#Nine of world's biggest banks join to form blockchain partnership Nine of the world's biggest banks including Goldman sachs
web-based"crytocurrency"-can be used in finance. Over the past year, interest in blockchain technology has grown rapidly.
and shared by a global network of computers and therefore is virtually tamper-proof. The Bank of england has dedicated a team to it
and whether a tumor is likely to spread to other sites. The findings also open the possibility of new therapies aimed at measuring
1 and FGFR2 binding sites survived the same length of time. The research was funded by the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, the National institute of health (NIH), the RGK Foundation and the Gilder Foundation.
surgeons reroute healthy nerves sitting above the injury site, usually in the shoulders or elbows, to paralyzed nerves in the hand or arm.
"Once located at the site of the blood clot, thrombin-a molecule at the centre of the clotting process-breaks open the outer layer of the nanocapsule,
such as answering incoming calls on a smartphone, controlling playback on a music player, or even typing
A select number of cars will be fitted with the requisite wireless charging technology and a test road will be built to show how smaller substations, AC/AC converters,
#Forget Bluetooth, new wireless technology uses your body to transmit data Bluetooth redefines ubiquitous. It seemingly everywhere,
and nowhere more so than in personal wearable devices such as fitness trackers, smart watches, audio headsets, earphonesyou name it.
But what if it not the best technology for the job? Researchers at the University of California, San diego in the US have developed a prototype to show off a new wireless communication technique which they say massively outperforms existing wireless tech by using the human body itself to help send data between devices.
The researchers call their new method agnetic field human body communication The technique uses the body as a vehicle to deliver magnetic energy between wearable electronic gadgets.
Whereas Bluetooth devices worn on the body transmit data via radio signals, the electromagnetic radiation that makes up these signals is blocked by something you.
The end result is that Bluetooth devices aren very power efficient when we wear them something youe more than likely to have had personal experience with
and it a problem that only compounded by the fact that most wearable Bluetooth gadgets are small and light,
The researchers say path loss using magnetic field human body communication is more than 10 million times lower than that of Bluetooth radios. his technique,
to our knowledge, achieves the lowest path losses out of any wireless human body communication system that been demonstrated so far,
They say that ultra-low-power communication systems in wearable devices will transmit signals of much less power than things like MRI SCANNERS and wireless implant devices, with magnetic fields passing freely and harmlessly through biological tissue.
Compared to something like Bluetooth, which transmits data in a wide radius of several metres,
another possibility for the technology is self-charging smartphone screens made from transparent lithium-ion batteries.
such as ejector pins for iphones, watch springs for expensive hand-wound watches, trial medical implants,
Last year, scientists used metallic glass to create an iphone case that was 50 times harder than plastic.
we'll see a whole range of these types of innovations hitting the market in the years to come-imagine the back of your iphone being made out of metallic glass instead of just a case.
a 16-year-old from the US, won the 2015 Google Science Fair with her project to develop a fast, cheap,
The winners of the fifth annual Google Science Fair were announced live from Google Headquarters in Mountain view
She takes home US$50, 000 in scholarship funding from Google. The science fair is meant to challenge the next generation of young scientists, inventors,
then these sites would be prime candidates for landing spots on the first manned mission to the planet."
Feldt says staff are asked to stay off social media and other distractions while at work and meetings are kept to a minimum."
About 1 billion of these transistors has been packed onto each silicon chip in your smartphone or computer.
not just for smartphones but for electric cars and solar power, where batteries are essential for storing energy to use
The idea of a lithium-air or lithium-oxygen battery isn't new scientists have known for a while that these types of batteries can hold up to 10 times the charge of today's lithium-ion packs (imagine not having to charge your phone for a whole week.
and smartphones, was reached by using a'fluffy'carbon electrode made from graphene. What's more, by changing the chemical mix from earlier versions of lithium-air batteries,
when they try to seek out relevant medical information on the Internet. Unfortunately, as many of us are aware,
the web is not necessarily a great place to do this kind of research, and now a broad study of anti-vaccination websites helps to explain why.
Researchers from the Johns hopkins university Bloomberg School of Public health analysed close to 500 anti-vaccination websites and found that they deliver a distorted mixture of pseudoscience and misinformation to parents seeking information about vaccines.
