as it is the most precise way to measure the hormone to date. The authors point out one caveat in their methodshat some irisin is lost during sample preparation
The approach may offer an improved way to detect early recurrence of breast cancer in women and men.
It could also become useful as a noninvasive way to assess breast cancer treatment progress.
But machines are not adaptable in the same way. They are stuck essentially in one shape for their entire ives
or finding ways to improve robotic locomotion. A robot requires between ten and 100 times more energy than an animal to do the same thing.
without the need for a chair. t still a long way to go before wel have robots that look,
and relatively inexpensive way to explore these out of sight-sight features. Andreas Velten, a Morgridge medical engineering affiliate and scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI
The scattering photons from the laser bounce off obstacles and make their way back to sensors in the camera.
One group of scientists is now working on a way to address both of these seeming unrelated issues at the same time.
and thus readily identifiable. hat useful because it means we had a way to do multicolor imaging within a very narrow emission window,
This device enables cardiac electric activity to be measured in a nonaggressive way so that the diagnosis of heart conditions such as coronary heart disease or arrhythmia can be improved greatly.
more effective ways to prevent outbreaks of diseases. However, at this moment science is needed lacking knowledge about human immunity.
#New, Ultrathin Optical devices Shape Light in Exotic Ways Researchers have developed innovative flat, optical lenses as part of a collaboration between NASA Jet propulsion laboratory and the California Institute of technology, both in Pasadena, California.
These optical components are capable of manipulating light in ways that are difficult or impossible to achieve with conventional optical devices.
Polarization refers to the way some light waves vibrate only in a particular direction, whereas waves in natural sunlight vibrate in all directions.
even though there will always be a hole in your visual field. he neuroscientists at UQ School of Psychology may have opened the way to new treatments for the developed world leading cause of blindness,
The way these cells organize themselves structurally in different organ systems helps them coordinate their amazingly diverse behaviors and functions
or stress levels in soldiers and pilots. In this study, engineers focused on uric acid, which is a marker related to diabetes and to gout.
the only way to monitor the levels of uric acid in a patient is to draw blood.
researchers showed that the mouth guard sensor could offer an easy and reliable way to monitor uric acid levels.
and frosting on aircraft wings. his represents a fundamentally new concept in engineered surfaces, said Tak-Sing Wong,
and pitcher plants in such a way that these surfaces possess both high surface area and a slippery interface to enhance droplet collection and mobility.
#Team develops quick way to determine bacteria antibiotic resistance Bacteria ability to become resistant to antibiotics is a growing issue in health care:
One way to combat this is to determine bacteria antibiotic resistance in a given patient, but that often takes days
we are able to create an entirely new way to differentiate these microorganisms, Hayes said. nd it turns out that we have a core mechanism that could be integrated with smartphones
#acterial Litmus Testprovides Inexpensive Measurement of Micronutrients A bacterium engineered to produce different pigments in response to varying levels of a micronutrient in blood samples could give health officials an inexpensive way to detect nutritional
the researchers needed to establish ways to produce only one or the other at a time a challenge that their work shows can be addressed feasibly,
and now they found a way to turn it into a reality. Researchers at the RIKEN Brain science Institute in Japan created a way to illuminate 3d brain anatomy at very high resolutions using a new transparent tissue.
This discovery may help researching and treating such diseases as Alzheimer. It is hard to overrate discoveries like this
called Scales, is a real and practical way to see through brain and body tissue. Generating see-through tissue (a process called optical clearing) was a goal for many scientists recently
Meng devised a way to apply a famous class of chemical reactions to cellulose, a natural polymer often used for drug delivery.
Meng chemistry offers a new way to make a wide variety of polymer matrices using cellulose as a starting material.
#New way to repair nerves: Using exosomes to hijack cell-to-cell communication Regenerative medicine using stem cells is an increasingly promising approach to treat many types of injury.
Tufts University biomedical engineers recently published the first report of a promising new way to induce human mesenchymal stem cells (or hmscs,
Exosomes had not previously been studied as a way to induce human stem cell differentiation. The biomedical engineers also showed that the exosomes contain mirnasiny pieces of RNA that regulate cell behavior
funding research into a new way to deliver protein-based cancer-fighting drugs and other therapeutics directly into cells.
