Yin, head of the Taipei-based Ruentex business empire, is known for his generous donations to education in Taiwan and Mainland china.
He has an undergraduate degree in history and a doctorate in business management, and made his fortune in property,
Even in the category of Chinese studies, Chinese scholars may not have an advantage. There are a lot of excellent sinologists in Europe and the United states.##
###I am a firm believer in higher education and scientific development. I set up the Kwang-Hua Education Foundation,
which since the 1990s has offered scholarships to about 120,000 students, including science majors. I am also a key donor to the Kwang-Hua Science and Technology Foundation,
which has a number of prizes for research and engineering excellence. There will be new projects to support studies in life sciences and civil engineering.#
says one of the study s co-authors, Kamaljit Bawa, a conservation biologist at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
says John Vandermeer, an ecologist at the University of Michigan in Ann arbor, who has received"reports of devastation in Nicaragua, El salvador and Mexico.
Stuart Mccook, a historian at the University of Guelph in Canada who studies the rust,
a plant pathologist at Costa rica s Tropical Agricultural research and Higher education Center, based in San jos#.#But changes to management practices had brought the disease mostly under control."
At the Federal Rural University of Rio de janeiro in Brazil, Valdir Diola is working to isolate resistance genes in coffee
says Ulrich Karlson, an environmental microbiologist at Aarhus University in Denmark, who was involved not in the study."
says Noah Fierer, a microbial ecologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder. But Fierer says that more research is needed to understand the relative importance of airborne bacteria,
says George Church a molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical school in Boston, Massachusetts, who encoded a draft of his latest book in DNA last year2."
and significant boosts for many big scientific facilities (see Big winners)# including#8. 4#billion for data links between the K supercomputer and Japan s universities.
The Center for ips Cell Research and Application at Kyoto University which he directs, is to receive#4#billion for a building to house research on reprogramming mechanisms and clinical applications of ips cells.
with#2. 2#billion the health ministry plans to build two centres to provide training on deriving
#180#billion will go towards translating university research into commercial applications, and most other projects are framed around clinical or industrial applications.
says Stephen Dean, president of Fusion power Associates, an advocacy group in Gaithersburg, Maryland. K-DEMO will serve as prototype for the development of commercial fusion reactors.
the South korean Ministry of Education science and Technology announced that developing technologies to build K-DEMO would be a priority for the next 10 years,
for example by a student working with Barry Cheung, a materials scientist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
argues physicist Magnus Borgstr#m of Lund University in Sweden, who led the effort. The promise starts with the novel semiconductor#a combination of indium
says Anura Rambukkana, a regeneration biologist at the University of Edinburgh, UK, who led the study.
The essence of the researchers strategy for this latest effort, says lead study author Yongjun Tian of Yanshan University in China,
But Natalia Dubrovinskaia, a crystallographer at the University of Bayreuth in Germany, notes that measuring the properties of superhard materials is problematic
who studies how stem cells retain embryo-like states at the University of Cambridge, UK.
The Supreme court s move has reassured investigators such as Candace Kerr, who studies early development of the brain at the University of Maryland School of medicine in Baltimore.
Even James Thomson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who isolated the first human ES cells in 1998,
Sheila van Holst Pellekaan, a geneticist at the University of New south wales, Australia, and a co-author of the earlier genome-wide study,
says Nicholas Grassly, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London, but implementing it will be difficult.""There are some big ifs as to
says Vincent Racaniello, a virologist at Columbia University in New york city. Once the remaining wild polio types are wiped out,
and routine immunization, says Zulfiqar Bhutta, an immunization expert at Aga khan University in Karachi, Pakistan,
The researchers, at the University of California, Berkeley, say that the pulse of the clock is determined solely by the mass of its beating heart, a caesium atom.
John Close, a quantum physicist at the Australian National University, has taken a close interest in the to and fro of the debate,
says synthetic chemist Dave Leigh at the University of Manchester, UK, who led the team behind the development."
"It s one of Dave s best papers, says physical organic chemist Alan Rowan at Radboud University Nijmegen in The netherlands, who also works with rotaxanes."
says Howard Bond, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State university in University Park, who announced the finding on 10 january at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Long beach, California1.
