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An award-winning invention by Stanford doctoral students Richard Gaster
and Drew Hall may change who diagnoses diseases ranging from flu to the
Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
Tagged: bioengineering, Health Research, Human Health, Medicine
New Stanford-led research published in the April 5, 2007, issue of
Nature describes a technique to directly control brain cell activity
with light. It is a novel means for experimenting with neural circuits
and could eventually lead to therapies for some disorders.
Tagged: bioengineering, brain, neural, Human Health, Medicine
VIDEO: The human body is accompanied by a mind and many would say a soul, but it is fundamentally a machine. And so, Professor Scott Delp reasoned several years ago, it should be simulated on a computer, yielding new insights that doctors and researchers could use to help the disabled, the elderly and even healthy athletes move better.
Tagged: bioengineering, learning, simulation, Human Health, K-12 Education, Engineering
The fight against the liver disease hepatitis C has been at something
of an impasse for years, with more than 150 million people currently
infected, and traditional antiviral treatments causing nasty side
effects and often falling short of a cure. Using a novel technique,
medical and engineering researchers at Stanford have discovered a
vulnerable step in the virus' reproduction process that in lab testing
could be effectively targeted with an obsolete antihistamine.
Tagged: Bio-X, bioengineering, hepatitus, Human Health, Engineering, Medicine
Building on a newly rigorous understanding of the building blocks of life, two bioengineering professor are custom engineering peptides, small snippets of proteins, to fight disease.
Tagged: bioengineering, cancer, proteins, Human Health, Engineering, Medicine
A sophisticated combination of vascular imaging and patient-specific computer models can enable doctors to improve diagnosis and predict the outcomes of surgical interventions.
Tagged: bioengineering, cardiovascular disease, modeling, software, Human Health, Engineering