researchers from Brown University have developed new textured surfaces for culturing cells in the lab that better mimic the complex surroundings in
multipolar and not aligned,"said Evelyn Kendall Williams, another undergraduate member of the research team."
Kiani and Williams both received undergraduate research funding from Brown to work on the project during the summer of 2014.
and Ruby Dimase Undergraduate Summer Fellowship offered through the Brown School of engineering. Williams received a Karen T. Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award.
Graduate students Zhongying Wang, Daniel Tonderys, Susan E. Leggett, Ruben Spitz Steinberg, and Yang Qiu were coauthors on the paper.
"Dr Yalda Jamshidi, Senior Lecturer in Human genetics, St george's University Hospital Foundation Trust, said:""Inherited genetic conditions often result
"Prof Shirley Hodgson, Professor of Cancer Genetics, St george's University of London, said:""I think that this is a significant departure from currently accepted research practice.
"Prof Darren Griffin, Professor of Genetics, University of Kent, said:""Given the widespread use of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, such announcement was inevitable, sooner rather than later.
Researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have shown that a laser-generated microplasma in air can be used as a source of broadband terahertz radiation.
"Odom is Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.
and Mahmud Khan (now at Miami University) demonstrated that the cerium-containing alloy's intrinsic coercivity--the ability of a magnetic material to resist demagnetization--far exceeds that of dysprosium-containing magnets at high temperatures.
#Mass and shape of single molecules revealed The work was led by Professor John Sader at the University of Melbourne's School of Mathematics and Statistics and Professor Michael Roukes of the California Institute of technology.
#Electrical power converter allows grid to easily accept power from renewable energy Doctoral student Joseph Carr developed the system with his adviser, Juan Balda, University Professor and head of the department of electrical engineering.
Carr received his doctorate from the university in 2011. He Was distinguished a Doctoral Fellow from 2005 to 2009
Balda has been a professor at the university since 1989. His main research interests are power electronics, electric power distribution systems, motor drives and electric power quality.
As associate director of the National Center for Reliable Electric power Transmission, a 7, 000-square-foot, $5-million power electronic test facility at the University of Arkansas
and major universities and medical schools has broken substantial new ground, establishing how genes work together within 144 different human tissues
and Casey S. Greene, assistant professor of genetics at Dartmouth College, who was a postdoctoral fellow with the Troyanskaya group from 2009 to 2012.
Other key collaborators on this study were Emanuela Ricciotti, Garret A. Fitzgerald and Tilo Grosser of the pharmacology department and the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at the Perelman School of medicine, University of Pennsylvania;
Thanks to a joint project undertaken by TU Wien and the Medical University of Vienna,
"explains Robert Liska from the Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry of Vienna University of Technology."
"says Heinz Schima of the Medical University of Vienna. The polymer fabric is slightly porous and so,
and the investigators encourage elementary school nurses, pediatricians, and other professionals who work with children ages 3-7 years to download
"explains theorist Jani Tuorila from the University of Oulu. In the work reported here, the researchers combine their knowledge on experimental and theoretical physics,
especially its nonlinear character,"explains Juha Pirkkalainen from Aalto University, the postdoctoral researcher who conducted the measurements.
--With the superconducting island, the radiation pressure increased a millionfold the value we had achieved previously, reports the supervisor of the experimental group, professor Mika Sillanp##from Aalto University.
the measurement of quantum information from an oscillator nearly visible to the naked eye,"explains professor Tero Heikkil#from the University of Jyv#skyl#who was in charge of the theoretical studies.
Four new atomic structures for gold nanoparticle clusters Led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemistry professor Xiao Cheng Zeng,
"said Zeng, an Ameritas University Professor of chemistry.""We've now found new coating structures of much lower energy,
Researchers at the University of California, Los angeles (UCLA) have developed recently a device that can turn any smartphone into a DNA-scanning fluorescent microscope."
"said senior author Dr. David Lyden, the Stavros S. Niarchos Professor in Pediatric Cardiology and a professor of pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College."
who was a Fulbright Cancer Research Fellow at Cornell University in Dr. Lyden's lab."But when TGF?
who also has appointments in the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center and the Gale and Ira Drukier Institute for Children's Health at Weill Cornell Medical College."
