or even more disastrous consequences such as diabetic comas and death.""This research team have removed the risk of human error by emulating the natural insulin generators of the body beta cells.
and a little bit more comprehensive than some of the other designs that might be reported in the literature.
published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, estimated that about 339,000 deaths worldwide between 1997 and 2006 were associated with forest, grass and peat fires.
unlike the European union, the Association of Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN) lacks the legal authority to force its members to act against their own interests.
#Schools'new rules on extremism"Extremism has no place in our schools, "said Education secretary Nicky Morgan.
She was speaking the day before schools face new requirements to play a bigger part in counter-extremism.
"Schools and childcare providers already play an important role in protecting and safeguarding young people including from radicalisation
and extremism,"said the education secretary. A telephone helpline has been offered for teachers, governors and other staff to raise concerns directly with the Department for Education.
to challenge extremism. It follows high profile cases in which young people have left the UK to join militant groups in Syria and Iraq.'
'Nonviolent extremism'The counter-extremism requirements, applying to primary and secondary, state and independent schools, include warnings against"nonviolent extremism"."
""being drawn into terrorism includes not just violent extremism but also nonviolent extremism, which can create an atmosphere conducive to terrorism
and can popularise views which terrorists exploit, "says the government guidance for schools. Teachers will have to assess the risk of pupils being drawn into extremist ideologies.
Mr Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head teachers, said schools should"see their duties on radicalisation as another safeguarding duty"."
whether such regulations are the best way to get young people to"reject engagement with groups who advocate violence".
"She said that the Prevent counter-extremism strategy was already causing"significant nervousness and confusion among teachers".
"Ms Blower warned that concerns over extremism could"close down"the classroom debates which could encourage democracy and human rights.
The regulations set out a definition of extremism as"vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs".
whose newborn child has been keeping him awake into the early hours of the night. He confesses that he has spent the extra sleepless hours pondering"long and hard
"However, it will be a fabulous tool for looking at virus-disease associations which are speculative,
In the hands of campaigners and victims of abuse, it can provide valuable video evidence of crimes.
and is the result of a collaboration between the International Bar Association and the legal services division of the information firm Lexisnexis.
In between each layer are vertical submicroscopic columns, which connect the points at which the wires crisscross.
Each of these columns contains: a"memory cell, "which can store a single bit of data.
Online gaming companies might want to substitute 3d Xpoint for RAM. At present, the amount of players that can be hosted on a single server is limited by the amount of RAM it contains.
Stoddart is the Board of trustees Professor of Chemistry in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences."
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) show that many genetic factors are at play for any given trait
Two major statistical challenges to finding these connections involve analysing associations between many different genetic variants and multiple traits,
Lung, and Blood Institute and Yale university examined the subcellular architecture of presynaptic terminals in retinal bipolar cells of live goldfish.
and a drug-screening tool to make pregnancies safer. In experiments to be published Tuesday, July 14, in the journal Nature Communications,
which drugs are dangerous during pregnancy.""Screening for drug toxicity To test the potential of the system as a drug-screening tool,
"Each year, as many as 280,000 pregnant women are exposed to drugs with evidence of potential fetal risk.
and the potential for generating cardiac defects is of utmost concern in determining drug safety during pregnancy."
"Could eventually replace animal models Modeling early heart development is difficult to achieve in a petri dish and tissue culture plates,
Recent efforts to limit parasite transmission and increase treatment coverage has reduced the number of malaria-related deaths,
but the parasite still causes roughly 200 million new infections and half a million deaths worldwide each year.
Prior to this, the technology had only been applied successfully in human adult DNA and mice.
'Instead, Dr Darnovsky wants the scope of discussion on gene-editing technology widened to include politicians, religious groups and human rights organisations s
The researchers studied 11 families with members affected by CIP. Some had had genes that already been identified as being associated with the condition,
Furthermore, it could reduce the number of women who undergo amniocentesis during pregnancy, which carries a one in 200 risk of miscarriage.'
