for scientists, is a way of studying or picking up the signs of cell change:
Dr de la Rica made the decision to grow metal nanocrystals rather than the traditional calcium phosphate crystals as a way to generate a signal.
reducing resource waste The production of advanced high-tech components for aircraft and other aerospace applications is an expensive
and more effective route to the creation of vaccines to combat some of the most devastating diseases affecting farm livestock.
The same accelerated route can be used to uncover a vast new range of urgently-needed vaccines for humans as well.
they determine how cells behave in a multitude of ways. Sometimes, their role is structural, giving strength to plant cell walls.
these can be linked in varying ways -and even with different ccents It was clear to the team that the key lay in the machinery used by the cells themselves to eadand ritetheir language the enzymes.
It works in much the same way as an implantable cardiac defibrillator applies shocks automatically to the heart after detecting minor cardiac rhythm disturbances."
As the pulse travels from one temple to the other, it interferes (in a good way) with the areas causing the seizure,
The fact that the device can be implanted in a minimally invasive way is"crucial""according to the researcher:"
there has never been need a greater for quick and accurate ways to detect explosives, toxic chemicals, illegal drugs and other potential hazards to public safety and health.
The only effective way of ensuring a more environmentally friendly energy supply is by using renewable energy.
#FLY-BAG CHALLENGE#Innovative bombproof luggage container to improve aviation safety Engineers are continually working on new ways to improve aviation safety,
the Fly-Bag consortium has developed a bomb-proof luggage container that can withstand an explosion on a commercial airliner.
or a cargo-hold from damaging the structure or tearing a hole in the fuselage and bringing down the plane.
which helped bring together an international team of manufacturing, material and aviation engineers. The diversity of industries and partners highlights that the Fly-Bag project is an example of cross-fertilisation among large research centres,
The primary challenge was to make these state-of-the-art materials contain the rapid gas expansion that occurs in an explosion strong enough to rip open the aluminium fuselage of a plane.
which a commercial airliner was brought down over Scotland by a bomb hidden in the baggage. D'Appolonia began developing the project in 2008,
As well as speaking to various airlines, Zangani and his team are currently finalising the certification process that will allow the deployment of the Fly-Bag in the aviation sector.
One of the major potential uses is on cargo planes not to confine terrorist bombs, but to transport dangerous materials."
According to Zangani, the first Fly-Bags are expected to be installed in commercial passenger planes in 2013.
pilot and demonstration projects, bringing together industrial partners, SMES, research centres and universities across the EU helping to develop knowledge and foster innovation.
The'EPMT compound is an innovative breakthrough in more ways than one. The crushing of rubber waste is more environmentally friendly
and fixed braces (or train tracks). They may be made of metal, white porcelain or clear plastic.
and recover valuable cargo a European union (EU) funded research project has developed a unique emergency-response system with vast potential.
parachute-shaped"sea anchor"to slow down a drifting ship and put it in a better position for rescue and recovery operations.
First, a helicopter drops a lasso that is fastened to the ship's bow. Next, a 200-metre chain is dropped into the water.
At the end of the chain is a 30-metre-wide sea anchor that opens under water like a parachute both slowing down the drifting ship and turning it 90 degrees.
Although reducing the amount of disposable plastic products manufactured offers the most sustainable way forward,
The way Ultravisc does this is through the use of sensors to regulate the flow and viscosity of the feedstock during the extrusion process.
Hands-free driving hits the highway Known as"road trains,"a truck driven by a specially trained driver leads a procession of cars
directly addresses the three cornerstone issues of transportation: environment, safety and congestion. With the vehicles drafting a few metres behind each other, SARTRE short for"Safe Road trains for the Environment"can cut fuel consumption by up to 20%.
And SARTRE can improve how roads are utilised, since vehicles can travel very close together or drive long distances at night
when roads are used less. For drivers, SARTRE can reduce their stress and increase their comfort.
It combines the advantages of public transportation, with someone else doing the driving, and the freedom of a privately owned car that can leave the road train at any time.
creating meaningful synergies that have led already to spin-off technologies in the rapidly growing field of intelligent transport.
