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07/12/2015

NSEC BME wishes all the students appearing for MAKAUT examinations Good Luck.

06/07/2015

BioMed2mrw v1.2!
Hello folks! Hope you're enjoying your holidays.
While you bake your skin with the summer's heat, here's a small task for the inquisitive. Articles for our departmental e-magazine BioMed2mrw v1.2 related to Bio-Medical Engineering focusing around innovative health technologies, disease detection and prevention such as diabetics are welcome. Other articles related to health are also welcome. Remember there has to be originality in the writings. You can use reference from the internet provided you acknowledge the original.

19/06/2015

SCIENTISTS ARE GROWING A HUMAN PLACENTA ON A CHIP!

From lungs to brains, organ tissues grown on a lab are telling researchers a lot about how their cells do their jobs. Now researchers are using the technology to better understand the placenta, the temporary organ that connects a fetus and mother during pregnancy.
The placenta’s primary function is to act as a “crossing guard” between mother and child—it sends the good stuff (like nutrients and oxygen) along to the baby, while leaving other damaging elements like chemicals from environmental exposure or disease-causing bacteria or viruses. If the placenta is damaged or doesn’t work right, it could endanger the health of both the mother and the baby.
Researchers don’t really know how the placenta is able to transmit the good things while keeping out the bad. That’s because the placenta is notoriously difficult to study in humans—it takes a long time, varies a lot between individual patients, and could put the fetus’ safety at risk. In the past, most studies about the placenta were done in animals to work around these issues. Animal studies have shed some light on how the placenta works, but the tissue is never quite the same as in humans.

To make the placenta on a chip, a team of researchers used human tissues to create a semi-permeable membrane between a chamber of maternal cells taken from a placenta and a chamber of fetal cells taken from a sample of umbilical cord. They tested it with glucose and found that the device transferred the sugar from mother to child just as the body would.
The researchers hope that this device will enable those studying the placenta to conduct cheaper and more efficient studies, shedding light on how the placenta works and how to best treat disorders.

Source & Courtesy: Popular Science

08/05/2015

First GSR based security system developed by innovator at Department of Biomedical Engineering, Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata by Srijeet Chatterjee
"GSR based GSM security systrem is an innovative idea to meet up all these demands, since it uses the unique Galvanic Skin Resistance of the users’s thumb tip to proved security and a microcontrollar is used to send sms in any kind of unauthentic usage", say the developer, Srijeet. He shall now work on its development to design a market ready product.
http://www.ijser.org/onlineResearchPaperViewer.aspx?Automated-GSR-Based-GSM-Secuirity-System.pdf

IJSER is an open access international journal online facilitating the publication of scholarly, peer reviewed journals in the field of science & engineering.

08/05/2015

Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson spent 12 years of his life taking pictures of the foetus developing in the womb. These incredible photographs were taken with conventional cameras with macro lenses, an endoscope and scanning electron microscope. Nilsson used a magnification of hundreds of thousands and 'worked' right in the womb.

Full pictures and article at 'Biomed2mrw' v1.0
Free pdf of the first Biomedical Departmental e-magazine at UG level of West Bengal, 'Biomed2mrw' at http://goo.gl/L5PcKB

17/02/2014

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17/02/2014

SRITI 2014 was held on 16th Feb 2014. The event turned out to be a smashing event with great performances,fun and excitement..

17/02/2014

Annual Reunion Program of NSEC BME

06/05/2012

Reunion of BMEians

05/05/2012

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05/05/2012

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31/03/2012

SRITI 2012 is Back wid a Bang..Do join in ppl.....Witness it LIVE

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