#Researchers create tool to predict avian flu outbreaks U of G researchers devised a real-time way to analyze chickens and other farm birds for avian flu.
#Electrical control of quantum bits in silicon paves the way to large quantum computers Lead researcher, UNSW Associate professor Andrea Morello from the School of Electrical engineering and Telecommunications, said his team had realised successfully a new control method for future quantum computers.
in several parallel ways, including: inhibition of apoptosis (programmed cell death) normally eliminates transformed cells;
As noted, the precursor p105 is handled"by the ubiquitin system in one of two parallel and equally prevalent ways.
and the road to such a drug is long and far from simple
#Researchers test smartphones for earthquake warning The study, led by scientists at the U s. Geological Survey
to test a pilot hybrid earthquake warning system comprising stand-alone smartphone sensors and scientific-grade sensors along the Chilean coast."
Metamaterials are capable of changing the direction of light in exotic ways, including making light curve around the cloaked object.
#Taking aircraft manufacturing out of the oven Aerospace engineers at MIT have developed now a carbon nanotube (CNT) film that can heat
The group tested the film on a common carbon-fiber material used in aircraft components,
"Typically, if you're going to cook a fuselage for an Airbus a350 or Boeing 787, you've got about a four-story oven that's tens of millions of dollars in infrastructure that you don't need,
mainly for deicing airplane wings. The team recognized that in addition to their negligible weight, carbon nanotubes heat efficiently
In experiments, Wardle and his team integrated the film into airplane wings via conventional, oven-based curing methods,
In initial experiments, the researchers investigated the film's potential to fuse two types of aerospace-grade composite typically used in aircraft wings and fuselages.
or have different ways in which they fail. What we wanted to see was how hot could this material go."
"The team is working with industrial partners to find ways to scale up the technology to manufacture composites large enough to make airplane fuselages and wings."
"Gregory Odegard, a professor of computational mechanics at Michigan Technological University, says the group's carbon nanotube film may go toward improving the quality and efficiency of fabrication processes for large composites, such as wings on commercial aircraft.
#Protein finding can pave way for improved treatment of malignant melanoma New research now demonstrates that the presence of the protein megalin in a malignant melanoma is an indicator of cancer cells that are particularly aggressive.
"KP1212 is about 20 percent of the way toward being an ideal therapeutic mutagen. The hints given us by the spectroscopy guide us toward even better mutagenic molecules,
and oil industry in that we can produce chemicals and fuels in a totally renewable way, rather than extracting them from deep below the ground."
meaning that all the cells in the culture are quite similar to each other in the way they express their genetic information."
ancer cells have ways to suppress T cell activity, helping them to escape the immune system. Genetically engineering T cells to augment their ability to fight cancer has been a goal for some time
and unlocked an unexpected way of enhancing the ability of our immune system to fight viruses or cancers.
but until now, we had no way to direct them to act, "said Paul Tesar, Phd, the Dr. Donald and Ruth Weber Goodman Professor of Innovative Therapeutics,
and that approach is likely to provide enormous benefit down the road, "said Tesar, also a New york Stem Cell Foundation Robertson Investigator and member of the National Center for Regenerative medicine."
Scientists still must find ways to transform the topical medications for internal use and determine their long-term efficacy and potential side effects.
#Better battery imaging paves way for renewable energy future"Iron fluoride has the potential to triple the amount of energy a conventional lithium-ion battery can store,
because other battery components were getting in the way of getting a precise image, "says Li.
It could be integrated with existing Wi-fi systems to reduce bandwidth problems in crowded locations, such as airport terminals or coffee shops,
such as airport terminals or coffee shops, and in homes where several people have multiple Wifi devices. Experts say that recent advances in LED TECHNOLOGY have made it possible to modulate the LED light more rapidly,
multicenter clinical trials are the only effective way of proving the safety and efficacy of gene therapy and having it rapidly approuved
and that approach is likely to provide enormous benefit down the road, "said Tesar, also a New york Stem Cell Foundation Robertson Investigator and member of the National Center for Regenerative medicine."
