In Monday's study, synthetic biologists at the University of California at Berkeley inserted an enzyme gene from beets to coax yeast into converting tyrosine--an amino acid easily derived from sugar--into a compound called reticuline.
an MIT professor of biological engineering, was quoted as saying by Britain's Science Media Center.""The information in this paper, combined with DNA synthesis,
a doctoral student at the ETH Zurich Geological Institute, said in a statement. Reusch and her co-authors found the craters at water depths of 328 feet (100 m) or more.
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Tzekwan technology, a financial security protection firm, have announced the first ATM that works with facial recognition capabilities, reports the South China Morning Post.
Researchers at the UC San diego School of medicine are hoping that facial recognition and artificial intelligence systems might help solve the problem.
chemistry professor at Harvard university and lead author on the new paper published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. ou can promote a positive interaction
Zhenan Bao, professor of chemical engineering at Stanford university who is also building injectable electronics, said the experiment was n amazing piece of work. he concept is said ingenious,
A medical research team at Florida International University in Miami injected 20 billion nanoparticles into the brains of mice
Stress Slows Metabolismthe product website explains the benefits of focused attention training: esearch has shown using an app
The technology, developed by researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, relies on engineered materials known as metamaterials
assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&t told Gizmag. Artists Discover 3-D Printingthe Missouri S&t team believes the mechanical coloring on the silver/silica materials provide a much higher printing resolution than conventional color printing, according to Gizmag.
Pennsylvania State university geography professor Andrew M. Carleton and graduate student Jase Bernhardt studied April data from two weather stations, one in the South and the other in the Midwest,
Laser Technique Etches Water Repellence Into Metalthe team of researchers from the University of Tsukuba, Utsunomiya University,
Nagoya Institute of technology and the University of Tokyo believe their laser-induced plasma, which they've dubbed"Fairy Lights,
At the University of Virginia, researchers have unveiled a new way to transmit wireless data in light waves from LED LIGHTS a much more reliable and faster alternative to radio wave Wi-fi. DNEWS:
an engineering professor at the University of Virginia, told Phys. org. e can transmit more data without using any additional energy.
you can have different access points to the same network. randt-Pearce and with her former student Mohammad Noshad,
who also has a Masters of Public health degree from Harvard university, a big component of this company is to empower consumers to understand what they are putting into their bodies,
Researcher James Anstie at the University of Adelaide and his team are developing an instrument theye dubbed an optical dog nose that uses a specialized laser known as an optical frequency comb to provide a quick and noninvasive way to analyze a person
As for future plans, Anstie of the University of Adelaide Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing expects to have a working prototype of the device within three years and a market-ready product within five years.
In an experiment conducted by Professor Selma Bringsjord of New york Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, a robot proved that it was capable of responding to a logic puzzle based off the premise of the traditional ise menriddle.
In the updated version of a puzzle used by Professor Bringsjord, the robots were programmed to believe that two of them were given a umbing pillthat would cause them to lose the ability to speak.
along with his colleague at Northeastern University in Boston, microbial ecologist Slava Epstein, described a new technique for coaxing bacteria to grow:
says Helen Zgurskaya, a biochemist at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, who studies how bacteria become susceptible to antibiotics. his study demonstrates that unculturable bacteria have unrecognized new,
Collaborators at the University of Bonn in Germany figured out that teixobactin works by interfering with two important lipids that bacteria use to build their cell walls.
a microbiologist at the University of California, San francisco. But there are many paths to developing resistance,
a virologist at the University of Bonn in Germany. e know from Saudi arabia that the virus can be transmitted during this time
including at Hong kong University (HKU) in China and Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, The netherlands. e hope to have sequence analysis very soon so we can see any recent changes,
and Women's Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical school wanted to develop a test that could look at every current or past infection in one fell swoop.
