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IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter
The IEEE Life Sciences Newsletter is a new initiative to bring forth interesting articles and informative interviews within the exciting field of life sciences every month.
The recent IEEE Metro Area Workshop in Boston, Massachusetts included a Life Sciences track. This month we bring you articles and an interview from presenters at that event. In an interview and an article, Nanotechnology expert Brian Cunningham tells us about his breakthrough work in …
By Aniruddha Datta
Cancer encompasses various diseases associated with loss of control in the mechanisms that regulate the cell numbers in a multicellular organism. It is usually caused by malfunction(s) in the cellular signaling pathways. Malfunctions occur in different ways and at different locations in a …
By Brian T. Cunningham
A new method allows researchers to view cellular growth and interactions, without requiring the use of stains or fixation!
By Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer
Healthcare-related facilities and other life science applications represent complex environments with significant safety implications. This offers both challenges and opportunities to bioengineers.
Aniruddha Datta received the B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1985, the M.S.E.E. degree from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 1987 and the M.S. (Applied Mathematics) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California in 1991. In August 1991, he …
Brian T. Cunningham is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also serves as the Interim Director of the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, and as Director of the …
This month we bring you views of advances in some widely diverse areas of the application of technology in Life Sciences In our video, Stephen Quake gives his insights into the impact of large scale microfluidic circuitry. Next, learn about work underway in the emerging …
By Mathukumalli Vidyasagar
An approach to a multi-stage cancer therapy is proposed, based on an identification of dangerous (“driver”) genetic variations present in individual tumors that are likely to give rise to initial cancers and to cases of remission.
By Usmah Kawoos*, Xu Meng, Arye Rosen, and Mikulas Chavko*
A key parameter in monitoring brain injury is the measurement of intra-cranial pressure. This article describes a small, long-term implantable sensor developed for chronic monitoring in small animals.
By H. Chitsaz
Recent technological advances in high throughput low-cost DNA sequencing have brought a whole new realm of exciting applications within reach, one of which is genomic analysis at single-cell resolution. Single-cell genome sequencing holds great promise for environmental biology. New techniques for single-cell sequencing …
