Featured NewsNature Medicine publicationThe Division of Biological Engineering's PhD student Elham Tolouie, Dr Josie Carberry and Dr Andreas Fouras, have collaboratively published a Nature Medicine paper on thrombus formation with Dr Warwick Nesbitt, Erik Westein and Prof Shaun Jackson from the ACBD at Melbourne's Alfred Hospital, and colleagues from RMIT University. The paper entitled, "A shear gradient–dependent platelet aggregation mechanism drives thrombus formation", details how platelet aggregation at sites of vascular injury is essential for hemostasis and arterial thrombosis, driven from the past assumption that platelet aggregation and thrombus growth are initiated by soluble agonists generated at sites of vascular injury. The researchers used high-resolution intravital imaging techniques and hydrodynamic analyses to show that platelet aggregation is primarily driven by changes in blood flow parameters. 
Laser imaging and velocimetry of flow around a thrombus showing the velocity vector field, with gradients of shear. Courtesy: Elham Tolouie (PhD student) & Dr Josie Carberry. |
2010 Final Year Projects
The MuBeta Lab is now offering final year project places for 2010, open to Department of Mechanical & Aerospace students. Details are now available. MuBeta Bioengineering Stories
Summer research program commencesThe Division welcomes six students who will be working on biological engineering projects this Summer Read more »
Quantronix femto-second laser installedAfter a week of installation and calibration, the Quantronix femto-second laser is ready for experiments Read more »
Round 3 of synchrotron experimentsDivision of Biological Engineering researchers return home from experiments at the SPring-8 Japanese Synchrotron Read more »
New high–speed MotionPro cameraA new addition to the MuBeta Lab's imaging family is the state-of-the-art IDT MotionPro Y6 Read more »
COMET FeinFocus Cougar arrivesThe MuBeta Laboratory receives delivery of their new FeinFocus Cougar X-ray machine Read more »Read More News... MuBeta Lab Publication Stream
OCTOBER 29, 2009 |