According to the researchers, more than two thirds of anti-vaccination websites present nonscientific information and other forms of misinformation as cientific evidenceto support the view that vaccines are dangerous to children,
and nearly one third of sites reinforce the idea through the use of anecdotes and stories.
The researchers used search engines including Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask jeeves to find the sites, using search terms like mmunisation dangersand accine dangerto see where it led them.
The study found that the resulting mix of blogs, personal websites Facebook pages and health sites perpetuate an alarming mixture of misinformation about vaccines
and use a range of persuasive techniques to get the reader on side. Almost two thirds of the sites suggested that vaccines cause autism,
and more than 40 percent claim theye responsible for rain injury The majority present information as scientific when it doesn actually qualify for that distinction.
In addition to condemning vaccines, the sites also promote some positive behaviours, such as healthy eating (recommended by 18.5 percent of anti-vaccination sites),
and the benefits of breastfeeding (5. 5 percent) and eating organic food (5. 2 percent). The study, presented this week at the American Public health Association annual meeting in Chicago,
may help actual scientists such as doctors and health care workers better understand how to reach and communicate with parents who are concerned genuinely about any perceived risks of vaccination
(and who may be exposing themselves to potentially dangerous misinformation on these kinds of sites). he biggest global takeaway is need that we to communicate to the vaccine-hesitant parent in a way that resonates with them
and is sensitive to their concerns, said Meghan Moran, an associate professor in the Bloomberg School department of health, behaviour and society. n our review,
This web of biomolecules that supports and controls gene activity is known as the epigenome. The researchers say having the ability to steer the epigenome will help them explore the roles that particular promoters
so that we can alter the DNA's packaging at that specific site, "said Reddy. Gersbach and Reddy put their artificial epigenetic agent to the test by targeting a few well-studied gene promoters and enhancers.
cheaper and more powerful and durable than lithium-ion batteries common in mobile phones and laptops and increasingly used in hybrid and electric cars.
These ultra-small antennas--the so-called'last frontier'of semiconductor design--would be a massive leap forward for wireless communications.
In addition to the implications for wireless communications the discovery could help identify the points where theories of classical electromagnetism and quantum mechanics overlap.
whether in a communications tower or a mobile phone, is to launch energy into free space in the form of electromagnetic or radio waves,
However, this theory becomes problematic when dealing with radio wave emission from a dielectric solid, a material
dielectric resonators are used already as antennas in mobile phones, for example.""In dielectric aerials, the medium has high permittivity,
meaning that the velocity of the radio wave decreases as it enters the medium, "said Dr Dhiraj Sinha, the paper's lead author."
ubiquitous computing where almost everything in our homes and offices, from toasters to thermostats, is connected to the internet.
"The scientist said the Hur-RNA binding site is like a long, narrow groove, not a well-defined pocket seen in other druggable proteins targeted by many current cancer therapies."
'--or the RNA--at a site called'ARE'on the rope. We aimed to find a small-molecule compound that makes the hand release the rope by competing with ARE of the RNA."
Additional information about the launch is available at https://blogs. nasa. gov/spacex/2015/03/31/spacex-targeting-april-13-for-station-resupply-launch/.
Gordeliys team changed the structure by swapping specific amino acids at the site in question through targeted mutations.
UNSW Associate professor Andrea Morello from the School of Electrical engineering and Telecommunications, said his team had realised successfully a new control method for future quantum computers.
It's a bit like selecting which radio station we tune to, by turning a simple knob.
#Researchers test smartphones for earthquake warning The study, led by scientists at the U s. Geological Survey
and published April 10 in the inaugural volume of the new AAAS journal Science Advances, found that the sensors in smartphones
the GPS (Global positioning system) receivers in a smartphone can detect the permanent ground movement (displacement) caused by fault motion in a large earthquake.
Using crowd-sourced observations from participating users'smartphones, earthquakes could be detected and analyzed, and customized earthquake warnings could be transmitted back to users."
The results show that crowd-sourced EEW could be achieved with only a tiny percentage of people in a given area contributing information from their smartphones.
For example, if phones from fewer than 5000 people in a large metropolitan area responded the earthquake could be detected
The authors found that the sensors in smartphones and similar devices could be used to issue earthquake warnings for earthquakes of approximately magnitude 7 or larger,
to test a pilot hybrid earthquake warning system comprising stand-alone smartphone sensors and scientific-grade sensors along the Chilean coast."
