but the algorithms that handle sound and image processing are inspired by biology, says Professor yvind Brandtsegg at NTNU.
This new photoswitching protein offers a powerful tool for a deeper understanding of molecular processes in biological systems
This is where biological systems come into play. Living cells are real nanomachines that can detect and process many signals
Chemists, physicists, biologists, materials scientists and engineers team up to focus on these essential questions: Which material properties are new,
"The composite nature of our limbs makes building a functional biological replacement particularly challenging, "explains Harald Ott, MD, of the MGH Department of Surgery and the Center for Regenerative medicine, senior author of the paper."
Soft, multisegment actuators used in the soft robotic glove enable an assistive range of motions alike those performed by the biological fingers and thumb.
and silicone elastomer, support the range of motions performed by biological fingers. The glove's control system is portable and lightweight
. who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering AT SEAS."
For the authors of the research, finding a nanothermometer sensitive enough at this scale is a great step forward in the field of nanotechnology, with applications in biology, chemistry, physics and even in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases s
"This opens up a completely new frontier where we can explore the interface between electronic structures and biology.
but no one has addressed this issue-the electronics/cellular interface-at the level at which biology works."
"The idea of merging the biological with the electronic is not a new one for Lieber.
a process common to delivery of many species in biology and medicine-you could go to the doctor
Photo by Liliana DALBA) UA associate professor of biology, Dr. Matthew Shawkey; his colleague Dr. Ali Dhinojwala, Morton Professor of Polymer Science;
Dmitry Fedyanin and Yury Stebunov, have developed an ultracompact highly sensitive nanomechanical sensor for analyzing the chemical composition of substances and detecting biological objects,
researchers make it react with specific substances or even biological objects. If you place antibodies to certain viruses on the cantilever,
and other substances that are important in understanding biological mechanisms without crystallization by simply throwing an ultra intense burst of x-rays onto the sample
compliant smart material, can effectively copy the action of biological chromatophores. Chromatophores are pigmented small cells embedded on cephalopods skin
These methods will help researchers determine which specific aspects of our biology are inherited, and uncover new insights into the genetics behind our countless biological processes
The new design is inspired by the way that plants generate energy through photosynthesis. Biology does a very good job of creating energy from sunlight,
with a possible focus on filtering biological contaminants from groundwater to make it safe to drink. There are already a number of filters on the market that can do this,
The system is equipped also to treat the biological contaminants that Wright initially thought shed be treating,
So, upon stress the material with 13%Upy motif displayed toughening and failure phenomena"very reminiscent of the behavior of highly reinforced biological materials."
"builds on recent research by the same team that previously identified a fat-and-sugar molecule called GSL as the chief culprit behind a range of biological glitches that affect the body's ability to properly use, transport
or macromolecules promises intriguing potential for many areas of biology, chemistry, and nanoscience (Nature Communications,"A Scanning Cavity Microscope").
from the characterization of nanomaterials and biological nanosystems to spectroscopy of quantum emitters s
#Sensors and drones: hi-tech sentinels for crops (Nanowerk News) Sensors and drones can be among the farmers'best friends,
Can we take some inspiration from biology and create a skin-like display? As detailed in the cover article of the June issue of the journal Nature Communications("Polarization-independent actively tunable colour generation on imprinted plasmonic surfaces),
Minjun Kim, Phd, a professor in the College of Engineering and director of the Biological Actuation, Sensing & Transport Laboratory (BASTLAB) at Drexel
This increase of speed is completely necessary for all biological life, which would otherwise be limited by the slow nature of vital chemical reactions.
Such biological adjustments can mean the difference between another run-of-the-mill, ocean-dwelling bacterium and an organism useful for creating products used by people every day.
and observe and study the biological and medical significance of RNA misregulation. Details will be published the week of July 20 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences("Quantification
which opens the way for completely new biological applications of DNA NANOTECHNOLOGY. The design process is automated also highly,
For biological applications, the most crucial difference is that we can now create structures that can be folded in,
physiological salt concentrations that are more suitable for biological applications of DNA NANOSTRUCTURES, explains Dr Hgberg.