Such a wide-ranging project that involves long-distance travel would fit elegantly into Europe's transportation system.
By end of 2012, the SARTRE team hopes to add a fourth vehicle to the train,
and whether dedicated routes would be established, like traditional public transportation. An EU-wide legal framework will have to be developed to allow road trains to operate throughout Europe.
a UK-based transportation technology company that is leading the project.""And there is no need to change the road infrastructure,
which would allow SARTRE vehicles to use existing highways.""Project details Participants: United kingdom (Coordinator), Sweden, Spain, Germany FP7 Proj.
In this way, the cell ensures the old protein is replaced at the right place and the right moment."
The two EU projects, PROMS and EAF-PROMS, looked at ways of producing novel ultra strong steel grades with high manganese content.
mass production of high-manganese steel grades is possible using either the blast furnace-basic oxygen converter route or the electric arc furnace route.
on the back of PROMS and EAF-PROMS, the projectsindustrial partner, Salzgitter AG steel group, decided to build the world first line for production of high-manganese steel grades based on the electric arc furnace route.
The innovation developed by the project team could pave the way for the tailoring of polymers to specific industry needs.
By combining steel and concrete in prefabricated composite structures with reinforced concrete slabs, the European union (EU)- funded Preco-Beam project found a way to shave months off construction times
Already now eight new railway bridges using Preco-Beam have been built in Germany, Austria and Poland."
"is the way the steel connects to concrete, by a structure known as the composite dowel."
"For instance, when the 140-year-old railway overpass'Simmerbach',located in Germany, was rebuilt using Preco-Beam technology,
transport only had to be interrupted for a weekend. Composite structures-in which different building materials are combined-gained prominence in Europe because of their high resource efficiency and low maintenance requirement.
and utility and transport companies, and of course insurance companies. ur evaluation of potential markets, driven by our SME partners,
#ENEA-MATS#Egypt taps into solar#Fotolia 2012a#12.5 million EU-funded project in thecountry aims at taking the first tentativesteps to fulfilling this promise by exploitingthe abundance of solar energy
and scientists to develop pioneering ways for industrial robots to be more accurate, significantly reducing the time
reliable and cost-efficient ways of building all the tools and parts that go into our aircraft, cars,
machine parts, says project coordinator Jan Willem Gunnink of UK-based Delcam. Traditional machining is accurate to 0. 001 mm,
Flexpakrenew has demonstrated at pilot scale that a set of technologies can be combined to produce performing paper-based packaging materials with a demonstrated environmental gain.
by decrypting the way they involuntarily communicate through chemical language. The larvae of flies live within broomrape seed capsules
And while the biotechstory is undoubtedly an exciting one it is equally important to find an economicallyviable way of implementing its techniques and getting the resulting products totheir end-users.
Incontrast with previous designs this one wouldbe capable of handling multiple feedstock'sprocessing them in multiple ways (chemicalbiochemical thermochemical) and producingmultiple products from aviation fuels tochemicals polymers and other materials.
the decision opened the way for trials of other plant-derived medicines to treat a range of diseases.
The robot feedback is amplified to help the surgeon feel his way around the brain. So what kind of operation could be perfomed with this type of robot?
a modulator and passive waveguides on silicon paves the way of further developments on integrated transceivers that can address several application needs in metropolitan and access networks, servers, data centres,
this could really change the way we farm
#Playing for health Consider the following health problems, related by three different people:""Every day I said to myself:'
""I'm a bus driver. And now I have serious difficulties moving the steering wheel while driving.
The European-wide approach is clearly mandatory to an initiative that is aiming to change the way science is carried out in a strategic field such as clinical neurosciences.
through insecticide-treated bednets and indoor sprays, is one of the best ways to win the battle.
This opens the way for more powerful alternatives to be used insecticides that remain effective against mosquitoes.
The new processing route uses European biomass as feedstock which will help to secure and increase the internal EU energy supply.
BIOCOUP will also help to make a significant contribution to the reduction of CO2 EMISSIONS in the transportation sector through the efficient utilisation of biomass material.
