News tagged with biomedical engineers


A tangle of talents untangles neurons

(Medical Xpress)—Two wrongs don't make a right, they say, but here's how one tangle can straighten out another.

Medical research created May 06, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study looks at muscle adaptation of transition to minimalist running

For tens of thousands of years, humans ran on bare feet. Then we developed an assortment of specialized shoes, including – particularly since the 1960s – a seemingly limitless variety of running shoes. ...

Health created May 02, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists scan the human heart to create digital anatomical library

On April 18th JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) will publish a new video article by Dr. Paul A Iaizzo demonstrating the anatomical reconstruction of an active human heart. The research uses contrast-computed tomography (C ...

Medical research created Apr 18, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers show brain's battle for attention

(Medical Xpress)—We've all been there: You're at work deeply immersed in a project when suddenly you start thinking about your weekend plans. It happens because behind the scenes, parts of your brain are ...

Neuroscience created Apr 11, 2013 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Building better blood vessels could advance tissue engineering

One of the major obstacles to growing new organs—replacement hearts, lungs and kidneys—is the difficulty researchers face in building blood vessels that keep the tissues alive, but new findings from the ...

Medical research created Apr 04, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Wireless, implanted sensor broadens range of brain research

A compact, self-contained sensor recorded and transmitted brain activity data wirelessly for more than a year in early stage animal tests, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. ...

Neuroscience created Mar 19, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New nanotechnology research study turns brain tumors blue

(Medical Xpress)—In an article published this week in the journal Drug Delivery and Translational Research, researchers from Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the Georgia Institute of Technology have reported the de ...

Cancer created Mar 18, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Neural 'synchrony' may be key to understanding how the human brain perceives

Despite many remarkable discoveries in the field of neuroscience during the past several decades, researchers have not been able to fully crack the brain's "neural code." The neural code details how the brain's ...

Neuroscience created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Neuro-magic: Magician uses magic tricks to study the brain's powers of perception and memory

A magician is using his knowledge of magic theory and practice to investigate the brain's powers of observation.

Neuroscience created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Reseachers develop holographic technique for bionic vision

Researchers led by biomedical engineering Professor Shy Shoham of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology are testing the power of holography to artificially stimulate cells in the eye, with hopes of ...

Medical research created Feb 26, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Using 3-D printing and injectable molds, bioengineered ears look and act like the real thing

Cornell bioengineers and physicians have created an artificial ear – using 3-D printing and injectable molds – that looks and acts like a natural ear, giving new hope to thousands of children born with a congenital deformity ...

Medical research created Feb 20, 2013 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Video tool could help active workers avoid injury

Using just video of workers performing tasks such as assembling a manufactured part or packing boxes, a system developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers might soon be able to automatically assess the likelihood ...

Health created Feb 12, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Genes provide clues to gender disparity in human hearts

Healthy men and women show little difference in their hearts, except for small electrocardiographic disparities. But new genetic differences found by Washington University in St. Louis researchers in hearts with disease could ...

Cardiology created Jan 24, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bioengineers discover the natural switch that controls spread of breast cancer cells

With a desire to inhibit metastasis, Cornell biomedical engineers have found the natural switch between the body's inflammatory response and how malignant breast cancer cells use the bloodstream to spread.

Cancer created Jan 23, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fruit in your holiday stocking can help keep bones strong

(Medical Xpress)—We know high-fat, high-sugar foods cause obesity and promote heart disease, but most people don't realize that sugar and fat also contribute to conditions like osteoporosis by weakening ...

Health created Dec 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0