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Offering increased control and higher output, device could be a boon for industrial applications, from biocompatible materials to air filtersHailed as a "cross between a high-speed centrifuge and a cotton candy machine," bioengineers at Harvard have developed a new, practical technology for fabricating tiny nanofibers.The reference by lead author Mohammad Reza Badrossamay to the fairground treat of spun sugar is deliberate, as the device literally"”and just as easily"”spins,...

WARWICK, R.I., May 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Biomedical Structures LLC (BMS), a leading supplier of custom-designed biomaterials and textiles used in advanced clinical applications from orthopedics and reconstructive surgery to tissue engineering, announced that it has completed a private equity financing with Ampersand Ventures. Biomedical Structures has delivered strong and profitable growth since its inception as an independent privately held company in 2003. Ampersand's funding will enable BMS...

TAU researcher develops tool to measure tissue damage in the bedridden and paralyzedThere's currently no reliable tool to help prosthetic developers fit artificial limbs without ensuing discomfort or pain, or tell medical personnel when bed-ridden patients need to be moved to avoid bedsores and other problems.But help is now on the way. Prof. Amit Gefen of Tel Aviv University's Department of Biomedical Engineering has developed the prototype for a new device he calls the Soft Tissue Stress...

The prosthetic hand that pioneered the bionic industry gets an upgrade Note to editors: Video footage available on request from Touch Bionics and Reuters TV. Additional content and photographs available at: www.touchbionics.com/pulse and http://www.touchbionics.com/press/Ian-Reid LIVINGSTON, UK, May 5 /PRNewswire/ - Touch Bionics (www.touchbionics.com), developer of advanced upper-limb bionic technologies, today announced the launch of the i-LIMB Pulse, an all-new...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Knome today announced the launch of its KnomeDISCOVERY Research Awards Program. Given annually, the awards will fund innovative research projects that help reveal the genetic underpinnings of diseases and other important human traits. To inaugurate the program, Knome will award its exome sequencing and interpretation services to three winning research groups, each of which will study a pair of human exomes in order to answer a compelling...

It's illegal for health products with medical formulations to be accepted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration without tests on animals "” a situation that has serious ethical and moral implications. New research in the field of tissue engineering by Prof. Amit Gefen of Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Engineering  holds a promise that far fewer lab animals will be needed for the necessary experimental trials.Dr. Gefen's research into fat cells, published in a recent issue of Tissue...

HONOLULU, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- TruTag Technologies, a spinout of Cellular Bioengineering, Inc., was selected as the 2010 North American Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Innovation of the Year by Frost & Sullivan. TruTag(TM) microtags ('TruTags') are secure, optically encoded micro-crystals made of pure, nanoporous silica, which is deemed "Generally Regarded as Safe, or (GRAS)" by the FDA. Therefore, TruTags are edible and can be used to authenticate and identify medicine, food and...

Researchers trying to restore vision damaged by disease have found promise in a tiny implant that sows seeds of new cells in the eye.The diseases macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa lay waste to photoreceptors, the cells in the retina that turn light into electrical signals carried to the brain. The damage leaves millions of people worldwide with debilitating sight loss.The nerves behind the light-switching cells, however, remain intact, meaning that with new photoreceptors, a...

A team of scientists from the University of Sheffield have scooped an international award in recognition of their work on an innovative device which will make the production of alternative biofuels more energy efficient.The research team has adapted a unique bioreactor for use in the production of alternative renewable fuels, to replace fossil fuels such as petrol and diesel. The manufacture of biofuels currently requires vast amounts of power and when the process uses too much energy, it is...

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. and STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Ambry Genetics and SoftGenetics today announced the signing of an agreement to provide extended bioinformatics genomics services using SoftGenetics' NextGENe software for next-generation sequencing projects performed at Ambry. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090428/LA06744LOGO) Anja Kammesheidt PhD, Ambry's CSO said, "Our team at Ambry has been providing genomics solutions on Illumina's® Genome Analyzer...