"In other words, the difference between this technology being classified as a death ray as opposed to a solar array is merely a matter of how the reflectors are angled.
When crown-of-thorns starfish population densities are under control, these beautiful creatures play a balanced role in the ecosystem of the Great barrier reef.
#Paralyzed man walks using brainwave system A 26-year-old man who was paralyzed in both legs has regained the ability to walk using a system controlled by his brain waves,
It then used them to send instructions to another device that stimulated the nerves in the man's legs
Paralyzed Man Walks Again with EEG System A paralyzed man, attached to a brainwave system, walks the length of a room with the aid of a harness and walkerpreviously, people have used similar brain-controlled
Before the man could use the system to walk, he first underwent mental training to learn to use his brain waves to control an avatar in virtual reality.
which is among the leading causes of death for wounded soldiers. Bandages infused with chemicals designed to assist blood clotting helps,
The nanoparticle is made up of columns consisting of palladium atoms stacked on top of each other. This image has been modified from the original to provide a better visualization.
report how they have managed to use a relatively new family of sponge-like porous materials to develop new hybrid glasses.
The work revolves around a family of compounds called metal-organic frameworks (MOFS), which are cage-like structures consisting of metal ions,
Just like something from science fiction-think of the Liquid-Metal Man robot assassin (T-1000) in the Terminator films-these materials behave more like glass or plastic than metal.
The research is published today in the American Association for the Advancement of Science's new online journal Science Advances,
"said David D. Awschalom, Liew Family Professor and deputy director in the Institute of Molecular Engineering at UCHICAGO,
Cuprates are the only family of materials known to exhibit superconductivity at high temperatures--exceeding 100 Kelvin(-173 degrees Celsius.
This would involve creating columns containing millimeter-size pellets made by compressing a crystalline powder of MOFS."
Entrepreneurs-in-residence at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship helped them work through mistakes they made regarding legal support, funding,
effectively sticky tape one might find in any household. This tape can adhere to a range of surfaces including cloth uniforms,
Uwe Bellhuser)" Artificially produced microscopic pillars, so-called gecko structures, adhere to various items. By manipulating these pillars,
the adhesion can be switched on and off. Thus, items can be lifted and released quickly and precisely,"Karsten Moh from the Program Division Functional Microstructures explains."
"Silicon telluride is in that family of compounds, and we've shown a totally new method for using it to make layered, two-dimensional nanomaterials."
The European Association of Geochemistry is highlighting this work as especially interesting. According to study leader Dr James Byrne (Tübingen:"
and water dwelling purple bacteria Rhodopseudomonas palustris with magnetite and controlled the amount of light the cultures were exposed to.
who is also secretary of the European Association of Geochemistry, said:""This may have some interesting geochemical applications.
FL2 belongs to the fidgetin family of enzymes, which play varying roles in cellular development and function.
To learn more about FL2 role in humans, Dr. Sharp suppressed FL2 activity in human cells in tissue culture.
Di Giacomo experimented with tobacco cells in a cell culture.""We asked ourselves how we might transfer these cells into a lifeless,
The research was dedicated also to the late Professor Seung-Man Yang of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at KAIST.
and watched the process in cell cultures using in situ transmission electron microscopy. Kelly partnered with coauthor Madeline Dukes, an applications scientist at Protochips Inc,
This costs the health care system and puts undue strain on clinicians, patients and their families. Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers may have discovered a way to prevent rejection by using biodegradable nanoparticles that release needed medication into the eye after surgery.
while making medicine adherence much easier on patients and their families The nanoparticle loaded with medication could eliminate the need for a patient to remember to take their medicine often multiple doses per hour after a surgery,
that enabled them to identify the crucial role played by a family of end-binding (EB) proteins in regulating microtubule dynamic instability (Cell,"Mechanistic Origin of Microtubule Dynamic Instability and Its Modulation by EB Proteins".
and it was seen by some as a black sheep of the transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) family and purposefully ignored.
See fabricated a novel 1mm device (aka Robot Man) made of yellow photonic crystal-enhanced QDS.
exactly what will become of these new families of 2-D materials we've discovered,
or pillar, has an elliptical cross section, and by carefully varying the diameters of each pillar
and rotating them around their axes, the scientists were able to simultaneously manipulate the phase and polarization of passing light.
and seriously improve the quality of life by reducing carbon emissions from fossil fuels and encourage efficient use of resources."
