Biomedical Engineering News

Drug Delivery Companies

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:44:23 +0000

Drug delivery is the method or process of administering a pharmaceutical compound to achieve a therapeutic effect in humans or animals. Here are some of the largest drug delivery companies:

Apotex
Meliorum Technologies, Inc.
Epigenesis Pharmaceuticals
Incara Pharmaceuticals

In future posts I will go more in depth about each of the above four companies.

The Equipment Review

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:49:02 +0000

Today I was browsing biomedical news and resources around the web and came across a website that I thought is worth letting you guys know about.

The website (ebme.co.uk) is a forum for medical and clinical biomedical equipment reviews. The reviews are made by members and users. It is a great website to bookmark.

GE Healthcare To Facilitate Cardiovascular Imaging

admin — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:22:01 +0000

GE Healthcare and LightLab Imaging Inc.(Westford, MA), a market leader in optical imaging, have announced a collaboration that enables improved workflow between GE Healthcare’s Innova cardiovascular X-ray system and LightLab’s C7-XR optical coherence tomography (OCT) system. Both the C7-XR and Innova systems were featured last week at the annual meeting of EuroPCR, the official congress of the European Association for Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) in Barcelona, Spain.

Read the entire story here.

Electronic Pipettors

admin — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:31:19 +0000

Pipettors are used whenever precise transfer of liquid is required. The electronic pipettors are twice as fast as traditional mechanical pipettors.

Here are two companies that sell Electronic Pipettors:

Instant Immunity With New Vaccine

admin — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:11:30 +0000

A new method of vaccination has been developed by US researchers that provides instant immunity. Currently vaccines can take days or weeks to take effect. The new method can deliver protection against the disease almost instantly by targeting the active part of the virus.

Currently this method has only been tested on mice affected by melanoma or colon cancer.

You can read the full story here.

Transistors Used To Detect STDs

admin — Sat, 09 May 2009 21:47:13 +0000

Researchers at Universidad Rovira i Virgili have created a biosensor, an electrical and biological device, which is able to selectively detect the Candida albicans yeast in very small quantities.

Candida albicans is a diploid fungus (a form of yeast), which is capable of sexual reproduction but not of meiosis, and a causal agent of opportunistic oral and genital infections in humans.

“The technique uses field-effect transistors (electronic devices that contain an electrode source and a draining electrode connected to a transducer) based on carbon nanotubes and with Candida albicans-specific antibodies”, Raquel A. Villamizar, lead author of the study says.

Read the entire story here.

UNC NCSU Biomedical Engineering Program

admin — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:42:11 +0000

University of North Carolina and at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University offer a joint biomedical engineering program that is fairly young and was established in 2003.

The program offers MS and PhD degrees. It has a 3.3 minimum undergraduate GPA requirement, strong GRE score, and 3 recommendation letters for the admission application.

To learn more about their program and even find them o twitter click here.

Virginia Tech Wake Forest Biomedical Engineering Program

admin — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:50:00 +0000

Virginia Tech offers a degree in biomedical engineering in a joint program with Wake Forest University. They offer masters and PhD programs with opportunities for undergraduates to get involved. Virginia Tech is mainly an Engineering school and Wake Forest has a strong Medicine school. Combining these has created a powerful biomedical engineering program.

Here are some useful information:

Autonomous Breast Biopsy Robot

admin — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:55:26 +0000

Researchers at Duke University biomedical engineering department have developed a laboratory robot that can locate the earliest traces of a mass in simulated breast tissue and reach that mass with a biopsy needle.

The robot can move in three axis right now. Their next goal is developing a robot that can move in 6 axis.

To read the entire story click here.

Breast biopsy is a surgical procedure which all or part of lump is removed and tested for maligancy.

Best Biomedical Engineering School

admin — Sun, 03 May 2009 04:57:12 +0000

U.S News publishes rankings for universities and their different programs. Following are the top 10 ranked biomedical engineering schools:

Johns Hopkins
Georgia Tech
University of California – San Diego
Duke University
MIT
University of Washington
Rice University
University of Pennsylvania
Boston University
Stanford University

You can read more about the rankings here.