Professor Guido Franzoso from the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London who led the research said:
-B pathway with our DTP3 peptide therapeutic selectively kills myeloma cells could offer a completely new approach to treating patients with certain cancers such as multiple myeloma Professor Franzoso said.
and other drug candidates based on Professor Franzoso's research with support from Imperial Innovations a technology commercialisation company focused on developing the most promising UK academic research.
The significant progress made by Professor Franzoso in multiple myeloma is one of the many cancers we believe his signal transduction research could be applied to.
and measured adds co-senior author Eleftheria Maratos-Flier MD HMS Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism at BIDMC.
It quickly grew into an effort involving two Ph d. microbiologists a talented graduate student and several analytical biochemists.
Professor Jia-Yi Li's research team has now been able to track this process further from the gut to the brain in rat models.
or stop the disease at an earlier stage says Professor Jia-Yi Li research group leader for Neural Plasticity and Repair at Lund University.
It is a ferromagnetic superconductor says Professor Dirk Johrendt of the Department of chemistry. This is an important advance
and a Ph d. student in Gu lab. Each nano-cocoon is made of a single strand of DNA that self-assembles into
Co-authors include Yue Lu a Ph d. student in Gu lab; Margaret Reiff an undergraduate student in the joint biomedical engineering department;
Tianyue Jiang a Ph d. student in the joint biomedical engineering department and at the China Pharmaceutical University;
and Dr. Ran Mo a former postdoctoral researcher in the joint biomedical engineering department now at the China Pharmaceutical University.
The separator is made of the same material used in plastic bottles said graduate student Denys Zhuo co-lead author of the study.
NTU professor Rachid Yazami who was the co-inventor of the lithium-graphite anode 34 years ago that is used in most lithium-ion batteries today said Prof Chen's invention is the next
The research team behind the finding led by MIT professor Ju Li says the work could have important implications for the design of components in nanotechnology such as metal contacts for molecular electronic circuits.
But the results should apply to many different metals says Li senior author of the paper and the BEA Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering.
The phenomenon of plasticity by interfacial diffusion was proposed first by Robert L. Coble a professor of ceramic engineering at MIT
The work reported in this paper is first-class says Horacio Espinosa a professor of manufacturing and entrepreneurship at Northwestern University who was involved not in this research.
Ingber is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital as well as professor of bioengineering at Harvard School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS.
The idea for the coating evolved from SLIPS a pioneering surface technology developed by coauthor Joanna Aizenberg Ph d. who is a Wyss Institute Core Faculty member and the Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials science at Harvard SEAS.
With the help of co-author David R. Smith the James B. Duke Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer engineering at Duke they used computer simulations to determine the exact size of the gap needed between the nanocubes
A nine-member research team led by Chemical engineering Professor Zhenan Bao detailed two medical applications of this technology in Nature Communications.
Former Stanford graduate students Lisa Chen and Benjamin C-K Tee designed and modeled the physics behind the device
Alex Chortos graduate student in the department of materials science and engineering made the wireless device more robust and reusable.
When the engineers sought collaborators to test the device in potentially useful applications H.-S. Philip Wong a professor of electrical engineering connected them with Victor Tse a neurosurgeon and consulting associate professor at Stanford School of medicine.
In a separate effort Dr. Michael Mcconnell a professor of cardiovascular medicine used the device to take a wireless pulse reading as a proof of principle that the technology could be applied to pressures having to do with blood circulation.
I think epigenetics is a new frontier of cancer research says Brian Strahl Ph d. a professor of biochemistry and biophysics in the UNC School of medicine.
Strahl and graduate student Glenn Wozniak focused on one of the proteins that add these chemical tags--a protein called Bre1
said TSRI Professor M. Reza Ghadiri, senior author of the new study with TSRI Assistant professor of Chemistry Luke Leman. his research clears a big step toward clinical implementation of new therapies.
A Surprising Finding In collaboration with Linda Curtiss, formerly a faculty member at TSRI, and Bruce Maryanoff, formerly at Johnson & johnson and currently a visiting scholar at TSRI, the researchers tested this synthetic peptide in a mouse model prone to atherosclerosis.
Work the microbiome was pioneered by Washington University scientists led by Jeffrey Gordon MD the Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor and director of the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology.