This enables a seamless integration of biorefinery coprocessing products to the end consumer for products such as transport fuels and chemicals.
This will encourage the acceptance of biomass and further the technological development of biomass production routes.
European researchers and their international partners have developed a new way to purify drinking water, dubbed the amily filter'because of its ease of use and affordability for even the poorest families.
Prevention is the only way to stop it, the experts lament. Thankfully, European researchers and their international partners at UNESCO's Institute for Water Education (IHE) in Holland have perfected a simple, efficient and importantly low-cost water filtration device
EU project makes first'solar'kerosene An EU-funded research project called SOLAR-JET has produced the world's first'solar'jet fuel from water and carbon dioxide (CO2), a promising technology for a better
and can be used by existing vehicles and aircraft without modifications of their engines or of fuel infrastructure.
The SOLAR-JET project brings together research organisations from academia and industry (ETH Zürich, Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR),
And in recent years, the Chinese behemoth has expanded in ways Netflix hasn't: It sells TV settop boxes
The phones are a way of delivering video.""What's going to be critical, "Howard says,
Basically, they see their phones as a way of delivering Chinese video to Chinese speakers in the United states. Then they may do much the same for people who've immigrated to the United states from other countries."
The ruins of the USSR's secret nuclear citiesthe burn of wasabi may lead to new pain medsthe quiet revolution turning roadsides into nature reservessubscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue
"This will serve as a way of using our project to...pave the way for more humanitarian purposes that we see as the highest and best use for our technology,
"he says.""If we can build a simple pool house, I can print thousands of refugee housings.
Even though non-ionizing radiation does not seem to affect the body in the way that ionizing radiation can,
There are a number of ways to reduce exposure to cell phone radiation, if users are worried about the possibility of health risks,
supported artists in the way they currently worked. The investments from the music industry are big piece of validation,
While factory farms are an efficient way to produce large amounts of animal products in a short time frame
and product transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions intensity 20 percent by 2020, compared to 2010. It said was the first IT company to set a supply chain emissions goal.
Canopy research has found that ancient and endangered forests are increasingly making their way into clothing.
and accelerate more sustainable ways of living. They have since been joined by more than 20 other leading multinational companies including Diageo General mills Johnson & johnson Mcdonalds Microsoft Nestl
Collectively represents a new approach to the way businesses engage consumers on sustainability according to the coalition.
They will be retrofitted by or before the year 2025, with interim goals along the way.
This will range from promoting deep energy retrofits or piloting new technologies on City-owned properties to investing in training opportunities for its workforce.
and the internet of things and combine test beds projects and activities from different sectors including smart manufacturing healthcare smart energy intelligent transportation and disaster response.
To address the escalating demands of existing and future residents cities are looking for ways to introduce more technology to become smarter about the use of limited resources The Smart cities USA pilot project will give San jos residents real-time local data that can
When there is a local air quality alert residents can choose to take public transit bicycle or carpool to get to work
Such measurement data will produce meaningful insights that will lead to improvements in air quality noise transportation efficiency environmental sustainability health and energy efficiency.
#Tiny needles could target drugs to front of eye Georgia Institute of technology rightoriginal Studyposted by John Toon-Georgia Tech on November 14 2014microneedles almost too small to be seen with the naked eye may offer the best way
and could provide a new way to deliver drugs to specific areas within the eye relevant to these diseases.
and pushing their way through the wall of an artificial vessel lined with human endothelial cells the kind that line human blood vessels.
If we can find a way to stop one of these steps in the metastatic cascade we may be able to find a new strategy to slow down
and analyze them in sophisticated labs. Now a team of biologists has created a new tool that could provide a quick cheap way to perform sophisticated lab analyses
and diagnostics in the field and may also offer a way to speed science in the lab. The tool called a paper gene circuit takes biological reactions out of cells and puts them onto a piece of paper.
and putting them together in new ways. Pardee s circuits use a device called a##toehold switch##created by coauthor Alexander Green also a postdoctoral fellow at Boston and Pardee s colleague at the Wyss Institute
##Pardee wondered if there was a way to build a gene circuit that could function outside a cell.
