The metamaterial consists of low-aspect-ratio silicon pillar arrays embedded in a polymer matrix and clad by gold films.
Photonic integrated circuits (PICS) based on the technology could dramatically change the architecture of fiber-optic transceivers used in data center optical interconnects, by pushing down the cost of chip-level data transfer between logic and memory devices.
The researchers tested the concoction on cultures of MRSA bacteria in synthetic wounds as well as in rats.
No individual ingredient had no effect on the cultures, but the combined liquid killed almost all the cells;
The tool emerged out of brainstorming between Marine modeling and simulation expert Major Christian Fitzpatrick and a signals intelligence instructor and staff sergeant named Nicholas Lannan.
The death toll of the earthquake that shook Nepal over the weekend just topped 5, 000.
It our single biggest health problem, affecting the lives of 100 million adults--more than heart disease, cancer,
Now, for the first time, researchers from Stanford university have been able to synthesize opioids from yeast cultures grown in the lab,
Many of the resulting diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-jakob disease (CJD), have long incubation periods but eventually lead to death.
#Paralyzed Man Becomes First To eelwith Sophisticated Hand Prosthetic A 28-year-old man, paralyzed due to a spinal injury,
British scientists working at the Francis Crick Institute in London announced today that they have applied for permission from the United kingdom's fertility regulator (the UK Human Fertilization
by UK law, cannot be implanted for a successful pregnancy. However, the information gathered by this basic research could have broad clinical implications,
#This Museum Offers Special Glasses to Colorblind Visitors The museum experience relies on visuals. You step into the space expecting to see something new to lose yourself in stunning compositions anderhaps most importantlyivid colors.
But not all museum visitors can perceive color the same way. Visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago can now pick up a pair of Enchroma glasses
and see artworks in their full color spectrum for the first time. By adjusting the separation within red and green coneshe colorblind condition occurs
The MCA Chicago is the first museum to offer these glasses to visitors. Visitors can pick up a pair at the front of the museum
free of charge. The glasses were supplied by Valspar as part of the Color for All campaign, which focuses on bringing Enchroma glasses to those who struggle to see Color in a video,
At the museum, can experience more fully not only the visual nature of pieces but the emotional responses that these colors often spark in their viewers.
Among the many users of these glasses is Matthew Renton, the Director of Communications at the museum.
he suggests that Enchroma wearers spend some time looking at the Martin Creed Painting in the museum cafe.
the MCA Chicago is making a move that might inspire other museums to increase accessibility for visitors with color blindness h
In a hurry, you just put your iphone in your pocket while commuting not realizing that it rubbing side by side your coins and keys.
Aipoly can offer convenience and an improved quality of life to its users. Some early testers of the app, including Rob Turner,
%Their findings are reported in an invited presentation at the 22nd Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Computer and Communications security, Denver."
"The chemical marriage between URMC-099 and antiretroviral drug nanoformulations could increase drug longevity, improve patient compliance,
From heating bills to Hollywood Researchers say the technology could have major implications for everything from gaming and filmmaking to emergency response and eldercare.
if it detects that a family member has fallen unconscious, says Katabi, director of the Wireless@MIT center. ou could also imagine it being used to operate your lights and TVS,
Future versions could be integrated into gaming interfaces, allowing you to interact with a game from different rooms or even trigger distinct actions based on
of today households, says Katabi, ireless technologies like this will help power the homes of the future. o
From heating bills to Hollywood Researchers say the technology could have major implications for everything from gaming and filmmaking to emergency response and eldercare.
if it detects that a family member has fallen unconscious, says Katabi, director of the Wireless@MIT center. ou could also imagine it being used to operate your lights and TVS,
Future versions could be integrated into gaming interfaces, allowing you to interact with a game from different rooms or even trigger distinct actions based on
of today households, says Katabi, ireless technologies like this will help power the homes of the future. i
Giulia Galli is Liew Family Professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations at the IME and a theorist.
"An average family of four leaves more than two million calories, worth nearly $1, 500, uneaten each year.
which doctors use to rate the social, occupational and psychological functioning of adults. Importantly, the patients also said they enjoyed the game
while its generator and other electrical equipment are installed in dry columns, increasing their reliability, efficiency, and shelf life.
The generating units consist of two sets of blades sitting on three columns with a single generator in between."
with each rotor having a 25 year design life and the columns and electricity connectors 100 years.