Monica Turner UW-Madison professor of zoology and study lead author Peter Blank a postdoctoral researcher in her lab hope the findings help drive decisions that benefit both birds
and designed said Peng Yin senior author of the paper Wyss Core Faculty member and Assistant professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical school.
and Europe where the governments should encourage people to have said more children Mason an economics professor at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.
Study author Professor Charles Swanton at Cancer Research UK's London Research Institute and the UCL Cancer Institute said:
The Centre--where Professor Swanton is joint centre lead--is a key part of Cancer Research UK's renewed focus to beat lung cancer;
Professor Nic Jones Cancer Research UK's chief scientist said: This fascinating research highlights the need to find better ways to detect lung cancer earlier
but the patient couldn't said Yokoyama the Sam and Audrey Loew Levin Professor of Medicine.
#Unstoppable magnetoresistance Mazhar Ali a fifth-year graduate student in the laboratory of Bob Cava the Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry at Princeton university has spent his academic career discovering new superconductors materials
Intrigued Ali worked with Jun Xiong a student in the laboratory of Nai Phuan Ong the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Princeton to re-measure the material's magnetoresistance
"said Melton, Harvard's Xander University Professor and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.""We've given these cells three separate challenges with glucose in mice
Elaine Fuchs, the Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor at Rockefeller University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator who is involved not in the work,
the Samuel A. Goldblith Professor of Applied Biology, Associate professor in the Department of Chemical engineering, the Institute of Medical Engineering and Science,
and autism-spectrum disorder can have profound lifelong effects on learning and memory but relatively little is known about the molecular pathways affected by these diseases.
the Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical Biology (in Biomedical Informatics and the Institute for Cancer Genetics), chair of the Department of Systems Biology,
C/EBPD, had already been identified by the labs of Dr. Califano and of Antonio Iavarone, MD, professor of neurology and of pathology & cell biology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics),
and repressing gene expression. or the first time we see that the structure of the chromosomes contributes to gene controlsays Whitehead Member Richard Young who is also a professor of biology at MIT. n the past there have been all kinds of ideas around how the structure might affect gene control
Lead scientist Professor Tim Gershon from The University of Warwick's Department of physics explains: Gravity describes the universe on a large scale from galaxies to Newton's falling apple
and electromagnetic interactions but the strength of the strong interaction makes it impossible to solve the equations in the same way Calculations of strong interactions are done with a computationally intensive technique called Lattice QCD says Professor Gershon.
what the particle is adds Professor Gershon. Therefore it provides a benchmark for future theoretical calculations.
Warwick Ph d. student Daniel Craik who worked on the study adds Perhaps the most exciting part of this new result is that it could be the first of many similar discoveries with LHC data.
"said Josh Andersen, a BYU chemistry professor.""The idea would be to make tumors more chemo-sensitive.
But the BYU team, comprised mainly of undergraduate students, stumbled into the race unexpectedly, coming at it from a different direction.
"says Andreas Ostmann, a graduate of physics and the group manager at IZM. The advantage for traffic signal detection:
"The ENIGMA Consortium is led by Professor Paul Thompson based at the University of California, Los angeles, and contains brain images and gene information from nearly 25,000 subjects.
The Mouse Brain Library, established by Professor Robert Williams based at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center,
"said Subinoy Das, MD, an adjunct professor of otolaryngology at Ohio State's College of Medicine,
who is also a professor of Pediatrics and Otolaryngology at Ohio State's College of Medicine."
and collaborated closely with Max Ortiz Catalan and Professor Bo Håkansson at Chalmers University of Technology on this project.
"said Dr. Steven Marso, Medical Director of Interventional Cardiology and Professor of Internal medicine.""People who wouldn't have had an option for treatment now have an option for treatment,
#Smartphone understands hand gestures Professor Otmar Hilliges and his staff at ETH Zurich have developed a new app enabling users to operate their smartphone with gestures.
