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  • Sliding Metal Parts Found to Exhibit Fluid-Like Properties

    Researchers at Purdue University in Indiana found solid pieces of metal that slide over each other to display properties resembling fluids rather than solids. Their research — funded by National Science Foundation, U.S. Army and General Motors — appears in the journal Physical Review Letters (paid subscription required). The team led by materials engineer Srinivasan…

  • Nanotech Process Devised for Graphene Semiconductors

    Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim developed a process to make semiconductors by growing nanoscale wires on a graphene substrate. Helge Weman (pictured left), a professor of electronics, led the research team that published its findings last month in the journal Nano Letters; paid subscription required. Weman also co-founded a…

  • Simulations Helping Design Cardiac Pump Improvements

    Engineers at University of California in San Diego are devising computer simulations of a widely used pediatric heart pump to reduce the risk of blood clots to patients using the device. Mechanical/aerospace engineer Alison Marsden (pictured left) and structural engineer Yuri Bazilevs are leading teams of colleagues from their respective disciplines to better understand a…

  • Nanotech Process Developed to Detect Heavy Metal Pollution

    Researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois developed a nanoscale process to test for heavy metals such as mercury and cadmium in water and fish. Their findings appear onlne in the journal Nature Materials (paid subscription required). The process created by EPFL nanomaterials scientist Francesco Stellacci (pictured…

  • New Materials Developed with Vast Surface Areas

    Materials scientists and engineers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and University of Surrey in the U.K. created two new synthetic materials with the largest reported amounts of internal surface area. The researchers published their findings online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (paid subscription required). The two new materials, known as NU-109…

  • Cambridge, GSK to Develop Therapies for Lung/Liver Disorder

    University of Cambridge in the U.K. will partner with the global pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline to discover and develop new medicines to treat a genetic disease affecting the lungs and liver. The university is expected to receive an upfront payment, and is eligible for milestone payments and royalties under the agreement, but the amounts of those…

  • Tattoo Infections Traced to Bacteria in Premixed Ink

    Medical researchers and clinicians at University of Rochester with public health officials from local, state, and federal agencies discovered a manufactured tattoo ink caused rashes from bacterial infections among tattoo customers in Rochester, New York. The results of their investigation appear online in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study reports 19 cases in…

  • Blood Test Technology Devised with Lab Chip, Smartphone App

    Engineering faculty and students at University of Rhode Island in Kingston developed a hand-held blood testing technology that combines a lab-on-a-chip device with a smartphone app. The university says several patents for been filed for the system invented by mechanical engineering professor Mohammad Faghri (pictured right) and colleagues. The device captures a drop of blood…

  • Early-Stage Biomedical Accelerator Gains $21M Initial Funding

    BioMotiv, a Cleveland company supporting early-stage medical research for commercial development into therapies, secured $21 million in its first financing round. The funds are being provided by BioMotiv’s founding investors, University Hospitals health care system in northeast Ohio and the Harrington Family of Hudson, Ohio, a supporter of translational biomedical research. The company provides financing…

  • Tough, Stretchable Hydrogel Cartilage Replacement Developed

    Biomedical engineers at Harvard University created a tough, stretchable, and biocompatible synthetic material with the capacity to replace damaged cartilage in human joints. The findings from Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences appears in this week’s issue of the journal Nature (paid subscription required). The hydrogel developed by lead author and postdoctoral researcher Jeong-Yun…