For example, a genetic database created by Spectra Biomedical, a division of Glaxo Wellcome, found an unexpected correlation between migraine attacks, serious depression and variations in the dopamine D2 receptor (a molecule that sticks out of certain nerve cells).
Another advocate of reform is Sir Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, a biomedical charity, who led a recent official review of maths and science education.
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Sherley is now a senior scientist at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute, a less prestigious post.
Sue Chehrenegar studied biology as an undergraduate and biomedical research as a graduate student.
He mentions a biomedical company that uses Xbox and Kinnect for patients with neurological issues.
The project is a joint effort between Dr. Henry Niman, a biomedical researcher in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Since quitting his day job as a biomedical research engineer, he spends every day organizing and cataloging hundreds of samples in ways that make sense to him.
Associate Professor Gregg Suaning, of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering and a project leader in the national bionic eye consortium, Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), said the new, 98-channel microchip, now undergoing preliminary lab testing, was a major step towards the goal of a functional bionic eye.
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Green, who has been practicing for two decades, and a UM colleague, biomedical engineer Scott Hollister, had been working for years toward a clinical trial to test the splint in children with pulmonary issues when they got a phone call from a physician in Ohio who was aware of their research.
Gleason is also a part of a multi-billion dollar biomedical transformation in New Orleans, as the Team Gleason House now joins the efforts of a new medical corridor that is currently under construction.
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"The human body is a lot more complex than silicon, " said a professor of biomedical engineering and radiology at Columbia University after Grove's speech.
Police in New York are investigating claims that the managers of a company called Biomedical Tissue Services took body parts without the consent of next of kin.
Jeffrey Martin, a Parkinson's sufferer and campaigner, told the AAAS meeting that he was hopeful the new US Government would be a supporter of biomedical technology and extend the scope of funding.
"It was a mixture of elation and, for lack of a better word, terror, " said Hollister, a professor of biomedical and mechanical engineering who has been studying tissue regeneration for more than 15 years.
As I sat with other leaders from academia, foundations and government yesterday, I was struck by how much progress we have made in forging a more dynamic biomedical ecosystem that brings diverse capabilities, expertise and insights together in new ways.
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Not only is Brittany a role model to other girls considering jobs in computer programming and biomedical research, but she also has produced a lifesaving technology that could help women across the globe.
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It was bought by Jack Wang, CEO of a Shanghai-based biomedical firm, who had flown in specially for the sale.
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The company has a subsidiary, Angel Biomedical, which is also in administration.
The crisis in financing is having a chilling effect on biomedical innovation.
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This is truly a golden age of biomedical discovery, but we will miss the opportunity to capitalize on it unless we make the needed investments.
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As every biomedical scientist knows, GenBank is a free, public database of genetic sequence data that contains millions of sequences, from humans, bacteria, viruses, you name it.
He was able -- with the help of doctors and biomedical engineers -- to make a compelling case that his Cheetah blades didn't give him any advantage on the field.
Jeffrey Keller, a professor at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who studies aging, metabolism, and neurodegeneration, agreed that seeing results after such a relatively short period of calorie restriction was surprising.
Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at MIT, is a founder of the budding field of tissue engineering--of restoring, maintaining and improving tissue by growing it, in vitro, on a biodegradable polymer (plastic) scaffold.
"Besides life-saving applications in fire and rescue, the potential to record dynamic scenes of a human body could have a variety of other biomedical uses including studying or monitoring breathing, cardiac beat detection and analysis, or measurement of body deformation due to various stresses during exercise, " Ferraro says.
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Lourdes Basabe-Desmonts is a Research Fellow at the Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, Dublin City University, her location of choice since 2006.
Stefan Schaal, a professor of neuroscience and biomedical engineering at the University of Southern California, stresses the importance of life experience in learning.
Sherley is at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute (BBRI), a small research institute in Boston, and Deisher is at a small startup company in Seattle called AVM Biotechnology.
Sze is a trustee at the Rockefeller University, a research and graduate studies in biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics.
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