sticking to the tissue at the site of injury and creating a barrier over a wound.
#Researchers show that telomeres are linked to the origins of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Samples from mouse lungs show collagen fibers that generate pulmonary fibrosis.
with the participation of researchers from the CNIO Molecular Imaging Core Unit and from the Complutense University of Madrid, is being published this week in the journal Cell Reports.
These data suggest that there is an association between telomere defects and the disease but demonstration of causation was pending.
TELOMERE DEFECTS In search of a cause-effect relationship, CNIO researchers created a mouse that lacked a protein needed to build telomeres in a specific cell population type II alveolar cells and
Although the mouse lacking telomeres in pulmonary epithelial cells proves the importance of telomeres in the origin of fibrosis,
it anics triggering the cascade of reactions to start DNA epairs During the experiment, special sites,
there are no data on protein L atomic structure. Antiviral targets Antiviral drugs that target polymerase molecules are based in part on knowing their structure.
was able to collect data from their viral samples that gave them much greater resolution.
and adapt to the user surroundings. This is what GN Resound, as the only company in the world, has been able to offer its customers in recent yearswing to research collaboration with DTU, among other things.
The latest hearing aids have a wireless communication feature allowing you to pick up and hear signals from,
The signals are radio waves in the 2. 4 GHZ frequency band. This is an international frequency band, which means the hearing aid works anywhere in the world.
Before 2010, hearing aids were unable to pick up radio waves directly, but instead the waves were transmitted to a receiver worn around the neck. 2. 4 GHZ technology
which today is one of the main characteristics of GN Resound hearing aids. he ear-to-ear technology focuses on providing enhanced speech intelligibility and a clearer sound image for users,
Radio waves creeping over your head Kaj Bjarne Jakobsen is an associate professor at DTU Electrical engineering. He has acted as supervisor for the group of Phd students who,
The team has produced various types of antenna systems capable of optimizing the so-called creeping radio waves to reduce the loss of sound data transmitted from the right hearing aid to the left.
which means that the system must be adapted to the individual user. he system basically functions as a wireless Wi-fi network travelling from ear to ear.
we have discovered how radio waves creep over your head, and how this can be optimized to ensure that the hearing aid provides a clear sound image,
Subsequently, they designed a computer model of the head which allowed them to study how radio waves travel from ear to ear. fter designing the computer model,
we performed a large number of calculations called genetic algorithms. We then chose the best ones and continued with the calculations
which could sometimes take days. The calculations enabled us to understand how to design the actual antenna to ensure the best possible match for this type of hearing aid,
and has opened up completely new possibilities for users: f your hearing aids are not communicating, one hearing aid does not nowhow it has been adjusted,
By means of ear-to-ear technology, hearing aids automatically synchronize data with each other. If you, for instance, are in a room with reverberation,
#Tablet technology to help children with autism Monash University researchers have developed the world first tablet technology designed to assist children with developmental disabilities such as autism and Down syndrome.
There are currently very few interventions that aim to improve these core attention skills in these children and, more importantly,
The intervention group with the tablet technology showed improved: Core cognitive attention skills (selective and sustained attention.
These were maintained for up to three months after the training ceased (longer term testing has yet to be conducted.
and has published over 100 papers on the use of computer based attention tasks. ur program is grounded in over twenty years of research,
#Crowd-sourced computing reveals how to make better water filters with nanotubes Crowd-sourced computing has helped an international research team including researchers from the University of Sydney discover a new method of improving water filtration systems and water quality.
Nanotube inflitration in actionthe team enlisted more than 150,000 computer volunteers worldwide to conduct the research.
which was able to simulate water flow in carbon nanotubes at very low speeds an activity that would normally require the equivalent of up to 40,000 years of processing power on a single computer.
the Computing for Clean water project was able to expand these simulations to probe flow rates of just a few centimeters per second characteristic of the working conditions of real nanotube-based filters,
The pair commenced their work together as members of the Computing for Clean water project five years ago. omputing for Clean water,
who contributed their own computing power to the research, says co-author Associate professor Shen. he volunteers downloaded
and ran the project on their computers. The project results have important implications for desalination
which will become essential to analyze the massive data generated by the volunteered computers. y simulating water molecules flowing through nanotubes we have shown how vibrations result in oscillating friction,
Ultimately this will help design new carbon nanotube based membranes for water filtration with reduced energy consumption. rowd-sourced computing power was essential to the success of our project.
