POSTS TAGGED AS biomedicine

Artificial Pancreas for Nocturnal Hypoglycemia in T1 Diabetes

An artificial pancreas is a closed loop device that delivers both insulin and glucagon and can be particularly advantageous [MORE]

Growing Heart Tissue in China

Because drugs can only slow the pace of heart failure and also because transplantable hearts are in short supply, [MORE]

NIH Top Grant Winners

In this NIH listing of grant winners in 2009, Johns Hopkins University ranked first with nearly three-quarters of a [MORE]

“Molecular Imprinting” for Plastic Antibodies

UC-Irvine chemistry professor Kenneth Shea has lead research in mice studies that shows two different fluorescent imaging probes-one attached [MORE]

Tissue Engineering for Hearing

Hearing loss will be a rising medical concern as “baby boomers” move into retirement.  Loud music over the years [MORE]

Bayer’s Medical Device Coating Business

While this news piece from Bayer MaterialSciences LLC (Pittsburgh) amounts to an advertisement, it does mention in interesting new [MORE]

Biology of Tasting Salt

In 1932, plant geneticist Albert Blakeslee and DuPont chemist Arthur Fox determined that taste acuity was a Mendelian trait [MORE]

AACC’s 2010 Awards

The American Association for Clinical Chemistry recently announced eight recipients of its annual awards who also will be inducted [MORE]

Silk Biochips

University of Sydney physicist Peter Domachuk has purified a silk protein, fibroin, and determined that it can be used [MORE]

Heart-Powered Medical Devices

The piezoelectric effect explains how zinc oxide nanowires can produce an electric current during mechanical stress.  Knowing this, materials [MORE]

“Suspended Animation” for Transplantable Organs

Hemant Thatte, a surgeon at the V.A. Hospital in Boston, has developed a liquid preservative that may be able [MORE]

How Spiders Store their Silk-Making Proteins

Using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, researchers at two German universities were able to unravel the process by which spiders [MORE]

Maryland’s “City of Science”

Unless the neighbors make a case against increased road traffic, a new $10b science city will proceed in Shady [MORE]

Micromasonry for Artificial Tissue Engineering

Micromasonry is the term researchers at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology have coined for encapsulating living [MORE]

Untangling Brain Pathways of Pretzel Syndrome

The mTOR pathway (named for the mammalian target of rapamycin), keys on a protein kinase that is involved in [MORE]

Bronchial Thermoplasty for Asthma

Asthmatx (Sunnyvale, CA) and the Virginia Hospital Center (Arlington, VA) recently began treating adult asthma patients with a new device [MORE]

Automated Minilab for Antibiotic Testing in Milk

Antibiotic residues in milk present two risks-sick cows, and a source of antibiotic resistance for milk drinkers.  Testing milk for [MORE]

Air Pollution Induced Hypertension

Researchers at the University of Dusiburg-Essen in Germany recently reported on their study that links air pollution to hypertension. [MORE]

Partners for Digital Pathology

Dr. Gerd Binning

Royal Philips Electonics, in the Netherlands, and Munich-based Definiens have signed an agreement to pursue molecular imaging.  [MORE]

A Boost for Biobanking

“Biobanking is really one of the cornerstones of a translational research program.  It all comes down to the quality and [MORE]