Sentences with phrase «biomedical applications of»

These developments widen the field of research and biomedical applications of the cell encapsulation technology.

Apart from the various biomedical applications of nanomaterials, especially in cancer therapy, cellular uptake of nanoparticles is a key factor in recent years for efficient drug delivery applications.

Such topics include time - resolved, coherent and non-linear Raman spectroscopies, nanostructure - based surface - enhanced and tip - enhanced Raman spectroscopies of molecules, resonance Raman to investigate the structure - function relationships and dynamics of biological molecules, linear and nonlinear Raman imaging and microscopy, biomedical applications of Raman, theoretical formalism and advances in quantum computational methodology of all forms of Raman scattering, Raman spectroscopy in archaeology and art, advances in remote Raman sensing and industrial applications, and Raman optical activity of all classes of chiral molecules.

The biomedical applications of computed tomography.

To date biomedical applications of DNA computers have been limited because the input of DNA computers typically consists of other DNA and RNA molecules.

The biomedical applications of CRISPR are just starting to emerge.

This is a significant step toward real biomedical application of anion transporters in the battle against cystic fibrosis and other diseases caused by faulty ion channels.»

Not exact matches

Much of the research on the applications of silk come out of the Tufts School of Engineering at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., in particular from the work of two biomedical engineering researchers, Fiorenzo Omenetto and David Kaplan.

It can be adapted to meet a wide range of electrical power needs from applications such as automotive charging, biomedical implants, robotics, and the subsea industry.

Dec. 27, 2012 — Tufts University School of Engineering researchers have developed a novel method for fabricating collagen structures that maintains the collagen's natural strength and fiber structure, making it useful for a number of biomedical applications.

Applicants must 1) be undergraduates with a strong interest in the biosciences and biomedical research; 2) have completed 2 full years of college coursework by the time the internship commences; and 3) not yet have received their undergraduate degree at the time of application.

NB is already finding commercial applications in biomedical engineering (BME), including the development of microfluidic chips, or «lab - on - a-chip» technology.

This makes possible a wide range of biomedical applications such as tissue engineering as well as drug and gene delivery.

«For example, working with [Founding Core Faculty member and Molecular Robotics co-lead] William Shih, we built tensegrity - based DNA nanodevices that can be programmed to change shape on demand for biomedical applications, and with [Core Faculty member and Bioinspired Robotics co-lead] Radhika Nagpal, we engineered a self - deforming, modular robot that can perform a variety of maneuvers more quickly than traditional robots.

My first application was to the Wellcome Trust, a biomedical charity which is also interested, as part of its science communication activities, in funding artists.

From the development of the blue laser to high - efficiency, high - brightness, light - emitting devices and new age tailor - made polymers capable of a host of applications in biomedical, chemical, electronics, and opto - electronics, IMRE's research into next - generation materials is likely to catalyze new industries in Singapore

Chris Backhouse is one of many researchers working in a new field that's piquing interest all over the globe — the application of microsystems and nanotechnologies in biomedical engineering.

«Quantum dots have a great future for biomedical applications,» agrees Kevin Critchley at the University of Leeds, UK, but adds that there are limitations such as potential toxicity issues.

The new material, described online 25 April in Science by synthetic chemist Andreas Lendlein of mnemoScience GmbH in Aachen, Germany, and biomedical engineer Robert Langer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is composed of two polymers, each already used separately in clinical applications such as drug delivery.

Many biomedical scientists spend the first few years of their first tenure - track appointment agonizing over R01 applications and funding decisions; you'll be spending that time doing science.

Another long - term goal of the Lipomi lab is to produce electronic polymers whose properties — extreme elasticity, biodegradability, and self - repair — are inspired by biological tissue for applications in implantable biomedical devices and prosthetics.

The course «gave me a big vision to understand all the steps going from the research to the application of this research to help people,» says Frias, who hopes to start a company or sell her hip technology to a biomedical device company.

While straining spaghetti is a simple example, the filtering of specific molecules on the nanoscale level for biomedical applications and for production of clean water is a complex and costly process.

It could also create a new area of soft robotics, and enable new applications in flexible sensors and actuators, biomedical devices and platforms or scaffolds for cells to grow, Lee said.

Engineers at Rutgers - New Brunswick and the New Jersey Institute of Technology worked with a hydrogel that has been used for decades in devices that generate motion and biomedical applications such as scaffolds for cells to grow on.

