Technologytransfer skills training and job creationare just some of the future benefits beingmentioned u
#ACTINOGEN#Uncovering a hidden source of new antibiotics In recent years, the emergence of multiple-drug-resistant bacteria has created a major health threat, for example through hospital-acquired infections from drug
As the ACTINOGEN project coordinator, Professor Paul Dyson of the Institute of Life science at Swansea University in the UK explains,
'explains Professor Dyson.''The big question was whether this genetic information was just redundant, or whether it could be used to trigger the production of new antibiotic compounds.'
'says Professor Dyson. During the project, ACTINOGEN scientists successfully triggered the creation of new antibiotics using the cryptic pathways of a number of streptomycete species,
In the past, says Professor Dyson, achieving the necessary level of production took around 10 years. The ACTINOGEN Superhost allows the same result to be achieved within six months to one year.
Lund University, a project partner in Sweden, studied what happens when robotic arms go off course
including training materials on using robots for machining, explanations of the adaptive tracking system worked on by Nikon Metrology,
Tóth is assistant professor at the Slovak University of Agriculture in the city of Nitra where he teaches in agricultural entomology,
ran from October 2008 to October 2010 at Wageningen University, in The netherlands. Tóth is now working on two patents for applications from the research.
The approval from the MHRA was described by the project's scientific co-ordinator, Professor Julian Ma of St george's, University of London,
"The conventional production systems referred to by Professor Ma use sophisticated stainless steel fermentation vats containing bacteria or mammalian cells.
According to Professor Rainer Fischer, Director of the institute where the GM tobacco was grown, this much simpler,
in the words of Professor Ma, are currently"horribly expensive"to treat. As Professor Fischer explains,
the success of PHARMA-PLANTA"is a springboard for European plant biotechnology and will enable many important medical products to be realised".
Giancarlo Ferrigno is Professor at Politecnico di Milano. He said: his is a robotic system for assisting a surgeon during neurosurgery operations.
Researchers at Ghent University and the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) in Belgium, and the University of Surrey in the United kingdom, who designed the modulator,
supported the research. The group from CEA-Leti and III-V lab also demonstrated single wavelength tuneable lasers
Fernando Fernández-Aranda is a researcher in Eating Disorders at Bellvitge University Hospital. He said:"
and maintain discipline in their training. Human Movement scientist, Stephanie Jansen-Kosterink demonstrated on a patient,
The project partners made up of three small and medium-sized European companies, a health institute in Tanzania and a US university plan to commercialise the eave tubes
Thankfully, European researchers and their international partners at UNESCO's Institute for Water Education (IHE) in Holland have perfected a simple, efficient and importantly low-cost water filtration device
UNESCO-IHE is active in education, training and capacity building in organisations, knowledge centres and other institutions active in the fields of water, the environment and infrastructure, with emphasis on developing countries and countries in transition.
For this reason, it has decided consciously not to patent the family filter. t is our hope that the absence of a patent will enable the technology to spread unfettered throughout the developing world,
Bernhard Peters as the principal investigator at the University of Luxembourg, and the German SME inutech with its complementary expertise in designing software for multi-physics applications.
and their relevant sub-components--was put forward by Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California as far back as 2009.
"Langdon says in an article in the University's newspaper.""There hasn't been a lot of interest in using it in a fresh form.
"Dulse is a superfood, with twice the nutritional value of kale,"Chuck Toombs, a faculty member in OSU's College of Business,
said Joel M. Moskowitz, director of the Center for Family and Community Health at University of California, Berkeley School of Public health.
chairman of preventive medicine at University of Southern California who led THE WHO panel that determined the classification.
"said David A. Savitz, professor of epidemiology at Brown University, who was involved not in the Interphone study.
"said University of Southern California's Samet. New studies are underway that might provide a better idea of
"said Eugene S. Flamm, chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Montefiore Medical center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine."
That learning is an important piece of the puzzle. In order for SCIO to accurately scan something,
and Splice has the makings of an online musical playground. New york-based Martocci sold Groupme to Skype in 2011 for a figure reported between $43 million and $85 million.
but Martocci says it will migrate slowly toward charging for additional features. ee constantly building a backlog of the amazing things we think we can offer for premium services from the education side, the professional producersside,
Wal-mart and Hewlett-packard are increasing their training, to help suppliers manage EHS issues. Theye also using new tools to track performance.
