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Paul Yager receives funding to develop low-cost at-home testing to monitor chronic diseases
Paul Yager has been awarded a Washington Research Foundation Phase 1 commercialization grant to support his groundbreaking work in paper-based microfluidics.
Events
2023 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting
Join UW Bioengineering for several BMES 2023 events taking [...]
Kelly Stevens, Azadeh Yazdan to present 2023-24 Science in Medicine Lectures
Kelly Stevens, associate professor of bioengineering and of laboratory medicine [...]
Patrick Boyle honored with CMBE Young Innovator Award
UW Department of Bioengineering Assistant Professor Patrick M. Boyle will [...]
Featured Publications
Targeting sphingosine-1-phosphate lyase as an anabolic therapy for bone loss
Research Associate Professor Marta Scatena and a team of collaborators show that raising Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) levels in adult mice through conditionally deleting or pharmacologically inhibiting S1P lyase, the sole enzyme responsible for irreversibly degrading S1P, markedly increased bone formation, mass and strength and substantially decreased white adipose tissue.
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.
A rapid, instrument-free, sample-to-result nucleic acid amplification test
The researchers demonstrate a prototype of MAD NAAT, the first fully integrated, sample-to-result diagnostic platform for performing nucleic acid amplification texts that require no permanent instrument or manual sample processing.
