says Ulrich Karlson, an environmental microbiologist at Aarhus University in Denmark, who was involved not in the study."
says Noah Fierer, a microbial ecologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder. But Fierer says that more research is needed to understand the relative importance of airborne bacteria,
and significant boosts for many big scientific facilities (see Big winners)# including#8. 4#billion for data links between the K supercomputer and Japan s universities.
The Center for ips Cell Research and Application at Kyoto University which he directs, is to receive#4#billion for a building to house research on reprogramming mechanisms and clinical applications of ips cells.
#180#billion will go towards translating university research into commercial applications, and most other projects are framed around clinical or industrial applications.
for example by a student working with Barry Cheung, a materials scientist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
argues physicist Magnus Borgstr#m of Lund University in Sweden, who led the effort. The promise starts with the novel semiconductor#a combination of indium
says Anura Rambukkana, a regeneration biologist at the University of Edinburgh, UK, who led the study.
The essence of the researchers strategy for this latest effort, says lead study author Yongjun Tian of Yanshan University in China,
But Natalia Dubrovinskaia, a crystallographer at the University of Bayreuth in Germany, notes that measuring the properties of superhard materials is problematic
who studies how stem cells retain embryo-like states at the University of Cambridge, UK.
The Supreme court s move has reassured investigators such as Candace Kerr, who studies early development of the brain at the University of Maryland School of medicine in Baltimore.
Even James Thomson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who isolated the first human ES cells in 1998,
Sheila van Holst Pellekaan, a geneticist at the University of New south wales, Australia, and a co-author of the earlier genome-wide study,
says Nicholas Grassly, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London, but implementing it will be difficult.""There are some big ifs as to
says Vincent Racaniello, a virologist at Columbia University in New york city. Once the remaining wild polio types are wiped out,
and routine immunization, says Zulfiqar Bhutta, an immunization expert at Aga khan University in Karachi, Pakistan,
The researchers, at the University of California, Berkeley, say that the pulse of the clock is determined solely by the mass of its beating heart, a caesium atom.
John Close, a quantum physicist at the Australian National University, has taken a close interest in the to and fro of the debate,
says synthetic chemist Dave Leigh at the University of Manchester, UK, who led the team behind the development."
"It s one of Dave s best papers, says physical organic chemist Alan Rowan at Radboud University Nijmegen in The netherlands, who also works with rotaxanes."
says Howard Bond, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State university in University Park, who announced the finding on 10 january at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Long beach, California1.
The discovery places constraints on early star formation, says Volker Bromm, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin.
and Polman says that the company will soon be selling the devices to materials researchers in universities for between US$100, 000 and $200, 000;
four health scientists accused of research misconduct are expected to file into a room at Saint louis University in Missouri to conduct an experiment:
says James Dubois, an ethicist at Saint louis University, who leads the rehab programme, called Repair (Restoring Professionalism and Integrity in Research)."
Lauran Qualkenbush, director of the research-integrity office at Northwestern University in Chicago, says that there is a gap between harsh penalties for misconduct#such as bans from receiving government funding
"These are people we feel could be valuable members of our faculty and community. Dubois aims to fill that gap.
around six universities, including Northwestern, have signed up as partners in the programme. Some ethicists are unsure how effective such rehab will be.
Nicholas Steneck, an ethicist at the University of Michigan in Ann arbor, is broadly supportive of the goals of Repair,
a geneticist at the University of Copenhagen who last year showed3 that leeches can also preserve the DNA of the animals they feed on.
Carl Agee of the University of New mexico in Albuquerque and his colleagues report their findings from samples of the meteorite in Science online today1."
notes Harry Mcsween at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. The meteorite is made of volcanic rock,
But Jeffrey Taylor of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu says that whether that water content truly reveals an abundance of surface water on Mars 2. 1 billion years ago awaits further study u
explains Ulrich Schneider, a physicist at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Schneider and his colleagues reached such sub-absolute-zero temperatures with an ultracold quantum gas made up of potassium atoms.
says Achim Rosch, a theoretical physicist at the University of Cologne in Germany, who proposed the technique used by Schneider and his team3.