however, says microbiologist Vincent Racaniello of Columbia University. efore we view this as a definitive definition of what people have been infected with,
says materials scientist Daniel Jaque at the Autonomous University of Madrid, who was involved not in the study. t a good paper on a hot topic. he tiny diamond probes can measure temperatures ranging from 120 K to 900 K (53°C to 627°C) s cold
and precision across a wide range of temperatures, says materials scientist Estelle Homeyer of the University of Lyon in France
Her co-author, spectroscopist Christophe Dujardin of the University of Lyon, adds: here are many kinds of impurities in diamond,
too, says co-author Gilles Ledoux of the University of Lyon, especially in measuring the friction between two materials at very small scalesn area of study currently not very well understood.
a cancer biologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical center in Dallas. Researchers have used magnets before to levitate whole creatures,
says Will Grover, a bioengineer at the University of California, Riverside, who was involved not in the new work.
says neurologist Dena Dubal of the University of California, San francisco (UCSF), who was involved not in the study. he importance of this work cannot be underestimated as the world population is aging rapidly. ultiple groups of scientists have shown that adding the blood of older mice to younger animalsbodies makes them sluggish, weaker,
older animals with no B2m were better at learning and memory tasks, nearly as good as young animals at completing the water maze, for instance, the scientists report online today in Nature Medicine.
and memory, says biologist Irina Conboy of the University of California, Berkeley, who recently published a scientific paper showing that targeting a separate molecule can lower levels of B2m
"says Ken Hicks of Ohio University. Curtis Meyer of Carnegie mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, agrees."
"In reading the paper, I have seen nothing that I can easily point to as a potential problem,
it looks like a team led by University of California (UC), San diego, molecular biologist Ling Zhao may have done just that.
a materials scientist and fuel cell expert at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, who was involved not in the work. think it going to generate a lot of excitement. fuel cell works much like a battery.
and muscle density change with time during a mission says Gordon Sarty at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.
But in 1974 Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge predicted they should emit a faint glow of particles now known as Hawking radiation.
In 2010 a team led by Francesco Belgiorno at the University of Milan made a model black hole the horizon
The Hawking effect comes from quantum noise at the horizon says William Unruh at the University of British columbia in Canada one of the first to propose fluid-based black hole analogues.
This work is really impressive says Daniele Faccio at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in the UK who was on the team that made the fibre-optic based black hole.
which make fuel from sunlight just like plants says Lee Cronin at the University of Glasgow UK.
when Steve Fossey of University college London and his students stumbled upon a type IA supernova in M82 or the Cigar galaxy.
and physics that govern the universe says astronomer Geoff Marcy of the University of California Berkeley.
Nikku Madhusudhan at the University of Cambridge says the results can also aid our understanding of the insides of diamond planets.
Analysing its microscopic crystals Birger Schmitz at Lund University and his colleagues found that the rock dates to the same time period
David Harper at Durham University UK agrees. The team may at last have identified the impactor responsible for the break up of the parent body of the L chondrite meteorites he says.
In 2002 a team led by astrobiologist Charles Cockell at the University of Edinburgh UK discovered a unique group of cyanobacteria in Haughton crater in northern Canada.
Alexandra Pontefract at the University of Western Ontario in Canada says the ISS experiment is a fantastic proof of concept.
Calculations by geophysicists previously suggested that gravity should compress planets so much that rocky worlds can't get bigger than twice Earth's size says Kepler team member Geoff Marcy at the University of California Berkeley.
and it's about time says John Logsdon a space policy expert at George washington University's Elliott School of International affairs in WASHINGTON DC.
This is like simulating the whole US where previously it was like just simulating your neighbourhood says Michael Boylan-Kolchin at the University of Maryland in College Park who led one of the largest previous simulations called Millennium-II.
Now Sandra Chapman of the University of Warwick UK and her colleagues have examined the solar wind's behaviour using NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft.
Now a team led by Robert Quimby at the University of Tokyo Japan has confirmed the first case of this lensing effect in a type 1a supernova:
I'm impressed they could find this thing says Brian Schmidt at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Mertsch and his colleagues led by Hao Liu at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark plotted the positions of these loops.
Cassini scientist Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University of Rome Italy and colleagues have mapped now Enceladus's gravity
Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University of Rome in Italy and his colleagues used radar On earth to track Cassini on three separate fly-bys of Enceladus
and also that it has a surprisingly low density says team member Francis Nimmo at the University of California Santa cruz. That might be due to open fractures
because it wouldn't be in contact with the rock says team member Jonathan Lunine at Cornell University in Ithaca New york. This gravity map hinting at a much larger ocean is a more favourable model for having some sort of life in Enceladus's interior.
