#Ambitious new tech aims to revolutionize touchscreens The ambitious GHOST (Generic, Highly-Organic Shape-Changing Interfaces) research project is building technology that will let consumers use their fingertips to literally drag data out of touchscreen displays,
bringing it into the 3d world. GHOST is the brainchild of four universities in the U k.,Holland and Denmark.
and could have a massive impact on future gadgets. The project imagines a future where we can use our fingertips to pull objects
or data out of the hard screen and then manipulate it while it is suspended in the air.
And here the kicker--your fingertips will feel the data like a physical object when you manipulate the hostobjects in the air.
Researchers have worked on screens that can automatically change shape, a way to take things out of a screen into the air
and creating the so-called hoststhat you can touch and feel. How do you get the data out of the screen?
According to the researchers, GHOST is made possible by advances in deformable screens and ultrasound levitation technology.
Once pulled out of the digital 2d world, 3d objects that can be manipulated. t's not only about deforming the shape of the screen,
but also the digital object you want to manipulate, maybe even in mid-air, explained GHOST Coordinator and University of Copenhagen Professor Kasper Hornbaek, in a statement. hrough ultrasound levitation technology, for example,
we can project the display out of the flat screen. And thanks to deformable screens we can plunge our fingers into it. ow can you feel a GHOST?
Users will be able to handle objects and data in an entirely new fashion. A brain surgeon, for example, could use GHOST to create a virtual version of the brain that he
or she could touch and work with prior to surgery, according to the researchers. GHOST researchers are also working with sponges
The mergeprototype, for example, lets users pull bar chart data out of a screen using their fingertips.
Once pulled out of the screen the data can be manipulated by hand into different patterns. It can also be broken down individually, by row and by column. orpheesis another prototype,
which uses flexible mobile devices made with Lycra or alloy displays. These can bend, stretch and change shape automatically.
If a user needs to enter credit card details or a social security number while in a public area,
the screen could automatically bend to shield your fingers so that others cannot see your private data entry.
The potential consumer uses of GHOST technology are vast. If a user, for example, wants to watch a movie on a bigger screen
the device can row itselfto a larger size and then shrink back when the movie is over. isplays
which change shape as you are using them are probably only five years off now, noted Professor Hornbaek,
in the statement. f you want your smartphone to project the landscape of a terrain 20 or 30 cm 8 to 12 inches out of the display,
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#Darwin Finches Found To Have interbred Repeatedly Genetic Study Say In a broad genetic study, Charles darwin Galapagos Island finches have been uncovered to have a rare and complicated evolutionary history.
said, t is essentially as little as you can go with these single-electron gadgets. The revelation will enhance the continuous endeavors of researchers over the world to utilize semiconductor materials to construct quantum computing frameworks. consider this to be a truly imperative result for our long haul objective,
which is entanglement between quantum bits in semiconductor-based gadgets, said Jacob Taylor, a subordinate associate professor at the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland-National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Qubits are the basic unit of data in quantum computing. e composed dots to emanate photons
#China Updated Great Firewall: Bans Numerous Internet service providers It appears as if China wants to create a boundary wall around its cyber space.
In the past few years the Chinese government has blocked multiple popular sites like Gmail Google Facebook Instagram Flicker and much more.
Recently the concerned authorities have updated its Great Firewall in order to save"cyberspace sovereignty"."In the latest upgrade the government has banned
and disrupted numerous virtual private networks (VPN) such as Astril and Strong VPN. These services were the only means to access Google and other blocked sites.
Since last few months these services were working like a very useful alternative for the people living in China.
Wen Ku the director of telecom development at the Ministry of Industry and Information technology discussed the recent attacks.
The free use of internet gives birth to numerous crimes and problems all around the country.
On the other hand the government spokesman informs that authorities have blocked merely sites that are not obeying the rules and regulation.
#New Fingerprint Technology Launched by Qualcomm In an effort to offer more security to mobile devices
and beef up the amenities users can enjoy Qualcomm is offering a new type of fingerprint technology.
The new technology made its debut at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Currently on the market mobile devices have more of a touch based type of fingerprint technology.
This new type offers a more governmental grade using ultrasonic technology. The fingerprint scanning could detect a number of different variations in the finger making it much more difficult to hack into a cellphone.
The new technology is called Snapdragon Sense ID 3d and will increase the level of security on mobile devices.
By using this new type of technology on mobile devices passwords will quickly become of thing of the past making your cellphone more secure.
