Chang Lu and his chemical engineering research group at Virginia Tech have discovered how to “greatly enhance” the delivery of DNA payloads into cells. The description of their work will be featured on the cover of Lab on a Chip, the premier journal for researchers in microfluidics. Lu’s ultimate goal is to apply this technique [...]
For someone with a severe, incurable lung disorder such as cystic fibrosis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a lung transplant may be the only chance for survival. Unfortunately, it’s often not a very good chance. Matching donor lungs are rare, and many would-be recipients die waiting for the transplants that could save their lives.
A new, $50 million biomedical research lab has been completed at George Mason University near Washington D.C. and is being ramped up to study new therapies for infectious diseases–including a range of potential bioterror weapons. Once the 52,000-square-foot facility is licensed and fully operational in a few months, 50 people will be on site to [...]
Patients recovering from congestive heart failure at a New York hospital are being offered a telemonitoring system to help with medication compliance. The data collected from the system generates an e-diary of patient adherence to the prescribed drug regimen, so clinicians and doctors can monitor compliance at the patient or study group level.
In a single day, a solitary grad student at a lab bench can produce more simple logic circuits than the world’s entire output of silicon chips in a month. So says a Duke University engineer, who believes that the next generation of these logic circuits at the heart of computers will be produced inexpensively in [...]
The CenTrak system comes with an IR-RFID tag that is clipped onto a patient’s intravenous (IV) pole as he or she enters the surgical department and is first administered the IV. Workers enter that tag’s ID number into RealView perioperative RTLS software provided by PeriOptimum, thereby linking the patient to that tag throughout his or [...]
Many different cell types can be cultivated in a petri dish. Unfortunately, turning them into organs is substantially more difficult. It also tends to be difficult to cultivate cells that will function in a way that is similar to normal tissue function. This is an especially critical issue when it comes to heart cells. Recently, [...]
Telemedicine is rising in popularity for a number of reasons therefore it is no surprise that the Southwest Regional Telehealth Resource center is being created by the Arizona Telemedicine Program. As of right now, the Telehealth network covers Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada, and soon they will be a network of resource centers [...]
It is important to realize that a biochip is not a single product, but rather a family of products that form a technology platform. Many developments over the past two decades have contributed to its evolution. The very concept of a biochip was made possible by the work of Fred Sanger and Walter Gilbert, who [...]
A large amount of research and development has contributed to the rapid evolution of biochip technology. Combining semiconductor technology with molecular biology, biochips supplement electronic circuits with biological material. Composed of DNA, RNA or protein, a biochip holds these materials to the surface of a “chip”. Chips are usually composed of glass, plastic, or silicon. [...]
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