The subsurface-sea idea is just the simplest possible interpretation of the gravity data cautions William Mckinnon at Washington University in St louis who was involved not in the work.
"says team member Shane Farritor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Medical emergency For now, the only humans in space venture no further than the International space station.
"says Dmitry Oleynikov at the University of Nebraska Medical center.""That difficulty increases logarithmically when you're trying to do complex procedures such as an operation."
Virtual Incision hopes to avoid this problem by training astronauts to perform procedures on each other.
James Burgess at Carnegie mellon University in Pittsburgh thinks robots like these could be particularly useful
A net isn't necessarily the best option to collect debris says Hugh Lewis an aerospace engineer at the University of Southampton UK.
Meanwhile, Benjamin Longmier at the University of Michigan in Ann arbor, who leads a rival project, announced that his team also has private funding
Although they have made space accessible to groups who wouldn't otherwise have been able to afford it most recently a team of high-school students Cubesats haven't done much cutting-edge science."
It's a stretch goal says Scott Pace director of the Space Policy Institute at George washington University in WASHINGTON DC.
I'd say the data are equivocal at the moment says John Mustard of Brown University in Providence Rhode island.
We do however know that high speed impacts are a ubiquitous process as we see impact craters on every solid surface in the solar system says Mark Price at the University of Kent UK.
The goop that remained after the ice was evaporated away was analysed by Price's colleague Zita Martins at Imperial College London who found it contained the amino acids alanine and norvaline.
and possibly land people on the moon in the 2020s says Dean Cheng of the Heritage Foundation a think tank in WASHINGTON DC.
Fabienne Bastien of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and colleagues used Kepler data to watch instead for flickers in starlight due to short-lived convection cells or granules on the star's surface.
or asteroseismology signals from sun-like stars says Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard of Aarhus University in Denmark who leads a consortium of researchers who analyse Kepler's starquake data.
but her students design and build Cubesats for planetary science. This definitely is helping open up space both to all people
Five years out we'd love to see 100 150 of these up in the air reaching half a million students d
Now Guillem Anglada-Escudé of the University of Göttingen in Germany and his colleagues have reanalysed the original data
They will also run medical and technical tests and broadcast a science lesson to Chinese students from orbit.
The launch continues the execution of an orderly programme laid out in the 1990s says Joan Johnson-Freese of the US Naval War College in Newport Rhode island.
and a sustained interest during those 25 years says Dean Cheng of the Heritage Foundation a conservative policy research group in WASHINGTON DC.
and the interpretation of the dust clump as a vortex is plausible says Philip Armitage an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
If we could find evidence primitive life got a start on Mars that could fill in a lot of gaps in our understanding of conditions on early Earth says Jeffrey Bada of the University of California in San diego. What we find on Mars won't be a magic bullet to say'Ah!
Last year Fusa Miyake at Nagoya University Japan and colleagues discovered that two Japanese cedar trees had unexpectedly high levels of carbon-14 in tree rings formed between 774 and 775.
The aurora would have been seen up to tropical latitudes says Valeri Hambaryan of the University of Jena Germany.
Roger Clowes of the University of Central Lancashire in Preston UK and colleagues discovered the structure using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey the most comprehensive 3d map of the universe.
and creating new and improved cosmological models says Subir Sarkar of the University of Oxford.
says James Cutler at the University of Michigan. These have combined to increase access to orbit as never before."
"I've got students that will leave with a master's and have built and launched five
Coe-Sullivan, then a Phd student in electrical engineering and computer science, was working with Bulovic and students of Moungi Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor in Chemistry,
Then, a chance encounter at a cocktail party at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship with a former classmate
QD Vision cofounder Greg Moeller MBA 2 sped things along. Early in the evening, the two started discussing Coe-Sullivan QLED advancements;
Simultaneous funding to MIT Stanford university and the University of California at Berkeley is intended to jumpstart a new field of cyber policy research.