'The researchers identified pregnant women with a one in 1000 risk of having a baby born with Down's syndrome
and neural progenitors. he idea is coated culture vessels with the polymer are arranged into arrays or factories each capable of supporting the production of billions of human pluripotent stem cells for applications in regenerative medicine and transplants.
and neural progenitors. he idea is coated culture vessels with the polymer are arranged into arrays or factories each capable of supporting the production of billions of human pluripotent stem cells for applications in regenerative medicine and transplants.
Currently, about 17,000 adults and children have been approved medically for liver transplants and are donated waiting for livers to become available,
Chemical weapons From airport security detecting explosives to art historians authenticating paintings, society thirst for powerful sensors is growing.
chemical warfare agents, fraudulent paintings, environmental contaminants and more. he technology wee developing a universal substrate for SERS is a unique and, potentially, revolutionary feature.
#South korea Reports its First 2 Deaths From MERS Virus South korea on Tuesday confirmed the country's first two deaths from Middle east Respiratory Syndrome as it fights to contain the spread of a virus that has killed hundreds
since diagnosing the country's first MERS illness last month in a man who had traveled to Saudi arabia and other Middle Eastern countries.
and their family members. Tests on a 58-year-old woman who died of acute respiratory failure Monday showed she had been infected with the disease before her death,
the Health Ministry said in a statement. A 71-year-old man who tested positive for the virus last week also died,
China isolated the South korean man at a hospital, and Hong kong authorities said Sunday that 18 travelers were being quarantined
It belongs to the family of coronaviruses that includes the common cold and SARS and can cause fever, breathing problems, pneumonia and kidney failure.
that we can culture the entire construct over prolonged periods of time, and that we can repopulate the vascular system and musculature.
and while such procedures can significantly improve quality of life, they also expose recipients to the risks of lifelong immunosuppressive therapy.
At the same time, populations of muscle and vascular cells were being grown in culture. The research team then cultured the forelimb matrix in a bioreactor, within
After five days in culture, electrical stimulation was applied to the potential limb graft to further promote muscle formation, and after two weeks
The study was published this week in the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association. his data could help scientists uncover new disease risk factors,
600 associations and confirmed 39 links previously reported in the medical literature. The researchers also uncovered 16 new associations,
including nine types of heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United states. The researchers performed statistical tests to check that the 55 diseases for
which they found associations did not arise by chance. t important not to get overly nervous about these results
because even though we found significant associations the overall disease risk is not that great, notes Dr. Tatonetti. he risk related to birth month is relatively minor
when compared to more influential variables like diet and exercise. The new data are consistent with previous research on individual diseases.
and nearly half of them resulting in deaths. MERS is considered more deadly than SARS, according to a Reuters report.
and small genomes, may be the reason they can be grown in lab culture: they are stripped-down life forms with the barebones requirement of genes,
because some organisms detected widely in the environment fail to grow in culture like other bacteria.
though only 29 have representatives that will grow in culture. The new discovery allowed the team not only to define about a third of all bacterial phyla but, thanks to the nearly complete genomes
or even more disastrous consequences such as diabetic comas and death. Researchers have tried to remove the potential for human error by creating losed-loop systemsthat directly connect the devices that track blood sugar
the director of the North carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC Tracs) Institute and past president of the American Diabetes Association. f we can get these patches to work in people,
The research was funded by a pilot grant from the NC Tracs Institute and a athway to Stop Diabetesresearch Award from the American Diabetes Association.
said Alvarez-Buylla. hat is incredible is that the neurons that are produced in the embryo are extremely different than the neurons produced for the adult.
he said. hile it is true that we are learning how to reprogram adult stem cells to make different types of neurons,
Failure to follow prescriptions, the study also found, causes around 125,000 deaths annually and up to 10 percent of all hospitalizations.
Through modern mass spectrometry proteomics techniques, scientists have identified more than 300,000 post-translational modifications (PTMS) in different families of proteins across numerous species. These PTMS come in many forms, resulting
SAPH-ire collects non-redundant and experimentally verified PTM data across all known members of a protein family.
