Quelling Fear about the Smallest Nanoparticles

Teensy Nanoparticles: Not so Poisonous   The finest nano-sized silica particles used in biomedical engineering likely won't cause unexpected biological responses due to their size, according to scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington.  This news should calm fears that cells and tissues will react erratically when exposed to the smallest silica nanomaterials.   By using total surface area to...

MRIs Could Get Colorized

Bye Bye, Black and White – Hello, Color   Customized microscopic magnets that might one day be injected into the body could add color to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), while also...

Five Hall of Fame Technologies

Drum Roll, Please   The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Hall of Fame recently added five key innovations to its honor roll of technologies that have saved and improved...

How’d They Get Their Start? Overachievers in Biomedical Engineering

  There’s Smart, and then there’s Mega-Smart   Biomedical engineers are smart people; this is a universal truth. As a rule, dim-witted people do not develop bioartificial organs or design...