Portable diagnostic tool saving rural lives
Samuel Sia, associate professor of biomedical engineering, has invented a device that enables rural health workers to tell within fifteen minutes if a patient has an infectious disease.
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Why is a cure for cancer so elusive? Brent Stockwell, an associate professor with a joint appointment in chemistry and biological sciences and an Early Career Scientist with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, believes the main culprit is “undruggable proteins”—the 85 percent of the proteins in the human body that are not treatable with traditional drugs. Unfortunately, many of them are associated with the most insidious illnesses, from cancer to neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s.
(Source: news.columbia.edu)
The Long Shot
Brent Stockwell, an associate professor of biological sciences and chemistry at Columbia, says we’re still using chemotherapy because researchers have found it extremely difficult to develop drugs that target cancer cells specifically. Although scientists have made dramatic advances in their understanding of cancer’s basic mechanisms during the past few decades, most cancer drugs being used today are forms of chemotherapy developed as far back as the 1980s.
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Recently Published @ Columbia (9 May 2012)
Check out some recently published articles by folks at Columbia University:
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A good primer for biomedical engineering Professor Elisa E. Konofagou’s discussion Ultrasound: Knocking On (and Down) Brain’s Door
(Source: nsf.gov)
Ultrasound: Knocking On (and Down) Brain’s Door with Elisa E. Konofagou
Biomedical Engineer Elisa E. Konofagou will discuss Ultrasound: Knocking On (and Down) Brain’s Door
May 14, 2012 - 6-7 PM
PicNic Cafe, 2665 Broadway (between 101st and 102nd), NYC
Space is limited; $10 cover (cash only) includes one drink; NO RSVP Necessary
(Source: alumniconnections.com)
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Space Shuttle Enterprise hitched a ride from D.C. to New York, arriving in the Big Apple shortly after 10 a.m. Thursday. The NASA shuttle prototype was carried by a 747, which flew up and down the Hudson River along Manhattan’s West Side twice before landing at JFK Airport.
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New Technique Uses Electrons to Map Nanoparticle Atomic Structures
A team of Brookhaven/Columbia Engineering School scientists led by Professor Simon J. L. Billinge (above left), in collaboration with researchers at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and Northwestern University, has been working to develop nanocrystallography techniques that can be used in more ordinary science settings.
The researchers describe the TEM-based data-collection technique and computer-modeling analyses used to extract quantitative nanostructural information in Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, 47, p. 248-256.
Researchers in the Northwest Corner Building collaborate on new discoveries across traditional disciplines.
Microbially Inspired Solutions to Grand Challenges in Human Health and in Energy
Interdisciplinary Bioscience Special Seminar
Thursday, May 10th at 4:00 p.m.
Room 700, Fairchild
Prof. Jason Sello
Brown University, Department of Chemistry
