#NIMS MANA Researchers Develop Tissue Adhesive Porous Films that Promote Angiogenesis Without Using Growth Factors A group at NIMS MANA has developed tissue adhesive porous films that promote angiogenesis without using growth factors.
NIMS, has developed tissue adhesive porous films that promote angiogenesis (formation of new blood vessels) without using growth factors.
the research group developed porous films using pigskin-derived gelatin chemically modified with hexanoyl group that is believed to provide superb tissue adhesiveness and excellent bonding to growth factors.
With greatly increased porosity, the newly developed porous films demonstrated about five times greater angiogenic capability compared to conventional porous films.
Furthermore, the new films exhibited about three times greater tissue adhesiveness than conventional ones. The newly developed porous films do not require an addition of costly growth factors,
and they are capable of adsorbing vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFS) that occur naturally in the body and taking them into the film materials.
Then the research group found that an enzyme produced in the body breaks down the porous films,
which in turn slowly release VEGFS, thereby promoting angiogenesis. These results indicate that the application of porous films stimulates angiogenesis through improving the body's self-healing capacity.
This porous material alone is capable of boosting the formation of a blood vessel network without relying on growth factors that are expensive and prone to deactivation.
which normally lose stable ferroelectric polarization as they are made thinner. f you make a strontium titanate film very thin,
and switchable polarization had occurred in ultrathin films of strontium titanate grown by a University of Wisconsin team led by Chang-Beom Eom.
fabricated epitaxial films of strontium titanate, spread across a substrate of the same material, no thicker than the size of these polar nanoregions.
The electrical boundary conditions in the films drastically changed, forcing the polar nanoregions to interact between themselves
which polar nanoregions are controlled by careful engineering of film defect structure, he said. his may provide a path toward devices with reduced dimension where ferroelectricity is coupled to other properties, such as magnetism.
Eom is a world leader in growing epitaxial single crystalline films and Gruverman is a pioneer in nanoscale studies of ferroelectric materials.
The two researchers developed a film made of molybdenum disulfide (Mos2), only 0. 7 nm in thickness.
By combining ionic liquids with nanopores on molybdenum disulfide thin films, they hope to create a cheaper DNA sequencing platform with a better output.
In comparison with other vapor sensors based on nanosheets, the new photonic architecture displays markedly increased response times, higher sensitivity and long-term stability. his unique combination of properties enables it to track
"You end up with this sloppy black goop that you have to spread out very thinly as a film 20 to 60 microns thick on aluminum foil,
and enables individual creative expression by allowing users to control a number of music and art-based software programs with their breath. e are delighted to further Governor Andrew M. Cuomo vision for a vibrant high-tech sector in New york state as
and comes with special software to allow musicians to play digital music or control a computer with varying levels of breath.
and even children who can experience the joy of music and art through this unique approach to personal expression. n concert with Governor Andrew Cuomo high-tech blueprint for New york state,
and can enjoy countless hours creating music with their Jamboxx, said Dr. Castracane. his was not only a rewarding challenge for me,
The scientists made a film of a liquid crystal molecule called 5cb, which de Pablo called the"fruit fly"of liquid crystal research
Floating on top of the film was made a membrane of molecules resembling those found in the membranes of biological cells.
"This disturbance on the membrane--the imprint of the protein fibers--is transmitted down through the liquid crystal film,
"The technology was demonstrated in the lecture theatre at the Royal Institution, where Michael Faraday worked on electromagnetism in the 19th century.
"Classical computers will always find an ineluctable limit to efficient brain-like computation in their very architecture,
Building a brain from the inside out The grand architecture of the human cortex with its hundreds of distinct cell types, begins as a uniform layer of neural stem cells and builds itself from the inside out during several months of embryonic development.
we simply don have a good understanding of the brain arts list? Kriegstein said, ut studies like this are beginning to give us a real blueprint of how our brains are built.
coordinators, anaesthetists, theatre nurses, a psychologist, an ethicist and other support staff. The patient, whose identity is being protected for ethical reasons,
"The procedure was part of a pilot study to develop a penile transplant procedure that could be performed in a typical South african hospital theatre setting."
