For a new study, Michael Haller, an endocrinologist at University of Florida, looked for problematic cells of the immune system that could be behind a patient inability to produce insulin
It is possible that low-nutrient diets set off the same pathways in us to put our cells in a quiescent state says David R. Sherwood an associate professor of biology at Duke university.
Sherwood s colleague Ryan Baugh an assistant professor of medicine showed that hatching C. elegans eggs in a nutrient-free environment shut down their development completely.
professor of electrical engineering at University of Washington. e have shown this is possible in principle. If you can fit this sensor device into an intraocular lens implant during cataract surgery
says Tueng Shen, a collaborator and professor of ophthalmology. MARTERLENSES But if ophthalmologists could insert a pressure monitoring system in the eye with an artificial lens during cataract surgeryow a common procedure performed on 3 million to 4 million people each year to remove blurry vision
The researchers, including Brian Otis, associate professor of electrical engineering and also of Google Inc, . and former doctoral students Cagdas Varel and Yi-Chun Shih, have filed patents on the pressure-monitoring device prototype l
#Bionic pancreas passes 5-day test in real life The latest version of a bionic pancreas device worked successfully in two five-day clinical trialsne with adults, the other with adolescentshat imposed
says principal investigator and senior author Edward Damiano of the Boston University department of biomedical engineering. here no current standard-of-care therapy that could match the results we saw. ne of the key virtues of this device is its ability to start controlling the blood sugar instantly,
explains Damiano, associate professor of biomedical engineering at BU. And even though the dosage needs of adults are more predictable,
the University of Massachusetts Medical center in Worcester, the University of North carolina at Chapel hill, and Stanford Universitynd will begin on June 16 at MGH.
a forensic nurse practitioner and research nurse at the Betty Irene Moore School of nursing at University of California,
istockphoto) University of Southampton Nurse staffing, education tied to hospital death rate ith this technology, we can help children who might otherwise not receive this level of care.
Provided by advanced practice nurse practitioners and sexual assault nurse examiners with more than 10 years of experience evaluating abuse,
and graduate student Xiaowei He does not require an antenna and is thus amenable to simple fabrication.
Additional researchers from the Rice Sandia National Laboratories Tokyo Institute of technology and Carnegie mellon University contributed to the project
a research team from the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester also found that sperm size
a senior lecturer in andrology at the University of Sheffield and the study lead author. t is
professor of gerontology at the University of Southern California. STARVING KILLS DAMAGED CELLS hen you starve, the system tries to save energy,
assistant professor of clinical medicine at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital. ore clinical studies are needed,
explains Chay Kuo, an assistant professor of cell biology, neurobiology and pediatrics at Duke university. In a study with mice, his team found a previously unknown population of neurons within the subventricular zone (SVZ) neurogenic niche of the adult brain, adjacent to the striatum.
as the mouse has a large amount of its brain devoted to process the sense of smell and needs these new neurons to support learning.
a researcher in in the molecular physiology and biological physics department at University of Virginia. ut then it escapes from that internal vesicle into the body of the cell,
associate professor of radiology at Washington University in St louis. t roughly akin to spotting the rush of blood to someone cheeks
including learning more about how deep brain stimulation helps Parkinson patients, imaging the brain during social interactions,
Culver and Washington University have financial interests in Cephalogics LLC based on a license of related optical imaging technology by the university to Cephalogics LLC.
They are regulated in accordance with the university conflict-of-interest policies. The National institutes of health, Autism Speaks, a Fulbright Science and Technology Phd Award,
and students in training. ee not trying to replace the experts, says Jordan Hashemi, a graduate student in computer and electrical engineering at Duke university. ee trying to transfer the knowledge of the relatively few autism experts available into classrooms and homes across the country.
We want to give people tools they don currently have because research has shown that early intervention can greatly impact the severity of the symptoms common in autism spectrum disorders.
says Amy Esler, an assistant professor of pediatrics and autism researcher at the University of Minnesota,
According to Hashemi and his adviser, Guillermo Sapiro, professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering at Duke
Neither, however, expects it to become widely usedot because clinicians, teachers, and parents aren willing,
teacher, or clinician would simply need to download the app and sit their child down in front of it for a few minutes.
