of which the University of Basel is the co-leading house e
#Study creates cell immunity to parasite that infects 50 million There are two common approaches to protecting humans from infectious disease:
but conventional, motorized trackers are too heavy and bulky for pitched rooftops and vehicle surfaces.
and condenses it into something that is essentially flat, "said Aaron Lamoureux, a doctoral student in materials science and engineering and first author on the paper in Nature Communications.
Residential rooftops make up about 85 percent of solar panel installations in the U s.,according to a report from the Department of energy,
but these roofs would need significant reinforcing to support the weight of conventional sun-tracking systems.
and a variety of biochemical building blocks. The research is a major advance toward synthetic photosynthesis, a type of solar power based on the ability of plants to transform sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into sugars.
and a variety of biochemical building blocks. The research is a major advance toward synthetic photosynthesis a type of solar power based on the ability of plants to transform sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into sugars.
This research demonstrates for the first time that it is possible to transmit electric signals in an insulating material.
and Naveen Rawat G'15--opens a window to view how increasing"long-range order"in the organic semiconductor films is a key mechanism that allows excitons to migrate farther."
The tiny particles can be bound to compounds ranging from calcium tooth building materials to antimicrobials that prevent infection.
#New light shed on infertility puzzle, could improve in vitro fertilization We don't know if a sperm actually experiences joy
which must happen within a 12-to 24-hour window of time, or fertilization will not occur
"Discovery of these oviductosomes provides us with a window into the cargo being delivered by the female to the sperm,
#Physicists determine 3-D positions of individual atoms for the first time Atoms are the building blocks of all matter On earth,
tested on a Stanford rooftop, addresses a problem that has bedeviled long the solar industry: The hotter solar cells get,
In the current issue of Plant Cell, they describe how they fabricated a synthetic protein that not only improves the assembly of the carbon-fixing factory of cyanobacteria,
and in a sense, they are molecular factories with many different pieces of machinery. They modernized the factory by updating the carboxysome,
a particularly complex BMC that requires a series of protein-protein interactions involving at least six gene products to form a metabolic core that takes CO2 out of the atmosphere and converts it into sugar.
"We've showed that we can greatly simplify the construction of these factories, "she said."
"We can now potentially redesign other naturally occurring factories or dream up new ones for metabolic processes we'd like to install in bacteria."
They are capable of killing bacteria by creating holes in their cellular wall and preventing any counterattack on their side.
which a protein is assembled from amino acid building blocks, the use of"fast"and"slow"codons can affect protein folding,
one cancerous cell breaks off from a tumor, slips into the bloodstream and quickly lodges elsewhere in the body.
The experiment was carried out in dark rooms in two UW labs located almost a mile apart and involved five pairs of participants,
and does not close all the way, blood flows backward into the upper heart chamber (atrium) from the lower chamber as it contracts.
Further studies and commericalization Building on the encouraging results from the earlier phases of the project, the team is now refining the design of the existing device.
"We've demonstrated a two-qubit logic gate--the central building block of a quantum computer--and, significantly, done it in silicon.
"This makes the building of a quantum computer much more feasible, since it is based on the same manufacturing technology as today's computer industry,
The result means that all of the physical building blocks for a silicon-based quantum computer have now been constructed successfully
#Liquid cooling moves onto the chip for denser electronics Using microfluidic passages cut directly into the backsides of production field-programmable gate array (FPGA) devices,
Combined with connection technology that operates through structures in the cooling passages, the new technologies could allow development of denser
The cooling comes from simple deionized water flowing through microfluidic passages that replace the massive air-cooled heat sinks normally placed on the backs of chips."
"We believe we have eliminated one of the major barriers to building high-performance systems that are more compact
They then etched cooling passages into the silicon, incorporating silicon cylinders approximately 100 microns in diameter to improve heat transmission into the liquid.
A silicon layer was placed then over the flow passages, and ports were attached for the connection of water tubes.
or by the resistance change in a tunnel contact with a magnetic probe. Employing a scanning tunneling microscope researchers of the University of Hamburg were now able to demonstrate that the resistance changes also
and as a means of building compact X-ray lasers and electron sources for use in materials research,
and Zhitomirsky, a materials science and engineering professor, demonstrates an improved three-dimensional energy storage device constructed by trapping functional nanoparticles within the walls of a nanocellulose foam.
and Eliza Hall Institute have created the first three-dimensional image of a key protein known to be involved in the development of blood and other cancers.
