and mobile devices and improve applications from gaming to video streaming.""Light is the fastest thing you can use to transmit information,
has been discovered by researchers at Temple University and the University of Maryland. The researchers, Harsh Deep Chopra, professor and chair of mechanical engineering at Temple,
and Manfred Wuttig, professor of materials science and engineering at Maryland, published their findings in Nature("Non-Joulian Magnetostriction").
who also runs the Materials Genomics and Quantum Devices Laboratories at Temple's College of Engineering.
The researchers studied the squeezed B cells in culture and found that they could expand antigen-specific T cells at least as well as existing methods using antibody-coated beads.
and has the additional benefit of targeting the antigens to the CD8 T-cell presentation pathway thus facilitating the activation of the killer T cells desired in many clinical applications.
and can cause cell damage and death. By delivering proteins directly into cells with minimal toxicity,
especially among the elderly. s well as improving the quality of life, this new application for nanotechnology could save health providers such as the NHS millions of pounds every year.
#The robot that learns everything from scratch (Nanowerk News) Two researchers at NTNU have made a robot that learns like a young child.
Were still pretty far away from accurately modelling all aspects of a living childs brain, but the algorithms that handle sound and image processing are inspired by biology,
so that its learning process will resemble that of a human child in early life. Weve given it almost no predefined knowledge on purpose,
while projecting a neural representation of its association between the sound and pictures. It doesnt show a video,
The result is a robot that shows how it makes associations in a very pedagogical manner.
Researchers use the phrase technological singularity to describe the point where human intellectual capacity is surpassed by machines.
to control cell proliferation, cell differentiation and cell death at any area, and to conduct gene therapy at any tissue in living organisms n
in association with Montpellier Regional University Hospital and Stanford university, have transformed bacteria into"secret agents"that can give warning of a disease based solely on the presence of characteristic molecules in the urine or blood.
in association with Professor Eric Renard (Montpellier Regional University Hospital) and Drew Endy (Stanford university), applied this new technology to the detection of disease signals in clinical samples.
causing one in every eight deaths according to figures released last year by the World health organization. In the UK, 30,000 people die prematurely every year as a result of poor air quality,
Working in cooperation with the VDI Association of German Engineers it will be showcasing its latest developments at Stand 301 in the German Area.
that we can culture the entire construct over prolonged periods of time, and that we can repopulate the vascular system and musculature."
and while such procedures can significantly improve quality of life, they also expose recipients to the risks of lifelong immunosuppressive therapy.
At the same time, populations of muscle and vascular cells were being grown in culture. The research team then cultured the forelimb matrix in a bioreactor, within
After five days in culture electrical stimulation was applied to the potential limb graft to further promote muscle formation,
Working in cooperation with the VDI Association of German Engineers it will be showcasing its latest developments at Stand 301 in the German Area.
Wyss Institute at Harvard university) The majority of patients with partial or total loss of their hand motor abilities experience greatly reduced quality of life due to their inability to perform many normal activities of daily living.
"We were able to demonstrate that we could make this scaffold and culture cells within it,
eliminate air pollution mortality, create jobs and stabilize energy prices involves converting the world's entire energy infrastructure to run on clean, renewable energy.
the reduction of air pollution in the U s. could prevent the deaths of approximately 63,000 Americans who die from air pollution-related causes each year.
called Body-on-a-Chip (BOC), replacing the 2d cell culture conventionally used for drugs testing with a multi-tissue device that better mimics real-life conditions in the body, by combining several organ
-specific 3d cultures into a single chip. Researchers then created a prototype BOC to assess the toxicological risk of new candidate compounds
The problem with this is that 2d cell cultures can lose their functionality within about 48 hours, in the case of liver cells for instance
Scientists on the BOC project loaded 3d cell cultures (spheroid micro-tissues representative of human organs such as the liver or heart) into compartments connected by tiny tubes,
This metabolite toxicity can't be detected by classic 2d culture. Commercial multi-tissue device could be ready in three years A device comprising rat cells,
and they developed early prototypes with six and eight compartments that the project demonstrated could be extended to human cell cultures. arly-stage backing from the EU has helped really us develop a robust prototype
For example, the researchers stacked thousands of drops to form micro-pillars with a height of 2 millimetres and a diameter of 5 micrometres.
