#Scientists tune X-rays with tiny mirrors Scientists at the U s. Department of energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have created a new way of manipulating high-intensity X-rays,
but ultimately promising new ways to steer, filter, and shape X-ray pulses as well, "said Stephen Streiffer, Associate Laboratory Director for Photon Sciences and Director of the Advanced Photon Source."
"They have found a way to significantly shrink the optics, which is great because smaller means faster,
"The advantage of this new device is that it provides a very cheap way to generate
"Biology is a way to solve this contamination problem, especially in situations like this where the radionuclides are diluted highly
'Co-first author Kate Lawrenson, Ph d. of Keck Medicine of USC believes the research will lead the way to the development of risk prediction strategies followed by clinical interventions with the potential to prevent ovarian cancer altogether,
"Exercising in this way is no longer unusual--waiting lists for marathons, Ironman triathlon events and ultra-marathons are the norm
The findings will significantly change the way we study and treat colon cancer, the investigators say.
will significantly change the way we study and treat colon cancer. Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in Canada.
Researchers develop a faster way to treat the heart after a heart attack Stem cell have been the main focus of healing therapy research
If formed in certain ways these'gene fusions, or translocations'can lead to cancer development.'
The way these bases are ordered determines the makeup of the genome. In addition to G, C a and T, there are also small chemical modifications,
The researchers believe that 5fc might alter the way DNA is recognised by proteins.''Unmodified DNA interacts with a specific set of proteins,
which could in turn change the way that genes are expressed.''''This will alter the thinking of people in the study of development
He predicted the new formulas will be welcomed in the engineering world as a way to determine
As an alternative, scientists have been trying to develop a cheap and efficient way to extract pure hydrogen from water.
"Why do plasmas rotate in the way they do? It's a puzzle. z
#Sweeping lasers snap together nanoscale geometric grids Now, scientists at the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new technique to rapidly create nano-structured grids for functional materials with unprecedented versatility."
"Our laser technique forces the materials to assemble in a particular way. We can then build structures layer-by-layer,
and the way the rows intersect and overlap shapes the grid. We then apply the functional materials after each layer forms.
It's an exceptionally fast and simple way to produce such precise configurations.""Study coauthor Atikur Rahman, a CFN postdoctoral researcher, added,
"We realized that a better way to make use of this flowable electrode technology was to reinvent the lithium ion manufacturing process."
Herr could one day find a way to block the protein's interactions and--possibly--prevent pregnancy."
The movement in these hybrid materials can be controlled in several different ways, including by light,
and find a way to do it more simply in a synthetic material. We're peeling back some of the layers of mystery that surround life."
and communicate in the same way as our own neurons do. Neurons are isolated from each other
the new device offers a way to study such cells in unprecedented detail.""With the ability to probe these reactions with the same speed at which they occur,
"The current study is important in several ways, Johnson says.""If you are an exploration geologist,
and Principal Research Scientist Dr Motoichi Kurisawa have found a way to regulate the drug release rate
"I believe that our method can pave the way for more effective and safe treatment of hepatitis C. We are also testing the microstructured gel for the treatment of other chronic diseases besides hepatitis C,"added Dr Kurisawa.
Wilson said the researchers believe their findings mean that drugs used to inhibit Akt could be used as a personalized therapy for people who don have AIM2. ur research paves the way for future clinical trials that screen for AIM2 expression in colon cancer
"Ultrasound images are collected in the same way that medical ultrasound is conducted, "said Horsley.""Transducers on the chip's surface emit a pulse of ultrasound,
#New method of quantum entanglement packs vastly more data in a photon A team of researchers led by UCLA electrical engineers has demonstrated a new way to harness light particles,
This could allow us to create large networks to share quantum information in a widely distributed way."
000 Faculty Early Career development grant awarded to Liu to improve the way solar energy is captured, stored and transmitted for use.
along with an international team, have come up with an ingenious way of creating therapeutic heat in a light, flexible design.
A longer term opportunity lies in quantum computing, set to revolutionize the way we handle and encrypt data. a
Researchers from the KU Leuven Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis now present a way to make the PLA production process more simple and waste-free.
superbugs Researchers at Mcmaster University have developed a new way to detect the smallest traces of metabolites, proteins or fragments of DNA.
#Study identifies new way to kill the malaria parasite Scientists have discovered new ways in which the malaria parasite survives in the blood stream of its victims,
a discovery that could pave the way to new treatments for the disease. The researchers at the Medical Research Council's (MRC) Toxicology Unit based at the University of Leicester
with the parasite continually working to find ways to survive our drug treatments. By combining a number of techniques to piece together how the malaria parasite survives,
and our research points to a highly effective way of defeating cancerous cells.""Arrayfollowing the successful test results the researchers have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Pathfinder grant to begin preclinical development of organo-osmium compounds s
"Our research paves the way to explore therapeutic approaches for microcephaly involving the inhibition of the protein p53,
head of the Microtubule Organization Lab. This finding paves the way to study whether p53 inhibitors could provide the basis of a future treatment to prevent microcephaly."
