| GPBA Annual Research Retreat |
| November 5, 2009 |
| The Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatics Alliance (GPBA) Annual Research Retreat takes place November 12, 2009 in the Bossone Research Enterprise Center. |
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| Seeing Formerly Invisible Molecules |
| October 26, 2009 |
| New microscopic technique reveals for the first time previously unseen molecules in color. |
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| MentorNet Information Session |
| September 30, 2009 |
| A MentorNet information session will be held for Biomed grad students and faculty on October 9, 2009 from 12 - 1 p.m. in Bossone 709. |
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| Mimicking Human Cartilage |
| August 18, 2009 |
| Mimicking Human Cartilage to Repair a Knee |
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| Training Minds to Move Matter |
| August 17, 2009 |
| Researchers Train Minds to Move Matter |
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| Drexel Neuroengineering Event |
| July 7, 2009 |
| Drexel Neuroengineering: Planning for the Future |
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| BIOMED Wins Wharton Competition |
| May 8, 2009 |
| Dr. Elisabeth Papazoglou and the NIR Diagnostics team won the Michelson Grand Prize and People’s Choice Award at the 2009 Wharton Business Plan Competition. |
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| Translational Medicine Forum |
| April 22, 2009 |
| The Translational Medicine Annual Forum will be held May 13-15, 2009 at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel. |
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| Nanotube Accelerated Bone Growth |
| April 15, 2009 |
| Bone Growth Accelerated With Nanotubes And Stem Cells |
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| Alumni Career Services Workshop |
| March 18, 2009 |
| The Drexel University Alumni Association and the Steinbright Career Development Center will hold another Alumni Career Services workshop on April 2, 2009. |
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| Exceptional Achievement Award |
| March 9, 2009 |
| $100,000 A.J. Drexel Exceptional Achievement Award Nomination Deadline: March 23rd. |
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| Microchip Measures a Lot in a Little |
| February 2, 2009 |
| The ability to measure biomarkers quickly and easily in small samples is creating new opportunities in research and could make a big impact on clinical care. |
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| Attention All Graduating Seniors!! |
| January 27, 2009 |
| Your Application for Degree Form must be handed in to the Student Resource Center (SRC) by February 16, 2009 in order to participate in graduation. |
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| Life-saving Surgery Tool |
| January 16, 2009 |
| From military device to life-saving surgery tool. |
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| Dov Jaron Is Elected to ICSU Board |
| December 11, 2008 |
| Dr. Dov Jaron is elected to the Executive Board of the International Council for Science (ICSU) |
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| Paralyzed Limbs Move Again |
| December 1, 2008 |
| Biologically Active Nanofibers – Paralyzed Limbs Move Again |
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| GPBA Poster Competition - Nov. 6th |
| October 17, 2008 |
| Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatics Alliance (GPBA) Annual Research Retreat Poster Competition takes place Nov. 6, 2008 in the Bossone Research Enterprise Center |
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| Picturing Liver Disease |
| August 28, 2008 |
| Picturing Liver Disease with Shear Waves |
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| Nanoplatform Offers Lung Disease Key |
| April 7, 2008 |
| Nanoplatform Offers Key to Rare Lung Disease |
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| Optical Microchip Tracks Molecules |
| February 6, 2008 |
| Optical Microchip Tracks Molecules for Research and Clinical Applications |
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| Monkey’s Thoughts Propel Robot |
| January 29, 2008 |
| A Step That May Help Humans |
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| 'Super' Scanner Shows Key Detail |
| November 27, 2007 |
| A new scanner has been unveiled which can produce 3D body images of unprecedented clarity while reducing radiation by as much as 80%. |
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| Prosthesis Gets a Grip |
| November 13, 2007 |
| The i-LIMB Hand, which uses human thought and muscles to move, is the world's first commercially available bionic hand. |
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| Sending His Cancer a Signal |
| November 6, 2007 |
| John Kanzius, sorely weakened by leukemia treatments, drew on his lifetime of working with radio waves to devise a machine that targets cancer cells. |
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| Pancreatic Cancer May Be Outsmarted |
| October 30, 2007 |
| New Technique May Outsmart Pancreatic Cancer |
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| BME Poster Competition |
| October 4, 2007 |
| The Translational Research in Biomedical Engineering Poster Competition will be held on Friday, October 26, 2007 in the Bossone Research Enterprise Center. |
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| Fall Career Fair |
| October 2, 2007 |
| SCDC presents Drexel's 20th Annual Fall Career Fair on Wednesday, October 3, 2007, from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the John A. Daskalakis Athletic Center. |
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| Johnson & Johnson Info Session |
| October 1, 2007 |
| SCDC will host Johnson & Johnson for an Information Session on Tuesday, October 2, 2007, from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at the Paul Peck Alumni Center, Main Gallery. |
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| Robotics Aids Stroke Patients |
| July 12, 2007 |
| In Latest Robotics, New Hope for Stroke Patients. |
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| Making Skin Cells Work As Stem Cells |
| July 3, 2007 |
| Biologists Make Skin Cells Work Like Stem Cells |
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| New Course on Product Development |
| February 22, 2007 |
| A new course in Product Development for Medical Applications will be offered in the Spring term. |
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| Making Torn Tendons Tough |
| February 20, 2007 |
| Good news for athletes and others: Penn scientists, working with mice, are figuring out ways to make tendon injuries heal stronger. |
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| Artificial Retina Implants Promising |
| February 19, 2007 |
| Artificial retina implant holds promise for the blind. |
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| Robot-Assisted Surgery with Feeling |
| February 12, 2007 |
| Over the last decade a number of research groups have started investigating how to incorporate tactile feedback into robotic surgical systems. |