The discovery places constraints on early star formation, says Volker Bromm, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin.
and Polman says that the company will soon be selling the devices to materials researchers in universities for between US$100, 000 and $200, 000;
four health scientists accused of research misconduct are expected to file into a room at Saint louis University in Missouri to conduct an experiment:
With the rapid growth of misconduct cases, some scientists are worried that preventative training in research ethics might not be enough.
says James Dubois, an ethicist at Saint louis University, who leads the rehab programme, called Repair (Restoring Professionalism and Integrity in Research)."
Lauran Qualkenbush, director of the research-integrity office at Northwestern University in Chicago, says that there is a gap between harsh penalties for misconduct#such as bans from receiving government funding
"These are people we feel could be valuable members of our faculty and community. Dubois aims to fill that gap.
around six universities, including Northwestern, have signed up as partners in the programme. Some ethicists are unsure how effective such rehab will be.
Nicholas Steneck, an ethicist at the University of Michigan in Ann arbor, is broadly supportive of the goals of Repair,
a London-based company that provides training on research integrity, that is because the definition of misconduct is broadening beyond falsification, fabrication and plagiarism.
a geneticist at the University of Copenhagen who last year showed3 that leeches can also preserve the DNA of the animals they feed on.
Carl Agee of the University of New mexico in Albuquerque and his colleagues report their findings from samples of the meteorite in Science online today1."
notes Harry Mcsween at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. The meteorite is made of volcanic rock,
But Jeffrey Taylor of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu says that whether that water content truly reveals an abundance of surface water on Mars 2. 1 billion years ago awaits further study u
explains Ulrich Schneider, a physicist at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Schneider and his colleagues reached such sub-absolute-zero temperatures with an ultracold quantum gas made up of potassium atoms.
says Achim Rosch, a theoretical physicist at the University of Cologne in Germany, who proposed the technique used by Schneider and his team3.
Working independently, Robert Messing and colleagues at the University of California, San francisco, created similar mice5.
And Huganir s mice showed normal levels of long-term potentiation#the strengthening of synapses between two neurons that is thought to underlie learning and memory."
but it is not the essential master regulator of memory that the current literature suggests it to be,
says Lynn Nadel, a cognitive scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson.""But they show that the situation is complicated#surprise!#
Nancy Andrews, dean of the Duke university School of medicine in Durham, North carolina, says that the medical school may need to cut back on graduate admissions,
freeze salaries and reduce faculty recruitments if the NIH takes a severe hit.""The bill isn t ideal.
who is wrestling with decisions on faculty retention and recruitment that must be made by Mid-january."
"If we need to spend more to help current faculty members maintain their research programmes through funding gaps,
it will be harder to provide start-up funding for new faculty members, she says. The delay means that law-makers will debate the sequester at the same time as they tackle the overall federal budget.
Lee Miller, a physiologist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, says that Nicolelis s team has made many important contributions to neural interfaces,
His colleague Miguel Pais-Vieira started by training one rat#the encoder#to press one of two levers,
and the other in the Duke lab.#But Andrew Schwartz, a neurobiologist at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, notes that the decoders performed poorly,
a neuroscientist from the University of Chicago in Illinois, says that if the goal is to make better neural prosthetics,
says Daniel Baker, a space physicist at the University of Colorado in Boulder.##The new ring persisted,
and numerical modellers all over the world, says Yuri Shprits, a geophysicist at the University of California, Los angeles,
Matthias Beller, a chemical engineer at the University of Rostock in Germany, and his colleagues hope that methanol might one day be sluiced through pipelines
Edman Tsang, a chemist at the University of Oxford, UK, who also works on storing hydrogen in liquids including methanol2,
George Olah, a Nobel prizewinning chemist at the University of Southern California in Los angeles, thinks the science is solid,
Peter Hall, who studies energy storage at the University of Sheffield, UK, says that people who hope to use methanol,
or experimental artefacts, says Erik Sontheimer, a molecular biologist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Instead,
Last year, Julia Salzman, a molecular biologist at Stanford university School of medicine in California, and her colleagues sent the first missive from the circular universe.
and a second, independent team2 led by Thomas Hansen and J#rgen Kjems of Aarhus University in Denmark, focused on a circular behemoth, some 1, 500 nucleotides around,
and strokes, says Richard Cooper, an epidemiologist at the Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of medicine in Illinois,
says committee chairman Neil Stone, a cardiologist at Northwestern University School of medicine in Chicago. If so, Krumholz argues,
says Robert Vogel, a cardiologist at the University of Colorado, Denver.""Short people have a higher risk of heart disease,
Jay Cohn, a cardiologist at the University of Minnesota Medical school in Minneapolis, also worries that the focus on LDL levels offers up the wrong patients for statin therapy.
