#Wastewater treatment Captures Carbon emissions, Produces Energy A wastewater treatment process developed by engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder mitigates carbon dioxide emissions and actively captures greenhouse gases.
#Cleaning water one stroke at a time A material created by University of California, Riverside engineers is the key component of a swimsuit that won an international design competition for its ability to clean water as a person swims.
"said Mihri Ozkan, an electrical engineering professor at UC Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering. Ozkan, along with her husband and fellow engineering professor, Cengiz Ozkan, current Ph d. student, Daisy Patino,
Now, a team of researchers from Oxford and Stony Brook universities has found a way to precisely control these waves-using light.
Dr Emilia Entcheva, from Stony Brook University, said:''The level of precision is reminiscent of what one can do in a computer model,
Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany and at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in the USA recently managed to synthesize two complex chemical substances from wood-based starting materials.
Professor Till Opatz of Mainz University. The results of their research have been published in the prominent journal Angewandte Chemie.
Now a team from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center offers a potential new target to block Notch without the toxic effects.
but preserve its normal function,"says Mark Chiang, M d.,Ph d.,assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical school."
but now the microbe has also found its way to the labs of University of Southern Denmark.
"explains Sara Munk Jensen, Ph d. student at both the Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (Nordcee), Department of biology and the Department of physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark (SDU).
"Also, thanks to the investments in genomics through the University's Academic Plan, Brent Graveley can leverage his expertise
so that faculty and students across our campuses will successfully compete for grant dollars and launch bioscience ventures."
A recent discovery in the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) research laboratory may make it possible to reduce the number of infections from this disease.
A leading neuroscientist at Florida Atlantic University has developed the"Lewy Body Composite Risk Score"(LBCRS) to quickly
and a professor of clinical biomedical science in FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and a professor in FAU's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing."
Now, researchers from Umeå University and University of Gothenburg have identified a molecular switch-MYSM1-that can suppress such an overreaction
research leader at MIMS, Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden at Umeå University. Our innate immune system is activated
Nelson O. Gekara's at Umeå University and his doctoral student Swarup Panda are now closing in on a solution.
Together with Professor Jonas A Nilsson at Sahlgrenska Cancer Center at the University of Gothenburg
'In recent years, Héctor Peinado, Head of the Microenvironment and Metastasis Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), David Lyden from Weill Cornell Medical College,
Ph d.,study author from the Department of Biomedicine, at the University of Bergen in Bergen, Norway."
#New research opens door to understanding human tonsil cancer Researchers at Simon Fraser University and the BC Cancer Agency have developed a groundbreaking method to identify
Over three years, researchers at the University of Cambridge took surgical tumour samples (biopsies) and blood samples from a patient with breast cancer that had already spread to other parts of her body.
#Scientists paint quantum electronics with beams of light A team of scientists from the University of Chicago
Thompson was referred to the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital where doctors had to decide
At the University of Michigan, 3-D printed splints have helped save the lives of babies with severe tracheobronchomalacia
researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen have uncovered now how the protein interacts with other proteins.
professor at the Department of chemistry of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and group leader at the Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, have succeeded now in uncovering precisely this mechanism.
The researchers will be supported by the new NMR Center that is currently under construction at the Garching campus of the Technical University of Munich
#CWRU researcher lands grant to build stealthy brain tumor treatment A Case Western Reserve University researcher has received a 5-year,
Ketan Ghaghada, assistant professor of radiology at Baylor College of Medicine, will guide and oversee the steps taken to translate the research toward clinical trials.
Developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Cambridge-based technology company Novalia,
"Hasan's method, developed at the University's Nanoscience Centre, works by suspending tiny particles of graphene in a'carrier'solvent mixture,
but mostly for graphics printing and packaging,"said Hasan, a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and a University Lecturer in the Engineering Department."
The multi-institutional group includes researchers from Baylor College of Medicine Rice university, Stanford university and the Broad Institute.
An international team of researchers, including Carnegie mellon University President Subra Suresh, Zhiwei Shan and colleagues from Xi'an Jiaotong University in China, Ming Dao and Ju Li from MIT
Giulia Salzano and Federico Benetti) and a group coordinated by the University of Rome"La Sapienza",led by Paola D'Angelo.
and skin cancers Scientists from the University of Granada (UGR) have patented an effective drug for treating cancer stem cells (CSCS) in breast, colon, and skin cancers.