According to their paper, their 3-D organ outperforms existing 2-D cultures and can produce activated B cells up to 100 times faster.
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) show that many genetic factors are at play for any given trait
Two major statistical challenges to finding these connections involve analysing associations between many different genetic variants and multiple traits,
'Marriage of batteries and catalysis To find catalytic material suitable for both electrodes, the Stanford team borrowed a technique used in battery research called lithium-induced electrochemical tuning.
but it's a new approach for catalysis. The marriage of these two fields is very powerful
or even more disastrous consequences such as diabetic comas and death. Researchers have tried to remove the potential for human error by creating losed-loop systemsthat directly connect the devices that track blood sugar
the director of the North carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC Tracs) Institute and past president of the American Diabetes Association. f we can get these patches to work in people,
"We estimate yields on the order of grams per liter from batch cultures under optimized conditions,
CSP, together with the Association Piattella Canavesana di Cortereggio"and the municipality of San Giorgio Canavese, started monitoring via sensors that control temperature and humidity at 10 and 40 centimetres underground,
said Awschalom, the Liew Family Professor in Spintronics and Quantum Information. The material is already an important semiconductor in the high-power electronics and optoelectronics industries.
Failure to follow prescriptions, the study also found, causes around 125,000 deaths annually and up to 10 percent of all hospitalizations.
"We believe these materials are important members in a large family of 2d materials, because they fit into the long wavelength-infrared light range
in between there is a family of cones, actually produced in laboratories, whose dipole moments are significant
a decline in the Quality of life (QOL) after an operation; the possibility of a recurrence due to missed cancer cells;
ISEM Phd student Monirul Islam said. ut the biggest challenge is to charge storage in a small volume as well as being able to deliver that charge quickly on demand.
a team of Phd students, led by Dr Konstantin Konstantinov under the patronage of ISEM Director Professor Shi Xue Dou and with the support of Professor Hua Kun Liu,
Phd student Monirul Islam said. etting the proportions or ratios of the components appropriately in order to obtain a composite material with maximum energy storage performance was another challenge.
and folding of devices into easily ingestible capsules meaning this polymer can be used to create safe devices designed for extremely prolonged residence in the stomach.
The peptide-appended pillar 5 arenes (PAP) are also more easily produced and aligned than carbon nanotubes, another material under investigation for membrane separation.
and its unveiling is sure to inspire many curious folks to take a closer look at the energy discoveries of the man behind the Nikola name, Nikola Tesla.
One family's house in Austin was swept off its foundation, killing a mother and her two children while the husband and the family dog survived.
Hundreds of families lost all their possessions as their homes imploded and crumbled under the weight of"a relentless wall of water"as the Governor of Texas described it.
Natural News is currently organizing an emergency food aid effort to donate preparedness foods to the families affected.
We'll keep you posted on this effort...The bodies of a 14-year-old boy and his dog were found in a storm drain on Monday morning in the Dallas suburb of Desoto,
Two other people killed in the storm were described as an unidentified man found dead from the flooding in San marcos, Texas,
which said a Tulsa woman died on Saturday after her automobile hydroplaned on a highway.
and families who have been hurt by these floods. Another urgent reminder to be prepared Although no person can be prepared 100 against everything,
certain skills and gear helped people avoid injury or death: Owning a reliable, waterproof tactical flashlight was absolutely essential,
and it simultaneously believes that large cities will explode with uncontrollable violence, looting and mayhem.
Daniel Altman, senior economic editor at Foreign policy magazine and an adjunct professor at New york University's Stern School of business, called the bailouts"stupid"in a recent column."
The world's poster child for corporate manipulation and deceitextreme bias at Wikipedia on homeopathic medicineguatemalan STD medical experiments were just one crime in a long history of medical-government collusion to use humans
as guinea pigsvicious vaccine culture war now being waged against informed, intelligent Americans who seek to protect their children from deadly side effects131 Ways for an Infant to Die:
and a host of other pathogens in cell cultures. If the compound behaves similarly in people
and pursue a master degree in social work. his study has been very meaningful to me, says Sorto. s
A RIKEN team has succeeded in developing a culture method that allows human embryonic stem cells to be efficiently
After a few weeks in culture these cells would spontaneously self-assemble into three-dimensional retinal tissue.
refined and improved this culture technique through precisely timed treatment with a regulatory protein called BMP4.
and help contribute to retinal tissue growth in the culture dish. This degree of cellular organization is the closest scientists have yet come to building self-growing retinal tissue from stem cells. ur results are consistent with the current view that the retinal pigment epithelium
and neural retina are capable of ate transition says Eiraku. y examining retinal formation in culture,
and his colleagues could one day be used to culture tissue that can be transplanted into a human retina damaged by conditions such as macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa,
We recently reported the ability of human embryonic stem cells (hescs) to self-organize stratified NR using a three-dimensional culture technique.
