Browsing Harvard Medical School by Keyword "engineering"

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    • Blood Banking in Living Droplets 

      Samot, Josh; Moon, Sangjun; Shao, Lei; Zhang, Xiaohui; Xu, Feng; Song, YoungSeok; Keles, Hasan Onur; Matloff, Laura; Markel, Jordan; Demirci, Utkan (Public Library of Science, 2011)
      Blood banking has a broad public health impact influencing millions of lives daily. It could potentially benefit from emerging biopreservation technologies. However, although vitrification has shown advantages over traditional ...

    • The Feasibility and Impact of Delivering a Mind-Body Intervention in a Virtual World 

      Linton, Deborah A.; Bello, Heather E.; Senelly, Marco; Milik, Mariola T.; Baim, Margaret A.; Hoch, Daniel B.; Watson, Alice Joan; Jethwani, Kamal Shanker; Fricchione, Gregory Lewis; Benson, Herbert; Kvedar, Joseph Charles (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Introduction: Mind-body medical approaches may ameliorate chronic disease. Stress reduction is particularly helpful, but face-to-face delivery systems cannot reach all those who might benefit. An online, 3-dimensional ...

    • Living Bacterial Sacrificial Porogens to Engineer Decellularized Porous Scaffolds 

      Xu, Feng; Sridharan, BanuPriya; Durmus, Naside Gozde; Wang, Shuqi; Yavuz, Ahmet Sinan; Gurkan, Umut Atakan; Demirci, Utkan (Public Library of Science, 2011)
      Decellularization and cellularization of organs have emerged as disruptive methods in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Porous hydrogel scaffolds have widespread applications in tissue engineering, regenerative ...

    • Microfluidic Chip for Molecular Amplification of Influenza A RNA in Human Respiratory Specimens 

      Cao, Qingqing; Mahalanabis, Madhumita; Chang, Jessie; Carey, Brendan; Hsieh, Christopher; Stanley, Ahjegannie; Odell, Christine A.; Mitchell, Patricia; Klapperich, Catherine M.; Pollock, Nira; Feldman, James (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      A rapid, low cost, accurate point-of-care (POC) device to detect influenza virus is needed for effective treatment and control of both seasonal and pandemic strains. We developed a single-use microfluidic chip that integrates ...

    • Prehospital Electronic Patient Care Report Systems: Early Experiences from Emergency Medical Services Agency Leaders 

      Landman, Adam B.; Lee, Christopher H.; Sasson, Comilla; Van Gelder, Carin M.; Curry, Leslie A. (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Background: As the United States embraces electronic health records (EHRs), improved emergency medical services (EMS) information systems are also a priority; however, little is known about the experiences of EMS agencies ...

    • Preservation of Mouse Sperm by Convective Drying and Storing in 3-O-Methyl-D-Glucose 

      Liu, Jie; Lee, Gloria Y.; Lawitts, Joel A.; Toner, Mehmet; Biggers, John Dennis (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      With the fast advancement in the genetics and bio-medical fields, the vast number of valuable transgenic and rare genetic mouse models need to be preserved. Preservation of mouse sperm by convective drying and subsequent ...

    • A Single Base-Pair Change in 2009 H1N1 Hemagglutinin Increases Human Receptor Affinity and Leads to Efficient Airborne Viral Transmission in Ferrets 

      Jayaraman, Akila; Pappas, Claudia; Raman, Rahul; Belser, Jessica A.; Viswanathan, Karthik; Shriver, Zachary; Tumpey, Terrence M.; Sasisekharan, Ram (Public Library of Science, 2011)
      The 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus continues to circulate among the human population as the predominant H1N1 subtype. Epidemiological studies and airborne transmission studies using the ferret model have shown that the ...