I believe that crowd-sourced computing will enable more important scientific advances in cancer treatment and clean energy, for example in the future,
communications devices like cellphones will utilize not only electromagnetic waves radio but also acoustic or ultrasonic sound, which can be highly directional and long-range. raphene is a magical material;
#Omnidirectional free space wireless charging developed Mobile devices, such as smartphones and laptops, have become indispensable portable items in modern life,
but one big challenge remains to fully enjoying these devices: keeping their batteries charged. A group of researchers at KAIST has developed a wireless-power transfer (WPT) technology that allows mobile devices to be charged at any location and in any direction,
even if the devices are away from the power source, just as Wi-fi works for Internet connections. With this technology,
so long as mobile users stay in a designated area where the charging is available, e g.,, the Wi-Power zone, the device, without being tethered to a charger,
will pick up power automatically, as needed. The research team led by Professor Chun T. Rim of the Nuclear
Their WPT system is capable of charging multiple mobile devices concurrently and with unprecedented freedom in any direction,
which is entitled ix Degrees of Freedom Mobile Inductive Power Transfer by Crossed Dipole Tx (Transmitter) and Rx (Receiver) Coils.
Either 30 smartphones with a power capacity of one watt each or 5 laptops with 2. 4 watts each can be simultaneously
The maximum power transfer efficiency for the laptops was 34%.%The researchers said that to fabricate plane Tx
The ferrite cores are designed optimally to reduce the core volume by half, and their ability to transfer power is unaffected nearly by human bodies or surrounding metal objects,
This has made it possible for mobile devices to receive power from any direction. Although wireless-power technology has been applied to smartphones,
it could not offer any substantial advantages over traditional wired charging because the devices still require close contact with the transmitter,
the WPT technology should provide mobile users with six degrees of freedom at a distance.
Until now, all wireless-charging technologies have had difficulties with the problem of short charging distance, mostly less than 10 cm,
But while there are routine screens for many types of cancer, there isn a universally adopted test used to check for heart attack risk in people who are not exhibiting symptoms associated with heart disease.
After collecting this de-identified data, the investigators tracked the status of all participants through the National Death Index, a central computerized index from the National Center for Health statistics.
So what do the data mean? n all asymptomatic patients, someone with a score of 0 has a minimal risk that they will die from any disease in the next 15 years,
air filtration systems and even your clothes. bbey Liebman 0 created a dress using conductive cotton threads capable of charging an iphone.
With ultrathin solar panels for trim and a USB charger tucked into the waist, the Southwest-inspired garment captured enough sunshine to charge cell phones
and other handheld devices allowing the wearer to stay plugged in. The technology may be embedded into shirts to measure heart rate
Google Wallet Since 2011as of now, the most prevailing mobile payment system is the Google Wallet.
Where the developers themselves agree that many issues still exist in the system design of Google Wallet,
Google wallet is coming down to its fourth year almost since its emergence in the industry.
A click here and a tap there, a smart phone just paid all your bills that is how easy Google wants the payment system to be for you.
And no doubt, Google Wallet is perhaps an amazingly speedy mobile payment method for those who have come to terms with it.
Although it has the limitation to be available for users of iphone 6 and iphone 6 Plus only, Apple guarantees secure user authentication with their okenizationmethod.
and thus the digitization of cash stands out as a remarkable phenomenon as compared to the paper cash and plastic payments.
