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Newswise: UAH researcher wins 2024 Worthington Medal for innovations in pumping sciences
Released: 21-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
UAH researcher wins 2024 Worthington Medal for innovations in pumping sciences
University of Alabama Huntsville

Dr. Phillip Ligrani, Eminent Scholar in Propulsion at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has won the 2024 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Henry R. Worthington Medal for developing innovative micro, millimeter and macro-scale pumping devices. Ligrani’s innovations are beneficial to a variety of applications, such as transporting biological samples without significant alteration or destruction of cells, and supplying coolant to maintain the temperatures of components subject to thermal loading, like lasers.

Newswise: Membrane Technology: Looking Deep into Smallest Pores
Released: 21-Feb-2024 4:05 AM EST
Membrane Technology: Looking Deep into Smallest Pores
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Membranes of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VaCNT) can be used to clean or desalinate water at high flow rate and low pressure. Recently, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and partners carried out steroid hormone adsorption experiments to study the interplay of forces in the small pores. They found that VaCNT of specific pore geometry and pore surface structure are suited for use as highly selective membranes. The researchers report in Nature Communications. (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-44883-2)

Newswise: Junk DNA in birds may hold key to safe, efficient gene therapy
Released: 21-Feb-2024 2:05 AM EST
Junk DNA in birds may hold key to safe, efficient gene therapy
University of California, Berkeley

The recent approval of a CRISPR-Cas9 therapy for sickle cell disease demonstrates that gene editing tools can do a superb job knocking out genes to cure hereditary disease.

   
Released: 21-Feb-2024 2:05 AM EST
New model identifies drugs that shouldn’t be taken together
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Any drug that is taken orally must pass through the lining of the digestive tract. Transporter proteins found on cells that line the GI tract help with this process, but for many drugs, it’s unknown which of those transporters they use to exit the digestive tract.

Newswise: Invasive weed could be turned into a viable economic crop
Released: 19-Feb-2024 6:05 PM EST
Invasive weed could be turned into a viable economic crop
University of South Australia

One of the most invasive Australian weeds is being touted as a potential economic crop, with benefits for the construction, mining and forestry industries, and potentially many First Nations communities.

Newswise: Company co-founded by Case Western Reserve University researcher named finalist in South by Southwest pitch competition
Released: 19-Feb-2024 4:05 PM EST
Company co-founded by Case Western Reserve University researcher named finalist in South by Southwest pitch competition
Case Western Reserve University

Dustin Tyler, the Kent H. Smith II Professor of Biomedical Engineering at CWRU’s Case School of Engineering, co-founded a company that restores for people the sensation of touch—with help from a set of electrical rings that fit snugly on users’ fingers—from a distance.

Newswise: New technology brings advanced blood imaging closer to the clinic
Released: 16-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
New technology brings advanced blood imaging closer to the clinic
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

The qualities of flowing blood, or hemodynamics, hold important insights into vascular diseases, but technological limitations have largely kept measurements of these properties out of reach in the clinic. Now, there may be a potential solution on the horizon.

Released: 15-Feb-2024 2:00 PM EST
UIC research helps create new antibiotic that evades bacterial resistance
University of Illinois Chicago

New drug inspired by images that captured how bacteria block antibiotic activity

   
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Released: 15-Feb-2024 12:05 AM EST
Study Finds New Inhalable Therapy is a Big Step Forward in Lung Cancer Research
Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

Columbia Biomedical Engineer Ke Cheng has developed a technique that uses inhalation of exosomes, or nanobubbles, to directly deliver IL-12 mRNA to the lungs of mice.

Newswise: Ochsner Health physician granted NIH Trailblazer Award
Released: 14-Feb-2024 8:05 AM EST
Ochsner Health physician granted NIH Trailblazer Award
Ochsner Health

Dr. Hernan Bazan honored for innovation in non-opioid drug development amidst the opioid crisis.

Newswise: Johns Hopkins Medicine-Led Study Shows Rapid COVID-19 Tests Done at Home are Reliable
Released: 13-Feb-2024 11:00 PM EST
Johns Hopkins Medicine-Led Study Shows Rapid COVID-19 Tests Done at Home are Reliable
Johns Hopkins Medicine

In a study involving nearly 1,000 patients seen at the Baltimore Convention Center Field Hospital (BCCFH) during a five-month period in 2022 — researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, the University of Maryland School of Medicine and five other collaborators report that a rapid antigen test (RAT) for detecting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can be used at home with accuracy comparable to the same test being administered by a health care professional.

Newswise: Gold nanoparticles reverse brain deficits in multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s
Released: 13-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Gold nanoparticles reverse brain deficits in multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Results from phase two clinical trials at UT Southwestern Medical Center showed that a suspension of gold nanocrystals taken daily by patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson's disease (PD) significantly reversed deficits of metabolites linked to energy activity in the brain and resulted in functional improvements.