#Pillared graphene gains strength Rice university researchers discovered that putting nanotube pillars between sheets of graphene could create hybrid structures with a unique balance of strength, toughness and ductility throughout all three dimensions.
Just like something from science fiction-think of the Liquid-Metal Man robot assassin (T-1000) in the Terminator films-these materials behave more like glass or plastic than metal.
Understanding and reproducing key features of bone marrow formationnd hence, the creation of blood cells and platelets in tissue culture for storage and later useould help in treatment of a variety of medical problems.
By pumping culture media, a solution filled with necessary nutrients, through the microtubes, the researchers mimicked the flow of blood.
which aims to promote the culture of industrial property in the university. This scientific development is in the process of patenting.
and then trigger a specific response, such as cell death. This system can be customized to detect any DNA sequence in a mammalian cell
and then produce transcription factors that would activate the cellsown programmed cell death pathways. Research tool The researchers are now adapting this system to detect latent HIV proviruses,
Cells that did not receive the new gene could be induced to undergo cell death, creating a pure population of the desired cells.
Biomedical engineers are interested in recreating these developmental gradients in adults to aid the growth of new tissue in areas that have sustained damage.
exposure to a particular allergen can cause adverse reactions such as itching, breathing problems or even death.
while keeping the cell culture sealed and sterile. Unlike most 3-D printing, this technique does not require photoinitiators,
2015 The existence of vacuum fluctuations is known already from theory as it follows from Heisenberg uncertainty principle, one of the main pillars of quantum physics.
making these products safer for both children and adults.""Using far less polydopamine by weight than typical of conventional flame retardant additives,
and adults use every day, "Ellison said.""We weren't expecting to find a flame retardant in nature,
Now researchers from the University of Hamburg and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel have demonstrated that skyrmions can be detected much more easily because of a drastic change of the electrical resistance in these magnetic whirls("Electrical detection of magnetic skyrmions by tunnelling non-collinear magnetoresistance".
"The chemical marriage between URMC-099 and antiretroviral drug nanoformulations could increase drug longevity, improve patient compliance,
to study the genomes of seven family members. Dr Bally and Professor Waterhouse have lodged a patent on their study (Organisms with Modified Growth Characteristics and Methods of Making Them) and a research paper,
Black silicon consists of clusters of microscopic vertical pillars, or nanowires. Incoming light bouncing between individual silicon nanowires cannot escape the complex structure,
Then they seeped a polymer between the silicon nanowire pillars. After the plastic support solidified they etched away the silicon backing, leaving bull's-eye patterned black silicon embedded in supple plastic.
Black silicon consists of clusters of microscopic vertical pillars, or nanowires. Incoming light bouncing between individual silicon nanowires cannot escape the complex structure,
Then they seeped a polymer between the silicon nanowire pillars. After the plastic support solidified, they etched away the silicon backing, leaving bull's-eye patterned black silicon embedded in supple plastic.
including pyramids, pillars, domes, inverted pyramids, and the 3d integration of gold nanoparticle/graphene hybrid structures r
There is a significant burden in cost of care and quality of life for people suffering from this disability.
says John Essigmann, the William R. 1956) and Betsy P. Leitch Professor in Residence Professor of Chemistry, Toxicology and Biological engineering at MIT,
and the large number of participants who reflect the general adult population rather than just college students.
Center of Excellence in Vision Science, explains that these patterns mimic structures found at the very back of the brain, known as ocular dominance columns.
what is known is that some ocular dominance columns are associated with the left eye and other columns with the right.
The new paper suggests that the narrow spaces between ocular dominance columns associated with the left and right eye are where the brain coordinates each eye working field of vision.
Oxytocin is a hormone that influences social behaviour and has shown promise for the treatment of mental illness.
Regulates social behaviour Oxytocin has historically been known to play a crucial role in child rearing as it facilitates pregnancy, birth,
More recent research has revealed the importance of oxytocin for social behaviour. Oxytocin is a neuropeptide and was discovered in 1953.
Medicine through the nose Because of oxytocin role in social behaviour, researchers have explored the possibility of administering the hormone for the treatment of mental illness.
in fact, have the opposite effect on social behaviour. The scientists also discovered that individuals with larger nasal cavities had a stronger response to a low dose of oxytocin.