Due to its high powered processing capabilities the technology can acquire the scan through aluminum plastic
Additionally any website that supports FIDO will be compatible with this new technology allowing you to log in with no password d
#Big Day for Microsoft; Launched Hololens 3d headset at Windows 10 Event On Windows 10 event,
Microsoft introduced its Hololens 3d headset which can be used to interact with holographic images and allowing its users to play video games and build 3d models.
Microsoft Hololens headset was the most eye-catching thing at the event when Windows 10 was showcased,
which a major OS release from Microsoft. The company said the headset would be available around the same time that Windows 10 is released,
which is expected to be this year. Microsoft chief executive, Satya Nadella said ur industry progress is punctuated by moments of category creation.
Windows and holographic computing is one such moment. Hololens is a bit different from the virtual reality headset that has been focused by Samsung, Sony and many others.
The headset is part of the emerging category augmented reality, in which virtual 3-D objects appear to be inserted into the real world.
The Hololens headset is see-through so that people who wear it can continue to see the physical environment around them, unlike virtual reality headsets that completely envelope people with 3-D imagery.
Microsoft employee demonstrated it by designing a model of drone with the hand gesture to manipulate tools that were visible to her with the help of headset.
Microsoft did revealed not key details about the headset; including the most important question that how much it will cost.
Most of the event was dedicated to the Windows, which is in fact the biggest engine of the Company profit.
Microsoft announced a free one-year upgrade to its users. So for the Windows users it is a good time to upgrade to Windows 10,
if they are using Windows 7 or Windows 8, 8. 1 on PC or phones. This would help Microsoft to get hundreds of millions of users running the older versions of Windows to upgrade quickly to the newest version.
Executive vice president at Microsoft Terry Myerson said indows 10 is so much more than the latest version of Windows.
Windows 10 changes the rules of the game and redefines the relationship between us and our customers.
Another good thing announced was the addition of Cortana, a sri-like software, to Windows 10 that was previously available only for Windows phone o
#Researchers developed hydrophobic metals using laser Engineers have spent decades studying super-hydrophobic surfaces because of the plethora of real-life applications.
And while some of this research has resulted in commercial products that keep shoes dry or prevent oil from building up on bolts,
scientists are also aiming to uncovering characteristics that might lead to large-scale solutions for society.
Researchers from the University of Rochester have developed a method to make metals hydrophobic or waterproof when they are treated with lasers.
Researchers have found that repetitive laser blasts on the metal surface develop specific patterns that repel water efficiently.
A closer look at the surface reflects micro and nanoscale structures which causes water to bead effectively. he material is so strongly water-repellent the water actually gets bounced off.
and radar or telecommunication antennas, the researchers wrote about their findings. Guo and his colleagues were also the ones who have designed previously materials that are hydrophilic able to absorb water extremely quickly and efficiently d
#Device delivers drugs to brain by remote control A new wireless device the width of a human hair can be implanted in the brain
and then activates those targeted populations of cells with flashes of light. Because it not yet practical to re-engineer human neurons
researchers made the tiny wireless devices capable of delivering drugs directly into the brain, with the remote push of a button.
similar to that used in a TV remote. If we want to influence an animal behavior with light or with a particular drug,
which caused the mouse to move in a circle. In other mice, shining a light directly onto brain cells expressing a light-sensitive protein prompted the release of dopamine,
but in the future, the researchers hope to incorporate a design much like a printer ink cartridge so that drugs can continue to be delivered to specific cells in the brain,
Lanza and colleagues analyzed data collected from US high school seniors between 1976 and 2013. Nearly 600,000 students took a survey over this time period as part of the project Monitoring the Future
The researchers intend to continue analyzing teen substance use data. They are interested particularly in looking into a potential correlation between the recent rise of adolescent marijuana use and its legalization in several states.
the scientists explain how they used Sticky-flares to quantify ßctin mrna in Hela cells (the oldest and most commonly used human cell line) as well as to follow the real-time transport of ßctin mrna in mouse embryonic fibroblasts.
Ronald and her laboratory colleagues have prepared a new posting for the Scientific American blog, which tells the story of the new discovery
A new study finds that transmitters may be sending out too much data, as well. The findings raise the possibility that drugs recently tested as treatments for fragile X may be ineffective, at least in part,
Like radio transmitters and receivers, brain cells send and receive transmissions in fine-tuned ways that separate the signals from the noise.
the researchers genetic sequencing data from more than 900 males with intellectual disabilities but without classic fragile X syndrome.
