and new shielding for use in CT SCANNERS,"says Afsaneh Rabiei, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State and corresponding author of a paper on the work.
"said Joel Singer, professor in the School of Population and Public health at UBC, who is presenting at IAS 2015."
a biochemistry and molecular biology professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia who specializes in such research
The doctoral student initially made a suspension of silver nanowires in ethanol using wet-chemistry techniques. She then transferred this suspension with a pipette onto a substrate, in this case a silicon solar cell.
Joint research by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and the Los alamos National Laboratory has discovered a way to predict the emerging structures
study senior author Luke Lee, a professor of bioengineering.""It is done usually in a lab
a professor at Stanford university earth sciences school, said. He was not involved with the new study. The deforestation slowdown has, n large part,
a Phd student at Massachusetts institute of technology who conducted this study as part of his master thesis. Cuttlefish are cephalopods with large, elongated bodies and tentacles around their mouths.
Inspired by these aquatic masters of disguise, Guttag and co-author Mary Boyce, dean of engineering at Columbia University,
lead author and University of Virginia neuroscience professor Dr. Jonathan Kipnis and his group identified a previously undetected network of lymphatic vessels in the meninges the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord that shuttle fluid and immune cells from the cerebrospinal fluid to a group of lymph nodes in the neck, the deep cervical lymph nodes.
Dr. Josep Dalmau, a neurology professor at the University of Pennsylvania not involved with the new study, agrees that the new findings could help to explain the initiation, maintenance,
The research was led by Harvard chemistry professor, Charles Lieber, and an international team of scientists. Rafael Yuste, director of Columbia University's Neurotechnology Center, told Nature it"left a few of us with our jaws dropping"after a 2014 presentation.
For her work, Ticea has received a $50, 000 scholarship fund reward. Her device is expected to be approved FDA and mass-produced within five years.
#Students Invent Condom That Changes Color When It Comes In Contact With STIS A group of young teens are being praised after inventing a condom that changes colors
Students, Daanyaal Ali, 14, Muaz Nawaz, 13 and Chirag Shah, 14, pupils at Isaac newton Academy in Ilford
e encourage students to take their ideas out of the classroom by putting them face-to-face with industry professionals,
One example of resonance is the way a playground swing will climb higher from repeated pushes.
said Gregory Weiss, UCI professor of chemistry and molecular biology & biochemistry. n our paper, we describe a device for pulling apart tangled proteins
a high-powered machine designed by Professor Colin Raston laboratory at South australia Flinders University. Shear stress within thin,
#Biometric information sensor that directly adheres to the body like a plaster Professor Takao Someya postdoctoral researcher Sung Won Lee
and their research group at the Graduate school of Engineering the University of Tokyo have developed an adhesive gel
said Guo, professor of optics at the University of Rochester. That whole process takes less than a second.
In findings that may lead to new treatments for cognitive disorders, researchers at MIT Picower Institute for Learning and Memory zero in on how the brain forms memories of
the Picower Professor of Neuroscience, showed that dramatic changes occur in the primary visual cortex when mice learn to distinguish novel from familiar visual stimuli.
The study lead author, Picower Institute research scientist Samuel F. Cooke, working with postdoctoral fellows Robert W. Komorowski and Jeffrey Gavornik and graduate student Eitan
and memory storage. he study points to the visual cortex as a tool of learning and memory in its own right,
MIT/Picower Institute for Learning and Memor t
#3d printed Heart Model Makes Surgery Safer and Less Dangerous Three-dimensional printing technology has just found yet another use, this time it heart surgery.
Hillman and her students built their first SCAPE system using inexpensive off-the-shelf components. Her hamoment came when
After several years of trial and error, Hillman and graduate student Matthew Bouchard came up with a configuration that worked,
including Randy Bruno (associate professor of neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience), Richard Mann (Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics), Wesley Grueber (associate professor
says Thomas M. Jessell, co-director of the Zuckerman Institute and Claire Tow Professor of Motor neuron Disorders,
and biomedical engineering and diagnostic radiology. his chaotic cavity laser is a great example of basic research ultimately leading to a potentially important invention for the social goodsaid co-author A. Douglas Stone the Carl A. Morse Professor
and chair of applied physics and professor of physics. ll of the foundational work was motivated primarily by a desire to understand certain classes of lasers random and chaotic with no known applications.
