April 16, 2020
Cerebral chemical stability, which underlies normal human thinking, learning, and behavior, is strictly regulated by brain barrier systems that separate the blood circulation from brain extracellular fluids. The blood-brain barrier (BBB), whose structural basis is capillary endothelial cells sealed by tight junctions, disconnects the blood from cerebral interstitial fluid.
Brain Barrier Systems Play No Small Roles in Toxicant-induced Brain Disorders
April 9, 2020
Purdue University researchers created technology that uses optical imaging to better help surgeons map out tumors in the body and help them understand how certain diseases affect activity in the brain.
Optical Imaging Technology May Help Surgeons Better Treat Cancer, Brain Diseases
April 8, 2020
Learn more about the research of Tamara Kinzer-Ursem, Marta E. Gross Associate Professor in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, in the areas of biomolecular detection, protein-structure function and relationships, spatial and temporal dynamics of protein signaling networks in this “Celebrating our Associate Professors” video series.
Tamara Kinzer-Ursem is Featured in "Celebrating our Associate Professors" Series
April 2, 2020
Our two teams of engineers are hard at work quickly and collegially developing portable, user-friendly technologies that would tell people — in their own homes — whether they’ve contracted the novel coronavirus.
March 31, 2020
As the novel coronavirus pandemic approaches 1 million cases worldwide, Purdue University researchers have launched more than 30 research projects and have applied for funding for nearly 20 additional projects.
March 30, 2020
Jacqueline Linnes, a professor of biomedical engineering who runs a lab at Purdue University. She’s created a COVID-19 test. She told me the science is complicated, but getting from lab to market is even harder.
Creating COVID-19 Tests is Complicated Science, and Business
March 30, 2020
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Sherry L. Harbin, Ph.D., Professor, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University to its College of Fellows.
Sherry L. Harbin Inducted Into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
March 30, 2020
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the induction of Thomas M. Talavage, Ph.D., Professor, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University to its College of Fellows.
Thomas M. Talavage Inducted Into Medical and Biological Engineering Elite
March 3, 2020
Only a select number of state and local laboratories have permission from U.S. health officials to use diagnostic tests for COVID-19, a coronavirus-caused disease. If the virus is spreading nationwide, most communities do not have access to the necessary tests.
Paper device could bring portable coronavirus detection, but funding bars production
January 27, 2020
The human brain has some remarkable capabilities – including the ability to block cancer drugs from effectively reaching cancer cells in the brain. The greatest obstacle when it comes to treating cancer that has spread to the brain is the blood-brain barrier, the brain’s natural defense mechanism that is a collection of blood vessels that can filter out what goes in and out of the brain
Getting cancer drugs to the brain is difficult – but a new ‘road map’ might make it easier
