or consumers. conomists tend to think what drives international price differences are things like transportation costs, information costs, tariffs, cultural differences, and other factors,
can you find the same item delivered to the consumer in the exact same way with the exact same retailer, with the exact same procedures?
CRISPR which offers an easy way to snip out mutated DNA and replace it with the correct sequence holds potential for treating many genetic disorders according to the research team.
Previous work had demonstrated ways of selectively reflecting light except for one precise angle, but those approaches were limited to a narrow range of colors of light.
It s an interesting way of thinking about materials synthesis which is very different from
In an incubator at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, the renamed Sample6 tailored the product for the food industry before relocating to its current headquarters in Boston Seaport District,
Further down the road, he says, a goal is to transform diagnostics into something more accessible to the public perhaps even leading to at home diagnostics. undamentally,
A team of MIT chemists and chemical engineers has designed a way to manufacture peptides in mere hours.
Creating and studying peptides that are mirror images of these natural proteins could pave the way to developing such peptides as new drugs with completely different functions from the right-handed versions.
whether nature might do it in the same way she says. Marchese built the fish in Rus lab where other researchers are working on printable robotics.
Wee a long way from that, but it not inconceivable. Koch Institute postdoc Alexandra Naba is the lead author of the study
and charging them requires plug-in infrastructure that s still sparse in the United states. Now MIT spinout XL Hybrids is upfitting (and retrofitting) gas and diesel commercial vans and trucks with fuel-saving add-on electric powertrains
The system s powertrain includes an electric traction motor a lithium-ion battery advanced power converters
and other connecting components that attach to the powertrains of traditional General motors and Ford cargo delivery and shuttle vans as well as cutaway trucks.
-and-go traffic of urban areas. Over the past year XL Hybrids co-founded by Clay Siegert SM 09
and other companies have started retrofitting vehicles with electric powertrains. But XL Hybrids innovation comes from targeting commercial fleet vehicles with a good value proposition all around Hynes says offering low-cost equipment quick installation savings on gas and oil and easy integration.
An XL Hybrids electric motor adds torque to an existing powertrain meaning a customer can reduce the size of the engine from say a 6-liter to a 4. 8-liter
and more than 95 percent of transportation fuel is oil. So he quit his job in 2008 with the aim of starting a company to cut oil consumption.
With rising innovations in batteries and advanced power inverters and motors Hynes backed into a technological solution with retrofitted electric powertrains.
Now a team of engineers at MIT has developed a new way to deliver such vaccines directly to the lymph nodes
the researchers took advantage of albumin function as a transporter of molecules called fatty acids. Albumin has binding pockets that can capture fatty, hydrophobic molecules,
and no way to continue that education Priyadarshi says. And often in India he says Once they become teachers they re shy of going back to education.
and a bicycle-powered charging system for cellphones and lanterns. Davide Zaccagnini a vascular surgeon and program manager for the Science Monks and Technology Leadership Program says he was motivated to join because
and mentality of the young Tibetans and monks who see things a different way. The program emphasizes leadership
Krebs says it may use the MIT-Manus robot as a more efficient way to evaluate the drug impact by employing the measurement techniques on a smaller group of patients n
but still stimulates the auditory nerve in the appropriate way. Verification The waveform was based on prior research involving simulated nerve fibers,
and found a low-power way to implement it in hardware. Two of their collaborators at MEEI Konstantina Stankovic, an ear surgeon who co-led the study with Chandrakasan,
and fmri have been connected in this way, giving us a unique perspective, Pantazis says. e now have the tools to precisely map brain function both in space and time,
It even being used in helicopter extraction and rescue missions. Finding steady success with its military customers, Atlas is now expanding its Charlestown, Mass.
now it closer to 8 pounds, Ball says. ee always trying to find better ways to accomplish things.
Also, the APA can function as a backup for a helicopter if something goes awry with the primary hoist:
Instead of flying the helicopter back to base for a working hoist, rescuers can store the APA in a seat compartment,
when you get the chance to enable something you couldn do before like continue a helicopter rescue operation
Hypothetically, Finkelstein notes, the results ould have gone either way, which makes empirical work all the more important.
