Category Archives: BioEngineering

Demystifying Medicine 2015 - Malaria: Bioengineering and the Global Epidemic of a Killer Demystifying Medicine 2015 - Malaria: Bioengineering and the Global Epidemic of a Killer Air date: Tuesday, March 03, 2015, 4:00:00 PM Category: Demystifying Medicine Runtime: 01:59:55 ... By: nihvcast … Continue reading →

Harrison (PhD candidate, Bioengineering) and Veronica (PhD candidate, Biophysics) are students who tackle the most complex scientific problems in a fun and novel way - using LEGO bricks. LegoScopes were developed as a way to attract kids to science - to examine and dissect scientific issues and encourage team collaboration while being able to identify failure sooner than traditional science methods. Harrison and Veronica bring their LegoScope table to various schools and events such as the Bay Area Science Festival to spark an interest in science with kids. We are driven by the idea that when the best research, the best education and the best patient care converge, great breakthroughs are achieved. We pursue this excellence through our people. We are all UCSF, united by a driving passion to solve the most challenging health issues of our time and to redefine what's possible.Join the conversation atwww.ucsf.edu/oneUCSF. See more here: Harrison Liu and Veronica Pessino: Building Future Scientists with LEGO Bricks … Continue reading →

Boffins at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering at Zurich have developed an untethered, jumping, roly-poly soft robot powered by explosive gases. Soft Robotics is a field of bio-inspired robotics which derives its inspiration from animals such as starfish, worms, squid and octopuses. Avoiding the use of hard components in the design allows the robot to maneuver in situations where a rigid gait would be inefficient. While movement in soft robots can be driven by magnetic fields, electrical charge or pneumatic expansion, the untethered, jumping, roly-poly hybrid robot is combustion-actuated. Powered by nitrous oxide-propane/butane gas mixtures, the 2.1kg robot can jump and cover a distance of 0.5m with a single hop-and-roll movement. In the article An Untethered, Jumping Roly-Poly Soft Robot Driven by Combustion published in the peer-reviewed Soft Robotics journal, the researchers stated their intention was to illustrate the application of fuels to directly power a soft machine, which was a success, although in terms of running time, this soft robot still has to be further improved. Operation time was no longer than 2 min, which is clearly unacceptable for potential outdoor use. The roly-poly behaviour of the Zurich team's robot is in stark contrast to the disconcerting crawl-cum-slither … Continue reading →

IMAGE:University of Utah bioengineering associate professor Gregory Clark holds up the tiny Utah Slanted Electrode Array, a neural interface that connects with nerves in an amputee's arm. The array reads... view more Credit: University of Utah College of Engineeering SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 8, 2015 - University of Utah researchers have received $1.4 million to further develop an implantable neural interface that will allow an amputee to move an advanced prosthetic hand with just his or her thoughts. The neural interface will also convey feelings of touch and movement. Called the Utah Slanted Electrode Array, the neural interface uses 100 electrodes that connect with nerves in an amputee's arm to read signals from the brain telling the hand how to move. Likewise, the neural interface delivers meaningful sensations of touch and movement from a prosthetic hand back to the brain. "Imagine wiretapping into those nerves, which are like a hotline between the brain and the body," said U bioengineering associate professor Gregory Clark, who is leading the research team involving neuroengineers, material scientists, electrical and computer engineers, surgeons and rehabilitation specialists. "We can pick up the nerve signals, translate them, and relay them to an artificial hand. People wouldn't have … Continue reading →

EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) - If it wasn't for one tiny, but complex device, Indiana State Excise Officer Chuckie Butler may have missed out on some big things in life. "I'm very thankful for it," Butler says. "I mean, there's just no other way to say it. It's hard to convey that." But Butler will at least get to try, when he meets the people who changed his life. "It's like meeting a comic book superhero," Butler says. Chuckie's superheroes are the Hochmairs, a bioengineering power couple who helped create Medel cochlear implants. He's been a firearms instructor since before he got the implant. But with only hearing aids, many sounds at a range were too high a frequency to register on his severely damaged nerves. Now that's all changed. "I can hear rifle malfunctions about the same time as a person with normal hearing would hear it," Butler says. "I can hear the ricochets and maintain my safety as well as the safety of the students on the line as well." Students, like his confinement-officer wife who we met today. He can now hear perfectly during a lesson or on the phone. "Now he can give just a quick hello … Continue reading →

Bioengineering DS This is a digital story on a bioeningeering project undertaken by the Ghost Watershed Alliance Society in collaboration with the Elbow River Watershed Partne... By: Ghost Watershed … Continue reading →

Bioengineering and Nanotechnology: Preventing Antibiotics Restistant Microbes Speaker: Dr. James L. Hedrick, Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA CLINAM 7/ 2014, 7th Conference and Exhibition, June 23-25, 2014. By: TAUVOD … Continue reading →

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Ever wanted to change the color of your flowers on demand? Well thanks to a pair of biologists inColorado, you might soon be able to do just that.Nikolai Braun and Keira Havens of Revolution Bioengineering have figured out a way to hack the biology of certain flowers and cause them to transition from one color to another. Together, theyve created a new breed of petunia that can change from white to red, and back again, whenever you want. The science behind it is actually fairlystraightforward, too. Heres how Braun and Havens describe it on their website: Most flower color is the result of anthocyanins, small molecules naturally produced in large quantities by a biosynthetic pathway. In white flowers, this pathway is often broken an enzyme doesnt work as expected and the flower cannot produce anthocyanins. If we know what enzyme isnt working, we can use biotechnology to fix the broken pathway by expressing the enzyme. Each section of the flower has a specific set of instructions in its DNA on which genes to use. We can use these instructions to re-introduce the enzyme in a pretty pattern across the whole flower, in a star shape, around the edge of the … Continue reading →

MIAMI (PRWEB) March 02, 2015 Global Stem Cells Group.com has announced a newly formed alliance with Shenzhen HANK Bioengineering Co., Ltd. and its Chinese-American founder Mingjie Zhang, M.D., Ph.D. The alliance will establish a stem cells training course in the City of Shenzen, Guangdong Province, China in September 2015. Shenzhen HANK is a biotechnology company established in 2013 by Zhang, an award-winning scientist, microbiologist and virologist, to integrate research, development, production, and sales of biomedical products. Zhang worked at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control from 1991 to 1993, the U.S. National Institute of Health (NIH) from 1993 to 1994, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 1995 to 2013 in various research positions including National Research Center (NRC) senior associate from 1995 to 1997. In 2012 he earned the Scientific Achievement Award from the USFDA for outstanding achievement in natural killer (NK) cell research, and holds numerous awards for his work in the fields of HIV, HCV, West Nile virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, and quality performance. In 2013, Dr. Zhang expanded on his work in stem cell research and development by launching HANK Bioengineering Co. Ltd. in Shenzhen, China. HANK is a 4,300 square foot (400 square meters) … Continue reading →