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| Testing the Power of Magnetic Stents |
| February 7, 2007 |
| A Drexel College of Medicine team is testing the power of magnets to eliminate some of the worries surrounding stents. |
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| Brain-Computer Interfaces Come Home |
| February 7, 2007 |
| Researchers show first home-versions of a brain-computer interface system enabling severely paralyzed people to communicate via their brain waves and a computer. |
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| Drexel Nanotech Discovery Workshop |
| February 7, 2007 |
| The A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute and the College of Engineering invite you to The Drexel Nanotechnology Discovery Workshop, February 8, 2007 at 1 p.m. |
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| Surgical Breakthrough via Golden Arm |
| February 4, 2007 |
| A former US marine has been given a bionic arm in a pioneering operation. |
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| Nanomachine Envisioned 150 Years Ago |
| February 1, 2007 |
| Scientists build nanomachine envisioned 150 years ago. |
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| Cell Transplants 'Restore Sight' |
| December 6, 2006 |
| Cell transplants have successfully restored vision to mice which had lost their sight, leading to hopes people could benefit in the same way. |
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| It May Come as a Shock |
| November 9, 2006 |
| In ancient Rome, patients with unbearable head pain were sometimes treated with jolts from the electricity-producing black torpedo fish, or electric ray. |
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| Young to Test Artificial Pancreas |
| November 7, 2006 |
| Children in the UK with type 1 diabetes are being recruited to test an artificial pancreas. |
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| Protein Modeling Workshop - Nov. 8th |
| October 31, 2006 |
| This workshop is free of charge and will be held from 1 to 5 PM on November 8th, 2006 in Room 702 of the Bossone Research Enterprise Center. |
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| Imaging Gene Expression with MR |
| October 30, 2006 |
| Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an important non-invasive technique for visualizing the body, but it has its limits. |
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| BMEidea Stipends 2006-07 |
| October 27, 2006 |
| Deadline: November 10, 2006 |
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| FDA Approves New Artificial Heart |
| September 25, 2006 |
| AbioCor is the first fully implantable device for patients who aren't eligible for transplants. |
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| Faster Biopsy Results |
| August 30, 2006 |
| Faster biopsy results with new microscope array. |
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| Lankenau Hospital Gets New President |
| August 30, 2006 |
| Main Line Health named Elaine Thompson, an alumnus of Drexel's School of Biomed, as the new president of Lankenau Hospital on Friday, August 18, 2006. |
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| Nothing Tiny About Nanotech Grant |
| August 28, 2006 |
| Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Wednesday that the state will provide more than $11.1 million for nanotechnology and engineering research. |
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| Smart Care via a Mouse |
| August 22, 2006 |
| The electronic medical record seems an example of pure progress, a technology that yields only winners. So it has been cast as a geeky hero in health care policy. |
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| Biomedical Technology Showcase |
| August 21, 2006 |
| Biomedical Technology Showcase 2006 will take place Friday, November 3, 2006 @ 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM in the Bossone Research Enterprise Center at Drexel University. |
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| Biosensor Rapidly Identifies UTIs |
| August 2, 2006 |
| Urinary tract infections, or UTIs, are a serious health problem affecting millions of people each year. |
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| Quadriplegic's Thoughts = Action |
| July 17, 2006 |
| A chip placed in his brain helps him play video games and use a mechanical arm. |
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| 2006 IEEE-EMBS-ASME Workshop |
| June 26, 2006 |
| Modeling and Measurement of Mechanical Properties of Cells and Proteins |
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| Cardiac Patch: The Beat Goes On |
| June 6, 2006 |
| Heart disease, the number one cause of death in the developed world, often manifests first as a heart attack – the sudden blockage of a coronary artery. |
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| Robots Serve as Hands of the Surgeon |
| May 25, 2006 |
| Some doctors believe that robotic surgery for prostate cancer and other conditions causes less pain and fewer side effects than conventional techniques. |
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| GPBA Summer 2006 Virtual Institute |
| May 17, 2006 |
| The Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatics Alliance has announced its Summer 2006 Virtual Institute for Professional Training sessions and schedule. |
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| Nanofibre-regrown Optic Nerve |
| May 1, 2006 |
| Optic nerve regrown with a nanofibre scaffold. |
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| Fuel Powered Artificial Muscles |
| May 1, 2006 |
| U. T. Dallas nanotechnologists demonstrate artificial muscles powered by highly energetic fuels. |
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| Tiny Neural Clamps Make Connections |
| May 1, 2006 |
| Researchers at Arizona State University have developed a device that may revolutionize ways to communicate with the peripheral nervous system. |
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| New Hope for Head Injuries |
| April 17, 2006 |
| More than 50,000 people die of head injuries in the United States every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
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| Mag Signals Reveal Fetal Development |
| April 10, 2006 |
| Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock are developing a screening tool to detect pre-term neurological damage in fetuses. |
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| New Course on Product Development |
| April 8, 2006 |
| A new special topics course / workshop in Product Development for Medical Applications will be offered in the Spring term. |
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| GPBA Workshop on April 19th |
| April 7, 2006 |
| The Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatics Alliance will hold a day-long workshop titled: Pharmacogenomics and Proteomics for Professionals and Investors |
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| An Organ-implant First |
| April 6, 2006 |
| In a breakthrough, 7 children born with spina bifida were given bladders grown from their own cells. A King of Prussia firm hopes for clinical trials this year. |
