Lightning Helps Create Artificial Blood Vessels
See the article and associated video on Discovery News of how lightning bolts could help create artificial organs. The abstract of the paper is also available in Advanced Materials.
New Device Detects Heart Disease Using Less Than One Drop Of Blood
Testing people for
heart disease might be just a finger prick away thanks to a new credit
card-sized device created by a team of researchers from Harvard and
Northeastern universities in Boston. In a research report published
online in The FASEB Journal, they describe how this device can measure
and collect a type of cells needed to build vascular tissue, called
endothelial progenitor cells, using only 200 microliters of blood. Full article available here.
Expert Review of Proteomics
Read a review on the proteomics portion of the 2008 AES meeting in
Philadelphia, PA. It is published in the Expert Review of Proteomics. Thanks to our
former AES President, Dave Garfin, for writing this excellent review.
AES's Annual Meeting co-chair, Shashi Murthy wins 2008 CAREER Award!
Shashi Murthy of Northeastern University will study molecular-level
phenomena at the surfaces of cells during separation processes in
microfluidic devices. More information on Shashi and his research is available here.
Perspectives Article featured in AIChE Journal
This perspectives article by Adrienne Minerick discusses micro
fabricated laboratories on a chip to measure cellular and subcellular
processes. AIChE Journal
, Volume 54, Issue 9, Pages 2230-2237, September 2008.
A review of the 2007 AES Annual Meeting is in press in the Journal of Capillary Electrophoresis
Minerick, A.R., V.M. Ugaz, S. Murthy, J.P. Posner, "Review of Electrophoresis and BioMEMS in 2007: American Electrophoresis Society 24th Annual Meeting," Journal of Capillary Electrophoresis, accepted - in press, 2008.
Proteomics Review of the 2007 Meeting of the American
Electrophoresis Meeting
Garfin, David, Expert Reviews in Proteomics, 5: (8) 385-387, 2008.
For a full reprint, email reprints@expert-reviews.com or go to the Expert Reviews in Proteomics web-site.
AES's 2008 Annual Meeting co-chair wins 2008 CAREER Award!
Jonathan Posner's group is studying the nonlinear dynamics of electrophoretic deposition
of colloidal crystal films and using the resultant colloidal crystal
films as a novel, solid-state, electrophoretic separation media for
DNA and proteins.
Senior AES member provides insights into early consumption of
cows' milk and Type-1 Diabetes
Marcia Goldfarb's group in Maine reports a new explanation for the mysterious link
between consumption of cows' milk protein in infant formula early in
life and an increased risk of later developing Type-1 diabetes.