Their breakthrough, published in The Journal of Neuroscience, paves the way for a better understanding of chronic pain conditions.
Dr. Kania's team studies the way neural circuits transform harmful stimuli (such as cold, heat,
it would stay that way forever as the pressure was increased. This idea goes back to the birth of quantum mechanics in the early decades of the last century.
This discovery opens new ways to use metamaterials for these important applications. Broadband terahertz sources offer exciting possibilities to study fundamental physics principles
or so to look for ways of culturing cells in laboratory settings that are a bit more complex.
"We think this is a great new way to understand how cells'growth is influenced by their physical surroundings,
"We are just beginning to realize all of the innovative ways one can use this atomically thin and flexible building block to make new materials and devices."
and the way in which such research could spread from work on"nonviable"embryos, to work on viable ones once this type of research had been accepted in principle by international regulatory bodies."
new structures and new ways of putting them together to achieve things not yet imagined. We believe this work represents a conceptual and practical engineering advance for on-demand, reversible control of light from nanoscopic sources."
Odom's research team has found a way to integrate liquid gain materials with gold nanoparticle arrays to achieve nanoscale plasmon lasing that can be tuned dynamical, reversibly and in real time.
"One standard way to tell the difference between molecules is to weigh them using a technique called mass spectrometry.
The way the frequencies change depends on the mass and shape of the molecule, so we can now tell a lot about how it looks
"A common way to decipher molecular structures is to use x-ray crystallography. This complicated method involves purifying and crystallising the molecules,
Aaron K. Wong, a data scientist at SCDA and formerly a graduate student in the computer science department at Princeton, led the way in creating GIANT."
and I believe we are still at the early stages of developing new ways to think about biological networks and their control,
The modeling of these arrangements could inform the cluster's use as a transporter of pharmaceutical drugs
however, that they have not yet proven that the brain region actually controls the process in that way.
The present study reveals another way that Id1 works, hijacking a normal pathway in immune cell development and interfering with the entire immune system, starting in the bone marrow.
Scientists find a way"Plant photosynthesis is a fundamental process that drives all ecosystem functions.
as we can easily install this system into a drone, airplane, or satellite to detect plant photosynthesis on a large scale to assess ecosystem health,
"The most powerful way to predict sudden cardiac death was to combine the measures. Hemodialysis patients who had 2
"For the first time there is a way to predict sudden cardiac death in hemodialysis patients. In a clinical setting, BMIPP scintigraphy can be used in hemodialysis patients who are identified as high risk by abnormal Q wave and increased C reactive-protein protein.
They have demonstrated a way to create a new kind of semiconductor thin film that retains its electrical properties even
"The most powerful way to predict sudden cardiac death was to combine the measures. Hemodialysis patients who had 2
"For the first time there is a way to predict sudden cardiac death in hemodialysis patients. In a clinical setting, BMIPP scintigraphy can be used in hemodialysis patients who are identified as high risk by abnormal Q wave and increased C reactive-protein protein.
what's the best way of getting her drug-packed exosomes to the brain? It looks like a simple nasal spray will do the trick,
and fuse with the blood-brain barrier to deliver their cargo across it.""Catalase counteracts the effects of free radicals,
including transportation, where centimeter-accurate GPS could lead to better vehicle-to-vehicle communication technology."
and velocity of an approaching car that is blocked from view by other traffic, your car can plan ahead to avoid a collision,
but we want to find ways to make CNT alignment even straighter, "Zhu says.""It's still not perfect."
who is now a postdoctoral scholar at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.""The most critical result of our work here is that we can track a single decision
"From the theoretical study, we have identified the most detrimental defects that hinder the electron transport in thallium sulfide iodide
Previous experimental studies have shown the material's good carrier transport properties, indicating great potential for future development.
A good radiation detection material should have efficient charge transport property, Du said. Native defects, the natural structure flaws in a semiconductor,
thus harming the carrier transport process. Studying the native defects and their effects on charge transport in a material are hence essential for the performance improvement of a radiation detector.