The National Science Foundation, Phd scholarships from Brazil and the US Department of defense, the Office of Naval Research, the National Geospatial-Intelligence agency, the Army Research Office,
associate professor of cell biology and physiology at UNC School of medicine. o we looked for commonalitieshe things that each of these receptors need
Brittany Wright, a graduate student in Zylka lab, found that the PIP5K1C kinase was expressed at the highest level in sensory neurons compared to other related kinases.
says study leader Richard Leigh, assistant professor of neurology and radiology at Johns hopkins university School of medicine. Described in the journal Stroke
Other researchers from Johns Hopkins and from Emory University contributed to the study. Source: Johns Hopkins Universit
says Ada Poon, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford university. The central discovery is an engineering breakthrough that creates a new type of wireless power transfersing roughly the same power as a cell phonehat can safely penetrate deep inside the body.
says William Newsome, professor of neurobiology and director of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute. Newsome, who was involved not in Poon experiments
says graduate student John Ho. Source: Stanford Universit n
#App analyzes your voice for mood swings Researchers are testing a smartphone app that monitors your mood by listening for changes in your voice.
says Zahi Karam, a postdoctoral fellow and specialist in machine learning and speech analysis at the University of Michigan.
The University of Michigan has applied for patent protection for the intellectual property involved. The researchers presented early results this month at the International Conference on Acoustics
an associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Duke university Pratt School of engineering. hat like taking the eye color of everyone in a room
a graduate student at Rice university who helped create the hydrogel. That process, known as syneresis, defeats the purpose of defining the space doctors hope to fill with new tissue. f the transition gellation temperature is one or two degrees below body temperature
and a medical degree in a joint program with nearby Baylor College of Medicine. hese chemical crosslinks are attached by phosphate ester bonds,
the Keck Center Nanobiology Training program of the Gulf coast Consortia and the Baylor College of Medicine Medical scientist Training program supported the research.
says creator Eran Elhaik of the University of Sheffield animal and plant sciences department. f a population from the blue soup region mixes with a population from the red soup region their offsprings would appear as a purple soup. he more genetic admixture that takes place,
an associate professor of research pediatrics at the Keck School of medicine of the University of Southern California. e were surprised by the simplicity and precision of this method.
University of Pennsylvania, University of Arizona, and other research institutions around the world. Source: University of Sheffiel c
#Wireless tattoo patch tracks health 24/7 A thin, soft stick-on patch that can stretch and move with the skin uses off-the shelf chip-based electronics to continuously track health
professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering at Northwestern University. t is as soft as human skin
John A. Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois and a coauthor of the current study, previously demonstrated skin electronics made of very tiny, ultrathin, specially designed and printed components.
The National security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship of Energy the Korean Foundation for International Cooperation of Science and Technology,
Alexander Star, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, says the new chip,
Jianping Fu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at University of Michigan, says the findings raise the possibility of a more efficient way to guide stem cells to differentiate
Fu is collaborating with doctors at the University of Michigan Medical school. Eva Feldman, professor of neurology, studies amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
It paralyzes patients as it kills motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Researchers like Feldman believe stem cell therapiesoth from embryonic and adult varietiesight help patients grow new nerve cells.
says senior author Maziar Divangahi, an assistant professor in the Faculty of medicine at Mcgill University. Despite the worldwide use of vaccination and other antiviral interventions, the flu virus remains a persistent threat to human health.
a Mcgill Phd student and the study first author. nderstanding their individual role is crucial in developing a new therapy.
says Robert Krug, professor of molecular biosciences at University of Texas at Austin. In addition to countering the body defense mechanisms,
associate professor of microbiology and immunology. ut what wee now shown is that RSV has increased an ability to cause airway obstruction because, during an RSV infection,
CELLS BALL UP AND PUFF OUT In experiments led by graduate student Rachael Liesman, the researchers decided to engineer PIV3 to express the RSV NS2 gene.
Monash University researchers found that weight loss surgery (gastric banding) for overweight people with diabetes had a profound impact on the illness. his is randomized the first controlled trial demonstrating that treatment of type 2 diabetes
and hugely beneficial, says Professor Paul Orien from Monash University Centre for Obesity Research and Education (CORE).