Each of the three universities will take complementary approaches to addressing this challenge. MIT s CPI will focus on establishing quantitative metrics
Interdisciplinary approachthe Institute-wide CPI will bring together scholars from three key disciplinary pillars: engineering social science and management.
and frame policy solutions while management scholars offer insight on practical approaches to institutionalize best practices in operations.
For example the MIT Energy Initiative has brought together faculty from across campus including the social sciences to conduct energy studies designed to inform future energy options and research.
In addition to research a contribution of the CPI in the long run will be to create a pipeline of students to serve as the next generation of leaders working at this intersection of technology and public policy.
The Foundation concentrates its resources on activities in education the environment global development and population performing arts and philanthropy as well as grants to support disadvantaged communities in the San francisco bay Area.
Future versions of the particles could be designed to detect reactive oxygen species that often correlate with disease says Jeremiah Johnson an assistant professor of chemistry at MIT and senior author of the study.
but University of Nebraska chemistry professor Andrzej Rajca who is also an author of the new Nature Communications paper recently discovered that their half-life can be extended by attaching two bulky structures to them.
Steven Bottle a professor of nanotechnology and molecular science at Queensland University of Technology says the most impressive element of the study is the combination of two powerful imaging techniques into one nanomaterial.
Sociometric s MIT cofounders and co-inventors of its technology include Alexander Sandy Pentland the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts
when students in Pentland s Human Dynamics Group including Waber were approached to use behavioral analytics for a management study.
A study with Cornell University in 2013 for instance allowed the startup to prove that it could accurately predict high levels of cortisol in someone s saliva an indicator of high stress based on their tone of voice.
You can store very long-term information says Timothy Lu an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and biological engineering.
Lu and graduate student Fahim Farzadfard the paper s lead author set out to create a system for storing analog memory
long-lasting analog distributed genomic storage with a variety of readout options says Shawn Douglas an assistant professor at the University of California at San diego who was involved not in the study.
but our ability to translate this data into usable knowledge is lagging behind says Arup K. Chakraborty the Robert T. Haslam (1911) Professor of Chemical engineering Physics Chemistry and Biological engineering at MIT and director of the MIT Institute
The new center s co-directors are Eric Alm an associate professor of biological engineering at MIT and Ramnik Xavier chief of gastroenterology and director of the Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel
Under their guidance the center will seek to develop a regional ecosystem together with other hospitals universities and research institutions.
Collaboration between academic investigators and real-world clinicians is vital to the center s purpose according to Xavier who also serves as the Kurt Isselbacher Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical school.
and to draw new talent to microbiome research by promoting the field within the academic community.
and Alexander Slocum, the Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical engineering at MIT is developing a novel system that adapts a traditional pipe-making technology to churn out wind turbines on location,
Opening up the country Keystone is now conducting structural validation of towers created by its system in collaboration with structural engineers at Northeastern University and Johns hopkins university.
Until recently, Spielberg worked in the MIT Media Lab with Neri Oxman, the Sony Corporation Career development Assistant professor of Media Arts and Sciences, graduate students Steven Keating and John Klein,
and other undergraduates. As part of the Mediated Matter Group, he focused on converting a robotic arm to a computer controlled arm, capable of printing projects, like houses.
He is now working in the lab of A. John Hart, the Mitsui Career development Associate professor of Mechanical engineering,
Then, as a high-school student, Spielberg became involved in some of the research his fundraising supported;
The system was developed by Shayegan Omidshafiei, a graduate student, and Agha-mohammadi. They and their colleagues, including Jonathan How,
a professor of aeronautics and astronautics, will present details of the visualization system at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronauticsscitech conference in January.
and a former associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science who co-invented the technology. That turns out to be the key to keeping the efficiency very high.
Backed by millions in funding Eta Devices co-founded by David Perreault an MIT professor of electrical engineering
(i-Teams) class that brought together MIT students from across disciplines to develop commercial products.
With help from Astrom the professors started designing the technology for the mobile market initially leaning toward base stations.
i-Teams draft the two professors earned a Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation grant in 2009 allowing for the first demonstration of the hardware showing a 77 percent gain in efficiency over standard systems.
