Research Security: Scientists Arrested as Government Increases Efforts to Protect US Security Interests
Concerns about and oversight of foreign influence on research and espionage have been rising since 2018. In an August 2018 letter to more than 10,000 research institutions, NIH urged grant applicants and awardees to properly disclose all forms of support and financial interests and launched investigations into NIH-funded investigators who failed to properly disclose foreign financial support. Following this, an April 2019 editorial in BioScience alerted readers that investigations into foreign ties of researchers will likely spread to other agencies and need to be taken seriously. Lawmakers have also made enquiries about t...
Source: Public Policy Reports - February 3, 2020 Category: Biology Authors: AIBS Source Type: news
Meet the Brilliant Minds Behind the First ICD
Mirowski: From WWII to Sinai Hospital
The story of how Mieczyslaw "Michel" Mirowski ended up in America where he conceived the idea of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is almost as incredible as the invention itself, if not more so. Mirowski was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924. He grew up among the large Jewish population of Warsaw at that time, but when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, 15-year-old Mirowski left his family and fled to Russia with a friend. He would be the only member of his family to survive World War II, according to a 2010 article...
Source: MDDI - February 3, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Amanda Pedersen Tags: Implants Source Type: news
Study provides the first data on concussion risk in youth football
(Virginia Tech) 'These are the first biomechanical data characterizing concussion risk in kids,' said Steve Rowson, an associate professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics and the director of the Virginia Tech Helmet Lab. 'Children aren't just scaled-down adults: Differences in anatomy and physiology, like head-neck proportions and brain development, contribute to differences in tolerance to head impact. These results can lead to data-driven interventions to reduce risk in youth sports.' (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - January 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Improving accessibility for people with disabilities: a case study on inclusive beach tourism - Mayordomo-Martinez D, Sanchez-Aarnoutse JC, Merzoukid K, Garcia-Hernandez M, Carrillo-de-Gea JM, Garcia-Berna JA, Fernandez-Aleman JL, Idri A, Garcia-Mateos G.
Disability is an important area in biomedical engineering. But research on disability should not only focus on the healthcare aspects, but also on the integration of people with disabilities in the cultural and social contexts, such as the existence of arc... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news
Blood stem cell research
(University of Delaware) A nanoparticle carrier system that could eliminate the need for bone marrow transplants, which are both expensive and difficult for patients to undergo. The University of Delaware's Emily Day, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering, is developing a platform that could treat stem cells directly without the need to remove them from the body. Her work has been recognized with an award from the University City Science Center. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 15, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Google ’s AI Bested Doctors in Detecting Breast Cancer in Mammograms
While there has been controversy over when and how often women should be screened for breast cancer using mammograms, studies consistently show that screening can lead to earlier detection of the disease, when it’s more treatable. So improving how effectively mammograms can detect abnormal growths that could be cancerous is a priority in the field.
AI could play a role in accomplishing that—computer-based machine learning might help doctors to read mammograms more accurately. In a study published Jan. 1 in Nature, researchers from Google Health, and from universities in the U.S. and U.K., report on an AI model ...
Source: TIME: Health - January 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized Artifical Intelligence Breast Cancer embargoed study MSFTAI2019 Source Type: news
Real-time photoacoustic thermometry of tumors during HIFU treatment in living subjects
(Pohang University of Science& Technology (POSTECH)) The research team led by Professor Chulhong Kim of POSTECH(Pohang University of Science and Technology) developed a photoacoustic thermometry system combined with a clinical ultrasound imaging platform to effectively guide the high intensity focused ultrasound treatment. Their research is published in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and selected as a feature article and the front cover of the issue. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 11, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Scientists show thin metal mesh loaded with T cells shrinks solid tumors
(Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center) Within weeks, CAR T cells targeting ovarian cancer cleared tumors in 70% of treated mice, shows study in Nature Biomedical Engineering. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - December 9, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Dartmouth Engineering professor named NAI Fellow
(Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth) Keith Paulsen, the Robert A. Pritzker Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Dartmouth College, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - December 3, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Cancer research that's out-of-this-world
(University of Technology Sydney) University of Technology (UTS) researcher Dr. Joshua Chou is looking to replicate the promising results of experiments he has carried out on cancer cells in the zero gravity chamber built by his team in the UTS School of Biomedical Engineering. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - November 26, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
How an AI Solution can Design New Tuberculosis Drug Regimens
With a shortage of new tuberculosis drugs in the pipeline, a software tool from the University of Michigan can predict how current drugs - including unlikely candidates - can be combined in new ways to create more effective treatments.
"This could replace our traditional trial-and-error system for drug development that is comparatively slow and expensive," said Sriram Chandrasekaran, U-M assistant professor of biomedical engineering, who leads the research. (Source: eHealth News EU)
Source: eHealth News EU - November 25, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
New blood for healthcare technology innovation
The potential for new advances drawing on medical physics and biomedical engineering is vast. Cross-disciplinary expertise is needed to unlock it for the benefit of society and industry, say the partners in an EU-funded network that is helping 15 young researchers to hone the required skills. (Source: EUROPA - Research Information Centre)
Source: EUROPA - Research Information Centre - November 25, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news
Nanotechnology could be the answer for condition which affects 10 million women
(University of South Australia) University of South Australia biomedical engineer Dr Marnie Winter has been awarded US$100,000 from the world's largest private foundation to help better understand and tackle a condition which kills 76,000 women and 500,000 babies each year. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - November 24, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Personalities of Pittsburgh: Dr. Srinivas Murali, Allegheny Health Network
Murali is the system director and medical director of the Allegheny Health Network Cardiovascular Institute, and he's also a professor of medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine and the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, and an adjunct professor of biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - November 18, 2019 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Paul J. Gough Source Type: news
NJIT biomedical engineer Tara Alvarez is a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry
(New Jersey Institute of Technology) Tara Alvarez, a professor of biomedical engineering who studies the links between visual disorders and the brain and develops novel devices to identify and treat them, has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry (AAO). (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 13, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news