First-of-its-kind hydrogel platform enables on-demand production of medicines, chemicals
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin A team of chemical engineers has developed a new ...
Tag: Biomedical/Environmental/Chemical Engineering
Putting precision oncology into practice
Credit: Rush Production Group Rush University Medical Center is the first health care organization to launch medical record company Epic's ...
Cold plasma patch could make immunotherapy more effective for treating melanoma
The patch significantly prolonged survival, inhibited growth of tumors in miceCredit: Zhen Gu Lab/UCLA Los Angeles - An interdisciplinary team ...
Targeting chronic infections and deadly bacteria
UH researcher examines self-digestion mechanism in persister cellsCredit: University of Houston A University of Houston engineering professor is examining the ...
‘Wristwatch’ monitors body chemistry to boost athletic performance, prevent injury
Credit: Murat Yokus, NC State University Engineering researchers have developed a device the size of a wristwatch that can monitor ...
A material benefit to society, Sandia scientist elected AAAS fellow
Credit: Sandia National Laboratories A perennial inventor of advanced materials has been elected fellow of the American Association for the ...
Seeing the invisible — A novel gas imaging system
Credit: Department of Biomedical Devices and Instrumentation,TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University develop a novel gas imaging system ...
Assessing ‘stickiness’ of tumor cells could improve cancer prognosis
Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering A team of researchers led by the University of California San ...
FEFU scientist kicks off developing of photopolymer silicone for 3D printing
Credit: Unsplash Presidential Grant was awarded to the young scientist from the School of Natural Sciences of Far Eastern Federal ...
Stellar student researchers
Two teams of Pitt students get ready to send experiments to international space stationCredit: Aimee Obidzinski/University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (Jan. ...
WPI researcher to probe link between cell death, calcification, and heart valve disease
American Heart Association awards $154,000 for research into leading cause of aortic valve dysfunctionCredit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Mass. - ...
Solving the riddle of strigolactone biosynthesis in plants
The discovery of orobanchol synthaseCredit: Kobe University Strigolactones (SLs) are a class of chemical compounds found in plants that have ...
One quarter of bacterial pathogens can spread antibiotic resistance directly to peers
Antibiotics do not affect the speed at which pathogens share resistance genesCredit: Allison Lopatkin, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical ...
To make amino acids, just add electricity
Researchers at Kyushu University achieve highly efficient amino acid synthesis from biomass-derivable acids and water using electric energyCredit: Szabolcs Arany, ...
Portable device to monitor the blink reflex cleared by Food and Drug Administration
Credit: Image courtesy of blinktbi. EyeStat (blinktbi, Charleston, SC), a portable, lightweight device for measuring the natural blink reflex, received ...
Color-changing bandages sense and treat bacterial infections
Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b01104 According to the World Health Organization, antibiotic resistance is one of ...
Organoids (in vitro brains) to study pediatric brain tumors
A large-scale production of in vitro tumors could make it possible to perform large drug screenings to identify new brain ...
What’s in your water?
Researchers identify new toxic byproducts of disinfecting drinking waterCredit: Marissa Lanterman/Johns Hopkins University Mixing drinking water with chlorine, the United ...
Protein pores packed in polymers make super-efficient filtration membranes
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin AUSTIN, Texas -- A multidisciplinary team of engineers and ...
Iron nanorobots show their true mettle
Credit: 2019 KAUST Drug-coated iron nanowires that can be guided to the site of a tumor using an external magnetic ...