#Iron-rich biochar filters arsenic from water Biochar may be a fast inexpensive and easy way to remove arsenicâ one of the world s most common pollutantsâ from water.
Arsenic finds its way into drinking water supplies through natural or human-made sources affects millions of people worldwide
and cost-effective way for arsenic removal says Bin Gao associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering at University of Florida.
Homeowners could use a small filter attached to their tap. Further research is needed to optimize the process
and the way they usually do things says lead author Curtis Weiss assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
It s a surprisingly long road from Food and Drug Administration approval of a new drug or technique to doctors actually using the new drug in their practices notes Weiss whose research focuses on how to get doctors to adopt best practices.
The current way to diagnose infection is a culture but those results take 48 to 72 hours.
and we worked intensively to test the integrity of this result in many ways and we found out how robust it was.
but we are keen to seek ways to stabilize the brain in normal operating regimes
Biomedical engineers exploring ways to toughen up engineered cartilage and keep natural tissues strong outside the body report new developments in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.##
Conventional fluorescent label-based virus detection methods require expensive lab equipment significant sample preparation transport and processing times and extensive training to use.
"In electronics the different components that make up a circuit are connected always in the same way:
Knowing more about filoviruses in general could provide insight into which host species might serve as##reservoirs##that harbor undiscovered pathogens related to Ebola
One way that Staphylococcus aureus and other pathogens can become resistant to antibiotics is to change the way they generate energy
if perhaps instead there are a bunch of organisms that became resistant in different ways and that can exchange the molecules they're each individually missing.
#Drug flips cells to limit damage after heart attack University of North carolina at Chapel hill rightoriginal Studyposted by Mark Derewicz-UNC on October 16 2014a new way to generate more blood vessels after a heart attack can reduce damage
if people respond in the same way.####After a heart attack fibroblasts replace damaged heart muscle with scar tissue.
Now engineers are developing a way to send power safely and wirelessly to smart chips programmed to perform medical tasks and report back the results.
The goal is to produce smaller devices that could be used to create a network of electrodes to study the brains of experimental animals in ways not currently possible."
if it was possible to address epileptic seizures in a less invasive way? They decided it would be possible.
If the hypothesis holds true for human cells it could lead to a new way to treat cancer.
which helped screen patients for tertiary care and transport them to hospitals in urban centers.####The results of this study are important to India as it makes choices on how to make progress towards universal health coverage##says Onno Ruhl World bank Group Country Director for India.##
because the only way now known to##cure##the condition involves major gastric bypass surgery.##
##Our goal in this study was to find a safe and practical way of diminishing fat content in the liver.
##Before a new building is constructed the roads have to be in place so that the materials and equipment can be brought in##says Cao.##
Evilevitch believes that researchers now have a possible new way to prevent infectionâ blocking the phase transition.
We not only found a new way in which the pathogen (dengue virus) interferes with the host response (human immune system) we also uncovered the first mechanistic insight into how this non-coding RNA works says Garcia-Blanco.
One can imagine cosmetics companies being interested in the ability to measure skin s dryness in a portable and non-intrusive way Huang says.
But metagenomics is still some way from routine diagnostic use Pallen says. We have provided proof-of-principle here
and respond in a graduated way##says Wilbur Lam assistant professor in the pediatrics department at Emory University School of medicine and a physician in the Aflac Cancer and Blood disorders Center at Children s Healthcare of Atlanta.
Using a two-piece prototype device the test works this way: A patient sticks a finger with a lance similar to those used by diabetics to produce a droplet of blood.
##These particles could potentially be a way to obviate the need for a transfusion. Though they don t have all the assets of natural platelets a number of intriguing experiments have shown that the particles help augment the clotting process.##
##Like many other personal health technologies that have emerged in recent years the authors see this as a way to diagnose
or rectally offer a way to slow the spread of the virus notes lead researcher Toral Zaveri postdoctoral scholar in the food science department at Penn State.
