Bioscience / Medical Research

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Tracing the evolution of a drug-resistant pathogen

July 15, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — To fight a pathogen that’s highly resistant to antibiotics, first understand how it gets that way. Klebsiella pneumoniae strains that carry a particular enzyme are known for “their ability to survive any antibiotics you throw at them,” said Corey Hudson of Sandia National Laboratories in California. Using...

Categories: Biology, Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: antibiotics, bacteria, bioscience, genetic material, pathogen, resistance

Starving cancer instead of feeding it poison

May 13, 2015 • Simulation offers hope of killing cancers without sickening patients ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A patent application for a drug that could destroy the deadly childhood disease known as acute lymphoblastic leukemia — and potentially other cancers as well — has been submitted by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, the University of...

Categories: Biology, Bioscience / Medical Research, Military / Defense

Topics: asparagine, cancer, chemotherapy, enzyme, glutamine, L-asparaginase, leukemia, mutation

Sandia showcases biology breakthroughs available for licensing

March 19, 2015 • LIVERMORE, Calif.—Technologies developed in Sandia National Laboratories’ biosciences program could soon find their way into doctors’ offices — devices like wearable microneedles that continuously analyze electrolyte levels and a lab-on-a-disk that can test a drop of blood for 64 different diseases in minutes. At a recent seminar for potential investors...

Categories: Biology, Bioscience / Medical Research, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: BaDx, Biosciences, blood RNA preparation, lab-on-a-disk, micro-liter based digital microfluidic plaatform, microneedles, miniature detector for blood analysis, protocells, RapiDx, SpinDx, technology transfer

Turning biological cells to stone improves cancer and stem cell research

December 8, 2014 • ‘Zombie’ method also hardens biostructures for mass production ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Changing flesh to stone sounds like the work of a witch in a fairy tale. But a new technique to transmute living cells into more permanent materials that defy decay and can endure high-powered probes is widening research opportunities...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology

Topics: cancer, cells, nanostructures, organelles, red blood cells, silica, spiders, stem cells

A better prosthesis: Sandia invents sensor to learn about fit; system to make fit better

October 14, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As an amputee walks on a prosthetic leg during the day, the natural fluid in the leg shifts and the muscles shrink slightly. Now imagine the problem that poses for the fit of the prosthesis. There’s a growing need for a solution. The national Amputee Coalition says...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: biomedical engineering, prosthetic liner, prosthetics, Sandia, sensors, socket, veterans

Sandia researchers find clues to superbug evolution

September 23, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif. — Imagine going to the hospital with one disease and coming home with something much worse, or not coming home at all. With the emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistance pathogens, healthcare-associated infections have become a serious threat. On any given day about one in 25 hospital patients has...

Categories: Biology, Bioscience / Medical Research

Topics: antibiotic resistance, bacteria, drug-resistant, genetics, genome sequencing, microbiology, pneumonia

Watching neurons fire from a front-row seat

July 28, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — They are with us every moment of every day, controlling every action we make, from the breath we breathe to the words we speak, and yet there is still a lot we don’t know about the cells that make up our nervous systems. When things go awry...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: brain, MESA, microscale, Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications, neural probe, neurons, Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia researchers win three R&D 100 awards

July 11, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories researchers — competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs — captured three R&D 100 Awards in this year’s contest. R&D Magazine presents the awards each year to researchers whom its editors and independent judging panels determine have developed the year’s...

Categories: Awards, Bioscience / Medical Research, Homeland security

Topics: anthrax detection, computer program, nuclear materials detection

Moly 99 reactor using Sandia design could lead to U.S. supply of isotope to track disease

June 16, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque startup company has licensed a Sandia National Laboratories technology that offers a way to make molybdenum-99, a key radioactive isotope needed for diagnostic imaging in nuclear medicine, in the United States. Known as moly 99, it is made in aging nuclear reactors outside the country,...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Science / Technology / Engineering, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Topics: business, collaboration, diagnostic imaging, DOE, economic development, economic impact, engineers, licensing, molybdenum-99, national laboratories, national labs, nuclear medicine, partnerships, radioisotopes, reactor, research, startup, tech transfer, technology

Prototype electrolyte sensor provides immediate read-outs

June 3, 2014 • Painless wearable microneedle device may reduce trips to doctors’ offices ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Patients trying to navigate today’s complex medical system with its costly laboratory analyses might prefer a pain-free home diagnostic device, worn on the wrist, that can analyze, continuously record and immediately remedy low electrolyte levels. Runners, athletes...