Since members of a protein family share the same or similar protein structures, PTMS found within the family can be related to one another in three-dimensional space to produce a set of observed PTM frequencies,
termed"hotspots.""The PTM hotspots are projected onto 3d protein structures available in the Protein Data Bank (PDB),
which allows the entire set of family-specific PTMS to be visualized on any protein structure that is representative for the family.
then organized them into their specific protein families, "Torres explained.""We are looking at PTMS through time, in a sense,
though their proteins are related as members of a protein family.""To prioritize research with the most significant potential impact,
Torres'lab has been investigating unique families of"G proteins, some of which cooperate with cell surface receptors that control the binding of hormones and neurotransmitters,
the researchers discovered something surprising about this group of protein families.""We discovered a new regulatory element within a specific G protein family that has been ignored largely
because it's pretty unimpressive from a purely structural viewpoint, "Torres said.""SAPH-ire predicted that this element was going to be important from a modification point of view,
Their next step is to develop collaborations with scientists who will try it out on the protein families they study.
#New Single-use Harvesting Technology for High Cell Density Cultures Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international supplier for the biopharmaceutical industry, has introduced Sartoclear Dynamics,
a clarification system featuring new single-use technology for harvesting mammalian cell cultures with high cell densities.
DE can be mixed directly into the cell culture fluid. This porous filter aid prevents blockage of the filters.
The ready-to-use clarification system enables harvesting of high cell density cultures up to 2, 000 liters 0
Our goal has always been to bring hope to the families affected by this devastating disease,
if we could'help save her child',to last week gene therapy administration; a remarkable and humbling journey that I privileged to be a part of."
) Each of the children and their families will be required to live within 100 miles of the NIH for two months after receiving the gene transfer treatment,
and as a drug-screening tool to make pregnancies safer. In experiments published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers used biochemical and biophysical cues to prompt stem cells to differentiate
which drugs are dangerous during pregnancy. Screening for drug toxicity To test the potential of the system as a drug-screening tool,
as many as 280,000 pregnant women are exposed to drugs with evidence of potential fetal risk. The most commonly reported birth defects involve the heart,
and the potential for generating cardiac defects is of utmost concern in determining drug safety during pregnancy.
Could eventually replace animal models Modeling early heart development is difficult to achieve in a petri dish and tissue culture plates,
and sometimes disfigurement and death. The virus carried by the parasite is called Leishmaniavirus, or LRV1.
"I'm a Latina woman and there's a high rate of asthma in my community, "said Ortiz,
"I figured that participating would help my family and friends, and anyone else who suffers from asthma."
"Now that we have found an association between the vagus nerve and the development of Parkinson's disease, it is important to carry out research into the factors that may trigger this neurological degeneration,
The research project was supported by the Danish Parkinson's disease Association and PROCRIN (Program for Clinical Research Infrastructure
the drug has been shown to foster the migration of white blood cells from the bloodstream to the brain.
the Brightfocus Foundation, the Maurice Marciano Family Foundation, the Saban Family Foundation and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through CTSI grant UL1TR000124.
immunization prevents an estimated 2 million to 3 million deaths every year. The continued threat of pandemics such as H1n1 swine flu and emerging infectious diseases such as Ebola makes vaccine development and mass vaccination a priority for global healthcare.
Using the Cytosponge appears to remove some of this game of chance. Professor Fitzgerald and colleagues carried out whole genome sequencing to analyse paired Barrett oesophagus
"The rising problem of drug-resistant bacteria has created an urgent need for the new antibiotics that would help in mechanization use for the treatment of adults
and skin health, share images with family and healthcare providers and eventually, connect with skin specialists online."
but right to where the fruit column started to bear, because theye heavy. Many of the papaya fields are on leasehold land in or near Kapoho,
Ross Sibucao, president of Hawaii Papaya Industry Association, said early Tuesday afternoon the association board was about to hold an emergency meeting.
About 85%of breast cancers occur in women who have no family history of breast cancer. Even though this study does not offer a cure,
quality of life and reduce future medical spending when these children enter their adult lives. Surprisingly, the NIH only allocates five percent of it $30 billion budget to pediatric research
While developed countries are more able to leverage their own intellectual and financial resources and developing economies are more likely to focus first on attracting foreign direct investment and talent from abroad before turning to development of indigenous resources of technology, talent,
a crop protection association that represents the companies that develop, manufacture, formulate and distribute crop protection chemicals
for instance, quizzing them on the types of animals in a photo their parents shot on a weekend trip to the zoo.
or by column heading, but you can't do a lot of deep searching. And usually you could only access the database from a Windows computer running an outdated version of Internet explorer,
Logik. com found itself tapped for cases ranging from the sub-prime mortgage crisis to white-collar crime.
while a mere 3%of total VC money goes to companies with a woman CEO.