Working independently, Robert Messing and colleagues at the University of California, San francisco, created similar mice5.
but it is not the essential master regulator of memory that the current literature suggests it to be,
says Lynn Nadel, a cognitive scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.""But they show that the situation is complicated#surprise!#
freeze salaries and reduce faculty recruitments if the NIH takes a severe hit.""The bill isn t ideal.
who is wrestling with decisions on faculty retention and recruitment that must be made by Mid-january."
Lee Miller, a physiologist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, says that Nicolelis s team has made many important contributions to neural interfaces,
and the other in the Duke lab.#But Andrew Schwartz, a neurobiologist at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, notes that the decoders performed poorly,
a neuroscientist from the University of Chicago in Illinois, says that if the goal is to make better neural prosthetics,
says Daniel Baker, a space physicist at the University of Colorado in Boulder.##The new ring persisted,
and numerical modellers all over the world, says Yuri Shprits, a geophysicist at the University of California, Los angeles,
Matthias Beller, a chemical engineer at the University of Rostock in Germany, and his colleagues hope that methanol might one day be sluiced through pipelines
Edman Tsang, a chemist at the University of Oxford, UK, who also works on storing hydrogen in liquids including methanol2,
George Olah, a Nobel prizewinning chemist at the University of Southern California in Los angeles, thinks the science is solid,
Peter Hall, who studies energy storage at the University of Sheffield, UK, says that people who hope to use methanol,
or experimental artefacts, says Erik Sontheimer, a molecular biologist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Instead,
and a second, independent team2 led by Thomas Hansen and J#rgen Kjems of Aarhus University in Denmark, focused on a circular behemoth, some 1, 500 nucleotides around,
and strokes, says Richard Cooper, an epidemiologist at the Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of medicine in Illinois,
says committee chairman Neil Stone, a cardiologist at Northwestern University School of medicine in Chicago. If so, Krumholz argues,
says Robert Vogel, a cardiologist at the University of Colorado, Denver.""Short people have a higher risk of heart disease,
Jay Cohn, a cardiologist at the University of Minnesota Medical school in Minneapolis, also worries that the focus on LDL levels offers up the wrong patients for statin therapy.
a publisher based in College Park, Maryland. Source: M. Laakso & B c. Bj#rk BMC Med. 10,124 (2012) It will probably be a year
a biologist and open-access advocate at the University of California, Berkeley, says that he is disappointed."
asks neuroscientist Fabrice Wallois of the University of Picardy Jules Verne in Amiens, France.##To answer that, Wallois
says Janet Werker, a developmental psychologist at the University of British columbia in Vancouver, Canada. They are,
Now, Kay Ohshima, a physical oceanographer at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, and his colleagues have traced that water to a fourth AABW source,
the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet and changes in sea level, says Richard Alley, a geophysicist at Pennsylvania State university in University Park,
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have now found a way to stop macrophages from destroying drug-bearing nanoparticles.
Neil Barclay of the University of Oxford, UK, was part of the team that worked out the CD47 structure that inspired Discher s work2."
says Greg Laughlin, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa cruz, who did not contribute to the new study.
Weill Cornell Medical College researchers in New york city are taking retinal prosthetics in a different direction,
a synthetic biologist at Boston University in Massachusetts who was involved not in the study. Collins developed the genetic toggle switch that helped to kick-start the field of synthetic biology more than a decade ago2.
says Alain-Jacques Valleron, an epidemiologist at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris,
Statistician Alexandre Bouchard-C# t#of the University of British columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and his co-workers say that by making the reconstruction of ancestral languages much simpler,
says linguist Don Ringe of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. But he cautions that methods that are"correct
says Andrew Thorburn, an oncologist at the University of Colorado Denver, who co-authored a review on the subject last year4."
