In medicine and biology, understanding how cells self-organize into their mostly spherical demeanor is important information.

But making these cell mimics is expensive and time-consuming.

Now, Japanese scientists have managed to make these microgel mimics simpler using polyethylene glycol and gelatin that is able to encapsulate DNA.

Other biopolymers may be able to use the same method too.

#Biomedical #Medicine #Biology #Synthetic #Biogels #Science #Scicomm

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smll.202302193

New crew, new experiments: #NASA's #SpaceX #Crew7 mission brings more #biomedical research to #ISS. They include experiments from Univ of California, Santa Barbara, studying how mucus lining the airways of respiratory system can be used to carry a drug delivery system called a liquid plug therapeutic to lungs. Experiments from U.S. Naval Research Laboratory look at how microgravity & cosmic radiation can be used to alter melanin. More than more than 200 total experiments!
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/new-crew-new-experiments-nasas-spacex-crew-7-mission-brings-more-biomedical-research-iss

#Ableism In #Biomedical And #BehavioralResearch At NIH https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/ableism-biomedical-and-behavioral-research-nih

The National Institutes of Health has initiated efforts to advance equity for people with #disabilities in the biomedical and behavioral research ecosystem.

The medical model of #disability, in which a person’s impairment is viewed as a pathology and any loss of function is attributed to the individual’s condition has long been part of the #NIH’s philosophy.

#Ableism In #Biomedical And #BehavioralResearch At NIH https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/ableism-biomedical-and-behavioral-research-nih

The National Institutes of Health has initiated efforts to advance equity for people with #disabilities in the biomedical and behavioral research ecosystem.

The medical model of #disability, in which a person’s impairment is viewed as a pathology and any loss of function is attributed to the individual’s condition has long been part of the #NIH’s philosophy.

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TITLE: Psychiatry's identity crisis

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For this group this article is a sort of preaching to the choir.
Nevertheless I thought it was both interesting and encouraging to see an
increasing recognition of the human impact of a highly limiting
epistemology of the biomedical approach to mental suffering. The authors
make the important observation that a reworking of this diagnostic
system to maintain the protections of those so deeply indoctrinated will
be no small feat by any means.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/08/researchers-call-on-psychiatry-to-abandon-biomedical-framework/

@psychotherapist @psychotherapists
@psychology @socialpsych @socialwork
@psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #body
#research #biomedical>>>

Generating positive AND negative walks through #ontological relations subclassOf and superClassOf improves protein-protein interaction and gene-disease association classification tasks.

Rita T. Sousa, Sara Silva, Heiko Paulheim, and Catia Pesquita. 2023. Biomedical Knowledge Graph Embeddings with Negative Statements. arXiv [cs.AI]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03447

#paper #KnowledgeGraph #NLP #NLProc #Biomedical

I overheard a student today and had some thoughts. Biomedical engineering is like the red mage of #biomedical. I honestly can't really recommend a student to major in it. You learn a bit of everything, but not quite enough of any one thing, so it sets you up for a career in field service. If you want to build the things, a major in mechanical or computer engineering with a minor in biology is probably the best path. Or following up biomed with a masters in one of those.

PhD position in Biomedical Data Sciences & Bioinformatics for studying TP53

University of Konstanz

Open #phd / #doctoral position in #biomedical #datascience to study the role of TP53 in #cancer by developing and applying #bioinformatics approaches.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-konstanz-27779-phd-pos...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-konstanz-27779-phd-position-in-biomedical-data-sciences-bioinformatics-for-studying-tp53/?feed_id=54465

Vancouver biomedical company's invention to reduce hospital virus infections was used by a Toronto doctor to treat #COVID in a few patients, including members of the band KISS and sports celebrities.

#Covid19 #SarsCov2 #biomedical #science #biotech

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/kiss-took-vancouver-firms-treatment-to-avoid-covid-and-cancelling-world-tour-manager

STOP BLEEDING HORSESHOE CRABS TO DEATH

Thousands of defenseless #HorseshoeCrabs are being brutally drained of their #blood in record numbers for the #biomedical industry — with news detailing numerous violations of harvesting permits and minimal welfare practices.

