“Acoustic Tweezers” Use Sound Waves to Control Items
Scientists have developed “acoustic tweezers” that use sound waves to control items regardless of their optical, electrical or magnetic properties, making them noninvasive and very…
Biomedical Engineering News
How Chronic Inflammation of Organs Can Become Cancerous
A new study from scientists at MIT gives a comprehensive look at how chronic inflammation of organs, often caused by viral or bacterial infections, provokes…
Physical Properties of Stem Cells Predict What They Will Become
New research from Brown University shows that the physical properties of adult stem cells derived from fat, such as liposuction waste, can predict whether they…
MIT Study Measures the Effects of Low Doses of Radiation on DNA
While exposure to low-dose-rate radiation from cosmic radiation and natural radioactive isotopes in the environment is part of everyday life, a new study from MIT…
Portable Diagnostics Use Vibration to Move Drops of Liquid
Scientists at the University of Washington are using nanotechnology manufacturing techniques to build and refine portable diagnostics that have surfaces with tiny posts of varying…
4D Imaging of Breathing Lungs
A new 4D dynamic functional lung imaging method developed by engineers at Monash University will allow health professionals a chance to study breathing lungs in…
Bioengineers Develop Deformability Cytometer to Help Diagnose Disease
Bioengineers at UCLA developed a deformability cytometer to better understand the physical properties of cells, which may prove very useful in the fight against diseases…
UCLA Discovery Suggests a Mechanism and Design Principle for the Engineering of Tissue
Researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Center for Cell Control at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied…
Researchers Study the Use of Photosystem-I as Photovoltaic Panels
MIT researcher Andreas Mershin believes that low-cost photovoltaic panels may one day be made from plant material. His work is an extension of the research…
Neuroscientists Decode Correlation Between Sound and Brain Activity
UC Berkeley neuroscientists are hoping to be able to hear the unsaid words of patients in the near future. While conducting their research, they were…