Lead researcher Kaye Morgan from Monash University says the imaging method allows doctors to look at soft tissue structures for example the brain airways
However the new imaging method allows us for the first time to non-invasively see how the treatment is working live on the airway surface.
and immunology at University of Washington in St louis.##Now that our map of the combined structure of these two proteins has revealed one critical way Ebola does this the information it provides will guide the development of new treatments.##
& Microbe Amarasinghe and Daisy Leung assistant professor of pathology and immunology show that VP24 tightly binds to a nuclear transporter a protein that takes molecules into
and out of the cell nucleus. Among the molecules these transporters take into the nucleus is STAT1 an important component of the interferon signaling pathway.##
##But when VP24 is attached to some of these transporters STAT1 can t get into the nucleus.##The study shows that VP24 s action specifically prevents STAT1 transport.
Potentially we could use these cells in many more ways than current transplantation strategies to treat serious blood disorders
The researchers noted abrupt changes in each gut s bacterial composition along the way to 36 weeks in gestational age but found that somehow the gut ecosystems adjusted
allowing us to see vasculature in an almost noninvasive way, says first author Guosong Hong,
and avoid breeding dogs that harbor this mutation, thus gradually eliminating the disease from the Newfoundland breed,
#This can make the organs in your body transparent Scientists have developed a way to see through tissues, organs,
#Fabric dissolves to deliver HIV drug faster Bioengineers have developed a new way to protect women from HIV medicated,
discreet way to protect themselves from HIV infection by inserting the drug-loaded materials into the vagina before sex,
and sarin gas Scientists are developing a way to prevent brain damage among people exposed to poisonous chemicals found in pesticides and chemical weapons.
public health professor and a contributing author of the paper. his work suggests a way forward to alleviate mite-induced asthma in allergy sufferers.
Goldberg says. ee a long way from getting a new drug, but in the short term we may look at screening a variety of compounds to see
or finding new ways to relax at bedtime, suggests lead author Kendra Krietsh, who earned her bachelor degree in psychology from University of Arizona
a special imaging device known as a focal plane array (FPA) gives highly detailed information on a sample area in minutes.
The alcohol-insensitive mutation does not disrupt these functions at all. e got pretty lucky and found a way to make the channel insensitive to alcohol without affecting its normal function,
and coming up with better coping mechanisms to help adults deal with depression in a healthy way would be key. e are always thinking of 20-year-olds with depression
but his group wanted to work out a way to ust grow the needle without growing the hay.
developed a way to isolate and cultivate individual bacterial species of interest. He and his colleagues began by looking for bacterial species that contained a set of specific genetic sequences.
he says. iang solves this in a really clever way; he grows a compartment full of his target microbe in the Slipchip,
The way Deisseroth and his team eliminated the fat was to build a gel within the intact brain that held all the structures and proteins in place.
the team devised an alternate way of pulling out the fat from the hydrogel-embedded brain technique they call passive CLARITY.
making it easier to image the entire brain without bleaching the probes. e can now scan an entire plane at one time instead of a point,
While it s impossible to entirely eliminate risks due to environmental exposures Hertz-Picciotto says that finding ways to reduce exposures to chemical pesticides particularly for the very young is important.##
and hints at an easier way to achieve longevity. Researchers have found that taking food away from C. elegans triggers a state of arrested development:
The trick is to find a way to pharmacologically manipulate this process so that we can get the antiaging benefits without the pain of diet restriction.
If it doesn t have enough it stays at the toll booth until it has built up the nutrients necessary to get it the rest of the way.
if they can find another way to force C. elegans into these development holding patterns.
The research team wanted to find an easy way to measure eye pressure for management of glaucoma,
Right now there are two ways to check eye pressure, but both require a visit to the ophthalmologist.
there no consistent way to check their effectiveness. As a result many patients with the disease aren diagnosed early enough
The technology could make screening bags and passengers at airports less intrusive. It also has the potential to inspect food and even scan for tumors.
The researchers however found a way to create a small detector that is visible to the naked eye.
and make their way to the egg and fertilize it. Studies in the laboratory also suggest that sperm with poor morphology also swim less well
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