and the hope of others, was to come up with a better way to make the molecules,
the way poppy crops are--allowing millions of people around the world who do not have sufficient access to painkilling drugs to get the medications they need.
essentially, a passenger in the exoskeleton. That, however, was about to change. In the lab of V. Reggie Edgerton, professor of integrative biology and physiology, neurobiology and neurosurgery, Pollock had attached electrical patches to the skin over his spinal cord.
continue to relearn their old ways. Whether that process leads a paralyzed patient to walk again depends on the extent and location of his or her spinal cord injury
Now, two research teams say they have found ways to speed up the process by allowing doctors to try multiple treatments at once:
I have no way to know if the cancer is resistant"to the drug that's being prescribed,
"It's a way to predict whether the patient will respond to the drug or not,"said Robert Langer,
But the implant offers a way to attack cancers that are deeper in the body and thus less accessible to injections.
The zinc supplements help with immune function and the transport of water in the body, according to the World health organization.
which are difficult to reach because of the lack of transportation infrastructure, Tidey said.""We know that they've sustained quite a bit of damage,
"Today, we see a way to cure a disease that has been killing children for generations,
The 3d printed airway splint, shown here in diagrams of how the device was placed into the patients'lungs.
Pin It The airway splint was designed digitally to fit each of the patients. The three infant boys who were implanted with the new device all had the same life-threatening condition a severe form of a disease called tracheobronchomalacia,
Sixteen-month-old Garrett Peterson's airways"were floppy, with the consistency of a wet noodle,
or holding him could cause Garrett's airways to collapse. This happened repeatedly for months."
"The researchers used CT SCANS of the infants to develop 3d printed airway splints whose length, diameter,
to help keep the infants'weakened airways open. An image made from a CT SCAN of one of the patients.
Pin It Images from a patient CT SCAN were used to generate a 3d model of the patient airway."
the devices kept surrounding tissue from pushing in and sealing the airways shut. The devicessplints are made of a material called, polycaprolactone,
The airway splints were hollow and porous, designed to spread open as the children grew.
The researchers followed the growth of the airways over time with CT and MRI scans.
and expanded to allow the airways to grow in all three patients. All the devices are dissolving as expected
their airways usually grow strong enough to overcome the disorder, and their windpipes eventually will have no signs of the disease that nearly killed them as newborns.
The researchers say the airway splints will dissolve slowly enough to help the infants reach this point.
"He's so happy there's no hint of an issue with his airway splint. He's starting to learn to sit up on his own."
Here are some of the best ways to enjoy the celestial show. Your own backyard You don't need any special equipment to see the Perseids.
if MSA could also be transmitted this way, the researchers said that doctors and scientists should adopt more-stringent safety protocols when working with tissue from MSA patients,
and that there is no evidence that MSA spreads in the way that other prion diseases do.
There are ways in which the device can be improved. One problem is made that texts of different materials often require different temperature and humidity levels.
and ways to block them. Theodorescu suggested that Petri take a genetic approach, to see which genes,
and ways to block them. Theodorescu suggested that Petri take a genetic approach, to see which genes,
which measures the way that light interacts with the glass. They found that in some areas within the new glass,
the molecules were oriented all in the same way, and, as such, interacted with light in a similar way. Because the structure of glasses is usually random
we can try to control that organization by manipulating the way we prepare these glasses,
with no way to predict which tubes will misbehave. Those few conducting tubes can ruin an entire chip,
The new 3d design has slashed the transit time between transistor and memory, and the resulting architecture can produce lightning-fast computing speeds up to 1,
target and deter commercial drones could be used to keep the flying robots away from areas where they're not wanted, like government properties, airports or your own backyard.
has ruled that small UAVS cannot be flown within 5 miles of airports and that they must remain below 400 feet (122 meters),
where they are unlikely to interfere with piloted aircraft. But a recent deluge of complaints from pilots
as well as U s. Forest Service employees who have spotted the flying bots near wildfires, has led the FAA to take further action against rule-breaking drone operators.
such as near airports, according to a report by Phys. org. Though the AUDS system doesn't promise to help locate errant drone operators,
so it might be safe to use near airports. The new anti-drone system has been tested in the United kingdom, the United states and France, according to the BBC.