The team managed to synthesize a thin film made of densely packed aluminum oxide nanorods blended with molecules of a thrombolytic enzyme (urokinase-type plasminogen activator.
the film causes the parietal area of the graft to get filled with a stable concentration of a substance, called plasmin,
The unique properties of the film arise from its structure, which represents a porous matrix,
Yulia Chapurina, laboratory researcher and first author of the paper, set up several in vitro experiments that helped demonstrate just how effective the film is:"
"Our experiments show that the architecture and function of our lab-made intestine strikingly resemble those of the healthy human gut,
a record label is reporting higher revenues from music streaming than paid downloads. Warner Music group has announced that its streaming revenues have passed those from digital downloads.
This shift toward free music has left a sour taste in some artists'mouths, who feel the ad-supported model doesn't properly value their work.
"and offers high-quality music to users who pay for the most expensive tier. This shift also underscores why Apple's expected launch of its own streaming service is important to the company.
it is expected later this year to relaunch the Beats Music streaming service it acquired. The Cupertino company recently poached high-profile DJ Zane Lowe from BBC Radio 1,
and became one of the best-known music companies in the world Jay z likes to do things personally.
and dialed the phone numbers of some of the users of his new music-streaming service, Tidal.
Staff at Roc Nation, Jay z's sports-and entertainment-management company, listened as fans reacted with shock to phone calls from Jay z."
Aspiro AB was a niche European media-technology company known mainly for its high-end, expensive music-streaming service called Wimp.
It was a tiny player in the music-streaming world, and nobody paid much attention to it.
and was eclipsed immediately by the launch of Apple Music. Fans remain largely confused as to why Tidal even exists it offers streaming music at twice the price of Google, Apple, and Spotify.
This is the full story of how Jay z took over an obscure Scandinavian telecoms company in the hopes of staging a revolution on behalf of artists who feel they aren't being paid properly in a world where no one buys CDS anymore.
demographic that was more willing to pay a higher price for better-quality music. The new music-streaming service was a hit,
and Aspiro launched it across Europe. It used the same strategy that it used for its WAP business to rapidly scale up the business:
The actual database of music and pricing was unchanged. Tidalsince Jörgen Adolfsson was replaced as the first CEO in 2000,
and extolling the virtues of Wimp's high-resolution music-streaming service. Aspiro didn't feel like an old-school telecoms company anymore;
and Tidal curated music using actual people, rather than algorithms: The legacy really comes from Wimp,
they have an enormous amount of appreciation and knowledge of the different genres of music,
"a company he had set up with the sole purpose of buying a music-streaming site.
Panther believes that the recent developments in the entertainment industry, with the migration to music and media streaming,
offers great potential for increased entertainment consumption and an opportunity for artists to further promote their music.
and eventually scored a deal with the influential music label Def Jam Records. It wasn't a smooth ride to the top, though.
his entertainment company started in 2008. It helps organise live shows, promote boxing, and manage musicians and sports stars.
Entertainment news site Showbiz 411 heard about the secret meeting and published a list of names that were in attendance.
Hype started building for Jay z's music-streaming service on March 30 when musicians began turning their social media profiles light blue in anticipation of the relaunch of Aspiro's streaming service.
what music is, and where it came from. The event space was lined with photos of music icons like Kurt Cobain and Eddie Vedder.
Schlogel also announced that Tidal would support offline playing of music, just like Spotify. The relaunched streaming site would be based around exclusive music and video content,
as well as special live events for subscribers. Tidaltidal became Jay z's music-streaming service. But the most important part of the press conference wasn Schlogel speech;
it was the stream of world-famous musicians who showed up to publicly back Jay z new project.
One member of Daft punk even referred to it as"the Avengers of music"during the Fig House meeting.
"Musician Alicia keys gave a rambling speech about the power of music, quoted Jimi hendrix, mispronounced"Nietzsche,
TIDAL is an artist majority owned company with a mission to reestablish the value of music,
He told Billboard that"people are not respecting the music, and devaluing what it really means.
People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap,
Had Jay z's new music streaming service which claimed to champion the rights of musicians,
He claimed that videos of the Fig House meeting used two tracks that sounded very similar to his own music."
and his music is now available to stream on the site. The backlash against Tidal began in earnest after the New york press conference.