The findings appear online this week in the journal PLOS Genetics. his discovery provides novel insight into the genetic cause of a form of cleft palate through the use of a less conventional animal model says study leader Professor Danika Bannasch,
chairperson of the department of pharmacology and toxicology in the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Michigan State. here are two kinds of scleroderma, localized and systemic,
associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan. here are other drugs that block one or two of the signaling pathways that cause the disease,
professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns hopkins university School of medicine. hat we could intervene in adolescence
Other researchers working on the study came from Johns Hopkins, the University at Buffalo, the University of Tokyo
The research, carried out by experts from the University of Leeds School of medicine over the past three years, focuses on identifying new genes which,
says Tim Bishop of the School of medicine at the University of Leeds and a senior co-author of the study published in Nature Genetics. ince this gene has previously been identified as a target for the development of new drugs, in the future,
co-senior author from the University of Leeds. his study would not have been possible without the help
University of Leed e
#To study bipolar disorder, start with skin Scientists investigating what makes a person vulnerable to bipolar disorder took skin cells from people with the condition
a stem cell specialist at the University of Michigan who co-led the work. ee very excited about these findings.
Ohea, a professor in the department of cell and developmental biology and director of the University of Michigan Pluripotent Stem Cell Research Lab,
and Mcinnis, a professor in the department of psychiatry, are co-senior authors of the new paper published in the journaltranslational Psychiatry.
Researchers from Stanford, Tufts University, and in Israel contributed to the study, which was funded by the National institutes of health and reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences y
a professor of human development and family studies and of psychology at Penn State. ut the glucose levels under the skin trail blood glucose levels from anywhere between 8 and 15 minutes.
professor of mechanical engineering. he high prediction fidelity of our model over 30-minute intervals allows for the execution of optimal control of fast-acting insulin dose in real time
Geschwind, a professor of radiology, says that knowing the true extent of tumor response to chemoembolization is particularly important for patients with moderate to advanced disease,
#Tiny circulator in phones could double bandwidth University of Texas at Austin rightoriginal Studyposted by Sandra Zaragoza-UT Austin on November 12 2014engineers have found a way to dramatically shrink a critical component of cellphones
We have built a circulator that does need not magnets or magnetic materialssays Andrea Alu an associate professor at the Cockrell School of engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
and a doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering. n doing so we may pave the way to simultaneous two-way communication in the same frequency band
The new tree of life is dated the first evolutionary tree of this magnitude says coauthor Akito Kawahara assistant curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural history at University of Florida. ntil now we didn t
The evolutionary history of an organism orms the foundation for telling us the who what when and why of lifesays coauthor Karl Kjer of Rutgers University. any previously intractable questions are resolved now
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 l
and adults alike. here is great interest in the development of objective biomarkers of dietary intake especially biomarkers that can be measured noninvasivelysays coauthor Susan T. Mayne professor of epidemiology at Yale university
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.
or storage says James Tour a chemistry professor at Rice university. o much of chemistry occurs at the edges of materialstour says. two-dimensional material is like a sheet of paper:
and Technology at Rice and the Air force Office of Scientific research Multidisciplinary University Research program i
Sindy K. Y. Tang an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford university describes what she calls her ime capsule technologyin the journal Lab on a Chip.
and has been shown to cause cancer. ecause biochar can be produced from various waste biomass including agricultural residues this new technology provides an alternative and cost-effective way for arsenic removalsays Bin Gao associate professor of agricultural
and biological engineering at University of Florida. As reported in the journal Water Research Gao ground wood chips that were heated then in nitrogen gas but not burned.
In the first of the new papers by Hartgerink graduate students Abihishek Jalan and Katherine Jochim demonstrate the self-assembly of standalone sticky-ended triple helices with offsets of four amino acids.
or the second paper with graduate student Biplab Sarkar and former graduate student Lesley O Leary e did the reverse of that
A team led by ETH Zurich Professor Yaakov Benenson has developed several new components for biological circuits.
and reinstalls it in the correct orientation making it active. he input signals can be transmitted much more accurately than before thanks to the precise control over timing in the circuitsays 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.