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| Why Doctors So Often Get It Wrong |
| February 24, 2006 |
| With all the tools available to modern medicine — the blood tests and M.R.I.'s and endoscopes — you might think that misdiagnosis has become a rare thing. |
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| GPBA Summer 2006 Virtual Institute |
| February 20, 2006 |
| The Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatics Alliance has announced its Summer 2006 Virtual Institute for Professional Training sessions and schedule. |
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| Custom-Made Microbes at Your Service |
| February 2, 2006 |
| There are bacteria that blink on and off like Christmas lights and bacteria that form multicolored patterns of concentric circles resembling an archery target. |
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| Medical Devices Are Hot |
| January 24, 2006 |
| Think of it as the fight for the Bionic Baby Boomer. |
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| Nano-scale Version of Old Curative |
| January 4, 2006 |
| Silver, one of humankind's first weapons against bacteria, is receiving new respect for its antiseptic powers. |
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| When Is a Disability an Advantage? |
| December 21, 2005 |
| Oscar Pistorius was born without feet and has fought hard—with the help of skilled prosthetics engineers—to run against the world's best athletes. |
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| Blood Vessels Grown From Skin |
| November 16, 2005 |
| Two kidney dialysis patients from Argentina have received the world's first blood vessels grown in a laboratory dish from snippets of their own skin. |
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| 75 Reasons To Be an Entrepreneur |
| October 24, 2005 |
| 75 reasons to be glad you're an American entrepreneur right now. |
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| New Tissue 'Grown within Minutes' |
| October 24, 2005 |
| UK scientists say they can cut the time it takes to grow new tissue from days to minutes. |
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| Study on Regrowing Damaged Limbs |
| October 13, 2005 |
| British scientists have been awarded $17 million in funding to study how to regrow damaged limbs. |
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| InfraScan Part of Medtech Conference |
| October 11, 2005 |
| InfraScan to present at Medtech Insight's "Investment In Innovation" Boston Conference. |
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| Your Replacement Parts |
| September 27, 2005 |
| A start-up King of Prussia company is working on a way to "grow" a new bladder using a patient's own cells. |
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| St. Peter's Joins Forces with Drexel |
| August 11, 2005 |
| St. Peter's joins forces with Drexel University to advance clinical research, education, technology. |
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| A "Smart" Bio-Nanotube |
| August 11, 2005 |
| Novel structure made from cell components could deliver drugs, genes on command. |
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| Device to Combat Balance Disorders |
| July 14, 2005 |
| OHSU researchers help develop portable device to assist those combating balance disorders. |
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| Wiring the Brain at Nanoscale |
| July 11, 2005 |
| Nanowires in blood vessels may help monitor, stimulate neurons in the brain. |
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| Circulatory System on a Chip |
| July 5, 2005 |
| Circulatory system on a chip lets scientists mimic heartbeat. |
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| 'Bionic' Arm Returns Sense of Touch |
| June 24, 2005 |
| Technology links computer and nerves. |
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| Robot Assistant Reports to Surgery |
| June 23, 2005 |
| Machine lets nurses focus on patient care. |
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| Cell Regeneration via Scaffolds |
| June 20, 2005 |
| Microscopic scaffolds may help regenerate cells. |
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| Blood Vessels Engineered in Lab |
| June 20, 2005 |
| Duke scientist is perfecting human parts. |
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| Blue Brain: Illuminating the Mind |
| June 10, 2005 |
| Scientists will use the blazingly fast supercomputer to do never-before-possible research into how we think and how mental disorders arise. |
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| Treating Trauma Cases |
| May 17, 2005 |
| Treating trauma cases could soon be drastically different, thanks to an invention from a local research team. |
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| Warped Map Helps Chart the Brain |
| May 11, 2005 |
| A new brain database and atlas developed by the International Consortium for Brain Mapping may answer some of the most vexing questions about how the brain works. |
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| Podcast: Google Information Tools |
| May 6, 2005 |
| Jay Bhatt, Information Services Librarian, Engineering, presented a PowerPoint podcast on Google Scholar and Other Information Resource Tools. |
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| Computers Obey Brain Waves |
| April 8, 2005 |
| Scientists are using electrical brain signals as instructions to computers and other machines, allowing paralyzed people to control their environment. |
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| NEBE Conference Poster Winners |
| April 6, 2005 |
| Seunglee Kwon and Odelia Mualem Burstein won 2nd and 3rd place in the Graduate Poster Presentation category at the 31st Annual NEBE Conference. |
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| Undergrad Award Applications |
| March 31, 2005 |
| The application deadline for for this year's undergraduate Scholarship / Service Scholarships Awards is Friday, April 15, 2005. |
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| Business Plan Development Workshop |
| March 28, 2005 |
| A business plan development workshop will take place on Thursday, March 31, 2005, from 4 - 6 p.m. in the Baiada Center (3225 Arch Street, ground floor). |
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| BIO 2005 Volunteer Program |
| March 14, 2005 |
| Give us two days and we'll give you two complimentary days at the BIO 2005 conference! |
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| A New Polymer To Treat Cancer |
| March 14, 2005 |
| A new polymer combined with an ancient toxin may treat cancer. |
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| Summer 2005 GPBA Internships |
| March 13, 2005 |
| The deadline for Summer 2005 GPBA Internships have been extended until April 1, 2005. |
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| Summer Training for Biostatistics |
| March 9, 2005 |
| The Summer Institutes for Training in Biostatistics offers opportunities for undergraduate students for training in Biostatistics during Summer 2005. |