Patterns of spending will determine how the digitization has been affecting the public and thus adjustments in the systems can be made accordingly.
as well as data gathering for clinical trials or epidemiological studies. For the impact his project will have in the field of translational medicine,
SARS or MERS, could also benefit from the user friendly chip and its rapid results. is award is truly helping our lab become translational,
The other type of mouse, called Beethoven, has a specific TMC1 mutation change in a single amino acidnd is a good model for the dominant form of TMC1-related deafness.
but with gene therapy, they jump as high as a normal mouse, says Holt. The force of their jump was measured by a plate on the floor underneath them;
#Researchers develop basic computing elements for bacteria The riendlybacteria inside our digestive systems are being given an upgrade,
These basic computing elements will allow the bacteria to sense, memorize, and respond to signals in the gut,
such strains are only found at low levels within the human gut, according to Timothy Lu, an associate professor of biological engineering and of electrical engineering and computer science,
In addition, more advanced genetic computing circuits could be built upon this genetic toolkit in Bacteroides to enhance their performance as noninvasive diagnostics and therapeutics. or example,
Based on these preclinical data, the HIV-1 version of this vaccine regimen is now being evaluated in an ongoing international clinical study sponsored by Crucell Holland BV
This material also has possibilities for use for advanced electronic devices such as pressure-sensitive sheets, reusable heating pads, pressure-sensitive conductivity sensors, electric current driven type resistance random access memory (Reram
The physicists represent the Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik (PDI) and the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), Germany, the NTT Basic Research Laboratories (NTT-BRL), Japan,
Dr. Kiyoshi Kanisawa, a physicist at NTT-BRL, used the growth technique of molecular beam epitaxy to prepare this surface.
NEC installs high-precision sensors that measure vibrations of water pipes to collect data on leaks in a community water system.
The data from the sensors is collected via networks and analyzed remotely through the cloud and then can be used to identify the locations of water leaks.
the NEC team installed a series of 33 sensors at two main sites in the Arlington water system.
#Glasses-free 3d screen technology Stereo-Step-Eclipse technology provides the ability to display video in stereoscopic 3d on a screen.
A scene can be visible from multiple angles depending on the viewer position relative to the screen.
Different users will see different views when looking from different positions. Unlimited viewer count: Multiple users can look at the screen
and all of them will see the view from their perspective, as there is no user tracking.
Thin layer and lightweight construction: Only three thin, additional layers are applied on top of standard LCD panels.
Low power consumption: The system requires only small amount of electricity or computational power for its operation.
and keeps the same image resolution as the primary image display. Available now for license, the SSE technology provides a full 3d viewing experience that is viewable from multiple angles without the need for special glasses or other wearable devices such as contact lenses, monoculars or helmets.
to see the 3d image on the screen. This makes it ideal for gaming and other entertainment applications as well as training simulations
remote medicine and a wide variety of other business, civil and military uses. 3d Tau SSE technology is designed to be embedded directly into a new generation of screens for televisions, movie theaters, computer displays, game
consoles, advertising and conference/exhibition panels and avionics/navigation systems among others. The SSE screen consists of three thin layers on top of a standard LCD screen:
a rear-facing lenticular, an LCD shutter and a front-facing lenticular. While enabling the multi-angle display of 3d images,
SSE technology preserves the full native screen resolution of the primary LCD screen. It requires no complicated holography equipment
and takes up roughly the same space as a traditional screen. In addition to showing images in 3d,
the SSE optical scheme can be used for augmented reality applications, when real and virtual objects are shown on the same screen simultaneously.
This provides a new and impactful way to display modern video graphics content in 3d
with applications in entertainment, education, scientific modeling and simulators for training, transportation and industrial uses.
Other applications that can benefit from the 3d Tau SSE technology include the display of topographical maps,
The 3d Tau SSE technology can also be used to allow different viewers of a single screen to view different content based on their viewing angle.
sitting a short distance to the side, can view a completely different video all on one single screen.
while the copilot sees his own set of instruments from the same, centrally-located screen e
and environmentally benign method to combat bacteria by engineering nanoscale particles that add the antimicrobial potency of silver to a core of lignin,
The remaining particles degrade easily after disposal because of their biocompatible lignin core, limiting the risk to the environment. eople have been interested in using silver nanoparticles for antimicrobial purposes,
INVISTA Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at NC State and the paper corresponding author. e show here an inexpensive and environmentally responsible method to make effective antimicrobials with biomaterial cores. he researchers used the nanoparticles
and other UC Berkeley researchers publicly debuted a system of beating human heart cells on a chip that could be used to screen for drug toxicity.
