Heart attack in a dish: a 3D model
(Medical University of South Carolina) Researchers in the Medical University of South Carolina Clemson Bioengineering program report in Nature Biomedical Engineering that they have developed human cardiac organoids that model what happens in a heart attack in a microtissue less than 1 millimeter in diameter. This is the first model that accurately recapitulates the complex tissue dysfunction after a heart attack with multiple human cell types in one organoid. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 12, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Texas A & M researchers light cells using nanosheets for cancer treatment
(Texas A&M University) Scientists in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University are developing new ways to advance the field of regenerative medicine and cancer treatment. They are developing a 2D nanosheet that is 1,000 times smaller than a strand of hair. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - June 10, 2020 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news

Mount Sinai receives Microsoft AI for health grant to support COVID informatics center
(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) New York, NY (June 08, 2020) The Mount Sinai Health System has received an award from Microsoft AI for Health to support the work of a new data science center dedicated to COVID-19 research. The Mount Sinai COVID Informatics Center (MSCIC) brings together leaders from entities across Mount Sinai, including the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Health, the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, and the BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 8, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Researchers find new way to detect blood clots
(Texas A&M University) Researchers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University are working on an entirely new way to detect blood clots, especially in pediatric patients. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 3, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

A remote control for neurons
(College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University) A team led by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has created a new technology that enhances scientists' ability to communicate with neural cells using light. Tzahi Cohen-Karni, associate professor of biomedical engineering and materials science and engineering, led a team that synthesized three-dimensional fuzzy graphene on a nanowire template to create a superior material for photothermally stimulating cells. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

National Academy of Medicine announces 10 emerging leaders in health and medicine
(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) today announced the 2020 Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Scholars. These individuals are early- to mid-career professionals from a wide range of health-related fields, from emergency medicine and health economics to biomedical engineering and research and public health policy. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 5, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Does cannabis use amplify the effect of prenatal alcohol exposure and vice versa?
(University of Houston) University of Houston professor of biomedical engineering, Kirill Larin, received a $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to find out if the combined ingestion of marijuana and alcohol by pregnant mothers will, as hypothesized, result in increased neurogenic and neurovascular deficits in exposed offspring. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - April 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

CAS team develops quick detection system for COVID-19 cases
(Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters) A new on-site nucleic acid detection system for quick identification of the SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 was recently developed by a research team at the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (SIBET) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - April 24, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: news

High density EEG produces dynamic image of brain signal source
(College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University) Marking a major milestone on the path to meeting the objectives of the NIH BRAIN initiative, research by Carnegie Mellon's Biomedical Engineering Department Head Bin He advances high-density electroencephalography (EEG) as the future paradigm for dynamic functional neuroimaging. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 23, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Stabilizing Brain-Computer Interfaces
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) have published research in Nature Biomedical Engineering that will drastically improve brain-computer interfaces and their ability to remain stabilized during use, greatly reducing or potentially eliminating the need to recalibrate these devices during or between experiments. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - April 21, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news

Mind over body: The search for stronger brain-computer interfaces
(University of Pittsburgh) Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University are working on understanding how the brain works when learning tasks with the help of brain-computer interface technology. In a set of papers, the second of which was published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the team is moving the needle forward on brain-computer interface technology intended to help improve the lives of amputee patients who use neural prosthetics. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Stabilizing brain-computer interfaces
(College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University) Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) have published research in Nature Biomedical Engineering that will drastically improve brain-computer interfaces and their ability to remain stabilized during use, greatly reducing or potentially eliminating the need to recalibrate these devices during or between experiments. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - April 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Researchers develop synthetic scaffolds to heal injured tendons and ligaments
(University of Sydney) Top biomedical engineering researcher develops synthetic scaffolds for tendon and ligament regeneration. Previous synthetic tendon grafts have led to poor outcomes and implant rejection. Australia has one of the highest rates of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries in the world -- and up to 25 percent of surgeries require revision. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Mucus and the coronavirus
(University of Utah) University of Utah biomedical engineering assistant professor Jessica R. Kramer has received a National Science Foundation grant to study how mucus, the slimy substance in human tissue, plays a role in spreading coronaviruses like COVID-19. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 31, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Finnish researchers join forces to investigate the airborne transmission of coronavirus
(Aalto University) The project includes fluid dynamics physicists, virologists and biomedical engineering specialists. The researchers are using a supercomputer to carry out 3D modelling and believe that the first results will be obtained in the next few weeks. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - March 25, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news