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| Summer Research Internship Program |
| March 9, 2005 |
| A summer research internship program at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX will take place June 20 - September 9, 2005. |
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| BIO 2005 Philadelphia |
| March 9, 2005 |
| The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) 2005 Annual International Convention takes place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, June 19-22, 2005. |
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| Telemedicine on the Cheap |
| March 9, 2005 |
| One evening recently, Kristi Moore was worried that her asthmatic daughter had strep throat, and she wanted a doctor's opinion. |
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| Tiny Is Beautiful |
| February 25, 2005 |
| Translating 'Nano' Into Practical |
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| Wearable Robots Aid Stroke Rehab |
| February 15, 2005 |
| A paralyzed arm is one of the most common disabilities that result from a stroke, and among the most frustrating. |
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| Career Opportunities Seminar |
| February 15, 2005 |
| The next BMES Industrial Speaker Seminar (BMES-ISS) will be presented by Mr. Matthew Geise from the HR department of Siemens Medical Solutions in Malvern. |
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| Entrepreneurship Awards Q&A Session |
| February 11, 2005 |
| Dr. Robert Loring will hold a question-and-answer session on the Loring Biomedical Technology Entrepreneurship Awards on Monday, February 14th at 4:00 p.m. |
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| Noyce Scholarship Program |
| January 26, 2005 |
| The Drexel University Noyce Scholarship Program is for mathematics, science and engineering students who want to become certified to teach math or science. |
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| Automated Helping Hand for Surgery |
| January 24, 2005 |
| An automated helping hand is meant to replace the scrub nurse, the person in the operating room who hands the surgeon the tools of surgery. |
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| Conference on Bio-Threat Agents |
| January 24, 2005 |
| The First Annual National Conference on Environmental Sampling for Bio-Threat Agents will take place Jan. 27-28, 2005 in Baltimore, MD. |
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| Banu Onaral on The Drexel InterView |
| January 18, 2005 |
| Dr. Banu Onaral, H. H. Sun Professor and Director of the School of Biomed will be a guest on DUTV's The Drexel InterView on Tues., Jan. 18, 2005 at 8 p.m. |
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| Banu Onaral Listed in "10 to Watch" |
| January 13, 2005 |
| Dr. Banu Onaral has been cited by The Philadelphia Inquirer as one of the top ten people to watch in the Philadelphia region in 2005. |
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| Bone Checkups Through Ultrasound |
| December 17, 2004 |
| Ultrasound may be the key to making bone checkups routine. |
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| Detecting Breast Cancer Early |
| November 30, 2004 |
| New device that detects metabolic changes could be used at home to detect tumors, but more work is needed - from Philly Metro, November 30, 2004 |
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| Sci-Tech Entrepreneurs Conference |
| November 23, 2004 |
| Innovation Partnership is sponsoring a conference for science and technology entrepreneurs on December 1-2, 2004. |
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| Bowling Night -- Tues Nov. 23rd |
| November 23, 2004 |
| BIOMED students are invited to join the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) to a bowling night, Tuesday, Nov. 22nd, at Jillian's in the Northeast. |
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| Entrepreneurship Awards Q&A Session |
| November 9, 2004 |
| Dr. Robert Loring will hold a question-and-answer session on the Loring Biomedical Technology Entrepreneurship Awards on Tuesday, Nov. 16th at 4:00 p.m. |
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| Noyce Scholarship Deadline Nov. 12th |
| November 9, 2004 |
| The deadline for submittal of the application and letter of intent for the Noyce Scholarship has been extended until November 12, 2004. |
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| Catch a (Brain) Wave |
| October 25, 2004 |
| About 2 million people in the United States have diseases that impair their muscle control. |
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| Biomedical Research Day |
| October 25, 2004 |
| The governor and legislature of Pennsylvania recognize Biomedical Research Day. |
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| Business Plan Competition Workshop |
| October 20, 2004 |
| Business Plan Competition Kicks Off with Workshop |
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| BMES Fall Meeting: Oct. 13-16, 2004 |
| September 29, 2004 |
| The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2004 Annual Fall Meeting will be held October 13-16, 2004 at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel in Philadelphia, PA. |
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| Over the Counter Defibrillator |
| September 29, 2004 |
| Philips gets FDA approval to sell defibrillator over the counter. |
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| Doctors Grow New Jaw in Man's Back |
| September 29, 2004 |
| A German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer has enjoyed his first meal in nine years after surgeons grew a new jaw bone in his back muscle. |
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| Cartilage Heal Thyself |
| September 29, 2004 |
| Tissue-engineered scaffolding may help the body repair weakened knees and joints. |
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| Progress in Immunotherapy |
| September 29, 2004 |
| Immunotherapy offers the promise of treating human diseases by mobilizing or inhibiting multiple arms of the immune system. |
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| Toward Neural Prosthetics |
| September 29, 2004 |
| Researchers have long dreamed of devising prosthetic devices that could be operated by paralyzed people using brain signals alone. |
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| Integrated Imaging Used in Surgery |
| August 18, 2004 |
| Integrated Imaging May Improve Epilepsy Surgery |
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| Biomedical Entrepreneurship Course |
| August 11, 2004 |
| Biomedical Entrepreneurship - BMES 680/BMES 480 course will be offered in Winter term '05 |
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| Optics East 2004 Conference |
| June 29, 2004 |
| The Optics East 2004 Conference will be held October 25-28, 2004 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA. |
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| Designer Bones |
| June 28, 2004 |
| In the future, a patient in need of a new bone or bone section may be able to have one made using a mold, a gel, and a few drops of adult mesenchymal stem cells. |