Indeed, Seth Martin, a fellow in cardiology at Johns hopkins university School of medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, believes that ATP IV should reduce LDL targets further.
a publisher based in College Park, Maryland. Source: M. Laakso & B c. Bj#rk BMC Med. 10,124 (2012) It will probably be a year
a biologist and open-access advocate at the University of California, Berkeley, says that he is disappointed."
and what is due to learning immediately after birth? asks neuroscientist Fabrice Wallois of the University of Picardy Jules Verne in Amiens, France.#
#To answer that, Wallois and his team needed to peek at neural processes already taking place before birth.
says Janet Werker, a developmental psychologist at the University of British columbia in Vancouver, Canada. They are,
Now, Kay Ohshima, a physical oceanographer at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, and his colleagues have traced that water to a fourth AABW source,
the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet and changes in sea level, says Richard Alley, a geophysicist at Pennsylvania State university in University Park,
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have now found a way to stop macrophages from destroying drug-bearing nanoparticles.
Neil Barclay of the University of Oxford, UK, was part of the team that worked out the CD47 structure that inspired Discher s work2."
says Greg Laughlin, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa cruz, who did not contribute to the new study.
Weill Cornell Medical College researchers in New york city are taking retinal prosthetics in a different direction,
a synthetic biologist at Boston University in Massachusetts who was involved not in the study. Collins developed the genetic toggle switch that helped to kick-start the field of synthetic biology more than a decade ago2.
says Alain-Jacques Valleron, an epidemiologist at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris,
says John Brownstein, an epidemiologist at Harvard Medical school in Boston, Massachusetts.""You need to recalibrate them every year.
Statistician Alexandre Bouchard-C# t#of the University of British columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and his co-workers say that by making the reconstruction of ancestral languages much simpler,
says linguist Don Ringe of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. But he cautions that methods that are"correct
says Andrew Thorburn, an oncologist at the University of Colorado Denver, who co-authored a review on the subject last year4."
Follow-up work will be done at the University of Dundee in Scotland. Results will be provided confidentially to the groups that proposed the assays
Aled Edwards leads the Structural genomics Consortium at the University of Toronto, Canada, in which some drug companies contribute both chemical analysis and screening support,
Whereas human embryonic stem cells have proved too fragile to print in the past, scientists at Scotland s Heriot-Watt University and Roslin Cellab
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania s Tissue Microfabrication Laboratory, the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative medicine and elsewhere are developing methods for bioengineering functional vessels that could someday be used to ferry blood around 3-D-printed organs.
says Jon Clardy, a biological chemist at Harvard Medical school in Boston, Massachusetts, who was involved not in the work
a chemist at the University of Tokyo who led the work along with colleague Yasuhide Inokuma.
says co-author David Stuart, a structural biologist at the University of Oxford, UK, who is working with the World health organization
A team led by biophysicist#Osamu Nureki, of the University of Tokyo, #reports that the membrane-bound protein is shaped like A'v',
says Hendrik Van veen, a pharmacologist at the University of Cambridge, UK.""They have a direct mechanism of how the protons change the shape of the cavity.
Geoffrey Chang, a structural biologist at the University of California, San diego, says that the findings are very similar to those for the MATE protein from Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera.
says astrophysicist Jo Dunkley at the University of Oxford, UK, who has worked on data from Planck and the WMAP."
says Paul Shellard, a Planck cosmologist at the University of Cambridge, UK. SLIDESHOW: Homing in on the cosmic microwave background In 1965,
says James Turk, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers in Ottawa, Ontario.""There is a consistent pattern of steering money away from basic research,
It includes a Can$225 million (US$225 million) boost for research infrastructure at universities through the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
says George Efstathiou, director of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge, UK,
says Bryan Roth, a neuropharmacologist at the University of North carolina Chapel hill Medical school, and a co-author of the two studies published in Science today1,
Roth says that learning to control the cascades is likely to be crucial in maximizing beneficial effects of drugs
#Carl June, an immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and a pioneer in engineering T cells to fight cancer, says that he is surprised that the method worked so well against such a swift-growing cancer.