Rutter said the initial focus would be to agree on an underlying architecture, but it had not yet been decided
and all-cause mortality among different subpopulations of treated and untreated patients. The study used the largest cohort of patients and the longest follow-up for TRT to date.
the group who had normalized testosterone levels after TRT had significantly fewer deaths and cardiovascular events than those who did not.
there has been growing concern regarding its effect on mortality, as well as conflicting results. Our aim was to address the knowledge gap."
normalization of testosterone levels using TRT is associated with lower mortality, fewer MIS, and strokes. This is the first study to demonstrate that significant benefit is observed
and when that happens they are found in the affected child but not found in either parent.
when they occur in a child and give rise to autism, usually don't remain in the gene pool for more than one generation before they are,
and documented in the families used in the study, comprising the Simons Simplex Collection (SSC).
and 15,000 deaths per year in the United states, costing the country more than $4 billion in health-care expenses,
with symptoms ranging from severe diarrhea to intestinal lesions to death. Bogyo's team has developed ways of conducting high-throughput screens of small molecules to speedily test their ability to inhibit
However, psychologically, these small steps are huge for a patient's quality of life, "said the study's lead author, Ida K. Fox, MD,
"Another patient benefiting from the nerve-transfer technique is a 72-year-old right-handed man who had the surgery two years after he suffered a cervical spinal cord injury.
and then plugged it into a working nerve that restored the man's ability to flex his thumb and index finger.
%and its value for identifying causal rare variants of complex human disease phenotypes in genetic association studies.
which is the second most common cancer and accounts for over one-quarter of all cancer-related deaths.
which affect young adults who could live with the side-effects for decades.""Professor Robert Huddart, Professor of Urological Cancer at The Institute of Cancer Research, London,
While exploring why pregnant women are particularly susceptible to malaria, they found that the mosquito-borne parasite that causes malaria also produces a protein that binds to a particular type of sugar molecule in the placenta.
#Fewer Americans are smoking and theye quitting faster than ever, survey shows New figures released by the US Centres for Disease Control
Even more promisingly, the rate at which people are quitting smoking has accelerated, with the 1. 6 percent drop between the 2014 and 2015 levels of adult smokers representing the steepest quitting rate in CDC statistics going back as far as 1997,
by 2025 less than 13 percent of American adults would be smokers. A pretty amazing result, especially when you consider that as recently as 1965 42 percent of the adult population smoked.
Hispanic adults are less likely to be smokers (10.4 percent) than non-Hispanic black (19.1 percent) and non-Hispanic white (17.1 percent) adults.
and have really set in motion a cultural event in which smoking is not acceptable and not enjoyable, said Norman Edelman of the American Lung Association,
who was not involved with the research, in comment to Dennis Thompson at Healthday
#A magnetic'wormhole'that connects two regions of space has been created Researchers in Spain have created a tiny magnetic wormhole for the first time ever,
and they've used it to connect two regions of space so that a magnetic field can travel'invisibly'between them.
#Your fingerprints are about to reveal so much more about you Using fingerprints to identify individuals is a technique that's been around for longer than you might think-it was used first in a crime-solving capacity in the middle of the 19th century.
"We've increased very significantly the amount of data that can be taken from a crime scene to help support law enforcement's hypothesis about how a crime occurred
#US government develops mind-controlled prosthetic arm with the sense of touch The US defence force announced last week that it has given a paralysed man the ability to'feel'physical sensations through a prosthetic robotic hand that been connected directly to his brain.
the man was able to identify when and which of his prosthetic fingers was being touched gently by an object-and all while blindfolded.
some 750 million people across the globe don't have access to clean drinking water, a problem that's responsible for around 840,000 deaths every year-more than the entire population of San francisco o
"The team is now trying to figure out how to redesign the rest of the computing architecture
Paralysed man walks again via brain waves rerouted to his legs A paraplegic man who was paralysed for five years has walked again on his own two feet,
The anonymous man, who experiences complete paralysis in both legs due to a severe spinal cord injury (SCI), is the first such patient to demonstrate that brain-controlled overground walking after paraplegia due to
The mental training consisted of the man wearing an EEG cap that would read his brain waves as he was being instructed to think about walking.
This progressed to the man using his thoughts to control the walking of a virtual reality avatar,
The man first practised walking while suspended in the air, before finally standing on his own two feet again,
"We want to spend more time with our families, we want to learn new things or exercise more.