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| SAPA-GP Annual Conference |
| May 26, 2004 |
| Current Trends in World Pharmaceuticals and Biotech R&D |
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| M.D.'s Inside the Body |
| May 4, 2004 |
| A Glimpse at the Future of DNA: M.D.'s Inside the Body. |
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| Brain Implants Enabled By Thought |
| April 14, 2004 |
| With Tiny Brain Implants, Just Thinking May Make It So |
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| Opportunities in Bioinformatics |
| April 13, 2004 |
| Opportunities in bioinformatics once abounded for the self-taught and industrially minded, but employers are now turning towards formally trained and academics. |
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| Nanopulses Tweak Innards of Cells |
| April 13, 2004 |
| A method that would allow doctors to tweak the innards of cells without even touching a patient's body is being developed in the US. |
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| New Named Professorships |
| April 12, 2004 |
| Interim Provost Ali Houshmand announces new named Drexel professorships. |
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| Research Seeks To Create Living Cell |
| April 12, 2004 |
| Researchers seek to create a living cell |
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| From Robotic Legs to Super Troopers |
| March 29, 2004 |
| Robotic legs could lead to super troopers: 'Pilot becomes integral part of exoskeleton.' |
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| Art of Restoring What's Missing |
| March 29, 2004 |
| When Necessity Meets Ingenuity: Art of Restoring What's Missing |
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| Neural Signals Enable the Paralyzed |
| March 29, 2004 |
| Brainpower: Neural signals enable paralyzed patients to control computers through thought. |
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| Lab on a Chip |
| March 29, 2004 |
| Miniaturized microfluidic device analyzes multiple samples in parallel. |
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| Using Nanoscale Storms To Cool Chips |
| March 29, 2004 |
| At Purdue, cooling chips with mini lightning storms |
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| Bashful vs. Brash in Nanotech Field |
| March 15, 2004 |
| Bashful vs. Brash in the New Field of Nanotech |
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| BioSensus Obtains BioAdvance Funding |
| March 15, 2004 |
| BioSensus has received $500,000 in start-up funding from BioAdvance, the Biotechnology Greenhouse of Southeastern Pennsylvania. |
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| Nano Effort Rakes In Funding |
| February 29, 2004 |
| An organization formed to spur nanotechnology research and commercialization efforts helps local researchers get about $60 million in federal grants. |
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| Shock Waves Of Cloning Revelation |
| February 17, 2004 |
| Ethicists, scientists, and politicians debate meaning, next steps. |
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| Human Embryos Cloned |
| February 17, 2004 |
| South Korean team demonstrates cloning efficiency for humans is similar to pigs and cattle. |
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| EMB Magazine goes LIVE! |
| February 9, 2004 |
| Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMB) Magazine is now available on the internet through the EMBS home page! |
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| Dramatic Results Against Stroke |
| February 9, 2004 |
| Test shows device can arrest damage by removing blood clots from victims. |
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| Undergrad Research Opportunities |
| February 6, 2004 |
| The Pennoni Honors College maintains an interactive website designed to foster research and creative opportunities for all Drexel undergraduates. |
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| Undergraduate Summer Research at MIT |
| February 6, 2004 |
| Harvard-MIT Biomedical Optics Summer Institute to be held at MIT and at the Massachusetts General Hospital. |
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| 2004 NSF/NIBIB Summer Institutes |
| February 5, 2004 |
| Student applications are now open for the 2004 NSF/NIBIB Summer Institutes, |
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| NIH Graduate Partnership Program |
| February 5, 2004 |
| The Graduate Program Partnerships (GPP) initiative links the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with universities in the graduate level training of students. |
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| DHS Scholarships and Fellowships |
| February 5, 2004 |
| The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is offering undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships with competitive stipends and tuition allowances. |
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| Ultrasound Becoming More Pervasive |
| January 28, 2004 |
| An Ultrasound That Navigates Every Nook and Cranny |
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| Cracking Nature's Super Glue Secrets |
| January 21, 2004 |
| Chemists Crack Secrets of Nature's Super Glue. Mussel-powered proteins stick to Teflon, even under water . |
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| Nanoscale Building Blocks Take Shape |
| January 21, 2004 |
| Nanoscale Building Blocks Form Spheres, Tubes, and Curves. Self-assembling structures could find wide use in nanoelectronics and drug delivery. |
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| Nanotech Attracts Venture Capital |
| December 23, 2003 |
| As Nanotechnology Gains Visibility, Venture Capital Begins Coming In |
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| Jawbone Grows from Adult Stem Cells |
| December 15, 2003 |
| Whitaker investigator successfully uses a single population of adult stem cells to grow a knob of jawbone as a potential medical implant. |
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| Scientists Make Synthetic Virus Fast |
| November 20, 2003 |
| Replicating microbes could help clean up air pollutants and produce natural fuels. |
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| Public Defibrillators Save Lives |
| November 20, 2003 |
| First major test of public-access defibrillators found to rescue lives. |
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| Devices Can Now Read Human Thought |
| November 20, 2003 |
| Devices that read human thought now possible, study says. Brain implants could help severely disabled. |
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| Docs Seed Hearts With Healing Cells |
| November 20, 2003 |
| Seeding hearts with healing cells, doctors hope to grow muscle. |
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| MedTech Targets Neonatal Technology |
| November 20, 2003 |
| MedTech partnership aims to boost neonatal technology. |
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| Thoughts Control Bionic Arm |
| November 20, 2003 |
| Biomedical engineers and surgeons have attached a bionic arm that can be controlled by thought. |