Categories: Biology, Bioscience / Medical Research, Chemistry

Topics: calcium, electrolyte, health care, interstitial, microneedles, miniaturization, sodium

Airport security officers at TSA gaining insight from Sandia human behavior studies

April 21, 2014 • LIVERMORE, Calif.— A recent Sandia National Laboratories study offers insight into how a federal transportation security officer’s thought process can influence decisions made during airport baggage screening, findings that are helping the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) improve the performance of its security officers. The TSA-funded project, led by Sandia researchers...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: airport security, cognitive, DHS, Homeland security, human behavior, psychologist, psychology, Transportation Security Administration, TSA

Pocket-sized anthrax detector aids global agriculture

April 17, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A credit-card-sized anthrax detection cartridge developed at Sandia National Laboratories and recently licensed to a small business makes testing safer, easier, faster and cheaper. Bacillus anthracis, the bacteria that causes anthrax, is commonly found in soils all over the world and can cause serious, and often fatal,...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Homeland security, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: anthrax detection, Aquila, BaDx, collaboration, economic development, economic impact, International Biological Threat Reduction, partnerships, small business, tech transfer

Entrepreneur teams with Sandia scientists to bring life-saving vaccines to far reaches of the world

March 25, 2014 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Getting life-saving vaccines to the most remote parts of the world is no easy feat. Biopharmaceuticals are highly sensitive to heat and cold and can perish if their temperature shifts a few degrees. “The vast majority of the world’s population lives in areas where electricity and refrigeration...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research, Chemistry, Technology transfer / Economic Impact

Sandia, UNM researchers show brain injury may occur within one millisecond after head hits car windshield

November 7, 2006 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Research by a Sandia National Laboratories engineer and a University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center neurologist shows that brain injury may occur within one millisecond after a human head is thrust into a windshield as a result of a car accident.

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

MODELING BRAIN INJURY — Sandia engineer Paul Taylor, left and Corey Ford, neurologist at the University of New Mexico’s Department of Neurology, study models of early traumatic brain injury.

Sandia researchers develop portable device that can detect heart and gum disease instantly

January 27, 2005 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Someday in the not-too-distant future patients may visit a doctor's office, provide a sample of saliva or blood, and know in minutes if they are prone to heart disease, gum disease, or cancer. There would be no sending samples to off-site labs for analysis...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

Researcher Anup Singh inserts an immunoassay chip into the microfluidic module of the hand-held device.

Sandia-developed foam likely would stop SARS virus quickly, Sandia/Kansas State team shows

February 2, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers at the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories and Kansas State University have shown that chemical formulations previously developed at Sandia to decontaminate chemical and biological warfare agents are...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

Cecilia Williams (left) and Jill Bieker, two members of the Sandia/K-State research team, inject Sandia’s decontamination formulation into a flask containing a surrogate of the SARS virus. The team has demonstrated the formulation’s ability to inactivate Bovine coronavirus, the internationally accepted surrogate for the SARS virus, in less than a minute.

Bioscience experts from around the world gather at Sandia to discuss securing pathogens from terrorists

February 2, 2004 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — More than 60 scientists from government-operated bioscience research laboratories around the world are gathered in Albuquerque this week to discuss keeping dangerous pathogens and toxins out of the hands of terrorists.

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

Sandia National Laboratories conference technical host Ren Salerno (left) discusses biosecurity issues with Won Keun Seong of the Republic of Korea’s Research Center for Pathogen Control.

Prosthetic limb to be controlled by microchip

October 16, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — “Smart” legs — entire smart lower limbs — to replace those amputated from tens of thousands of Americans yearly as a result of auto accidents, diabetes, or other causes are expected to be on the market in two years.

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

Sandia researcher Diane Hurtado inspects older prosthetic devices lent by SOGI to Sandia. The synthetic lower limbs are expected to help researchers generate ideas for the next generation of prosthetics.

Biocavity laser is new tool in war on cancer

March 23, 2000 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A "smart scalpel" mechanism intended to detect the presence of cancer cells as a surgeon cuts away a tumor obscured by blood, muscle and fat has been developed in prototype by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories.

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

SANDIA RESEARCHER Paul Gourley examines the photomask used to microfabricate the biocavity microlaser flow device.

“All my friends dream of [artificial limbs] …”

July 27, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A letter expressing "deepest gratitude" from a Russian landmine victim fitted with a newly developed artificial foot demonstrates one reason for the initiation of a second prosthetics project between the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

One version of a modern mechanical polycentric knee. It weighs 1.37 pounds, is 4.12 inches high. Its lower bases is 2x2 inches, and upper 3x2.5 inches.

Sandia discovery about proteins may help clean up pollutants, find cures for diseases

April 26, 1999 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A discovery linking the shape of a unit called the heme in a protein to protein function may prove useful in a range of scientific advances, including finding cures for diseases and cleaning up pollutants, says discoverer John Shelnutt, a physicist at the...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

JOHN SHELNUTT'S RESEARCH indicates that hemes can take on different shapes. Shown are the six important heme shapes in proteins -- saddling, ruffling, doming, propellering, and two types of waving.

Tracking hepatitis C: Health info sharing project demos worldwide early-warning system for disease outbreaks

June 4, 1998 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- As part of a Sandia National Laboratories-led effort to create a worldwide disease tracking network, hospital emergency rooms in three New Mexico cities and in a formerly secret Russian city this week began gathering and posting on the Internet information...

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

Joint U.S.-Russian Epidemiology Project to Seek Risk Factors for Hepatitis C

May 28, 1997 • Albuquerque, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories has organized a novel project to monitor a newly recognized, emerging disease known as Hepatitis C in cooperation with the Russian Nuclear Center at Chelyabinsk-70, the New Mexico Department of Health, the University of New Mexico

Categories: Bioscience / Medical Research

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