Scientists have created ellular backpacksthat could carry therapeutic agents to the site of inflammation and then release them.
Once at the site, these monocytes transform into macrophages, cells that reside in the affected tissues to engulf
hold therapeutic agents that can be released at the site of the inflammation. These polymeric discs are coated on one side with a single layer of an antibody that can bind to receptors on the monocyte surface.
At the inflamed site, the particles would simultaneously degrade and release their drugs.""It is a good idea to get your levels checked on a yearly basis
but it could also allow for higher doses of drug to the site, which could decrease treatment time h
Complicated process The researchers focused on five different types of cells in a particular area of the mouse cortex
#Hybrid crystals fuse semiconductors and metal Tomorrow's computers and electronics will require extremely small high-quality circuits.
Microsoft the Carlsberg Foundation and the Lundbeck Foundation supported the work r
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faster and less expensive than using a mouse model, for instance, "he explained.""The big finding is that we have a single receptor that does two different jobs,"noted Dr. Xue."
wrote the investigators. n A549 lung cancer cellased mouse xenograft studies, 6-thio-dg caused a decrease in the tumor growth rate superior to that observed with 6-thioguanine treatment.
#Ultra-Fast Software Developed to Scan the Human genome Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital say they have developed an analysis pipeline that cuts the time it takes to search a person's genome for disease-causing variations from weeks to hours.
and $3 billion to sequence the first human genome,"notes Peter White, Ph d.,principal investigator and director of the biomedical genomics core at Nationwide Children's and the study's senior author."
However, once you've generated all that data, that's the point where many groups hit a wall.
"To overcome the challenges of analyzing that large amount of data, Dr. White and his team developed a computational pipeline called"Churchill."
"Churchill fully automates the analytical process required to take raw sequence data through a series of complex and computationally intensive processes,
without sacrificing data integrity, resulting in an analysis method that is 100 percent reproducible.""The output of Churchill (Genomenext has licensed its algorithm) was validated using National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) benchmarks.
In comparison with other computational pipelines, Churchill was shown to have the highest sensitivity at 99.7%;
and confirmed data from earlier findings that associated these tumors with the KIT gene, which has been linked to an array of other cancerous tissues."
while the research center in Newcastle is expected to serve as the site for the first procedure. ur findings have considerable implications for all countries that are
#Data sharing Takes Two steps Forward Two small but significant steps forward were taken yesterday in the direction of open access to clinical trial data.
A committee of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) yesterday called for the sharing of supporting data for clinical trials results within six months after publication, with a full analyzable data set shared no later than 18 months
after study completion or 30 days after regulatory approval. Also yesterday, Johnson & johnson (J&j) joined the Yale Open data Access (YODA) Project in agreeing to share data from clinical trials for medical devices and diagnostics.
The YODA Project said in a statement that the agreement stablishes a fully independent intermediary to manage requests
and promote data use, as J&j has done with pharmaceutical clinical trial data since last year.
Under the agreement, the YODA Project will approve or deny requests from investigators for de-identified patient data associated with the pharmaceutical, medical device,
and diagnostic clinical trials conducted by J&j companies. his action will benefit society and represents a major step forward in the effort to promote data sharing,
as Johnson & johnson leadership in this area now extends from sharing its drug data to sharing its device
and diagnostics data, said Dr. Harlan Krumholz, professor of medicine and leader of the YODA Project. e hope this action serves as a catalyst to others to join the momentum on open science.
The two new developments join what the IOM report acknowledged was progress toward data sharing in recent years.
Eleven drug developers have committed to sharing clinical trial data through clinicalstudydatarequest. com and allow an independent review panel to decide data requests:
Astellas, Bayer, Boehringer ingelheim, Glaxosmithkline, Lilly, Novartis, Roche, Sanofi, Takeda, UCB, and Viiv Healthcare. Three industry groupspharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (Phrma), the European Federation of Pharmaceutical industries and Associations (EFPIA),
and the Biotechnology industry Organization (BIO) ignaled support for sharing clinical trial data beyond recent industry norms,
but not the open-access sought by Europe chief drug regulator and Glaxosmithkline. The European Medicines Agency in October issued a more expansive data sharing policy last October,
though not the full open-access sought by advocates. The IOM Committee on Strategies for Responsible Sharing of Clinical Trial Data similarly said its recommendations were intended to balance data sharing benefitsaximizing knowledge
stimulating new research ideas, and avoiding duplicative trialsith its challenges. The panel defined those challenges as protecting privacy and consent for trial patients;
providing researchers adequate time to analyze and publish their data, safeguarding commercially confidential information, and assuring research institutes that requirements for sharing clinical data will not be nfunded mandates.
