Tag: Biomedical/Environmental/Chemical Engineering

Credit: Kevin Walsh Researchers with the VA San Diego Healthcare System and the University of California San Diego have shown ...

Adhesive formed from bee spit and flower oil could form basis of new glues

Credit: Evan Atkinson Honey bees spend hours each day collecting pollen and packing it into tidy bundles attached to their ...

Engineers craft the basic building block for electrospun nanofibers

Credit: Peter Zhu/Michigan Tech Electrospinning uses electric fields to manipulate nanoscale and microscale fibers. The technique is well-developed but time-intensive ...

A pan-European expert forum to tackle the complexity of big data in personalized medicine

On January 1st 2019 the Horizon2020 Coordinating and Support Action "EU-STANDS4PM - A European standardization framework for data integration and ...

$6.1 million in grants pave way for TGen-led studies of deadly lung diseases

50,000 US patients annually diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis PHOENIX, Ariz. -- March 27, 2019 -- The Translational Genomics Research ...

Osteoblastic cell stimulation by pulsed electromagnetic fields

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 27, 2019-Bone fracture healing can be augmented with the application ...

Solving a hairy forensic problem

For decades, forensic scientists have tested strands of hair to reveal drug use or poisoning. But in recent years, reports ...

New 3-D printing approach makes cell-scale lattice structures

System could provide fine-scale meshes for growing highly uniform cultures of cells with desired properties A new way of making ...

TGen physician-in-chief receives Distinguished Public Service Award from AACR

Dr. Daniel Von Hoff recognized for 'extraordinary clinical research career' PHOENIX, Ariz. -- March 26, 2019 -- Dr. Daniel D. ...

Building starch backbones for lab-grown meat using Lego pieces

Credit: Patrick Mansell A new technique to spin starch fibers using Lego pieces could have future applications for lab-grown "clean" ...

Researchers unlock the biomechanics of how the Ebola virus attaches to its host cell

Lehigh University engineers, working with microbiologists at the University of Iowa, have developed a simple model for virus-host cell interaction ...

Smartphone test spots poisoned water risk to millions of lives

Credit: Marie-Anne Robertson A smartphone device could help millions of people avoid drinking water contaminated by arsenic. Researchers have developed ...

Smart wristband developed by Lithuanian researchers can alert about dangerous health conditions

Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania researchers are developing a smart wrist-worn device for monitoring of atrial fibrillation - a ...

NYU Tandon professor inducted into biomedical engineering elite