All this gesturing wizardry is made possible by a new type of algorithm developed by Jie Song a Master's student in the working group headed by by Otmar Hilliges Professor of Computer science.
and with Dr. James Munro, who was Dr. Blanchard's first graduate student and who is now an assistant professor at Tufts University School of medicine.
professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell.""The antibodies used in the crystallography study are ones that we observed to stop the dance of the HIV envelope proteins,
But diagnosed in time it can be cured in 9 out of 10 cases said Professor Serge Haan from the Life science Research Unit at the University of Luxembourg.
"said Professor Steve Evans, from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds and a co-author of the paper.
a Phd student from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds and the lead author of the research paper.
Ph d.,(research assistant professor of biochemistry) and Michael Kay, M d.,Ph d.,(professor of biochemistry). Key contributions to this work were provided by Dr. John Dye's laboratory at the U s army Medical Research Institute of Infectious diseases (USAMRIID), the lab of Christopher P. Hill, D. Phil.
professor and co-chair of the U of U Department of Biochemistry, and a group led by Brett Welch, Ph d. at Navigen, Inc.,a Salt lake city pharmaceutical discovery and development company.
Specifically principal investigator Albert R. La Spada MD Phd professor of cellular and molecular medicine chief of the Division of Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics and associate director of the Institute for Genomic
Dynamic encryption keeps secrets Professor Lars Ramkilde Knudsen from DTU Compute has invented a new way to encrypt telephone conversations that makes it very difficult to'eavesdrop'.
This is a brief definition of dynamic encryption, the brainchild of Professor Lars Ramkilde Knudsen from DTU.
This enables us to answer a very specific question right here in the lab. The uncharted genome sequences have been a point of contention in scientific circles for more than a decade according to Maggert a Texas A&m faculty member since 2004.
Lead authors of the paper are W c. Lee a former graduate student at the National University of Singapore and SMART and Hui Shi a former SMART postdoc.
Other authors are Jongyoon Han an MIT professor of electrical engineering and biological engineering SMART researchers Zhiyong Poon L. M. Nyan and Tanwi Kaushik and National University of Singapore
faculty members G. V. Shivashankar J. K. Y. Chan and C. T. Lim. Physical markersmscs make up only a small percentage of cells in the bone marrow.
and it never works the first time said Krisna Bhargava materials science graduate student at the USC Viterbi School of engineering.
and materials science professor Noah Malmstadt and biomedical engineering graduate student Bryant Thompson designed computer models for eight modular fluidic and instrumentation components (MFICS pronounced em-fix) that would each perform a simple operation.
MFICS will vastly increase the productivity of a single grad student postdoc or lab tech by enabling them to build their own instruments right in the lab
Rice graduate student Abdul-Rahman Raji is lead author of the paper. Co-authors are Rice graduate student Errol Samuel and researcher Sydney Salters, a student at Second Baptist School, Houston;
Rice alumnus Yu Zhu, now an assistant professor at the University of Akron, Ohio; and Vladimir Volman, an engineer at Lockheed martin. Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of computer science.
He is a member of the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology.
Our idea is to create a biosensor that can transmit electrical signals through the membrane said María José Retamal a Ph d. student at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and first author of the paper.
Dr David Barford who led the study as Professor of Molecular biology at The Institute of Cancer Research London before taking up a new position at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular biology in Cambridge said:
Professor Paul Workman Interim Chief executive of The Institute of Cancer Research London said: The fantastic insights into molecular structure provided by this study are a vivid illustration of the critical role played by fundamental cell biology in cancer research.
"Tour is Rice's T. T. and W. F. Chao Chair in Chemistry and professor of mechanical engineering and nanoengineering and of computer science.
graduate students Vera Abramova, Huilong Fei and Gedeng Ruan; and Edwin Thomas, the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of Rice's George R. Brown School of engineering, professor in mechanical engineering and materials science and in chemical and biomolecular engineering g
#Researchers develop harder ceramic for armor windows The Department of defense needs materials for armor windows that provide essential protection for both personnel
and create biochar a highly porous charcoal said project principal investigator Karl Linden professor of environmental engineering.
which includes a team of more than a dozen faculty research professionals and students many working full time on the effort.
Linden is working closely with project co-investigators Professor R. Scott Summers of environmental engineering and Professor Alan Weimer chemical and biological engineering and a team of postdoctoral fellows professionals graduate students undergraduates
and a high school student. We are doing something that has never been done before said Linden.