Another view that Jay z made clear in his Twitter"stream of consciousness"was that he felt that other music-streaming services were out to get him.
though, and hired Timothy Patrick Riley, who was previously global head of music at the video-game publisher Activision/Blizzard.
Apple Music, which launched after Tidal, has blown rival streaming services out of the water. It doesn't just feature curation like Tidal does;
It has launched playlists designed to surface up-and-coming music, and it is branching out into video.
Despite removing his music from streaming services, he's a fan of Tidal, and he has agreed to release his new album exclusively through the service.
as Apple music is aiming to bring in 100 million subscribers, and Spotify is doing all it can to keep up.
400 watts, to run small appliances or a portable entertainment system. he 1, 000 watt wouldn power your entire home
Whether it be in the field of architecture, technology, or healthcare, 3d printed objects are making a positive impact on the human race
The cushioned headset adjusts the volume of your music by tracking how deeply you are sleeping using EEG sensors.
For the first time we can listen to our music, audiobooks or sleep techniques comfortably in bed without fear that theyl wake us back up again.'
just a touch could make the entire film or droplet crystallise. t's like a domino effect,
The technology mirrors that seen in the Star wars film The empire strikes back where Luke Skywalker is given a robotic prosthetic arm that restores his ability to feel.
which look remarkably similar to the star of 1986 film Short circuit, could be used to carry casualties to safety while under fire.
With caterpillar-style tracks and a head on top of a flexible neck, they look remarkably like Johnny Five-the malfunctioning mechanical star of the Short circuit films.
'From Ocean's Eleven to Star trek, weapons that wipe out enemy electronics are a staple of science fiction films.
Professor Park and his colleagues have designed ferroelectric films that mimic the grooved, microscopically'mountainous'structure of human fingertip skin.
the films are able to detect touch and temperature using sensing electric charges. The authors tested the e skin's response to sensory changes created by water droplets
clicking, swiping and even hand motion gestures. uimohas an infrared based sensor that recognizes precise hand movements that command everything from the volume of the music,
the Home Gateway will provide the link between the two. he system is based on NFC tags that track people in the home to adjust devices accordingly as they move around re-streaming a film from living room TV to kitchen tablet whilst
an architecture and design firm based in New york city and Istanbul. The team visited the Ozkan's labs
and the high power circulating in this atypical laser architecture.""While the association of amplifying fibres
thanks to our specific architecture",said Svyatoslav Kharitonov o
#Researchers learn how to steer the heart--with light We depend on electrical waves to regulate the rhythm of our heartbeat.
"In retrospect from published literature and from studies in progress, we can now see how sepsis,
"The metamaterial consists of silicon pillar arrays embedded in a polymer matrix and clad in gold film.
The major challenge they faced was that vanadium dioxide of sufficiently high quality had never been grown in a thin film form on the scale required to be of use to industry--the wafer scale.
The Penn State team reports in the online journal Nature Communications that they are the first to achieve growth of thin films of vanadium dioxide on 3-inch sapphire wafers with a perfect 1
which, interestingly, can also serve as a selector in some memory architecture, "said Sumeet Gupta, Monkowski Assistant professor of Electrical engineering and group leader of the Integrated circuits and Devices Lab, Penn State.
we can perform flux calculations to determine the optimal combination that would give an ideal 1 to 2 vanadium to oxygen ratio in the film.
"In retrospect from published literature and from studies in progress, we can now see how sepsis,
The team solved this by using an electrochemical technique to grow an ultrathin film of hundreds of thousands of small and rough tungsten-oxide islands directly onto a steel surface."
Having completed structural modifications of the drug--Bozepinib (by making changes to its molecular architecture),
and talked regularly about how to combine our fairly different fields of research into an effective collaboration across the schools of Arts
"So the recent film The Martian, which involved an astronaut stranded on Mars growing potatoes
Quantum entanglement is a phrase more likely to be heard on popular sci-fi television shows such as"Fringe"and"Doctor Who."
