KBCid wrote:It would appear that mechanical engineers are rapidly moving into biology... and the machines that make life run...
Ok, I pulled up the CMU and UM websites and spent some time looking around.
How many of these of these people are ID advocates? [I couldn't find any evidence.]
I'll accept your statement that biologists don't recognize design when they see it. But these engineers most certainly must.
So where is the scientific backing for ID? Included are some recent publications from their labs. Which of these proclaim the engineers' recognition of design?
CMU
Rape, A.D., W.H. Guo, and Y.L. Wang. (2011 Mar) The regulation of traction force in relation to cell shape and focal adhesions. Biomaterials 32(8):2043-51. Epub 2010 Dec 15.
Ruder, W.C. and P.R. LeDuc. (2011) Bioinspirations: Cell-Inspired Small-Scale Systems for Enabling Studies in Experimental Biomechanics. Integrative and Comparative Biology (Former journal name: American Zoologist) 51(1):128-132.
Weinger J., M. Qiu, G. Yang, and T. Kapoor. (2011) A nonmotor microtubule binding site in kinesin-5 is required for filament crosslinking and sliding, Current Biology, 21:1-7.
Zhou, M-N, E. Kunttas-Tatli, S. Zimmerman, F. Zhouzheng, and B.M. McCartney. (2011) Cortical localization of APC2 plays a role in actin organization but not in Wnt signaling in Drosophila. Journal of Cell Science, 124(Pt 9): p. 1589-600.
Goodman B., W. Channels, M. Qiu, P. Iglesias, G Yang, and Y. Zheng. (2010) Lamin B counteracts the kinesin Eg5 to restrain spindle pole separation during spindle assembly, Journal of Biological Chemistry, 285:35238-35244.
Holt, B.D., P.A. Short, A.D. Rape, Y.L. Wang, M.F. Islam, and K.N. Dahl. (2010 Aug 24) Carbon nanotubes reorganize actin structures in cells and ex vivo. ACS Nano 4(8):4872-8.
Lin, Y.W., R.M. Bellin, C.M. Cheng, R. Steward, Y.R. Cheng, P.R. LeDuc, and C.C. Chen. (2010) Probing Localized Neural Mechanotransduction through Surface-Modified Elastomeric Matrices and Electrophysiology. Nature Protocols 714, 5(4): 714-724.
Zimmerman, S.G., L. M. Thorpe, V. R. Medrano, C. A. Mallozzi, and B. M. McCartney. (2010) Apical constriction and invagination downstream of the canonical Wnt signaling pathway requires Rho1 and Myosin II. Developmental Biology 340:54-66.
Domian, I.J., M. Chiravuri, P. van der Meer, A.W. Feinberg, X. Shi, Y. Shao, S.M. Wu, K.K. Parker, and K.R. Chien. (2009 Oct 16) Generation of functional ventricular heart muscle from mouse ventricular progenitor cells. Science 326(5951):426-9.
Frey, M.T. and Y.L. Wang. (2009) A photo-modulatable material for probing cellular responses to substrate rigidity. Soft Matter 5:1918-1924.
Webb, R.L., O. Rozov, S. Watkins, and B.M. McCartney. (2009) Using Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy to visualize cortical microtubules in the Drosophila syncytial embryo. Developmental Dynamics 238(10): 2622-2632.
Bellin, R.M., J.D. Kubicek, M.J. Frigault, A.J. Kamien, R. Steward, H.M. Barnes, M.B. DiGiacomo, L.J. Duncan, C.K. Edgerly, E.M. Morse, C.Y. Park, J.J. Fredberg, C.M. Cheng, and P.R. LeDuc. (2009) Defining the Role of Syndecan-4 in Mechanotransduction using Surface-Modification Approaches. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(52): 22102-22107.
Webb, R.L., M-N Zhou, and B.M. McCartney. (2009) An APC2-Diaphanous complex organizes actin in the Drosophila syncytial embryo. Development 136(8):1283-1293.
dennis at um
1. Borer K.T. and Dennis R.G. Activity disc and cage for continuous measurement of running activity and core temperature in hamsters. Physiology and Behavior 50:2-6, 1991.
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4. Dennis R.G. Bipolar implantable stimulator for long-term denervated muscle experiments. Med & Biol Eng & Comput Med & Biol Eng & Comput, March, 36: 225-28, 1998. (view PDF)
5. Putnam A.J., Cunningham, J.J., Dennis R.G., Linderman J.J., Mooney D.J., Microtubule assembly is regulated by externally-applied strain in cultured smooth muscle cells. J. Cell Sci., 111: 3379-3387, 1998. (view PDF)
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8. Haase, S., Cederna, P., Dennis, R.G., Kuzon, W. Peripheral Nerve Reconstruction Using Acellular Nerve Grafts. Surgical Forum. 51: 607-609, 2000. (view PDF)
9. Kosnik P. Jr., Dennis R.G., Faulkner J.A. Functional Development of engineered skeletal muscle from adult and neonatal rats. Tissue Engineering 7(5) 573-584, 2001. (view PDF)
10. Murphy, W.L., Dennis, R.G., Kileny, J., Mooney, D.J., Salt fusion: a method to improve pore interconnectivity within tissue engineering scaffolds. Tissue Engineering. 8(1) 43-52, 2002. (view PDF)
11. Dennis, R.G., Dow, D.E., Faulkner, J.A.; "An Implantable Device for Stimulation of Denervated Muscles in Rats", Medical Engineering & Physics, 25(3), 2003, pp. 239-253. (view PDF)
12. Cederna, Kuzon, Dennis, Borschel, ... Recovery of Muscle Contractile Function Following Nerve Gap Repair With Chemically Acellularized Peripheral Nerve Grafts" Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. May 2003 (Volume 19, Number 4).
13. Borschel G.H., Kia, K.F., Kuzon, W.M., Dennis, R.G., Mechanical properties of acellular peripheral nerve. J Surg Res 114:133-39 (2003) (view PDF).
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myehofer from um
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