"says lead author Xi Yang, a postdoctoral associate at Brown University.""We may also apply this to agriculture for predicting crop yield, drought condition, or insect outbreak."
"said Vivian Ho, the chair in health economics at Rice's Baker Institute, a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine."
Director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, at Temple University, Philadelphia a
scientists can upload data for analysis. Work on CONSERTING began in 2010 shortly after the St jude Children's Research Hospital--Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project was launched.
Mark M. Churchland, now an assistant professor at Columbia University, and Stephen I. Ryu, now a consulting professor of electrical engineering at Stanford and a neurosurgeon at the Palo alto Medical Foundation.
In the early 1980s, University of California, San francisco neuroscientist Benjamin Libet conducted an experiment to assess the nature of free will.
"says Professor for Biomedical Physics Franz Pfeiffer of the Technical University of Munich in Germany, who led the new study published April 20 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."
"says the study's lead author, Elena Eggl, a researcher at the Technical University of Munich."
#Bacteria research opens way for new antibiotics University of Adelaide researchers have discovered a target for the development of completely new antibiotics against disease-causing bacteria.
#New method detects more breast cancer in screening Tomosynthesis detects 40%more breast cancers than traditional mammography does, according to a major screening study from Lund University, Sweden.
what scale,"explains Sophia Zackrisson and Kristina Lång, radiologists at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö and researchers at Lund University.
"says Noreen Hickok, Ph d.,Associate professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University.""These properties allow sterilization during surgical procedures,
#Urine test for early stage pancreatic cancer possible after biomarker discovery A team at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, has shown that the three-protein'signature'can both identify the most common
A new University of Washington study seeks to answer that question and offers visual simulations of what someone with restored vision might see.
#Small tilt in magnets makes them viable memory chips University of California, Berkeley, researchers have discovered a new way to switch the polarization of nanomagnets,
#Quantum states in a nano-object manipulated using a mechanical system Scientists at The swiss Nanoscience Institute at the University of Basel have used resonators made from single-crystalline diamonds to develop a novel device in
Now a team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University in China has found a novel way around that problem:
and Chang An Wang of Tsinghua University in Beijing and Junjie Niu, Kangpyo So, and Chao Wang of MIT.
Bruce Wang, a gastroenterologist at the Liver Center at the University of California, San francisco, led the experiments as a visiting scholar in Nusse's lab. Wang began by searching for fluorescently labeled
Horses and humans share facial expressions Horses share some surprisingly similar facial expressions to humans and chimps, according to new University of Sussex research.
as devised by the Sussex team in collaboration with researchers at the University of Portsmouth and Duquesne University, identified 17"action units"(discrete facial movements) in horses.
"In addition to researchers from SLAC and Stanford university, the research team included scientists from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln,
and the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany n
#New 2d transistor material made using precision lasers Last year a multi-discipline research team led by South korea's Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics
at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) director Young Hee Lee devised a fabrication method for the creation of pure Mote2.
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have produced some promising results toward that goal,
"We make one expensive'master'molding template that must be designed very precisely, but we can use the template to produce thousands of replicas very quickly and cheaply
and the Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS) at Toyohashi University of Technology has developed a methodology to temporarily enhance the stiffness of a long,
Arrayflagship-affiliated physicists from RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich have together with colleagues in Japan devised a method for peeling graphene flakes from a CVD substrate with the help of intermolecular forces.
Now, a new imaging technology invented by Carnegie mellon University and the University of Toronto addresses a major shortcoming of these cameras:
University Professor of Robotics at CMU, said the system offers a number of advantages for extraterrestrial robots.
Arrayabout University of Toronto: The University of Toronto has assembled one of the strongest research and teaching faculties in North america, presenting top students at all levels with an intellectual environment unmatched in breadth
and depth on any other Canadian campus. U of T faculty co-author more research articles than their colleagues at any university in the US or Canada other than Harvard.
As a measure of impact, U of T consistently ranks alongside the top five U s. universities whose discoveries are cited most often by other researchers around the world.
The U of T faculty is recognized also widely for its teaching strengths and commitment to graduate supervision.