Studying composite states can give scientists additional insight into the properties of ordinary baryons. enefitting from the large data set provided by the LHC,
it might detect defects on computer chip surfaces or tell us more about the workings of proteins on the surface of cells,
minimally invasive device for controlling brain cells with drugs and lighta study showed that scientists can wirelessly determine the path a mouse walks with a press of a button.
t in line with the goals of the NIH BRAIN INITIATIVE. he researchers fabricated the implant using semiconductor computer chip manufacturing techniques.
who is now an assistant professor of electrical, computer, and energy engineering at University of Colorado Boulder. e tried to engineer the implant to meet some of neurosciences greatest unmet needs. n the study,
On this website, doctors can, together with the patient, easily calculate the odds of recurrence of the disease.
To develop their system the researchers used the information of almost 40,000 breast cancer patients from The netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR, Nederlandse Kankerregistratie), a unique database in which all information about the occurrence,
Using non-wetting surfaces as fabrication sites might also lead to improvements in other technology, the study reported,
#New Technique to Synthesize Nanostructured Nanowires IBM scientist Frances Ross (left) with Brookhaven Lab scientists Dong Su (center) and Eric Stach in the Center for Functional Nanomaterials.
and IBM, opens opportunities to tailor properties and functionalities of materials for a wide range of semiconductor device applications.
The technique that Hofmann and his colleagues from Cambridge and IBM developed can be thought of as an expansion of the concept that underlies conventional VLS growth.
the research team used two customised electron microscopes, one at IBM TJ Watson Research center and a second at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
The ram jets are ignited then and the aircraft is propelled horizontally at supersonic speeds. At 4. 5 mach, you can reach from London to NY in 1 hr.
said Anand Bhattacharya, a physicist in Argonne Materials science Division and the Center for Nanoscale Materials (a DOE Office of Science user facility),
The scientists also want to look for other materials that display this effect. e think that there may be other new physics working here,
electrically conductive sheets of tiny carbon nanotubes to form a jellyroll-like sheath around a long rubber core.
But even a iantstretch of the new conducting sheath-core fibers causes little change in their electrical resistance
Because the rubber core is stretched along its length as the sheets are being wrapped around it,
said the structure of the sheath-core fibers as further interesting and important complexity. Buckles form not only along the fiber length
and rubber core directions, enabling the electrical resistance of the sheath-core fiber to be insensitive to stretch.
By adding a thin overcoat of rubber to the sheath-core fibers and then another carbon nanotube sheath,
or twice the width of a human hair to much larger sizes, depending on the size of the rubber core. ndividual small fibers also can be combined into large bundles
an author on the paper and chief research and intellectual properties strategist at Lintec of America Nanoscience & Technology Center. he rubber cores used for these sheath-core fibers are inexpensive and readily available,
and thus to the reduction in blood pressure. fter we had found clues in cell culture experiments that a certain docking site for ATP,
and materials to repair such damage lipids are sent to the site of the damage. However
and progenitor cells isolated from the fetal liver of a mouse in Tan lab. As Tan explained,
Contributions from ASU researchers included crystallization and biophysical characterization of the rhodopsin-arrestin constructs and crystals, X-ray data collection and evaluation,
and cancer as well as to use this structure to screen for drug compounds that are designed to treat these diseases with far fewer side effects,
and transmit data, computers could operate even faster. But first engineers must build a light source that can be turned on and off that rapidly.
While lasers can fit this requirement, they are too energy-hungry and unwieldy to integrate into computer chips.