The new technique makes it possible to conduct similar biological experiments in a way that resembles conditions within cells even more closely.
The latest breakthrough comes from Lu's collaboration with Kai Tan at the University of Iowa, a systems biologist and associate professor of internal medicine.
or producing designer therapeutics and perhaps one day even non-biological polymers. No one has developed ever something of this nature. e felt like there was a small very small chance Ribo-T could work,
and transport proteins are amazing machines present in biological membranes, "said Manish Kumar, assistant professor of chemical engineering, Penn State."
"The results emerged from discussions among 15 scientists working in the fields of geochemistry, physics, biology,
"How we think about the ways to crystallization impacts how we interpret natural crystallization processes in geochemical and biological environments,
but the concept is the basis for a new method that could enable biologists to image an entire brain in exquisite molecular detail using an ordinary microscope,
The technique, called expansion microscopy, involves physically inflating biological tissues using a material more commonly found in baby nappies (diapers.
Pushing boundaries Viviana Gradinaru, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of technology in Pasadena, says that Boyden technique is another example of how scientists are bypassing hardware limitations by modifying biological tissue.
which lead to blindness. he protocol developed here allows us to generate retinal tissue that closely resembles the biological retina with high efficiency and stability,
and Genomics. ur study marks a significant step towards understanding the biology underpinning schizophrenia, which is an incredibly complex condition
but the biology of these genes are understood poorly, said the study principal investigator Berislav Zlokovic, director of the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute and holder of the Mary Hayley and Selim Zilkha chair for Alzheimer Disease research at the Keck School of medicine. ur new study shows that a deficiency in PICALM in blood vessels
he says. anticipate that this advance will have broad implications ranging from the basic biology of transcription to pathological mechanisms involved in diseases such as Alzheimer disease
The discovery by Tufts University biologists presents the first model of regeneration discovered by a nonhuman intelligence and the first comprehensive model of planarian regeneration,
. Vannevar bush professor of biology and director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental biology. ost regenerative models today derived from genetic experiments are arrow diagrams,
Tufts biologists devloped an algorithm that used evolutionary computation to produce regulatory networks able to volveto accurately predict the results of published research on planarian regeneration.
and biology at Tufts before earning his Ph d. in genetics. Lobo earned a Ph d. in the field before joining the Levin lab. The paper represents a successful application of the growing field of obot sciencewhich Levin says can help human researchers by doing much more than crunch enormous datasets quickly. hile
Lieber. his opens up a completely new frontier where we can explore the interface between electronic structures and biology.
but no one has addressed this issue the electronics/cellular interface at the level at which biology works.
E. P. Taylor Professor of Pain Studies at Mcgill University and Director of the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain. he realization that the biological basis for pain between men and women
and at the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics, The Rockefeller University, was published today in the journal Neuron.
creating a new front in the field of chromatin biology, said Ian Maze, Phd, Assistant professor of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics at the Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai. y identifying this new mechanism of epigenetic regulation,
assistant professor of Biology in the UM College of Arts and Sciences and a senior author of the study. hese data support a critical role for SLC25A46 and mitochondrial dynamics in the establishment and maintenance of neuronal processes.
said Dr Kevin Harrington, professor of biological cancer therapies at the Institute of Cancer Research London (ICR),
taking known fundamental principles of biology and applying them as an engineer would.""Others are more critical."
if you are going to reproduce intestinal biology, "Donowitz says. This lab is moving in that direction.
you may need to remember a bit of basic biology. The enzymes and other proteins in our bodies are built all from building blocks called amino acids.
According to experts at the United nations, the mass killings of the rare antelopes are attributable to a combination of environmental and biological factors.
This way, there are chances that the fluidic computer may find its uses in areas like biology, chemistry,
Researchers are able to study these frequencies to learn about the composition of biological samples and chemical processes taking place within them.
Jonkers hopes that eventually more buildings will be built with the biological concrete, creating structures that will fix themselves instead of degrading into fixer-uppers s
He looks to the recent advances in coding biological strands of DNA in a similar manner as a roadmap for how synthetic polymer technology can progress.