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5-Feb-2024 8:00 AM EST
3D Ice Printing can Create Artificial Blood Vessels in Engineered Tissue
Biophysical Society

Over 100,000 individuals in the United States are currently in need of organ transplants. The demand for organs, such as hearts, kidneys, and livers, far exceeds the available supply and people sometimes wait years to receive a donated organ.

   
Newswise: New Approach to Tackling Bacterial Infections Identified
5-Feb-2024 4:05 PM EST
New Approach to Tackling Bacterial Infections Identified
Mount Sinai Health System

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a new approach to controlling bacterial infections. The findings were described in the February 6 online issue of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.

Newswise: UW-Milwaukee bioengineer creating a virtual tumor with data from an actual one
Released: 6-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
UW-Milwaukee bioengineer creating a virtual tumor with data from an actual one
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Mahsa Dabagh is building a virtual model of a real human tumor, using data that characterizes the tissue on a molecular level.

Newswise: Pore power: high-speed droplet production in microfluidic devices
Released: 6-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Pore power: high-speed droplet production in microfluidic devices
Chiba University

Over the past two decades, microfluidic devices, which use technology to produce micrometer-sized droplets, have become crucial to various applications.

Released: 6-Feb-2024 9:30 AM EST
Northwest Biotherapeutics Moves From Optimization of Flaskworks Prototype to Fabrication of GMP-Compliant Units For Installation, Validation and Final Testing Prior to Regulatory Certification
Northwest Biotherapeutics

Northwest Biotherapeutics (OTCQB: NWBO) ("NW Bio"), a biotechnology company developing DCVax® personalized immune therapies for solid tumor cancers, announced today that the key development work for the Flaskworks manufacturing system has been completed and an external vendor has been engaged to produce GMP-grade units of the system.

   
Newswise: Creating a Virus-Resistant Bacterium Using a Synthetic Engineered Genome
Released: 5-Feb-2024 4:05 PM EST
Creating a Virus-Resistant Bacterium Using a Synthetic Engineered Genome
Department of Energy, Office of Science

To improve bioproducts productivity, researchers have engineered the genome of E. coli to make it immune to viral infections.

   
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Released: 5-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
Better together: Beckman imaging facilities share $3M Alzheimer’s research grant
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Beckman researchers and collaborators received $3 million from the U.S. National Institute on Aging to develop diagnostic tools and imaging agents for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease.

   
Newswise: IU surgeon-scientist studying physiological effect of microorganisms in sinuses of chronic rhinosinusitis patients
Released: 2-Feb-2024 7:30 AM EST
IU surgeon-scientist studying physiological effect of microorganisms in sinuses of chronic rhinosinusitis patients
Indiana University

An Indiana University School of Medicine surgeon-scientist is leading a multi-institutional grant investigating the role of the sinus microbiome in chronic rhinosinusitis, an inflammatory disease that causes the lining of the sinuses to swell.

Released: 1-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Resistant bacteria can remain in the body for years
University of Basel

Fighting disease-causing bacteria becomes more difficult when antibiotics stop working.

Released: 1-Feb-2024 4:05 PM EST
Imbed Biosciences, Inc awarded Skin Integrity and Wound Care agreement with Premier, Inc.
Imbed Biosciences

Madison Wisconsin based Imbed Biosciences, Inc has been awarded a Technology Breakthrough designation for PelashieldAM™ with Premier, Inc. through its Kiindo™ pediatric performance group and collaborative.

Released: 31-Jan-2024 3:05 PM EST
FASEB Announces Partnership with Dryad
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)

The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), the largest coalition of biomedical research associations in the United States, announces a collaboration between FASEB Publications and Dryad.

   
Released: 31-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST
RNA Scientist Receives Federal Funding to Commercialize Molecular Tool Against Alzheimer’s Disease
University at Albany, State University of New York

University at Albany scientist Scott Tenenbaum, founder of UAlbany spinoff company sxRNA Technologies, Inc. (sxRNA Tech), has received $500,000 from the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, to study how aging brain cells shape the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, and advance RNA technology that could inform new therapeutics to prevent and treat Alzheimer's and related dementias.

Released: 31-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
New and highly infectious E. coli strain resistant to powerful antibiotics
University of Birmingham

A new type of E. coli that is both highly infectious and resistant to some antibiotics has been discovered.

Newswise: Engineering viruses to kill deadly pathogens
Released: 31-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Engineering viruses to kill deadly pathogens
Northwestern University

Northwestern University researchers have successfully coaxed a deadly pathogen to destroy itself from the inside out.