The option to just drop something out of a plane and then totally forget about it hasn't existed, according to DARPA.
partially because the technique is a synthetic way of masking nerve signals from reaching the brain.
The researchers believe that the technology is on its way to becoming a clinical option within the next five to ten years.
Aprecia Pharmaceuticals has developed a way of producing individually dosed tablets that dissolve on contact with liquid.
and that can also provide navigation information when going on your own for a stroll. The main idea of the device,
To test whether genes delivered this way would actually work inside a real body, the researchers loaded DNA strings coding for light producing proteins into the nanoparticles
the technology may be a new way of treating scoliosis at an earl stage in a large percentage of the population with the condition n
the Solar Sunflower incorporates these technologies in a novel way that represents a few ingenious engineering breakthroughs.
The method is the ideal way of making materials, she explained. It's similar to the way that other Nature has evolved growing things over eons."
"The key to the method and what makes it so innovative is the use of nanotechnology to micromanage at the tiniest of scales the construction of their metal alloys, layer by layer.
because there's no good way to enjoy your favorite beverage, today is your day. Scottish distiller Ballantine's, in partnership with Open Space agency James Parr, has designed the world's first whiskey glass optimized for drinking in the microgravity of space."
and vision into coming up with the Space Glass, studying everything from the ways various liquids behave in microgravity to the special distilling process necessary On earth to bring out the smells
more floral blend is a way they can keep the taste of home with them.
"These RSLS point to the existence of water due to the way they behave. He said,
However, recently scientists found a way to analyze data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter by extracting data from the pictures on a per pixel level.
No one had ever found a way around this problem, until now. Hansoo Kim and his team at Pohang discovered that
and aircraft manufacturing,"said Kim m
#How to save soldiers'lives with fizz One of the biggest challenges for medics on the battlefield is treating blood loss,
To best stem blood loss, those chemicals need to be able to find their way deep into a wound.
The resultant bubbles then act as transport for the clotting agents propelling them deep into a wound as they pop.
the Japanese researchers have found a way to make these transparent batteries now recharge themselves in the presence of sunlight,
Also, it can be a way to authenticate payments as a biometric. Instead of a fingerprint, it can scan eye topography
potentially offering an easy way to monitor the assembly of nanoparticles, or to study how mass is distributed within a cell.
The MIT team came up with a way to vibrate the cantilever in many different modes simultaneously,
way to improve methods for detecting polluting emissions using a sensor at the nanoscale. The paper was published in Nanotechnology.
way to improve methods for detecting polluting emissions using a sensor at the nanoscale. The paper was published in Nanotechnology.
a team of RIKEN scientists has discovered a simple way to activate the material spin-based polarization.
Taro Nakajima and colleagues from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science realized that multiferroic symmetry could also be controlled through a more primitive route.
the researchers could tune the polarization output in unprecedented ways, from fully on to fully off,
and more effective way to treat heart attack and stroke via nanotechnology. The research jointly lead by Professor Christoph Hagemeyer, Head of the Vascular Biotechnology Laboratory at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute and Professor Frank Caruso,
Now a team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University in China has found a novel way around that problem:
The team didn originally plan it that way, says Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Science and Engineering,
Synthesis of graphene via chemical vapour deposition (CVD) of methane gas onto a copper substrate is the most common way of producing the quantity
but graphene produced in this way is prone to contamination from chemical agents used to remove the growth substrate.
Raman spectroscopy and transport measurements on the graphene/boron nitride heterostructures reveals high electron mobilities comparable with those observed in similar assemblies based on exfoliated graphene.
graphene synthesised this way has been significantly lower in quality than that obtained with the scotch-tape method,
The key is to transfer CVD graphene from its growth substrate in such a way that chemical contamination is avoided.