Other scholars in the field say the study opens the way for further scrutiny of emergency room use.
In this way the software was able to analyze the information to detect subtle trends in the features of these faces that made them more or less memorable to people.
but always in a very subtle way Oliva says. We all wish to use a photo that makes us more visible to our audience says Aleix Martinez an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ohio State university.
The way a camera senses images is through different numbers of detected photons at different pixels Kirmani says.
That assumption enables the system to filter out noise in a more principled way. Kirmani developed the computational imager together with his advisor Vivek Goyal a research scientist in RLE and other members of Goyal s Signal Transformation and Information Representation Group.
In a conventional Time of Flight camera, a light signal is fired at a scene where it bounces off an object
#Creating synthetic antibodies MIT chemical engineers have developed a novel way to generate nanoparticles that can recognize specific molecules, opening up a new approach to building durable sensors for many different compounds
and thus provides a promising alternative route for n demandmolecular sensing, says Cognet, who was not part of the research team.
They are now working on a way to predict such polymer-nanotube interactions based on the structure of the corona layers,
But MIT researchers have now found a way to burst through that perceived barrier, reducing the contact time by at least 40 percent.
For example, in trying to prevent the buildup of ice on an airplane wing, the contact time of raindrops is critical:
The way to achieve that minimum contact time, the conventional wisdom holds, is to minimize interaction between the water and the surface,
But Varanasi team found that increasing the surface interaction in a particular way can speed the process beyond that previous limit.
in such a way that the overall contact time is reduced significantly, says Bird, the paper lead author. he upshot is that the surface stays drier longer
It will be interesting to see possible ways these ideas might be applied in the future. In addition to waterproofing and prevention of surface icing
Now, MIT researchers have come up with a way to cool hot surfaces more effectively by keeping droplets from bouncing.
recent MIT Phd recipient Hyuk-Min Kwon and former MIT postdoc J. C. Bird, was to find a way to increase the temperature at which water droplets start bouncing.
and quite sophisticated mechanism may open new routes for manipulating particles and cells in an elegant manner.
In 2006, Doyle lab developed a way to create huge batches of identical particles made of hydrogel, a spongy polymer.
A new study from MIT and the University of Toronto offers a possible way to overcome that resistance.
To do that they developed a new way to tag the drug with a protein fragment developed in Kelley s lab that can enter the cell
There are other ways for a cell to die besides apoptosis. You want a therapeutic agent to induce programmed cell death
the machine gets out of the way as much as it needs to so you do not impose motion,
Moreover one of the MIT researchers innovations was a new compact way to represent the differences between individual speakers voices
while resting and are unable to mentally replay a route they have just run as normal mice do.
and in no particular order indicating that the mice were not replaying the route they had just run.
#Finding blood clots before they wreak havoc Life-threatening blood clots can form in anyone who sits on a plane for a long time is confined to bed
There is no fast and easy way to diagnose these clots which often remain undetected until they break free
A team of engineers has developed a way to detect blood clots using a simple urine test. The noninvasive diagnostic described in a recent issue of the journal ACS Nano relies on nanoparticles that detect the presence of thrombin a key blood-clotting factor.
including materials used in aircraft, oil wells, and other critical industrial applications. Metal fatigue, for example which can result from an accumulation of nanoscale cracks over time s probably the most common failure modefor structural metals in general
In the rotationone reason the Bingham distribution is so useful for robot vision is that it provides a way to combine information from different sources.
and Popovic s algorithm to explore possible rotations in a principled way quickly converging on the one that provides the best fit between points.
Big umbrellamoreover in the same way that the Bingham distribution can combine the probabilities for each pair of points into a single probability it can also incorporate probabilities from other sources of information such as estimates of the curvature of objects surfaces.
distribution will eventually become the standard way in which roboticists represent object orientation. The Bingham distribution lives on a hypersphere Bradski says the higher-dimensional equivalent of a circle or sphere.