but with low spatial coherence. or full-field imaging the speckle contrast should be less than 4%to avoid any disturbance for human inspectionexplained Hui Cao professor of applied physics
Now Dao and colleagues including Subra Suresh president of Carnegie mellon University former dean of MIT School of engineering
and Vannevar bush Professor of Engineering Emeritus have developed a tiny microfluidic device that can analyze the behavior of blood from sickle cell disease patients.
and treating other diseases where the deformability of blood cells is affectedsays Guruswami Ravichandran a professor of aeronautics
Professor Peter Stockley Professor of Biological Chemistry in the Faculty of Biological sciences at Leeds, who led the study,
said: f you think of this as molecular warfare, these are encrypted the signals that allow a virus to deploy itself effectively. ow, for this whole class of viruses,
University of York mathematicians Dr Eric Dykeman and Professor Reidun Twarock, working with the Leeds group
Professor Reidun Twarock, of the Departments of Mathematics and Biology at York, said: he Enigma machine metaphor is apt.
said Yiannis Aloimonos, UMD professor of computer science and director of the Computer Vision Lab, one of 16 labs and centers in UMIACS. ut cooking is complex in terms of manipulation,
The work also relies on a specialized software architecture known as deep-learning neural networks. While this approach is not new
In addition to Aloimonos and Fermüller, study authors includedyezhou Yang, a UMD computer science doctoral student, and Yi Li, a former doctoral student of Aloimonos and Fermüller from NICTA.
Source: UM d
#Perovskites provide big boost to silicon solar cells Stacking perovskites onto a conventional silicon solar cell dramatically improves the overall efficiency of the cell,
said study co-author Michael Mcgehee, a professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford. ight now, silicon solar cells dominate the world market,
said Stanford graduate student Colin Bailie, co-lead author of the study. ith tandem solar cells, you don need a billion-dollar capital expenditure to build a new factory.
Scaling it up to a display with many pixels is not a problemsays Jörg Reitterer (Trilite Technologies and Phd-student in the team of Professor Ulrich Schmid at the Vienna University of Technology.
Rice graduate student Zhiwei Peng and previous postdoctoral researcher Jian Lin, now an assistant professor at University of Missouri, are co-lead authors of the paper.
Co-authors are Rice graduate students Ruquan Ye and Errol Samuel. Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of computer science and a member of the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology.
The Air force Office of Scientific research and its Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) and the Office of Naval Research MURI supported the research e
Led by materials science Associate professor Michael Arnold and Professor Padma Gopalan, the team has reported the highest-performing carbon nanotube transistors ever demonstrated.
Gopalan and their students reported transistors with an on-off ratio that 1, 000 times better and a conductance that 100 times better than previous state-of-the-art carbon nanotube transistors. arbon nanotubes are very strong and very flexible,
as well as grants from the UW-Madison Center of Excellence for Materials Research and Innovation, the U s army Research Office, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program,
Additional authors on the ACS Nano paper include UW-Madison materials science and engineering graduate students Gerald Brady, Yongho Joo and Matthew Shea,
and electrical and computer engineering graduate student Meng-Yin Wu r
#Fujitsu develops ring-type wearable device capable of text input by fingertip Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of a compact and lightweight wearable ring-type device that offers handwriting-input
The device is based on microfluidic technology developed by Joel Voldman an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) in 2009.
and a graduate student in EECS spent several years re-engineering the device to get it to work with immune cells which are much smaller than the cells analyzed in 2009.
Hidde Ploegh an MIT professor of biology and member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is also a senior author of the paper.
and when they turn on a type of protein signaling known as phosphorylation. his is a very elegant way of doing these experimentssays Hang Lu a professor of chemical
The statins had a dose-dependent response causing abnormal fat accumulation at high concentrations. Clenbuterol showed a narrow beneficial window for increased contraction.
and never have to bother the patient again. ther investigators involved in this study include George Truskey 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.
said graduate student Mikhail Y. Shalaginov, the paper lead author. He and Kildishev are working with a team of researchers led by Vladimir M. Shalaev, scientific director of nanophotonics at Purdue Birck Nanotechnology Center and a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering,
and Alexandra Boltasseva, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Professors Shalaev, Kildishev and Boltasseva are a part of a Purdue reeminent teamworking on quantum photonics.