"This is a fundamental discovery that opens new ways to control chronic pain, "said co-author Bruce Hammock, distinguished professor at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center."
but they're all a ways away, "said Zettl, who is a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Their work, published online July 8 by the journal Science Translational Medicine, could pave the way for gene therapy in people with hearing loss caused by genetic mutations."
"These findings mark a defining moment in the way we understand, and can ultimately challenge, the burden of deafness in humans.
How intracellular signaling regulates growth factor production As cancer cells proliferate in an unlimited way, they need to be supplied with oxygen and nutrients.
"Our research results offer a new way of suppressing growth factors related to cancer cell proliferation,"Prof.
Mitotic spindles are the cell's way of making sure that when they divide each new cell has a complete genome.
"Dr Royle and Professor Ian Prior at the University of Liverpool have made significant inroads into our understanding of the way in
and even in the same tissue, do not always divide in exactly the same way.
"Finding a way to halt or prevent cancer metastasis has proven elusive. We discovered that a molecule called DNA-PKCS could give us a means of knocking out major pathways that control metastasis before it begins,
This paves the way for perfect 3-D, single crystal nanostructures. The advance is from the lab of Uli Wiesner, Professor of Engineering in the Department of Materials science and engineering,
The way they made the mold was itself a breakthrough. They had learned previously to self-assemble highly ordered,
Because there is no safe way to directly strengthen excitatory communication, they examined a class of compounds that reduce the inhibitory messages sent via GABA.
The researchers tested the compounds in rats that were subjected to chronic mild stress that caused the animals to act in ways that resemble human depression.
such as suicidal thinking, it could revolutionize the way patients are treated.""In tests on the rats'brains, the researchers found that the compounds rapidly increased the strength of excitatory communication in regions that were weakened by stress
"This research opens up a new way to manipulate the flow of light, and could enable new technologies in light sensing and solar energy conversion,
Right now, computers generally store information in several ways, among them the well-known random-access memory (RAM) and read-only memory (ROM.
Finding ways to speed up the recording process of phase-change materials and understanding the limits to this speed could lead to a new type of memory that harnesses the best of both worlds.
"For common magnets, that temperature is generally hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit, way hotter than any kitchen.
"Most other possible candidates were problematic in one way or another. They were hard to make, chemically unstable,
. and colleagues, find that the release of nitric oxide over time may be a new way to treat
In this paper, we provide an effective a way to kill the bacterium that serves as a stimulus for Acne without using an antibiotic,
it was crucial to find a way to release nitric oxide over time to be used effectively.
which the nanoparticles could be a new way to tackle Acne, one of the most common dermatologic diseases affecting between 40-50 million people each year.
"The surface could be made to look really any way you want, "Vaidya said.""They could be tailored in any way a homeowner is interested in,
and could be integrated into a room in an existing home or brought in as part of new construction."
termed phosphorene, in the same simple way as the Nobel-prize winning discovery of graphene. Unlike graphene, phosphorene is a semiconductor, like silicon,
#Novel glycoengineering technology gives qualitative leap for biologics drug research Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered a way of improving biotech drugs.
and more effective way of designing and building the tree. Previously, getting the structure just right could take years,
"The nanoscrolls combat friction in very much the same way that ball bearings do by creating separation between surfaces,
For their part, the Argonne team will continue its computational studies to look for ways to overcome the barrier presented by water."
Joint research by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and the Los alamos National Laboratory has discovered a way to predict the emerging structures
possible therapeutic target for breast cancer A new way to detect --and perhaps treat--one of the deadliest types of breast cancer has been found.
The vote paves the way for a medical world first for Britain, but one that is fiercely disputed by some religious groups and other critics.
For all its problems, Las vegas pioneered ways to save water and incentivize efficiency more than a decade ago that Los angeles is only beginning to adopt today.
Perhaps antigens from the infectious culprit find their way to the cervical lymph nodes via the meningeal lymphatic vessels,
the body not reject themfter five weeks. xisting techniques are crude relative to the way the brain is wired,
Essex, wanted to invent something that would help make it easier to detect STIS. e created the S. T. EYE as a new way for STI detection to help the future of the next generation.
helping pave the way for a bona fide orbital-sailing test next year.""It's smaller than a shoebox, everybody!
One example of resonance is the way a playground swing will climb higher from repeated pushes.
we've come a long way in 20 years, and we're excited to celebrate this with the people who got us here our fans
Developers may find novel ways to leverage the Fove's eye-tracking, but for many of VR's wider-use applications, head-tracking may be all that's needed."
