and smooth muscles cells and having the cells culture for a period of up to two weeks in a static bioreactor.
which was named recently esign of the Year"by London Design Museum, is called organs-on-chips
The results are reported in a paper published online by the Journal of Nanophotonics on May 21. hey are certainly smaller than any of the spirals wee found reported in the scientific literature,
On either face of a silicon wafer, they etch dense arrays of tiny rectangular columns tens of micrometers across
A scanning electron micrograph of the new microfiber emitters, showing the arrays of rectangular columns etched into their sides.
On either face of a silicon wafer, they etch dense arrays of tiny rectangular columns tens of micrometers across
A scanning electron micrograph of the new microfiber emitters, showing the arrays of rectangular columns etched into their sides.
fine-pitch vertical interconnects (micro pillar with solder) and specific finishing for 3d integration like under-bump metallurgy (UBM).
These 3d modules will enable a wide panel of new, full 3d architectures, like multiple-die stacking with flip-chip, side-by-side heterogeneous integration,
Rice has respected highly schools of Architecture, Business, Continuing Studies, Engineering, Humanities, Music, Natural sciences and Social sciences and is home to the Baker Institute for Public Policy.
"In the past, people have used impedance spectroscopy for cell cultures or relatively simple measurements in tissue. What makes this unique is extending that to detect
In combination with innovative quantitative approaches and numerical simulations, they were also able to define the genome architecture at the nanoscale.
they observed key differences in the chromatin fibre architectures of both cells. Pia Cosma group leader and ICREA research professor at the CRG explains,
and destroying norovirus Hansman's research team recently discovered that a"nanobody"called Nano-85 was able to bind to intact norovirus-like particles (VLPS) in culture.
Stoddart is the Board of trustees Professor of Chemistry in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences."
May 19th, 2015nnco and Museum of Science fiction to Collaborate on Nanotechnology and 3d printing Panels at Awesome Con May 19th, 201 0
Uncovering the real history of art using a graphene scanner Museum curators, art restorers, archaeologists and the broader public will soon be able to learn much more about paintings and other historic objects,
thanks to an EU project which has become a pioneer in noninvasive art exploration techniques, based on a graphene scanner.
have developed a graphene scanner that can explore under the surface of a painting, or through the dirt covering an ancient object unearthed in an archaeological dig,
or previous paintings that have remained hidden beneath a particular artwork, the scanner, together with postprocessing techniques,
Solvents and their potential side effects are progressively being replaced by the likes of lasers, to removed dirt and varnish from paintings.
Limestone-producing bacteria can be used to fill cracks in sculptures. INSIDDE is taking a step further in this direction by using terahertz,
and cannot reach the intermediate layers between the gesso and the varnish in paintings, or other characteristic elements in ceramics.
and tablet app to be exploited by local and regional museums. The app is currently being trialled at one of the partners
the Asturias Fine art Museum in Oviedo. It shows the different layers of the painting the visitor is looking at
and provides additional information and audio. Unexpected results Although the scanner is still in its trial and calibration phase,
Marta Flórez, of the Asturias Fine art Museum, explained: sing the prototype, we have been able to distinguish clearly between different pigments,
which in some cases will avoid having to puncture the painting in order to find out what materials the artist used.
The prototype is also being validated with some recently unearthed 3rd century pottery from the Stara Zagora regional history museum in Bulgaria.
When the project ends in December 2015, one of the options the consortium is assessing is putting this cost-effective solution at the service of smaller local and regional museums without art restoration departments so that they too,
like the bigger museums, can make important discoveries about their collections c
#Researchers develop new way to manufacture nanofibers Abstract: Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed an inexpensive way to manufacture extraordinarily thin polymer strings commonly known as nanofibers.
when we used an inverted architecture, where the light enters through a transparent negative electrode,
we found that the cell with the inverted architecture had better efficiency, which is abnormal for cells of the type we built.