3-D cell growth opens new pathway for spinal cord repair Griffith University researchers have opened a new avenue to advance a therapy to repair the paralysed spinal cord.
and Professor Nam-Trung Nguyen (Queensland Micro-and Nanotechnology Centre) collaborated with Dr Jenny Ekberg (Queensland University of Technology) and scientists in Spain."
but combining neurobiology and engineering at Griffith University has at last found an incredible use for the'round globules,
The Rice lab of chemist James Tour and colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Texas at San antonio and the University of Houston have reported the development of a robust,
and cheaply perform important chemical reactions is reported today by Tufts University researchers in the journal Nature Communications.
"Using an experimental model, researchers from Boston University School of medicine (BUSM) and the University of California,
and a group led by Nobel laureate, Roger Tsein, Phd, from the University of California, San diego that is developing probes to visualize plaques.
Funding for this study was provided by a Boston University Nanomedicine grant and NIH P50hl083801 to James Hamilton and by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and NIH CA158448 to the Roger Tsien group p
and the University of New mexico School of medicine has identified a small molecule that treats animal models of aged macular degeneration (AMD)
MD, Phd, of the University of New mexico, had developed a laboratory screening technique called in vivo phage display
and spread, has been made by an international research team led by scientists at The University of Nottingham.
Lund University in Sweden and Copenhagen University in Denmark, have identified a significant gene called mir137 that is switched off in prostate cancer cells.
Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System have identified a new way of triggering the instructions normally given by the muscle protein dystrophin,
. and Joanne Garbincius, of the University of Michigan Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, found an explanation for this debilitating protein malfunction
"says Michele, senior study author and professor of molecular & integrative physiology and internal medicine at the University of Michigan."
"says Michele whose lab at the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Research center focuses on inherited forms of skeletal and cardiac diseases.
#Controllable protein gates deliver on-demand permeability in artificial nanovesicles Researchers at the University of Basel have succeeded in building protein gates for artificial nano-vesicles that become transparent only under specific conditions.
The experiments performed at the university are part of the National Center of Competence in Research Molecular Systems Engineering (NCCR MSE),
and quantum microchips has been made by team of scientists from Penn State university and the University of Chicago.
Liew Family Professor and deputy director in the Institute of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, will be published on October 9, 2015 in Science Advances, the new online journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
a research team from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW) and the U s. Department of energy's Argonne National Laboratory has confirmed a new way to control the growth paths of graphene nanoribbons on the surface of a germainum crystal.
University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineers have created the fastest, most responsive flexible silicon phototransistor ever made.
#Researchers build nanoscale autonomous walking machine from DNA Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a nanoscale machine made of DNA that can randomly walk in any direction across bumpy surfaces.
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created miniature lenses with vast range of vision. Their new approach created the first-ever flexible Fresnel zone plate microlenses with a wide field of view--a development that could allow everything from surgical scopes to security cameras to capture a broader perspective at a fraction of the size required by conventional lenses.
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created miniature lenses with vast range of vision. Their new approach created the first-ever flexible Fresnel zone plate microlenses with a wide field of view--a development that could allow everything from surgical scopes to security cameras to capture a broader perspective at a fraction of the size required by conventional lenses.
and Ear/Harvard Medical school and Boston University have prevented successfully the development of Parkinson's disease in a mouse using new techniques to deliver drugs across the naturally impenetrable blood-brain barrier.
Eye and Ear and Dr. Xue Han of the Biomedical engineering Department at Boston University. Other authors include Richie E. Kohman, Kevin Guerra, Angela Nocera, Shrestha Ramanlal, Armine H. Kocharyan and William T. Curry.
an associate professor of the Institute of Laser Engineering at Osaka University, in cooperation with Screen Holdings Co.,Ltd.
alginates and fibrins,"said Adam Feinberg, an associate professor of Materials science and engineering and Biomedical engineering at Carnegie mellon University.
