Publications | Biomedical Engineering

UC Davis Researchers Elucidate Key Wrist Structural and Motional Characteristics

February 12, 2019

Research

While individuals’ left and right wrists are similar, genders show true differences

UC Davis researchers are excited to share breakthrough findings about essential tools we use each and every day: our wrists.

UC Davis Technology Brings Augmented Reality to the Operating Room

February 11, 2019

Research

Robot-assisted throat cancer surgery gets assist from novel optical device

View video of augmented reality during head and neck cancer surgery.

UC Davis Researchers Strengthen Stem-Cell Transplants for Better Patient Outcomes

January 30, 2019

Research

New cell-combination strategy creates longer transplant viability

UC Davis researchers have discovered a promising new way to use a combination of two types of stem cells to improve transplantation viability – and possible patient outcomes.

As outlined in Stem Cell Research & Therapy, the UC Davis team took on a long-standing challenge for stem-cell researchers: stem cells’ potentially short transplant lives.

Dr. Laura Marcu's Research Highlighted in UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center's Synthesis Magazine

November 29, 2018

Faculty

The UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center's Synthesis magazine highlighted work by UC Davis Biomedical Engineering Professor Laura Marcu regarding glioblastoma -- the most common, and aggressive, form of brain tumor:

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Building tiny bacteria-fighters from the bottom up

August 31, 2018

Research

Faculty, researchers and students at the UC Davis Biomedical Engineering Department’s Tan Lab report they’ve successfully created bacteria-killing artificial cells that operate even in the poorest environments.

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Science Signaling publishes research by UC Davis biomedical engineering undergraduate

March 14, 2018

Students

An interdisciplinary study by an undergraduate researcher in the Heinrich Lab attests to the growing recognition that innovative concepts and approaches developed by bioengineers and biophysicists can help tackle vital scientific questions that are inaccessible to traditional biological methods.

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Bacterial consortia quickly produce pure protein synthesis machinery

November 14, 2017

Research

A new technique developed in Cheemeng Tan’s biomedical engineering laboratory at UC Davis may have broken the barrier to rapid assembly of pure protein synthesis machinery outside of living cells.

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Engineering new cell-based strategies with microangiospheres

November 06, 2017

Research

Pre-vascular microtissues delivered in a microhydrogel injection are better able to lay the groundwork necessary for blood vessels to grow. Cell-based strategies are seen as true game changers in the context of ischemic vascular diseases because they aim to cure and not simply to ameliorate these diseases.

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New imaging catheter is first of its kind in war against heart disease

September 27, 2017

Research

For the first time, Laura Marcu’s biomedical engineering lab at UC Davis has combined intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) with fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIm) in a single catheter probe capable to image the tiny arteries of a living heart.

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NIH funds project to model atrial fibrillation with heart-on-a-chip

August 08, 2017

Research

George and his collaborators plan to create atrial tissue from a patient’s own stem cells, and induce changes in the cells using CRISPR technology (“gene editing”) to alter their protein expression so that they conduct electricity in a pattern resembling that seen in atrial fibrillation.