Duke university researchers are now one step closer to such a light source. In a new study, a team from the Pratt School of engineering pushed semiconductor quantum dots to emit light at more than 90 gigahertz.
an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at Duke. e can now start to think about making fast-switching devices based on this research, so there a lot of excitement about this demonstration. leb Akselrod, Maiken Mikkelsen,
Cun-Zheng Ning, professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, authored the paper, monolithic white laser, with his doctoral students Fan Fan, Sunay Turkdogan, Zhicheng Liu
and can potentially provide more accurate and vivid colors for displays like computer screens and televisions.
Ning group has shown already that their structures could cover as much as 70 percent more colors than the current display industry standard.
The technology under development is called Li-Fi for light-based wireless communication, as opposed to the more prevailing Wi-fi using radio waves.
Li-Fi could be more than 10 times faster than current Wi-fi and white laser Li-Fi could be 10 to 100 times faster than LED based Li-Fi currently still under development. he concept of white lasers first seems counterintuitive
because the light from a typical laser contains exactly one color, a specific wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum, rather than a broad-range of different wavelengths.
those independent lasers cannot be used for room lighting or in displays, Ning said. single tiny piece of semiconductor material emitting laser light in all colors
are used widely for computer chips or for light generation in telecommunication systems. They have interesting optical properties
The data presented suggest that parents abstaining from this practice may cause liver maturation and drug metabolism in their children to develop quiet differently. n
But he and colleagues have published now data on nine people who have regained voluntary control of their legs our with epidural implants
Switzerland, transplanted the leukemic cells in mouse. By establishing a umanized mouse model they provided an invaluable tool for testing the therapeutic response of the leukemic cells to different drugs.
The consortium team demonstrated that the engrafted cells expanded in the mouse and retained most of the genetic features and expression profiles of the original leukemic cells.
The cells thus behaved in a similar manner than in the patient, offering attractive possibilities for translational medicine.
and demonstrated exquisite response of the mouse model TCF3-HLF-positive cells to the drug Venetoclax,
In the first demonstration of how the technology works, published July 30 in the journal Cell, the researchers look inside the brain of an adult mouse at a scale previously unachievable, generating images at a nanoscale resolution.
which is a way of saying that I would prefer to generate a hypothesis from the data and test it,
The researchers have begun the process of mining their imaging data by looking first at an area of the brain that receives sensory information from mouse whiskers,
The cost and data storage demands for this type of research are still high, but the researchers expect expenses to drop over time (as has been the case with genome sequencing).
To facilitate data sharing, the scientists are now partnering with Argonne National Laboratory with the hopes of creating a national brain laboratory that neuroscientists around the world can access within the next few years. t bittersweet that there are many scientists who think this is a total waste of time as well as a big
Lichtman says. s long as data is showing you things that are unexpected, then youe definitely doing the right thing.
There never a time when we look at this data that we don see something that wee never seen before. t
#Microsoft Hololens Will Put Realistic, 3-D People in Your Living room Demonstrations of augmented reality displays typically involve tricking you into seeing animated content such as monsters
and robots that aren really there. Microsoft wants its forthcoming Hololens headset to mess with reality more believably.
It has developed a way to make you see photorealistic, 3-D people that fit in with the real world.
because Microsoft has built a kind of holographic TV studio at its headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Roughly 100 cameras capture a performance from many different angles.
Software uses the different viewpoints to create a highly accurate 3-D model of the person performing, resulting in a photo-real appearance.
The more traditional approach of using computer animation can compare, according to Steve Sullivan, who works on the project at Microsoft.
what Microsoft calls ideo hologramsat the LDV Vision Summit, an event about image-processing technology, in New york on Tuesday.
Microsoft has recorded also catwalk models using its system. That could help Internet shoppers by showing them how an item of clothing looks
and hangs more realistically than is possible with still photos or 2-D video, said Sullivan.
Hololens uses a novel holographic display technology that can trick the eye into perceiving 3-D objects more effectively than conventional stereoscopic displays (see icrosoft Making Fast Progress with Hololens.
Sensors in the headset allow the device to figure out how to present virtual objects so they fit in with the real world.