"said Jim Garrett, Dean of Carnegie mellon's College of Engineering.""We should expect to see 3-D bioprinting continue to grow as an important tool for a large number of medical applications."
a team of physicists led by The City College of New york and including Herriot-Watt University
and Corning Incorporated is showing how beams from ordinary laser pointers mimic quantum entanglement with the potential of doubling the data speed of laser communication.
"said City College Phd student Giovanni Milione.""Interestingly, a conventional laser beam (a laser pointer)' s shape
Researchers from the University of Michigan working with NASA have developed a material that might add an extra layer of protection from space debris
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) ur quest on Mars has been to ollow the water, in our search for life in the universe,
The researchers, a group of Danish scientists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of British columbia
Btr1 and Btr2, are completely new genetic discoveries and according to Geoff Fincher from the University of Adelaide,
The study was initiated in Japan by a group of geneticists at the Okayama University Institute of Plant Science
and Jarolimkova are studying the Erasmus Mundus Masters program Food Innovation and Product Design, at Lund University and Ngo studies a masters of Mechanical engineering and Industrial Design.
The trio said with retailers, importers, and producers throwing away a lot of food due to strict regulations on the expiration date, it makes more business sense for them to sell their fresh produce having only one day left to Fopo.
and Fopo will then sell the powder back to retailers with an extended shelf life. urrently studying Masters in Food Innovation and Product Design,
First place went to team Innovision from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh who won $10,
"Professor Sels, is of KU Leuven Faculty of Bioscience Engineering (Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis),
and Dr Dusselier, KU Leuven Faculty of Bioscience Engineering (Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis) and California Institute of technology i
are Mengchang Lin (visiting scientist from Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute), Bingan Lu (visiting scientist from Hunan University) and Yingpeng Wu (postdoctoral scholar.
Hwang (National Taiwan Normal University. Here is a video about the development of aluminum-ion battery at Stanfor a
A report just issued by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, suggests a similar problem could befall those riding in autonomous-driving cars.
and economic benefits, says Massoud Amin, chairman of the IEEE Smart Grid and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota.
I was covering a Northwestern University debate on the future of nuclear energy, in which the nuclear critic Arnie Gundersen predicted Tesla new utility-scale battery would render new-build nuclear plants obsolete.
according to a new research report published today by the American Association of University Women (AAUW).
At Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif.,one of the world premier colleges of science, mathematics,
First, the college has made the computer science path more welcoming by revising introductory classes, splitting them into two levels based on experience.
Put another way, Harvey Mudd College made entry into the STEM environment more welcoming to women,
We think those simple changes have applicability not just in college but also in middle school and the workplace.
Calif.,has achieved success by giving middle school girls the opportunity to engage in fun, hands-on projects that require teamwork, problem-solving and attention to detail.
First, medical universities and residency programs rarely have qualified enough instructors, and sometimes lack access to modern curricula and equipment.
Many universities, government health agencies, NGOS, private companies, and doctors around the world are embracing such technologies, sometimes with promising results.
Medical education typically begins with university coursework, and many medical schools now use e-learning tools like webcasts
The University of Washington Department of Global Health is a leader in the use of distance learning technologies for low-resource settings.
a University of New mexico program that pioneered the use of video conferencing for remote training in healthcare,
the University of Toronto is working with Christian Blind Mission a non-governmental organization that helps people with disabilities in developing countries as well as software supplier Autodesk ADSK+0. 17%and the Corsu rehabilitation hospital in Mpigi, Uganda.
Professor Matt Ratto, of the University of Toronto faculty of information, tells Forbes that 3d printing offers faster way to create prosthetics with the time to completion cut rom one week to approximately one
a biophysicist and lecturer at the University of Newcastle and a co-author of the study. ather,
a roboticist at Seoul National University and Harvard university, told Live Science. Now, scientists have solved the mystery of how these insects accomplish these amazing leaps,
director of the Biorobotics Laboratory at Seoul National University, told Live Science.""Natural organisms give a lot of inspiration to engineers."
#A breakthrough in cloak technology just caught the attention of the Defense department Researchers from the University of California-San diego have created a breakthrough invisibility cloak that has caught the attention of the Defense department due to its ability to hide objects from the naked eye.