We believe it will allow us to look in a very detailed way at issues like imprinting during development
a gas station and a university coffee shop. During the experiments, they used a bank application, cell phone application and magnetic credit card chip.
which is the most efficient way that HIV spreads. Jingyou Yu, a doctoral student in MU pathobiology graduate program, conducted experiments to show that IFITM proteins, particularly IFITM2 and IFITM3, block HIV cell-to-cell transmission.
The newly described Cpf1 system differs in several important ways from the previously described Cas9, with significant implications for research and therapeutics,
and changes shape could lead to artificial arteries Researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have developed a way of assembling organic molecules into complex tubular tissue-like structures without the use of moulds
energy harvesters that would convert waste heat to electricity and ultimately for a new way to efficiently capture solar energy.
allowing electrons generated by the antenna to flow one way into the top electrode. Ultra-low capacitance, on the order of a few attofarads, enables the 10-nanometer diameter diode to operate at these exceptional frequencies. rectenna is basically an antenna coupled to a diode
and put them to work in new ways. ature borrowed not just the vitamin, but really the whole enzyme unit,
The new test will provide a way to capture the full breadth and depth of such viruses,
In recent years, researchers have discovered several ways of using genome sequencing of tumours to predict
and thus also as an effective and easy way of monitoring people who are at risk of developing cancer.
here was no efficient way to get DNA into mitochondria, said John Guy, M d.,professor of ophthalmology and director of the ocular gene therapy laboratory at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of medicine.
and they can conduct current in ways comparable to inorganic semiconductors, which are made from metal-oxides or silicon.
Now, materials scientists from the California Nanosystems Institute at UCLA have discovered a way to make organic semiconductors more powerful and more efficient.
Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Boston Children and contributing author on the study, says the device represents a radical change in the way these kinds of cardiac defects are repaired. n addition to avoiding open heart surgery,
however, the Boston Children/Wyss/SEAS/Brigham and Women research team sought a way to deliver the patch without open heart surgery.
and author on the paper. he device is a minimally invasive way to deliver a patch
all within a matter of five minutes and in an atraumatic way that doesn require a separate incision.
The way the glue works in the face of blood is revolutionary. We don have to stop the heart,
detail this new way to directly measure magnetic moments and how it may be used to break fundamental limits of spatial resolution that are imposed in purely optical magnetic measurements.
His discovery offers a way to overcome this problem offering hope that treatments may be developed for currently non-curable degenerative diseases,
Even if there a long way to go before launching clinical trials, this means, in theory, that will be eventually be able to treat countless patients. he findings are particularly significant in the light of improving life expectancies and the associated increase in cases of ARMD.
and gender. he way that we normally diagnose metabolic syndrome appears to have some racial discrepancies,
but also in transportation industry power backup, micro grid storage, and for the wider use of renewable energy. OSU officials say they are seeking support for further research
The remarkable and newly demonstrated capability for CRISPR to edit tens of repetitive genes such as PERVS will also unlock new ways for scientists to study
scientists have realized that DNA is not the only way that a parent can pass on traits to their offspring.
Now University of Pennsylvania researchers have shown at the molecular level how experiencing stress changes a male mouse sperm in such a way that it affects his offspring response to stress.
Now, a team of researchers from Oxford and Stony Brook universities has found a way to precisely control these waves using light.
So, the research team set out to find ways to steer the excitation waves, borrowing tools from the developing field of optogenetics,
Rice bioengineer David Zhang and his colleagues have developed a unique way to adjust their nucleic acid probe reagents on the fly
and effectively get them out of the way. This time the lab is developing synthetic DNA rotectorsthat mimic the target sequence
aims to use electronics in a way that mimics the way neurons process information in organic brains.
which will be useful in refining the way the storage operates and in improving its efficiency.
Pioneering improvements to electron microscopes pave the way for the creation of a detailed map of the how these diseases develop,
Now, a team of researchers from Oxford and Stony Brook universities has found a way to precisely control these waves using light.