Now, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have discovered a way to grow graphene nanoribbons with desirable semiconducting properties directly on a conventional germanium semiconductor wafer.
and thus readily identifiable. hat useful because it means we had a way to do multicolor imaging within a very narrow emission window,
In this work, by developing a detailed understanding of the subtle way in which the appearance and colour of the Morpho butterfly arises,
and the way this colour depends on its local environment, our team has discovered a remarkable way in
which we can advance sensor and detector technology rapidly. Tiny treelike nanostructures in the scales of Morpho wings are known to be responsible for the butterfly brilliant iridescence.
paves the way for better and cheaper DNA sequencing. DNA sequencing is a technique that can determine exact sequence of a DNA molecule.
they block the current in individual ways that can be used to identify them. Though powerful, the method suffers from high speed:
The work offers an innovative way that can improve one of the best DNA sequencing methods available. n years to come,
One of the easiest ways to speed up the drug development process is to simply perform it outside of the living body (e g.,
the development of new, lighter and stronger materials spanning consumer electronics to aircraft; and faster information searching through large databases e
and the U s. Department of energy's Argonne National Laboratory has confirmed a new way to control the growth paths of graphene nanoribbons on the surface of a germainum crystal.
and this method provides a straightforward way to make semiconducting nanoscale circuits from graphene, a form of carbon only one atom thick.
By way of comparison, red light, which has the longest wavelength visible to the human eye,
By way of comparison, red light, which has the longest wavelength visible to the human eye,
"Currently, there's no easy way to do that.""One important aspect of the success of the new phototransistors is the researchers'innovative"flip-transfer"fabrication method, in
"Currently, there's no easy way to do that.""One important aspect of the success of the new phototransistors is the researchers'innovative"flip-transfer"fabrication method, in
which cannot result in a net transport of suspended particles. However, the Purdue researchers have overcome this limitation,
increasing the velocity of particle transport by 100 times by applying an alternating current electric field in conjunction with heating the plasmonic nanoantenna using a laser to induce a force far stronger than otherwise possible."
First, the fast transport using alternating current, and then you turn off the electric field and it goes into the plasmonic tweezing mode,
""v"and"n")by their images, each letter stylized in different ways or saturated with"noise".
similar to the way human neural cells generate neural electrical signals.""The memory state is stored as a specific concentration profile of defects that can be moved back and forth within the memristor,
"This memristor-based technology relies on a completely different way inspired by biological brain to carry on computation."
Potential applications already exist for this emerging technology, such as medical imaging, the improvement of navigation systems or even for searches based on images rather than on text.
"There are so many potential applications--it definitely gives us a whole new way of thinking, "he said.##
and his team will continue trying to find ways to outsmart or change the pinball setup of graphene to minimize electron scattering.
"But this is a new way to make ultradense, nonvolatile computer memory, "Tour said. Nonvolatile memories hold their data even
First, the control voltage mediates how electrons pass through a boundary that can flip from an ohmic (current flows in both directions) to a Schottky (current flows one way) contact and back.
and a way to control the size of the nanopores. Wang is an assistant professor at the Korea University-Korea Institute of Science and Technology's Graduate school of Converging Science and Technology.
the team arranged metal-oxide nanosheets into a single plane within a material by using a magnetic field
The nanosheets ended up stuck within the polymer, aligned in a single plane. Due to electrostatic forces, the sheets create electrostatic resistance in one direction but not in the other.
Now, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have discovered a way to grow graphene nanoribbons with desirable semiconducting properties directly on a conventional germanium semiconductor wafer.
One group of scientists is now working on a way to address both of these seeming unrelated issues at the same time.
This provides a literal road map for surgeons to follow, showing which tissue is cancerous and
of ways. It's a major step forward in creating a quantum computer to solve problems such as designing new drugs
bendable electronics could have many uses, such as monitoring patients'health and keeping tabs on airplanes.
wearable electronics and sensors for monitoring airman health/performance; conformal electronics and antennas for maximizing space efficiency and reducing aerodynamic drag;
Over the last few years, one team of chemists and materials scientists has begun exploring military applications in harsh environments for aircraft, explosive devices and even combatants themselves.
such as an airplane's wing, or even a person's skin. In aircraft applications, Leever explains,
the hybrid flexible system can be used to monitor stresses and strains and report this information through miniature embedded antennas to ground crews or a pilot.
