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Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering

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2019

Cancer

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Biomedical Engineering Or Biomedical Optics: Will The Real Discipline Please Stand Up?, Brian W. Pogue Apr 2019

Biomedical Engineering Or Biomedical Optics: Will The Real Discipline Please Stand Up?, Brian W. Pogue

Dartmouth Scholarship

This editorial reflects on the shape of biomedical engineering as a discipline, and its relation to biomedical optics.


The Effect Of Proteome And Lipidome On The Behavior Of Membrane Bound Systems In Thermally-Assisted Acoustophoresis, Elnaz Mirtaheri Feb 2019

The Effect Of Proteome And Lipidome On The Behavior Of Membrane Bound Systems In Thermally-Assisted Acoustophoresis, Elnaz Mirtaheri

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Changes in the biomechanical properties of cells accompanying the development of various pathological conditions have been increasingly reported as biomarkers for various diseases, including cancers. In cancer cells, the membrane properties have been altered compared to their healthy counterparts primarily due to proteomic and lipidomic dysregulations conferred by the underlying pathology. The separation and selective recovery of these cells or extracellular vesicles secreted from such cells is of high diagnostic and prognostic value.

In this dissertation, the research builds on thermally-assisted acoustophoresis technique which was developed in our laboratory for the separation of vesicles of the same size, charge and …


Diagnostic Performance Of Receptor-Specific Surgical Specimen Staining Correlates With Receptor Expression Level, Jasmin M. Schaefer, Connor W. Barth, Scott C. Davis, Summer L. Gibbs Feb 2019

Diagnostic Performance Of Receptor-Specific Surgical Specimen Staining Correlates With Receptor Expression Level, Jasmin M. Schaefer, Connor W. Barth, Scott C. Davis, Summer L. Gibbs

Dartmouth Scholarship

Intraoperative margin assessment is imperative to cancer cure but is a continued challenge to successful surgery. Breast conserving surgery is a relevant example, where a cosmetically improved outcome is gained over mastectomy, but re-excision is required in >25  %   of cases due to positive or closely involved margins. Clinical translation of margin assessment modalities that must directly contact the patient or required administered contrast agents are time consuming and costly to move from bench to bedside. Tumor resections provide a unique surgical opportunity to deploy margin assessment technologies including contrast agents on the resected tissues, substantially shortening the path to …