Also included among challenges was uarding against invalid secondary analyses, which could undermine trust in clinical trials
or otherwise harm public health? whether through inadvertent errors in data analysis or, in the U s.,the prospect of monetary gain through qui tam lawsuits, the report stated.
The panel expressed fear that such invalid analyses ill lead to claims of risk that are not scientifically valid,
which may in turn lead to lawsuits for negligence that, while without merit, are expensive to respond to
and defend against. IOM committee cited criticism from outside researchers over the PLATO trial, whose data led to approval of Astrazeneca Brilinta (ticagrelor).
Questions about geographic discrepancies of outcomes, study-site monitoring, and the timing of deaths prompted the U s. Department of justice to investigate the trial.
Doj closed its investigation last year without carrying out any action. he sharing of clinical trial data needs to be carried out in a way that maintains incentives for sponsors
and enhance the benefits of data sharing by employing ata useagreements; creating independent review panels with members of the public to decide sharing requests,
and maintaining transparency in data-access policies. The panel defined stakeholders to include funders and sponsors,
as well as disease-focused patient advocacy groups, regulators, and overseers such as institutional review boards, research ethics committees, investigators, their research institutions or universities, journals,
and membership and professional societies. takeholders in clinical trials should foster a culture in which data sharing is expected the norm,
and should commit to responsible strategies aimed at maximizing the benefits, minimizing the risks, and overcoming the challenges of sharing clinical trial data for all parties,
the IOM panel stated. IOM committee said that data-use agreements should include provisions aimed at protecting clinical trial participants,
advancing the goal of producing scientifically valid secondary analyses, giving credit to the investigators who collected the clinical trial data, protecting the intellectual property interests of sponsors,
and ultimately improving patient care. lthough it is unclear whether and how data use agreements will be enforced,
the committee believes these agreements have significant normative, symbolic, and deterrent value, setting professional expectations and standards for responsible behavior, the committee concluded.
#New Microchip Design Captures Circulating Tumor Cells Circulating tumor cells (CTCS) represent the metastatic seed that can break away from the primary tumor site,
Interestingly, the data from this small study also showed a rare presence of non-tumor derived immune cells within clusters,
and the delivery of drugs directly to the site of infection.""The process we have developed makes it possible for almost anyone to manufacture high-quality nanofibers without the need for expensive equipment,
"Plus, users don't have to worry about the safety issues of using high voltages or the complexity of other machines."
They confirmed this using a combination of studies in mouse and frog models, and in human induced pluripotent stem cells.
However, data in recent years is beginning to bring into focus that many prostate tumors display substantial amounts of genetic heterogeneity, leading to differential mortality rates.
The data revealed that even small cancers within the prostate can contain very aggressive cells capable of varying long term disease prognosis.
and post-marketing clinical trials to gather data on clinical and cost-effectiveness. he less effective a treatment,
Pricing decisions will hinge on data from providers: his is being presented as a way to manage money,
#Pall Acquires Innovative Acoustic Wave Separation Technology Pall obtained an exclusive license for acoustic wave separation (AWS), a disruptive technology from Flodesign Sonics for cell culture clarification for both
The AWS technology works by applying acoustic forces across a flow channel to generate a three-dimensional standing wave.
and the process works in a robust manner at high yields, notes Egholm, who adds that the integration of the AWS technology expands the portfolio of continuous bioprocessing
"The AWS products will eliminate the reliance on centrifugation for cell culture clarification, and will provide a continuous feed stream for direct integration with the Biosmb platform.
Pall plans to introduce a single-use product line using AWS technology for the clarification of cell culture at both bench scale
the drug-treated mice showed a six-day-faster reconstitution of hematopoiesis after bone marrow transplantation. tudying mouse models,
which can collect data on base modifications simultaneously as it collects DNA sequence data. The instrument single molecule, real-time sequencing enables the detection of N6-methyladenine and 4-methylcytosine,
Resolving nucleotide modifications at the single molecule, single nucleotide level, especially when integrated with other single molecule-or single cell-level data,
The team found that formation of the MERS protease dimer can be stimulated by the binding of a third molecule at a particular site on its surface to trigger the formation of a strong dimer The particular site is where the protease would normally bond to the strand of protein it is meant to cut.