A nano array image of Vermeer famous painting irl with a Pearl Earring which brilliantly displays her ruby lips
In fact, this type of structure and material architecture allows flexibility and freedom in the design of batteries,
Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) E
#Leti Demos New Process to Fabricate High-brightness Micro-LED Arrays for Next-gen Head-mounted and Head up displays:
"They are certainly smaller than any of the spirals we've found reported in the scientific literature,
such as electrically conducting, high temperature stable, very soft and stretchable architecture, and could thus be interesting for several technological applications,
Literature reference News and information Designer electronics out of the printer: Optimized printing process enables custom organic electronics June 16th, 2015pixelligent Closes $3. 4 Million in Funding:
and characterized the nanoscale architectures using electron microscopy at CFN and x-ray scattering at the National Synchrotron Light source--both DOE Office of Science User Facilities.
making custom architectures challenging,"said lead author Pawel Majewski, a postdoctoral researcher at Brookhaven.""Our laser technique forces the materials to assemble in a particular way.
the polymer snaps back to the initial architecture and retains the remaining drug molecules.""For each different drug the team would need to find the corresponding optimal electromagnetic field for its release,
Gao first had to figure out how to grow polypyrrole in a long vertical architecture, which allows it to hold larger amounts of a drug
"We estimate yields on the order of grams per liter from batch cultures under optimized conditions,
###About Chalmers University of Technologychalmers University of Technology performs research and education in technology, science and architecture, with a sustainable future as overall vision.
Now, results of a study led by Johns Hopkins investigators suggests that a device composed of a magnetic column paired with custom-made magnetic nanoparticles may hold a key to bringing immunotherapy into widespread and successful clinical use.
They then ran the plasma through a magnetic column. The tumor-fighting T cells bound to aapcs and stuck to the sides of the column,
while other cells washed straight through and were discarded. The magnetic field of the column activated the T cells,
which were washed then off into a nourishing broth, or culture, to grow and divide. After one week, their numbers had expanded by an estimated 5, 000 to 10,000 times.
Because numbers of these cells could be expanded quickly enough to be therapeutically useful the approach could open the door to individualized immunotherapy treatments that rely on a patient's own cells,
"The aapcs and magnetic column together provide the foundation for simplifying and streamlining the process of generating tumor-specific T cells for use in immunotherapy,
The peptide-appended pillar 5 arenes (PAP) are also more easily produced and aligned than carbon nanotubes, another material under investigation for membrane separation.
has been discovered by researchers at Temple University and the University of Maryland. The researchers, Harsh Deep Chopra, professor and chair of mechanical engineering at Temple,
and Manfred Wuttig, professor of materials science and engineering at Maryland, published their findings in Nature("Non-Joulian Magnetostriction").
who also runs the Materials Genomics and Quantum Devices Laboratories at Temple's College of Engineering.
The researchers studied the squeezed B cells in culture and found that they could expand antigen-specific T cells at least as well as existing methods using antibody-coated beads.
#New anotechnology promises to make surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy simpler (Nanowerk News) From airport security detecting explosives to art historians authenticating paintings,
paintings, environmental contaminants and more. The technology (depicted above) consists of a thin film of silver or aluminum that acts as a mirror,
Postdoctoral fellow Fuun Kawano, Associate professor Moritoshi Sato and their research group at the Graduate school of Arts
In fact, this type of structure and material architecture allows flexibility and freedom in the design of batteries,"Hamedi.
that we can culture the entire construct over prolonged periods of time, and that we can repopulate the vascular system and musculature."
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,
Haglund Lab/Vanderbilt) They are certainly smaller than any of the spirals weve found reported in the scientific literature,
"We were able to demonstrate that we could make this scaffold and culture cells within it,
"In an article published in Scientific Reports("Direct laser-writing of ferroelectric single-crystal waveguide architectures in glass for 3d integrated optics),
called Body-on-a-Chip (BOC), replacing the 2d cell culture conventionally used for drugs testing with a multi-tissue device that better mimics real-life conditions in the body, by combining several organ
-specific 3d cultures into a single chip. Researchers then created a prototype BOC to assess the toxicological risk of new candidate compounds
The problem with this is that 2d cell cultures can lose their functionality within about 48 hours, in the case of liver cells for instance
Scientists on the BOC project loaded 3d cell cultures (spheroid micro-tissues representative of human organs such as the liver or heart) into compartments connected by tiny tubes,
This metabolite toxicity can't be detected by classic 2d culture. Commercial multi-tissue device could be ready in three years A device comprising rat cells,
and they developed early prototypes with six and eight compartments that the project demonstrated could be extended to human cell cultures. arly-stage backing from the EU has helped really us develop a robust prototype
For example, the researchers stacked thousands of drops to form micro-pillars with a height of 2 millimetres and a diameter of 5 micrometres.