#Chemists find a way to unboil eggs UC Irvine and Australian chemists have figured out how to unboil egg whites an innovation that could dramatically reduce costs for cancer treatments, food production and other segments of the $160 billion global biotechnology industry,
we have invented a way to unboil a hen egg, said Gregory Weiss, UCI professor of chemistry and molecular biology & biochemistry. n our paper,
Weiss. he real problem is there are lots of cases of gummy proteins that you spend way too much time scraping off your test tubes,
Zhong Lin Wang and colleagues note that password protection is one of the most common ways we control who can log onto our computers
because that person types in a different way than you would. It also can harness the energy generated from typing to either power itself or another small device.
The researchers are also looking into ways of applying the technique to other, nonmetal materials.
This methodological advance offers the potential to unlock the secrets of brain activity in ways barely imaginable a few years ago.
A way to avoid such distortion is by using LED light sources. The problem is LEDS are not bright enough for high-speed imaging.
But the standard way of checking glucose requires a prick to the finger to draw blood for testing.
but there are currently no good ways to predict when a vaso-occlusive crisis which can last for several days is imminent. ou don know exactly
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.
One key challenge was devising a way for the robots to parse individual steps appropriately,
which is the same way humans learn. Aloimonos and Fermüller envision a future in which robots tend to the mundane chores of daily life
& Environmental science. ee been looking for ways to make solar panels that are more efficient and lower cost,
One cost-effective way to improve efficiency is to build a tandem device made of silicon and another inexpensive photovoltaic material,
We have a ways to go to show that perovskite solar cells are stable enough to last 25 years.
That the easiest way to describe the technology being developed by Altaeros Energies, led by Ben Glass, inventor and CEO of the young company.
In addition to paving the way for improved consumer electronics, this technology could also have specific uses in industrial and military applications.
Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a lightweight and compact device wearable as a ring that makes it easy to draw letterforms in the air as a way to select displayed content
Until now the most common way to measure interactions between two types of cells was to mix the cells together in a test tube
and when they turn on a type of protein signaling known as phosphorylation. his is a very elegant way of doing these experimentssays Hang Lu a professor of chemical
Although all of the T cells in this study had identical T cell receptors the MIT team found that they did not all respond the same way after encountering B cells carrying identical antigens on their surfaces.
At high levels most of the cells respond the same way. However at lower antigen levels the T cell responses vary greatly.
##Single-photon emission enhancement#seen as step toward quantum technologies Researchers have demonstrated a new way to enhance the emission of single photons by using yperbolic metamaterials,
Santa barbara and The Dow chemical Company has created a novel way to overcome one of the major hurdles preventing the widespread use of controlled radical polymerization.
This way we can leverage the strengths of the respective fibers and get rid of the disadvantages to a great extent. he outcome:
and interact in the best possible way with the matrix or the plastic mass. The potential is vast:
A new way of reducing fuel consumption, emissions and bunker expenses is being pursued by the Norwegian engineer Terje Lade,
it is critical that the available wind energy is used in the best possible way. In order to calculate the optimal sailing route, researchers from Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services CML, a division of Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML
and could pave the way for future generations of faster, energy-efficient computer chips. Their work was published this week in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
another atom-thick material with promise for chip development, researchers speculated that silicon atoms could be structured in a broadly similar way.
when it actionable without getting in the way of delivering care, Gips says. The system final component is a base station,
And after learning about WHO hand-hygiene guidelines, the team developed Medsense as an automated way to help administrators monitor hand-washing among staff.
But there are ways to reverse this. It is possible to use a medium to make a laser pulse shorter.
Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology have found a way to compress intense laser pulses by a factor of 20 to just 4. 5 just by sending them through a cleverly designed hollow fibre.
The beamsplitter would be just one of a multitude of passive devices placed on a silicon chip to direct light waves in different ways.
#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.
Youtube video screenshotur molecular pump is radical chemistry an ingenious way of transferring energy from molecule to molecule,
the way nature does said Sir Fraser Stoddart, the senior author of the study. Stoddart is the Board of trustees Professor of Chemistry in Northwestern Weinberg College of Arts
said Paul R. Mcgonigal, an author of the study. onducting non-equilibrium chemistry in this way,
Stoddart said. n a way, one must learn to see things from the moleculespoint of view,
Two types of lymphocytes, CD4 and CD8, find a way to cross this protective barrier. They attack the brain by destroying the myelin sheath that protects neurons,
This progress both paves the way for new therapeutic approaches, which could soon be tested in patients,
It also paves the way for the discovery of new pain drugs that don just numb the perception of pain.