#This man sells a kit that'll turn anyone into a'cyborg'For about $40 you can turn yourself into a cyborg at least in part.
and skin health, share images with family and healthcare providers and eventually, connect with skin specialists online.
"We're the average Nova Scotian family, living paycheque to paycheque to paycheque and...you look at things that you can do,
The Brazilian neurobiologist was part of a team of researchers who created a mind-controlled robotic exoskeleton worn by Juliano Pinto as the paraplegic man took part in the kickoff for the 2014 World cup in Sao paulo o
Sending push notifications from a museum about an app that provides more information about exhibits
Commuting apps, smart cars and smarter parking New apps and other technologies are improving the urban traffic experience.
A study published this month in the Journal of the American Planning Association found that between 1995 and 2009,
cord-cutter It's compelling enough for the Devine family in Burlington, Ont. With the help of a tech help service, Kutko Canada, Chris and Aleksandra Devine have just set up a Roku device along with Apple TV.
"I'm a Latina woman and there's a high rate of asthma in my community, "said Ortiz,
"I figured that participating would help my family and friends, and anyone else who suffers from asthma."
#India Plans Association Of Top 50 Solar power Nations Soon after taking oath as India#s 15th Prime minister, Narendra Modi made his renewable energy policy very clear.
At this summit the Indian government announced that it will form an association of 50 countries rich in solar energy resource.
The real motive behind such an association of nations could be entirely different though. All countries are required to submit their plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as part of the run-up to the climate change summit at Paris at the end of the year.
The real motive of this association could be to lobby for a wider acceptance of such an exercise as part of the new climate change treaty.
the Solar energy Industries Association (SEIA) said it will provide a big boost to the US economy,
Solar energy Industries Association (SEIA) CEO and President Rhone Resch pointed out in a recent statement, he solar Investment Tax credit (ITC) is paying huge dividends for America.
For example utilities facing the much discussed death spiral triggered by solar, will find the motor vehicle fuels market very appealing.
All businesses, like humans, fight death. And fight they will, with all the considerable power they have.
The market can smell death and knows that fast beats slow. For climate advocates and policy makers, nothing changes in their approach,
The silicon anode that results features the 3-D hierarchical architecture of the reed leaf as well as an interconnected porosity+internal carbon coating.
which as we demonstrate can be transformed into a well-suited 3d highly porous hierarchical Si architectures. he topological architecture of the original silicates within the reed leaves is preserved extraordinarily well during the applied chemical and physical treatment steps.
Aclima Cofounder and CEO. ith more than half of the world population now living in cities, environmental health is becoming increasingly important to quality of life.
Aclima Goes From Out On The Streets To Inside Your Home While the Google street view partnership could change the way we live
living in culture, these cells are not suitable for hair transplants, since they lost their ability to induce follicle formation.
"In adults, dermal papilla cells cannot be amplified readily outside of the body and they quickly lose their hair-inducing properties,
"The team will be presenting their research at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial intelligence Conference in Austin, Texas, on January 29, 2015 1
seeded into a 3d scaffold and nourished with a culture gel full of nutrients to encourage growth.
Perhaps this is why the powerful and wealthy Rockefeller family recently sold out of fossil fuels and switched their investments towards clean energy?
but looking back now I see how her quality of life was compromised by one of today most shockingly prevalent diseases.
and stimulates it in time with a relaxing mixture of music and nature sounds, which is played through earphones connected to a signal generator the size of a mobile phone.
For one in 100, quality of life is affected severely, and it has been linked to depression, work and relationship problems and, in rare cases, suicide.