When you plug a device like a computer into the wall, electronic circuitry in the computer's power supply converts the AC oscillations into direct current (DC) that the device can use.
In a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative,
The lenses were enclosed then in an all-plastic, 3d printed microscope housing and objective. Once constructed, the microscope provided a field of view of 1. 2 millimeters,
reflectors, and USB detectors, combined with the all-plastic housing and lenses will allow for future versions of the prototype to be mass-produced d
ENT surgeons commonly use endoscopic approaches to remove brain tumors through the nose by making a window through the blood-brain barrier to access the brain.
demonstrated significant benefits of implanting a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) in the right atrium to provide better blood flow through the lungs,
Our team placed an additional Heartware HVAD, the smallest available LVAD, in the right atrium, the upper chamber of the heart,
"The right atrium is considered a more ideal chamber for placing a mechanical pump to support right-sided circulation.
and the location next to the right lung makes accommodation for the pump's motor in the chest cavity more feasible.
"Our method of direct conversion of ethanol offers a pathway to produce suitable hydrocarbon blend-stock that may be blended at a refinery to yield fuels such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel or commodity chemicals,
"by taking really simple building blocks but organizing them in a fashion that results in really impressive mechanical properties."
#3-D printed'building blocks'of Life scientists have developed a 3-D printing method capable of producing highly uniform'blocks'of embryonic stem cells.
These cells--capable of generating all cell types in the body--could be used as the'Lego bricks'to build tissue constructs, larger structures of tissues,
providing the basic building blocks for other researchers to perform experiments on tissue regeneration and/or for drug screening studies."
response in real time Scientists have shown for the first time that tumour DNA shed into the bloodstream can be used to track cancers in real time as they evolve
But this work gives us a window into the future, where we'll use less invasive techniques to track the disease in real time
Project partner and Fraunhofer spinoff Bio Gate AG successfully transferred the processes of coating the test samples
Openings around the edge channel sound through 36 passages towards a microphone in the middle. Each passage modifies the sound in a subtly different way as it travels towards the centreoughly
as if an equalizer with different settings were affecting the sound in each slice, explains senior author Steven Cummer, an electrical engineer at Duke university in Durham, North carolina a
Berkeley. t could have important implications for the development of smarter prosthetics. his is just the beginning of the path toward building fully integrated artificial skin,
which houses the hippocampus, improves memory that is functioning poorly. But when memory is functioning well,
In 2012, a man with one leg took the stairs all the way to the top of Chicago Willis Tower on a thought-controlled prosthetic limb.
What other forms of waste can also be reused in educational, community-building ways y
#Smart mirrors in fitting rooms show heat in action Savvy retailers are increasingly utilizing smart technology to enhance their customersinstore experience.
We have seen already Hirsh and Mann smart sample spoon, which helps customers remember the mustard flavors they liked.
Now, Japanese retail chain Uniqlo has collaborated with Alexander Svensson to install smart heat-sensitive mirrors in its changing rooms,
Now a pop-up home lab is harnessing the power of citizen scientists to find future antibiotics in their backyards.
stand, walk, dance it can even beam a movie or slideshow on your wall with its built-in projector.
and sound and audio tech specialist Gates Tan came in as CTO to tackle the technical details.
The implant is comprised of a series of tiny permanent sutures that lift the enlarged prostate open
Eleven gold strands are stretched side by side like footbridges across a 23-micrometer gap just 270 nanometers above the gold surface below them.
