October 5, 2023
Purdue University on Friday will mark the founding of its Manufacturing and Materials Research Laboratories (MMRL). The university said the effort brings together 10 faculty from different engineering disciplines to boost manufacturing research, funding and industry collaboration. Arvind Raman, the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering at Purdue, said the MMRL will be an umbrella organization with experimental facilities for physical domain manufacturing. “This will allow us to have a stronger outward projection to industry partners and federal agencies and promote collaborations leading to federal funding, industry linkups and workforce development,” Raman said in a news release.
October 4, 2023
Research produces a ton of data. You may think researchers inherently know what to do with this data, but when it comes to big data, the scale of information is so vast that tackling it requires some training. That’s what the BigCare 2023 Summer Workshop aims to do – show cancer researchers how to use all that data, specifically by incorporating cyberinfrastructure resources into their work. This year, the 10-day workshop held at Purdue used ACCESS resource Anvil to support both the in-person and online workshops
ACCESS Empowers Cancer Researchers with Big Data Analysis Skills at BigCare Workshop
October 3, 2023
Imagine brain implants that could detect neural impulses and then wirelessly communicate those signals with a prosthetic arm, or even a smart home device. Engineers are one step closer to this possible future, based on the results of a recent study in Nature Electronics. While there have been many attempts to link brain signals with an external device or computer, this work is the first to demonstrate high-bandwidth wireless communication between neural implants and wearable devices, taking advantage of the body’s natural electrical conductivity. “No previous tech had a broadband nature in the brain,” says senior author and principal investigator Shreyas Sen, an electrical and biomedical researcher and inventor at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN.
In proof-of-concept study, mouse brain implants communicate wirelessly with wearable electronics
October 3, 2023
Natalia Rodriguez, assistant professor in the Purdue University Department of Public Health, has been selected as a 2023 NIH (National Institutes of Health) Director’s New Innovator Award recipient. The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award is a component of the NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Program, which supports exceptionally creative scientists conducting highly innovative research. The program seeks to identify scientists with high-impact ideas that may be risky or at a stage too early to fare well in the traditional peer review process. The program encourages creative, outside-the-box thinkers to pursue exciting and innovative ideas in any area of biomedical, behavioral or social science research relevant to the NIH mission.
PURDUE PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCHER RECEIVES NIH DIRECTOR’S NEW INNOVATOR AWARD
September 30, 2023
Purdue University has received $2.7 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for developing a field test that can measure and predict the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in a wide range of wildlife and farm animals. Mohit Verma, assistant professor in agricultural and biological engineering and the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, and his colleagues plan to collect nearly 2,000 nasal and oral samples from over three dozen species of mammals and birds ranging from cattle, swine and wolves to chickens, ducks and turkeys.
Purdue University Researchers Developing Field Test For Detecting SARS-CoV-2 Virus In Various Host Species
September 27, 2023
Researchers have designed sticky patches, inspired by octopus suckers, that can deliver difficult-to-absorb drugs through a person’s inner cheek. The small suction cups are made of rubber and could offer a friendlier way to deliver intravenous drugs, including hormones such as insulin and the blockbuster drug Ozempic, as well as medicines that degrade as they travel down the digestive tract.
This octopus-inspired patch could deliver drugs like Ozempic through your cheek
September 27, 2023
You might soon be able to control your electronic devices using only your mind. Engineers have designed a brain implant that could detect neural impulses and wirelessly communicate those signals with electronics such as a computer or smart home device. A recent study published in the journal Nature Electronics shows that scientists are one step closer to an invention that would allow people to control their smart devices and connect to the internet from anywhere they are. “Our group at Purdue University has been working in the area of electric field communication around the human body for the past eight years and pioneering technologies such as EQS-HBC [electro-quasistatic human body communication], which is now being commercialized,” Shreyas Sen, the principal investigator for the study.
New wireless brain implants could bring mind control to new level
September 27, 2023
Purdue University’s Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE) undergraduate program is ranked number one in its category in the 2024 U.S. News & World Report undergraduate program rankings. The ranking marks the 13th consecutive year the program has earned a spot in the top two. “ABE has consistently achieved this ranking because the faculty and staff focus on making a global impact in key areas of research and preparing our students to take that impact to the next level,” said Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture Bernie Engel, who is also an ABE professor and former department head. “I am grateful to ABE’s department head, Nate Mosier, for his skilled leadership and to all the faculty and staff members for their commitment. Our students have numerous positive experiences during their time in ABE, from exceptional mentorship and research opportunities to multiple student organizations.”
Purdue Agricultural and Biological Engineering undergraduate program ranked first in U.S.
September 26, 2023
Scientists at Purdue University have developed a device smaller than a dime that captures and transmits data to an over-the-ear headphone. Unlike current brain chips, Purdue’s implants do not need to be connected to a computer or device to capture the user’s brainwaves. The team believes their innovation will allow people to connect to the Internet, computers and other smart devices no matter where they are.
The “brainternt” Project: Scientists are developing wireless implants that allow users to control computers and smart devices with their MINDS
September 25, 2023
Purdue University researchers have developed a novel solution: inkjet-printed tumors. By printing biomaterial in a unique two-dimensional pattern, these specimens naturally fold in on themselves to become lifelike three-dimensional tumoroids, in a process called morphogenesis.
Inkjet-printed tumors: custom cancer drug testbeds in less than a day
