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Monday, March 31, 2008
BCI Lab Starts Research Blog
The Brain/Computer Interface Lab (BCI Lab) at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering has started a research blog on its site. Drop by and check it out.
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Friday, November 02, 2007
New MRI Facility Builds On Long History
A long and productive history of research between Purdue’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and GE Healthcare will serve as a framework for future innovation in a new medical imaging facility dedicated today at the Purdue Research Park. The Weldon homepage has the full story.
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Thursday, September 06, 2007
New Method of CPR Promises Better Results
A new method of CPR that can increase blood flow by 25 percent and eliminate the need for rescue breathing has developed by Dr. Leslie A. Geddes and his team. The new method, which operates by compressing the abdomen rather than the chest, offers significant improvements over current techniques. The findings are being published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine this month, and UNS has the full story.
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Detecting Cancer Without Drawing Blood
Researchers from the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, the Purdue Cancer Center, and the Department of Chemistry have worked with the Mayo Clinic to develop an innovative method that can detect tumor-forming cells in blood, without the need to draw blood from the patient. Using advanced laser imaging techniques, the process scans blood in the wrist or cheek to reveal and count circulating tumor cells, allowing a larger sample to be scanned. Purdue UNS has the full story.
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Minature Devices Could Treat Epilepsy, Glaucoma
Researchers at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering have developed new miniature devices that can be implanted in the brain to predict and prevent epileptic seizures and a nanotech sensor to go in the eye to treat glaucoma. Inside Indiana Business has more.
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Weldon Imaging Research Featured At American Laboratory Publications
American Laboratory/American Laboratory News have made non-invasive imaging research being conducted at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering as the featured article in both magazines. The article, based on a presentation by Yan Fu, Halfeng Wang, Riyi Shi, and Ji-Xen Cheng to to the ACS, examines noninvasive molecular imaging of intact myelin sheaths. This imaging, performed using coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy, opens new possibilities for research into and understanding of MS and other diseases that result from damage to myelin. Myelin forms sheaths around axons, and is crucial for high-speed nerve impulse conduction. Additional information on this research can be found in the Spotlights section of the Weldon homepage.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
A Matrix For Healing
Materials that can be injected into the body to form a scaffold to facilitate repair are taking a step forward thanks to work by Dr. Alyssa Panitch and her team. These materials, which start as a liquid, expand to fill gaps in damaged tissues before turning into a gel that dissolves as it is replaced by natural, healthy tissue. These materials can also be loaded with theraputic drugs to further help the body heal itself. University News Service has the full story here.
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Low-Cost AIDS Testing Moves Forward
The effort to create a new, low-cost technology that could benefit millions of AIDS victims in Africa, showcased in this previous spotlight, is moving forward. J. Paul Robinson, a professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and the School of Veterinary Medicine, and his team will be meeting with officials and health-care professionals in Nigeria later this month to introduce the technology.
Developed with the aid of a $250,000.00 gift from the Parker Hannifin Corporation, this new technology will measure the content of CD4 cells at a fraction of the current cost. The amount of CD4 cells in the blood indicates both how well a patient’s immune system is doing as well as how far AIDS has advanced. When the count drops below a set amount, the patient can then be given antiviral drugs; yet, because current technology is expensive to operate and maintain, the tests are too expensive for most Africans. University News Service has the full story.
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Friday, January 12, 2007
Detecting "Earthquakes" In Bones Update & First Podcast
When Ozan Akkus sat down with Purdue University News Service last fall, he had no idea of what was getting ready to unfold. The story on his research into detecting microfractures in bone as they happen, and before they can combine to become major problems for humans and animals, struck a chord around the world. Not only did the story end up published in newspapers around the world, including London’s Daily Mail and in magazines including The Futurist, it has caught the attention of both companies and patients. You can hear more about this story in our first podcast, which can be downloaded by clicking here.
Please stand by, working on correcting the download… Fixed, we think.
Update: Adding an MP3 version by semi-popular demand.
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Saturday, December 09, 2006
Guo Director of New National Nanomedicine Development Center
The NIH has awarded a multidisciplinary team at Purdue $7 million over five years to study the use of a nanomotor for potential healthcare applications as one of eight national nanomedicine development centers. Such research could lead to nanomotors being used to package and deliver theraputic agents to disease-causing cells.
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Light Scattering To Aid Food Safety
An interdisciplinary team that includes J. Paul Robinson, a professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, has developed a prototype system that uses light scattering to quickly identify pathogens in food. EETimes has the story.
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Low-Cost Devices To Assist African AIDS Patients
With the aid of a $250,000.00 gift from the Parker Hannifin Corporation to help launch the effort, J. Paul Robinson and his team are working to lower the cost of an important AIDS test from $12 to 50 cents or less.
The amount of CD4 cells in the blood indicates both how well a patient’s immune system is doing as well as how far AIDS has advanced. When the count drops below a set amount, the patient can then be given antiviral drugs; yet, because current technology is expensive to operate and maintain, the tests are too expensive for most Africans. Purdue University News Service has the story on how J. Paul Robinson, a professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and the School of Veterinary Medicine, is working with Parker Hannifin and other partners to provide low-cost, easy-to-maintain systems that can make the tests affordable.
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Lottes Wins IHIF Research Poster Competiton
A research poster presentation by Aaron Lottes, “A Novel Abdominal Compression Device To Improve CPR” has won the Indiana Health Industry Forum competition for academic research at the IHIF Forum in Indianapolis. The award, announced Tuesday at the forum luncheon, includes a cash award as well as recognition before the assembled members of industry, academia, and government. Our congratulations to Aaron and the research team.
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Friday, May 26, 2006
A Multispectral Advance For Flow Cytometry
For years, scientists have studied the Earth by examining not just a single image in a single wavelength, or even a limited range, but by studying that image in a variety of frequencies. This process, known as multispectral imaging, is now being applied by J. Paul Robinson, a professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and a professor of cytomics in the School of Veterinary Medicine, to flow cytometry and medical analysis. Read more here on this advancement.
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Monday, May 22, 2006
Brain-Computer Interface Work Earns Quote In Wired
Pedro Irazoqui, an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and head of the Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Lab, has been quoted in the latest edition of Wired. Irazoqui consults with BCI companies and designs brain-computer interfaces and neural prosthetics. Additional information can be found here.
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