Follow-up work will be done at the University of Dundee in Scotland. Results will be provided confidentially to the groups that proposed the assays
Aled Edwards leads the Structural genomics Consortium at the University of Toronto, Canada, in which some drug companies contribute both chemical analysis and screening support,
Whereas human embryonic stem cells have proved too fragile to print in the past, scientists at Scotland s Heriot-Watt University and Roslin Cellab
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania s Tissue Microfabrication Laboratory, the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative medicine and elsewhere are developing methods for bioengineering functional vessels that could someday be used to ferry blood around 3-D-printed organs.
a chemist at the University of Tokyo who led the work along with colleague Yasuhide Inokuma.
says co-author David Stuart, a structural biologist at the University of Oxford, UK, who is working with the World health organization
A team led by biophysicist#Osamu Nureki, of the University of Tokyo, #reports that the membrane-bound protein is shaped like A'v',
says Hendrik Van veen, a pharmacologist at the University of Cambridge, UK.""They have a direct mechanism of how the protons change the shape of the cavity.
Geoffrey Chang, a structural biologist at the University of California, San diego, says that the findings are very similar to those for the MATE protein from Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera.
says astrophysicist Jo Dunkley at the University of Oxford, UK, who has worked on data from Planck and the WMAP."
says Paul Shellard, a Planck cosmologist at the University of Cambridge, UK. SLIDESHOW: Homing in on the cosmic microwave background In 1965,
says James Turk, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers in Ottawa, Ontario.""There is a consistent pattern of steering money away from basic research,
It includes a Can$225 million (US$225 million) boost for research infrastructure at universities through the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
says George Efstathiou, director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge, UK,
says Bryan Roth, a neuropharmacologist at the University of North carolina Chapel hill Medical school, and a co-author of the two studies published in Science today1,
#Carl June, an immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and a pioneer in engineering T cells to fight cancer, says that he is surprised that the method worked so well against such a swift-growing cancer.
Nick Holliman, a computer scientist at Durham University, UK, describes the work from Fattal's team as a very nice idea and a great technology demonstrator.
In 2008, materials scientist Ravi Saraf at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and his colleagues built a room-temperature single-electron transistor using a different approach3.
says Ulrich Simon, a nanoscience researcher at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Now, Saraf s team has shown that the nano-necklace device works in water
which will be touting for customers at a meeting of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics in Phoenix, Arizona, on 19-23 march.
says Steven Brenner, a computational genomicist at the University of California, Berkeley. He says that they will have to prove that their products are better than freely available software
says Elizabeth Worthey, director of genomic informatics at the Human and Molecular genetics Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
) Craig Smith, a deep-sea biologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, will lead an initial assessment of seafloor life for Lockheed s project, gathering baseline data for the potential harvest zone
says Charles Brown, a biologist at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma and one of the authors of the study.
Together with Mary Bomberger Brown, a ornithologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Brown tracked roadside populations of cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) in western Nebraska for 30 years, mostly to study the birds social
says behavioural ecologist Colleen St clair at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. But, she says"this is the best demonstration that they do have that capacity a
says Rafael Yuste, a neuroscientist at Columbia University in New york.""It is a bright star now in the literature,
and during learning paradigms, says Joseph Fetcho, a neurobiologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New york. The imaging system relies on a genetically engineered zebrafish (Danio rerio).
Although the researchers did not purify the virus before injecting it into the horses, Pablo Murcia, a virologist from the University of Glasgow,
says James wood, who studies animal infections at the University of Cambridge, UK. He hints that some studies on new pegiviruses may be published in the future u
says Mark Lever, an ecologist at Aarhus University in Denmark, who led the study. The results are published in Science1."
says Kurt Konhauser, a geomicrobiologist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. The oceanic crust is formed at ridges between tectonic plates,
says Samuel Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle and one of the driving forces behind the push for forensic examinations of elephant ivory.
a move welcomed by Iain Douglas-Hamilton, a researcher at the University of Oxford, UK and the founder of the charity Save the Elephants, based in Nairobi."
According to a recent post on MTI Technology Review, researchers at Brown University and a company callled Blackrock Microsystems, have commercialized a wireless device that can be attached to a person skull
based at Brown University. Braingate was among the first to place implants in the brains of paralyzed people
According to Florian Solzbacher, president of Blackrock and professor at University of Utah, human tests of the wireless BCI could happen soon
Other authors on the paper are Menglong Zeng and Mingjie Zhang, both of Hong kong University of Science and Technology c
The study, conducted by an international ALS consortium that includes scientists and clinicians from Columbia University Medical center (CUMC), Biogen idec,
This synergy is vital for both industry and the academic community, especially in the context of precision medicine and whole-genome sequencing."
