An article on IEEE Spectrum reports M. Amin Karami is working on two prototypes for pacemakers that would be powered by the beating of the heart that it’s regulating.
An article in Industrial Engineer magazine by associate professor Jun Zhuang and undergraduate student Laura Devine describes how game theory can be used to model and improve decision-making in disaster situations.
Several media outlets, including Fox News and Futurity, report that a UB research team led by Blaine Pfeifer has manipulated E. coli to produce 40 new versions of the antibiotic erythromycin.
An article in Futurity reports on a metamaterial hyperlens developed by Natalia Litchinitser, professor of electrical engineering, and a team of UB researchers, that will allow scientists for the first time to see images byond the diffraction limit.
An article on Futurity reports researchers at UB have discovered a way to easily and effectively fasten proteins to nanoparticles, a model that has shown promise for developing an HIV vaccine and as a way to target cancer cells. The article quotes Jonathan Lovell, assistant professor of biomedical engineering.