CU-Boulder team member Elizabeth Travis from Parker Colo. who is working toward a master's degree in the engineering college's Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities said her interest in water
The word I use is blindsiding says limnologist W. Charles Kerfoot a professor of biological sciences at Michigan Tech.
My students were first to show that the tail barbs protected them against fish. When the fish try to eat them they get stuck by the barbs said Kerfoot.
invented at Rice by Tittel, Professor Robert Curl and their collaborators in 2002, offers the possibility that such devices may soon be as small as a typical smartphone.
Co-authors include Rice graduate student Wenzhe Jiang and former Rice Laser Science Group members Przemystaw Stefanski, Rafat Lewicki, Jiawei Zhang and Jan Tarka.
Tittel is the J. S. Abercrombie Professor in Electrical and Computer engineering and a professor of bioengineering.
a member of the Koch Institute and a professor of biological engineering and of materials sciences and engineering, is the paper senior author.
a professor of microbiology at the University of Iowa Carver School of medicine and director of the school Center for Immunology and Immune-Based Diseases, says that this paper presents a reative new approach with considerable potential in the development
developed Cellsqueeze while he was a graduate student in the laboratories of Klavs Jensen, the Warren K. Lewis Professor of Chemical engineering and a professor of materials science and engineering,
and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor and a member of the Koch Institute.
Sharei, Jensen, and Langer are also authors of this paper. In a separate study published last month in the journal PLOS ONE, Sharei and his colleagues first demonstrated that Cellsqueeze can deliver functional macromolecules into immune cells.
says Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in MIT Department of Electrical engineering and Computer science,
and Andrew Spielberg and Stuart Baker, both graduate students in electrical engineering and computer science. Grasping consequencesthe problem the researchers address is one in
the Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at Swiss Federal Institute of technology in Zurich. y biggest concern about their work is that it will ruin one of the things
Thinking small Velásquez-García and his co-authors Philip Ponce de Leon, a former master student in mechanical engineering;
says Reza Ghodssi, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Maryland. Relative to other approaches, he adds,
Vladan Vuletic, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics at MIT, says the ability to tune friction would be helpful in developing nanomachines tiny robots built from components the size of single molecules.
along with graduate students Alexei Bylinskii and Dorian Gangloff, published their results in the journal Science. Learn about the technique MIT physicists developed to simulate friction at the nanoscale.
a professor of physics at the University of Freiburg in Germany, sees the results as a lear breakthroughin gaining insight into therwise inaccessible fundamental physics.
and his students have built a synchronous computer that operates using the unique physics of moving water droplets.
when he was a graduate student. The work combines his expertise in manipulating droplet fluid dynamics with a fundamental element of computer science an operating clock. n this work,
The crucial clock For nearly a decade since he was in graduate school, an idea has been nagging at Prakash:
and in the early stages of the project, Prakash recruited a graduate student, Georgios orgoskatsikis, who is the first author on the paper.
said graduate student and co-author Jim Cybulski. hat lends itself very well to a variety of applications.
and at Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center and led by HSCI principal faculty member Yu-Hua Tseng,
and metabolic disease, said Chad Cowan, an HSCI principal faculty member who, among other things, also studies the therapeutic potential of brown fat cells.
#Safe drinking water Via Solar power Desalination Natasha Wright, an MIT Phd student in mechanical engineering, has designed a solar powered system that makes water safe to drink for rural, off-grid Indian villages.
When graduate student Natasha Wright began her Phd program in mechanical engineering, she had no idea how to remove salt from groundwater to make it more palatable,
says Yet-Ming Chiang, the Kyocera Professor of Ceramics at MIT and a cofounder of 24m (and previously a cofounder of battery company A123).
and colleagues including W. Craig Carter, the POSCO Professor of Materials science and engineering. In this so-called low battery, the electrodes are suspensions of tiny particles carried by a liquid
the Power Sources paper was authored co by graduate student Brandon Hopkins, mechanical engineering professor Alexander Slocum, and Kyle Smith of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the new paper. e need to regulate the input to extract the maximum power,
the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor in Electrical engineering, use an inductor, which is a wire wound into a coil.