Incoming plasmons, created by laser light at one end of the array, travel though this air gap between the bridges and the bottom gold layer.
allowing more than an extra half of a plasmonic wave to fit under the bridge. Because it exactly out of phase with the original wave, this additional half wavelength can be used to selectively cancel the wave,
making the bridge an optical switch. At 23 micrometers, the prototype is relatively large, but according to NIST researcher Vladimir Aksyuk, their calculations show that the device could be shortened by a factor of 10,
but the same regulation also affects the consumption of oxygen a scarce resource in ischemic regions. ells that have high SHMT2 activity have low PKM2 activity,
says Marina Caskey, assistant professor of clinical investigation in the Nussenzweig lab and co-first author of the study. 3bn117,
added co-author Pier Paolo Pandolfi, the HMS George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine and director of the Cancer Genetics Program at Beth Israel Deaconess,
The engineered Rocker protein acts like a tiny gate, designed so that zinc ions and protons can flow in a controlled way across the lipid-membrane barrier around the cell-like vesicle.
not only of these three components but also their interactions with each other. f we can come up with an electrolyte that has a higher electrochemical window for multivalent batteries,
if I want a voltage window that precisely here,?Persson said. e filtered down about a hundred candidates to one.
the most common building block today for biosynthesis. e believe our system is a revolutionary leap forward in the field of artificial photosynthesis,
which are the basic charges to make the building blocks of ionic devices such as to name only a few can be, fuel cells, electrolysis cells, batteries, gas sensors,
) techniques to create atomically flat layered multi structure, with individual layers of approximately 3 nanometers each. esearchers have tried to stabilize Bismuth oxide for almost a century, but failed.
The Hands Omni glove developed at Rice Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen will provide a way for gamers
This enhanced electromagnetic field, in turn, increases the signal produced by any molecule within the gap. f some disease marker comes in and bridges the gap between the nanostructures
#Transparent Armor based on Spinel Could Also Ruggedize Your Smart Phone Imagine a glass window that tough like armor,
Except it not glass, it a special ceramic called spinel {spin-ELL} that the U s. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has been researching over the last 10 years. pinel is actually a mineral,
That means the military, for imaging systems, an use spinel as the window because it allows the infrared light to come through.
NRL is also looking at spinel for the windows on lasers operating in maritime and other hostile environments. e got to worry about wave slap and saltwater and things like that,
But previous attempts had yielded window where most of it would look cloudy and there would be an odd region here
Spinel windows could also protect sensors on space satellites, an area Sanghera interested in testing. ou could leave these out there for longer periods of time,
passive is just a protective window; active is where we change the color of light coming out the other end.
For passive laser applications, like exit apertures (windows), the key is high quality. hat window, if it got any impurities or junk,
which can cause the window to break. Sanghera and his colleagues have demonstrated, working with ltra high purityspinel powder theye synthesized in NRL clean rooms, spinel incredible potential.
Giuseppe Pulella, Programme Manager for the laser transmitter at the Selex-ES factory near Florence, added, e have been working at the forefront of optics
which devastated the base camp, where hundreds of climbers were waiting for a break in the weather to ascend the worlds highest peak.
The earthquake caused huge cracks to open in the streets of Kathmandu. The Nepalese capital lies in a sediment filled basin,
where many buildings collapsed and at least 524 people lost their lives. Police sources spoke of 1000 more deaths in the rural areas of Nepal. 50 more people were killed in northeastern India,
This quake destroyed a quarter of all buildings in Kathmandu. In 1998 an international group of seismologists and experts on disaster preparedness got together
which forms a bridge with some cells of the immune system, initiating the attack, says study lead author Andrés Finzi, researcher at the CRCHUM and a professor at the University of Montreal.
and the inner wall of the Target Bay has created unique design, logistic and engineering challenges.
and the (Target Bay) wall, said system manager Jay Ayers. o get the magnification we need (more than 10. 5x) we needed an additional one meter of space,
and a replaceable debris window that can be exchanged easily between shots. Like the KBO itself
the design of the debris window was bounded by multiple constraints: the necessary clearance from laser beampaths, the high velocity of the debris ind,
the device works because of the relationship between the frequency of the mirror oscillation and the timing of the positioning of the perfect angle for the incoming X-ray. f you sit on a Ferris wheel holding a mirror,
The speed of the Ferris wheel determines the frequency of the flashes you see, he said. he Argonne team work is incredibly exciting
In contrast, the new discovery shows that T cell receptors are incredibly activeore like a bustling train station,
Because proteins have many of the same modular building blocks, in principle, any protein with structural characteristics comparable to those of ZAP-70 could be controlled by similar mechanisms,
is akin to a builder having the capacity to construct a house using glass, metal, brick,
1) ohn threw out the old trash sitting in the kitchen. 2) ohn threw the old trash sitting in the kitchen out. ither sentence is grammatically acceptable,
but you probably found the first one to be more natural. Why? Perhaps because of the placement of the word ut,
and ommunicate withengineered bacteria Super productive factories of the future could employ fleets of genetically engineered bacterial cells,
The sensor housing, made of a biocompatible plastic, is small enough to fit into the tip of a biopsy needle.