#Tarantula venom probe shows neurons in action University of California Davis rightoriginal Studyposted by Carole Gan-UC Davis on October 24 2014a cellular probe that combines a tarantula toxin
because they act like switches generating electrical feedbacksays senior author Jon Sack assistant professor of physiology
and membrane biology at University of California Davis. o understand how neural systems or the heart works we need to know which switches are activated.
The NIH and the Milton L. Shifman Endowed Scholarship for the Neurobiology Course at Woods Hole supported the project.
Researchers led by Christian Degen professor at the Laboratory for Solid State Physics at ETH Zurich developed a different and vastly more sensitive measurement technique for MRI signals.
#Tiniest particles melt and then turn into Jell-o New york University rightoriginal Studyposted by James Devitt-NYU on October 20 2014the fact that microscopic particles known as polymers
and an NYU doctoral student at the time it was conducted. The research which appears in the journal Nature Materials reveals that the well-known Goldilocks Principle
#How energy loss can make lasers more intense Washington University in St louis rightoriginal Studyposted by Tony Fitzpatrick-WUSTL on October 20 2014energy loss in optical systems such as lasers is a chief hindrance
In other words they ve invented a way to win by losing. oo much of something can be really detrimentalsays Sahin Kaya Ozdemir a research scientist at Washington University in St louis. f you pump in more energy to get more laser intensity
and finally a rebirth of strong light intensity as the loss was increased. he loss added beyond a critical value increased the total light intensity and its distribution between the resonatorssays Bo Peng a graduate student.
and here we have provided a new route to increase light intensity by modulating loss in the systemsays Lan Yang an associate professor in electrical
and the Austrian Science Fund supported the project which also included researchers from RIKEN in Japan and the Vienna University of Technology in Austria.
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#This fusion reactor could be cheaper than coal University of Washington Posted by Michelle Ma-Washington on October 16 2014fusion energy almost sounds too good to be true#zero greenhouse gas emissions no long-lived radioactive waste a nearly unlimited fuel supply.
University of Washington engineers hope to change that. They have designed a concept for a fusion reactor that
and will present results this week at the International atomic energy agency s Fusion energy Conference in St petersburg Russia. ight now this design has the greatest potential of producing economical fusion power of any current conceptsays Thomas Jarboe a professor
of aeronautics and astronautics and an adjunct professor in physics. The reactor called the dynomak started as a class project taught by Jarboe two years ago.
After the class ended Jarboe and doctoral student Derek Sutherland#who previously worked on a reactor design at the Massachusetts institute of technology#continued to develop
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#This atomically thin material generates electricity Columbia University Georgia Institute of technology rightoriginal Studyposted by John Toon-Georgia Tech on October 16 2014engineers have demonstrated that a single atomic layer of molybdenum disulfide
and power wearable sensors or medical devices or perhaps supply enough energy to charge your cell phone in your pocketsays James Hone professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University
and piezotronic effect adds new functionalities to these two-dimensional materialssays Zhong Lin Wang a professor in Georgia Tech s School of Materials science and engineering
Christoph Benning professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Michigan State university and his colleagues unearthed the protein's potential
#Light makes mice forget scary memories University of California Davis rightoriginal Studyposted by Andy Fell-UC Davis on October 14 2014to test a longstanding idea about how the brain retrieves memories about specific places
or events scientists zapped mice with light to make them forget. he theory is that learning involves processing in the cortex
and the hippocampus reproduces this pattern of activity during retrieval allowing you to re-experience the eventsays Brian Wiltgen of the University of California Davis
which nerve cells in the cortex and hippocampus were activated in learning and memory retrieval and switch them off with light directed through a fiber-optic cable.
All this gesturing wizardry is made possible by a new type of algorithm developed by Jie Song a master s student in the working group headed by Otmar Hilliges professor of computer science at ETH Zurich.
The Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative program and the Air force Office of Scientific research supported the work. p
A group in Georgia Tech s College of Computing created the Glassware when one of its own said he was having trouble hearing
and facial gesturessays Jim Foley computing professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing. f hard-of-hearing people understand the speech the conversation can continue immediately without waiting for the caption.