This also was the site the team was targeting with an inhibitor molecule. By sending another molecule to attach to
and block this key site, the protease would be unable to bind to the strand of viral protein,
If the second protease had a vacant binding site, it was capable of binding to
the scientists found that it would fill the target sites of all of the 3c-like proteases,
and discovered 15 phosphorylation sites in core autophagy proteins that were verified as in vivo ULK1 targets,
wrote the authors. e utilized these ULK1 substrates to perform a cell-based screen to identify
the researchers describe a novel cell-to-cell communication system that enables one yeast cell to regulate the expression of genes and influence the behavior of an entirely separate yeast cell.
such as forming patterns or cooperatively computing basic functions. Since auxin is a plant hormone, mammalian cells also ignore it,
"If you ask someone in computer science what they can do with a programming language, they'll laugh
"If we can figure out the programming language of life, we can do anything that life does, except in a more controllable, reliable way
an assistant project scientist in Chen's lab."Our results indicate that the same programming processes determine
-ZEBOV showed 100%efficacy in an analysis of interim data from a Phase III ring vaccination trial in Guinea.
e hope that the interim data published today contribute to the successful registration of our vaccine candidate,
Savin tells us, other devices like screens and photodetectors. The results appear in this week's edition of the journal Nature Technology.
But researchers at Duke university and Microsoft Research think they have a solution that'll let gamers have their on-demand cake
and a remote server rather than offloading them all to the server. The researchers claim that this collaborative rendering technique requires just one-sixth as much bandwidth as conventional cloud gaming setups for the same visual quality.
The mobile or console device sketches out the key parts of each frame or the bulk of the image in a subset of the 60 frames displayed per second (at least six frames must be generated client side to be worthwhile),
while the remote server does the heavy lifting and fills on all of the fine-grained details such as shadows, real-time lighting,
The researchers trialled it on 50 hardcore gamers playing Doom 3, with results that suggest no disadvantage for users of Kahawai versus a standard thin-client (i e.,
, server offloaded) streaming system. You can see a comparison of the performance and graphics in different scenarios in the video below.
Kahawai was also found to work offline, sans remote server connections, at lower graphical fidelity,
(because play could continue uninterrupted) and for people with slow internet connections. Kahawai may have applications beyond gaming, too."
"said study co-author and Duke computer scientist Landon Cox.""But any graphics-intensive application could potentially benefit from Kahawai,
from 3-D medical imaging to computer-aided design software used by architects and engineers.""The researchers presented their findings at the 13th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications,
The new technology uses implanted sensors sending wireless signals to the artificial limb's built-in computer, enabling subconscious, real-time control and faster, more natural responses and movements.
"The technology allows the user experience with their prosthesis to become more intuitive and integrative,
we are closer than ever to creating prosthetics that are integrated truly with their user. r
#New process prints electroluminescent layers directly onto three-dimensional objects Electroluminescent (EL) panels are found in many electronics applications, particularly as backlighting for LCD displays, keypads, watches,
when EL panels made from plastic are bent too sharply, fractures and a severely diminished output usually result.
As a result, EL panels have generally been restricted to flat or slightly curved surfaces. However, researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of technology (KIT) and Franz Binder Gmbh & Co have developed now a new manufacturing process to print EL panels directly onto the surface of almost any convex and concave shape.
Even apparently, onto spheres. In essence, the new technique involves printing electroluminescent layers directly onto an object without any intermediate carrier layer (the plastic material mentioned earlier.
Electroluminescent panels are a very popular way to backlight a screen, particularly as they provide an even glow across their entire face,
and EL panels have been in use in automobiles since at least 1960 when Chrysler used them in their prestige models.
Essentially the equivalent of a capacitor when used in an AC (Alternating current) circuit, EL panels encase their light-emitting material between two electrodes.
In standard panels, one electrode is generally clear glass or plastic coated with a transparent conductive coating,
In the KIT/Binder EL panel, however, the production process sees different components of the coating (specifically the electroluminescent
"Though Saarland University announced a prototype EL printing method earlier this year using ink jet-printers printers,
and a large range colors may be applied to the same surface, thereby providing more versatility to the 3d EL panels.
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