… for a Smart Life A new centre for Nanotechnology and Smart Materials Acoustic sensors embedded in textiles Advanced fibres for temperature self-regulation Advanced fibres Advanced sensors for health monitoring systems Advanced textile-based sensors/actuators Biobased geotextiles Bio-fibres used in tissue engineering Customised resistance nanocomposites Eco-efficient textile processes Enhancing human performance Environmental and user-friendly materials and processes Europe’s West Coast Materials and Technology Fibres for complex in-vivo textile structures Flame retardant materials Flexible and Smart Materials Flexible materials with heat & moisture control Fully integrated and accurate systems Functional devices in automotive applications High-temperature fibres which last longer Improving quality of life Industry Driven and Innovation Oriented Intelligent materials for special-effects Intelligent, textile-based, flexible displays Light weight textile reinforced structures Low cost & high performance nanocomposites Luminescent fibres for increased safety Materials for enhanced ergonomics Materials which can recharge their functionalities Materials which work as electromagnetic shields Materials with enhanced biocompatibility Materials with thermal energy storage Multifunctional textiles which can change in colour and patterns Nanolayers for chemical/biological agent protection Nanostructured materials Partnership for Research, Technology and Development Photo …
Interview with Dr. Mironov, from the Medical University of South Carolina, explains what bioprinting is, what he is currently working on, and where the field is moving towards… Go see it at the site: www.teal.u-bordeaux2.fr
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Calcium flux in cardiomyocytes seeded in the 3-dimensional electropsun chitosan nanofibrous matrix. Intra-cellular calcium functions as the main regulator of cardiomyocyte contractility. Briefly, calcium binds to the thin-filamentous protein troponin C which cooperatively activates the myofilaments initating contraction (Red signifies increase in calcium ion concentration activating contraction). For relaxation to occur, calcium ion concentration declines, which in turn deactivates the contractile mechanisms. (Black signifies decrease in calcium ion concentration terminating contraction).
Pathways: Routes Through Life, Science, and Protein Folding are Seldom Straight Lines Eric Kaler credited Dill, who is the director of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, with designing an elegant model for protein folding and biological evolution now acknowledged by scientists on a grand scale. He also established rules for protein folding that show promise with surgical glues for tissue engineering. Dill, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and co-author of the textbook Molecular Driving Forces, spoke about chemical pathways as analogous to water flowing along a river with all of the molecules beginning and ending in the same place. But the pathways, as in life, do not always follow a linear path, and are more often random, less directed, and less predictable. Dill gave the example of his boyhood in Oklahoma and how he envisioned his destiny, where boys from his time period either wanted to be a country and western singer or a baseball star modeled after native son Mickey Mantle. But like the pathways taken by molecules, “all of my friends from Oklahoma are not in this room (divergence) and all of the people in this room are not from Oklahoma (convergence),” he said. With so many options to choose from proteins and people have no idea where they are going to wind up. Additionally, in protein folding, the pathways are more funnel-shaped than superhighway-shaped. The proteins are made up of 50 to 1000 chains of amino acids in 3-D form adding …
Univ. of Illinois researchers are using a new kind of microsensor to answer one of the weightiest questions in biology — the relationship between cell mass and growth rate. The team, led by electrical and computer engineering and bioengineering professor Rashid Bashir, published its results in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. “It’s merging micro-scale engineering and cell biology,” says Bashir. “We can help advance biology by fabricating new tools that can be used to address important questions in cell biology, cancer research and tissue engineering.” Source: Univ. of Illinois
[An engineering approach to investigation of biological systems and regenerative medicine] The Sudo Laboratory aims to contribute to regenerative medicine, by applying engineering design concepts to biological systems. Systems that people use everyday for example, mechanical systems like automobiles display capabilities that cant be obtained with single components. This is achieved by combining various parts. By analogy, the Sudo Lab considers that a living system acts as a tissue, an organ, and ultimately, a human or other organism as a result of combining 60 trillion parts called cells. In this way, the Lab is working to understand biological systems from an engineering viewpoint. Q.In conventional research, the approach used is molecular biology. As a result, the focus gets narrowed down to the organs, tissues, and cells in our bodies, or down to the level of proteins and RNA. Such research is based on the reductionist approach of understanding system elements in detail. But by adopting an engineering viewpoint, we take the direction of integration. So our research is based on a reconstructive approach; that is, how to reconstruct large things from small things. In this way, we consider how parts come together and what functions they exhibit overall, rather than the job of each part. Using this kind of reconstructive approach to living systems, the Sudo Lab is developing in vitro technology for reconstructing liver and blood vessel tissues. To reconstruct liver tissue …