which does not damage the delicate biological molecules or living cells that were bioprinted. As a next step, the group is working towards incorporating real heart cells into these 3-D printed tissue structures,
#Making life more resistant to stress A recent paper in Current Biology suggests that plants can be engineered against climate change, even drought.
whether the interaction of THZ radiation with biological organisms is safe. A theoretical study published by MIT in 2009 suggested that THZ waves may interfere with DNA via nonlinear instabilities,
Until sufficient experimental biological data is gathered, one cannot be entirely certain as to the mechanisms involved,
Hydrogels are useful in biology because theye much like us made mostly of hydro. Theye intrinsically safe for use with biology,
and biomedical engineers are even looking into using them as a bio-safe internal optical network.
which allows biological systems to survive in a large variety of environments, said co-author Luzius Brodbeck. hrough evolutionary adaptation some animals changed their morphologies to live on land instead of under water,
He is aiming to improve the acoustic imaging method for potential use in biological research or medicine
or producing designer therapeuticsnd, eventually perhaps even non-biological polymers. No one has developed ever something of this nature. e felt like there was a smallery smallhance Ribo-T could work,
a Phd student in chemistry and a member of Smolke team. heye the action heroes of biology. o get the yeast assembly line going,
. Friedman, M d.,Ph d.,at Rockefeller University and the TSRI groups of Ian A. Wilson and Patrick R. Griffin, appears in Chemistry and Biology.
and he suspected that improving the technique's spatial resolution would go a long way toward increasing its use by biologists.
"The findings from this study were published recently in Nature Chemical Biology through an article entitled onobody-mediated alteration of enzyme specificity."
Biological applications are also possible.""Such water-rich, soft actuators would also find applications as components of artificial internal organs
while exhibiting some very unique biological aspects. The way snakes move across surfaces is pretty incredible,
The results of this research were presented recently at the 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in Milan
was funded by Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome Trust and the Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council h
partly because of the complexity of the biology underlying thought processes and partly because studying a living brain is very difficult.
However, recent studies have begun to make some headway in understanding the biology of mental health conditions by looking at the gene mutations carried by people diagnosed with such problems.
Sreekanth Chalasani of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and lead author said, n contrast to light,
about the size of a few biological cells, the cloak reflected incoming red light differently at various locations, depending on how pronounced their features
If confirmed, the research could one day allow infertile men to have their own biological children.
These are drawn from 79 biological, behavioural, environmental and occupational factors. The list is similar in the UK, with smoking, high blood pressure,
Of metabolic (biological), environmental, or behavioural (lifestyle) factors affecting health, it is lifestyle factors that carry the most weight.
and then around the end of life They also share both biological and environmental risks.
#Human heart can now be 3d printed using biological materials All 3d printed innovations have something in common:
Biological materials are often soft and fragile in isolation, which proved a challenge for the scientists behind the study.
These soft materials were not mere plastic copies of biological material: collagens, muscle fibers, miniature brain structures,
and branching artery patterns made of biological matter have all been produced using the technique. Most impressively, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of human coronary arteries and 3d images of embryonic human hearts,
who have produced complex biological structures with an unprecedented degree of precision. The team next step is to inject heart cells into these 3d printed biological tissue structures
essentially filling in the printed caffoldingwith its biological oncrete This research has obvious implications for medical science.
Let just take one example: the heart. Human heart tissue has lost its ability to repair
molecular biologist James Paulson at the Scripps Research Institute in the US told this publication. he authors exploit Siglec function by attaching sialic acids to nanoparticles that exploit the function of Siglecs and control inflammation,
Like biological evolution, the robots mother could look out for the best traits in her children,
according to the researchers. ne of the big questions in biology is how intelligence came about wee using robotics to explore this mystery,
said Iida. ut what we do have are a lot of enabling technologies that will help us import some aspects of biology to the engineering world. m
But the dawn of wearable technology has led to the creation of devices capable of building up workerspersonalised biological profiles,
Dr John Coates, a fellow in neuroscience and finance at the University of Cambridge who specialises in the biology of risk taking and stress, said he is now getting bout one call a weekfrom financial institutions,
when they are n the zoneas well as analysing the wearer current biological signals, the technology could also predict what their physical state might be days ahead of a crucial meeting.