First, we developed a culture method for selective NR differentiation by timed MP4 treatment. We then found that inhibiting GSK3
-or neuro-stimulating drugs. e were able to demonstrate that we could make this scaffold and culture cells within it,
#Immune system Linked to Motor neuron Death in ALS A previously unknown link between the immune system and the death of motor neurons in Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),
The challenge was to find a way of saving them from certain death. e had the idea of modifying another gene tir-1 known for its role in the immune system,
a process known as staple isotope labeling of amino acids in cell cultures and live mice. When examining the nerve cells,
and determine present 14c/12c ratios from the time of death against past atmospheric levels from the time of the subject birth.
SLC25A46 encodes an atypical protein in the SLC25 family. SLC25 family members act like a channel, transporting molecules across the bilayer membranes inside mitochondria.
But unlike the majority of human SLC25 family members (there are 53) that transport molecules across the inner mitochondrial membrane
SLC25A46 settles on the outer mitochondrial membrane where it regulates mitochondrial dynamics. Mutations in the genes associated with mitochondria dynamics OPA1
or is shot down there is no terrible news to pass to the families of the aircrew just a pile of crumpled metal.
#Brain implant allows paralysed man to sip a beer at his own pace A brain implant that can decode what someone wants to do has allowed a man paralysed from the neck down to control a robotic arm with unprecedented fluidity
Before its retreat, the Syrian army evacuated as much of Palmyra's population as possible, together with the museum collections,
In Seattle, six households have taken part in an experiment in which modified electrical devices were put in their homes along with a Wi-fi router.
The test, called Virscan, reveals that adults around the world tend to have been infected by an average of 10 viruses over their lifetime.
and developed a way to test a blood sample for every single family of human virus in one go.
which family the new virus belongs to, says Pamela Vallely at the University of Manchester, UK."
adults appeared to have encountered more viruses than children. Each person had been infected with an average of 10 viruses over their lifetime.
if a patient has a dark skin a potentially huge pitfall given that children living in Africa account for the majority of malaria deaths.
and have a family history of the disease. The test could also be used for tracking the progress of therapies
"One of the next applications could be in helping couples undergoing IVF because of problems with male fertility.
says IVF doctor Friedrich Gagsteiger of the Fertility Centre in Ulm. Gagsteiger has investigated previously other ways of giving sperm more oomph,
and violence nine health workers were killed by terrorist group Boko Haram in 2013. Nigeria has come close to eradicating the disease several times before,
"We've failed so far to find drugs to treat diarrhea using cell culture models
Anthem, said hackers broke into a database with personal information about 80 million of its customers.
I come from a divorced family. My father had custody on the weekends and he wasn't exactly sure how to preoccupy
me so he took a computer from his work and brought it home and was like'Here,
"He was charges with more than 50 crimes and eventually sentenced to eight months in a youth group home.
#Hackers Strike Health insurer Anthem The country's second-biggest health insurer says cyberattackers infiltrated one of its IT systems
"wrote Anthem CEO Joe Swedish in a letter to the company's policyholders.""No credit card information was compromised,
About 80 million of Anthem's customers and employees are affected by the incursion which was discovered last week,
and Anthem says it has hired a cybersecurity firm to examine its systems and recommend solutions.
Anthem offers Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in California, New york and other states and is headquartered in Indianapolis.
One in nine Americans receives coverage for his medical care through Anthem's affiliated plans, according to a statement on its website e
and families hope for the future, hope that detecting leaky blood vessels early will provide the opportunity to stop dementia before it starts,
But George Church a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical school, has created a bacterium that requires an additional amino acid,
"Church says. These modified E coli bacteria essentially speak a different genetic language from all other life On earth.