Established in 1827 the University of Toronto today operates in downtown Toronto, Mississauga and Scarborough,
as well as in nine renowned academic hospitals s
#Scientists determine how antibiotic gains cancer-killing sulfur atoms In a discovery with implications for future drug design,
scientists have shown an unprecedented mechanism for how a natural antibiotic with antitumor properties incorporates sulfur into its molecular structure, an essential ingredient of its antitumor activity.
"says Hubbard, an assistant professor of pharmacology in the University of Alberta's Faculty of medicine & Dentistry."
"explained Ulrich-Christian Schröder, a Ph d. student at the Jena University Hospital and Leibniz Institute of technology in Germany.
"said Ute Neugebauer, group leader at the Jena University Hospital and Leibniz Institute of technology. What exactly does the team's medical device detect?"
in collaboration with the universities of Southampton (UK) and Rochester (US), have developed a simple new technique for locating them
"Dr Luca Sapienza, from the University's Quantum Light and Matter group, says:""This new technique is sort of a twist on a red-eye reducing camera flash,
Researchers at the Center for Molecular biology of Heidelberg University, the German Cancer Research center and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies collaborated on the project,
Dr. Bernd Bukau, Director of the Center for Molecular biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), who is also a researcher at the German Cancer Research center (DKFZ.
In addition to scientists from the ZMBH, DKFZ and HITS, researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology in Berlin, the Northwestern University in Illinois (USA) and The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Zurich (Switzerland) also participated in the work k
"said Anandasankar Ray of the University of California, Riverside.""Using this amazing high-definition ability to smell'ant body odor,
Now, researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in Japan, have pulled off the same feat for light in the quantum world by developing an optical chip that can process photons in an infinite number
Professor Jeremy O'brien, Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics at Bristol University, explained:""Over the last decade, we have established an ecosystem for photonic quantum technologies,
The study, a collaboration between Lerner's laboratory at TSRI, the laboratory of Jeffrey M. Friedman at Rockefeller University and the TSRI groups of Ian A. Wilson and Patrick R. Griffin, was reported on August 13 in the journal
Drexel University researchers are testing an array of new combinations that may vastly expand the options available to create faster, smaller, more efficient energy storage, advanced electronics and wear-resistant materials.
That order was imposed by Michel W. Barsoum, Phd and Yury Gogotsi, Phd, Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor in the College of Engineering and head of the Drexel Nanomaterials Group
The study began in a laboratory of the University of Sinaloa, then moved to an industrial level with the acquiring of the patent.
The researcher in the nutrition area of the Institute of Health Sciences (ICSA) of the University of Hidalgo (UAEH in Mexico, says that the idea for this product came after observing that people do not consume the pomegranate because of the difficulty
oil and gas pipelines and nuclear plants has been developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde with inspiration from the natural world.
"said principal investigator Dr. Jelena Radulovic, the Dunbar Professor in Bipolar Disease at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine."
a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Life sciences Division, has dubbed his innovation SR-STORM, or spectrally resolved stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy.
The research was supported partly by UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry and a Laboratory Directed Research and development (LDRD) grant by Berkeley Lab b
"said Katerina Akassoglou, Ph d.,a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute for Neurological disease, a professor of neurology at the University of California, San francisco,
and faculty associate of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. The work is described in a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Now Northwestern University engineers have examined a wide variety of surfaces that can do just that--and, better yet,
Dr. Leya is a professor in the Division of Cardiology of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of medicine.
led by Lancaster University and Pisa University in Italy, 55 patients with atypical moles agreed to have monitored their skin by researchers at Pisa University Hospital using a laser Doppler system.
The laser Doppler was used to record the complex interactions taking place in the minute blood vessels beneath their suspicious mole for around 30 minutes.
The fluctuations in recorded signals were analysed then using methods developed by physicists at Lancaster University.
Professor Aneta Stefanovska of Lancaster University said:""We used our knowledge of blood flow dynamics to pick up on markers
"Professor Marco Rossi of Pisa University said:""Skin malignant melanoma is a particularly aggressive cancer associated with quick blood vessel growth
which transforms paralysis victims'breath into words--believed to be the first invention of its kind--has been developed by academics from Loughborough University.
and engineers at Monash University has led to the development of a new noninvasive image processing technique to visualise embryo formation.