The researchers also are developing the same approach to monitor pilots'health. This involves a biosensor system that can measure heartbeat,
hydration levels, sweat, temperature and other vital signs through miniature circuitry. The system would be embedded on a flexible
wearable patch and would include an antenna to transmit these biometric signals to the pilot or a ground team.
and could detonate the weapon after surviving the initial impact of ground contact after being dropped from aircraft.
enabling new ways to examine cell structures and study diseases Abstract: Using physical chemistry methods to look at biology at the nanoscale,
enabling new ways to examine cell structures and study diseases Ke Xu, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Life sciences Division, has dubbed his innovation SR-STORM,
"That's useful because it means we had a way to do multicolor imaging within a very narrow emission window,
and expensive organic chemicals needed in other processes-in my opinion this is a far easier way to go."
and flexible electronics University of Vermont scientists have invented a new way to create what they are calling an electron superhighway in an organic semiconductor that promises to allow electrons to flow faster
To help, Furis and a team of UVM materials scientists have invented a new way to create
the UVM team was able to observe nanoscale defects and boundaries in the crystal grains in the thin films of phthalocyanine--roadblocks in the electron highway."
"Think of these as easy-on ramps onto a highway--instead of an awkward stop sign at the top of a hill--that allow excitons to move far and fast.
the new research provides a powerful way to explore many other types of organic materials, too--with particular promise for improved solar cells.
This allows organic thin films to carry energy along this molecular highway with relative ease,
Research paves the way for alloys that are 3x stronger than steel yet bend like gum Abstract:
with the atoms arranged in a non-regular way.""There are many types of metallic glass, with the most popular ones based on zirconium, palladium, magnesium, titanium or copper.
and find their way onto a detector, creating a diffraction pattern. By analyzing that pattern,
producing the material in a different way to allow it to remain fatigue-free through thousands of cycles s
"A cool way to improve solar efficiency In 2014, the same trio of inventors developed an ultrathin material that radiated infrared heat directly back toward space without warming the atmosphere.
"That's not necessarily the only way,"said Raman, a co-first-author of the paper."
paves the way for better-and cheaper-DNA sequencing. DNA sequencing is a technique that can determine exact sequence of a DNA molecule.
they block the current in individual ways that can be used to identify them. Though powerful, the method suffers from high speed:
The work offers an innovative way that can improve one of the best DNA sequencing methods available."
#Pioneering research develops new way to capture light--for the computers of tomorrow Pioneering research by an international team of scientists,
a nanoscale integrated optical memory that could open up the route towards ultra-fast data processing and storage.
In this way, the anode loses material, and the battery can't store as much energy.""Dendrites are hazardous
and explore ways to improve large-scale production of these devices. While Prof. Frank Koppens comments"It is remarkable how a material
The results of this new research show, that superconductors may be useful in the process of spin transportation, and ferromagnetics may be used to control spins.
but also in transportation industry power backup, micro grid storage, and for the wider use of renewable energy. OSU officials say they are seeking support for further research
This development paves the way toward the production of lightweight, flexible, and high-power electronics, such as wearable devices, portable power supplies and hybrid and electric vehicles."
"Ultimately the goal of this research is to find ways to power current and future technology with efficiency
and in a sustainable way,"says Cranston, whose joint research was published recently in Advanced Materials."
"This is a potentially new way to store information, and the energy costs are expected to be said extremely low
in the same way that a coffee mug shape can be deformed into a bagel shape, but they do not readily go back into a state where all the magnetic moments are aligned.
on a multilayered film where the magnetic moments are aligned normal to the plane. They used ion beam irradiation to modify the interface between the dots
#Scientists pave way for diamonds to trace early cancers Physicists from the University of Sydney have devised a way to use diamonds to identify cancerous tumours before they become life threatening.
short of a biopsy, there are few ways to see if a treatment has been taken up by a cancer.
in this case opening the way for us to image and target cancers long before they become life-threatening,
"We wanted to find a way to improve its performance.""The researchers first conducted surface science experiments to study precisely how platinum and copper metals mix."
and the Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) have developed a new way to store information that uses ions to save data
The advantage is that cells that are constructed in this way are easy to produce and can be reduced to almost the size of atoms.