what it opens up is a new window into the quantum world, where materials with new properties can be studied.
including quantum Hall physics and topological insulators. e are adding new perspectives to physics, Ketterle says. e are touching on the unknown,
it has to be able to make concrete, quantitative predictions about the learner behavior.?Ultimately, we hope that the work can be used to help teachers develop lesson plans
whether it is installed in new construction or on existing buildings, whether the site host is a for-profit commercial or tax-exempt entity, the module efficiency level,
and whether the system is installed on a rooftop or is mounted ground, either with or without tracking.
along with a summary slide deck and data file, may be downloaded at trackingthesun. lbl. gov. Source: LB g
A process that had taken a year from farm to pharmaceutical factory now occurs in three to five days in yeast genetically engineered to biosynthesize the active ingredients for opioid painkillers;
processed and shipped to pharmaceutical factories in the United states, where the active drug molecules are extracted
many experts thought it would be impossible to engineer yeast to replace the entire farm-to-factory process,
but even after the Stanford bioengineers added this enzyme into their microbial factory, the yeast didn create enough of the opioid compound.
Bio-produced thebaine would still need to be refined through sophisticated processes in pharmaceutical factories, but it would eliminate the time delay of growing poppies. he molecules we produced
The system sends a pulse of laser light off of a wall or surface and into a nonvisible space.
and climb into cave walls and ceilings. ven though geology tells us there should be caves at these sites,
Next they dyed the sample with 14 different dyes in a narrow emission window and excited and photoswitched the molecules with one laser.
and thus readily identifiable. hat useful because it means we had a way to do multicolor imaging within a very narrow emission window,
Building on its strengths in biology computer science, psychology, statistics and engineering, CMU launched Brainhub, an initiative that focuses on how the structure and activity of the brain give rise to complex behaviors m
This was achieved by using a tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) device to work at room temperature. In a world first, the group led by Professor Yasuo Ando of the Graduate school of Engineering in collaboration with Konica Minolta,
a flat, hard plastic plate. Led by materials science and engineering professor Kristopher Kilian, chemistry professorjeffrey Moore and graduate student Joshua Grolman,
#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.
more precisely than ever before using a process that turns human cells into a biological equivalent of LEGO bricks.
and building a model of their tissue to use as a personalized drug screening platform.
and spread of tumors. ells aren lonely little automatons, Gartner said. hey communicate through networks to make group decisions.
assistant professor of civil & environmental engineering. ith these two extremes happening at the same time, the threat is far more significant.
it seems smooth and flat, but we know that if you really zoom in to a superfine level,
The research was supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation the National Science Foundation and the National institutes of health.
A research group from Osaka University is collaborating with Mittleman group to implement the device in a prototype terahertz network theye building. his is a first-generation
This controller drug forms a chemical bridge between components inside the CAR T cells flipping the cells into an active, nstatus.
Lung and Blood Institute of the National institutes of health, published their work in a recent issue of Lab on a Chip. ell sorting is used widely in many areas of biology to characterize
LHON is one of many diseases tied to gene mutations that damage the tiny energy factories that power our cells,
so the crystals stood up like spikes instead of lying flat as they do produced when using current techniques.
and one on the other side of the heart wall. The clinician then deploys the patch and turns on the catheter UV LIGHT.
or building blocks, in its genetic material, and a drop of blood from a patient with resistant HIV can contain thousands to millions of copies of HIV.
and exists for only a brief window of time to direct early zygotic development. eople used to think that
and engineering, allowing researchers to open new windows into phenomena as vast as the universe and as small as nanoparticles.