Because the studied system represents a stable source of single photons that functions at room temperature
principal investigator and professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCSB. eople are used already to the same starting materials for ATRP,
Chemistry Professor Linda Nazar and her research team in the Faculty of science at the University of Waterloo have announced a breakthrough in Li-S battery technology based on chemical process discovered 170 years ago. his is a major step forward
and graduate students Connor Hart and Quan Pang also discovered that graphene oxide seems to work by a similar mechanism.
says Adam Frost, M d.,Ph d.,assistant professor at University of California, San francisco (UCSF) and adjunct professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah.
Others working on this project include Jared Price, graduate student Penn State; Xing Sheng, postdoctoral fellow; John A Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign;
and Bram M. Meulblok, technical representative, LUXEXCEL Group B. V.,The netherlands. Source: PS X
#One-atom-thin silicon transistors hold promise for super-fast computing Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of engineering have created the first transistors made of silicene, the world thinnest silicon material.
which chipmakers already know how to work with. part from introducing a new player in the playground of 2-D materials, silicene,
But the students soon found themselves presenting a prototype to hundreds at human computer interaction conference in Portland,
the students launched SNIF Labs (an acronym for ocial Networking in Fur in 2008 and began selling the collars.
And after learning about WHO hand-hygiene guidelines, the team developed Medsense as an automated way to help administrators monitor hand-washing among staff.
These cavities, nanofabricated at Brookhaven by MIT graduate student Luozhou Li with the help of staff scientist Ming Lu of the CFN, consist of layers of diamond
and Edward Chen, who is also a graduate student studying under the guidance of Englund at MIT. oupling the NV centers with these optical resonator cavities seemed to preserve the NV spin coherence timehe duration of the memory,
The work is authored co by MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas Fang and graduate student Anshuman Kumar
said Raymond obrowland, professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology at Kansas State College of Veterinary medicine. t really the future of diagnostics for both humans and animals.
Stoddart is the Board of trustees Professor of Chemistry in Northwestern Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. ll living organisms,
he said. e are trying to recreate the actions of these proteins using relatively simple small molecules we make in the laboratory. huyang Cheng, a fourth-year graduate student in Stoddart laboratory and first author of the paper,
and learning about tradeoffs that can inform the selection of process conditions for specific applications,
a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania who was involved not in this work. think that the concentric tube approach is very creative.
and professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of Montreal. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease that is characterized by paralysis, numbness, loss of vision,
said co-senior author of the study David Cheresh, Phd, Distinguished Professor of Pathology, vice-chair for research and development and associate director for translational research at UC San diego. nd if wee ever going to use stem cells to develop new organ systems,
Phd, professor and director of the Center for Stem Cells and Regenerative medicine at Sanford-Burnham. urthermore, we demonstrate here that modeling human development
and is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical sciences of the Michael G. Degroote School of medicine.
a clinician and professor of medicine. his research will help us understand the response of cells to different drugs and different stimulation responses,
The results of the trial, led by principal investigator Richard Andersen, the James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience,
such as those of the Andersen Lab at Caltech, to human patients, ultimately turning transformative discoveries into effective therapies, says center director Charles Y. Liu, professor of neurological surgery, neurology,
Photo courtesy of UC Berkeley Robot Learning Lab) The concept of robot learning new things by itself has been puzzling scientists for quite some time.
Professor Pieter Abbeel of UC Berkeley Department of Electrical engineering and Computer sciences said it is a new way to empower robot
Deep learning programs create eural netsin which layers of artificial neurons process overlapping raw sensory data,
Deep learning is used already by programs, such as Siri on iphones, Google speech-to-text program or Google street view,
but learning to accomplish motor tasks has proved to be far more challenging. BRETT demonstrates its abilities to learn without preprogrammed knowledge about its surroundingslike in many cases,
the learning process takes about three hours. With more data robots will soon be able to learn much more complex things.
Even though learning processes are still not perfect, this shows that future might be imagined just as we it with robot butlers.
says Professor Geoff Woods from the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research at the University of Cambridge,
QAAFI Director and plant geneticist Professor Robert Henry said a Trailblazer award from The University of Queensland commercialisation arm
Professor Henry said. Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops in the world,
Professor Henry said. owever new wheat varieties must retain the essential quality characteristics of wheat. heat varieties are assessed normally for bread-making quality by conducting a baking test. his is only possible late in the breeding process
Professor Henry and his colleagues are eager to produce new premium wheat varieties. he good news is that premium wheats attract better prices so this discovery potentially means more dollars for Australian farmers.