"Church says. The scientists say this radical re-engineering actually makes these synthetic life forms safer,
Church says that if his lab had modified just one trait, the bacteria would have a one in a million chance of getting rid of this safety feature.
"Church says, pointing to an episode at Genzyme Corp.,a Cambridge, Mass.,pharmaceutical manufacturer, in 2009.
Isaacs left Church's lab at Harvard to start his own at Yale. He has kept pace with his former boss.
and Church says it's important to engineer in safety features as they go o
When a case crops up, the team rushes to scene andgives the vaccine to people who are close to the sick person those who are at high risk of getting the virus."So this can be the neighbors, the family, the coworkers,
"commented Karin Roesch of MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture Group.""In traditional approaches, where the image of a fixation target passes through only one point of the pupil
a collaborative program between the LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad and the MIT Media Lab Camera Culture group,
#Highly-Effective Ebola Vaccine Could Stymie Future Outbreaks Over 27,000 cases and 11561 deaths. The statistics that tell the story of the most recent Ebola outbreak are stark,
Gummi Olafsson, lost his right foot and lower leg after a traffic accident during early childhood.
#Nivolumab helps fight Cancerous Lung Tumors A trial has suggested that a therapy for lung cancer has the ability to double the life expectancy in patients.
a number of patients are found unsuitable for surgery due to their smoking-related diseases. Nivolumab is among the set of drugs known as heckpoint inhibitorsthat are developed by a number of pharmaceutical companies.
Papal encyclical is a letter from the Pope to bishops sent with an aim to help guide church teachings for the world's Catholics
3-D cell cultures and engineered tissue constructs; as well as imaging 3-D dynamics in microfluidics and flow-cell cytometry systems.
such as young women going through pregnancy or people who are experiencing recurrent hypoglycaemia, could find this technology very useful."
Each rainbow-colored bar is the fluorescent spectrum from a discrete point in a cell culture.
Harvard professor of genetics George Church previously used this DNA method to print 70 million copies of his book to DNA, fitting all that data in a drop of liquid,
Every year, 1. 4 million HIV-positive women become pregnant. Without treatment, they have a 15 to 45 percent chance of passing the virus on to their children, usually during pregnancy (when the disease crosses the placenta),
childbirth (usually vaginal delivery) or breastfeeding. This announcement is the result of five years of concentrated efforts in Cuba,
but also decreases the likelihood that the virus will reach the child via the placenta. Mothers were encouraged also to deliver their babies by caesarean
a number low enough to qualify for THE WHO to validate that mother-to-child transmission of the disease has been eliminated effectively.
the director general of THE WHO. That because a reduction in HIV infection in babies could mean that there are fewer adults to transmit the disease to one another,
Of course, many more countries would have to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV. But if Cuba can do it,
and hand prosthetics, the FDA has limited its approval to adults who have had leg amputations above the knee. he OPRA device may help those with above-the-knee amputations who have had problems with rehabilitation
which could greatly improve their quality of life. The research was published yesterday in the Journal of Neurotrauma.
Zappi computer and gaming eyewear guards against these two specific wavelengths by filtering out the artificial blue light and offering UV 400 protection.
with a premium matte finish and the Zappi logo on the temple. Lightweight, comfortable and fashionable
The computer and gaming glasses are aimed at every member of the family. Currently raising funds on Indiegogo, Zappi perks offer pairs for children (£25) and adults (£30),
as well as sets such as a family bundle that can include any four pairs (£90). A quality microfiber cloth and storage pouch are provided with each pair to keep the glasses clean and safe d
#Meet the Smallest and Smartest Wearable Mic The Instamic recorder will attach to anything, is waterproof,
and a space for communication with family along one side or any other configuration they need.
However, they have announced that they intend to price it to be affordable for low-income families in developing nations s
#Wearable device provides continuous fetal monitoring The Pregsense monitor has woven sensors into an elastic harness to provide data around the clock on the status of the fetus and the mother's health in the later stages of pregnancy.
everything about your pregnancy will be put into data, "he explained as he demonstrated the device for mother-to-be,
Oz founded the Nuvo Group with another pregnancy technological innovation, Ritmo, a strap allowing mothers to stream soothing music from a smartphone to gently stimulate the fetus.