This will range from promoting deep energy retrofits or piloting new technologies on City-owned properties to investing in training opportunities for its workforce.
##The power of microneedles for treating eye conditions is the ability to target delivery of the drug within the eye##says Mark Prausnitz professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at the Georgia Institute of technology.##
so injections into the eye are becoming more common##says Henry F. Edelhauser emeritus professor of ophthalmology.##
Hans Grossniklaus professor of ophthalmology at Emory University contributed to the study. Yoo C. Kim Henry F. Edelhauser and Mark R. Prausnitz hold microneedle patents and Mark Prausnitz and Henry Edelhauser have significant financial interest in Clearside
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#Scientists grow norovirus stomach bug in a dish University of Florida rightoriginal Studyposted by Morgan Sherburne-Florida on November 13 2014researchers have grown for the first time a human norovirus in a cell culture dish taking a step toward developing medications to treat the stomach
##since it was discovered in 1972â##has been that we can t culture the human viruses in a cell culture dish##says Stephanie Karst associate professor in the molecular genetics and microbiology department at University of Florida College of Medicine.##
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because even using our best imaging technology we haven t been able to see precisely how these individual cells move into blood vessels says lead researcher Andrew D. Wong a graduate student in materials science and engineering at Johns hopkins university.
and ultimately produced impressive results says Peter Searson a professor in the Whiting School of engineering and Wong s doctoral advisor.
##This could really be a game-changer for a lot of applications including diagnostics##say James Collins who is a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at Boston University and a core faculty member at Harvard s Wyss Institute.##
The researchers led by Markus Aebi a mycology professor at ETH Zurich discovered the substance in the common inky cap mushroom Coprinopsis cinerea.
Researchers from the University of Bonn collaborated on the study which was published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry y
##There is great interest in the development of objective biomarkers of dietary intake especially biomarkers that can be measured noninvasively##says coauthor Susan T. Mayne professor of epidemiology at Yale university and a developer of the device.##
Brenda Cartmel a senior research scientist and lecturer at the Yale School of Public health is a co-author of the paper along with researchers from the USDA/Agricultural research service Grand Forks Human nutrition Research center and the University of Utah.
and cost-effective way for arsenic removal says Bin Gao associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering at University of Florida.
#Lab mice bred to test Ebola vaccines University of North carolina at Chapel hill University of Washington rightoriginal Studyposted by Mark Derewicz-UNC on November 3 2014researchers have developed the first genetic strain
unless you have an animal model that mimics the Ebola virus disease spectra##says study coauthor Ralph Baric professor of epidemiology at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill.
To find out the team including researchers from the University of Washington and the NIH Rocky mountain National Laboratory where the research took place were breed able to together eight genetic mouse variants
##says William Fischer an assistant professor of medicine who has treated Ebola patients in Africa.####We can decrease Ebola fatality rates with intensive critical care
and a research assistant professor of genetics in the UNC School of medicine says:####Public perception of Ebola infection typically focuses on the high mortality rate following hemorrhagic fever
and the way they usually do things says lead author Curtis Weiss assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
While our study is focused on critical care physicians our findings are relevant for other settings in education research
whose utility is difficult if not impossible to gauge says senior author Luis Amaral professor of chemical and biological engineering at the Mccormick School of engineering and Applied science and a professor of medicine at Feinberg.
which we were working on controlling says Steven J. Schiff an engineering professor at Penn State and director of the Center for Neural engineering.