#App Discovery Nightmare And How Reliance Entertainment Is Tackling It As app discovery of games becomes an ever more insurmountable challenge,
For example many movie inspired console games use third-person character action where the player can directly control the star of the film
said Youtube staff in a blog post. ou could let viewers see the stage and the crowd of your concert, the sky and the ground as you wingsuit glide,
How Social media Is Killing The Concert Experience I usually avoid Times square, but I had bought my ticket to see American Authors five months earlier
but most audience members insist on retaining the power of tangible devices instead of surrendering to the music intangible beauty.
Is this an essential part of the concert experience or a divergence from it? ttention spans are at an all-time low,
There are obvious downsides to introducing a smartphone into the concert mise-en-scene. It is distracting for fellow fans
and, depending on the type of concert and proximity to the stage, the artists. Obsessive documenting promises to more accurately preserve memories,
A classical concert is a different atmosphere than a rock performance, and the invasiveness of technology may be relative to each.
it is not difficult to find concert recordings on Youtube. Most artists produce live session music videos,
There are redemptive qualities to inviting phones into concert spaces. Having a little recorded segment despite grainy quality and muffled sound is treasured a
I felt this discombobulating headache at the American Authors concert. My friend was sending emails while
Near the middle of the concert the lead singer triumphantly produced his iphone to capture the audience sing-along.
almost like slides of paintings on a screen we could all talk about, instead of the paintings themselves in their grandeur on museum walls.
but I felt distanced from the music. It is not just rock concerts that add phone screens to the light show.
Other orchestras and operas followed. Advocates say that this allows audiences to feel more interactive,
According to The Daily mail, The Lumineers abrasively interrupted their uplifting hit o Heyduring a London concert last year
hy can you just come to the concert and just live and enjoy the moment? Frampton is no social media scrooge,
but reminding fans that there is a spiritual and emotional connection between music and the listener,
and the concert experience is weakened without it. s with any human interaction, writes NPR music editor Stephen Thompson,
he best moments in life and music happen when everyone involved is plugged fully in to the experience and,
If the purpose of the concert is the experience of the music, then smartphones detract from that,
a concert distracts from that. To everything there is a season. The nearly limitless accessibility provided by smartphones fuels the idea that sharing things is more important than doing things.
we must remember that obsessive documenting changes the artistic structure of a concert atmosphere. he need to ocumentone life in every detail is a mania that can subtract from one enjoyment of the moment,
Concerts are collective experiences between audiences and artists, but not necessarily including a pod of iphones.
or music piercing a soul. Twitter has a unique place in the social media sphere in that it was created purposefully for live events.
making the flutter of the little blue bird at concerts less surprising. The purpose of concert going is less definable than the purpose of tweeting.
What seems to be unique about live music is presence, what Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich calls ntimacy.
To fully receive that presence we must ourselves be present. But perhaps we all define this presence and purpose differently.
and engaging in the concert purpose? Should these purposes coexist? Whether or not they should coexist,
A start-up called Yondr distributes cases for phones that auto-lock once the concert starts,
Maybe other audience members engaged in the concert through their social and camera apps, but I did not feel present until my iphone was in my pocket.
The two-part material is a copolymer consisting of an amorphous segment that is soft and a more structured molecular architecture.
#Tiny metal illarssurvive 1, 100 degrees Celsius Scientists have produced a thin film out of a new class of metal alloys that can survive very high temperatures and extreme pressures.
Then, using the focused ion beam (FIB) technique, the scientists cut out microcylinders on the surface of the film.
Staphylococcus aureas, etc) the film has been designed to detect are present, it will turn blue. Patients can then snap a shot of the film with their smartphone camera
and send it off to a medical professional for analysis, wherever in the world they may be.
and the films can safely be disposed of after use by burning, long-term it could have a tremendous impact on the diagnosis and monitoring of infectious diseases worldwide, especially in low and middle-income countries.
and a new breakthrough by IBM Research and Fuji Film has produced a low-cost particulate magnetic tape with a record density of 123 billion bits of uncompressed data per square inch,
The dishes were produced by Watson's ability to extract facts from millions of pages of literature and draw relationships between them.
