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This SEM (Scanning Electro Micrograph) shows hexagons of bioactive ceramic patterned onto metal. If this surface texture is applied to medical implants, it improves their assimilation into the patient's body, meaning shorter recovery times and fewer corrective surgeries. Developed by the group of Professor Mohan Edirisinghe at UCL Mechanical Engineering, it is being developed as a commercial technique for medical implants.
UC San Diego bioengineers have developed smart, self-healing hydrogels with far-reaching applications including medial sutures, targeted drug delivery, industrial sealents and self-healing plastics. Photo Credit: Joshua Knoff, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.
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UC San Diego bioengineering PhD stduent Gregoire Thouvenin in the UCSD Biodynamics Lab run by bioengineering and biology professor Jeff Hasty at UC San Diego.
Learn more about this project:
jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2984
Detail on the street art piece on Erie Street, San Francisco, California, titled "Covid 5G". This is an extraordinary and detailed piece, and deals with Covid19 themes. I wish I knew who the artist was.
Willow fascines (bundles of live willow branches) are being installed across the slope, where they will grow roots and help stablize the streambank
Biologically Inspired Engineering: From Human Organs-on-Chips to Programmable Nanotherapeutics
Dr. Donald Ingber
Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard John. A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Abstract
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University that I lead has pioneered a new model for innovation, trans-disciplinary collaboration and technology translation. I will highlight engineering of “Organs-on-Chips” that recapitulate organ-level structure and functions as a way to replace animal testing for drug development, mechanistic discovery, and personalized medicine; nanotherapeutics that target to vascular occlusion sites like artificial platelets; anticoagulant surface coatings for medicine devices inspired by a plant; a ‘biospleen’ device that cleanses blood of pathogens and toxins in septic patients; and self-assembling DNA-based nanorobots that can be programmed to travel to cancer sites and kill tumor cells. This new bioinspired technology wave represents a major paradigm shift in medicine, and the novel organizational structure of the Institute offers an entirely new way to translate discoveries into breakthrough products in the academic setting.
Live Broadcast: coe.miami.edu/speaker/ingber
Dr. Donald Ingber is the Founding Director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School & Boston Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard John. A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Inventors, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
JSC2001-E-16670 (10 May 2001) --- Cosmonaut Vladimir N. Dezhurov, Expedition Three flight engineer, participates in biomedical training in the Bioengineering and Test Support Facility at Johnson Space Center (JSC). Dezhurov is affiliated with Rosaviakosmos.
For more information about the Life Sciences Research Weekend, please visit www.nwabr.org/students/life-science-research-weekend
Dr. O'Brien and The Alchemist Café Organisers
L-R; Clare Taylor, Judith Moffett, Dr. Fergal J. O'Brien, Belinda Grehan)
Not pictured: Néasan O'Neill & Zara Qadir)
International Centre for Environmental Management:
Promoting Climate Resilient Rural Infrastructure in the Northern Mountain Provinces of Vietnam
Donor / Partner: Asian Development Bank (ADB) | Duration: 2013-2016 | Location: The Northern Mountain Provinces of Vietnam
About: The objective of the project in northern Vietnam to demonstrate effective bio-engineered solutions which, where possible, provide ‘win-win’ outcomes for resilience of rural infrastructure to climate risk and opportunities for community livelihood enhancement.
The project focuses on rural irrigation, slope stability for roads, river-bank protection, and flood protection works. Lessons learned from the project works will provide the basis for capacity building activities with local community members, contractors and government staff at local, provincial and national levels. The extension of this work is to make recommendations for the broader adoption of bio-engineered approaches as an effective solution to manage climate risk in Vietnam. The project will also raise awareness of climate risks and vulnerabilities in local communities and empower them with the capability to manage risk through practical, cost effective solutions which can be implemented with local resources.
Students in Bioengineering Lab. Micro Pump Close ups of Microscope, Printer, etc., Santa Clara University
FMP DB# 3383
Eventually Mother Nature wins, but who doesn't like a good fight. Arguably, one can question whether this is an appropriate use of my tax dollars, but then I see it as better spent than some of the dubious artworks smattered about town by City Council.
Bioengineering Professor Ashley Kim and Sandeep Kaur '11 study cell regeneration using the Center for Nanostructures' Atomic Force Microscope.
August 1966: First set of bioengineering courses in the graduate program 1966-67 cells physiology. Students are enrolled via ECE with a "BME emphasis."
Researchers then digest the powder with an enzyme, which creates a liquid that forms a gel upon injection.
CSNE M.D./Ph.D. student and GRIDLab member David Caldwell tests the hardware used for stimulating and recording a patient’s brain surface, along with a cyber glove to track hand joint angles and finger motions. Credit: Mark Stone/ University of Washington
To turn it into a gel, researchers first freeze-dry the material made from the extracellular matrix.
Biologically Inspired Engineering: From Human Organs-on-Chips to Programmable Nanotherapeutics
Dr. Donald Ingber
Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard John. A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Abstract
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University that I lead has pioneered a new model for innovation, trans-disciplinary collaboration and technology translation. I will highlight engineering of “Organs-on-Chips” that recapitulate organ-level structure and functions as a way to replace animal testing for drug development, mechanistic discovery, and personalized medicine; nanotherapeutics that target to vascular occlusion sites like artificial platelets; anticoagulant surface coatings for medicine devices inspired by a plant; a ‘biospleen’ device that cleanses blood of pathogens and toxins in septic patients; and self-assembling DNA-based nanorobots that can be programmed to travel to cancer sites and kill tumor cells. This new bioinspired technology wave represents a major paradigm shift in medicine, and the novel organizational structure of the Institute offers an entirely new way to translate discoveries into breakthrough products in the academic setting.
Live Broadcast: coe.miami.edu/speaker/ingber
Dr. Donald Ingber is the Founding Director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School & Boston Children’s Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard John. A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Inventors, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Microparticles fabricated with 3D Phase Change printing. Salt crystals have an edge length of 0.75mm.
2nd Place Scientific, Pouria Fattahi and Brittany Banik, Graduates, Bioengineering
FESEM image of a pre-osteoblast cell spreading on a poly(methyl methacrylate) electrospun fiber network demonstrates cellular uptake of fluorescent polystyrene nanoparticles (NP).
The polymeric nanofibers provide a scaffold structure, which mimics the extracellular matrix (ECM) and allows the cells to adhere and spread on the surface topography the fibers provide. Cellular uptake of fluorescent NPs by cells on fibrous substrates are lower in comparison with the uptake by cells grown on flat surfaces. Studying the effect of various surface topographies on NP uptake provides valuable insight for mechanobiology related diseases, cancer research, and pharmaceutical delivery.