NA was designed really by biology and evolution to work in biological situations, but if you want to work in nanotechnology it is a very different environment,
These qualities make the material a good candidate for a range of applications on biological and nonbiological materials.
#Biologists Discover New Mechanism of Cell division Cell division is fundamental to all life forms. Human body develops from a single cell that divides billions of times to generate all tissue types,
It was funded by Asthma UK, the Cardiff Partnership Fund, Marie Curie Initial Training Network, the Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council and the US National institutes of health t
which opens up potential applications such as the creation of microscopic centrifuges for biological cell sorting or small-scale, low-power water purification."
shape and orientation, said the paper's senior author, Michael Levin, Ph d.,Vannevar bush professor of biology and director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental biology.
and biology at Tufts before earning his Ph d. in genetics. Lobo earned a Ph d. in the field before joining the Levin lab. The paper represents a successful application of the growing field of"robot science
biological chemist Richard Lee, said in a press release. The team went on to develop six compounds that form a new class of antibiotics called aminomethyl spectinomycins.
and could also help them to control proteins and other biological components. It important to note that superlubricity doesn mean that friction disappears entirely,
and related impact of their novel method propels a huge variety of research fields investigating effects relevant from raft tectonics down to biological systems
#Computer solves 120-year-old biology problem that had stumped scientists Can computer software invent scientific theories and ideas as well as crunch numbers?
who have programmed a computer to come up with its own scientific hypothesis on one of biology's most well-known mysteries.
"This opens up a completely new frontier where we can explore the interface between electronic structures and biology.""
which biology works,"adds Lieber. His work has just been published in Nature Nanotechnology. Once injected, the miniature scaffolding is able to unfurl itself
which can deliver biological materials to cells. This allows the cells to be reprogrammed, and essentially recreates a fully functioning laboratory on a piece of plastic the size of a postage stamp. y overall goal is to use technology to reduce the cost of healthcare
essentially creating tiny biological robots that perform the will of their human masters. Using the interface,
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."
"This means that artificial neurons could theoretically be integrated into complex biological systems, such as our bodies,
and research to improve a couple's chances of having a biological child of their own. This discovery can potentially increase those chances."
"Reporting the results in PLOS Biology, the team says with 5ht2ar turned off in mice,
a distinguished professor in biology and physiology at UCLA. The team backed up this hypothesis by recording the electrical signals generated in the men's calf muscles
"Non-destructive manipulation of cells over time and in the correct environment is a key enabling technology highly needed within the biology and medical research communities,
and that incorporation of other factors may improve the ability to select for patients with favorable tumor biology regardless of size who stand to benefit from liver transplantation.
This novel insight about the role of phospholipid metabolism in photoreceptor biology paves the way for new sight-saving treatments.
Targeted biological therapy can reduce toxicity and improve outcomes for many cancer patients, when compared to the adverse effects of standard chemotherapeutic drugs.
Complex, 3d micro/nanostructures are ubiquitous in biology, where they provide essential functions in even the most basic forms of life.
Henggui Zhang, Professor of Biological Physics at The University of Manchester and lead author of the study,
Lewis and North eastern biology pro fessor Slava Epstein co-`authored the paper with col leagues from the Uni ver sity of Bonn in Ger many, Novo Bi
#Researchers uncover key cancer-promoting gene One of the mysteries in cancer biology is how one protein,
and that involve previously unsuspected biological pathways. Perhaps most importantly, we found that these pathways work completely in the nucleus of the cell by regulating the expression of key target genes,
This interaction by SCFA and T-cells surprised co-investigators Fengchun Ye, assistant professor of biological sciences at the Case Western Reserve University School of dental medicine,
When light is shined into living biological tissue breathing and blood flow changes the optical interference or speckle pattern
To overcome this obstacle the team used a fast-responding photorefractive crystal that is sensitive to light at the 790-nanometer wavelength making it suitable to focus light deep into biological tissue.
The improved speed allowed Wang to achieve the first optical focusing of diffuse light inside a scattering medium containing living biological tissue.
and report how molecules behave enabling biological measurements to be made by almost anyone using only common and inexpensive laboratory reagents.