That going to happen in the work world. roducts offering biological monitoring are already on the market.
and can wrap around a three-dimensional object about the size of a few biological cells. he surface of the skin cloak was engineered meta to reroute reflected light waves
and increase interest in developing biologic drugs, Holroyd told Laboratory Equipment. hat is an area where there is limited competition even
The government is encouraging companies to invest in biologics, and they are even being given longer market exclusivity.
and traits seen across individuals reflects a complex dance between environment and biology. Understanding the precise nature of these causal influences will help lead to the design of better interventions to help move the brain and behavior toward the positive end of the spectrum i
who did this research while a Ph d. student in Palsson's Systems Biology Research Group.
For research that collects such biological samples, hiding the identities of donors may not be enough to keep investigators from inferring matches between"before"and"after,"
and Biology Society, is UCLA research scientist Parag Gad. Lead coauthors were Yury Gerasimenko, director of the laboratory of movement physiology at Russia Pavlov Institute and a researcher in UCLA's department of integrative biology and physiology;
a postdoctoral fellow at Colorado who conducts research on nutrition and vascular biology. Dow underscored that engaging in regular physical activity appears to have broader effects lowering"bad"cholesterol,
by using a compound that biologists have used to track other molecules. Prions are a distinct type of protein they can self-replicate,
Peter Nilsson, a chemical biologist at Linköping University in Sweden, was experimenting with conductive plastics,
'Supercoiled'DNA Twists into Crazy Shapes DNA doesn't just coil in the iconic double helix immortalized in every high school biology textbook.
Building blocks of life After molecular biologists James Watson and Francis Crick first published a paper on the structure of DNA in 1953, the double helix became the iconic symbol of the code of life.
such as sensors that detect specific chemical and biological species and photonic devices that manipulate light.
#Major innovation in molecular imaging delivers spatial and spectral info simultaneously Using physical chemistry methods to look at biology at the nanoscale,
and each subcellular structure was a distinct color. o using this method we can look at interactions between four biological components inside a cell in three-dimension and at very high resolution of about 10 nanometers,
ur research into these bio-inspired sensors demonstrates the huge value in applying the scientific learnings from the biological world to develop technologies for real world applications. d
that was wrapped around a three-dimensional object about the size of a few biological cells and arbitrarily shaped with multiple bumps and dents.
One of the most critical biological and medical tools available today, it lies at the core of genome analysis. Reading the exact make-up of genes,
which is as close as biology has given us to a naturally magnetic protein nanoparticle, is really not that magnetic.
"This memristor-based technology relies on a completely different way inspired by biological brain to carry on computation."
Measurement of a single nuclear spin in biological samples May 11th, 2015graphene holds key to unlocking creation of wearable electronic devices May 11th, 2015new Method to Produce Dual Zinc oxide Nanorings May 11th
Measurement of a single nuclear spin in biological samples May 11th, 2015graphene holds key to unlocking creation of wearable electronic devices May 11th, 2015new Method to Produce Dual Zinc oxide Nanorings May 11th
Measurement of a single nuclear spin in biological samples May 11th, 2015graphene holds key to unlocking creation of wearable electronic devices May 11th, 2015new Method to Produce Dual Zinc oxide Nanorings May 11th
Measurement of a single nuclear spin in biological samples May 11th, 2015graphene holds key to unlocking creation of wearable electronic devices May 11th, 2015new Method to Produce Dual Zinc oxide Nanorings May 11th
Measurement of a single nuclear spin in biological samples May 11th, 2015graphene holds key to unlocking creation of wearable electronic devices May 11th,
Precise targeting biological molecules, such as cancer cells, for treatment is a challenge, due to their sheer size.
#New ORNL hybrid microscope offers unparalleled capabilities A microscope being developed at the Department of energy's Oak ridge National Laboratory will allow scientists studying biological and synthetic materials to simultaneously observe chemical and physical properties on and beneath the surface.
"It allows researchers to study the surface and subsurface of synthetic and biological samples, which is a capability that until now didn't exist."
and nanostructures to naturally occurring biological polymers, tissues and plant cells. The first application as part of DOE's Bioenergy Science Center was in the examination of plant cell walls under several treatments to provide submicron characterization.