Nick Holliman, a computer scientist at Durham University, UK, describes the work from Fattal's team as a very nice idea and a great technology demonstrator.
In 2008, materials scientist Ravi Saraf at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and his colleagues built a room-temperature single-electron transistor using a different approach3.
says Ulrich Simon, a nanoscience researcher at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Now, Saraf s team has shown that the nano-necklace device works in water
which will be touting for customers at a meeting of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics in Phoenix, Arizona, on 19-23 march.
says Steven Brenner, a computational genomicist at the University of California, Berkeley. He says that they will have to prove that their products are better than freely available software
says Elizabeth Worthey, director of genomic informatics at the Human and Molecular genetics Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
) Craig Smith, a deep-sea biologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, will lead an initial assessment of seafloor life for Lockheed s project, gathering baseline data for the potential harvest zone
says Charles Brown, a biologist at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma and one of the authors of the study.
Together with Mary Bomberger Brown, a ornithologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Brown tracked roadside populations of cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) in western Nebraska for 30 years, mostly to study the birds social
such as the birds learning to avoid cars. Taxidermist Johannes Erritzoe at the House of Birdresearch in Christiansfeld
says behavioural ecologist Colleen St clair at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. But, she says"this is the best demonstration that they do have that capacity a
says Rafael Yuste, a neuroscientist at Columbia University in New york.""It is a bright star now in the literature,
consolidates learning or processes sights and smells.""It allows a much better view of the dynamics throughout the brain during different behaviours
and during learning paradigms, says Joseph Fetcho, a neurobiologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New york. The imaging system relies on a genetically engineered zebrafish (Danio rerio).
Although the researchers did not purify the virus before injecting it into the horses, Pablo Murcia, a virologist from the University of Glasgow,
says James wood, who studies animal infections at the University of Cambridge, UK. He hints that some studies on new pegiviruses may be published in the future u
says Mark Lever, an ecologist at Aarhus University in Denmark, who led the study. The results are published in Science1."
says Kurt Konhauser, a geomicrobiologist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. The oceanic crust is formed at ridges between tectonic plates,
says Samuel Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle and one of the driving forces behind the push for forensic examinations of elephant ivory.
a move welcomed by Iain Douglas-Hamilton, a researcher at the University of Oxford, UK and the founder of the charity Save the Elephants, based in Nairobi."
According to a recent post on MTI Technology Review, researchers at Brown University and a company callled Blackrock Microsystems, have commercialized a wireless device that can be attached to a person skull
based at Brown University. Braingate was among the first to place implants in the brains of paralyzed people
According to Florian Solzbacher, president of Blackrock and professor at University of Utah, human tests of the wireless BCI could happen soon
The study was led by Nenad Bursac, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke university and Lauran Madden, a postdoctoral researcher in Bursac laboratory.
causing abnormal fat accumulation at high concentrations. Clenbuterol showed a narrow beneficial window for increased contraction.
Bursac is already working on a study with clinicians at Duke Medicinencluding Dwight Koeberl, associate professor of pediatricso try to correlate efficacy of drugs in patients with the effects on lab-grown muscles.
the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical engineering and senior associate dean for research for the Pratt School of engineering,
and William Krauss, professor of biomedical engineering, medicine and nursing at Duke university. The research was supported by NIH Grants R01ar055226 and R01ar065873 from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin disease and UH2TR000505 from the NIH Common Fund for the Microphysiological Systems Initiative.
the Picower Professor of Neuroscience in MIT Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, showed that two very different genetic causes of autism
The research was performed by postdoc and lead author Di Tian, graduate student Laura Stoppel, and research scientist Arnold Heynen, in collaboration with scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Roche pharmaceuticals.