Wong who is also Assistant professor at Harvard Medical school in the Departments of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology and Pediatrics and Investigator at the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital calls the new
Professor of Vascular Biology at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical school and a Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard SEAS.
Biomedical researchers all over the world can start using this new method right away to investigate how biological compounds interact with their targets using commonly-available supplies at very low cost t
and further groups from Freiburg and Hungary has refuted a long-held assumption in biology: The scientists have shown that it is not only possible to extend the functions of organelles--organs of the cell
This is a fundamentally new approach for biology, biotechnology, and medicine,"says Schiller. With the help of chemical reactions that were previously impossible in the cell,
He heads a research group at the Center for Systems Biology (ZBSA) of the University of Freiburg that combines chemical biology, organic synthesis, synthetic biology,
and the Cluster of Excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies of the University of Freiburg
which now contains detailed information on 12,122 species and 2, 440 experts on biological invasions in Europe.
when assessing the health, economic and ecological hazards,"estimates the biologist Dr. Stefan Klotz of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research.
"It was planned originally to limit the list of species to be combated actively to 50,"reports Professor of Biology Ingolf Kühn from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research."
Mr. Goldstein originally came to the Feinstein Institute as a molecular biologist working with cells chemicals and drugs.
if a complete treatment can be achieved said John March professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell University and the paper's senior author.
and while they may sometimes act alone proteins most often interact with other proteins to carry out their normal biological functions.
and engineering them to be biosensors that change their color in response to specific biological events Campbell has provided a tool for researchers to immediately pinpoint a major change at the cellular level minimizing the need for extensive biosensor optimization and providing
Dr. Melanie Mormile professor of biological sciences at Missouri S&t and her team discovered the bacterium Halanaerobium hydrogeninformans in Soap Lake Washington.
#How cancer turns good cells to the dark side A new computational study by researchers at the Rice-based Center for Theoretical Biological Physics shows how cancer cells take advantage of the system by
The first clues biologists had to notch-delta signaling came a century ago in studies of the wing formation of fruit flies.
This finding opens up new avenues for research in this disease by giving new clues about the biological mechanisms involved.
Given the likelihood that thousands of variants are involved large scale international efforts such as in this study are an important step in unravelling this genetic and biological complexity so as to develop new and better treatments.
By working together in large collaborative projects we can tackle these types of problems and further our understanding of the biology of the brain.
Understanding this biology is necessary to move toward better treatment and prevention options for stress-related psychiatric and medical conditions
However they used a biological technology for this purpose that they developed and published in Nature Protocols three years ago.
It is shorter than any insulin that has been described in any animal said senior author Baldomero M. Olivera a distinguished professor of biology at the University of Utah.
and controlled for thereby allowing relevant biological signals to be identified more easily. We've defined how factors such as cell-cycle stage measurement noise
so you can reveal the underlying biology explains Oliver Stegle Research Group Leader at EMBL-EBI.
Unfortunately in biology that's right where things get interesting says Boyden who is a member of MIT's Media Lab and Mcgovern Institute for Brain Research.
And the cast itself is swollen unimpeded by the original biological structure Tillberg says. The MIT team imaged this cast with commercially available confocal microscopes commonly used for fluorescent imaging
There are lots of biological questions where you have to understand a large structure Boyden says. Especially for the brain you have to be able to image a large volume of tissue
helps explain the biologic basis of these diseases and suggests targets for drug treatments and gene therapy, said Daiger, the report's senior author and holder of the Thomas Stull Matney Ph d. Endowed Professorship in Environmental and Genetic sciences at UTHEALTH School of Public health."
"Lynch and his colleagues note their findings represent a novel explanation for how entirely new biological structures
the study is directed by Erwin Wagner head of the BBVA Foundation-CNIO Cancer cell Biology Program.
The high penetration of X-rays is favoured for three-dimensional tomographic imaging of objects such as biological cells
This is where biological systems come into play. Living cells are real nanomachines that can detect and process many signals
'said Chien Ho, the alumni rofessor of biological sciences at Carnegie mellon.''When the drugs collect in those organs,
shape and orientation, said the paper's senior author, Michael Levin, Ph d.,Vannevar bush professor of biology and director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental biology."