So, the research team set out to find ways to steer the excitation waves, borrowing tools from the developing field of optogenetics,
potent way to boost immunity and fight viruses`Many viral infections, such as the common cold, cause mild illnesses that the body immune system eventually defeats.
scientists at Washington University School of Medicinein St louis have demonstrated a way to dial up the body innate immune defenses
The work paves the way for personalized drug discovery for kidney disease. The mini-kidney organoids were grown from pluripotent stem cells.
and respond to toxic injury in ways that are similar to kidney tubules in people. major unanswered question was
better ways to perform linical trials in a dishto test drugs and therapies that might work in humans.
better ways of testing out drugs and therapies that might work in humans. g
#Snake venom helps hydrogels stop the bleeding Rice university lab employs clotting powers of viper-derived drug,
It has been used in various therapies as a way to remove excess fibrin proteins from the blood to treat thrombosis and as a topical hemostat.
or environmental factors and not genetics. f there were a way to reverse silencing of the RGS10 protein,
since team of scientists from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical science (IMS) and other institutions in Japan and Europe have found a relatively simple way to keep immune cells in a multipotent stem cell-like state.
it is a rather simple way to produce stem cells. In the past scientists needed to find a way to take target cells and edifferentiatethem into multipotent cells,
which inevitably was a painstaking process. However, now scientists found a better and simpler way,
when they decided to see if they can create a process in which somatic stem cells could be maintained in a stem cell-like state.
#CRISPR Brings Precise Control to Gene expression Researchers have demonstrated the exceptional specificity of a new way to switch sequences of the human genome on
and also suggested ways the technology can be used in the future, said Thakore. e also learned some new things about gene regulation,
Now, for the first time, researchers at MIT have found a way to control this process, literally with the flick of an electrical switch.
are durable, reusable and easy to package, transport and ship. Unlike small chemical tablets that dissolve in water and leave a chlorine aftertaste, Madidrop is made of a continuously reusable ceramic that is simply placed in a water vessel,
The chemistry of sequestering works this way: The enzyme, carbonic anhydrase, catalyzes a chemical reaction between carbon dioxide and water.
In an industrial setting, the UF researchers believe the carbonic anhydrase could be captured this way:
so Mckenna group found a way to produce the enzyme without repeatedly harvesting it from the sea floor.
they want to study ways to increase the enzyme stability and longevity, which are important issues to be addressed before the enzyme could be put into widespread industrial use.
Kopelman is optimistic that it will find its way into common use d
#Cell stress response and fat and obesity gene linked In one fell swoop, Cornell researchers have discovered mechanisms that control the function of a fat
you would construct a material that surrounds the object in such a way that currents go around it.
but for female cancer patients especially, a treatment that doesn touch their body healthy tissues is a huge breakthrough. e think we have a way
but a way that could become a frontline treatment for women who have cancers of many types
and Ronald Harty in the Department of Pathobiology of the University of Pennsylvania School of veterinary medicine demonstrates a way to do that,
The work paves the way toward designing a potential broad-spectrum drug that could serve as a therapy for a number of serious viral infections. ur work is aimed at handicapping the virus
Norway. also hope the knowledge we provide here is paving the way to engineer uper-spreadingagents,
They observed that the function a protein involved in the transport of proteins and organelles within cells (called ab8, was affected,
As for the balloons themselves, the company claims theye come a long way since the announcement of the project two years ago. n the early days
it a recurring theme in science that nature does not always turn out to work the way you thought it did. irst glimpse:
As light from remote galaxies makes its way to us, it becomes stretched to longer, infrared wavelengths by the expansion of space.
Frommer and his lab have worked extensively on the family of SWEET sugar transporters, which play several key roles in plants,
which encodes a sugar transporter protein in maize, was shown to be expressed specifically in the maize seed by the group of Prem Chourey at University of Florida,
thus a collaboration with Syngenta AG to find ways to increase crop yield by engineering sugar transport processes,
But there remains a lot of work to be done toward developing miniature navigation systems, particularly for confined spaces.
but are highly sensitive to changes in the way light is reflected as the insect moves, or due to the movement of an object in its field of view.
where pig lungs are being perfused with human blood in the laboratory as a way of measuring the immune response. he wants genetically modified lungs for personal reasons,
a way for another drug to attach to the protein at a specific site. The technology might also pave the way to new biotech drugs.
