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Released: 29-Apr-2021 8:55 AM EDT
Publication reveals essential ingredients of the NIH RADx groundbreaking national diagnostics effort
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

One-year into implementation of the NIH RADx initiative, the IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology has dedicated a special issue to exploring the innovative structure and operation of the RADx Tech program.

Released: 26-Apr-2021 3:55 PM EDT
Chemical cocktail activates stem cells, promotes repair after muscle damage
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

The technique used in this preclinical study could aid tissue regeneration following severe accidents, surgical resections, or progressive muscle loss due to age or genetic disease.

   
Released: 26-Apr-2021 2:05 PM EDT
RADx expands COVID-19 home and point-of-care testing, wastewater surveillance
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

The National Institutes of Health today announced three new contracts and one new award to an existing contract for scale-up and manufacturing of novel COVID-19 testing technologies. The four Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics initiative contracts totals $65.6 million.

Released: 5-Apr-2021 4:05 PM EDT
RADx diversifies COVID-19 test portfolio with four new contracts, including one to detect variants
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

NIH has awarded four additional contracts for the development and scaled-up manufacturing of new COVID-19 diagnostic testing technologies through its Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Tech (RADx) initiative. The awards total $29.3 million and will help increase testing capacity for COVID-19.

   
Released: 31-Mar-2021 9:45 AM EDT
CDC and NIH bring COVID-19 self-testing to residents in two locales
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

CDC, in collaboration with the NIH, has launched a community health initiative called “Say Yes! COVID Test” starting in Pitt County, North Carolina, and coming soon to Chattanooga/Hamilton County Tennessee.

Released: 19-Mar-2021 12:30 PM EDT
Ultrasound tracks down misfiring heart sites
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Abnormal heart rhythms—cardiac arrhythmias—are a major worldwide health problem. Now scientists are using ultrasound for more accurate maps of arrhythmic sites in the heart for improved success of ablation procedures.

   
Released: 12-Jan-2021 5:15 PM EST
NIH’s RADx Tech program inks additional contracts for COVID-19 diagnostic tests and supplies
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

The NIH RADx initiative awarded three new contracts totaling $36.7 million for the development of new COVID-19 diagnostic testing technologies and production of specimen collection kits and swabs.

Released: 30-Dec-2020 12:10 PM EST
Researchers engineer “gut feeling” in a lab dish
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Research into the gut-brain axis continues to reveal how the brain and gut influence each other’s health and well-being. Now researchers are endeavoring to learn more about gut-brain discourse using a model system built in a lab dish.

   
Released: 15-Dec-2020 2:05 PM EST
NIH-funded COVID-19 home test is first to receive over-the-counter authorization from FDA
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

The FDA granted emergency use authorization today for an innovative COVID-19 viral antigen test developed with support from NIH’s RADx Initiative.

   
Released: 9-Dec-2020 9:50 AM EST
Engineers 3D print lifelike heart valve models
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Engineers have created 3D printed patient-specific models of the aorta that can aid presurgical planning and improve outcomes of minimally invasive valve replacement.

   
Released: 7-Dec-2020 2:25 PM EST
NIH-funded tool helps organizations plan COVID-19 testing
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

The COVID-19 Testing Impact Calculator is a free resource that shows how different approaches to testing and other mitigation measures, such as mask use, can curb the spread of the virus in any organization.

     
Released: 6-Oct-2020 3:30 PM EDT
NIH RADx initiative advances six new COVID-19 testing technologies
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

NIH, with BARDA, today announced a third round of contract awards for scale-up and manufacturing of new COVID-19 testing technologies.

Released: 15-Sep-2020 12:00 PM EDT
NIH award contracts to develop innovative digital health technologies for COVID-19
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

NIH has awarded seven contracts to companies and academic institutions to develop digital health solutions that help address the COVID-19 pandemic.

   
Released: 2-Sep-2020 11:05 AM EDT
NIH continues to boost national COVID-19 testing capacity
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

NIH today announced $129.3 million in scale-up and manufacturing support for a new set of COVID-19 testing technologies as part of its RADx initiative. NIH is awarding contracts to nine companies for technologies that include portable point-of-care tests for immediate results and high-throughput laboratories that can return results within 24 hours.

   
Released: 25-Aug-2020 12:25 PM EDT
Low-cost, customizable microscope takes top biomedical engineering prize
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

The winners of National Institutes of Health’s 9th annual Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) challenge developed simple and low-cost diagnostics and treatments for conditions such as tuberculosis, cervical cancer, birth defects, and onchocerciasis (river blindness).

   
Released: 14-Aug-2020 4:35 PM EDT
Nanoparticles enhance gene therapies for eye disease
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

NIBIB-funded researchers have created nanoparticles for successful gene therapy of a mouse model of macular degeneration. The nanoparticle carriers have the potential to significantly expand the effectiveness of gene therapies for human eye diseases, including blindness.

Released: 5-Aug-2020 12:30 PM EDT
NIH harnesses AI for COVID-19 diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

NIH has launched an ambitious effort to use artificial intelligence, computation, and medical imaging to enable early disease detection, inform successful treatment strategies, and predict individual disease outcomes of COVID-19.

   
Released: 31-Jul-2020 11:45 AM EDT
NIH delivering new COVID-19 testing technologies to meet U.S. demand
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

The National Institutes of Health is investing $248.7 million in new technologies to address challenges associated with COVID-19 testing (which detects SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus).

   
Released: 1-Jul-2020 3:55 PM EDT
Engineers 3D-print sensors onto moving organs
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

A new technique funded by NIBIB and developed by University of Minnesota researchers allows 3D printing of hydrogel-based sensors directly on the surface of organs, such as lungs—even as they expand and contract.

Released: 29-Jun-2020 11:30 AM EDT
Faster processing makes cutting-edge fluorescence microscopy more accessible
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Scientists at NIBIB have developed new image processing techniques for microscopes that can reduce post-processing time up to several thousand-fold.



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