Even better, the stable and quickly reprogrammable nature of the chip's architecture changeable by means of software code means that a vast range of existing
That's why researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films have developed an alternative,
#3d printed Pathway Helps Nerve Growth 3d printing has some amazing possibilities for architecture and design, not the least
or 120 frames per second slomo films at 820p. It also takes 12 megapixel stills.
Memory1 represents a major evolution in server architecture. The needs of the large-scale datacenter are changing,
an associate professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab who co-invented the device.
and traits seen across individuals reflects a complex dance between environment and biology. Understanding the precise nature of these causal influences will help lead to the design of better interventions to help move the brain and behavior toward the positive end of the spectrum i
and antimicrobial bioactive films can improve product shelf life and safety, she said. otato peels have high phenolic content, a natural compound for plant protection,
In subcritical water medium, starch can be modified to influence the film properties, such as its tensile strength
The next step is to test the films on packaging of ready-to-eat meat. With international interest on whether the subcritical method would also work on cassava (the starchy root of a tropical tree),
Another researcher in Saldaña lab is looking at adding nanoparticles on the films. Right now
there a maximum amount of antioxidants/antimicrobials that the film can hold, but with nanoparticles, more could be added
the late American film critic who lost his jawbone to cancer, is autograft. This is basically a euphemism for cutting a piece of bone out of one part of the body
or even entirely different fields, such as architecture, art and fashion. What's most inspiring to me about the evolving science of regenerative medicine is how it recasts the role and potential of the body's own cells.
a polymath who wrote about literature, science, philosophy, religion, history and medicine, Clarke said.""The 13th-century manuscript may have been written by Bar Hebraeus himself,
and the resulting architecture can produce lightning-fast computing speeds up to 1, 000 times faster than would
Using the new architecture, the team has built a variety of sensor wafers that can detect everything from infrared light to particular chemicals in the environment.
This pressure comes from stretching of the elastomer film, which in turn stretches the capsules and compresses them to release the drugs.
However, since their discovery a quarter of a century ago, their potential for large-scale industrial use has been limited due to difficulties in producing linings, thin films,
The two researchers developed a film made of molybdenum disulfide (Mos2), only 0. 7 nm in thickness.
By combining ionic liquids with nanopores on molybdenum disulfide thin films they hope to create a cheaper DNA sequencing platform with a better output.
"Classical computers will always find an ineluctable limit to efficient brain-like computation in their very architecture,
detailed in a paper published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C is based on a mechanically robust nanostructured layer of porous glass film.
it consists of chalcopyrite (a material used in device grade thin film solar cells) that has been coated with a thin, transparent, conductive oxide film of titanium dioxide (Tio2.
The team managed to synthesize a thin film made of densely packed aluminum oxide nanorods blended with molecules of a thrombolytic enzyme (urokinase-type plasminogen activator.
the film causes the parietal area of the graft to get filled with a stable concentration of a substance, called plasmin,
The unique properties of the film arise from its structure, which represents a porous matrix,
Yulia Chapurina, laboratory researcher and first author of the paper, set up several in vitro experiments that helped demonstrate just how effective the film is:"
or antidots, in thin films of manganite. It was discovered that the edges of the antidots were magnetic."
The magnetic phase state at the edges of the antidots raised the metal-to-insulator phase transition temperature of the manganite film.
HILLS AND POTHOLES Many of these types of flexible electronic devices will rely on thin films of organic materials that catch sunlight
the UVM team was able to observe nanoscale defects and boundaries in the crystal grains in the thin films of phthalocyanine--roadblocks in the electron highway."
very carefully controlling how the thin films are deposited. Using a novel"pen-writing"technique with a hollow capillary,
the team worked in the lab of UVM physics and materials science professor Randy Headrick to successfully form films with jumbo-sized crystal grains and"small angle boundaries."
and Naveen Rawat G'15--opens a window to view how increasing"long-range order"in the organic semiconductor films is a key mechanism that allows excitons to migrate farther."
This allows organic thin films to carry energy along this molecular highway with relative ease,
Just like something from science fiction-think of the Liquid-Metal Man robot assassin (T-1000) in the Terminator films-these materials behave more like glass or plastic than metal.
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