SDSC Neuroscience Gateways project will contribute to the national BRAIN INITIATIVE announced by the Obama Administration to deepen our understanding of the human brain.
#New microscopic imaging technology reveals origins of leukaemia The researchers studied tiny protein-producing factories,
One of the final assembly steps involves the release of a key building block that allows the ribosome to become fully functional.
But don think there are any huge barriersto building such a demonstration he says. n theory,
The company intends to explore domestic applications as well. he Charlottesville factory will be a clean production facility with a simple production process
Smith said. e are actively raising additional capital to help us bring this innovative public health product to people in need around the world. adidrop PBC administrative office is located on Allied Street in Charlottesville
and the production facility is on Avon Street o
#Deep-sea bacteria could help neutralize greenhouse gas, researchers find A type of bacteria plucked from the bottom of the ocean could be put to work neutralizing large amounts of industrial carbon dioxide in the Earth atmosphere,
when researchers turned down the temperature in their living quarters. The drugs also significantly reduced the negative effects of a high-fat diet in mice,
or housing them at 17 degrees C (62.6 degrees F) each prevented more than 25 percent of this weight gain.
Last year, Herr entered the female contraceptive arena with his new start-up, Ovastasis. Like his previous companies,
#Cancer cells use secret tunnels to communicate and smuggle cancer signals their neighbors New research in The FASEB Journal suggests that an in vitro co-culture system robustly quantifies the transfer of fluorescent proteins between cells
they observed a transfer of red material into the green healthy cells of the mice mammary fat pads. exican drug lords are not the only ones who use secret tunnels to move material across seemingly impenetrable borders,
Now that we know these tunnels exist we can shut them down or use them to deliver lifesaving therapies. o
Starved of these building blocks, the cells die. Importantly, normal cells in the body do not have SETD2 mutations,
The service will become available by attaching a special antenna to the roof of a user building.
However, our eyes are not flat, unlike most of contemporary phototransistors, which are made on rigid surfaces.
which is part of a cellular process that controls the making of guanine nucleotides, one of the building blocks for DNA and RNA.
and can detect motion in conditions ranging from a poorly lit room to very bright sunlight outdoorshree times faster than fast flying insects,
Romesberg and his colleagues had created a bacterium incorporating chemical building blocks that, as far as anybody knows,
except to say it is ell studiedand that they added a new function to it,
Earlier this month, Deutsche telekom, Germany largest telecom provider, installed a small LTE cell tower containing Kumu technology on a rooftop in Prague.
or blocked by buildings, cars, or people from making a direct line-of-site connection with the tower.
On the whole, the capacity-doubling trick worked in those varying conditions, says Steven Hong, director of product and a cofounder of Kumu.
To complete the bridge of the man spinal cord injury, doctors then inserted more than 16 fine wires into the volunteer right arm and hand.
#Laser-printed holograms could enable'smart windows'Making holograms isn't easy-it requires expensive equipment, complex physics and time-consuming recording techniques.
or even used to create 3d artwork and"smart windows"."It also has applications in holographic data storage."
That might explain why John Lewis boss Andy Street has poured cold water on the idea of Black Friday,
"Street predicts that Black Friday 2015 will still see lots of deals around electronics and computing,
not least because it gives retailers less room to manoeuvre if sales closer to Christmas need some extra oomph.
But as John Lewis's Andy Street said, the genie's out of the bottle-so if retailers don't take part,
but also because there is room for manoeuvre in their prices. Last year in the US we saw the Macbook Pro and 21.5-inch imacs selling for $900 a pop
and cater walls during the summer months on Mars. Eventually these dark streaks dry up as the planet's surface cools in autumn.
water is the central building block to all animals, bacteria and everything else alive today y
"a mixture of the Japanese words for"robot"and"phone")and it does everything from make phonecalls to project movies on your living room wall.
Our findings show that by introducing a small amount of graphene to the base material can reduce the thermal operating window to room temperature
#Tadpole endoscope offers new hope for gastrointestinal cancer detection Hong kong researchers have devised a swimming housing for a capsule endoscopy camera which can be steered around to provide better images inside the stomach
and turn when it reached the stomach wall. The researchers envisage that the patient would swallow the capsule on an empty stomach
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