as well as David Goldstein and his team, now at Columbia University, as well as our teams here at Hudsonalpha, said Dr. Myers. love this research model
and director of Columbia university-wide precision medicine initiative. t now seems clear that future ALS treatments will not be equally effective for all patients because of the disease genetic diversity.
and Uppsala University. The study was financed with grants from several bodies, including the European Research Council, the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Cancer Society,
The research was carried out by an international team comprising academics from the Department of chemistry at the University of Cambridge, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Lund University, the Swedish University of Agricultural sciences,
and Tallinn University. Their findings are reported in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular biology. Dr Samuel Cohen
a Research Fellow at St john College, Cambridge, and a lead author of the report, said:
#Tau Associated MAPT Gene Increases Risk for Alzheimer's disease A international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California,
and progression of the disease, said Gerard Schellenberg, Phd, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,
professor of biological psychiatry at the University of Oslo and a senior co-author. Sudha Seshadri, MD, professor of neurology at the Boston University School of medicine, the principal investigator of the Neurology Working group within the Cohorts for Heart and Aging research in Genomic Epidemiology consortium and a study co-author added:
lthough it has been known since Alois Alzheimer time that both plaques (with amyloid) and tangles (of tau) are key features of Alzheimer pathology,
Stevens K. Rehen of TSRI now at the Federal University of Brazil; and Richard R. Rivera Benjamin Siddoway and Yun C. Yung all of TSRI.
In Monday's study, synthetic biologists at the University of California at Berkeley inserted an enzyme gene from beets to coax yeast into converting tyrosine--an amino acid easily derived from sugar--into a compound called reticuline.
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Tzekwan technology, a financial security protection firm, have announced the first ATM that works with facial recognition capabilities, reports the South China Morning Post.
A medical research team at Florida International University in Miami injected 20 billion nanoparticles into the brains of mice
The technology, developed by researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, relies on engineered materials known as metamaterials
Laser Technique Etches Water Repellence Into Metalthe team of researchers from the University of Tsukuba, Utsunomiya University,
Nagoya Institute of technology and the University of Tokyo believe their laser-induced plasma, which they've dubbed"Fairy Lights,
At the University of Virginia, researchers have unveiled a new way to transmit wireless data in light waves from LED LIGHTS a much more reliable and faster alternative to radio wave Wi-fi. DNEWS:
an engineering professor at the University of Virginia, told Phys. org. e can transmit more data without using any additional energy.
who also has a Masters of Public health degree from Harvard university, a big component of this company is to empower consumers to understand what they are putting into their bodies,
Researcher James Anstie at the University of Adelaide and his team are developing an instrument theye dubbed an optical dog nose that uses a specialized laser known as an optical frequency comb to provide a quick and noninvasive way to analyze a person
As for future plans, Anstie of the University of Adelaide Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing expects to have a working prototype of the device within three years and a market-ready product within five years.
In an experiment conducted by Professor Selma Bringsjord of New york Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, a robot proved that it was capable of responding to a logic puzzle based off the premise of the traditional ise menriddle.
along with his colleague at Northeastern University in Boston, microbial ecologist Slava Epstein, described a new technique for coaxing bacteria to grow:
says Helen Zgurskaya, a biochemist at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, who studies how bacteria become susceptible to antibiotics. his study demonstrates that unculturable bacteria have unrecognized new,
Collaborators at the University of Bonn in Germany figured out that teixobactin works by interfering with two important lipids that bacteria use to build their cell walls.
a microbiologist at the University of California, San francisco. But there are many paths to developing resistance,
a virologist at the University of Bonn in Germany. e know from Saudi arabia that the virus can be transmitted during this time
including at Hong kong University (HKU) in China and Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, The netherlands. e hope to have sequence analysis very soon so we can see any recent changes,
however, says microbiologist Vincent Racaniello of Columbia University. efore we view this as a definitive definition of what people have been infected with,
says materials scientist Daniel Jaque at the Autonomous University of Madrid, who was involved not in the study. t a good paper on a hot topic. he tiny diamond probes can measure temperatures ranging from 120 K to 900 K (53°C to 627°C) s cold
and precision across a wide range of temperatures, says materials scientist Estelle Homeyer of the University of Lyon in France
Her co-author, spectroscopist Christophe Dujardin of the University of Lyon, adds: here are many kinds of impurities in diamond,
too, says co-author Gilles Ledoux of the University of Lyon, especially in measuring the friction between two materials at very small scalesn area of study currently not very well understood.
