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.
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
September 25, 2023
A research team at Purdue University recently introduced a new approach to enable communication between the human brain and computers via wireless neural implants. Their proposed approach, outlined in Nature Electronics, relies on a two-phase process that slowly unfolds in the brain, allows a small sensor implanted in the brain to sense and transfer information to a wearable headphone-shaped device, without disrupting the human body's physiological processes.
September 22, 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
September 21, 2023
It is an opportune time for SME manufacturers to upgrade their operations by investing in new software and manufacturing innovations. The reasons include pressures on OEMs to build more resilient supply chains and to regionalize production and the falling cost and increasing ease of use of new technologies. This article describes six steps that SMEs can take to adopt these technologies.
September 20, 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) to develop 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.
Purdue developing field test to detect SARS-CoV-2 virus in dozens of host species
September 20, 2023
For the 13th consecutive year, Purdue University’s Agricultural and Biological Engineering undergrad program was ranked as the No. 1 in the nation by The U.S. News & World Report.
Purdue's Agricultural and Biological Engineering program No. 1 for 13th year in a row
