Closing in on cancer
12/06/17 — Bioengineering and EECS professor Steven Conolly is building a new kind of medical diagnostic technology called magnetic particle imaging (MPI).
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Engineering alumni among Forbes 30 Under 30
11/17/17 — Three Berkeley Engineering alumni - Siddharth Satish and Kunwoo Lee from Bioengineering and Han Jin from Industrial Engineering and Operations Research - are among the young stars included in the 2018 edition of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
A cellphone-based microscope for treating river blindness
11/10/17 — A smartphone-based microscope technology developed by Berkeley bioengineers has been used to help treat river blindness, a debilitating disease caused by parasitic worms.
Case studies in forward thinking
11/01/17 — Nine Berkeley Engineering faculty members share some of their forward-looking work and how it might impact what's to come.
Chest sound waves
11/01/17 — The award-winning Tabla, a device that digitizes chest sounds for diagnosing pneumonia (and other ailments), began as a class project in Jacobs Hall.
Artificial skin grafts
11/01/17 — Researchers are looking at chicken skin dynamics to figure out how to build artificial skin to be used for grafts.
Needleless vaccines
11/01/17 — No more needles. Vaccinations can be done as easy as saying “ahh.”
CRISPR-Gold fixes Duchenne muscular dystrophy mutation in mice
10/03/17 — Berkeley bioengineers have developed a new non-viral way to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology inside cells. Researchers in the labs of professors Niren Murthy and Irina Conboy have demonstrated in mice that the technique can repair the mutation that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a severe muscle-wasting disease.
Student-designed medical device wins Fast Company award
09/12/17 — Tabla, a low-cost medical device to diagnose pneumonia, has won the student category of Fast Company's 2017 Innovation by Design Awards. Tabla was created by a trio of mechanical engineering and bioengineering students as a classroom project for the Jacobs Institute's Interactive Device Design course.
Herr, Shenker win Berkeley Visionary awards
09/11/17 SF Business Times — Bioengineering professor Amy Herr and EECS professor Scott Shenker are inaugural winners of the Berkeley Visionary Awards, an honor created by the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce to recognize innovative leaders in the city whose work is creating an economic impact.
Glue inspired by mussels could save lives
08/23/17 Food & Wine — Mussels may do a lot more for us than just offering a delicious vehicle for butter and garlic. UC Berkeley scientists are now studying the way mussels stick to slippery rocks to make prenatal surgery a much safer option.
Heart and asthma monitors? There’s an app for that
08/10/17 New York Times — Two startup companies spun out of bioengineering's senior capstone design program are taking the world of remote health monitoring by storm. Monitoring devices by Eko Devices and Knox Medical Diagnostics are changing the landscape of medicine, the New York Times reports.
Toxic exposure: Chemicals are in our water, food, air and furniture
07/03/17 UCSF — As director of UCSF's Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, Tracey Woodruff (B.S.'85 EECS, Ph.D.'91 BioE) believes that we need to know more about environmental toxics so we can reduce our exposure to the worst of them and protect ourselves and our children from their harmful effects.
FDA clearance for Eko Devices’ latest tool
06/14/17 BioSpace — Eko Devices, a startup led by alumnus Connor Landgraf (B.S.'13, M.Eng.'14 BioE), has received FDA clearance for its second tool, a combined digital stethoscope and electrocardiogram.
Viral infections decrease muscle health
06/13/17 — UC Berkeley bioengineers, led by associate professor Irina Conboy, have found unexpected effects of viral infections on muscle regeneration and other health factors, a discovery that may explain why viruses can make people feel so lousy.
BioE’s Yartsev wins young faculty award
05/17/17 — Bioengineering assistant professor Michael Yartsev has been named a 2017 McKnight Scholar, an award honoring the best young neuroscience faculty in the country.
Angel investors honor Magnetic Insights as innovative startup
05/03/17 — Bioengineering startup Magnetic Insight, founded by Patrick Goodwill (Ph.D.'10 BioE) and professor Steven Conolly, was selected by the Angel Capital Association for its 2017 Luis Villalobos Award for ingenuity, creativity, and innovation among startups.
Safer transfusions
05/01/17 — Adam Arkin and team have used control theory to develop a simple diagnostic model that could personalize the treatment of patients suffering from traumatic coagulopathy.
In a sample of blood, researchers probe for cancer clues
03/23/17 — Berkeley bioengineers, led by Amy Herr, have made an important step toward liquid biopsy technology, which could allow patients to monitor cancer therapy through a simple blood draw.
Synthetic spider silk for sale in a $314 necktie
03/15/17 MIT Technology Review — Bolt Threads, co-founded by bioengineering grad David Breslauer (Ph.D.'10), is releasing its first commercially available spider-silk product: a $314 limited-edition necktie, spun from fibers grown in the startup's lab.