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| Stem Cells Grown into Tissues |
| November 20, 2003 |
| Breakthrough seen in creating organs. |
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| Monkeys Move Robot Arm Via Implant |
| October 16, 2003 |
| The technology could someday let paralyzed people operate tools or control their own arms and legs. |
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| Short Course in Molecular Biology |
| September 24, 2003 |
| The Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatics Alliance presents: Field Guide to GenBank and NCBI Molecular Biology Resources. |
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| Computer Imaging Finds Tumor Vessels |
| July 24, 2003 |
| A Budding Tumor Unmasked by the Vessels That Feed It |
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| Telemedicine Used for Eye Care |
| July 9, 2003 |
| For an Ailing Retina, Instant Diagnosis From Afar |
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| Bioinformatics Alliance Is Launched |
| July 3, 2003 |
| BioAdvance and nine Philadelphia universities and research organizations are joining forces to launch the Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatics Alliance. |
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| Technology Elite Focus on Human Body |
| June 17, 2003 |
| Technology Elite Are Focusing Next on Human Body |
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| Military Hardware Used To Fight SARS |
| May 13, 2003 |
| Military Hardware Is Adapted To Fight SARS |
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| 'Virtual' Colonoscopy Wins Patent |
| May 6, 2003 |
| Virtual colonoscopy combines CT scanning technology and computer graphics technology. |
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| New Hope for Heart Patients |
| April 27, 2003 |
| Drug-coated stents help delay or avert surgery. |
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| Life-sciences Fund Makes First Loans |
| April 22, 2003 |
| The money, from the tobacco settlement, is aimed at promoting local biotechnology firms and jobs. |
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| Human Genome Is Complete |
| April 21, 2003 |
| Scientists Say Human Genome Is Complete |
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| Human Genome Is Complete |
| April 18, 2003 |
| Scientists Say Human Genome Is Complete |
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| Ideal Sensors Don't Exist Yet |
| April 2, 2003 |
| Ideal Sensors for Terror Attack Don't Exist Yet |
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| Reeve Breathing on His Own |
| March 14, 2003 |
| Christopher Reeve has electrodes planted in his diaphragm to restore his ability to breathe naturally. |
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| Stem Cells Used to Repair Heart |
| March 10, 2003 |
| Doctors have used stem cells to repair the heart of a 16-year old boy. |
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| Ink-jet Printing and Living Tissue |
| February 20, 2003 |
| Ink-jet printing creates tubes of living tissue |
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| Bioinformatics Initiative Gets Funds |
| February 20, 2003 |
| Dr. Aydin Tozeren leads one of 11 'Skills Greenhouses' funded projects. |
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| Soccer Headgear Fails Impact Tests |
| February 20, 2003 |
| Foam helmets and padded headbands do little to soften the impact of heading a soccer ball, according to a new study. |
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| Small World, Big Plans |
| February 20, 2003 |
| Business and nanotechnology, where common material particles are shrunk to such small sizes, behaving in unexpected - and often - useful ways. |
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| Outstanding Young American |
| February 20, 2003 |
| Dr. Anthony Mazzarelli has been named one of this year's ten Outstanding Young Americans. |
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| Mouse Genome to Be Made Public |
| February 20, 2003 |
| A landmark in biology that will greatly accelerate efforts to understand and treat human disease. |
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| What's New on BMEnet
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| February 20, 2003 |
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| What's New on BMEnet
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| February 20, 2003 |
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| Early Plaque Detection |
| February 11, 2003 |
| Bioengineers have used nanotechnology to see where blood vessel plaques are just beginning to form, well before they pose a risk of heart attack or stroke. |
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| Predicting Evolution |
| February 11, 2003 |
| A new computer model has successfully predicted how one strain of a common bacterium will evolve over hundreds of generations. |
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| Soccer Headgear Fails Impact Tests |
| January 13, 2003 |
| helmets and padded headbands do little to soften the impact of heading a soccer ball, according to a new study. |
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| HeartMate heart assist pump |
| December 20, 2002 |
| The government has approved the HeartMate heart assist pump as a permanent implant for patients with severe heart failure |
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| Computer Predicts Severity |
| December 20, 2002 |
| Bioengineers have developed the first computer model that can predict the severity of a disease based on a patient's genes. |
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| Noise That Keeps a Body on Balance |
| December 20, 2002 |
| Keeping your balance while standing upright can be tricky, particularly for older people. |
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| Biotech News: |
| December 16, 2002 |
| Computer Model Predicts Severity of Blood Disorder |
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| Virtual Stomach |
| November 11, 2002 |
| The first virtual stomach is providing unique insights into the way medicines are released from pills and capsules |
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| Laser Research Yields Precision |
| October 10, 2002 |
| Laser Research Yields Precision Breath Analysis Tool for Asthma Diagnosis (Treatment) |
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| NEW DEVICE SAID TO LOWER HEART ATTAC |
| October 8, 2002 |
| An experimental device that acts like a miniature drill and |
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| Tracking Speeding Blood Cells |
| September 23, 2002 |
| Like weather forecasters mapping cloud movements or police tracking a speeding car, biomedical engineers can now gauge the speed of blood cells rushing through hu |
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| September 23, 2002 |
| Test |
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| Tracking Speeding Blood Cells
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| September 23, 2002 |
| "Biomedical engineers can now gauge the speed of blood cells rushing through human veins."