Older adults and Alzheimer's patients who are carrying a specific variant of the IL1RAP gene were found to have higher rates of amyloid plaque accumulation in the brain,
this culture is steadily beginning to change, with China now reportedly more focussed than ever before on changing its reputation and publishing quality and open-access research.
it's the research culture.""The fact that research grants and promotions are awarded on the basis of the number of articles published, not on the quality of the original research...
This same culture has also been blamed for the fact that Tu never won a major award in China,
Whether this push towards transparency in science and quality research is something that can change the volatile culture of Chinese research remains to be seen,
Designed by students at ETZ Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts, the Scalevo features gyroscopic technology that lets the wheelchair automatically balance itself on just two wheels
However, it causes more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system, and so new techniques to battle it would have a significant impact n
The study, presented this week at the American Public health Association annual meeting in Chicago, may help actual scientists such as doctors
and medicine, bringing them better quality of life,""says Toledo Flores. The project was presented at the International Congress of Solar energy at Germany y
"After lung cancer, prostate cancer is the second-leading killer cancer among men, with more than 240,000 new diagnoses and 28,000 deaths every year.
--or even families of genes--by targeting enhancers at distant locations in the genome--something that their previous gene activators could not do.
bacterial population densities and drug resistance,"said lead author, Professor Beardmore.""As we demonstrate, it is possible to reduce bacterial load to zero at dosages that are said usually to be sub lethal and,
is a key mediator of oxidative damage and cell death in biological systems. The way cell death occurs
when using LTP treatment is different from other therapies. The active agents in the LTP break up DNA
resulting in cell death. This is different to some current therapies which cause apoptosis, where cells are prompted to die through natural mechanisms that can result in treatment resistance.
and ultimately necrotic cell death. Using clinically relevant, close to-patient samples, we have presented the first experimental evidence promoting the potential of LTP as a future focal cancer therapy treatment for patients with early stage prostate cancer.
along with funding from the state of Kansas, the Hall Family Foundation and Bold Aspiration funding from KU's Office of the Provost, supported the work.
to help cancer patients and their families, "he said.""We hope to find a better therapy--and eventually a cure--for cancer
"The team was amazed to find a consistent association, throughout cells: the location of PTEN proteins closely coincided with the presence of tiny highways called microtubules that crisscross throughout every cell.
have discovered the likely cause of a child's rare type of severe muscle weakness. The child was one of six cases in
which TGEN sequenced --or decoded--the genes of patients with Neuromuscular Disease (NMD) and was then able to identify the genetic source,
or likely genetic source, of each child's symptoms, according to a study published April 8 in the journal Molecular genetics & Genomic Medicine."
or mutation, in the CACNA1S gene for a child with severe muscle weakness in addition to ophthalmoplegia,
In still another case, TGEN testing identified the genetic culprit of the child's muscle weakness as a pathogenic EMD variant associated with Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy.
"Reporting these cases raises awareness about how often each child with muscle disease is unique,
"This study provided answers to families with these difficult-to-treat and rare illnesses
#Mother's genes can influence bacteria in her baby's gut A gene, which is not active in some mothers,
produces a breast milk sugar that influences the development of the community of gut bacteria in her infant,
The researchers emphasized that the finding does not suggest that breast milk from mothers without an active copy of the gene is less nourishing or healthy.
The relationships between the mothers'genetics, the composition of her breast milk and the development of her infant's gut microbiota.
produces a breast milk sugar that influences the development of the community of gut bacteria in her infant.
which alters the composition of their breast milk sugars and changes how the microbial community, or microbiota, of their infants'guts develop.
a condition that is the second most common cause of death among premature infants in the United states. The researchers emphasized that the finding does not suggest that breast milk from mothers without an active copy of the gene is less nourishing or healthy.
The relationships between the mothers'genetics, the composition of her breast milk and the development of her infant's gut microbiota.
and that it influences the breast milk, which clearly drives the establishment of microbes in the intestines of their babies."
The relationship between human genetics, breast milk and Bifidobacterium appears to have developed throughout mammalian evolution. Development of a healthy gut microbiota can have a lifelong effect on health
Bifidobacterium are known to consume the 2'-fucosylated glycans (sugars) found in the breast milk of women with the fucosyltransferase 2 mammary gene.