a cancer biologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical center in Dallas. Researchers have used magnets before to levitate whole creatures,
says Will Grover, a bioengineer at the University of California, Riverside, who was involved not in the new work.
says neurologist Dena Dubal of the University of California, San francisco (UCSF), who was involved not in the study. he importance of this work cannot be underestimated as the world population is aging rapidly. ultiple groups of scientists have shown that adding the blood of older mice to younger animalsbodies makes them sluggish, weaker,
and memory, says biologist Irina Conboy of the University of California, Berkeley, who recently published a scientific paper showing that targeting a separate molecule can lower levels of B2m
"says Ken Hicks of Ohio University. Curtis Meyer of Carnegie mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, agrees."
"In reading the paper, I have seen nothing that I can easily point to as a potential problem,
it looks like a team led by University of California (UC), San diego, molecular biologist Ling Zhao may have done just that.
a materials scientist and fuel cell expert at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, who was involved not in the work. think it going to generate a lot of excitement. fuel cell works much like a battery.
and muscle density change with time during a mission says Gordon Sarty at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.
But in 1974 Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge predicted they should emit a faint glow of particles now known as Hawking radiation.
In 2010 a team led by Francesco Belgiorno at the University of Milan made a model black hole the horizon
The Hawking effect comes from quantum noise at the horizon says William Unruh at the University of British columbia in Canada one of the first to propose fluid-based black hole analogues.
This work is really impressive says Daniele Faccio at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in the UK who was on the team that made the fibre-optic based black hole.
which make fuel from sunlight just like plants says Lee Cronin at the University of Glasgow UK.
and physics that govern the universe says astronomer Geoff Marcy of the University of California Berkeley.
Nikku Madhusudhan at the University of Cambridge says the results can also aid our understanding of the insides of diamond planets.
Analysing its microscopic crystals Birger Schmitz at Lund University and his colleagues found that the rock dates to the same time period
David Harper at Durham University UK agrees. The team may at last have identified the impactor responsible for the break up of the parent body of the L chondrite meteorites he says.
In 2002 a team led by astrobiologist Charles Cockell at the University of Edinburgh UK discovered a unique group of cyanobacteria in Haughton crater in northern Canada.
Alexandra Pontefract at the University of Western Ontario in Canada says the ISS experiment is a fantastic proof of concept.
Calculations by geophysicists previously suggested that gravity should compress planets so much that rocky worlds can't get bigger than twice Earth's size says Kepler team member Geoff Marcy at the University of California Berkeley.
and it's about time says John Logsdon a space policy expert at George washington University's Elliott School of International affairs in WASHINGTON DC.
This is like simulating the whole US where previously it was like just simulating your neighbourhood says Michael Boylan-Kolchin at the University of Maryland in College Park who led one of the largest previous simulations called Millennium-II.
Now Sandra Chapman of the University of Warwick UK and her colleagues have examined the solar wind's behaviour using NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft.
Now a team led by Robert Quimby at the University of Tokyo Japan has confirmed the first case of this lensing effect in a type 1a supernova:
I'm impressed they could find this thing says Brian Schmidt at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Mertsch and his colleagues led by Hao Liu at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark plotted the positions of these loops.
Cassini scientist Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University of Rome Italy and colleagues have mapped now Enceladus's gravity
Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University of Rome in Italy and his colleagues used radar On earth to track Cassini on three separate fly-bys of Enceladus
and also that it has a surprisingly low density says team member Francis Nimmo at the University of California Santa cruz. That might be due to open fractures
because it wouldn't be in contact with the rock says team member Jonathan Lunine at Cornell University in Ithaca New york. This gravity map hinting at a much larger ocean is a more favourable model for having some sort of life in Enceladus's interior.
The subsurface-sea idea is just the simplest possible interpretation of the gravity data cautions William Mckinnon at Washington University in St louis who was involved not in the work.
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