According to their paper, their 3-D organ outperforms existing 2-D cultures and can produce activated B cells up to 100 times faster.
In nature, nacre is made a nanocomposite of layers of inorganic microtablets laminated by different biopolymers that stabilize the architecture.
and characterized the nanoscale architectures using electron microscopy at CFN and x-ray scattering at the National Synchrotron Light Sourceoth DOE Office of Science User Facilities.
making custom architectures challenging,"said lead author Pawel Majewski, a postdoctoral researcher at Brookhaven.""Our laser technique forces the materials to assemble in a particular way.
and a little bit more comprehensive than some of the other designs that might be reported in the literature.
So they set about designing a nanostructure architecture that could provide more bang for the buck. Having previously used plasmonic materials to generate color prints at the optical diffraction limit by carefully varying the nanostructure size and spacing
"We estimate yields on the order of grams per liter from batch cultures under optimized conditions,
which are arranged in a ringlike architecture. They contain a transportation channel, through which small molecules can pass unobstructed,
more cidicor asic, depending on the curvature in the 3-D carbon architecture
#Atomic force microscope advance leads to new breast cancer research (Nanowerk News) Researchers who developed a high-speed form of atomic force microscopy have shown how to image the physical properties of live breast cancer cells,
"Mirkin is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and professor of medicine, chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering and materials science and engineering.
and architectures where spin currents are generated without ferromagnetic materials, which have been the centerpiece of all spin-based electronic devices up until this point.
Toward Developing High-performance Graphene-Based Architectures for Energy storage devices"."The conundrum researchers have faced in developing miniature energy storage devices,
ISEM Phd student Monirul Islam said. ut the biggest challenge is to charge storage in a small volume as well as being able to deliver that charge quickly on demand.
a team of Phd students, led by Dr Konstantin Konstantinov under the patronage of ISEM Director Professor Shi Xue Dou and with the support of Professor Hua Kun Liu,
Phd student Monirul Islam said. etting the proportions or ratios of the components appropriately in order to obtain a composite material with maximum energy storage performance was another challenge.
The peptide-appended pillar 5 arenes (PAP) are also more easily produced and aligned than carbon nanotubes, another material under investigation for membrane separation.
adds Sridhar, the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics and director of Northeasterns Electronic Materials Research Institute.
Daniel Altman, senior economic editor at Foreign policy magazine and an adjunct professor at New york University's Stern School of business, called the bailouts"stupid"in a recent column."
as guinea pigsvicious vaccine culture war now being waged against informed, intelligent Americans who seek to protect their children from deadly side effects131 Ways for an Infant to Die:
and a host of other pathogens in cell cultures. If the compound behaves similarly in people
A RIKEN team has succeeded in developing a culture method that allows human embryonic stem cells to be efficiently
After a few weeks in culture these cells would spontaneously self-assemble into three-dimensional retinal tissue.
refined and improved this culture technique through precisely timed treatment with a regulatory protein called BMP4.
and help contribute to retinal tissue growth in the culture dish. This degree of cellular organization is the closest scientists have yet come to building self-growing retinal tissue from stem cells. ur results are consistent with the current view that the retinal pigment epithelium
and neural retina are capable of ate transition says Eiraku. y examining retinal formation in culture,
and his colleagues could one day be used to culture tissue that can be transplanted into a human retina damaged by conditions such as macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa,
We recently reported the ability of human embryonic stem cells (hescs) to self-organize stratified NR using a three-dimensional culture technique.
First, we developed a culture method for selective NR differentiation by timed MP4 treatment. We then found that inhibiting GSK3
gradually the new networks could explain more experiments in the database comprising most of the known planarian experimental literature regarding head vs. tail regeneration.