Gilpin says. f you drop one of these along the way, or something goes wrong, it can rejoin the group,
a Morocco native, was motivated to find innovative new ways to help his country craftsmen leverage the opportunities provided by a globalized economy.
a research director at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and a Morocrafts advisory board member. t provides not only more transparency but also a connection between consumers and artisans,
Consumers will also benefit from the new platform in several key ways. Guaranteed handcrafted authenticity and quality control.
#New way to model sickle cell behavior Patients with sickle cell disease often suffer from painful attacks known as vaso-occlusive crises, during
but there are currently no good ways to predict when a vaso-occlusive crisis, which can last for several days,
However, there is currently no good way to model how this deoxygenation affects patientsred blood cells, which do not all behave the same way,
making it hard to predict the risk of a vaso-occlusive crisis, Dao says. He and his colleagues designed their microfluidic device to mimic the conditions inside a blood vessel as oxygen leaves the Blood cells flow through a narrow channel that wraps around a compartment containing oxygen.
Now researchers at MIT may have found a way to change that. By producing complex multimodal fibers that could be less than the width of a hair,
allowing them to stay in the body much longer without harming the delicate tissues around them. ee building neural interfaces that will interact with tissues in a more organic way than devices that have been used previously,
nd bears the potential to revolutionize the way we approach treatment for compulsive overeating. The researchers also characterized the heterogeneous neurons on the receiving end of these projections in the VTA.
and research scientist Arnold Heynen, in collaboration with scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Roche pharmaceuticals.
Some of the 27 affected genes play a role in protein synthesis regulation, leading Bear and colleagues to wonder if 16p11.2 microdeletion syndrome and fragile X syndrome affect synapses in the same way.
created by Alea Mills at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Using electrophysiological biochemical, and behavioral analyses, the MIT team compared this 16p11.2 mouse with
a bike-mounted maize sheller. Easily attached to a bike and powered by pedaling, the low-cost,
cast-iron sheller allowed farmers to process their corn 10 times faster in one day, as opposed to weeks when done by hand.
This machine resembles a stationary bike, with a wooden seat and a hand-cranked sheller at its side.
Moreover, it required dismantling used bikes, which are valuable commodities for Tanzanians. That when Wu engineered a solution. e were building this pedal-powered machine,
In D-Lab, she modified the sheller into a $30 dd-onfor a bike by constructing a bike stand
and gears on the upper part of the bike to attach and detach devices. Now not only could farmers process all their maize in one day,
but they also retained their bikes for other uses. In 2009, Wu continued developing the device
or a bike-powered butter churner that couldn find a market. But GCS is now furthering development on a motorized multicrop thresher eveloped by a team of students that the Bill
#Drive-by heat mapping In 2007, Google unleashed a fleet of cars with roof-mounted cameras to provide street-level images of roads around the world.
An onboard control system has software to track the route and manage the cameras. On the software side, computer vision and machine-learning algorithms stitch together the images, extract features,
#Taking control of light emission Researchers have found a way to couple the properties of different two-dimensional materials to provide an exceptional degree of control over light waves.
and can couple in ways that afford a great deal of control over the behavior of light.
when the materials are combined in a certain way, the plasmons and phonons can couple, producing a strong resonance.
ur work paves the way for using 2-D material heterostructures for engineering new optical properties on demand. nother potential application,
This science festival was unpredicted an benefit of an association that had begun with a brainstorming session in Phnom penh on ways to improve the training of people who work with unexploded mines and other remnants of conflict in Cambodia and around the world.
An additional major advantage is the ability to bring these models on commercial airplanes, whereas real parts of bombs are allowed never.
