SBHSE News
New prosthetic hand system allows user to ‘feel’ again
Arizona State University researcher James Abbas is part of a multi-institutional research team that has developed a new prosthetic hand system with a fully implanted, wirelessly controlled neurostimulator that has restored "feeling" to a person with a hand amputation....
U.S. Department Of Defense Brain Study Seeks To Boost Learning In Soldiers
Whether mathematicians or marathoners, those who chase mastery often run into a wall that blocks further progress. Now, eight U.S. Department Of Defense brain studies, one at Arizona State University, aim to help soldiers break through that barrier. The research,...
ASU professors tackle large-scale public health challenges in partnership with Dignity Health
Dignity Health and Arizona State University have announced the 2018 awardees of the Collaborative Strategic Initiatives Program, which offers grants to ASU faculty and Dignity Health investigators for collaborative research projects that accelerate the health and...
Liver-on-a-chip, the ideal test environment for CRISPR
Two Arizona State University professors are among the first recipients of Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE) grants from the National Institutes of Health Common Fund. The $2,600,000, five-year grant will fund the first study of the genome editing technology CRISPR to...
Dr. Mehdi Nikkhah wins CMBE Young Innovators award
Congratulations to Dr. Mehdi Nikkhah who has been selected as one of the CMBE 2018 Young Innovators of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering awardees. Dr. Nikkhah will present his paper in a special, two-part invited platform session on Friday, October 19 at the 2018...
Amazing Genes – Samira Kiani, M.D. (PI), Kiani Lab, Arizona State University – Gene editing technology that could potentially cure disease and turn the medical world on its ear
Samira Kiani, M.D. (PI), leads an eye-opening discussion on the groundbreaking medical advances that could be on the horizon with gene editing. Dr. Kiani is the principal investigator at Kiani lab located on the campus of Arizona State University. She holds a...
Gene-editing advance may hold key to groundbreaking medical progress
CRISPR has been heralded for some time for the possibilities it presents to harness and enhance the power of the human body to heal itself. Now Arizona State University researchers in collaboration with colleagues around the country have announced an advancement in...
NSF graduate research fellow aims to improve lives with synthetic biology
For recent biomedical engineering graduate Lexi Bounds, it was an enthusiasm for soccer that unexpectedly led her to find a new passion in the sciences. “In high school I read a journal article that described a group of scientists who had ‘grown’ a soccer ball with...
Synthetic biology sparks promise of medical, energy advances
If synthetic biology can “catch fire,” few areas of science and engineering could match it for having as dramatic an impact across such a broad a range of human needs. That’s the prediction from Karmella Haynes, an Arizona State University assistant professor of...
When aging goes wrong: Researchers try to identify causes of Alzheimer’s
In the search for treatments of Alzheimer’s disease, researchers are now looking for new approaches to understand how the progressive disease starts so they can better put a stop to it. David Brafman, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Arizona State...
Cancer Metastasis put under the Microscope
SBHSE students, Danh Truong and Supriya Nagarju, SBSHE Assistant Professor Mehdi Nikkhah and their University of Arizona collaborator Professor Ghassan Moueimne, have had their published article, Microfluidic Tumor-Vascular Model to Study Breast Cancer Cell Invasion...
Hoolest wins top prize at ASU Innovation Open
The startup team, comprised of three ASU students, earned $100,000 An Arizona State University team won $100,000 at the ASU Innovation Open on Friday to fund their business, which makes a device that relieves anxiety.Read more...
ASU to manufacture neuronal cells needed to develop treatments for neurodegenerative diseases
Neurodegenerative diseases affect millions of people around the world. In the U.S. alone, more than 5 million people live with Alzheimer’s disease, and by 2050, that number could reach 16 million, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. Alzheimer’s disease also is...
ASU Researcher Earns Recognition For Innovative Regenerative Engineering Method Using Synthetic Biology
Stem cells possess great potential for the study and treatment of disease. Scientists can use them to grow lab-created miniature organ-like tissues called organoids that have characteristics and behaviors similar to our own organs, which can help the development of...
Magnetic Resonance In Medicine
Q&A with Munish Chauhan and Rosalind Sadleir In their paper entitled “Multishot echo-planar MREIT for fast imaging of conductivity, current density, and electric field distributions”, Drs. Munish Chauhan and Rosalind Sadleir propose an accelerated technique to...