I need and get back into the conversation. oley s colleague Professor Thad Starner leads the Contextual Computing Group working on the project.
the Georgia Tech computer science graduate student who developed the software. he text is streamed then to Glass in real time. aptioning on Glass is currently available to install from Myglass.
Foley and the students are working with the Association Of late Deafened Adults in Atlanta to improve the program.
The researchers reached data transmission rates of 32 gigabits per second across 2. 5 meters of free space in a basement lab at the University of Southern California.
says study leader Alan Willner, electrical engineering professor at the USC Viterbi School of engineering. Faster data transmission rates have been led achievedillner himself a team two years ago that twisted light beams to transmit data at a blistering 2. 56 terabits per secondut methods to do so rely on light to carry the data. he advantage
Additional coauthors come from USC, the University of Glasgow, and Tel aviv University. The Intel Labs University Research Office and the DARPA Inpho (Information in a Photon) Program supported the work n
#New nanothreads are like diamond necklaces Scientists say super-thin iamond nanothreadsould be stronger and stiffer than the strongest nanotubes
and polymers that exist today. rom a fundamental-science point of view our discovery is intriguing because the threads we formed have a structure that has never been seen beforeays study leader John V. Badding a professor of chemistry at Penn State.
The core of the nanothreads is a long thin strand of carbon atoms arranged just like the fundamental unit of a diamond s structure zigzag yclohexanerings of six carbon atoms bound together in
#Compressed bits store tons of quantum data University of Toronto Posted by Lindsay Jolivet-U. Toronto on September 29 2014scientists recently demonstrated that it s possible to compress quantum bits or qubits without losing information.
as if you d held onto them all in the first placesays Aephraim M. Steinberg of the University of Toronto and a senior fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).
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#Rare molecule found in space hints at life s origins The discovery of an unusual carbon-based molecule near the galactic center of the Milky way suggests that the complex molecules needed for life may have their origins in interstellar space.
The carbon structure of this molecule known as isopropyl cyanide is branched making it the first interstellar detection of such a molecule says Rob Garrod a senior research associate at the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research at Cornell University.
Garrod along with lead author Arnaud Belloche and Karl Menten both of the Max Planck Institute for Radio astronomy and Holger MÃ ller of the University of Cologne sought to examine the chemical makeup of Sagittarius
When the device turns color the wearer knows something is awry. ur device is mechanically invisible it is ultrathin and comfortable much like skin itselfsays Yonggang Huang professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering at Northwestern University.
and research assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering. hen your skin is stretched compressed or twisted the device stretches compresses
and professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois. his technology significantly expands the range of functionality in skin-mounted devices beyond that possible with electronics alone. ith its 3600 liquid crystals the photonic device has 3600 temperature
Hans Jurgen Herrmann a professor at the Institute for Building materials says solar flares were not the original focus of the work.
and reduced greenhouse gas emissionssays lead author Rebecca Barnes an assistant professor of environmental science at Colorado College who began the research as a postdoctoral research associate at Rice university.
but in fact researchers have found that biochar-amended sand holds water longer. tudy coauthor Brandon Dugan assistant professor of Earth science at Rice says e hypothesize that this is likely due to the presence of two flow paths
Study coauthors include co-first author Morgan Gallagher a former Rice graduate student who is now a postdoctoral researcher at Rice and an associate in research at Duke university s Center for Global Change
and Rice graduate student Zuolin Liu. The findings appear in PLOS ONE. Source: Rice Universityyou are free to share this article under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noderivs 3. 0 Unported license A
Mathematically speaking a cup has the same topology as a doughnut. glass is topologically the same as an appleexplains Professor Klaus Ensslin who led the research detailed in two papers published in Physical Review Letters.
which comprises groups from the universities of Basel Lausanne Geneva and ETH Zurich and representatives from IBM.
while keeping it on a consistent track. emperature helps keep the hands of the biological clock in the right placesays Steve A. Kay dean of the USC Dornsife College of Letters Arts
and Sciences and the corresponding author of the study. ow we know more about how that works. ay worked with lead author Dawn Nagel a postdoctoral researcher and coauthor Jose Pruneda-Paz an assistant professor at the University of California
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