Newswise: Webinar on DOE User Facility's Available Metabolomics Technologies
Released: 31-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
Webinar on DOE User Facility's Available Metabolomics Technologies
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory - EMSL

The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory is hosting a free webinar at noon PST on Feb. 7 to detail available metabolomics technologies that the scientific community can access for studying biological systems.

Newswise: Mapeamento dos comportamentos celulares em glioma de alto grau para a melhora do tratamento
Released: 31-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
Mapeamento dos comportamentos celulares em glioma de alto grau para a melhora do tratamento
Mayo Clinic

Gliomas de alto grau são tumores cancerígenos que se espalham rapidamente no cérebro ou na medula espinhal.

Newswise: وضع خريطة لسلوكيات خلايا الورم الدِبقي عالي الدرجة لتحسين العلاج
Released: 31-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
وضع خريطة لسلوكيات خلايا الورم الدِبقي عالي الدرجة لتحسين العلاج
Mayo Clinic

الأورام الدبقية عالية الدرجة هي أورام سرطانية تنتشر بسرعة في الدماغ أو الحبل النخاعي. في دراسة جديدة أجريت تحت إشراف مايو كلينك، وجد الباحثون أن هوامش أورام الدماغ الغزوية للورم الدبقي عالي الدرجة تحتوي على تغيرات جينية وجزيئية مميزة بيولوجيًا تشير إلى السلوك العدواني وتكرار المرض. وتُظهر النتائج تصورات متعمقة للعلاجات المحتملة التي يمكن أن تحوّل مسار المرض.

Newswise: Mapeo de los comportamientos celulares en glioma de alto grado para la mejora del tratamiento
Released: 31-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
Mapeo de los comportamientos celulares en glioma de alto grado para la mejora del tratamiento
Mayo Clinic

Los gliomas de alto grado son tumores cancerígenos que se propagan rápidamente en el cerebro o en la médula espinal.

Newswise: Innovative molecule will become the base of antidepressant of new generation
Released: 31-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Innovative molecule will become the base of antidepressant of new generation
Scientific Project Lomonosov

Russian scientists from The Federal Research Centre “Fundamentals of Biotechnology” of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Research Center of Biotechnology RAS) tested a new potential antidepressant on rodents.

Released: 31-Jan-2024 8:30 AM EST
FASEB and NIH Announce 2023 DataWorks! Prize Recipients
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)

The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) and the Office of Data Science Strategy at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today the recipients of this year’s FASEB DataWorks! Prize.

Released: 30-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Our winter of discontent: Get the latest news on the flu in the Influenza channel
Newswise

The latest research and expertise on the flue can be found in the Influenza channel on Newswise.

Released: 26-Jan-2024 12:00 PM EST
Effects of exosomes from mesenchymal stem cells on functional recovery of a patient with total radial nerve injury: A pilot study
World Journal of Stem Cells

BACKGROUNDPeripheral nerve injury can result in significant clinical complications that have uncertain prognoses. Currently, there is a lack of effective pharmacological interventions for nerve damage, despite the existence of several small

Released: 26-Jan-2024 12:00 PM EST
Use of priming strategies to advance the clinical application of mesenchymal stromal/stem cell-based therapy
World Journal of Stem Cells

Mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSCs) have garnered significant attention in the field of regenerative medicine due to their remarkable therapeutic potential. MSCs play a pivotal role in maintaining tissue homeostasis and possess diverse fu

Released: 26-Jan-2024 12:00 PM EST
Research progress and challenges in stem cell therapy for diabetic foot: Bibliometric analysis and perspectives
World Journal of Stem Cells

BACKGROUNDStem cell therapy has shown great potential for treating diabetic foot (DF). AIMTo conduct a bibliometric analysis of studies on the use of stem cell therapy for DF over the past two decades, with the aim of depicting the current

Released: 26-Jan-2024 12:00 PM EST
Application of mesenchymal stem cell therapy for premature ovarian insufficiency: Recent advances from mechanisms to therapeutics
World Journal of Stem Cells

The incidence of premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) is increasing worldwide, particularly among younger women, posing a significant challenge to fertility. In addition to menopausal symptoms, POI leads to several complications that profo

Newswise: JMIR Bioinformatics and Biotechnology Invites Submissions for Research Papers on Machine Learning-Driven Genomic Predictive Models
Released: 24-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
JMIR Bioinformatics and Biotechnology Invites Submissions for Research Papers on Machine Learning-Driven Genomic Predictive Models
JMIR Publications

JMIR Publications is pleased to announce a new theme issue titled “Machine Learning-Based Predictive Models Using Genomic Data” in JMIR Bioinformatics and Biotechnology.