The training set costs approximately $7, 000 and may be shipped as ordinary luggage on commercial flights.
and is looking at more ways to improve EOD education using technology. Vandiver, on top of other MIT and Edgerton Center-related work, stays in contact
e realized that a better way to make use of this flowable electrode technology was to reinvent the lithium ion manufacturing process. nstead of the standard method of applying liquid coatings to a roll of backing material,
Classmate and U s army veteran David Young MBA 2 joined the project early to provide a perspective of an end-user. he VMS steered us right in many ways,
and you need good people. n that way, Bernstein adds, Bounce Imaging already had a leg up. nlike many ventures Ie seen,
ouldn this be a great way to make a drug-delivery system??Langer says. He brought this idea to Cima,
Cima says. here was no precedent for that. he company has also found ways to integrate electronics into the microchips to shrink down the device.
and our reliance on that convenient, high-energy density resource will likely continue for decades to come, especially in the transportation sector.
that far down the road, but this paper offers a really exciting opportunity to crack a problem that is persistently present,
and developing ways to deposit Gan on large wafers used by silicon foundries. asically, we are fabricating our advanced Gan transistors and circuits in conventional silicon foundries,
Scientists are coming up with more efficient ways to monitor health and climate. A lot of talk has gone into the sensors in cameras that enable quicker focusing and better colours.
biometric sensors will be featured in 40 percent of smartphones shipped to end users With the way technology is developing and the increasing consumer demand,
and new ways that sensors are being used. More news comes in every week. Wel keep it coming into the new year,
Looking at Shoppers in a New Way Looking at Shoppers in a New Way This year,
This kind of data can be used to ease the flow of urban traffic and optimize retail setups.
By demonstrating a new way to change the amount of electrons that reside in a given region within a piece of graphene they have a proof-of-principle in making the fundamental building blocks of semiconductor devices using the 2-D material.
Moreover their method enables this value to be tuned through the application of an electric field meaning graphene circuit elements made in this way could one day be rewired dynamically without physically altering the device.
We've come up with a non-destructive reversible way of doping Rappe said that doesn't involve any physical changes to the graphene.
but we've come up with a third way. Here we have graphene standing by on the surface of the oxide but not binding to it.
Now a team of physicists at the University of California Riverside has found an ingenious way to induce magnetism in graphene while also preserving graphene's electronic properties.
This is the first time that graphene has been made magnetic this way said Jing Shi a professor of physics
which meant that it would not disrupt graphene's electrical transport properties. By not doping the graphene sheet
but simply placing it on the layer of yttrium iron garnet they ensured that graphene's excellent electrical transport properties remained unchanged.
The way atoms line up along the edge of a ribbon of graphenehe atom-thick form of carbonontrols
but steady force along one axis will crack it in such a way that fully reconstructed 5-7 rings will form
In step four called charge collection the free electron makes its way through the active layer to a point where it can be harvested.
The researchers created highly organized nanostructures within a portion of the active layer of an organic solar cell meaning that the molecules in that portion all ran the same way.
Are formed by Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing for Light-emitting diodes. Their paper was published in Nano Letters an ACS journal.
E-jet printing refers to a technique called electrohydrodynamic jet described as a micro/nanomanufacturing process that uses an electric field to induce fluid jet printing through micro/nanoscale nozzles.
High-resolution Patterns of Quantum dots Formed by Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing for Light-emitting diodes Nano Lett. Article ASAP.
The shapes and thicknesses of the QD patterns exhibit systematic dependence on the dimensions of the printing nozzle and the ink composition in ways that allow nearly arbitrary systematic control when exploited in a fully automated printing tool.
#Nanoparticles for clean drinking water One way of removing harmful nitrate from drinking water is to catalyse its conversion to nitrogen.
In addition to paving the way for improved consumer electronics, this technology could also have specific uses in industrial and military applications.
In the year 2010 however a way was found to synthesise nanoribbons with atomic precision by means of the so-called molecular self-assembly.
Molecules designed for this purpose are deposited onto a surface in such a way that they react with each other
and cellular barriers and also find their way into the circulatory system. Their study is published in the December 2014 issue of Environmental Toxicology.
if focus is on transport of solar power from North africa and Southern Europe to Northern europe.""Reducing energy losses during electric power transmission is one of the most important factors for the energy systems of the future,
Coating nanoparticles with different substances allows their interaction with cells to be tuned in a particular way.
