Category Archives: BioEngineering

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) Modern medicine is evolving quickly. Now, with the introduction of bioengineering, doctors can have tissue made for their patients and veterinarians are having great success using nanotechnology in our pets. Dr. Jed Johnson has a PhD in engineering and his firm engineers body tissue. The part that I focus on is tissue engineering, where we are basically focusing and building or engineering new tissue for the body, Dr. Johnson said. Their nanotechnology is an integral part of regenerative medicine. Weve all seen regeneration. Weve all had cuts on our hands, right? And those cuts heal. So, our body is capable of healing, but we have to provide the right environment, Dr. Johnson said. Enter nanofibers. It takes a hundred of the microscopic fibers laid side-by-side to be as wide as a human hair. Weave them together, and they provide a framework for healing. Cells and tissue cant move across open space, they have to crawl on something, and this is really the key aspect to having a scaffold is it allows those cells to have a highway to move on to refill that wound, regenerate that native tissue, Dr. Johnson said. See the article here: Local Vets Using … Continue reading →

Jacob Calvert, a 2011 St. Francis Borgia Regional High School graduate, recently was selected as a 2015 Marshall Scholarship recipient. Calvert currently is a senior studying bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The international award will allow him to pursue graduate study for two years in England. Calvert is the son of Eric and Kimberly Calvert, Washington. He is the third University of Illinois student in five years to earn the Marshall Scholarship and is one of 31 recipients in the 2015 program selected from approximately 900 nominated candidates across the country. About the Scholarship Established in 1953, the Marshall Scholarship enables U.S. students to conduct graduate study in the United Kingdom as a way to strengthen the relationship between the two countries. The program honors George C. Marshall, the primary author of the Marshall Plan, which helped the United States restore the economies of European countries devastated by World War II. During his career as a U.S. soldier and statesman, Marshall served as a special ambassador to China, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, and Army Chief of Staff. And, in 1953, he became the only soldier to earn the Nobel Peace Prize. As part of Calverts … Continue reading →

Menlo Park, CA (PRWEB) December 17, 2014 Gene synthesis and bioengineering company DNA2.0 Inc. announces today that it has entered into a technology access and services agreement with Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) to apply DNA2.0s proprietary protein engineering technology, known as ProteinGPS to ADMs industrial enzyme engineering process. We are extremely excited that the global leader ADM has adopted our ProteinGPS engineering platform. This proprietary bioengineering technology has now been validated through many scientific collaborations, peer-reviewed scientific publications and strong underlying IP. It is exciting to see broad adoption of the technology with partners ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small startups, and in commercial fields ranging from chemical biocatalysis to therapeutic proteins, said Claes Gustafsson, DNA2.0s Chief Commercial Officer. Our ProteinGPS technology allows us to engineer any measurable biological function, such as activity, stability, immunogenicity, substrate specificity, manufacturability, etc., using only a few hundred samples in real commercial endpoint application assays. ADM is eager to work with DNA2.0 to enhance and expand our R&D technology portfolio in the area of protein engineering. We truly appreciate DNA2.0s GPS technology platform and DNA2.0s expertise in bioengineering, and we look forward to a productive collaboration in producing the most efficient enzymes … Continue reading →

Contact Information Available for logged-in reporters only Newswise MANHATTAN, KANSAS The National Academy of Inventors is honoring Karen Burg, Kansas State University's vice president for research, for her leadership and innovation in bioengineering research. Burg is one of 170 academic innovators and inventors named as the newest fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. The 414 total fellows represent more than 150 prestigious research universities and governmental and nonprofit research institutions. "I am excited to be associated with this outstanding group of innovators," Burg said. "It is rewarding to work collaboratively to solve complex problems that affect people." Fellows are nominated by their peers and chosen for their efforts creating or facilitating outstanding inventions and innovations that have improved quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. "We congratulate Dr. Burg on this distinction and we are proud of her achievements," said Kirk Schulz, university president. "Burg's own bioengineering research is an example of true innovation, and her leadership as our vice president for research is helping Kansas State University become a Top 50 public research university by 2025." The deputy U.S. commissioner for patent operations, from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, will induct the fellows during … Continue reading →

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Electrodes on the scalp can reveal electrical activity in the brain associated with seizures. Adrianna Williams/Corbis hide caption Electrodes on the scalp can reveal electrical activity in the brain associated with seizures. An online contest for data scientists has produced a great leap forward in efforts to predict when someone with epilepsy is going to have a seizure. The winning team used data on electrical activity in the brain to develop an algorithm that predicted seizures 82 percent of the time. That "blew the top off" previous efforts, says Brian Litt, a professor of neurology and bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania who helped oversee the competition. In the past, he says, researchers have struggled to find an algorithm that did better than chance. "This has real clinical potential," says Walter Koroshetz, acting director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a sponsor of the contest. "We'd like to develop therapies that come in when they are needed instead of people taking medicine all the time." Epilepsy, which is often compared to an electrical storm in the brain, affects nearly 1 percent of people worldwide. The most common treatment is medication, which can leave people feeling tired or … Continue reading →

Bioengineering Undergraduate Video Contest Results In Fall 2014, BioEHS hosted the Bioengineering Undergraduate Video Contest. The contest aimed to help undergraduate researchers practice their communication ... By: Bioengineering Honor Society … Continue reading →

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 8-Dec-2014 Contact: Kat J. McAlpine katherine.mcalpine@wyss.harvard.edu 617-432-8266 Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard @wyssinstitute (BOSTON and CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts) - One of the reasons cancer is so deadly is that it can evade attack from the body's immune system, which allows tumors to flourish and spread. Scientists can try to induce the immune system, known as immunotherapy, to go into attack mode to fight cancer and to build long lasting immune resistance to cancer cells. Now, researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) show a non-surgical injection of programmable biomaterial that spontaneously assembles in vivo into a 3D structure could fight and even help prevent cancer and also infectious disease such as HIV. Their findings are reported in Nature Biotechnology. "We can create 3D structures using minimally invasive delivery to enrich and activate a host's immune cells to target and attack harmful cells in vivo," said the study's senior author David Mooney, Ph.D., who is a Wyss Institute Core Faculty Member and the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard SEAS . Tiny biodegradable rod-like structures made from silica, known as mesoporous silica … Continue reading →