Sullivan showed how holographic videos can also be played back in 2-D on a tablet,
Several companies are working on ways to capture live action such as sports or movies for viewing on more conventional 3-D headsets like the Oculus Rift.
A startup called Magic Leap, backed by Google, is developing its own wearable augmented reality device based on display technology that similar to Microsoft (see 0 Breakthrough Technologies 2015:
Magic Leap. So far, however, Magic Leap demonstrations of its technology have involved animated content, not live action recorded in three dimensions o
or a stable brain-computer interface that might help disabled people do things their condition usually wouldn allow them to do,
and biocompatible materials (see ireless Micro LEDS Control Mouse Behavior, but none have overcome this problem,
#Self-Charging Phones Are on the way, Finally The case that Will Zell slides onto his iphone doesn look that unusual,
but it doing something pretty out of the ordinary: capturing some of the radio waves that the phone transmits
when connecting to cellphone towers and Wi-fi routers, converting them to electricity, and feeding that power back to the phone battery.
Zell is the CEO of Nikola Labs, a startup based in Columbus, Ohio, whose energy harvesting technology was invented by Chi-Chih Chen, a research associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ohio State university.
Like battery pack cases, the company case plugs into the bottom of the iphone; this way, Zell says,
it can intermittently send power right to the battery. Moore Law, which predicts that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years,
has held steady since 1975. Yet battery technology hasn kept the same pace, probably because its evolution is dependent on advances in chemistry.
So while smartphones have gotten increasingly capable, with faster processors, better displays, and higher-resolution cameras, it can still be a challenge to get the battery that powering all these features to last throughout the day.
One way the consumer electronics industry is trying to fix this is by aligning with wireless charging technologies like Qi and Rezence.
So far though, only a handful of smartphones from companies like LG, Samsung, and, HTC use the Qi standard,
while Rezence-supporting handsets are set to come out later this year. With such wireless charging still far from the mainstream
(and still requiring your phone to be on a charging mat or base that itself plugs into a wall),
a few companies, including Nikola Labs, are trying to figure out other ways to make you less dependent on outlets
so you can keep using your phone for battery-intensive things like looking at websites,
They won make plugging your phone into a charger obsolete but Zell says that Nikola phone case should be able to give users about 25 to 30 percent more battery life between charges.
The company built its first working prototype of a smartphone case this spring and plans to start selling it in the first three months of next year for about $100 (a Kickstarter campaign for the company had raised about $74, 000 of its $135,
000 goal with eight days to go as of publication; Zell says Nikola Labs has raised separately private funding to bring its product to market.
Though Zell acknowledges that there plenty of skepticism surrounding the utility of harvesting energy from radio waves,
because it doing the harvesting so close to the transmitting antenna in the phone. Eventually, he hopes to fit the technology into the phone itself;
early talks with phone makers have begun. A French solar technology company called Sunpartner Technologies is already working on this with a thin,
see-through overlay called WYSIPS Crystal (the acronym stands for hat you see is photovoltaic surface that sits between the glass
and touch-screen layers on a smartphone or other mobile gadget. The WYSIPS layer is covered with small solar cells;
when the phone is exposed to artificial or natural light, it captures the light and converts it to an electric current.
to get WYSIPS Crystal into phones next year. But while De Broca says the energy WYSIPS Crystal can produce depends on the kind of light it exposed tontense natural light will work better than diffuse indoor lightingn its current form it can boost battery life by only about 10 to 15 percent. t
will never be able to produce enough to charge the phone from scratch, he says. Much clunkier but perhaps more suited to that job is a wearable charger from Ampy,
hy can we harvest some of the energy from motion to power our phones??The charger,
or cycling, generating electricity that stored in an internal battery (users have to connect their phone to Ampy to siphon off its juice).
The battery inside Ampy can store enough power to fully recharge a smartphone. It might take a
though, since an hour of exercise yields about an hour of ormalsmartphone usage, according to Ampy website.
And youl probably continue plugging in your phone at least occasionally for the foreseeable future. But Nikola Labszell
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