In the study, Du and his co-worker, Hongliang Shi, another researcher from Oak ridge National Laboratory, used a theoretical modeling method called density functional calculation to study native defects,
The researchers'next step is to study impurities, impurity-defect complexes and their effects on carrier transport in thallium sulfide iodide e
The absorption of X-rays--the basis for standard CT--is only one way to create contrast.
these methods require X-ray light with a well-defined wavelength aligned in a particular way--properties that conventional CT SCANNERS in hospitals do not deliver sufficiently.
production of methane emissions and odors) make necessary to search for other waste management routes. It is highlighted the thermal treatment through pyrolysis for large scale production of biochar
#Bacteria research opens way for new antibiotics University of Adelaide researchers have discovered a target for the development of completely new antibiotics against disease-causing bacteria.
The building block, called the Passenger-associated Transport Repeat (PATR), has been found in virulence factors of many major harmful bacteria including Salmonella, Shigella,
The PATR was shown to be integral in the transport of the virulence factors to the surface of the bacterial cell,
It may shift the way research in this field is conducted. e
#New method detects more breast cancer in screening Tomosynthesis detects 40%more breast cancers than traditional mammography does, according to a major screening study from Lund University, Sweden.
and pave the way for personalized treatment approaches that could optimize clinical outcomes in cancer patients."
This discovery could help find new ways to stop the spread of malaria in a population.
and I know they will be extremely proud that they have contributed directly to research progress in ways that go beyond traditional financial support
"We are still a long way from printing a brain but the ability to arrange cells
"This paves the way for the use of more sophisticated printers to create structures with much finer resolution."
researchers have discovered a new way to switch the polarization of nanomagnets, paving the way for high-density storage to move from hard disks onto integrated circuits.
The advance, to be reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could lead to computers that turn on in an instant
It is conceivable that this diamond resonator could be applied to sensors--potentially in a highly sensitive way
Now a team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University in China has found a novel way around that problem:
The team didn't originally plan it that way, says Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Science and Engineering,
"She added that a systematic way of recording facial expressions would have a wide range of uses."
"Electrons behave similarly to X-rays in the way they explore speedy phenomena in nature. Electrons scatter off both electrons and atomic nuclei in materials.
saving any additional work of finding a way to attach metal leads. This new fabrication technique is a hyper-efficient way of utilizing the available Mote2 without any wasted or extraneous parts.
When asked about its potential for future use, Professor Heejun Yang of SKKU said, "There are many candidates for 2d semiconductors,
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.
The key is to transfer CVD graphene from its growth substrate in such a way that chemical contamination is avoided The high mobility of pristine graphene is preserved
"We have a way of choosing the light rays we want to capture and only those rays,"said Srinivasa Narasimhan, CMU associate professor of robotics."
this is accomplished by synchronizing the projector so that as the laser scans a particular plane, the camera accepts light only from that plane.
Alternatively if other camera hardware is used, the mathematical framework developed by the team can compute energy-efficient codes that optimize the amount of energy that reaches the camera.
This new discovery could open the way to incorporating sulfur into other natural products, potentially advancing new therapies for indications beyond cancer."
Hubbard has developed a way to reduce the off-target DNA binding of a class of gene editing proteins known as transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENS).
advanced diagnostic techniques and new ways to prevent, or dampen, epidemics.""According to the World health organization, GAS causes more than 600 million cases of human disease every year.
Arraytheir medical diagnostics device is designed to harness centrifugal force--akin to the circular swing of A chair-o-Plane"carnival ride
"Raman spectroscopy uses the way light interacts with matter to produce'unique scattering,'the equivalent of a molecular fingerprint,
"Our pilot study brings us a step closer toward realizing this vision, "said Neugebauer. The team will continue toward its goal of developing an easy-to-use spectroscopy-based point-of-care medical device for fast and reliable diagnostics."
"This method is probably an easy and original way to make a plasma, "said Cedric Poulain, a physicist at The french Alternative energies and Atomic energy commission.
