researchers from the University of Houston and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign created cephalopod-inspired materials that can sense
I"(for University of Illinois). Systems like this one could lead to adaptive camouflage technology that can be tuned to its environment,
As a research professor at the University of California San diego's Machine Perception Lab Bartlett has been studying the use of facial recognition software to help people with autism for several years. 5 Controversial Mental health Treatments
and engineers at the University of Queensland. Christopher Dunks, managing director of Synergen Met, accepted the award on behalf of the project team. his award validates the importance of our site based cyanide production unit
#New water-spray technology reduces coal dust by 60%Technology that has been in development by Southern Illinois University (SIU) researchers for over four years is now ready to be sold.
#New 3-D microscope could benefit mining A University of Utah team discovered a method for turning a small,
In partnership with the University of Western australia, Panorama has developed a patented optical reader for Micro Electro Mechanical systems (EMS
The latest breakthrough in invisibility technology comes out of the University of Rochester, where the most sophisticated
In other words, the University of Rochester technology is a cloaking system that doesn't distort and maintains the cloaked area across multiple viewing angles.
and University of Lund microbiologist Tobias Olofsson says in a press release. When used alive these 13 lactic acid bacteria produce the right kind of antimicrobial compounds as needed depending on the threat.
and it being used as a test bed by the Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS) at the University of Cincinnati.
The University of Cincinnati's smart battery team with the Twike. Photo: Jim Motavalli) The big drawback of the Twike is the price around $27000 for the base model
The smart battery research at the University of Cincinnati is interesting. According to Jay Lee the IMS director the cells in a battery pack typically degrade
which was developed as part of the Royal College of Art's Innovation Design Engineering course in collaboration with Tufts University silk lab,
#Scientists achieve quantum teleportation of data with 100 percent accuracy Dutch scientists working with the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology have made a stunning breakthrough in quantum technology
For instance a University of Maryland study back in 2009 demonstrated that it could be done but only one out of every 100 million attempts succeeded.
That's the idea behind a new billboard archetype created by researchers at UTEC the University of Engineering and Technology of Peru reports Time.
but now it getting more serious with the Honda Smart Home on the campus of the University of California at Davis
But a group of scientists from Hokkaido University in Japan decided to go further, and demonstrated that quantum entanglement can also be used in fields such as microscopy.
The Hokkaido University researchers say the signal-to-noise ratio, which describes roughly how sharp the image is,
Physicist Jonathan Matthews of the University of Bristol in the U k.,who also was involved not in the research,
The University of Quebec at Montreal is monitoring the suit both from the Antarctic and in its labs,
which owns the Exosuit) the AMNH the John B. Pierce Laboratory at Yale university Baruch College-City university of New york the University of Rhode island and Arizona State university.
7 Clever Technologies Inspired By nature The simplicity is the beauty of this technology said Ray Baughman a chemist at the University of Texas at Dallas
Cornell University's Fab@Home can print ramen noodles in a variety of artistic shapes.
"explained Andrew Dzurak of the University of New south wales, one of the study's authors. The trick to improving the accuracy of the technology was to select for specific silicon isotopes that have no magnetic spin,
Researchers at the University of Maryland, funded by the DARPA's Mathematics of Sensing, Exploitation and Execution (MSEE), are teaching robots how to process visual data
And, according to Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland professor of computer science and director of the Computer Vision Lab, cooking was the perfect skill to test the robots'progress."
#Metal surface is so water-repellent that drops of water bounce off it like balls Researchers at the University of Rochester have created a metal surface so hydrophobic that water bounces off it
Luckily the University of Rochester researchers have provided a demonstration: Water dropped over the metal appears like candy-dispenser bouncy balls as it richochets off.
"said collaborator Jacob Taylor, an adjunct assistant professor at the Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland-National Institute of Standards and Technology.
"says Alexander Sergienko, a quantum-optics physicist at Boston University in Massachusetts. But he says that the technique is a long way from having any practical use.
"says co-author Jerry Franklin of the University of Washington in Seattle. But if the mortality rate ramps up to higher percentages,
"says Rod Wilson, a fish physiologist at the University of Exeter, UK. Wilson and his colleagues from the United kingdom, the United states and Canada set about estimating the contribution of fish to global marine carbonate production.
Byung Hee Hong from Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon, Korea, and his colleagues transferred a wafer-thin layer of graphene,
and more likely to be incorporated in niche applications such as individual ultra-high-frequency transistors, suggests Andre Geim, from the University of Manchester, UK,
"says Paul Nelson at the Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute of Texas A&m University in College Station.
Klaas Pruessmann at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, his student David Brunner and their colleagues removed the radio-frequency coil used to tumble the nuclei from an MRI machine built by Philips Healthcare
The university has filed for patents on the technology, which is described on page 994 of this issue."
This provoked Graham Wiggins of the Center for Biomedical Imaging at New york University's Medical center to build his own version.
Now a team led by Merel Kindt at the University of Amsterdam have used the ß-blocker propranolol to affect reconsolidation.
"says Stephen Liggett, director of cardiopulmonary genomics at the University of Maryland Medical center in Baltimore,
"says study author Ann Palmenberg, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.""These viruses are really nasty.
says Caroline Tapparel, a virologist at the University Hospital of Geneva in Switzerland, but she cautions that with the exception of the troublesome HRV-C viruses,
says James Riley, an HIV researcher at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Of all the'n=1'experiments out there, this is a good one,
chaired by physicist Pekka Sinervo from the University of Toronto in Ontario, reported in July 2008 that very little information existed about the risks associated with nanomaterials."
Kaicun Wang, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Maryland in College Park, and his colleagues based their conclusions on visibility measurements, a good proxy for aerosol pollution, from 3, 250 meteorological stations around the world.
and MRI to the molecular level, says Friedemann Reinhard, a physicist at the University of Stuttgart in Germany.
such as a protein folding, writes Philip Hemmer, a solid-state physicist at Texas A&m University in College Station."
head of neurosurgery at the University of California, San diego, says well-preserved RNA in blood and spinal fluid enables researchers to test
director of urologic oncology at Columbia University Medical center. There are additional reasons, however, for high PSA levels
says one of the study s co-authors, Kamaljit Bawa, a conservation biologist at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
says John Vandermeer, an ecologist at the University of Michigan in Ann arbor, who has received"reports of devastation in Nicaragua, El salvador and Mexico.
Stuart Mccook, a historian at the University of Guelph in Canada who studies the rust,
At the Federal Rural University of Rio de janeiro in Brazil, Valdir Diola is working to isolate resistance genes in coffee
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 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.
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 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.
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
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
) 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,
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
#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.
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.
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