Released: 23-Jan-2024 12:00 PM EST
ARVO Foundation announces 2023 Point of View Award winners
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Foundation congratulates Neil Lagali, PhD (Linköping University, Sweden) and Mehrdad Rafat, PhD  (LinkoCare Life Sciences AB /NaturaLens AB, Sweden) — recipients of the 2023 Point of View Award.

Newswise: New biomarkers for active lupus nephritis discovered
Released: 22-Jan-2024 4:05 PM EST
New biomarkers for active lupus nephritis discovered
University of Houston

New biomarkers with improved diagnostic performance for early detection of lupus nephritis have been discovered in the University of Houston lab of Chandra Mohan, a pioneer in lupus research.

Newswise: Cedars-Sinai Develops New Tools to Improve Pancreatic Cancer Patient Care
Released: 22-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
Cedars-Sinai Develops New Tools to Improve Pancreatic Cancer Patient Care
Cedars-Sinai

Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators have used a unique precision medicine and artificial intelligence (AI) tool called the Molecular Twin Precision Oncology Platform to identify biomarkers that outperform the standard test for predicting pancreatic cancer survival.

Newswise: Chula Researchers Develop Progesterone Test Kit to Determine Swine Pregnancy to Assist Farm Management
Released: 22-Jan-2024 8:55 AM EST
Chula Researchers Develop Progesterone Test Kit to Determine Swine Pregnancy to Assist Farm Management
Chulalongkorn University

A simple way to find out whether a gilt is already pregnant is through the Progesterone Test Kit – an innovation developed by Chulalongkorn University researchers that is easy for farmers to use, with fast and accurate results.

Newswise: Endless biotechnological innovation requires a creative approach
17-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Endless biotechnological innovation requires a creative approach
University of Bristol

Scientists working on biological design should focus on the idiosyncrasies of biological systems over optimisation, according to new research.

Released: 18-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
PCOM Researcher Hopes New Model of SBMA Accelerates Search for Therapies
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

A Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine faculty member who specializes in basic and translational science research for spinal bulbar and muscular atrophy (SBMA), also known as Kennedy's disease, is propelling efforts to model and identify therapeutic targets for this neuromuscular disease with two new grants.

Newswise: Shengjie Feng channels the powers of cryogenic electron microscopy
Released: 16-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Shengjie Feng channels the powers of cryogenic electron microscopy
Sanford Burnham Prebys

Shengjie Feng, Ph.D. is an expert in cryo-electron microscopy, a Nobel Prize-winning imaging technology capable of creating stop-action movies of proteins and other biomolecules jostling and connecting with each other while mitochondria and other organelles generate energy, assemble new molecules and transport cargo. At Sanford Burnham Prebys, Feng will use cryo-EM to reveal new ways to stop or prevent cancers.

   
Newswise: Bioengineered approach shows promise in ulcerative colitis
Released: 16-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
Bioengineered approach shows promise in ulcerative colitis
UT Southwestern Medical Center

By taking advantage of mechanisms that allow cancer cells to evade immune attack, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have developed a new strategy in animal models that has potential for treating ulcerative colitis.

Released: 16-Jan-2024 7:05 AM EST
Cancer-related mutations appear in stem cell derivatives utilized in regenerative medicine
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

New study by Hebrew University reveals that a significant proportion (over one fifth) of human pluripotent stem cell samples that can be used in regenerative medicine possess cancer-related mutations, with the majority acquired during their propagation in culture.

Released: 11-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
Rockland Launches Impurity Detection Kit for Accurate Measurement of Nuclease Across a Spectrum of Therapeutic Manufacturing Methods
Rockland Immunochemicals, Inc

The AccuSignal™ Nuclease ELISA Kit is designed to detect any Serratia marcescens endonuclease, such as Benzonase®, DENARASE®, and Turbonuclease, to evaluate manufacturing processes for biological therapeutics, gene therapy vectors, vaccine preparations, and more.

Released: 10-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST
Rice scientists use blood test to track gene expression in the brain
Rice University

Rice University scientists have developed a noninvasive way to monitor gene expression dynamics in the brain, making it easier to investigate brain development, cognitive function and neurological diseases, according to a study published in Nature Biotechnology.

Newswise: Scientists Develop Green Method for Producing Bactericidal Copper Oxide Nanoparticles From Noni Plant (Morinda citrifolia)
Released: 10-Jan-2024 3:05 AM EST
Scientists Develop Green Method for Producing Bactericidal Copper Oxide Nanoparticles From Noni Plant (Morinda citrifolia)
Scientific Project Lomonosov

RUDN University biologist described a green method for obtaining copper oxide nanoparticles from the noni plant (Morinda citrifolia), common in Asia. These nanoparticles have pronounced bactericidal and fungicidal properties.



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