This work demonstrates that by stacking multiple two-dimensional (2-D) materials in random ways we can create semiconductor junctions that are as functional as those with perfect alignment says Dr. Linyou Cao senior author of a paper on the work
#'Trojan horse'proteins are step forward for nanoparticle-based anticancer and anti-dementia therapeutic approaches Scientists at Brunel University London have found a way of targeting hard-to-reach cancers
However changing the surfaces of CNTS affected how likely the complement system was to be activated and in what way.
The team had to find ways to handle these incompatibilities and also had to develop new methods to print electronics rather than use the techniques commonly used in the electronics industry.
Traditional manufacturing which uses lithography to create electronic components is a fast and efficient way to make multiple copies with a very high reliability.
or devices that require the blending of unusual materials in customized ways. Trying to print a cellphone is probably not the way to go Mcalpine said It is customization that gives the power to 3-D printing.
In this case the researchers were able to custom 3-D print electronics on a contact lens by first scanning the lens and feeding the geometric information back into the printer.
but bend and scatter the light that passes through them in predictable ways according to the angle that the light takes when it hits the nanosphere.
The researchers are currently looking at several additional ways to manipulate the technique to control the shape of resulting structures.
And ultimately we want to look at ways of controlling the placement of particles on the photosensitive film in patterns other than uniform arrays.
Then as the researchers slowly release the pressure the atoms reconnect in an entirely different yet very orderly way.
A precise control and manipulation of quantum-mechanical states could pave the way for promising applications such as quantum computers and quantum cryptography.
The single-electron pump was operated in such a way that it released exactly one electron pair per pulse into a semiconducting channel.
and harvest hydrogen is one of the most intriguing ways to achieve clean energy. Automakers have started introducing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles
#Designing complex structures beyond the capabilities of conventional lithography Gold nanoparticles smaller than 10 nanometers spontaneously self-organize in entirely new ways
and engineers at Oregon State university have discovered a fascinating new way to take some of the atmospheric carbon dioxide that's causing the greenhouse effect
However it will provide an environmentally friendly low-cost way to make nanoporous graphene for use in supercapacitors-devices that can store energy and release it rapidly.
There are other ways to fabricate nanoporous graphene but this approach is faster has little environmental impact
They can power a defibrillator open the emergency slides on an aircraft and greatly improve the efficiency of hybrid electric automobiles.
Because graphene can be produced these days in square metre sheets we hope that it will find its way to commercial fuel cells sooner rather than later r
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and The swiss Federal Institute of technology (ETH) researchers have developed a cost-effective and more efficient way to manufacture nanoporous metals over many scales from nanoscale to macroscale
and new ways of delivering gene therapies, say the scientists behind the study. At the heart of every cell in our body is a cell nucleus,
Remarkably, the strands of'spaghetti'cluster together in a precise way which allows small molecules and salts to flow through without any trouble.
These chaperones, called nuclear transport receptors, have the property of lubricating the strands and relaxing the barrier, letting the larger molecules through.
but it allows us to come up with far better maps of small objects than is possible with other methods-even individual atoms can be observed this way.
there may be opportunities to develop drugs that prevent viruses entering in this way. It may also be possible to improve on the design of current mechanisms for delivering gene therapy to better cross the nuclear pores
NTU associate professors Zhang Qichun and Joachim Loo have found a way to make the nanoparticle light up
It is important as we are exposed more and more to nanoparticles in our everyday lives through different routes such as inhalation direct contact or ingestion.
Scientists have developed now a fast low-cost way of making these sensors by directly printing conductive ink on paper.
Hu's team wanted to develop a way to print it directly on paper to make a sensor that could respond to touch or specific molecules such as glucose.
Metal ink could ease the way toward flexible electronic books displays More information: Direct Writing on Paper of Foldable Capacitive Touch Pads with Silver nanowire Inks ACS Appl.
That way, tests will give accurate representations of reality.""The NIST team exposed samples of DNA to titanium dioxide nanoparticles under three different conditions:
cause the platelets to interact with the hydrogel in a unique way. Specifically, the interaction causes the gel to temporarily undergo a change in its viscosity
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