Using the system devised by the university team, the robot will then set out on a mission,
he added during a report appeared within the university Technology Review n
#Heroin, painkiller addictions go hand-in-hand Heroin use has increased a staggering 63 percent over the last 10 years in the United Statesn increase made all the worse by the growing abuse of prescription opioids such as oxycodone (Percocet
assistant professor of pharmacy practice at Texas A&m University. f someone becomes addicted, they can walk into a safe,
Coauthors Aashish Clerk from Mcgill University and Florian Marquardt from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light proposed a novel method to control the quantum noise,
Other researchers from Penn State and from Carnegie mellon University and the Max Planck Institute at Stuttgart, Germany contributed to the paper.
Researchers from Allen Institute for Artificial intelligence (AI2) and the University of Washington computer science and engineering department shared a paper on the findings at the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural language processing (EMNLP) in Lisbon
involved a vaccine developed by University of Pennsylvania scientist David Weiner that is engineered to teach immune system cells to recognize precancerous and cancerous cells.
a professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design who is also the director of the SUTD Digital Manufacturing
and Women Hospital in Boston and is now an assistant professor of medicine in the nephrology division at the University of Washington. nswering this question was important for understanding the potential of mini-kidneys for clinical kidney regeneration and drug discovery.
the National Kidney Foundation, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative medicine and the Kidney Research Institute, both at the University of Washington,
and the Biomedical Research Centre at the University of British columbia funded the work. Bonventre holds patents on kidney injury molecule-1
Tel aviv University, Iowa State university, and the University of Kentucky. The Army Research Office, the National Science Foundation (NSF),
and the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, funded the work o
and Pavan Atluri, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted the study. Published in the journal Tissue Engineering Part C:
says lead author Jian Feng, professor in the department of physiology and biophysics in the University at Buffalo School of medicine and Biomedical sciences.
and tissues in the body. eng coauthors are from University at Buffalo, and Ruijin Hospital and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of medicine.
Feng also has an appointment at the Veterans Affairs Western New york Healthcare System in Buffalo.
University at Buffal t
#Drug combo shows promise for skin cancer n transitnew melanoma research finds a combination therapy is highly effective at treating patients with skin metastases.
says study leader Emanual Maverakis, an associate professor of dermatology at the University of California, Davis. ur results demonstrate that intralesional therapy with a protein that causes immune cells to divide,
Called Ribo-T, the artificial ribosome was created in the laboratories of Michael Jewett, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering in the Northwestern University Mccormick School of engineering and Applied science
and Alexander Mankin, director of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy Center for Biomolecular Sciences.
Sam Hostettler at the University of Illinois at Chicago contributed to writing of this release.
associate professor of robotics at Carnegie mellon University. e don need new image-processing algorithms, and we don need extra processing to eliminate the noise,
if only briefly, notes Kyros Kutulakos, a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto. ven though wee not sending a huge amount of photons, at short time scales,
Researchers from Korea University-Korea Institute of Science and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, collaborated on the project
#Scientists Identify Molecular Mechanism that Leads to Maturation of Heart Cells A multi-university team of researchers has identified a molecular switch that seems to be essential for embryonic heart cells to grow into more mature, adult-like
"said Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Ph d.,University of Washington professor of biochemistry and senior author of the paper."
"We believe we've now found the master switch that drives the maturation process.""In the months before and after birth, an infant's heart cells undergo dramatic changes.
and easily repeatable test for pancreatic cancer, scientists at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University, have developed a three-protein biomarker panel that can screen urine samples to identify pancreatic cancer
However, researchers from The Hospital for Sick Children (Sickkids) and the Research Institute of the Mcgill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) have uncovered evidence for genetic causes of CP that may precipitate a change in the clinical
However, researchers from The Hospital for Sick Children (Sickkids) and the Research Institute of the Mcgill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) have uncovered evidence for genetic causes of CP that may precipitate a change in the clinical
. Friedman, M d.,Ph d.,at Rockefeller University and the TSRI groups of Ian A. Wilson and Patrick R. Griffin, appears in Chemistry and Biology.