Ewa Goldys, CNBP Deputy Director, Professor at Macquarie University and author of the work explained, n this instance,
said Nicholas Hud, a professor in Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. ith this work,
and lead author and graduate student J. Sherry Wang applied their new molecular tools to 44 DNA samples with known cancer-related single-nucleotide variants.
and computer engineering professor Zhenqiang ackma, described the new device in a paper published on May 26, 2015 by the journal Nature Communications.
Working with Shaoqin arahgong, a UW-Madison professor of biomedical engineering, Cai group addressed two key barriers to using wood-derived materials in an electronics setting:
Gong and her students also have been based studying bio polymers for more than a decade. CNF offers many benefits over current chip substrates, she says. he advantage of CNF over other polymers is that it a bio-based material and most other polymers are based petroleum polymers.
Yei Hwan Jung, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering and a co-author of the paper,
led by Professor John A. Rogers, a Swanlund Chair in Materials science and engineering, have developed a line of heat-triggered,
said Aerospace engineer and team leader Professor Scott R. White. his is a way of creating sustainability in the materials that are used in modern-day electronics.
because their infection defences are compromised by genetic errors. UK trial leader Professor Kevin Harrington, Professor of Biological Cancer Therapies at The Institute of Cancer Research, London,
the team led by Professor Will Wood at the University of Bristol were able to study the process in situ
The results suggest that adaptive immune signalling pathways important in distinguishing self from non-self in vertebrates appear to have evolved from a more ancient response designed to distinguished amaged selffrom ealthy Self will Wood, Professor of Developmental biology
Professor of Chemistry, an international team of researchers developed a method for fabricating nanoscale electronic scaffolds that can be injected via syringe.
a UCLA professor of bioengineering and chemistry who is affiliated with CNSI, the multidisciplinary team also included Michel Gilliet of Switzerland Lausanne University Hospital,
An ISEM team led by Professor Shi Xue Dou and Dr Yi Du have published breakthrough research into a new material call silicene.
An ISEM team led by Professor Shi Xue Dou and Dr Yi Du have published breakthrough research into a new material call silicene.
ISEM, led by Professor Shi Xue Dou was the first research group in Australia to make silicene
In a world first, Professor Wallace Cowling from The UWA Institute of Agriculture and his team have taken the breeding model commonly used by animal breeders,
as proposed in Professor Cowling model for selfing crops, means there can be more accurate selection and shorter generation intervals with more sustainable long-term genetic improvement.
Professor Cowling said crossing and recombination in self-pollinating crops normally occurs after selfing and selection of pure lines. n our research we changed the breeding process to allow rossing before selfingrather than elfing before crossing,
are reported in a paper in the journal Advanced Functional Materials co-authored by MIT graduate student Mark Guttag and Mary Boyce,
a former MIT professor of mechanical engineering who is now dean of engineering at Columbia University. epending on the arrangement of the particles,
a professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering at Northwestern University who was involved not in this work.
Led by Shigeki Miyamoto, a professor of oncology at UW-Madison, and David Beebe, the John D. Macarthur Professor and Claude Bernard professor of biomedical engineering at UW-Madison, the researchers published news of the advance May 1, 2015, in the Royal Society
of Chemistry journal Integrative biology. ee taking the first steps toward mimicking the body in a dish,
who previously was a graduate student working in Miyamoto lab. Pak and Edmond Young (now at the University of Toronto) and the other researchers produced an assay,
Rising in the blood marrow due to an accumulation of abnormal, or cancerous, plasma cells, myeloma is treatable
the Ingalls Professor of Cancer Genetics at the university School of medicine and a medical oncologist at University Hospitals Case Medical center Seidman Cancer Center. e have developed a drug that acts like a vitamin for tissue stem cells,
Markowitz and University of Kentucky Professor Hsin-Hsiung Tai earlier had demonstrated that a gene product found in all humans,
as well as the Asa and Patricia Shiverick-Jane Shiverick (Tripp) Professor of Hematological Oncology. Case Western Reserve research associate Amar Desai, Phd, worked between the Markowitz
For example, the investigators teamed with Fabio Cominelli, MD, Phd, a Case Western Reserve Professor and Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Liver disease,
says Cynthia R. Sung, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and one of the robot co-developers. n previous origami robots,
and motors to actuate the body itself. oining Sung on the paper describing the robot are her advisor, Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in MIT Department of Electrical engineering and Computer science;
and bolt them together, says Hod Lipson, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University, who studies robotics. t a challenging angle of robotics,
It rises in the blood marrow due to an accumulation of abnormal, or cancerous, plasma cells and current median survival rate only reaches about five to seven years.