Other applications include the real - time point - of - care monitoring of physiological levels for the biomedical industry and fast screening of drugs and toxins for law enforcement.

If these discarded fish scales can lead to successful biomedical applications in future, it would be a good use of these waste materials.»

We see manifold applications, such as studies of conformational changes in amyloid structures on the molecular level, the mapping of nanoscale protein modifications in biomedical tissue or the label - free mapping of membrane proteins.

One common application for quantum dots is to use them as cell markers in biomedical research, says Todd Krauss, an associate professor of chemistry and optics at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics who studies the fundamental properties of quantum dots as well as their optical properties.

Notes Kaplan, «this finding could lead to the development of processing methods resulting in new high - strength and high - performance materials used for biomedical applications, and protective apparel for military and police forces.»

Dr Wenxin Wang is trying to uncover therapies for diseases such as diabetic ulcers and Epidermolysis Bullosa, which causes chronic skin conditions: «We are currently investigating the use of these new materials for biomedical applications such as drug / gene delivery, cross linkable hydrogel materials and skin adhesives.

He and his collaborators have successfully demonstrated silk's ability to stabilize a variety of bioactive materials including antibiotics, vaccines, enzymes and monoclonal antibiotics with numerous biomedical and biomaterial applications.

This novel knowledge management framework, which is already transforming the world of toxicology, has the potential to penetrate other fields such as biomedical research, where effective translation of mechanistic understanding into application is central to innovation and progress.

the Babraham Institute (application of science to biomedical, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical sectors).

Q - carbon's unusual properties make it ideal for all sorts of applications, Narayan says, from electronic displays to abrasive coatings on tools to biomedical sensors that are compatible with the body.

The task of how to automatically track the movement of biological particles such as viruses, cell vesicles or cell receptors is of key importance in biomedical applications for the quantitative analysis of intracellular dynamic processes.

«This characteristic makes gold nanorods attractive for use in catalysis, security materials and a range of biomedical applications, such as diagnostics, imaging, and cancer therapy,» says Joe Tracy, a materials science and engineering researcher at NC State who is senior author of a recent paper on the improved technique.

Applications from Asian, black, Hispanic, and Native American investigators together are 21 % of the total for NIH research grant opportunities and are represented in similar proportion both to medical school faculty and biomedical Ph.D. matriculants (9).

Gold nanorods are being investigated for use in a wide variety of biomedical applications, and this advance paves the way for more stable gold nanorods and for chemically functionalizing the surface of the shells.

Lead author and PhD student, Xin Wu from the University of Southampton, said: «These new findings represent a paradigm shift for transporter design and provide important clues on how to develop anion transporters for different biomedical applications.

The clinical application of this technology is clear, says lead author Emre Ozkumur, a biomedical engineer also at Massachusetts General Hospital who developed the system with Toner.

«These novel luminescent nanoparticles, called upconversion nanoparticles, have become promising candidates for a whole variety of ultra-high tech applications such as biological sensing, biomedical imaging and 3D volumetric displays,» says lead author Dr Tim Zhao, from the University of Adelaide's School of Physical Sciences and Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS).

So far, the skin is capable of detecting these tiny changes across a range of temperatures roughly between 5 to 50 degrees Celsius (about 41 to 158 degrees Fahrenheit), which is useful for robotics and biomedical applications.

For biomedical applications, however, the availability of antifreeze glycoproteins is quite limited; besides, there is always the question of immunotolerance.

This process could lead to a plethora of new devices with a wide variety of applications in optics and biomedical imaging, Sun said.

These materials are used primarily in the biomedical area as diagnostic tools in membranes, coatings, microcapsules, implants for applications of short or long - range and systems of controlled drug release.

The combination of a xenon polarizer and detector in the same device, together with the extraordinary sensitivity of the chip device, could help make polarized xenon technology portable and less expensive for biomedical and other applications outside research laboratories.

The team of biomedical engineers — Rao and Kannan — focus on assessing numerous applications of these probes, including standard biopsy analysis and pushing the technology into clinical practice through the development of a point - of - care cancer detection device.

«We are using the repeatability and accuracy of robots to achieve new capabilities that have numerous applications in biomedical areas such as dermatology.»

Now, translational research has emerged as a field in its own right, aided in large part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research, a collection of initiatives that prioritize efforts to shepherd biomedical discoveries into clinical application.