SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY NEWS Early in his undergraduate studies in bioengineering, Sayo Eweje was thinking of a career in medicine. He was inspired by the idea of harnessing medical knowledge to improve patients’ lives, having grown up seeing his father do so as a gastroenterologist. However, his research experiences in college made him appreciate how...
by Thamarasee Jeewandara , Medical Xpress Design of IL2-ep13nsEV and its utilization in treating breast cancer. To generate this active immunotherapy, the sEVs from autologous DCs are engineered with surface membrane–bound IL2 by expressing IL2-MFG-E8. This personalization of DC-derived sEV (p13nsEV) is achieved by loading lysed surgically harvested breast cancer cells onto engineered autologous DCs...
Musculoskeletal injuries and disorders are the leading cause of physical disability worldwide, affecting an estimated 1.7 billion people. A new review paper co-authored by researchers in the Guldberg Lab at the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact provides an overview of the latest technological advances targeting musculoskeletal disorders, including recent efforts in translating state-of-the-art bioengineering approaches...
PURDUE UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY INNOVATORS CREATED A WEARABLE INVENTION THAT OFFERS OPTIONS FOR TREATING ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT INFECTIONS AND WOUNDS. view more CREDIT: PURDUE UNIVERSITY/RAHIM RAHIMI WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The rapid increase of life-threatening antibiotic-resistant infections has resulted in challenging wound complications with limited choices of effective treatments. About 6 million people in the United States...
People low on selenium are at risk of paracetamol overdose, even when they follow dosage recommendations, according to research involving the University of Bath in the UK. UNIVERSITY OF BATH A lack of the mineral selenium in the diet puts people at risk of paracetamol overdose, even when the painkiller is taken at levels claimed...
INNOVATION CENTER OF NANOMEDICINE LEFT: HYDROPHOBIC EPIRUBISIN IS CONJUGATED TO ONE END OF HYDROPHILIC POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL (PEG) CHAIN WITH ASPARTATE-HYDRAZIDE AS A LINKER. IN WATER, THIS MOLECULE IS SELF-ASSEMBLED TO FORM NANO-MICELLES (EPI/M). UPPER… view more CREDIT: 2020 INNOVATION CENTER OF NANOMEDICINE Summary: A nanomedicine-based strategy for chemo-immunotherapy (CIT) of glioblastoma (GBM), which has the...
by University of California – San Diego An international team of researchers has developed a non-invasive blood test that can detect whether an individual has one of five common types of cancers, four years before the condition can be diagnosed with current methods. The test detects stomach, esophageal, colorectal, lung and liver cancer. Called PanSeer,...
The University Carlos III Madrid (UC3M), Almirall, S.A. (ALM) and the MEDINA Foundation have launched a project to find new treatments for recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa and other genetic diseases caused by nonsense mutations. The project is partially-funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation’s Center for Industrial and Technological Development (CDTI). The TRIDs4DEB’s...
The mammalian cell lines that are engineered to produce high-value recombinant-protein drugs also produce unwanted proteins that push up the overall cost to manufacture these drugs. These same proteins can also lower drug quality. In a new paper in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of California San Diego and the Technical University of Denmark...
10 February 2020, 10:28 pm EST By Urian B. Tech Times Could China Bioengineering be the Coronavirus Origin? Well, there are quite a few posts online sharing this theory without sufficient scientific data to back this up. There are even posts that state that the Coronavirus contains HIV “insertions,” which shows that it could possibly...