Phd student in the Department of Biological sciences and lead author on the study. hus, there is active interest in how best to manage the species to ensure their long-term survival.
and Dean Toste, a chemist with joint appointments at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, are the other two corresponding authors.
and graduate student Justin Bogart. Connor A. Lippincott, an undergraduate student in the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research,
and Patrick J. Carroll, director of the University of Pennsylvania X-ray Crystallography Facility, also contributed to the study.
says Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, M d.,a professor of neurosurgery, neuroscience and oncology at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine and the clinical leader of the research team. e think optical coherence tomography has strong potential for helping surgeons know exactly where to cut.
a professor of biomedical engineering, has been working to further develop and apply the technology to other organs beyond the relatively transparent eye.
Carmen Kut, an M d./Ph d. student working in Li lab, thought OCT might provide a solution to the problem of separating brain cancers from other tissue during surgery.
led by Dr Adam Perriman from the University of Bristol and Professor Anthony Hollander from the University of Liverpool,
Professor Hollander said: e have shown already that stem cells can help create parts of the body that can be transplanted successfully into patients,
Professor Hollander pioneering work includes the development of a method of creating cartilage cells from stem cells,
Professor David Nemazee evaluated results like that he vaccine appears to work well in our mouse model to rimethe antibody response In another research scientists used the same immunogen in a slightly different mouse model,
a UCSF graduate student in the Biomedical sciences Program. his represents a new and exciting finding in regard to how we might target the development of tumors.
To that end, in 2013 Ruggero and UCSF colleague Kevan M. Shokat, Phd, professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology and a Howard hughes medical institute Investigator, founded San diego-based effector Therapeutics
said principal investigator Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, UCSF professor of neurological surgery, Heather and Melanie Muss Endowed Chair and a principal investigator in the UCSF Brain tumor Research center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research. t may be unwelcome
a UCLA professor of chemistry and one of the senior authors of the research. lants do this through photosynthesis with extremely high efficiency.?
a UCLA professor of chemistry and another senior co-author. his is the first time this has been shown using modern synthetic organic photovoltaic materials. n the new system,
Yves Rubin, a UCLA professor of chemistry and another senior co-author of the study, led the team that created the uniquely designed molecules. e don have these materials in a real device yet;
bioengineering professor one of authors of the study, said that you just have to mix honey
biocompatible materials, said co-senior author Zhen Gu, Phd, a professor in the Joint UNC/NC State department of Biomedical engineering.
a Phd student in Gu lab. The first material was hyaluronic acid or HA, a natural substance that is an ingredient of many cosmetics.
said Professor Shankar Balasubramanian of the Department of chemistry and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, who led the research. t had been thought this modification was solely a short-lived intermediate,
says Yet-Ming Chiang, the Kyocera Professor of Ceramics at MIT and a cofounder of 24m (and previously a cofounder of battery company A123).
and colleagues including W. Craig Carter, the POSCO Professor of Materials science and engineering. In this so-called low battery, the electrodes are suspensions of tiny particles carried by a liquid
Purdue University Mari Hulman George Professor of Applied Neuroscience and director of Purdue Center for Paralysis Research. his tool allows us to apply drugs as needed directly to the site of injury,
Youngnam Cho, a former faculty member at Purdue Center for Paralysis Research; and Jianming Li, a research assistant professor at the center.
But bacteriophages can also cause potentially harmful side effects, according to James Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science in MIT Department of Biological engineering and Institute of Medical Engineering and Science,
says Alfonso Jaramillo, a professor of synthetic biology at the University of Warwick in the U k.,
Caltech graduate student Ariel Furst (Phd 5) and her adviser, Jacqueline K. Barton, the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial professor of chemistry, are the paper authors. urrently,
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