Five bleeding companies drained a record-breaking 700,000 #crabs of their blood in 2021 — with workers stabbing the animals in the heart and then bleeding out up to half of their blood to manufacture #LAL ,

#SaveOurSeas 🦀

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Towards Generalist #Biomedical #AI
Few days ago I posted about the efforts of Amazon in deploying services for #generativeAI in #medicine.
Now: Med-PaLM, a #LLM designed by Google Research for the medical domain.
https://sites.research.google/med-palm/
paper : https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14334

Fisk University graduate student Vida Robertson highlighted a publication from the laboratory of Ming Zhou Baylor College of Medicine. The authors investigated the loss of enzymatic activity in Stearoyl-CoA desaturase-1 (SCD1) over time & used UV-vis spectroscopy, EPR, & inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry to implicate a loss of iron at the active site as one cause.
https://sbgridconsortium.tumblr.com/post/721470101341224960/understanding-how-iron-affects-stearoyl-coa?utm_source=AdaptiveMailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SBGrid%20Newsletters&org=1935&lvl=100&ite=456&lea=24537&ctr=0&par=1&trk=a0N3s00000PU74ZEAT

#SBGrid #Science #biomedical
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Hi all - 👋

By way of #introduction, I am an academic #biomedical #engineer interested in #biomechanics 💪, #movementanalysis, #rehabilitation technologies and #musculoskeletal modelling.

Based in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Hello everyone - we're delighted to join you all here 🎉

#DMM_Journal (Disease Models & Mechanisms) is an #OpenAccess #biomedical research #journal published by not-for-profit #publisher @Co_Biologists 📰

Our content is freely available for anyone interested in translational research into the mechanism, #diagnosis and #therapy of human #disease. We aim to support #interdisciplinary research at the interface of basic and #clinical science 🥼

#Introduction #AcademicMastodon

Ok, so having deleted my Sad Post about the job search I will post a proper #fediHired post now. I am an applied #physicist looking for a job making physical things!

I have experience with #microfabrication and #nanofabrication, overall product design for #manufacturing, machining and mechanical #fabrication and design, #superconducting electronics, #RF circuit design, pcb layout and fabrication, building gas handling systems, building apparatus for commercial fishing, sex toy product development, open source product development with #Arduino, developing #maker curriculum of various kinds, #biomedical imaging systems, and all sorts of random science and robotic systems I've built over the years. I have a phd in applied physics(#Yale '06) and was a math/physics double major(UC #Berkeley '98). I want to help people build real physical things! I'm happy to work in any industry other than defense or software.

Private sector, government, non profit or university, startup or big company, I've got some experience with all these and am interested in working on neat things in whatever context is available. Must be either remote or #Denver/#Boulder/#Golden area, Colorado, USA. Please please please don't tell me about your software job, thank you! If you have a weird scheme that might have freelance work involved that is also great! I like weird schemes!

Björn Menze, TU München: On #Vessels and #Networks

#Biomedical imaging / 3D segmentation, labelling whole-body #CT scans; but vessels have been too fine so far

How are blood vessels connected in the brain? Mapping neuro-vascular networks at the organ scale, to understand e.g. metabolism in the brain
Combining 100 nm high-resolution data with coarser cm³ volumes; #Xray + #microscopy;

Want to learn how well-designed imaging experiments can unravel #autophagy fluxes? Then you should check @shah_ps's talk from tonight when it finishes processing: https://youtu.be/Z9gOZKx1x3w

#chemtwitter #biotwitter #cells #science #scicomm #STEM #openscience #Twitch #streaming #chemistrymastodon #ScienceMastodon #biomedical #biologymastodon #microscopy

Inviting all #biomedical #optical #imaging submissions for POM! A unique, free, interactive platform for #photonics researchers. Great exposure across continents. 🌎 Submit at https://t.co/cMuS70YeEm. Abstract deadline: July 27. Conference: Nov 13-14. Join us! #POM2023 #Fluorescence #AdaptiveOptics #Photoacoustic #Photothermal #Raman #Brillouin #Holography #OCT #DOT

Tonight at 10:30 PM EST, come learn about @shah_ps's work on dynamic #autophagy flux measurements for #biomedical applications!

twitch.tv/open_science

#chemtwitter #biotwitter #scicomm #STEM #openscience #streaming #science #ScienceTwitter #ScienceMastodon #chemistrymastodon #biologymastodon

Inviting all #biomedical #optical #imaging submissions for Photonics Online Meetup! A unique, free, online interactive platform for researchers in #photonics and #microscopy. Great exposure across continents. 🌎 Submit at https://t.co/cMuS70YeEm. Abstract deadline: July 27. Conference: Nov 13-14. Join us!" #POM2023 #Fluorescence #AdaptiveOptics #Photoacoustic #Photothermal #Raman #Brillouin #Holography #OCT #DOT