Video links

Just the day before the Challenger shuttle disaster, NBC News carried the TV segment about how
dolphins have taught us to make the surfaces of now-successful artificial hearts and left ventricular assist devices.
A longer, more complete TV segment follows – after a short pause – produced and shown by the
Australian Broadcasting Company.


Ballast Water

Here, with Hawaiian background music, is documentation of how ballast water in international ships
can spawn active films of bacteria and protozoa that spontaneously transfer to new bodies of water
visited by those ships. This is the path by which aquatic nuisance species – like the zebra mussels in the Great Lakes –
are spread around the globe.


Blood Clots

This a movie showing the early events in formation of thrombosis (what some surgeons call white blood clots)
on the best and worst of the materials we now have available to construct circuits – like heart-lung machines
and artificial kidneys – that must handle fresh flowing blood.
A written narration for this short movie is available as a published report. Thrombus narrative


Thrombotic Emboli

Here are some “blue movie” segments showing the behavior of fully anticoagulated human blood forming
thrombotic emboli that shed from blood-handling device surfaces and distribute themselves around patients’ bodies.
This is why you are asked to sign a document, before many surgeries, saying you understand that you may have some
neurological or other motor defects afterwards.


Breaking the idling habit

Center partners in Erie County government, local school systems, and local industry join UB faculty
and students to diminish diesel exhaust emissions from School Bus idling. Project support through
IUCB was made possible by NYSTAR EQS grant for purchase of critical equipment.



Biomedical Industry Park "flyover" Video

Biomedical Industry Park "flyover" : January 2005 update--IUCB is renewing its efforts to convert its adjacent
UB South Campus research facility to a radiation sterilization facility, as the centerpiece for the build-out of a
Biomedical Industry Park on campus.

A short computer-generated "flyover" of the proposed project is included in this video segment.


Wilson Greatbatch Video

The late Wilson Greatbatch was Western New York's famed inventor of the implantable pacemaker.
Here, in a 10-minute video segment from a longer March, 2004 interview, is his "take" on continuing professional education
needs for bioengineers, and his forecast that Buffalo's next technology leadership task will be in the field of nuclear energy.

The radiation sterilization facility proposed for UB's South Campus might be the home for a renewal of academic programming
in Nuclear Engineering, the original purpose of the research facility now under consideration for conversion.


Town Meeting of the World Video

With the daily news proclaiming "failures of FDA" to properly regulate the safety and effectiveness of drugs sold in the USA,
it is timely to review the distressing situation regarding "failures" of medical implants and the possible need for some transnational
registry of implant recipients. Here, in a 28-minute video synopsis, is the result of a 3-year {1994,5,6} Town Meeting of the World,
involving medical implant stakeholders from more than 20 countries and 200 institutions--concluding that a pilot project beginning
with TMJ (jaw joint) implants might be the best place to start.