#Paving the way for a faster quantum computer Since its conception, quantum mechanics has defied our natural way of thinking,
and it has forced physicists to come to grips with peculiar ideas. Although they may be difficult to digest,
The Way Forward This is the first time that a superposition of quantum gates has been implemented in the lab. At the same time
exciting way to connect theoretical research on the foundations of physics to experimental quantum computing g
paving the way for invasive predators to wreak havoc with native mammals, worsening Australia's extinction crisis and igniting discussions about bringing the devil back to the mainland.
an airplane or a farming tool and appreciate the durable layers protecting its parts. But depositing this covering is an essential manufacturing step that allows machines to function with repeated use."
Erdemir plans to continue exploring ways to improve surface hardening. For now, he said he's thrilled that the ultra-fast boriding technique is close to its first real-world applications n
a better way to test cardiac patients for any genes that might be causing their problems.
and help clinicians make real-time decisions about the best way to care for patients s
#New life of old molecules: Calcium carbide Remarkably, despite the above mentioned trend of mega-molecules,
"The researchers suggest that ants may be capable of responding not just to the presence or absence of particular hydrocarbons but also to the particular way in
of ways. It's a major step forward in creating a quantum computer to solve problems such as designing new drugs
#Better way to engineer therapeutic proteins into antibodies Some proteins exist so fleetingly in the bloodstream that they can't be given effectively as therapies.
"The major challenge for Lerner, Peng and their colleagues was to design leptin into an antibody in such a way that it would fold up into a functional structure
that can sandwich 2-D sheets of elements that otherwise couldn't be combined in a stable way.
is significant because it represents a new way of combining elemental materials to form the building blocks of energy storage technology--such as batteries, capacitors and supercapacitors,
Mastering Materials Combining two-dimensional sheets of elements in an organized way to produce new materials has been the goal of Drexel nanomaterials researchers for more than a decade.
"But Drexel researchers came up with a clever way to circumvent this chemistry challenge. It starts with a material called a MAX phase,
An Elemental Impasse Four years later, the researchers have worked their way through the section of the Periodic table with elements called"transition metals"
Specialists are still working in the proper way to administer it.""We analyze what is best:
and flaws in structures where safety is critical. he reason transducers are made still this way is mostly historical;
The best way to access the memories in this system is to return the brain to the same state of consciousness as
they changed the way the stressful event was encoded. In the drug-induced state, the brain used completely different molecular pathways
"That's useful because it means we had a way to do multicolor imaging within a very narrow emission window,
researchers in Brunger's laboratory at the Stanford School of medicine found a way to grow crystals of the complex.
This allowed transport into the nucleus of a protein called Smad2, which is essential for TGF-beta to exert its effects on astrocytes.
In other experiments, the scientists showed that eliminating p75ntr from astrocytes blocked the transport of Smad2 into the nucleus."Nuclear pores are gatekeepers
"Similar to the balloons, in our research we connect fluidic segments in such a way that an interplay between their nonlinear response results in unexpected behavior.
But first Bertoldi's team had to find a way to control something that, by definition, is uncontrollable.
"It's remarkable that instability itself has provided a way to improve and push the field of soft actuators forward."
better drugs for autoimmune conditions and new ways to expedite recovery from sepsis. The research
"This device could transform the way people with severe muscular weakness or other speech disorders communicate.
This could prove useful for developing ways to replace wires between chips with optical connectors,
opening the way to plasmonic counterparts of electronic components.""Potentially, we hope to achieve logic gates, which underpin all processing circuits,
and frosting on aircraft wings.""This represents a fundamentally new concept in engineered surfaces, "said Tak-Sing Wong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and a faculty member in the Penn State Materials Research Institute."
in such a way that these surfaces possess both high surface area and a slippery interface to enhance droplet collection and mobility.
After years of trying to find an efficient and affordable way to extract uranyl, researchers at the University of Chicago, Peking University,
without altering the enzyme itself--establishing a new route for enzyme engineering and demonstrating the versatility of these synthetic proteins.