"The use of mobile phone fleets as a distributed sensor network--and the statistical insight that many imprecise instruments can contribute to the creation of more precise measurements--has broad applicability including great potential to benefit communities where there isn't an existing
and are enabling new technologies like flexible displays in mobile phone, wearable electronics, and the Internet of things (Iots).
#Smartphone-based device could provide rapid, low-cost molecular tumor diagnosis A device developed by Massachusetts General Hospital investigators may bring rapid,
the researchers describe a smartphone-based device that uses the kind of technology used to make holograms to collect detailed microscopic images for digital analysis of the molecular composition of cells and tissues."
"The device the team has developed--called the D3 (digital diffraction diagnosis) system--features an imaging module with a battery-powered LED light clipped onto a standard smartphone that records high-resolution imaging data with its camera.
"By taking advantage of the increased penetration of mobile phone technology worldwide, the system should allow the prompt triaging of suspicious
and 3) conduct clinical studies in settings such as care-delivery sites in developing countries or rural settings and for home testing with seamless sharing of information with providers and/or clinical investigators."
#Innovation boosts Wi-fi bandwidth tenfold Researchers have invented a new technology that can increase the bandwidth of Wi-fi systems by 10 times,
It could be integrated with existing Wi-fi systems to reduce bandwidth problems in crowded locations, such as airport terminals or coffee shops,
and in homes where several people have multiple Wi-fi devices. Researchers at Oregon State university have invented a new technology that can increase the bandwidth of Wifi systems by 10 times,
using LED LIGHTS to transmit information. The technology could be integrated with existing Wifi systems to reduce bandwidth problems in crowded locations
such as airport terminals or coffee shops, and in homes where several people have multiple Wifi devices. Experts say that recent advances in LED TECHNOLOGY have made it possible to modulate the LED light more rapidly,
opening the possibility of using light for wireless transmission in a"free space optical communication system.""In addition to improving the experience for users,
and it integrates with existing Wifi systems, "said Thinh Nguyen, an OSU associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.
and the existing Wifi system.""I believe the Wifo system could be transformed easily into a marketable product,
Although some current Wifi systems have similar bandwidth, it has to be divided by the number of devices,
In a home where telephones, tablets, computers gaming systems, and televisions may all be connected to the internet,
increased bandwidth would eliminate problems like video streaming that stalls and buffers. The receivers are small photodiodes that cost less than a dollar each
or incorporated into the next generation of laptops, tablets, and smartphones. A provisional patent has been secured on the technology,
and a paper was published in the 17th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems.
Then we annealed the layer with an excimer laser a conventional tool used for manufacturing smartphone displays.
Further, these new metamaterials could allow integration of terahertz optoelectronics with high-speed telecommunications. DOE Office of Science, Basic energy Sciences (experiments.
In general, the electrical current which powers our telephones fridges and other electrical equipment is made up of electrons:
The project was awarded recently PRIZE prototype funding from Austria Wirtschaftsservice (AWS. A few more preclinical trials are necessary before the artificial blood vessels can be used in humans.
could allow biomedical engineers to identify appropriate binding sites for drugs used to treat cancer and other diseases.
#A smartphone with ultimate macro feature: DNA-scanning fluorescent microscope If you thought scanning one of those strange,
square QR codes with your phone was advanced somewhat, hold on to your seat. Researchers at the University of California, Los angeles (UCLA) have developed recently a device that can turn any smartphone into a DNA-scanning fluorescent microscope."
"A single DNA molecule, once stretched, is about two nanometers in width, "said Aydogan Ozcan, HHMI Chancellor Professor, UCLA."For perspective,
"Enter Ozcan's smartphone attachment--an external lens, thin-film interference filter, miniature dovetail stage mount for making fine alignments,
Although other smartphone-turned-microscopes can image larger scale objects such as cells, Ozcan's group's latest mobile-phone optical attachment is the first to image and size the slim strand of a single DNA molecule.
and Windows smart application running on the same smart phone. The scanned information is sent then to a remote server in Ozcan's laboratory,
The smartphone microscope demonstrated a significant drop in accuracy for 5, 000 base-pair or shorter segments,
the authors found that NONO localizes at the sites of DNA damage where it favours the loading of other proteins which are key to this process."
user manual and related data can be downloaded from http://www. stjuderesearch. org/site/lab/zhang.
and related tools that can be accessed through Amazon web services. Instead of downloading CONSERTING, scientists can upload data for analysis. Work on CONSERTING began in 2010 shortly after the St jude Children's Research Hospital--Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project was launched.
and allow virtual reality (VR) headsets to be used outdoors. The researchers'new centimeter-accurate GPS coupled with a smartphone camera could be used to quickly build a globally referenced 3-D map of one's surroundings that would greatly expand the radius of a VR game.