#Researchers Discover How a Protein Crucial to Learning and Memory Works Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found out how a protein crucial to learning works:
The finding moves neuroscientists a step closer to figuring out how learning and memory work,
says Rick Huganir, Ph d.,director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine.
which is needed for learning. An influx of calcium into the synapse activates Camkii, which in turn unhooks Syngap from the cellsscaffolding
Other authors on the paper are Menglong Zeng and Mingjie Zhang, both of Hong kong University of Science and Technology c
assistant professor of physiology at UCSF. hese findings really change our view of what this region of the brain is doing.
a graduate student in Knight lab, was expecting to build on the prevailing model of the hunger circuit
and graduate student Tzu-Wei Kuo. The research was supported by the New york Stem Cell Foundation, the Rita Allen Foundation
The study, conducted by an international ALS consortium that includes scientists and clinicians from Columbia University Medical center (CUMC), Biogen idec,
said study co-leader David B. Goldstein, Phd, professor of genetics and development and director of the new Institute for Genomic medicine at CUMC.
This synergy is vital for both industry and the academic community, especially in the context of precision medicine and whole-genome sequencing."
as well as David Goldstein and his team, now at Columbia University, as well as our teams here at Hudsonalpha, said Dr. Myers. love this research model
said Tom Maniatis, Phd, the Isidore S. Edelman Professor, chair of biochemistry and molecular biophysics,
and director of Columbia university-wide precision medicine initiative. t now seems clear that future ALS treatments will not be equally effective for all patients because of the disease genetic diversity.
and Uppsala University. The study was financed with grants from several bodies, including the European Research Council, the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Cancer Society,
The research was carried out by an international team comprising academics from the Department of chemistry at the University of Cambridge, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Lund University, the Swedish University of Agricultural sciences,
and Tallinn University. Their findings are reported in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular biology. Dr Samuel Cohen
a Research Fellow at St john College, Cambridge, and a lead author of the report, said:
#Tau Associated MAPT Gene Increases Risk for Alzheimer's disease A international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California,
San diego School of medicine, has identified the microtubule associated-protein protein tau (MAPT) gene as increasing the risk for developing Alzheimer disease (AD).
Phd, research fellow and radiology resident at the UC San diego School of medicine and the study first author.
and progression of the disease, said Gerard Schellenberg, Phd, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,
professor of biological psychiatry at the University of Oslo and a senior co-author. Sudha Seshadri, MD, professor of neurology at the Boston University School of medicine, the principal investigator of the Neurology Working group within the Cohorts for Heart and Aging research in Genomic Epidemiology consortium and a study co-author added:
lthough it has been known since Alois Alzheimer time that both plaques (with amyloid) and tangles (of tau) are key features of Alzheimer pathology,
said Anders M. Dale, Phd, professor of neurosciences and radiology and director of the Center for Translational Imaging and Precision Medicine at UC San diego and the study senior author e
. a professor of physiology at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine. his is a great example of the unexpected good that can come from going wherever the science takes us.
graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in Rao lab searched through patient databases to see if it had other effects on human health.
Teaming up with Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, M d.,a professor of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, the researchers examined NHE9 in tumor cells from several patients.
-Cazares of the Johns hopkins university School of medicine. This work was supported by grants from the National Institute of Neurological disorders and Stroke (NS070024), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney diseases (DK054214
the National Institute of General Medical sciences (GM62142), the American Heart Association (11post7380034), the Johns Hopkins Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program, the International Fulbright Science and Technology Award,
and Alzheimer s disease#said Jerold Chun professor at TSRI and its Dorris Neuroscience Center and senior author of the new study.
Researchers have known long about disease-related protein accumulations (called amyloid plaques) in the brains of Alzheimer s patients.
so to be able to connect it with a disease is really interesting#said Gwen Kaeser a graduate student studying in Chun#s lab and co-first author of the study with former graduate student Diane Bushman.
Stevens K. Rehen of TSRI now at the Federal University of Brazil; and Richard R. Rivera Benjamin Siddoway and Yun C. Yung all of TSRI.
says Ed Boyden, an associate professor of biological engineering and brain and cognitive sciences at MIT. Boyden is the senior author of a paper describing the new method in the Jan 15 online edition of Science.
Lead authors of the paper are graduate students Fei Chen and Paul Tillberg. Physical magnification Most microscopes work by using lenses to focus light emitted from a sample into a magnified image.
a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical school who was not part of the research team. MIT researchers led by Ed Boyden have invented a new way to visualize the nanoscale structure of the brain and other tissues.
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