-or neuro-stimulating drugs. e were able to demonstrate that we could make this scaffold and culture cells within it,
It is often possible for music to reactivate memories, emotions and impressions. In some cases, patients are able to sing lyrics of songs even
The chosen musical excerpts were combined with totally unknown but characteristically similar pieces of music in groups of three.
a sound understanding of the complex relationships could lead to a real therapeutic benefit of music in patient care,
a process known as staple isotope labeling of amino acids in cell cultures and live mice. When examining the nerve cells,
assistant professor of Biology in the UM College of Arts and Sciences and a senior author of the study. hese data support a critical role for SLC25A46 and mitochondrial dynamics in the establishment and maintenance of neuronal processes.
Before its retreat, the Syrian army evacuated as much of Palmyra's population as possible, together with the museum collections,
This retains all the intricate architecture of the original organ. In the case of the rat forearm, this included the collagen structures that make up blood vessels, tendons, muscles and bones.
"We've failed so far to find drugs to treat diarrhea using cell culture models
Anthem, said hackers broke into a database with personal information about 80 million of its customers.
#Hackers Strike Health insurer Anthem The country's second-biggest health insurer says cyberattackers infiltrated one of its IT systems
"wrote Anthem CEO Joe Swedish in a letter to the company's policyholders.""No credit card information was compromised,
About 80 million of Anthem's customers and employees are affected by the incursion which was discovered last week,
and Anthem says it has hired a cybersecurity firm to examine its systems and recommend solutions.
Anthem offers Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in California, New york and other states and is headquartered in Indianapolis.
One in nine Americans receives coverage for his medical care through Anthem's affiliated plans, according to a statement on its website e
But George Church a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical school, has created a bacterium that requires an additional amino acid,
"Church says. These modified E coli bacteria essentially speak a different genetic language from all other life On earth.
"Church says. The scientists say this radical re-engineering actually makes these synthetic life forms safer,
Church says that if his lab had modified just one trait, the bacteria would have a one in a million chance of getting rid of this safety feature.
"Church says, pointing to an episode at Genzyme Corp.,a Cambridge, Mass.,pharmaceutical manufacturer, in 2009.
Isaacs left Church's lab at Harvard to start his own at Yale. He has kept pace with his former boss.
and Church says it's important to engineer in safety features as they go o
#How Streaming Is Changing Music There was a moment in the mid-2000s when it seemed like we might be collecting songs, one-by-one, into eternity.
The era of streaming music is upon us and if you need writing on the wall,
turn to the relentless coverage of Apple's acquisition of Beats Music, a subscription service that is scheduled to be rolled into the itunes platform sometime this year, possibly as soon as next week.
we're going to examine the world of streaming music that is upon us in a series called Streaming At The Tipping Point.
But streaming music has unlocked other new questions for the musician and fan alike: of ownership, of taste and of morality.
What role do listeners play in ensuring the life of music and the livelihood of musicians?
Over digital music's 30-year evolution, from the public introduction of the compact disc in 1981 to the international expansion of Spotify in the last half-decade, the question of whether listeners owned the music they purchased got murkier.
In an earlier era, there was no such question buying a vinyl record meant you could listen to the music until you wore it out,
You weren't buying the music itself when you purchased an album or a song,
In this way, streaming music suggests the passing of two eras: the digital download, but also the concept that fans might possess music itself.
No format lives forever. The LP, the cassette, the CD, the MP3 each one dominated the market for about 15 years before ceding to the next technological advance.
According to the company own literature these devices can provide a field of view as wide as 120 degrees, a critical factor for endoscopy applications.
"commented Karin Roesch of MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture Group.""In traditional approaches, where the image of a fixation target passes through only one point of the pupil
a collaborative program between the LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad and the MIT Media Lab Camera Culture group,
Papal encyclical is a letter from the Pope to bishops sent with an aim to help guide church teachings for the world's Catholics
3-D cell cultures and engineered tissue constructs; as well as imaging 3-D dynamics in microfluidics and flow-cell cytometry systems.
Each rainbow-colored bar is the fluorescent spectrum from a discrete point in a cell culture.
Harvard professor of genetics George Church previously used this DNA method to print 70 million copies of his book to DNA, fitting all that data in a drop of liquid,
#Superfast Lasers Create A Hologram You Can Touch The halls of science fiction are decorated well with dreams of hologramsules Verne introduced holography to literature in 1893 with The Castle of the Carpathians,
with a premium matte finish and the Zappi logo on the temple. Lightweight, comfortable and fashionable
Similar to the way that upbeat music can motivate the body, while downbeat music relaxes;
doppel provides a tactile beat to the wearer's wrist that they can adjust to make themselves feel more alert or relaxed."