Now, researchers at the University of Chicago have developed what they believe is a novel approach to control the activity of enzymes through the use of synthetic,
The University of Chicago team is currently investigating other enzymes that might benefit from monobody technology,
Yet now, scientists at the University of Buffalo (UB) Hunter James Kelly Research Institute (HJKRI) have developed a new method for
Well, a newly designed test from researchers at the University of Montreal could make it a reality before the next Star trek movie comes to theaters.
"explained senior author Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, Ph d.,professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Montreal."
. postdoctoral scholar at the University of Montreal"Instead of having to fight this basic repulsion effect,
Now, however, scientists at the University of Montreal report that they have developed an efficient technique for producing cone cells from human embryonic stem cells.
a collaborative team of researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGEN), University of Copenhagen, University of British columbia (UBC), Vancouver Coastal Health and the BC Cancer Agency, found that the malaria protein,
"There is some irony that a disease as destructive as malaria might be exploited to treat another dreaded disease,"stated lead author Ali Salanti, Ph d.,professor of immunology and microbiology in the Centre for Medical Parasitology, at the University
#New biosensing platform extends reach of disease diagnosis Researchers at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) have created a cheap and simple biosensing platform that is able to detect the presence of various types of harmful bacteria
especially in developing countries with limited resources,"says Waseem Asghar, Ph d.,assistant professor of electrical engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer science at FAU,
Researchers at Mcmaster University have developed a prototype that could lead to a commercial product in the next few years which helps doctors
Pennsylvania State university and Carnegie mellon University has announced key improvements to its acoustic wave-harnessing cell sorting method unveiled last year.
The system draws on the combined expertise and technology of University of New south wales (UNSW) professor Melissa Knothe Tate
the ICFO team in collaboration with scientists from MIT and the University of California, Riverside utilized an arrangement consisting of graphene film layers set up as a p-n (positive-negative) junction semiconductor, a sub-50 femtosecond, titanium-sapphire,
and Greg Sawicki when they were graduate students together at the University of Michigan in 2007,
Now a group of researchers from Berkeley Lab and Columbia University claims to have created the highest-performing,
This is where the Columbia university scientists claim to have made significant improvements with their new single-molecule diode."
"said Jeffrey Neaton, director of the Berkeley Lab Molecular Foundry and professor at the University of California Berkeley."
and Luis Campos from Columbia University to create their high-performance rectifier diode using junctions prepared from symmetric molecules attached to gold electrodes.
"The combined Berkeley Lab-Columbia University research team is convinced that the way they have managed to produce a single-molecule diode sets the benchmark for future nonlinear nanoscale device tuning and development, with applications above and beyond just
and Diabetes Institute and the University of Melbourne looks to use its powers for good. It sees an already approved clot-busting medication called urokinase (upa) loaded into a newly-developed type of nanocapsule.
While there no word on possible commercialization, VTT may be facing some competition when the time comes Variable Technologies, Sensorcon, Homeland security and the University of California,
and Tsinghua University in China have found a way to more than triple the capacity of the anodes,
Towards this end, researchers from the University of Bristol and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) claim to have developed a fully-reprogrammable quantum optical chip able to encode
and milliseconds for the chip to switch to the new experiment,"said University of Bristol Phd student
the University of Bristol has pioneered the"Quantum in the Cloud"service, which allows public access via the Internet to a working quantum processor,
"said Professor Jeremy O'brien, Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics at Bristol University.""It a model that we need to encourage
That the idea behind The Drinkable Book, developed by Carnegie mellon University postdoc Theresa Dankovich. Each of its pages is made from a thick sheet of paper impregnated with silver and copper nanoparticles,
when she was earning her doctorate at Mcgill University, continuing it at the University of Virginia Center for Global Health.
She has formed now a nonprofit company page Drinking Paper, to get the book into production and distribution.
That's why researchers at Britain's Loughborough University have created a system that speaks words based on the user's breathing.
University of Toronto scientists have developed asymmetrical honeycomb-shaped 2d meshes of protein scaffolding that stick together like Velcro
Now engineers working at the University of California, San diego (UCSD) have come up with a different type of wireless communication that sends ultra low-power magnetic fields through the human body.
Created by engineers from the Institute of Precision Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong kong,
The effort was led by Professor Pilar Ruiz-Lozano at Stanford university and involved scientists from the University of California,
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