The researchers who also included Yina Wei a former doctoral student at Penn State and currently a postdoctoral fellow at University of California Riverside and Ghanim Ullah former Penn State postdoctoral fellow
and now a professor of physics at University of South Florida explored extending older models of brain cell activity with basic conservation principles.
cut the oxygen University of California Davis rightoriginal Studyposted by Andy Fell-UC Davis on October 31 2014both natural
##The problem with engineered tissue is that the mechanical properties are far from those of native tissue##says first author Eleftherios Makris a postdoctoral researcher biomedical engineering department of University of California Davis
##The ramifications of the work presented in the PNAS paper are tremendous with respect to tissue grafts used in surgery as well as new tissues fabricated using the principles of tissue engineering##says Kyriacos A. Athanasiou a professor of biomedical engineering and orthopedic surgery and chair
#Team makes spiny neurons without stem cells Washington University in St louis rightoriginal Studyposted by Julia Evangelou Strait-WUSTL on October 30 2014scientists have figured outâ#howâ#to convert human skin cells
##Not only did transplanted these cells survive in the mouse brain they showed functional properties similar to those of native cells##says senior author Andrew S. Yoo assistant professor of developmental biology at the Washington University School of medicine in St louis.##These cells
##We think that the micrornas are really doing the heavy lifting##says co-first author Matheus B. Victor a graduate student in neuroscience.##
Funding came from a National Science Foundation Graduate Research fellowship a fellowship from Cognitive Computation and Systems neuroscience Pathway grants from the National institutes of health and awards from the Mallinckrodt Jr.
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I did not think that these girls would have shorter telomeres than their low-risk counterparts they'e too young says Ian Gotlib professor of psychology at Stanford university.
Other investigators are studying techniques based on mindfulness training. Gotlib says he and colleagues are continuing to monitor the girls from the original study.
For a lot of at-risk children intake of vegetables is really low says Jaimie Davis assistant professor in the nutritional sciences department at University of Texas at Austin.
Researchers from the Keck School of medicine at the University of Southern California are coauthors of the study.
Conventional fluorescent label-based virus detection methods require expensive lab equipment significant sample preparation transport and processing times and extensive training to use.
A team led by Selim Ã#nlã#a professor of biomedical engineering electrical and computer engineering and materials science and engineering at Boston University in collaboration with physics professor Bennett Goldberg showed the ability to pinpoint
and size single H1n1 virus particles. Researchers reported the first demonstrated of the concept in Nano Letters in 2010.
Now after four years of refining the instrumentation with collaborators including John Connor a School of medicine associate professor of microbiology the team has demonstrated the simultaneous detection of multiple viruses in blood serum samplesâ##including viruses genetically modified to mimic the behavior of Ebola
and handling our system can reduce potential exposure to health care workers##says Connor a researcher at Boston University s National Emerging Infectious diseases Laboratories (NEIDL).#
SP-IRIS devices are now being tested in several labs including a Biosafety Level-4 (BSL-4) lab at the University of Texas Medical Branch
which is equipped to work with hemorrhagic viruses. Other tests will be conducted at the university s NEIDL once the facility is approved for BSL-4 research.
A team led by ETH Zurich Professor Yaakov Benenson has developed several new components for biological circuits.
"The input signals can be transmitted much more accurately than before thanks to the precise control over timing in the circuit"says Benenson professor of synthetic biology who supervised Lapique s work.
Laura Prochazka also a doctoral candidate student under Benenson has developed a versatile signal converter. She published her work recently in the magazine Nature Communications.
#Ebola family is at least 16 million years old University at Buffalo rightoriginal Studyposted by Charlotte Hsu-Buffalo on October 26 2014the family of viruses to
##Filoviruses are far more ancient than previously thought##says lead researcher Derek Taylor professor of biological sciences at University at Buffalo.##
Taylor and coauthor Jeremy Bruenn professor of biological sciences research viral##fossil genes##â##chunks of genetic material that animals and other organisms acquire from viruses during infection.
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and their activities says Peter Kamel a medical student at Baylor College of Medicine who completed the research as an undergraduate at Rice university.
Researchers from the University of California San diego and the University of Texas Medical school at Houston collaborated on the project.
The National institutes of health the Rice Century Scholars Program and a Hamill Innovation Award by the Rice university Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering supported the research.
#Therapy cures hearing loss from loud noises University of Michigan rightoriginal Studyposted by Kara Gavin-U. Michigan on October 21 2014scientists restoredâ#hearing to mice that were deafened partly by noise.
and directs the University of Michigan Medical school s Kresge Hearing Research Institute.####We began this work 15 years ago to answer very basic questions about the inner ear
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#Staph bacteria gang up to outsmart antibiotics Vanderbilt University rightoriginal Studyposted by Leigh Macmillan-Vanderbilt on October 20 2014 Relatively harmless bacteria can turn deadly
and become small and weak colony variantssays Eric Skaar professor of pathology microbiology and immunology at Vanderbilt University.