#New Technology Enables Completely Paralyzed Man to Voluntarily Move His Legs Robotic step training and noninvasive spinal stimulation enable patient to take thousands of steps.
the man was aided by a novel noninvasive spinal stimulation technique that does not require surgery.
me, having spent my whole adult life before breaking my back as an athlete. Even in the years since he lost his sight,
and quality of life, said V. Reggie Edgerton, senior author of the research and a UCLA distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology, neurobiology and neurosurgery.
he now believes it is possible to significantly improve quality of life for patients with severe spinal cord injuries,
but showed extensive association with microglia obile cells that surround and protect neurons. Another example of Scales practical application came from examining the 3d positions of active microglial cells and amyloid beta plaques.
a detailed 3d reconstruction and analysis using Scales clearing showed that association with active microglial cells occurs early in plaque development,
#Researchers Identify Protein That Opens the Door to Cell Death Findings could aid development of novel therapeutics for conditions ranging from heart failure and stroke to cancer and neurodegeneration.
A protein embedded in the surface of mitochondria the energy-producing batteries of living cells opens the door to cell death,
causing cells to experience severe power failures, according to new work by researchers at Temple University School of medicine.
where extensive mitochondrial dysfunction and cell death hinder tissue recovery. The study, led by Muniswamy Madesh, Phd, Associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry, the Cardiovascular Research center,
and the Center for Translational Medicine at Temple University School of medicine (TUSM), shows that the protein, spastic paraplegia 7 (SPG7), is the central component of the so-called permeability transition pore (PTP),
a protein complex in the mitochondrial membrane that mediates necrotic cell death (death caused by cell injury).
or increased levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) the two primary factors that cause mitochondrial dysfunction and cell death via pore opening Dr. Madesh team devised an RNA interference
and cell death could be averted. With colleagues at TUSM, Dr. Madesh plans to explore the effects of SPG7 inhibitors in animals and, potentially, human patients t
#Novel Role of Mitochondria in Immune Function Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered a new role for an enzyme involved in cell death.
Talking to the Immune system Previous studies have shown RIPK3 controls the induction of a type of programmed cell death, called necroptosis,
the Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering. he liquid crystal molecules that are at the interface become distorted:
or the size and position of the foetus in a pregnant woman, to mention a few examples.
DO, assistant professor of family medicine at Rowan University. can think of a single patient who wouldn take steps to prevent the progression of Alzheimer
It is among the top 10 causes of death in America
#New Drug Delivery Technique Bypasses Blood-brain barrier Breakthrough could help countless patients with neurological conditions that are currently hard to treat.
Aprecia Pharmaceuticals said Monday the FDA approved its drug Spritam for adults and children who suffer from certain types of seizures caused by epilepsy.
and was followed by a four-month and an eight-month cohabitation mission. NASA is spending $us1. 2 million ($a1. 67 million) on these simulations,
Binsted said that during the eight-month cohabitation mission which ended earlier this year, conflicts did arise
and identity family that reflects this reality and shows you when the Google magic is working for you, even on the tiniest screens,
#Womb milk nourishes human embryo during first weeks of pregnancy Call it the milk of life not breast milk,
For the first 11 weeks of pregnancy, before the mother's nutrient-rich blood supply is plumbed in,
During pregnancy, the lining of the uterus behaves quite differently to normal: the glands start storing large amounts of glucose as glycogen,
placenta and embryonic tissue donated by women who had chosen to terminate their pregnancies. The samples came from all stages of early pregnancy
so the researchers were able to analyse how they changed over time. By using a staining dye,
at the beginning of a pregnancy, the placenta is much larger than the growing embryo, so the pressure of arterial blood would likely dislodge the embryo from the wall of the uterus.
Next, Aplin and his colleagues hope to investigate how a mother's diet and other factors, such as smoking,
"The first few weeks of pregnancy is a critical phase for embryonic development, "says Graham Burton of the University of Cambridge,
Rostami believes her use of the probe helped save a woman life last year. The woman was in intensive care after a stroke involving bleeding on the surface of her brain.
The probe revealed that although the bleeding had stopped, the woman brain glucose levels had fallen, probably caused by other blood vessels constricting.
In response, Rostami team administered a drug to boost her heart rate and send more blood to the brain.
But Rostami believes her use of the probe helped to save a woman life last year.