It's not known what causes it, although in some cases it is linked to hearing loss-one theory is that
Now experts and volunteers are recreating history to digitally rebuild lost artefacts using photos taken in museums
Phd students Chance Coughenour and Matthew Vincent, from the Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural heritage (ITN-DCH) came up with the idea of reconstructing objects digitally from crowd sourced images days after ISIS
militants reportedly smashed artworks in the Mosul Museum in Iraq. They use photogrammetry a technique that uses software to transform 2d photos into 3d images as well as photos from the public, the BBC reported.
including a metal gate, lion sculpture and intricate painted tablet. The lion sculpture, which once stood in the museum,
was clearly once popular with visitors, as the volunteers had 16 images to work from. he more photographs you have,
the more potential you have to create more 3d points and have a denser cloud,
In 2003, the National Museum of Iraq was looted during the invasion, and widespread looting of sites such as the Palace of Ashurnasipal II at Nimrud occurred,
'As well as being used in gaming and interactive cinema, the technology can also be used in real-world applications, such in medicine, education, virtual tourism and for conferences.
'Beyond gaming, we are even working with schools and institutions, enabling people with physical disabilities to play the piano,
A company called Emotiv adapted a $499 (£324) gaming headset that lets wearers control on-screen and physical objects with their brain as part of a racing game.
rife with child pornography, drug deals and human trafficking. But because it is buried'so deep it is considered out of the reach of mainstream search engines and many law enforcement agencies-until now.
the UK government said a specialist unit was being set up to hunt down paedophiles using the dark net to share child pornography.
The National Crime Agency and the Government communications headquarters (GCHQ) will use advances in analysing images and communications to trace the'digital footprints'left by the users who share them.
The National Crime Agency estimates that around 20,000 people from the UK use secret or encrypted networks each day.
'Figures compiled by the National Crime Agency suggest that use of the dark net rose by two thirds in 2012.
However, in a recent investigation, GCHQ and the NCA were able to track down a British man who had been maintaining chat rooms
and websites in the Far east and Eastern europe that were used to share child pornography around the world.
Analysis by experts at GCHQ allowed them to trace the man and he was sentenced later to three years in prison for making
However, this also means only the owner of the card-not even their friends or family-will be able to get money from these cash machines.
you can alter the quality of the music you are listening to at a gig.
stadiums and flights) where you can control and curate what happening in real time.'
#World's first BIOLIMB created: Dead arm'brought back to life'in the lab could allow amputees to grow replacement limbs In a world first,
Palaeontologists found the rare soft tissue on eight dinosaur fossils that have spent more than a century in storage at the Natural history Museum in London.
and has only ever been found in extremely well preserved samples subject to unusual conditions after death.
muscle and blood would quickly decay away after death leaving just the harder bones to mineralise
#Death of a white blood cell: Exploding cells captured on film for first time-shedding light on how our immune system works A key component of the body defence against disease has been captured on film for the first time.
rogrammed cell death occurs throughout life in essentially all tissues in the human body as part of the normal process of development and death,
but just 29 have species that will grow in laboratory cultures. The team has named now 20 the new phyla they identified after award-winning microbiologists
But these associations did not reach statistical significance in all the studies evaluated. Moderate-quality findings suggest that cannabinoids may be beneficial for the treatment of chronic neuropathic or cancer pain,
The Georgia Institute of technology system focuses on the gaming terrain (not the playable character) and the positioning between elements on-screen be it pipes
#The armbands for adults: Kingii emergency wristband inflates to save wearers from drowning Everyone knows it possible to drown in even shallow and calm waters,
wearable water security device ever createdand its ultimate aim is to cut the number of deaths by drowning,
'The neuron initially firing to Jennifer Aniston started firing to the Eiffel Tower at the time the subject started remembering this association.'
The process offers hope to adults whose hair cells have been damaged by excessive noise, disease or exposure to certain drugs, including some antibiotics.
and a drug-screening tool to make pregnancies safer.''We believe it is the first example illustrating the process of a developing human heart chamber in vitro,
which drugs are dangerous during pregnancy.''Published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers used biochemical and biophysical cues to prompt stem cells to differentiate
'Each year, as many as 280,000 pregnant women are exposed to drugs with evidence of potential fetal risk.
and the potential for generating cardiac defects is of utmost concern in determining drug safety during pregnancy.'
'Modeling early heart development is difficult to achieve in a petri dish and tissue culture plates,
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