Dr Melanie White, Research Fellow at the Plachta Lab at Australian Regenerative medicine Institute (ARMI), Dr Yanina Alvarez of University of Buenos aires and Rajeev Samarage, Phd candidate
supervised by Prof Andreas Fouras at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace engineering at Monash University.
the Monash University researchers were able to demonstrate that this model of embryo formation was incorrect.
#New synthetic tumor environments make cancer research more realistic University of Illinois researchers have developed a new technique to create a cell habitat of squishy fluids, called hydrogels,
Researchers at the George washington University, working in collaboration with the Center for Nanophase Materials sciences at the Oak ridge National Laboratory,
After years of trying to find an efficient and affordable way to extract uranyl, researchers at the University of Chicago, Peking University,
Professor Mete Atature, a Fellow of St john's College at the University of Cambridge, who led the research,
#Scientists create designer proteins that control enzyme activity Scientists from the University of Chicago have developed a novel approach to control the activity of enzymes through the use of synthetic, antibody-like proteins known as monobodies.
In collaboration with neurobiologist Dr. Hélène Marie based at the IPMC-CNRS in Valbonne (France) and with the local colleagues from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in the Synergy Excellence Cluster (Professor Arthur Konnerth
the Massachusetts Alzheimer's disease Research center in Boston, the Parkinson's UK Brain Bank at Imperial College London,
#Magnetic fields provide a new way to communicate wirelessly Electrical engineers at the University of California, San diego demonstrated a new wireless communication technique that works by sending magnetic signals through the human body.
#Timing of sleep just as important as quantity Washington state University researchers have found that the timing of an animal's sleep can be
and the University of Strasbourg (France) have developed a new method for studying the function of ribonucleic acid (RNA) that provides more detailed results,
says a Texas A&m University biomedical engineer who has created the tool. The add-on device, which is similar in look
says a Texas A&m University biomedical engineering researcher who is developing the technology. The wearable technology combines motion sensors and the measurement of electrical activity generated by muscles to interpret hand gestures,
says Roozbeh Jafari, associate professor in the university's Department of Biomedical engineering and researcher at the Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems.
who is now a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St louis."The variant that we found is related age,
and University of Buffalo research team built its experiments on previous research showing that children with upper viral respiratory tract infections who were exposed to the anesthetic halothane during minor surgical procedures had significantly less respiratory symptoms
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Georgia Institute of technology and the University of Tokyo have developed a new"zippered tube"configuration that makes paper structures that are stiff enough to hold weight yet can fold flat for easy shipping
Georgia Tech professor Glaucio Paulino and University of Tokyo professor Tomohiro Tachi published their work in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
They have reported their findings in the scientific journal Nature Communications together with colleagues from the University of Bochum.
Richard J. Warburton from the University of Basel have shown already in past publications that the indistinguishability of the photons is reduced by the fluctuating nuclear spin of the quantum dot atoms.
of which the University of Basel is the co-leading house e
#Study creates cell immunity to parasite that infects 50 million There are two common approaches to protecting humans from infectious disease:
"says Dan Theodorescu, MD, Phd, director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center.""Bill Petri and I had been social friends for years--Christmas parties, that kind of thing.
MD, Phd, chief of the Division of Infectious diseases & International Health at the University of Virginia led to the idea of applying an innovative cancer science technique to the study of infectious disease.
#Super-stretchable metallic conductors for flexible electronics Washington state University researchers have discovered how to stretch metal films used in flexible electronics to twice their size without breaking.
The work was led by Rahul Panat and Indranath Dutta, researchers in Voiland College's School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering,
University of British columbia (UBC) physicists have been able to create the first ever superconducting graphene sample by coating it with lithium atoms.
University of British columbia (UBC) physicists have been able to create the first ever superconducting graphene sample by coating it with lithium atoms.
researchers at CHU Sainte-Justine and University of Montreal discovered an agent that shows efficacy in inhibiting inflammation
and the lead author of the study who developed the molecule in collaboration with his research associate Christiane Quiniou, Ph d. and Dr William Lubell, professor of chemistry at University of Montreal)."
Now, by borrowing from kirigami, the ancient Japanese art of paper cutting, researchers at the University of Michigan have developed solar cells that can have it both ways."