Tufts biologists devloped an algorithm that used evolutionary computation to produce regulatory networks able to"evolve"to accurately predict the results of published research on planarian regeneration.
and biology at Tufts before earning his Ph d. in genetics. Lobo earned a Ph d. in the field before joining the Levin lab. The paper represents a successful application of the growing field of"robot science
Co-senior study investigator and cancer biologist Iannis Aifantis, Phd, says the study offers the first evidence that"drugs targeting
"The ability to precisely control droplets using fluidic computation could have a number of applications in high-throughput biology and chemistry,
#Stem cell discovery paves way for targeted treatment for osteoarthritis Researchers in the Departments of Biology and Physics at York,
said Ek Han Tan, a postdoctoral researcher in the UC Davis Department of Plant Biology and first author on the paper.
and biological systems at the atomic level with high efficiency is a current roadblock to solving many of today's greatest scientific challenges in energy,
inspired by biological chromatophores, which creates patterns that change and morph over time and mimic biological patterning.
Arraythe researchers have shown the artificial skin, made from electroactive dielectric elastomer, a soft, compliant smart material, can effectively copy the action of biological chromatophores.
Chromatophores are pigmented small cells embedded on cephalopods skin which can expand and contract and that work together to change skin colour and texture.
"said Lee Kerkhof, a professor of marine and coastal sciences in the School of Environmental and Biological sciences."
"Biology is a way to solve this contamination problem, especially in situations like this where the radionuclides are diluted highly
we begin to understand more about the biology of the disease itself. This study tells us more about the biology of ovarian cancer from the early development stage than most research has.'
'Ovarian cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer in American women and seventh most common cancer in women throughout the world (World health organization.
enabling in-situ measurements in various security and health relevant fields including biology, medicine, food control, and pharmacy.
and will lead to new candidates for biological and medical applications, and new production routes for enzymes of industrial use."
"We believe we have identified a mechanism that seizes the cancer's biological engine and could potentially stop it in its tracks."
According to Paul Okano, program director at the Division of Cancer Biology of the National Cancer Institute,
'The research was supported by Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome Trust and the Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council UK K
a biological feature used to measure the presence or progress of a disease. To take the test,
or macromolecules promises intriguing potential for many areas of biology, chemistry, and nanoscience. Spectroscopic measurements on large ensembles of nanoparticles suffer from the fact that individual differences in size, shape,
from the characterization of nanomaterials and biological nanosystems to spectroscopy of quantum emitters. e
#Nanostructure design enables pixels to produce two different colors depending on polarization of incident light Through precise structural control,
and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois."The complexity and systems nature of the process have been largely underappreciated,
More broadly, by using the ABE fermentation as an example, the work further sheds light on systems biology toward an integrated and quantitative understanding of complex microbial physiology
The identification of a new mitochondrial disease gene not only provides valuable basic information about the biological function
A biological element? Arrayclark Johnson, a professor of geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Biologists say this process"is really deep in the tree of life, but we've had little evidence from the rock record until now,
that early biological molecules may have been based iron.""NASA has made the search for life in space a major focus and sponsors the UW-Madison Astrobiology Institute,
"In my introductory geochemistry textbook from 1980, there is no mention of biology, and so every diagram showing
The Food safety and Technology Research Centre under the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology of The Hong kong Polytechnic University (Polyu) has developed a new method for rapid authentication of edible oils and screening
"explains Yingfu Li, a professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Biomedical sciences, Chemistry and Chemical Biology."
and research to improve a couple's chances of having a biological child of their own. This discovery can potentially increase those chances."
"Cheng and doctoral students Jilong Li and Jie Hou partnered with members of the MU Center for Botanical Interaction Studies, the Division of Biological sciences, the Department of chemistry, the Department of Biochemistry,
The team achieved three advances in the development of semiconductor and biological materials. One advance was the demonstration, by strictly chemical means, of three-dimensional lithography.
The testing showed that the synthetic silicon spicules displayed stronger interactions with collagen fibers--a skin-like stand-in for biological tissue--than did currently available silicon structures.
The latest publication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry now was nominated as one of the best 50 out of this year's 6
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