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| Nanomachines Seek Out Breast Cancer |
| September 17, 2002 |
| A biomedical engineer and a biologist have teamed up to create nanomachines that hone in on breast cancer tissue in live mice. |
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| SCIENTISTS MAP GENETIC CODE OF MOUSE |
| August 6, 2002 |
| An international team has completed the most comprehensive |
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| Telemedicine and Remote Knee Surgery |
| July 23, 2002 |
| In a groundbreaking telemedicine development, doctors in Massachusetts earlier this month helped a physician at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to surgically re |
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| Laser-Like Beam May Break Barriers |
| July 23, 2002 |
| Researchers have created a sharply focused, laser-like beam of ultraviolet light using a device that could fit on a dining room table. Scientists and engineers wi |
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| New digital video technologies |
| July 19, 2002 |
| Scientists and medical professionals are discovering how useful digital video can be in advancing their research, educating patients, or sharing ideas and techniq |
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| It Slices! It Dices! Nanotube Struts |
| July 19, 2002 |
| It is stronger than steel and far sharper than a pin. It shoots electrons and draws away heat. It can become the thinnest of wires and, potentially ... |
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| ‘Summit for a Cure’ looks to future |
| June 25, 2002 |
| Scientists may be on the verge of curing some of the most deadly and crippling diseases that plague man, experts said Sunday during MSNBC TV’s “Summit for a Cure. |
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| 2002 Research Day and Venture Fair |
| June 12, 2002 |
| BIOMED is very proud to honor and congratulate the winners of the |
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| RESEARCHERS IMPLANT CLONED COW TISS |
| June 11, 2002 |
| Boston-area researchers created miniature cow kidneys and heart tissue from cloned cow embryos, then implanted them in the original animals without complication, |
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| Heart Pump Study |
| May 22, 2002 |
| A new study adds to the evidence supporting the use of heart assist pumps as permanent implants for patients with heart failure. |
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| RATS TURNED INTO REMOTE-CONTROLLED |
| May 3, 2002 |
| Scientists for the first time have managed to remotely direct the movements of rats by using implanted electrodes to control their behavior -- in effect transform |
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| Implanted Heart-Rate Monitors "Mode |
| April 29, 2002 |
| Devices that are implanted in the chest to regulate heart rates have proved to be moderately cost-effective among patients |
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| Cartilage Made From Stem CellsTested |
| April 15, 2002 |
| Cartilage Made From Stem CellsTested in Animals |
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| BiomedTechnologist Job in Maine |
| April 5, 2002 |
| Full-time position as a Biomedical Technologist I in Bar Harbor, Maine |
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| DNAComputers - Maybe We Could Infe |
| April 1, 2002 |
| Researchers are using DNA to develop truly miniscule computers that |
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| Gene Therapy for Blood Vessels |
| March 25, 2002 |
| Biomedical engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have received a patent for an experimental gene therapy to prevent blood vessels from reclosing a |
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| RADIO WAVE TREATMENT ZAPS IRREGULAR |
| January 30, 2002 |
| Doctors are using high-frequency radio waves to zap cells that cause irregular heartbeats, eliminating the problem for more than 70 percent of patients with a typ |
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| Blood Vessels Grown in Live Animals |
| December 10, 2001 |
| Biomedical engineers at the University of Michigan have grown a healthy network of blood vessels in live animals. |
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| Graduate Fellowships at Purdue |
| December 10, 2001 |
| Biomedical Engineering Graduate Fellowships at Purdue University |
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| A New Form of Ultrasonic Vision |
| December 10, 2001 |
| A sonic flashlight developed at the University of Pittsburgh makes the human body seem translucent right in front of your eyes. |
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| 2002 Graduate Fellowship Competition |
| November 13, 2001 |
| The National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Competition for 2002 |
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| Post-Doctoral Position |
| October 22, 2001 |
| in Neuroengineering |
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| NSF Graduate Fellowships |
| October 1, 2001 |
| Available NSF Graduate Research Fellowships |
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| Nanotech: the new frontier in biomed |
| September 6, 2001 |
| BY Kathy Kowalenko. Editor, The Institute (IEEE) |
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| Heart cells beat anew in 3-D dish |
| August 16, 2001 |
| Computer chip-making technology aids research |
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| Hahnemann is testing a new heart |
| August 9, 2001 |
| In the medical community, cautious optimism greeted the device, which is completely implanted in the chest. |
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| REPLACING A BROKEN HEART |
| July 17, 2001 |
| By Dick Kaukas, The Courier-Journal |
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| Laser Scalpel for Eyes |
| July 2, 2001 |
| Ultrafast pulse offers high precision for cutting corneal flap |
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| Penn Wins $14 Million L-D Award |
| June 28, 2001 |
| from Whitaker |
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| Barbara Salami wins an IEEE Award |
| June 27, 2001 |