Currently, VR does not use GPS, which limits its use to indoors and usually a two-to three-foot radius."Imagine games where,
GRID currently operates outside the phone, but it will eventually run on the phone's internal processor.
To further develop this technology, Humphreys and his students recently co-founded a startup, called Radiosense.
Humphreys and his team are working with Samsung to develop a snap-on accessory that will tell smartphones, tablets and virtual reality headsets their precise position and orientation.
In vivo and in vitro studies confirmed the microparticles stimulated a strong, sustained innate immune response at local sites of tumor activity and growth--with or without any antigen loaded."
"But these vaccines have mostly not been very potent because of inefficient vaccine delivery, a poor immune response at the site of the tumor,
The sensor signal is wirelessly readable, for instance, by a mobile phone. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd is searching for a partner so as to commercialize the sensor.
The sensor layer is part of a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag, and the sensor data can be read wirelessly using an RFID reader in for example, a smartphone.
The sensor transmits information about the freshness of the food in the package to the retailer or customer.
A similar optical readout based on the colour change of the ethanol sensor was developed also for a smartphone.
The sensor and the RFID tag can be manufactured using printing techniques into a label or sticker and be attached easily to a food package.
#Mobile phone video microscope automates detection of parasites in blood"We previously showed that mobile phones can be used for microscopy,
Next generation Cellscope uses video, automationfor this latest generation of the mobile phone microscope, named Cellscope Loa, the researchers paired a smartphone with a 3d printed plastic base where the sample of blood
With a single touch of the screen by the healthcare worker, the phone communicates wirelessly via Bluetooth to controllers in the base to process
and an algorithm automatically analyzes the telltale"wriggling"motion of the worms in video captured by the phone.
The short processing time allows health workers to quickly determine on site whether it is safe to administer IVM."
"The research offering a phone based app is ingenious, practical and highly needed.""Resh, who is involved not in the Cellscope project,
Using a cell phone to detect and quantify bacteriae. coli and S. aureus are the most common bacterial pathogens that cause food poisoning,
"Electrically stimulating the retina excites all of these cells at the same time, which is very different from how these cells respond to real visual input."
and photonic crystal technology, could lead to brighter and more efficient mobile phone, tablet, and computer displays, as well as enhanced LED lighting.
"Since screens consume large amounts of energy in devices like laptops, phones, and tablets, our approach could have a huge impact on energy consumption and battery life,
"If you put the photonic crystal-enhanced quantum dot into a device like a phone or computer,
"One prototype based on this model synchronizes a laser projector with a common rolling-shutter camera-the type of camera used in most smartphones
It also could be incorporated readily into smartphones. The researchers will present their findings today at SIGGRAPH 2015, the International Conference on Computer graphics and Interactive Techniques,
"They can just email me,"said Wilson, "and we'll send them the assay, and then they can do it in their own lab
"This is a remarkable evolutionary solution for'social networking'in large colonies, "Ray explained.""A more volatile body odor cue would be confusing to associate with an individual
allowing them to use one machine to surf the web, check emails and keep track of finances.
Now, researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in Japan, have pulled off the same feat for light in the quantum world by developing an optical chip that can process photons in an infinite number
of ways. It's a major step forward in creating a quantum computer to solve problems such as designing new drugs
because the world's leading quantum photonics group teamed up with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), the world's leading telecommunications company.
and engineering expertise in the telecommunications industry. It's a model that we need to encourage
as well as superstrong composites--like the ones used in phone cases and body armor. Each new combination of atom-thick layers presents new properties
This mechanism may act as a firewall, shutting down the immune response before it gets out of hand. However, from a clinical standpoint, this discovery could lead to more effective cancer immunotherapies,
Loyola is the only site in Illinois participating in a clinical trial in which the device is being implanted in lower-risk patients.