So, in the same way that upbeat music can excite you or bring you up,
a square array with 100 nano-spirals on a side is less than 0. 01 mm wide. hey are certainly smaller than any of the spirals wee found reported in the scientific literature,
gradually the new networks could explain more experiments in the database comprising most of the known planarian experimental literature regarding head vs. tail regeneration.
GHOST researchers are also working with deformable interfaces such as pads and sponges for musicians to flex to control timbre, speed and other parameters in electronic music.
and broken down by column, row or individually, in order to visualize it better. The researchers have also been working with orphees flexible mobile devices with lycra or alloy displays
the researchers used cell cultures and mice to study the effects of sialylated Fc regions binding to B cells.
but your own hearing is better in terms of range of frequencies, nuance for hearing voices, music and background noise,
Shaped like little smiling fish-a symbol of luck in Cambodian culture-these inexpensive iron lumps are about 7. 5 centimetres long
which serves as a red flag waved at the immune system,"Rachel Feltman reports for The Washington post."
and religion rarely get along. Angry atheist and esteemed biologist Richard Dawkins thinks that religion is for idiots,
and philosopher Sam Harris has written that here are few modes of thinking less congenial to religious faith than science is."
Gen 1: 28), has encouraged the unbridled exploitation of nature by painting him as domineering and destructive by nature.
This is not a correct interpretation of the Bible as understood by the Church. Although it is true that we Christians have interpreted at times incorrectly the Scriptures,
"With this encyclical, Francis is starting to build a bridge between science and religion on the traditional wedge issue of climate change.
The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think that we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focusing on what wee really good at,
which is theology and morality.""Yet that precisely what Francis is arguing-that scientific reasoning
and that includes religion and the language particular to it.""If Francis can get the organisation he leads to follow him on this issue,
The future of television is millions of people simultaneously rage quiting Game of Thrones with their minds every time religion burns a child i
anybody who seen even a small amount of science fiction cinema made in the last 30 years knows wee on dangerous ground here.
3d XPOINT speeds are enabled by its ultra-dense transistor-less architecture, which its makers describe as a hree-dimensional checkerboard where memory cells sit at the intersection of words lines and bit lines Don worry,
The range in which the 3d effect can be experienced can be tuned according to the local requirements. 3d movies in the cinema only show two different pictures--one for each eye.
Today's 3d cinema movies can be converted into our 3d format but we expect that new footage will be created especially for our displays--perhaps with a much larger number of cameras says Franz Fiedler CTO of Trilite Technologies.
The work also relies on a specialized software architecture known as deep-learning neural networks. While this approach is not new it requires lots of processing power to work well
and monitoring growth of tissue cultures, and networks for 3d electronic systems that can bend and shape themselves to the organs of the human body.
three-dimensional architectures by compressive buckling, "include Yan, Kyungin Jang, Wen Huang, Haoran Fu, Jeonghyun Kim, Zijun Wei, Matthew Flavin, Joselle Mccracken, Renhan Wang, Adina Badea, Yuhao
I went to check the literature to see if anyone's really described multiple-synapse spines before.
Called the Bazan Effect in the literature with the discovery of NDP1 another piece of the puzzle fell into place.
#Major breakthrough in reading ancient scrolls A breakthrough not only in digital imaging techniques the first-of-its-kind software could also have profound impacts on history and literature.
Seales says that each scroll may well be the only remaining copy as of yet unknown literature from the Classical era.
and decipher these ancient scrolls will propel other efforts forward leading to an even greater impact on our understanding of classical history and literature and revolutionary digital imaging.
The research was funded through a grant from Texas Tech's College of Arts and Sciences.
and people are raising red flags about antibiotic resistance all the time Smith said. Microbes are pretty promiscuous with their genetic information
Canine tumors are known to be similar to human tumors in architecture and canines get the same types of tumors as humans.
Overtext Web Module V3.0 Alpha
Copyright Semantic-Knowledge, 1994-2011