Immortality Medicine

A discovery by researchers at UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) will enable better methods to grow stem cells for use in cancer research and regenerative medicine. The research team led by AIBN’s Associate Professor Ernst Wolvetang found that the inclusion of vitamin C in cell culture media was responsible for chemical modification of DNA which has been known …

Why not use semiconductor manufacturing equipment to build tiny pharmacies that can be implanted in sick patients? That was the idea that sprang from a summer internship at at MIT bioengineering lab in 1993.

( Rice University ) Rice University researchers have won federal support from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to study bacterial adaptation in an effort to determine whether a disease outbreak is caused by a natural pathogen or an organism grown in a lab by terrorists. The goal of the three-year project is to give public health officials the tools they need to quickly and appropriately …

There’s a week before classes start at Colorado State University, and most students are squeezing every last minute out of their summer vacations.

A discovery by researchers at UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) will enable better methods to grow stem cells for use in cancer research and regenerative medicine.

We toured some of California’s top schools and found out what it’s like to attend them.

American Oriental Bioengineering, Inc. (AOB), a pharmaceutical company dedicated to improving health through the development, manufacture and commercialization of a broad range of prescription and over the counter (OTC) products, announced that its Boke brand Pai Du Qing Zhi tablet, (PDQZ tablet), a prescription medicine aimed at achieving the balance of Yin Yang by regulating metabolism, in …

Clark School of Engineering Program is Available On-Campus and 100% Online COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The faculty of the Fischell Department of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, A. James Clark School of Engineering have developed an online master’s degree program to better meet the needs of working bioengineers in the Washington, D.C., Metro …

American Oriental Bioengineering, Inc. , , a pharmaceutical company dedicated to improving health through the development, manufacture and commercialization of a broad range of prescription and over the counter products, today announced the commercial launch of Boke brand Yi Shen Jian Gu Gel after successful test marketing in the second quarter of 2010.

American Oriental Bioengineering, Inc., a pharmaceutical company dedicated to improving health through the development, manufacture and commercialization of a broad range of prescription and over the counter products, today announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010.

American Oriental Bioengineering’s second quarter fiscal 2010 earnings per share came in at 7 cents per share, lower than the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 3 cents and the year-ago earnings by 9 cents.

Abhishek Tiwari, a self described “blogger on the street,” entrepreneur, and PhD Student in bioengineering at the University of Auckland, has a list of bioinformatics papers that use Mapreduce and Hadoop , two software frameworks used for distributed computing applications such as cloud computing.

A new $240 microscope that runs on AA batteries is as effective for diagnosing tuberculosis as $40,000 professional laboratory models.

China’s drugmakers rose in Shenzhen trading after a newspaper reported that the nation may spend more than 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) to support biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.

( Tufts University ) Researchers have fabricated and characterized the first large-area metamaterial structures patterned on implantable, bio-compatible silk substrates. The antenna-like devices can monitor the “fingerprints” of chemical and biological agents and might be implanted to signal changes in the body. Metamaterials are artificial electromagnetic composites whose structures respond to …

American Oriental Bioengineering, Inc. , , a pharmaceutical company dedicated to improving health through the development, manufacture and commercialization of a broad range of prescription and over the counter products, today announced that it plans to release second quarter 2010 financial results on Monday, August 9, 2010, before the market opens.

Hello everyone!

First, the update:

Yours truly is engrossed in more than one project, and has taken quite a break (I haven’t posted in almost 2 months if you haven’t noticed). I kept telling myself I will get back to blogging, but I have decided that isn’t happening anytime soon. So, I thought I am going to jump in and start blogging again. I am also going to announce the “Summer of Blogging” shortly, but enough with the egotism…

Prototyping Tip – Don’t throw away your failures!

Yours sincerely (thought I will try a variation on the previous paragraph, ahem) has recently had a chance to do a lot of prototyping – you know strutting around the lab, hurting yourself with things that look nothing like what your final product is going to be?

Anyway, cynicism aside, prototyping is always so much fun, next only to storming the brain for ideas of course. Part of the pleasure of prototyping is that you are typically breaking new ground, so many mistakes may occur.

20,000 non-bulb materials – the Edison cliche

Edison was arguably the biggest patent troll according to some people, intimidating peers and stifling innovation. However, he left a lot for us to delve in terms of cogitating about persistence, prototyping and such.

Though we may never know exactly what he said about never giving up on the path to inventing the light-bulb, but persistence in innovation is necessary. One has to stare failure in it’s face and move on!

However, do we simply record our failures and discard them?

No! From your failures, you can learn a lot:

1. What exactly is the definition of failure in your prototype? Did it not fail to turn out at all? Did it fail to appear unlike what was expected out of it? Did the prototype fail in terms of functionality?

2. If your prototype failed under process/manufacture/putting it together, can you repeat it? Can you identify the flaws in your development process?

3. If your prototype failed functionally, what led to the failure? Is your failure related to how you built the device/application etc., or is it related to how you used it?

Record it anyway!

The very first thing you should be doing is answering those questions and recording those answers. These answers should go in your lab notebook. Two weeks from now, or six months from now, you don’t want to be asking yourself what was going on.

Patent it anyway

A couple of years ago, I attended a meeting of the “Bio2Device” group locally and Karen Talmadge, the wizard of Kyphoplasty mentioned something to the following effect: “Don’t simply patent your way of doing it, patent all the ways that could cause the same effect”. In a simple sense, if you are thinking about using radiofrequency to burn the tumor, don’t stop there – think of microwaves, photo therapy, embolization and so on…I hope you get the point. You may not get everything granted, so make sure your claims are constructed properly and you try to reduce things to practice appropriately.

The reason I brought this up, is because your prototype may not work because at the moment, you may not have the right method of building it, or the right set of steps to accomplish the functionality required of your device – and you can fend off someone else who might want to compete with you using one of your discarded ideas!

Lather, Rinse and Repeat

Finally, try to re-work your prototype! Don’t take one failure as the final answer. If you made enough effort, maybe you will get it to work, or you will find out why it won’t work…very valuable information!

Good morning. Thank you for inviting me to join you for the opening of the 2 nd International Conference on Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. It gives me great pleasure to address this eminent gathering of renowned scientists, researchers, engineers and scholars from around the world.

Singapore , August 2 , 2010 – The 5 th SBE International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (ICBN 2010) kicks off today at the Biopolis in Singapore from August 2-4, 2010. Over 300 delegates from around the world will convene at this multidisciplinary conference organized by the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), the world’s first bioengineering and nanotechnology …

Twenty high school students are attending a week-long series of workshops where they’re exploring their dreams of helping others through bioengineering.

Spiders and silkworms make silk by the yard. Why can’t we copy them? Silk is strong, light and flexible and is being examined for use in everything from medical sutures to advanced electronics. Silk researcher David Kaplan explains the challenges in bioengineering silk.

Investors still think highly of these companies, despite their fire-sale prices.

A list of promising companies chosen by investors who’ve already picked stocks that beat the market with huge gains.

MIAMI, FL–(Marketwire – 07/29/10) – ONE Bio, Corp. (”ONE” or the “Company”) (OTC.BB: ONBI – News ), an innovative company utilizing green process manufacturing to produce raw chemicals and herbal extracts, natural and health supplements and organic products, announced that its subsidiary Green Planet Bioengineering, Co., Ltd. (”CHE”) filed a patent covering its newly developed extraction …

Title: Implantable Sensor Measures Blood Sugar Levels Category: Health News Created: 7/28/2010 2:10:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 7/29/2010