SURTAVI is being conducted in 76 sites in eight countries for patients who do not qualify for the transcatheter valves commercially.
We have demonstrated for the first time experimentally that liquid droplets can be highly mobile when in the Wenzel state."
Our idea is to solve these problems by enabling Wenzel state droplets to be said mobile
In order to make Wenzel state droplets mobile, the researchers etched micrometer scale pillars into a silicon surface using photolithography and deep reactive-ion etching,
Starting with a pool of around 10 billion unique monobodies, they used directed evolution techniques to identify a group of monobodies that bound near the active site of beta-galactosidase.
The monobody partially blocks the active site of the enzyme and prevents it from accepting large sugars as a substrate--thereby forcing it to produce only short sugar chains."
"Building functional models of the complex cellular networks such as those found in the brain is probably one of the highest challenges you could aspire to,
San diego demonstrated a new wireless communication technique that works by sending magnetic signals through the human body.
and more secure way to communicate information between wearable electronic devices, providing an improved alternative to existing wireless communication systems,
Currently, these devices transmit information using Bluetooth radios, which use a lot of power to communicate. We're trying to find new ways to communicate information around the human body that use much less power,
Communicating magnetic signals through the human body The new study presents a solution to some of the main barriers of other wireless communication systems:
Bluetooth technology uses electromagnetic radiation to transmit data, however these radio signals do not easily pass through the human body
and therefore require a power boost to help overcome this signal obstruction, or"path loss."
Researchers showed that the path losses associated with magnetic field human body communication are upwards of 10 million times lower than those associated with Bluetooth radios."
"This technique, to our knowledge, achieves the lowest path losses out of any wireless human body communication system that's been demonstrated so far.
With this magnetic field human body communication system, we hope to significantly reduce power consumption as well as how frequently users need to recharge their devices,
Since this technique is intended for applications in ultra low power communication systems the transmitting power of the magnetic signals sent through the body is expected to be many times lower than that of MRI SCANNERS and wireless implant devices.
Another potential advantage of magnetic field human body communication is that it could offer more security than Bluetooth networks.
Because Bluetooth radio communicates data over the air, anyone standing within 30 feet can potentially eavesdrop on that communication link.
To put this in the context of a personal full-body wireless communication network, information would neither be radiated off the body nor be transmitted from one person to another."
shift work, jet lag and even the blue-tinged light emitted by cell phones and tablets. Typically, sleep researchers have a hard time studying sleep deprivation and the circadian cycle separately,
#New technology transforms cell phone into high-powered microscope New technology that transforms a cell phone into a powerful,
and feel to a protective phone case, makes use of a smart phone's camera features to produce high-resolution images of objects 10 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair,
says Gerard Coté, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Texas A&m Engineering Experiment Station's Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems.
Coté's development of the instrument, known as a mobile-optical-polarization imaging device (MOPID), is detailed in the online scientific journal Scientific Reports,
when observed through the phone's camera lens--enabling an instant, accurate diagnosis. While polarized light has been preferred the option for malaria detection due to its increased sensitivity,
"What we've achieved with MOPID is the design of a polarized microscope platform using a cell phone,
Coté's solution takes advantage of existing mobile phone technology and networks--something to which a whopping 75 percent of the world has access.
This ever-increasing access to mobile networks and the fact that most mobile phones are equipped with advanced camera features make mobile phones the ideal platform for advanced imaging applications such as MOPID,
What's more, analysis of a blood sample can be made instantaneously with the patient in the field without the need for a mobile network,
and send information via Bluetooth to an external laptop that performs complex algorithms to interpret the sign
web-based program automatically processes sequence data, maps the sequences to a reference genome, and creates CNV profiles for every cell that can then be viewed with a user friendly graphical interface.
and deploy it on site.""The researchers use a particular origami technique called Miura-ori folding.
#Key component for terahertz wireless networks Terahertz radiation could one day provide the backbone for wireless systems that can deliver data up to one hundred times faster than today's cellular or Wi-fi networks.
But there remain many technical challenges to be solved before terahertz wireless is ready for prime time.
or for a fiber optic line to carry thousands of phone calls at the same time.""Any terahertz communications application is going to need some form of multiplexing
Today's cellular and Wi-fi networks rely on microwaves to carry voice conversations and data. But the increasing demands for data transfer are quickly becoming more than microwaves can handle.
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