#Drug flips cells to limit damage after heart attack University of North carolina at Chapel hill rightoriginal Studyposted by Mark Derewicz-UNC on October 16 2014a new way to generate more blood vessels after a heart attack can reduce damage
but our study suggests this may not be entirely true##says Eric Ubil a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill and first author of the study.##
I tried##says Ubil who conducted the research as a graduate student in the laboratory of former UNC faculty member
"We think this will enable researchers to develop a new generation of tiny implants designed for a wide array of medical applications"says Amin Arbabian assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford university.
"Tiny wireless nodes such as these have the potential to become a key tool for addressing neurological disorders"says Florian Solzbacher professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of Utah and director of its Center for Engineering Innovation.
and decompresses a million times a second providing electrical charge to the chip"says Marcus Weber who worked on the team with fellow graduate students Jayant Charthad and Ting Chia Chang.
#Brain surgery robot would go through the cheek Vanderbilt University Posted by David Salisbury-VU on October 16 2014for people with severe epilepsy treatment can mean drilling through the skull deep into the brain
Five years ago a team of engineers at Vanderbilt University wondered if it was possible to address epileptic seizures in a less invasive way?
and Research Conference in Nashville by David Comber the graduate student in mechanical engineering who did much of the design work.
According to project leader Eric Barth associate professor of mechanical engineering the next stage in the surgical robot s development is testing it with cadavers.
'##At the same time Robert Webster associate professor of mechanical engineering had developed a system of steerable surgical needles.####The idea for this came about when Eric and
The engineers identified epilepsy surgery as an ideal high-impact application through discussions with Joseph Neimat associate professor of neurological surgery.
Their findings could be used to predict the accumulation of MITOCHONDRIAL DNA mutations in maternal egg cells, as well as the transmission of these mutations to children.
professor of biology at Penn State and one of the study primary investigators. hey affect organs that require a lot of energy,
whether maternal age is important in the accumulation of MITOCHONDRIAL DNA (mtdna) mutations, both in the mother and in the child as a result of transmission.
In addition to researchers from Penn State, coauthors contributed from Nottingham Trent University in the United kingdom and the University of California
when researchers from the University of Iowa conducted a literature review they found that PTEN mutations show up in 40 percent of breast cancer cases up to 70 percent of prostate cancer cases and nearly half of all leukemia cases.
And when you mutate PTEN in mice you cause tumors says David Soll biology professor
and housed at the University of Iowa supported the study. Source: University of Iow
#Topical antibiotics may raise pneumonia risk University of Melbourne rightoriginal Studyposted by David Scott-Melbourne on October 13 2014patients in hospital intensive care units have a higher risk of developing pneumonia
when they are treated with topical antibiotics. The findings contradict previously published research that topical antibioticsâ##medication applied to the patient s airwayâ##would decrease pneumonia rates.
Ventilator-associated pneumonia develops in approximately 20 percent of patients in intensive care units (ICUS) who are receiving prolonged medical ventilation.
The new findings will help improve understanding of how to evaluate pneumonia prevention methods in the ICU says associate professor James Hurley from the University of Melbourne.
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#Health insurance for India s poor cuts death rate Stanford university University of California Berkeley University of Southern California rightoriginal Studyposted by Robert Perkins-USC on October 8 2014a
but such disparities were eliminated completely in villages with insurance coverage##says Neeraj Sood professor and director of research at the Schaeffer Center for Health policy and Economics at University of Southern California.##
University of California Berkeley; the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore; and the World bank Group are coauthors.
##The surgery can only be performed on highly obese people##says Victor Shengkan Jin associate professor of pharmacology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical school
##A major cause of insulin resistance is the accumulation of excess fat in the cells of the liver as well as in muscle tissue.
##We didn t know that the drug affects preosteoclasts nor did we understand how important preosteoclasts are in maintaining healthy bones##says study leader Xu Cao professor of orthopedic surgery at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine.##
The majority of patients who succumb to cancer fall prey to metastatic forms of the disease says Jennifer Cochran an associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford university.
