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Gabriel Lopez honored with the 2025 UW College of Engineering Diamond Award
Gabriel P. López, Ph.D., member of the UW Bioengineering Advisory Board, has been honored with the 2025 UW College of Engineering Diamond Award
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UW BioE rowers share their musings about rowing and bioengineering
Teamwork, resilience and excellence UW BioE rowers share their [...]
Three MAB students create a pacemaker prototype that can recharge its battery
Researchers at the UW have unveiled a prototype that [...]
December 2023 eNews
Orsborn lab awarded NIH grant to improve brain-computer [...]
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Exclusion zone and heterogeneous water structure at ambient temperature
Professor Gerald Pollack and colleagues report the formation of a ‘three-dimensional cell-like structured exclusion zone’ in water prepared by two different methods. Based on their findings of an electric potential difference between the heterogeneous structured water and the ordinary water, the researchers propose a new model to explain the relationship between heterogeneous, structured water and its electrical properties.
Acoustic micro-tapping for non-contact 4D imaging of tissue elasticity
The researchers demonstrate acoustic micro-tapping – the use of focused ultrasound propagating in air to generate transient mechanical waves – as a non-invasive approach to dynamic elastography for mapping the elasticity of biological tissue without any physical contact. They propose to use it with 4-D phase-sensitive optical coherence tomography to create a tool for ophthalmology, dermatology and other applications where direct contact with the tissue being studied may be undesirable.
Runx2 deletion in smooth muscle cells inhibits vascular osteochondrogenesis and calcification but not atherosclerotic lesion formation
The researchers investigate the importance of Runx2 (runt-related transcription factor-2) in turning vascular smooth muscle cells into bone and cartilage cells, contributing to arterial intimal calcification, a condition implicated in atherosclerosis and may contribute to heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular events.