When I was a professor I was going around the world trying to give the technology away Dawson says laughing.
This suggests that a similar approach might be more effective in human patients says Michael Cima the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering at MIT
The paper s other senior authors are Robert Langer the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT
and a member of the Koch Institute the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES and the Department of Chemical engineering and Henry Brem a professor of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins. The lead author is Urvashi Upadhyay previously a neurosurgeon
at Brigham and Women s Hospital and now an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical school.
Michael Lim an associate professor of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins says the new approach seems like a promising way to expand the range of treatments available for brain tumors
Now a team of researchers at MIT led by Alfredo Alexander-Katz the Walter Henry Gale Associate professor of Materials science and engineering has demonstrated a new target-finding mechanism.
The finding is described this week in a paper in the journal Physical Review Letters written by Alexander-Katz graduate student Joshua Steimel and postdoc Juan Aragones.
Ignacio Pagonabarraga a professor of fundamental physics at the University of Barcelona who was connected not with this research says This simple synthetic system may be valuable to gain more insight into basic physical principles associated with durotaxis the mechanical sensing mechanism by
Led by Papagiannakopoulos graduate student Francisco Sanchez-Rivera the paper s other lead author and Koch Institute director Tyler Jacks the paper s senior author the team used CRISPR to accurately reproduce the effects of two well-known lung cancer genes.
This is#a wonderful new example of the power of the CRISPR approach says Anton Berns a professor of molecular genetics at The netherlands Cancer Institute.
implantable device invented by MIT professor Michael Cima and other researchers. In the mid-2000s, a urologist at Boston Children Hospital contacted Cima at the behest of Institute Professor Robert Langer with a plea:
Could he develop an alternative treatment for IC? Treating the debilitating disease which causes painful and frequent urination that can interrupt daily life currently requires infusing the drug lidocaine into a patient bladder through a catheter.
says Cima, the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering. Rising to the challenge, Cima and engineering student Heejin Lee SM 4, Phd 9 invented a solution:
a pretzel-shaped silicone tube that could be inserted into the bladder, slowly releasing lidocaine over two weeks.
along with several MIT graduate students, to test much smaller versions of the device in animals. he Deshpande funding was an absolutely critical element in getting the data necessary to raise capital for Taris,
and some of the students had done the work, collected the data to determine it was thought feasible,
and magnetism in a single compact object says Moungi Bawendi the Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry at MIT and senior author of the new paper.
Christopher Murray a professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania who was connected not with this research says This work exemplifies the power of using nanocrystals as building blocks for multiscale and multifunctional structures.
and Cornell University. The work was supported by the National institutes of health the Army Research Office through MIT s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies and the Department of energy y
along with computer scientists at Columbia University, have developed a method that predicts the pattern of coils and tangles that a cable may form
an associate professor of mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering at MIT. e have a description that applies to many systems.
and Eitan Grinspun of Columbia University. Shipping up to Boston Fiber-optic cables are deployed typically from a sailing vessel,
and his students fabricated filaments from silicone-based rubber, and rigged a spool to automatically reel out the wire onto a conveyor belt.
In the latest issue of the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical systems Velsquez-Garc a his graduate students Eric Heubel and Philip Ponce de Leon and Frances Hill a postdoc in his group describe a new prototype
which requires a high level of training to operate and everything is defined in planes. In many applications you want the three-dimensionality:
and not a beam of droplets says Herbert Shea an associate professor in the Microsystems for Space technologies Laboratory at the cole Polytechnique F d rale de Lausanne.
Toxicity is probably the single most important problem in cost-effective biofuels production says Gregory Stephanopoulos the Willard Henry Dow Professor of Chemical engineering at MIT.
This work goes a long way to squeezing the last drop of ethanol from sugar adds Gerald Fink an MIT professor of biology member of the Whitehead Institute and the paper s other senior author.
and graduate student Adel Ghaderi also contributed to the study. Reinforcing cell defensesthe research team began this project searching for a gene
Lonnie Ingram director of the Florida Center for Renewable Chemicals and Fuels at the University of Florida describes the MIT team s discovery as remarkable and unexpected.
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