In collaboration with Amato Giaccia professor of radiation oncology the researchers gave intravenous treatments of this bioengineered decoy protein to mice with aggressive breast and ovarian cancers.
and the human trials weren t large enough for the true risk of liver injury to become apparent says Paul Watkins coauthor of the study and professor of medicine and pharmacy at University of North carolina.
The team combined information about troglitazone with data specific to the human liver generated in the lab of senior author Kim Brouwer a professor at the pharmacy school.
The researchers cite the accumulation of bile acids substances produced by the liver that promote digestion and aid in the absorption of fats as the most likely suspect in the deaths.
#Autism diagnosis catches up for kids in Tanzania Brown University rightoriginal Studyposted by David Orenstein-Brown on October 2 2014to diagnose autism in Tanzania researchers adapted several techniques
##Historically in Tanzania parents that have sought autism diagnoses had to go to other countries to receive those diagnoses##says Ashley Johnson Harrison a former postdoctoral fellow at Brown University who is now an assistant professor at University of Georgia. Researchers used the new
because distinguishing between autism spectrum disorders and other conditions can ensure that children receive proper education
or adaptable and piloted the approach with the help of Tanzanian clinicians including Karim Manji of Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es salaam and Brenda Shuma and Anthony Ephraim at the Gabriella Centre in Moshi.
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#DNA VIRUSES shift from solid to liquid to infect Carnegie mellon University University of Pittsburgh right Original Studyposted by Jocelyn Duffy-Carnegie mellon on October 1 2014 Many double-stranded DNA VIRUSES
In two separate studies Carnegie mellon University biophysicist Alex Evilevitch has shown that in viruses that infect both bacteria
and those properties are universal says Evilevitch an associate professor in Carnegie mellon s physics department. This could lead to a therapy that isn't linked to the virus gene sequence or protein structure
Jamie B. Huffman and Fred L. Homa at the University of Pittsburgh; and Donald Rau at the National institutes of health.
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#Dengue virus pumps out RNA to evade attack Duke university National University of Singapore right Original Study Posted by Karen Loh-NUS on September 29 2014 A newly discovered pathway lets the dengue virus
In examining the dengue virus-2 strain a team at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical school Singapore observed that
In 30 years of dengue-related research this new mechanism was discovered never according to senior author Professor Mariano Garcia-Blanco of the Program in Emerging Infectious diseases.
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and comfortable much like skin itself says Yonggang Huang professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering at Northwestern University.
The device is very practical says Yihui Zhang co-first author and research assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.
and professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois. This technology significantly expands the range of functionality in skin-mounted devices beyond that possible with electronics alone.
#DNA test could diagnose TB without the wait University of Warwick right Original Studyposted by Kelly Parkes-Harrison-Warwick on September 24 2014 A new approach quickly diagnoses tuberculosis by relying on direct sequencing of DNA
or months says Mark Pallen professor of microbial genomics at University of Warwick Medical school. Plus relying on laboratory culture means using techniques that date back to the 1880s.
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and respond in a graduated way##says Wilbur Lam assistant professor in the pediatrics department at Emory University School of medicine and a physician in the Aflac Cancer and Blood disorders Center at Children s Healthcare of Atlanta.
Lam is affiliated also with the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
and monitor anemia themselves says Wilbur Lam a physician in the Aflac Cancer and Blood disorders Center at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the department of pediatrics at Emory University School of medicine.
T he test device was developed in a collaboration of Emory University Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Georgia Institute of technology.
It grew out of a 2011 undergraduate senior design project at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
and leader of the undergraduate team that developed the device. Blood hemoglobin then serves as a catalyst for a reduction-oxidation reaction that takes place in the device.
and the severe problems associated with reconstructive surgery says team leader Francesca Mariani assistant professor of cell and neurobiology and principal investigator in the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative medicine and Stem Cell Research at University
the Baxter Medical Scholar Research Fellowship; USC undergraduate fellowships; the Provost Dean Joan M. Schaeffer and Rose Hills fellowships;
a California Institute of Regenerative medicine (CIRM) training fellowship; CIRM BRIDGES fellowships through California State university Fullerton and Pasadena City College;
and the James H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund. Additional coauthors contributed from USC and Children s Hospital Los angeles s
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