It enables unaltered optical measurements of extremely small, dynamic changes in biological, chemical or physical processes.
such as sensors that detect specific chemical and biological species and photonic devices that manipulate light.
Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, and after further research may offer a novel mechanism to address this aggressive and often fatal cancer that kills 14,000 women in the United states each year.
Using physical chemistry methods to look at biology at the nanoscale, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researcher has invented a new technology to image single molecules with unprecedented spectral and spatial resolution,
"So using this method we can look at interactions between four biological components inside a cell in three-dimension and at very high resolution of about 10 nanometers,
"This work is supported by the National institutes of health and partially by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency Joint Science and Technology Office for Chemical and Biological Defense.
Biologists can zoom in on the organelles that make up a cell. Eventually he said, the researchers might be able to cut down on the exposure times even more
One of the most critical biological and medical tools available today, it lies at the core of genome analysis. Reading the exact make-up of genes,
"In their approach, Gundlach and his team measure an electrical current through a biological pore called Mspa,
Biologists have recognized long that proteins have different structures to perform these roles, but the physical motion of proteins as they work on DNA has been difficult to detect directly."
#Milestone single-biomolecule imaging technique may advance drug design Knowing the detailed shape of biomolecules such as proteins is essential for biological studies and drug discovery.
"Longchamp noted the technique would also open the door for"rational drug design,"an inventive process of finding new medications based on the knowledge of a biological target.
In many conventional techniques such as transmission electron microscopy, the possible resolution is limited by high-energy electrons'radiation damage to biological samples.
#Brightness-equalized quantum dots improve biological imaging"In this work, we have made two major advances--the ability to precisely control the brightness of light-emitting particles called quantum dots,
allow quantitative multicolor imaging in biological tissue, and improve color tuning in light-emitting devices.
The presence of some proteins in biological liquids of humans (blood saliva and urine) with determined concentration can be the sign of dangerous diseases.
as are many important biological research tools. A wide-range of technologies, including LEDS, diagnostic tools,
#Cyborg beetle research allows free-flight study of insects (w/video) Hardwiring beetles for radio-controlled flight turns out to be a fitting way to learn more about their biology.
to be published Monday, March 16, in the journal Current Biology, showcases the potential of wireless sensors in biological research.
"Biologists trying to record and study flying insects typically had to do so with the subject tethered.
chemical and biological properties of the hydrogel are enhanced, Gaharwar explains. For example, the hydrogel can be designed to remain at the injury site for specific durations by controlling the interactions between the nanosilicates and gelatin,
Chemists, physicists, biologists, materials scientists and engineers team up to focus on these essential questions: Which material properties are new,
"Here we have a biological entity. We've made the sensor on the surface of these spores, with the spore a very active complement to this device.
The biological complement is actually working towards responding to stimuli and providing information
#Desalination with nanoporous graphene membrane Less than 1 percent of Earth's water is drinkable. Removing salt and other minerals from our biggest available source of water--seawater--may help satisfy a growing global population thirsty for fresh water for drinking, farming, transportation, heating, cooling and industry.
Given the importance of oxygen metabolism in basic biology and diseases such as diabetes and cancer,
"The material could help improve coatings used to protect surfaces from the build up of biological contaminants, particularly surfaces under the sea.
In nature, molecules called aquaporins, discovered in the 1990s, move water from one side of a biological membrane to another,
Their breakthrough, published today in the scientific journal PLOS Biology("Integration of Shallow Gradients of Shh
that is to say they can study the developing axons outside their biological context.""This new method provides us with several benefits
which uses fluids at a microscopic scale to miniaturize biological experiments, with the cellular, biological and molecular studies we conduct in laboratories.""
"The technique could even be modified for imaging biological systems without the need for fluorescent labels.
a cancer biologist and an assistant professor of biomedical sciences and pathobiology at the Virginiaaryland College of Veterinary medicine. t was astounding.
