 18, 2019) -- Synthetic biologists have ...

Making digital tissue imaging better

Biomedical researchers develop first open-source, quality-control review tool for fast-growing digital pathology field CLEVELAND--There's a low-tech problem troubling the high-tech ...

Antimicrobial paints have a blind spot

Spore-forming bacteria survive on surfaces coated with antimicrobial, latex paintsCredit: Jinglin Hu/Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. -- Antimicrobial paints offer the ...

Could computer games help farmers adapt to climate change?

Scientists from Sweden and Finland say gaming presents both challenges and benefits for communicating climate change methods to farmers Web-based ...

Light and peptides: New method diversifies natural building blocks of life

Credit: J. Waser/EPFL Discovering new biological targets is a critical part of our ongoing battle against diseases. Over the years, ...

New concept for novel fire extinguisher in space

Bacterial therapy in a dish