The woman was in intensive care after a stroke that involved bleeding on the surface of her brain.
the woman brain glucose levels were falling, probably because other blood vessels had constricted. In response, Rostami team administered a drug to boost her heart rate
and within hours the woman condition had improved. he started responding to commands to squeeze my hand,
a person risks coma and death from plunging glucose levels. A glucose sensor and insulin pump, both attached to the abdomen, are used by some people with type 1 diabetes to manage their condition,
To see if their bionic pancreas really would improve quality of life, Hovorka team ran a three-month trial involving 33 adults and 25 children.
Compared with a sensor and pump without an algorithm, children using the bionic device spent half as much time with seriously low sugar levels,
"What's more, they saw a massive expansion in a family of genes that's involved in setting up brain circuits.
The man lost his sternum and pieces of four ribs when doctors removed a large tumor.
Surgeons at Salamanca University Hospital reported the man's case and how they made the prosthesis last month in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.
Engineers at Anatomics in Melbourne, Australia, custom-designed the device using CT SCANS of the man's chest.
The 3-D printing technology allowed the surgeons to create an implant that"fitted like glove"in the man's chest, Dr. Jose Aranda
The metamaterial consists of low-aspect-ratio silicon pillar arrays embedded in a polymer matrix and clad by gold films.
The researchers tested the concoction on cultures of MRSA bacteria in synthetic wounds as well as in rats.
No individual ingredient had no effect on the cultures, but the combined liquid killed almost all the cells;
The tool emerged out of brainstorming between Marine modeling and simulation expert Major Christian Fitzpatrick and a signals intelligence instructor and staff sergeant named Nicholas Lannan.
The death toll of the earthquake that shook Nepal over the weekend just topped 5, 000.
It our single biggest health problem, affecting the lives of 100 million adults--more than heart disease, cancer,
Now, for the first time, researchers from Stanford university have been able to synthesize opioids from yeast cultures grown in the lab,
Many of the resulting diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-jakob disease (CJD), have long incubation periods but eventually lead to death.
#Paralyzed Man Becomes First To eelwith Sophisticated Hand Prosthetic A 28-year-old man, paralyzed due to a spinal injury,
British scientists working at the Francis Crick Institute in London announced today that they have applied for permission from the United kingdom's fertility regulator (the UK Human Fertilization
by UK law, cannot be implanted for a successful pregnancy. However, the information gathered by this basic research could have broad clinical implications,
#This Museum Offers Special Glasses to Colorblind Visitors The museum experience relies on visuals. You step into the space expecting to see something new to lose yourself in stunning compositions anderhaps most importantlyivid colors.
But not all museum visitors can perceive color the same way. Visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago can now pick up a pair of Enchroma glasses
and see artworks in their full color spectrum for the first time. By adjusting the separation within red and green coneshe colorblind condition occurs
The MCA Chicago is the first museum to offer these glasses to visitors. Visitors can pick up a pair at the front of the museum
free of charge. The glasses were supplied by Valspar as part of the Color for All campaign, which focuses on bringing Enchroma glasses to those who struggle to see Color in a video,
At the museum, can experience more fully not only the visual nature of pieces but the emotional responses that these colors often spark in their viewers.
Among the many users of these glasses is Matthew Renton, the Director of Communications at the museum.
he suggests that Enchroma wearers spend some time looking at the Martin Creed Painting in the museum cafe.
the MCA Chicago is making a move that might inspire other museums to increase accessibility for visitors with color blindness h
Aipoly can offer convenience and an improved quality of life to its users. Some early testers of the app, including Rob Turner,
%Their findings are reported in an invited presentation at the 22nd Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Computer and Communications security, Denver."
"The chemical marriage between URMC-099 and antiretroviral drug nanoformulations could increase drug longevity, improve patient compliance,
From heating bills to Hollywood Researchers say the technology could have major implications for everything from gaming and filmmaking to emergency response and eldercare.
if it detects that a family member has fallen unconscious, says Katabi, director of the Wireless@MIT center. ou could also imagine it being used to operate your lights and TVS,
Future versions could be integrated into gaming interfaces, allowing you to interact with a game from different rooms or even trigger distinct actions based on
of today households, says Katabi, ireless technologies like this will help power the homes of the future. o
From heating bills to Hollywood Researchers say the technology could have major implications for everything from gaming and filmmaking to emergency response and eldercare.
if it detects that a family member has fallen unconscious, says Katabi, director of the Wireless@MIT center. ou could also imagine it being used to operate your lights and TVS,
Future versions could be integrated into gaming interfaces, allowing you to interact with a game from different rooms or even trigger distinct actions based on
of today households, says Katabi, ireless technologies like this will help power the homes of the future. i
Giulia Galli is Liew Family Professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations at the IME and a theorist.