Nearly all such drugs proteins like insulin or the blood cell-booster erythropoietin, are made inside a bacterium or other cell.
whether life could have evolved in ways other than the one we are familiar with. ill life on mars have a fifth and sixth base?
are preserved this way. The heart in a box is part of a wider shift away from shipping organs cold to keeping them warm and functioning.
a transplant surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital. arm is the way to go with metabolically active tissue.
The first successful heart transplant, in 1967, was carried out in South africa from a 25-year-old car accident victim
Donors at the Papworth hospital have included victims of car accidents and failed suicide attempts by hanging.
This way the team effectively turns a circulatory death into a brain dead eating heartdonor. With the heart pumping,
and placed on the Transmedics device for transport to the recipients. The team results are unpublished.
Commercial power generation from fusion is still a long way off but the outlines of such a reactor can now be perceived.
but with private-sector moneyhich ultimately is the only way to actually get something built.
serving live traffic, next year. Kumu is also working on a chip that will make it possible to shrink down the package containing the company technology from roughly the size of a hardback book to something more akin to a credit card.
to stimulate muscles in a specific way to make them move, and do it from a small patch of brain,
The biggest takeaway from the tweets is the mention of a"market pilot re-route,
#Algae inspiration could boost your phone's battery Materials engineers trying to work out a way of boosting the performance of lithium-ion batteries have hit upon an unlikely inspiration-algae from a local pond.
Now, a team at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research has developed a new type of battery component out of carbon that mimics the way that single-celled algae forms,
and it promises to dwarf last year's stats in almost every way. Online retailers are already planning for it.
a way for stores to shift a lot of stock at a time when most people in the US have time off work for Thanksgiving.
one supermarket had to be closed due to the excessive number of people trying to push their way inside.
Jamie Davies of the University of Edinburgh wrote in an accompanying commentary. here is a long way to go until transplantable kidneys can be engineered,
#Artificial skin Communicates with Neurons Researchers have developed a new type of artificial skin that could pave the way for responsive prosthetics.
his is a new way to make ultradense, nonvolatile computer memory, said James Tour, professor of materials science, nanoengineering and computer science at Rice university.
so wee optimistic that this could be scaled up in a cost-effective way, Zhu said.
and this changes the incoming sound in a subtle but detectable way. When sound passes over the acoustic metamaterials, it gets slightly distorted depending on the depth of the cavities.
The study, published in the journal Nature, details a way of altering the quantum interactions of matter
indeed, so-called capsule endoscopy currently the best way to get pictures of the intestines between the stomach and colorectal system, the boundary zone between gastroscopy and endoscopy.
The speed of transport through the system, from muscular ripples along the intestines called peristalsis can vary widely from person to person;
when a patient carries a heavy suitcase through an airport, she said r
#lipperysteel provides both durability and antifouling Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS) have developed a new coating for steel,
This increased the efficiency of both photon absorption and electron transport. It was found that as well as increasing the transport of electrons by creating efectsin the bismuth vanadate,
the nitrogen also lowered the energy needed to kick electrons into the state in which they were available to split water.
The researchers hope that their work on the new electrode may act as a building block for other scientists working in the same area. ur study will encourage researchers in the field to develop ways to improve multiple processes using a single treatment,
graduate student Jayer Fernandes and recent graduate Aditi Kanhere-are exploring ways to integrate the lenses into existing optical detectors and directly incorporate silicon electronic components into the lenses themselves e
Dai added that lithium batteries could o off in an unpredictable mannerand cited a ban by US airlines Delta
and United on bulk shipments on passenger planes. And the new design could be used to store renewable energy of the electrical grid, the researchers suggested.
shopping, but this extends to maps, flights and news), to issues with Google scraping and fencing of datasets, often exclusively and at unmatched scale.
hatred of foreigners and homophobia are all rising in an unbearable way in our country, the prime minister,
#Can the internet of things save us from traffic jams? Traffic is getting worse. It doesn just feel that way,
the stats prove it: commuters in 2014 spent an average 66 more hours stuck in traffic than they did in 2013, according to navigation tech firm Tomtom.
