Category Archives: BioEngineering

US Navy here to talk biofuels

AIBN PhD Student and Biochemical Engineer, Tim Brennan, is part of the team that is working on developing biofuels. THE United States Navy's Director for Operational Energy today visited The University of Queensland for discussions on UQ's world-leading biofuels research. As the US Department of Defense actively pursues ambitious targets and new ?green? fuel sources for its energy requirements, the US Navy's Chris Tindal met biofuels researchers and industry leaders at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at UQ in Brisbane Continue reading

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A marketable major

For freshman Jeff To, the heavy workload he will take as a biology major pays off with job security later on. Continue reading

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Status of bioengineering facility to be announced

State officials are expected to announce the status of partial funding for the proposed multimillion dollar Bio Engineering Facility on Thursday, said Kurt Weiss, spokesman for the State Budget Office. Authorization to plan for the $40 million research facility near the Life Sciences Building and Clinical Center on south campus was approved in September 2011 by the MSU Board of Trustees. At the end of January, university officials submitted a request for $30 million in state capital outlay funding to be used strictly for the facility’s construction, said Barbara Kranz, director of MSU Facilities Planning and Space Management, adding if not approved, it will remain on officials’ capital outlay list to be requested again in the future Continue reading

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Need muscle for a tough spot? Turn to fat stem cells, UC San Diego researchers say

Stem cells derived from fat have a surprising trick up their sleeves: Encouraged to develop on a stiff surface, they undergo a remarkable transformation toward becoming mature muscle cells. The new cells remain intact and fused together even when transferred to an extremely stiff, bone-like surface, which has University of California, San Diego bioengineering professor Adam Engler and colleagues … Continue reading

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NRI Gifts 5 Million Dollar to Cancer Research Project

Mumbai: Living up to his promise made nearly four years ago, a US-based Indian and IT entrepreneur came to his alma-mater Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) to launch a research centre for biosciences and bio-engineering with the focus on cancer. Continue reading

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Ex-IITian gifts $5 mn to cancer research

An alumnus of the 1969 batch of IIT, Romesh Wadhwani, inaugurated the Wadhwani Research Centre in Biosciences & Bioengineering (WRCBB) at the IIT-Bombay campus MUMBAI, INDIA: Living up to his promise made nearly four years ago, a US-based Indian and IT entrepreneur on Friday came to his alma-mater Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) here to launch a research center for biosciences and bio-engineering with the focus on cancer. An alumnus of the 1969 batch of IIT, Romesh Wadhwani, founder of Symphony Technology Group and chairman of Wadhwani Foundation, along with his wife Kathy and IIT Bombay director Devang Khakhar, inaugurated the Wadhwani Research Centre in Biosciences & Bioengineering (WRCBB) at the IIT-Bombay campus on Friday Continue reading

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Algae Powered Planes

Cheaper algae aviation fuel is about to become actualized, if the work done by University of Sheffield Professor Will Zimmerman, and recently published in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering becomes a commercial reality. Read more… Continue reading

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Ex-IITian NRI's $5 mn gift to cancer research project

Living up to his promise made nearly four years ago, a US-based Indian and IT entrepreneur Friday came to his alma-mater Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) here to launch a research centre for biosciences and bio-engineering with the focus on cancer. Continue reading

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Microbubbles provide new boost for biofuel production

( University of Sheffield ) A solution to the difficult issue of harvesting algae for use as a biofuel has been developed using microbubble technology pioneered at the University of Sheffield. Continue reading

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Clemson University December 2011 graduates

The following local residents were among 1,121 students who received degrees from Clemson University on Dec. Continue reading

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DPRK Produces Massive Saplings of Dwarf Apple Trees

Pyongyang, January 25 (KCNA) — The Bioengineering Branch under the State Academy of Sciences of the DPRK is mass-producing saplings of dwarf apple trees. Continue reading

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Smart High School Girls Wanted for Society of Women Engineers Expo at Kettering University, Feb. 11-12

Kettering University is looking for smart, creative high school girls who want to be college students for a weekend and hang out with others who think science, math, engineering and college life experiences are pretty cool. Continue reading

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Team finds new way to image brain tumors and predict recurrence

( University of California – San Francisco ) After people with low-grade glioma, a type of brain cancer, undergo neurosurgery to remove the tumors, they face variable odds of survival — depending largely on how rapidly the cancer recurs. Even though their doctors monitor the tumor closely with sophisticated imaging, it is difficult to determine with certainty whether cancer has returned in a … Continue reading

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Kettering hosting expo for future woman engineers

The Society of Women Engineers Expo is scheduled for Feb. 11-12 and is open to girls who are high school sophomores or juniors. Continue reading

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Generator backfires in Pitt building

A generator backfired Tuesday morning at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Biotechnology… Continue reading

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Clark School Research Could Help Prevent Costly, Life-Threatening Catheter Infections Without Provoking Bacterial …

Deutsch Foundation-Sponsored Work Offers Multi-Pronged Attack on Major Medical Problem Continue reading

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ImageIQ Offers Innovation in BioScience Imaging Scholarship

ImageIQ, a Cleveland Clinic-founded contract research organization providing imaging analysis software and services, has created a one-year scholarship for students who demonstrate unique applications of imaging in bioscience. Continue reading

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UCSB Professor Named Innovator of the Year

The Santa Barbara Region Chamber of Commerce will honor Dr. Francis J. Doyle III, an engineering professor at UC Santa Barbara, as Innovator of the Year for the worldwide impact of his bioengineering research and development of artificial pancreas technology for type 1 diabetes patients. Continue reading

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Aethlon Medical Establishes Sepsis & Inflammation Scientific Advisory Board

SAN DIEGO , Jan. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Aethlon Medical, Inc Continue reading

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Keynote Speakers Announced for Neuroprosthetics 2012

Military and civilian research leaders will speak at the February 23 symposium on development of next-generation implantable artificial limbs. Continue reading

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