She is also an assistant professor of biological sciences In virginia Tech College of Science. t exciting to see things no one else has seen before,
"As altering the para position has been a common approach in biology and materials science for creating benzene-containing functional molecules,
biological fl uids, strong electromagnetic fields, and fast-moving objects. The strategy followed to design this kind of devices relies on the thermal dependence of the phosphor luminescence,
biological fluids, strong electromagnetic fields, and fast-moving objects. The temperature determination is usually based on the change of the luminescence intensity or decay times.
which measures oxygen in cells and other biological material with high precision. The compound is based on rare earths emitting coloured light that vary in colour with the amount of oxygen present in the sample.
which are suited poorly for biological samples, useless in a microscope and quite incapable of showing where the oxygen is located in a cell.
which is highly compatible with biological studies, because it penetrates deeply into tissue, explains Sørensen."
developed by researchers at University college London with funding from the Biotechnology & Biological sciences Research Council (BBSRC),
"Fundamental bioscience research is vital to reveal the biological mechanisms underlying normal physiology across the lifespan.
said lead researcher Prezioso. his memristor-based technology relies on a completely different way inspired by biological brain to carry on computation.
and may even have implications for understanding biological systems. Working at the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) and the Advanced Photon Source (APS), two DOE Office of Science User Facilities located at Argonne,
and can be engineered for physical and biological applications. However, on their own, these materials are terrible for use in the electronics world.
and other biological tissues because of needle buckling or fracturing on penetration. high-aspect-ratio microneedles penetrating brain tissue A research team in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering
which dissolves upon contact with biological tissue. Silk fibroin is used as the dissolvable film because it has high biocompatibility,
and probe biological molecules to explore their potential use as new drugs. The device has the potential to replace gold nanodevices used in current analytical techniques,
This quickly damages delicate biological samples and potentially melts the equipment. The innovation is expected to expand the ability of researchers to investigate potential new drugs more rapidly and accurately,
Common laboratory analytical techniques such as Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy determine the properties of biological molecules,
2015("Systems biology definition of the core proteome of metabolism and expression is consistent with high-throughput data".
"said Laurence Yang, a postdoctoral researcher in Palsson's Systems Biology Research Group at UC San diego and a co-first author of the paper.
It is a systems-biology-based definition that takes into account not just the minimum set of genes,
and integrated them in the form of a computational model to arrive at our systems biology definition of the paleome
at least with respect to a chosen trait, could significantly aid basic biological research and development of high-throughput assays, says John Slater, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Delaware.
that was wrapped around a three-dimensional object about the size of a few biological cells and arbitrarily shaped with multiple bumps and dents.
and is the first time that scientists have reported the ability to create biological structures that are programmed readily to assemble
with a flick of a switch and a temperature jump, make a huge range of biological molecules that either assemble or disassemble."
and then go back to explore how biology is already making use of them
#A thermal invisibility cloak actively redirects heat Light, sound, and now, heat--just as optical invisibility cloaks can bend
. who is the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital as well as Professor of Bioengineering AT SEAS."
Biologists can zoom in on the organelles that make up a cell. Eventually he said, the researchers might be able to cut down on the exposure times even more
"In their approach, Gundlach and his team measure an electrical current through a biological pore called Mspa,
Biologists have recognized long that proteins have different structures to perform these roles, but the physical motion of proteins as they work on DNA has been difficult to detect directly."
#Brightness-equalized quantum dots improve biological imaging Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have introduced a new class of light-emitting quantum dots (QDS) with tunable and equalized fluorescence brightness
allow quantitative multicolor imaging in biological tissue, and improve color tuning in light-emitting devices.
and flatter than any biological structure. The Berkeley Lab scientists say this never-before-seen design rule could be used to piece together complex nanosheet structures and other peptoid assemblies such as nanotubes and crystalline solids.
and Ron Zuckermann, who directs the Molecular Foundry Biological Nanostructures Facility. They used the high-performance computing resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC),
and extended into large sheets that are flatter than anything nature can produce. t was a big surprise to find the design rule that makes peptoid nanosheets possible has eluded the field of biology until now,
isolated from their usual environment. ynamic nuclear polarization has a capacity to transform our understanding of biological structures in their native contexts,
says Susan Lindquist, a professor of biology at MIT, member of the Whitehead Institute, and one of the senior authors of the paper, which appears in the Oct 8 issue of Cell("Sensitivity-Enhanced NMR Reveals Alterations in Protein Structure by Cellular Milieus").