They also measured the amount and type of breast milk sugars left over in the infant's feces,
With some architecture modifications, the developed biosensing technique has the potential to detect the H5n2 strain as well,
resulting in roughly 27,500 deaths s
#Hyper-stretchable elastic-composite energy harvester Scientists have developed a hyper-stretchable elastic-composite energy harvesting device called a nanogenerator.
revealing a mechanism for how the environment could affect development in very early pregnancy. Dr Bilal Sheikh, Associate professor Tim Thomas, Associate professor Anne Voss and colleagues have discovered now that MOZ
the discovery opens new lines of inquiry about the Ash1l gene's potential role in cancers known to involve other members of the same gene family,
The Ash1l (Absent, small or homeotic 1-like) gene is part of a family of genes that includes MLL1 (Mixed Lineage Leukemia 1),
#Shape-shifting molecule tricks viruses into mutating themselves to death A newly developed spectroscopy method is helping to clarify the poorly understood molecular process by
"The researchers used summary statistics from genome-wide association studies of more than 200,000 individuals, looking for overlap in single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPS) associated with clinically diagnosed AD and CRP and the three components of total cholesterol:
They found up to a 50-fold enrichment of AD SNPS for different levels of association with CRP, LDL, HDL and TG, which then lead to identification of 55 loci--specific locations on a gene,
#New transitional stem cells discovered Preeclampsia is a disease that affects 5 to 8 percent of pregnancies in America.
Complications from this disease can lead to emergency cesarean sections early in pregnancies to save the lives of the infants and mothers.
meaning that all the cells in the culture are quite similar to each other in the way they express their genetic information."
human health or quality of life are generated, "said the Mexican firm. The corporation has a pilot plant in their offices that was used to demonstrate the purification process,
and Ludwig Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK)' s Jedd Wolchok has found that the combination of two immunotherapies for first-line treatment of advanced melanoma induces better responses
and nivolumab against ipilimumab alone in previously untreated patients, were presented today at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research
Notably, three of the deaths in the combination group were determined to have been combined related to the therapy."
The disease is the most common chronic neurological disorder among young adults, and results from aberrant immune cells destroying the protective coating, called myelin, around nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
or their families feel they cannot wait for the development of specific approved medications, "Tesar said,
gaming systems, and televisions may all be connected to the internet, increased bandwidth would eliminate problems like video streaming that stalls and buffers.
being presented as part of a poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) being held in Philadelphia,
#Researchers add a new wrinkle to cell culture Using a technique that introduces tiny wrinkles into sheets of graphene,
"We've shown that you can make textured environments for cell culture fairly easily using graphene."
"Traditionally, cell culture in the lab has been done in petri dishes and on other flat surfaces. But in the body, cells grow in considerably more complex environments.
that were obtained from local fertility clinics. However the work is very controversial, with some warning it could be the start of a slippery slope towards designer babies.
for example, allow us to look under layers of painting. For imaging applications, a narrow range of terahertz frequencies is needed.
"Odom is Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.
Then, combining that tissue-specific functional signal with the relevant disease's DNA-based genome-wide association studies (GWAS),
the researchers were able to identify statistical associations between genes and diseases that would otherwise be undetectable.
which they called a'network-guided association study, 'or Netwas, thus integrates quantitative genetics with functional genomics to increase the power of GWAS
and pathways, permitting discovery of novel associations. SCDA director Leslie Greengard says, "Olga and her collaborators have demonstrated that extraordinary results can be achieved by merging deep biological insight with state-of-the-art computational methods,
#New material for creating artificial blood vessels Arteriosclerotic vascular disorders are one of the most common causes of death in industrialized countries.
This encourages the migration of endogenous cells. The interaction between material and blood was studied by Martina Marchetti-Deschmann at TU Wien using spatially resolved mass spectrometry.
A new report published in the Journal of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) describes the effectiveness of a new computer-based vision-screening test, the Jaeb Visual acuity Screener (JVAS),
With them, it's like finding a needle in the fountain outside the Nebraska Union.
One-shot learning was apparent in cases where participants made an association between an image and an outcome after a single pairing.
and stimulate cell death if the damage cannot be repaired. Moffitt researchers found that SIRT1 is modified by a process called ubiquitination, in
leading to either DNA repair or cell death. The researchers performed studies to determine how ubiquitin modification changes SIRT1 function.
If cells are exposed to a drug called etoposide, SIRT1 ubiquitination blocks cell death. However, if cells are exposed to oxidative stress,
SIRT1 ubiquitination promotes cell death. These results are important because they increase scientists'understanding of how proteins and cells function,
#Percentage of Texans without health insurance drops dramatically The report found that from September 2013 to March 2015, the percentage of uninsured adult Texans ages 18-64 dropped from 25 to 17 percent."
and age groups, including younger adults.""Despite this improvement, Texas remains the state with the highest percentage of people without health insurance,
since 2013 primarily because the ACA Marketplace allows households above the federal poverty level to buy health insurance using subsidies.
The Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS) is a quarterly survey of adults ages 18-64 that began in 2013.
Director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, at Temple University, Philadelphia a
#New test predicts sudden cardiac death in hemodialysis patients ICNC is organised by the Nuclear Cardiology
and Cardiac CT section of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI), a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC),
and the European Association of Nuclear medicine (EANM). ICNC 12 is held 3 to 5 may 2015 in Madrid, Spain.
"Hemodialysis patients are increased at risk of sudden cardiac death because they often have latent ischaemic heart disease
to predict the risk of sudden cardiac death in hemodialysis patients. All 3 methods were performed at rest.
20 sudden cardiac deaths occurred. Patients who suffered sudden cardiac death were more likely to have abnormal BMIPP scintigraphy,
abnormal Q wave and a greater C reactive-protein protein level compared to patients who did not experience sudden cardiac death.
There were no differences between the 2 groups in other clinical, laboratory or hemodialysis parameters. Taken on their own, patients with a BMIPP score greater than 16 had an 11-fold increased risk of sudden cardiac death,
while an abnormal Q wave conferred an 18-fold increased risk, and A c-reactive protein level greater than 2. 38 mg/dl predicted a 7-fold increased risk.
Patients with 2 or 3 of the predictors had a sudden cardiac death risk that was 145 times greater than patients with normal levels on all 3 measures.
"The most powerful way to predict sudden cardiac death was to combine the measures. Hemodialysis patients who had 2
In hemodialysis patients, abnormal uptake of BMIPP has an independent and incremental value in the prediction of sudden cardiac death in combination with C reactive-protein protein and Q wave.
"For the first time there is a way to predict sudden cardiac death in hemodialysis patients. In a clinical setting, BMIPP scintigraphy can be used in hemodialysis patients who are identified as high risk by abnormal Q wave and increased C reactive-protein protein.
which could be an effective therapeutic target for preventing sudden cardiac death.""He concluded:""Further diagnostic tests should be considered in high risk patients with abnormal BMIPP scintigraphy.
and help physicians select a prophylactic therapeutic strategy against sudden cardiac death in hemodialysis patients."
#New test predicts sudden cardiac death in hemodialysis patients ICNC is organised by the Nuclear Cardiology
and Cardiac CT section of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI), a registered branch of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC),
and the European Association of Nuclear medicine (EANM). ICNC 12 is held 3 to 5 may 2015 in Madrid, Spain.
"Hemodialysis patients are increased at risk of sudden cardiac death because they often have latent ischaemic heart disease
to predict the risk of sudden cardiac death in hemodialysis patients. All 3 methods were performed at rest.
20 sudden cardiac deaths occurred. Patients who suffered sudden cardiac death were more likely to have abnormal BMIPP scintigraphy,
abnormal Q wave and a greater C reactive-protein protein level compared to patients who did not experience sudden cardiac death.
There were no differences between the 2 groups in other clinical, laboratory or hemodialysis parameters. Taken on their own, patients with a BMIPP score greater than 16 had an 11-fold increased risk of sudden cardiac death,
while an abnormal Q wave conferred an 18-fold increased risk, and A c-reactive protein level greater than 2. 38 mg/dl predicted a 7-fold increased risk.
Patients with 2 or 3 of the predictors had a sudden cardiac death risk that was 145 times greater than patients with normal levels on all 3 measures.
"The most powerful way to predict sudden cardiac death was to combine the measures. Hemodialysis patients who had 2
In hemodialysis patients, abnormal uptake of BMIPP has an independent and incremental value in the prediction of sudden cardiac death in combination with C reactive-protein protein and Q wave.
"For the first time there is a way to predict sudden cardiac death in hemodialysis patients. In a clinical setting, BMIPP scintigraphy can be used in hemodialysis patients who are identified as high risk by abnormal Q wave and increased C reactive-protein protein.
which could be an effective therapeutic target for preventing sudden cardiac death.""He concluded:""Further diagnostic tests should be considered in high risk patients with abnormal BMIPP scintigraphy.
and help physicians select a prophylactic therapeutic strategy against sudden cardiac death in hemodialysis patients
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