The chemistry of life Dr Ivan Powis, Professor of Chemical Physics in the University School of Chemistry, who led the research,
a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at UC San diego and the senior author on the Science paper. ur approach conditions the information before it is sent even,
said UC San diego electrical engineering Ph d. student Eduardo Temprana, the first author on the paper. The frequency comb ensured that the system did not accumulate the random distortions that make it impossible to reassemble the original content at the receiver.
says Moungi Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry at MIT and the paper senior author.
said Jerome Zack, professor of medicine and of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics in the UCLA David Geffen School of medicine and a co-author of the study. ith the CAR approach,
The concept is described in a paper in the journal ACS Applied materials and Interfaces by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Ian W. Hunter, doctoral student Seyed M. Mirvakili,
says Hunter, the George N. Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics in MIT Department of Mechanical engineering, ut it may not be needed for very long.
and future wearable technologies, says Geoff Spinks, a professor of engineering at the University of Wollongong, in Australia,
The team also included Phd student Mehr Negar Mirvakili and professors Peter Englezos and John Madden, all from the University of British columbia s
senior author Robert J. Wood, Charles river Professor of Engineering and Applied sciences at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS) and core faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired
The design builds from previous work of co-author and chemist George Whitesides, the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard.
first author of the paper and a graduate student AT SEAS. he robot stiffness gradient allows it to withstand the impact of dozens of landings
a UCLA professor of chemistry and one of the senior authors of the research. lants do this through photosynthesis with extremely high efficiency. n photosynthesis,
a UCLA professor of chemistry and another senior co-author. his is the first time this has been shown using modern synthetic organic photovoltaic materials.
Yves Rubin, a UCLA professor of chemistry and another senior co-author of the study, led the team that created the uniquely designed molecules. e don have these materials in a real device yet;
The study other co-lead authors were UCLA graduate students Rachel Huber and Amy Ferreira. UCLA Electron Imaging Center for Nanomachines imaged the assembled structure in a lab led by Hong Zhou.
Ferdinand Brandl and Nicolas Bertrand, the two lead authors, are former postdocs in the laboratory of Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT Koch Institute
000 students in the IT industry to ensure the city has the talent it needs, according to an article in IT News Africa.
Students selected for the program will have the opportunity to see smart cities connectivity in action in other countries.
The first group of students is immersed now in an intensive four-month technical training program. During the program launch, Johannesburg Mayor Parks Tau said"This program will go a long way in improving IT skills and expertise in Johannesburg.
and our education to be student-centric, "O'sullivan explains of the growing market opportunity.""Better digital platforms and technology have meant all of this is possible now."
The participants in the event--from officials in various agencies to business leaders in energy and technology to a couple high school students who've pioneered smart meters in their school--all spoke with the enthusiasm you don't typically see at government events.
A recent survey of college students in Colorado (where sending messages from smartphones while driving is not illegal) found that
Hammond is a professor at the Intelligent information Laboratory at Northwestern University, who has built a computer that can create movie reviews by curating text online found on blogs and on Twitter.
While pursuing his JD/MBA at Pepperdine Jason Nazar was the guy in the study group who always had the documents.
Parents recognize that learning Mandarin and starting early--will help their children, she says, It s an investment in their future.
Often a student enrolled will have more reinforcement because one of the parents or grandparents speaks it.
When do most students start to learn a language now? In junior high or high school, which is precisely after the natural window of opportunity to learn a language closes.
What language is most likely to have reinforcement outside the classroom? Which language do you think will give your child the biggest advantage in the future?
We ve seen a shift about the age that parents want their children to start learning.
while he was earning his MBA. Val Babajov, president of Climateminder, says his company's goal is to help agricultural concerns produce the same yield with less water.
While he was in his classroom, we could see his blood glucose via either a simple website
says Richard Stern, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Carnegie mellon University, in Pittsburgh. Music-compression algorithms,
This technique was invented chemistry professor Paul C. Trulove research team at the U s. Naval academy and Hugh C. Delong of the Air force Office of Scientific research.
which were perfected by Drexel University doctoral student Kristy Jost and Commander David P. Durkin at the U s. Naval academy.
said Latha Venkataraman, a professor of applied physics at Columbia, in a press release. onstructing a device where the active elements are only a single molecule has long been a tantalizing dream in nanoscience.
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