This way, ions can be used specifically for storing and electrons specifically for reading data. The researchers also reported that their research had another very interesting element.
and are out on our roads, "said Professor Hermann Kohlstedt and his colleague from Bochum,
"We have demonstrated how we can control the lifetime of an atom in a very simple way,
in collaboration with colleagues from Harvard, have developed a new way to control light from phosphorescent emitters at very high speeds.
"Our results provide a simple way to circumvent this limitation and modulate their emission at high speeds."
"In this way we guarantee that only physical solutions are possible, "explains Wolfgang Lechner. The solution of the problem is encoded redundantly in the qubits."
But what if the electrons in a material are ordered not in one of those ways?
Since the emergence of multipolar ordering changes the symmetry of the crystal in a very specific way--a way that can be largely invisible to conventional probes--their idea was that the optical harmonic response of a crystal could serve as a fingerprint of multipolar order."
Berkeley Lab researchers find a better way to store natural gas as a transportation fuel Researchers with the U s. Department of energy (DOE)' s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a variety
the widespread use of natural gas as a transportation fuel has been hampered by cumbersome and expensive onboard gas storage tanks and the cost of dispensing compressed natural gas to vehicles.
because the gas must force its way into the MOF crystal structure, opening and expanding the pores.
This way they generate an interference pattern at the detector from which an atomic 3d-structure of the examined substance is reconstructed.
The researchers found a way to process natural silk to create carbon-based nanosheets that could potentially be used in energy storage devices.
Several years ago, Long and his lab colleagues developed a way to attach amines to the metals in an MOF to produce pores of sufficient diameter to allow CO2 to penetrate rapidly into the material.
That would pave the way for eventual scale up to capturing CO2 from natural gas plants, which produce emissions containing about 5 percent CO2, to the higher concentrations of coal fired power plants."
"We were just trying to find a simple way to attach these amines to our MOF surface,
and sensors that can detect otherwise imperceptible defects in buildings, bridges, and aircraft.""This is the first time anybody has made a flexible chameleon-like skin that can change color simply by flexing it,
or the wings of airplanes.""This is the first time anyone has achieved such a broad range of color on a one-layer, thin and flexible surface,"concluded Change-Hasnain."
The slow step in most cases in the synthesis. As a result, many natural products don't get worked on in any practical way.
developing an approach that they have expanded now to make more general. ature makes most small molecules the same way,
The system differs in many ways from a conventional AFM: it uses an extremely long and sharp needle attached to a highly flexible plate.
and we have found a way to solve that challenge.""Krishnaswamy and Zhou plan next to test a number of full-duplex nodes to understand what the gains are at the network level."
or in other words, it has a way of cutting off its own growth"."The self-limiting nature of the films is beneficial,
there would be no way to connect the pressure threshold with the point at which the film begins to form
"The study provides a way forward for scientifically testing new anti-wear additives. Being able to pinpoint the level of stress at
#Cyborg beetle research allows free-flight study of insects (w/video) Hardwiring beetles for radio-controlled flight turns out to be a fitting way to learn more about their biology.
if tethering interfered with the insect's natural flight motions.""In particular, the researchers said, it had been difficult to elucidate the role that smaller muscles play in fine steering.
"Our wireless system allows us to record neuromuscular movements in natural, free flight, so we see
Six electrodes are connected to the beetle's optic lobes and flight muscles. The entire device is powered by a 3. 9-volt micro lithium battery
"During test flights, signals were transmitted to the beetle backpack every millisecond, directing the beetles to take off, turn left or right,
or even hover in mid-flight. The beetles were untethered but in a closed room equipped with eight 3-D motion-capture cameras."
"In our earlier work using beetles in remote-controlled flight, we showed excellent control of flight initiation and cessation,
but relatively crude control of steering during free flight,"said Maharbiz.""Our findings about the flight muscle allowed us to demonstrate for the first time a higher level of control of free-flying beetles.
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