| Congratualations to our BIOMED undergraduate |
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| Drexel Alumni |
| June 27, 2001 |
| former students of Dr. Moshe Kam |
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| What's New on BMEnet |
| June 27, 2001 |
| Coronary Catheter Cleans Up |
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| ***ATTENTION*** |
| June 19, 2001 |
| ALL GRADUATE STUDENTS |
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| Scenes From BIOMED Retreat |
| May 21, 2001 |
| A brief collection of pictures from the BIOMED retreat on May 18, 2001. |
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| STEM CELLS HOLD HOPE |
| April 17, 2001 |
| FOR DAMAGED HEARTS from Newsday |
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| A PACEMAKER FOR THE BRAIN |
| April 17, 2001 |
| from The San Francisco Chronicle |
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| MRI-Guided Catheter Ablation |
| April 17, 2001 |
| Johns Hopkins University |
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| Two BME Pioneers Honored |
| April 17, 2001 |
| ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 27, 2001 |
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| Agreement Signed |
| March 20, 2001 |
| for Impedance Cardiography Intellectual Property |
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| Bridging the Gaps Program |
| March 1, 2001 |
| Summer Internship for Graduate Students |
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| Tenure Track Faculty Positions |
| March 1, 2001 |
| in Biomedical Engineering |
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| Endowed Chair Professorships |
| March 1, 2001 |
| BIOMED invites nominations and applications |
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| Philadelphia a life-sciences center |
| February 14, 2001 |
| Philadelphia a life-sciences center? Could be |
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| Artificial Heart Approved |
| February 9, 2001 |
| for Clinical Trials |
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| BRAIN ELECTRODES |
| February 9, 2001 |
| from Newsday |
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| FDA APPROVES HUMAN TESTING |
| February 9, 2001 |
| OF ARTIFICIAL HEART from The Associated Press |
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| A DREAM OF FIGHTING EPILEPSY |
| February 9, 2001 |
| EPILEPSY WITH A FLIP OF A BRAIN SWITCH from The New York Times |
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| EPILEPTIC SEIZURES |
| February 9, 2001 |
| RESEARCHERS STUDY WAYS TO PREDICT EPILEPTIC SEIZURES |
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| PRESIDENT CLINTON SIGNS BILL |
| January 4, 2001 |
| TO ESTABLISH NIH BIOIMAGING, BIOENGINEERING INSTITUTE |
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| Alliance in bioinformatics |
| January 3, 2001 |
| with SmithKline Beecham |
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| ONR funds a BIOMED |
| January 3, 2001 |
| LIDAR Technology Project |
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| Nanotechnology Center |
| January 3, 2001 |
| Established by Funds from the State of Pennsylvania |
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| Graduate Fellowships |
| January 3, 2001 |
| in Biomedical Engineering and Sciences |
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| Graduate Assistantship |
| January 3, 2001 |
| in Limb Prosthethetics - Orthotics (Robotics) |
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| Post-Doctoral position |
| January 3, 2001 |
| in Rehabilitation - Biomedical Engineering |
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| GOING WITH THE FLOW |
| December 28, 2000 |
| (Computer Graphics World, December 2000) |
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| BONE MARROW CELLS |
| December 1, 2000 |
| CAN TRANSFORM INTO BRAIN NEURONS, RESEARCH FINDS |
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| RESEARCHERS HARNESS DNA |
| November 28, 2000 |
| FOR TINY MOTORS THAT COULD WIDEN USE OF GENETIC CODE from The New York Times |
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| NSF Graduate Research Fellowship |
| August 8, 2000 |
| 2001 Program Announcement |
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| Armored Microbes |
| July 13, 2000 |
| Could Lead to New Biochips |
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| Nerve Cells |
| July 13, 2000 |
| from www.whitaker.org |
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| WHAT'S NEXT FOR GENOME? |
| July 13, 2000 |
| from The San Francisco Chronicle |
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| SCIENTISTS COMPLETE ROUGH DRAFT |
| July 13, 2000 |
OF HUMAN GENOME
from The Associated Press 6/26/00 |
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| BACTERIA MAY FIND A WELCOME |
| July 13, 2000 |
IN THE WORLD OF COMPUTING
(New York Times, June 1, 2000) |
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| Employment Outlook for Engineers |
| July 13, 2000 |
| for Biomedical Engineers through 2008 from the BMEnet |
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| Human Genome Effort on Verge of Next |
| July 13, 2000 |
HUMAN GENOME EFFORT ON VERGE OF NEXT GREAT STEP
from The Los Angeles Times |
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| Life Force |
| July 10, 2000 |
Do quantum computers make us what we are?
from New Scientist magazine |
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| BIOMED IT Web Site |
| October 18, 1999 |
| Please check out the new BiomedIT Web Site for all your BIOMED computer needs |
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| Faculty Positions Available |
| September 29, 1999 |
| Endowed Calhoun Chair Professorships; Endowed Calhoun/Coriell Chair Professorship in Bioinformatics; Faculty Positions |
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| Whitaker Special Opportunity |
| September 28, 1999 |
| Whitaker announced a special opportunity in Biomedical Engineering award for DU-TJU Academic Alliance |
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| NIH Funds Tissue Characterization |
| September 28, 1999 |
| The National Institutes of Health has renewed funding for the Program Project |
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