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  1. Human solid tumors that are hard or firm on physical palpation are likely to be cancerous, a clinical maxim that has been successfully applied to cancer screening programs, such as breast self-examination. How...

    Authors: Nagesh Ragavendra, JW Ju, James W Sayre, Sharon Hirschowitz, Inder Chopra and Michael W Yeh

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2008 2:12

    Content type: Letters to the Editor

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  2. Humic acid (HA) has been found to affect the solubility, mineralization, and bound residue formation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). However, most of the studies on the interaction between HA and P...

    Authors: Yanna Liang, Darwin L Sorensen, Joan E McLean and Ronald C Sims

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2008 2:11

    Content type: Research

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  3. Glucagon is a peptide hormone with many uses as a therapeutic agent, including the emergency treatment of hypoglycemia. Physical instability of glucagon in solution leads to problems with the manufacture, form...

    Authors: Cindy C Hoppe, Lida T Nguyen, Lee E Kirsch and John M Wiencek

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2008 2:10

    Content type: Research

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  4. Polyethylene glycol (PEG; 2000 MW, 30% by volume) has been shown to mechanically repair damaged cellular membranes and reduce secondary axotomy after traumatic brain and spinal cord injury (TBI and SCI respect...

    Authors: Andrew O Koob, Julia M Colby and Richard B Borgens

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2008 2:9

    Content type: Research

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  5. We investigated the possibility of executing DNA-based computation in living cells by engineering Escherichia coli to address a classic mathematical puzzle called the Burnt Pancake Problem (BPP). The BPP is solve...

    Authors: Karmella A Haynes, Marian L Broderick, Adam D Brown, Trevor L Butner, James O Dickson, W Lance Harden, Lane H Heard, Eric L Jessen, Kelly J Malloy, Brad J Ogden, Sabriya Rosemond, Samantha Simpson, Erin Zwack, A Malcolm Campbell, Todd T Eckdahl, Laurie J Heyer…

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2008 2:8

    Content type: Research

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  6. The following essay was written by a freshman undergraduate student majoring in Bioengineering at the University of Maryland, Mr. Zachary Russ. Mr. Russ was one of 94 students who submitted a 1000 to 1200 word...

    Authors: Zachary N Russ

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2008 2:7

    Content type: Research

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  7. Dielectrophoresis (DEP) has been regarded as a useful tool for manipulating biological cells prior to the detection of cells. Since DEP uses high AC electrical fields, it is important to examine whether these ...

    Authors: Liju Yang, Padmapriya P Banada, Arun K Bhunia and Rashid Bashir

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2008 2:6

    Content type: Research

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  8. The underlying goal of synthetic biology is to make the process of engineering biological systems easier. Recent work has focused on defining and developing standard biological parts. The technical standard th...

    Authors: Reshma P Shetty, Drew Endy and Thomas F Knight Jr

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2008 2:5

    Content type: Methodology

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  9. Although the production of poly-β-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) has many biological, energetic and environmental advantages over chemically synthesized polymers, synthetic polymers continue to be produced industrially si...

    Authors: Pratap R Patnaik

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2008 2:4

    Content type: Research

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  10. We report a new approach for the simultaneous conversion of xylose and glucose sugar mixtures into products by fermentation. The process simultaneously uses two substrate-selective strains of Escherichia coli, on...

    Authors: Mark A Eiteman, Sarah A Lee and Elliot Altman

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2008 2:3

    Content type: Research

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  11. Feed-forward motifs are important functional modules in biological and other complex networks. The functionality of feed-forward motifs and other network motifs is largely dictated by the connectivity of the i...

    Authors: Advait A Apte, John W Cain, Danail G Bonchev and Stephen S Fong

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2008 2:2

    Content type: Research

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  13. Value-added processing with respect to rice milling has traditionally treated the rice bran layer as a homogenous material that contains significant concentrations of high-value components of interest for phar...

    Authors: Rebecca Schramm, Alicia Abadie, Na Hua, Zhimin Xu and Marybeth Lima

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2007 1:9

    Content type: Research

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  14. Synthetic biology is an emerging engineering discipline that, if successful, will allow well-characterized biological components to be predictably and reliably built into robust organisms that achieve specific...

    Authors: Natalie Kuldell

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2007 1:8

    Content type: Review

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  16. Living through hurricane Katrina and its aftermath and reflecting on these experiences from technical and non-technical standpoints has led me to reconsider my thoughts and philosophy on engineering education....

    Authors: Marybeth Lima

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2007 1:6

    Content type: Letters to the Editor

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  17. The use of nanopillar array electrodes (NAEs) for biosensor applications was explored using a combined experimental and simulation approach to characterize the role of reaction kinetics and mass transport in g...

    Authors: Venkataramani Anandan, Xiaoling Yang, Euihyeon Kim, Yeswanth L Rao and Guigen Zhang

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2007 1:5

    Content type: Research

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  18. Efficient functioning of enzymes inside liposomes would open new avenues for applications in biocatalysis and bioanalytical tools. In this study, the entrapment of amyloglucosidase (AMG) (EC 3.2.1.3) from Aspergi...

    Authors: Mian Li, Michael J Hanford, Jin-Woo Kim and Tonya L Peeples

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2007 1:4

    Content type: Research

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  19. An intestinal protozoan parasite, Cryptosporidium parvum, is a major cause of waterborne gastrointestinal disease worldwide. Detection of Cryptosporidium oocysts in potable water is a high priority for the water ...

    Authors: Marianne F Kramer, Graham Vesey, Natasha L Look, Ben R Herbert, Joyce M Simpson-Stroot and Daniel V Lim

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2007 1:3

    Content type: Research

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  20. Electrospinning is a non-mechanical processing strategy that can be used to process a variety of native and synthetic polymers into highly porous materials composed of nano-scale to micron-scale diameter fiber...

    Authors: Ashley E Manis, James R Bowman, Gary L Bowlin and David G Simpson

    Citation: Journal of Biological Engineering 2007 1:2

    Content type: Research

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Journal of Biological Engineering

ISSN: 1754-1611