The Israeli tech firm hopes the device will reassure anxious mothers like Michal, in week 32 of her pregnancy,
The Pregsense strap is designed to collect data to help physicians detect symptoms that may lead to complications in pregnancy earlier."
position for fetus etc and we will be able to analyze this data to predict about events of pregnancy,
which require pregnant women to lie still while physicians manually track the heartbeat of the fetus.
not only the sound not only the ultrasound but truly an electronic ECG,"he told Reuters during a routine ultrasound scan for a pregnant woman in hospital.
Oz is certain his invention will change pregnancy care management and"bring better care to more women at a fraction of the cost".
I had no family history. It wasn't real for a while, "she said. But reality set in fast
#Clinical Trial Demonstrates Noninvasive Expulsion Of Kidney stones At the 2015 American Urological Association annual meeting in New orleans,
A variety of screen-printed sensors"taste"electrochemical compounds in the beer to predict the brews'color index and alcoholic strength 76 percent and 86 percent of the time.
and broken down by column, row or individually, in order to visualize it better. The researchers have also been working with orphees flexible mobile devices with lycra or alloy displays
namely the production of more potent antibodies against the flu virus. Every year in the United states, influenza is implicated in the deaths of thousands of people, mostly 65 and older,
the researchers used cell cultures and mice to study the effects of sialylated Fc regions binding to B cells.
and mortality caused by seasonal influenza virus infections, "Wang says.""We are now looking into applying this strategy toward improving existing vaccines;
and would give a huge boost to a child's ability to learn and use spoken language."
affecting 2 billion people globally-or over 30 percent of the world population. But Canadian scientists have come up with an ingenius solution,
and boiled with lemon to give adults 75 percent of their daily recommended iron intake,
Shaped like little smiling fish-a symbol of luck in Cambodian culture-these inexpensive iron lumps are about 7. 5 centimetres long
"The fish are now being used by about 2, 500 Cambodian families and another 9, 000 fish have been distributed to hospitals and charity organisations around the country.
and death, killing roughly 1. 3 million people each year, we certainly hope so too i
which serves as a red flag waved at the immune system,"Rachel Feltman reports for The Washington post."
and religion rarely get along. Angry atheist and esteemed biologist Richard Dawkins thinks that religion is for idiots,
and philosopher Sam Harris has written that here are few modes of thinking less congenial to religious faith than science is."
of which they are a part, Christians in their turn ealise that their responsibility within creation,
on the basis of the Genesis account which grants man'dominion'over the earth (cf.
This is not a correct interpretation of the Bible as understood by the Church. Although it is true that we Christians have interpreted at times incorrectly the Scriptures,
nowadays we must forcefully reject the notion that our being created in God image and given dominion over the earth justifies absolute domination over other creatures."
"With this encyclical, Francis is starting to build a bridge between science and religion on the traditional wedge issue of climate change.
The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what wee really good at,
which is theology and morality.""Yet that precisely what Francis is arguing-that scientific reasoning
and that includes religion and the language particular to it.""If Francis can get the organisation he leads to follow him on this issue,
The future of television is millions of people simultaneously rage quiting Game of Thrones with their minds every time religion burns a child i
or even more disastrous consequences such as diabetic comas and death.""The system inside the patch was built to mimic the body own insulin generators, known as beta cells.
and 80 percent had improved their quality of life. It's an exciting result as the device works in a similar way to the cochlear implant-or'bionic ear'-which has helped restore hearing to hundreds of thousands of people."
and 80 percent had both their vision and quality of life significantly improved. There were no device failures during the trial, the researchers report,
or animals in a holographic zoo you can reach out and touch-this is all a long way down the line,
The discovery could help improve the odds of an IVF embryo developing into a pregnancy.
Right now, the global percentage for a successful pregnancy from an IVF embryo sits between 30 and 35 percent.
"A failed IVF attempt takes an emotional toll on a woman who is anticipating a pregnancy as well as a financial toll on families, with a single IVF treatment costing thousands and thousands of dollars per cycle,"one of the team,
"Our findings also bring hope to couples who are struggling to start a family and wish to avoid the selection and transfer of embryos with unknown or poor potential for implantation."
"With assisted reproduction at an all-time high, we want to help more families achieve successful pregnancies,
and research to improve a couple's chances of having a biological child of their own. This discovery can potentially increase those chances."
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