The way these cells organize themselves structurally in different organ systems helps them coordinate their amazingly diverse behaviors and functions,
#Magnetic fields provide a new way to communicate wirelessly Electrical engineers at the University of California, San diego demonstrated a new wireless communication technique that works by sending magnetic signals through the human body.
and more secure way to communicate information between wearable electronic devices, providing an improved alternative to existing wireless communication systems,
We're trying to find new ways to communicate information around the human body that use much less power,
The gene defect causes the absence of a protein variant involved in the transport of essential enzymes into structures in the cell called peroxisomes.
The failed transport of these enzymes affects the levels of two specific fat variants in the cell, plasmalogenes and phytanic acid.
This way the researchers obtain data for each type of mutation as well as precise mutation frequencies at any position of the RNA.
"The combination of muscle activation detection with motion sensors is a new and exciting way of understanding human intent with other applications in addition to enhanced SLR systems,
maybe one way to delay or reduce your risk for Alzheimer's is by genetically holding in check the normal increase in eotaxin that occurs in most of the population,"
and provides a simple way to visualize patterns in copy number mutations across populations of cells.
Today, scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) publish a new interactive analysis program called Gingko that reduces the uncertainty of single-cell analysis
and provides a simple way to visualize patterns in copy number mutations across populations of cells.
referring to the graphical way that CNV changes are represented by analysts. Right now, CNV is not a commonly used diagnostic measurement in the clinic."
"We're looking into the best way of collecting samples, analyzing them, and informing clinicians about the results,
"Cold Spring Harbor has established itself as the world leader in single-cell analysis, "says Schatz."
"We are putting two tubes together in a strange way. What we want is a structure that is flexible and stiff at the same time.
what is called potassium transport. A follow-up experiment showed that new intestinal cells treated with E. histolytica showed potassium efflux--the flow of potassium from inside a cell out through the cell wall--directly before cell death."
and used drugs to block their ability to transport potassium. Blocking potassium efflux created cells that were resistant to E. histolytica."
"Looking for a way to get past this problem, scientists have developed another therapeutic agent, which proved much more effective,
Now, by borrowing from kirigami, the ancient Japanese art of paper cutting, researchers at the University of Michigan have developed solar cells that can have it both ways."
"Our study shows that genome mining is not only a viable route to new natural products, but that there are a tremendous number of new compounds awaiting discovery from the genomes of microbial strains,
"Because the lung is a potential entry route for infection into the body, its immune response is developed highly.
but this is the first time it has been used in this way. The researchers are hopeful that EVLP will be used in patients to reduce high rates of rejection and wastage of scarce donor lungs.
"This development seems to offer a route which means others won't have to suffer in this way and from a personal perspective
called Scales, is a real and practical way to see through brain and body tissue.""In recent years, generating see-through tissue--a process called optical clearing--has become a goal for many researchers in life sciences because of its potential to reveal complex structural details of our bodies, organs,
cleaner with waste-recycling catalyst Researchers at Cardiff University have devised a way of increasing the yield of biodiesel by using the waste left over from its production process.
It is believed this new process will have significant environmental benefits by improving the yield of biodiesel in a sustainable way that doesn't require the use of additional fossil fuels
By 2020, the EU aims to have 10 per cent of the transport fuel of every EU country come from renewable sources such as biofuels.
In their study, the researchers, from the Cardiff Catalysis Institute, developed a way of turning the crude glycerol back into methanol,
and potentially cheaper, way, by converting an undesired by-product into a valuable chemical that can be reused in the process."
"We set out to establish ways in which the waste product glycerol could be used to form other useful compounds,
"This research has the potential to transform the way in which waste is dealt with, and seriously improve the quality of life by reducing carbon emissions from fossil fuels
In this study, identifying a specific gene behind more aggressive forms of acute myeloid leukemia could give clues for new ways to personalise treatments for select patients.
the sooner we can find new ways to stop it
#Microbiologists describe new insights into human neurodegenerative disease Microbiology researchers at the University of Georgia studying a soil bacterium have identified a potential mechanism for neurodegenerative diseases.
Csga was found to degrade the phospholipid cardiolipin into fragments that were used as energy sources during sporulation much the same way humans produce
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,
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