Caltech researchers have developed a way to produce more natural and fluid motions. In a clinical trial, the Caltech team and colleagues from Keck Medicine of USC have implanted successfully just such a device in a patient with quadriplegia
Our future studies will investigate ways to combine the detailed motor cortex signals with more cognitive PPC signals to take advantage of each area specializations. n the clinical trial,
Professor Pieter Abbeel of UC Berkeley Department of Electrical engineering and Computer sciences said it is a new way to empower robot
In a paper appearing innature Materials, they describe a way to selectively rearrange the nanoparticles in three-dimensional arrays to produce different configurations,
DNA-directed rearrangementthis latest advance in nanoscale engineering builds on the team previous work developing ways to get nanoparticles to self-assemble into complex composite arrays,
Injecting different kinds of reprogramming DNA strands can change the interparticle interactions in different ways depending on whether the new strands increase attraction, repulsion,
and accompanying theoretical analysis confirm that reprogramming DNA-mediated interactions among nanoparticles is a viable way to achieve this goal. ource:
including developing ways to package DNA for gene therapy. inding effective packaging for DNA delivery is important
because the human body has many ways to degrade and remove foreign DNA; that how it combats harmful viruses
#New Self-Destructing Devices to Lead the Way towards Sustainable Electronics Thanks to falling prices, increasing demand and short lifespans of most consumer appliances,
said Aerospace engineer and team leader Professor Scott R. White. his is a way of creating sustainability in the materials that are used in modern-day electronics.
whose Vanishing Programmable Resources (VAPR) program has been investigating the potential for transient electronics designed to self-destruct on command to prevent classified technology finding its way into enemy hands l
Eddy lets people participate in the energy market by reducing peak demand in ways that, until now, have only been available to large-scale commercial consumers.
The finding could change the way organs are assessed and save thousands of dollars per transplant.
what happens. his is a way to do that on a more cost-efficient and large scale,
to the way the brain is wired, Lieber explained. hether it a silicon probe or flexible polymershey cause inflammation in the tissue that requires periodically changing the position or the stimulation.
researchers had figured not yet out a way to use it to visualize the growth of complex self-assembled,
could lead to new ways of treating the disorders. Led by Gerard C. L. Wong, a UCLA professor of bioengineering and chemistry who is affiliated with CNSI,
This work paves the way to identifying and modifying silicene so it can be integrated it into ultra-small renewable energy devices, such as solar cells,
Dr Du said. here is also work to be done in developing ways to peel and transfer the silicene layers from the base it has been assembled on,
and highly desirable way to manipulate magnetization at the nanoscale. This is a schematic, cutaway view of the geometry used to generate currents of spin from currents of heat.
Such way of synthesizing amines has never been seen before. Phil S. Baran chemist from The Scripps Research Institute who led the study,
. When they are merged together in this unique way they produce compounds that are extremely difficult to make using conventional processes.
including valuable drug compounds in much more simple way than current methods could offer. How valuable is this method?
It is said that it is a highly practical way of accessing currently unexplored chemical field of amines.
or bumpy on demand An MIT team has developed a way of making soft materials, using a 3-D printer,
There are many ways to produce patterning as a fixed, unvarying surface, but for some uses including drag reduction
and wee a long way from implementing this and helping patients in a widespread way,
Beebe says. ut it happening. This is an exciting time in this area, and wee definitely going to see more of this. e
the pair began searching for a way to inactivate 15-PGDH on a short-term basis. The preliminary work began in test tubes.
Ultimately they identified one chemical that they found inactivated 15-PGDH. he chemical, SW033291, acts in an incredibly potent way,
Contact with other objects whether chemical accretions in a mechanical system or microorganisms or cells in the body would disrupt a current passing through the robot in a characteristic way,
#Tumour in a petri dish a way to a personalized cancer treatment Cancer is still one of those diagnoses that make people weak in their knees
and common materials. ur new method is the simplest way to generate skyrmion bubbles thus far,
Scientists want to find a way to create 1 and 0 by using physics phenomena that don actually change the atomic structure of the materialor example,
But the only way we knew how to make new individual skyrmion bubbles on demand was at very,
so they could study them. ur new method is the simplest way to generate skyrmion bubbles thus far,
explains Miller. here are then two ways to try and connect the pieces: de novo assembly or alignment to a reference.
could one day revolutionize the way new drugs and toxic agents are studied. y developing this omo minutus,
Rather than this liquid-liquid method, Schelter team has devised a way to separate the two metals by having neodymium stay dissolved in a solution
such as compact fluorescent light bulbs, to be recycled this way n
#New imaging technique could make brain tumor removal safer, more effective Brain surgery is famously difficult for good reason:
It is hoped this can then be implanted into patients as a way of replacing diseased parts of the body.
but we have now found a way of making their success even better. rowing large organs remains a huge challenge
but with this technology we have overcome one of the major hurdles. reating larger pieces of cartilage gives us a possible way of repairing some of the worst damage to human joint tissue,
is likely to pave the way for the development of a wide range of new biotechnologies.
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