when youe thinking about its biology. To make sure they are getting data only on the protein of interest,
Alexander Rohrbach conducts research at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) and is an associate member of the Cluster of Excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies of the University of Freiburg g
Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine. While current HIV treatments involve pills that are taken daily, the new regimenslong-lasting effects suggest that HIV treatment could be administered perhaps once or twice per year.
biological fluids containing bacteria and blood. Not only did the material repel all the liquid and show anti-biofouling behavior but the tungsten oxide actually made the steel stronger than steel without the coating.
especially in printing highly viscous and sticky biological and polymeric materials where friction and contamination are major obstacles.
and modelling complex biological molecules s
#Buildings producing their own energy prepared for tomorrow's cities An innovative façade, able to turn solar energy into heat for residentsuse,
an essential function for every living cell,"said Huilin Li, a biologist with a joint appointment at Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University."
The scientists are conducting additional studies to explore the biological significance of this unexpected location.
with those in materials science, to realise a biological outcome, Professor Wallace said. his paves the way for the use of more sophisticated printers to create structures with much finer resolution. 3d printing of layered brain-like structures using peptide modified gellan gum substrates
therefore adds further support to the concept that sleep subserves a distinct biological function of sleep
The study appears in the journal PLOS Biology. t an impressive demonstration of imaging our feelings,
which have neurodegenerative biology similar to glaucoma, may also be mediated actively by the brain. ur work has illustrated that the brain will not let us lose control of the same function on both sides of the brain
The research will be published by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, the world largest society of biomedical engineers. t will be difficult to get people with complete paralysis to walk completely independently,
The restoration of sensation with implanted neural arrays is one of several neurotechnology-based advances emerging from DARPA 18-month-old Biological Technologies Office,
The study was published recently online ahead of print by the journal Biological Psychiatry. The molecule in question is known as a regulator of G protein signaling (RGS PROTEIN,
Floating on top of the film was made a membrane of molecules resembling those found in the membranes of biological cells.
First, it expands our knowledge of the biological role of Vitamin b12, which was understood already to help convert fat into energy,
says Catherine Drennan, a professor of chemistry and biology at MIT. The findings are detailed this week in the journal Nature.
says Rowena Matthews, a professor emerita of biological chemistry at the University of Michigan, who has read the paper.
said senior author Michael Levin, Ph d.,the Vannevar bush Professor of Biology at Tufts and director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental biology.
Like biological evolution evolutionary computation does not randomly or exhaustively test each possibility, but instead uses incremental improvement and selection to rapidly converge on a solution. he artificial intelligence system evolved a pathway that correctly explains all the existing and very puzzling data.
or replaced by modern techniques that give the physician an indication of the elasticity of a biological tissue.
The researchers are now attempting to block fibrinogen using biological and small-molecule approaches as potential new therapies to suppress autoimmunity directed against the brain,
#Gel scaffold paves way for 3d printing of biological organs To improve 3d printing, simply add gel.
if wee ever to print the biological structures that make up organs, blood vessels and other tissue.
It will then gradually expand its scope to include biology, physics and the remaining hard sciences, learning from how users interact with software as it goes. e have very specific goals along the way for semantic intensity how deep into a paper our system can get to see what it about,
"says Carrie Albertin, a biologist at the University of Chicago. As technology to sequence DNA has gotten faster and cheaper,
#Color-Changing Substance Detects Biological, Mechanical Problems CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Sept. 9, 2015 Responsive to a range of stimuli, a color-changing metallic substance could help detect problems as varied as mechanical strain and pollution.
In this way the material could be used to detect chemical or biological compounds as well as mechanical and thermal conditions."
Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies used a fluorescent tag that could be added to multiple neurons
The agency newest research department, the Biological Technologies Office, is trying to make them better,
Because DNA is always present in a variety of biological environments the idea of a personal DNA hard drive within the body may also be possible.
This in itself is a perfect biological version of what we currently do today with computers.
There also another reason why this personalized biological hard drive may not be the best option. We do not yet have the technology to read it.
Yet while the biological aspects may be suited perfectly for a variety of applications the economic and logistic hurdles suggest we should only focus on a few aspirations.
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