"An average family of four leaves more than two million calories, worth nearly $1, 500, uneaten each year.
which doctors use to rate the social, occupational and psychological functioning of adults. Importantly, the patients also said they enjoyed the game
while its generator and other electrical equipment are installed in dry columns, increasing their reliability, efficiency, and shelf life.
The generating units consist of two sets of blades sitting on three columns with a single generator in between."
with each rotor having a 25 year design life and the columns and electricity connectors 100 years.
and all-cause mortality among different subpopulations of treated and untreated patients. The study used the largest cohort of patients and the longest follow-up for TRT to date.
the group who had normalized testosterone levels after TRT had significantly fewer deaths and cardiovascular events than those who did not.
there has been growing concern regarding its effect on mortality, as well as conflicting results. Our aim was to address the knowledge gap."
normalization of testosterone levels using TRT is associated with lower mortality, fewer MIS, and strokes. This is the first study to demonstrate that significant benefit is observed
and when that happens they are found in the affected child but not found in either parent.
when they occur in a child and give rise to autism, usually don't remain in the gene pool for more than one generation before they are,
and documented in the families used in the study, comprising the Simons Simplex Collection (SSC).
and 15,000 deaths per year in the United states, costing the country more than $4 billion in health-care expenses,
with symptoms ranging from severe diarrhea to intestinal lesions to death. Bogyo's team has developed ways of conducting high-throughput screens of small molecules to speedily test their ability to inhibit
However, psychologically, these small steps are huge for a patient's quality of life, "said the study's lead author, Ida K. Fox, MD,
"Another patient benefiting from the nerve-transfer technique is a 72-year-old right-handed man who had the surgery two years after he suffered a cervical spinal cord injury.
and then plugged it into a working nerve that restored the man's ability to flex his thumb and index finger.
%and its value for identifying causal rare variants of complex human disease phenotypes in genetic association studies.
which is the second most common cancer and accounts for over one-quarter of all cancer-related deaths.
which affect young adults who could live with the side-effects for decades.""Professor Robert Huddart, Professor of Urological Cancer at The Institute of Cancer Research, London,
While exploring why pregnant women are particularly susceptible to malaria, they found that the mosquito-borne parasite that causes malaria also produces a protein that binds to a particular type of sugar molecule in the placenta.
#Fewer Americans are smoking and theye quitting faster than ever, survey shows New figures released by the US Centres for Disease Control
Even more promisingly, the rate at which people are quitting smoking has accelerated, with the 1. 6 percent drop between the 2014 and 2015 levels of adult smokers representing the steepest quitting rate in CDC statistics going back as far as 1997,
by 2025 less than 13 percent of American adults would be smokers. A pretty amazing result, especially when you consider that as recently as 1965 42 percent of the adult population smoked.
Hispanic adults are less likely to be smokers (10.4 percent) than non-Hispanic black (19.1 percent) and non-Hispanic white (17.1 percent) adults.
and have really set in motion a cultural event in which smoking is not acceptable and not enjoyable, said Norman Edelman of the American Lung Association,
who was not involved with the research, in comment to Dennis Thompson at Healthday
#A magnetic'wormhole'that connects two regions of space has been created Researchers in Spain have created a tiny magnetic wormhole for the first time ever,
and they've used it to connect two regions of space so that a magnetic field can travel'invisibly'between them.
#Your fingerprints are about to reveal so much more about you Using fingerprints to identify individuals is a technique that's been around for longer than you might think-it was used first in a crime-solving capacity in the middle of the 19th century.
"We've increased very significantly the amount of data that can be taken from a crime scene to help support law enforcement's hypothesis about how a crime occurred
#US government develops mind-controlled prosthetic arm with the sense of touch The US defence force announced last week that it has given a paralysed man the ability to'feel'physical sensations through a prosthetic robotic hand that been connected directly to his brain.
the man was able to identify when and which of his prosthetic fingers was being touched gently by an object-and all while blindfolded.
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