So when internet of things technology is disrupting every part of our lives, when will traffic lights be rebuilt rethought and?
Well, the traffic light revolution is already underway. It is all part of the promise of connected and self-driving cars,
which allow data about individual journeys, routes and vehicles to be monitored centrally, controlled and systematised.
Autonomous intersection management Once computers are in full control of our cars, do need we even traffic lights at intersections?
That the idea behind AIM autonomous intersection management at the artificial intelligence laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin.
Rather than stop at red lights, self-driving cars would schedule a slot through an intersection in real-time,
But it won be fainthearted for the at least not until passengers have learnt to entirely trust their automated pilots:
For the idea to work, it would require roads to be mostly full of autonomous cars, says project leader Professor Peter Stone
The researchers compared AIM to heavy traffic on a major road, saying it would reduce delay by as much as 100 times though that only at intersections, not total driving time.
but also used anonymised data from third party navigation apps, including smartphone maps. e have agreements with a number of smartphone manufacturers,
says Nick Cohn, senior traffic expert at Tomtom. It also gathers data from telematics units installed in fleet vehicles as well as in-dash systems
and for deciding whether they need to switch to a different traffic signal scheme, Cohn says.
not only GPS from cars and timings from traffic lights, but also air quality sensor data and images from cameras. n its own, each is of low value,
he says. t might be to turn some traffic lights green quicker or send a text message to a car,
Highways England used to simply warn there were ueues ahead but now tells drivers it will be 17 minutes to their junction, points out Giles Perkins, business development director for intelligent transport at Mouchel,
which runs the National Traffic information service. ore data in and more data out can only be a good thing.
Unintended consequences Though traffic data makes it possible to see the movement of traffic in real time,
and traffic lights themselves are operated algorithmically, it is still not possible to engineer a way of turning the lights green as you pull up. t easy to change the traffic lights, ssays IBM Standford-Clark. ut...
you get this terrible interconnection of unintended consequences. Your main route into a city may be clear,
but every road feeding into it would be gridlocked. t not a trivial thing to do.
One way self-driving vehicles may be introduced is latooning with a lead car in control of a train or group of followers, handy for giving lorry drivers a break.
chief scientist and research director at transport firm TRL. ither the platoon could signal that it cleared the intersection
There, traffic lights are alkingto motorists, sending messages to a device in car about obstacles or delays ahead,
if they travel at 24 miles an hour they will hit the next four sets of traffic lights on green,
says Newcastle University professor of intelligent transport systems Phil Blyte, announcing the project. n more congested areas or particularly busy times of the day,
then vehicles on key roads might be given priority in order to keep the traffic flowing. The system also gives priority to non-emergency vehicles,
So far, 20 traffic lights are using the system in Newcastle city centre. Zombies ahead and cyclists As with any tech innovation, one of the biggest challenges is security.
The best example so far is hacked surely construction signs in the US with attackers warning of zombies ahead,
roads aren used only by cars. What about the bicycles, scooters and pedestrians hoping to cross the street?
They have smartphones, so there otential to do something with that, said Tomtom Cohn. think it be great as a pedestrian and a cyclist if
I didn have to push a button to cross and I didn have to wait, that
or route when I walking or cycling. That raises a question: what the goal of Iot-connected traffic lights?
don think the main reason is going to be racing people through intersections, it going to be said safety applications
boost public transport or improve safety, or is there some other goal we haven thought of yet? here a whole bunch of optimisation goals which may not be the ones you first thing of,
The best way to achieve it may not be via smart, reactive traffic lights, but by sending messages to drivers in cars,
and nudging them into better routes. t probably easier to change driver behaviour than it is to change the traffic lights.
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