To make the solar array, Kyusang Lee, a doctoral student in electrical engineering, built custom solar cells in the lab of Stephen Forrest, the Peter A. Franken Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and Paul G. Goebel
four undergraduates and their faculty advisors only four years--a blink of an eye in pharmaceutical terms--to scour a collection of 10,000 bacterial strains
said University of Illinois microbiology professor William Metcalf, who led the research with U. of I. chemistry professor Wilfred van der Donk."
researchers find Researchers at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, have discovered three new drug-like compounds that could ultimately offer better odds of survival to prostate cancer patients.
in digital form from the pharmacology database Zinc at the University of California, San francisco. Using SMU's Maneframe high performance computer,
researchers find Researchers at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, have discovered three new drug-like compounds that could ultimately offer better odds of survival to prostate cancer patients.
in digital form from the pharmacology database Zinc at the University of California, San francisco. Using SMU's Maneframe high performance computer,
By combining nanoscience and biology, researchers led by scientists at University of California, Berkeley, have taken a big step in that direction.
or literally,"said Ted Sargent, the vice-dean of research for the Faculty of Applied science and Engineering at University of Toronto.
By combining nanoscience and biology, researchers led by scientists at University of California, Berkeley, have taken a big step in that direction.
or literally,"said Ted Sargent, the vice-dean of research for the Faculty of Applied science and Engineering at University of Toronto.
"said Joseph Merola, a professor of chemistry in the College of Science, a Fralin Life science Institute affiliate,
"said Joseph Falkinham, a professor of microbiology in the College of Science and an affiliate of the Virginia Tech Center for Drug Discovery."
#First realization of an electric circuit with a magnetic insulator using spin waves Researchers at the University of Groningen, Utrecht University,
FOM workgroup leader prof. dr. Bart van Wees and his Phd student Ludo Cornelissen, both from the University of Groningen and FOM workgroup leader dr. Rembert
Duine from Utrecht University have succeeded to use spin waves in an electric circuit by carefully designing the device geometry.
Researchers from Brown University have taken a major step toward addressing one of those challenges. They've developed
and Yasuaki Monnai from Keio University in Tokyo. One of the advantages to the approach, the researchers say,
A research group from Osaka University is collaborating with Mittleman's group to implement the device in a prototype terahertz network they're building."
#Lung'filtering'technique can reduce transplant rejection University of Manchester researchers have used a new technique to recondition poorly functioning lungs
The University researchers, in collaboration with a team from the University of Lund in Sweden, used a new technique called ex-vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) where the lung is kept alive, breathing outside the body and supported by a supply
Dr James Fildes, from the University's Collaborative Centre for Inflammation Research and the Transplant Centre at the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, led the study.
cleaner with waste-recycling catalyst Researchers at Cardiff University have devised a way of increasing the yield of biodiesel by using the waste left over from its production process.
"Professor Matthew Rosseinsky, Professor of Inorganic chemistry at the University of Liverpool, who was not part of the study,
Dr Tim Somervaille, lead author from the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute at The University of Manchester,
#Microbiologists describe new insights into human neurodegenerative disease Microbiology researchers at the University of Georgia studying a soil bacterium have identified a potential mechanism for neurodegenerative diseases.
a postdoctoral research associate in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.""But with rampant oxidative stress leading to uncontrolled cellular death,
says University of Vermont physicist and materials scientist Madalina Furis. But the basic science of how to get electrons to move quickly
an Associate professor of Medicine at Mcgill University, says by way of explaining the importance of the discovery."
a biostatistician who is Senior Investigator at the Lady Davis Institute and Associate professor at Mcgill University,
but a new study from the Research Institute of the Mcgill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and University of Alberta could be a game changer for patients, improving both quality of life and longevity.
''says lead author Dr. Simon Wing, MUHC endocrinologist and professor of Medicine at Mcgill University."
This challenge was tackled in the research group Quantum Nanophysics led by Markus Arndt at the University of Vienna.
photorealistic computer simulations allowing university and high-school students as well as the general public to virtually access unique instruments."
The engaging software was developed together with university and high-school students and was tuned fine by periodic didactic input.
research shows Researchers at the University of Birmingham have shown how the development of coated silica nanoparticles could be used in restorative treatment of sensitive teeth
Professor Damien Walmsley, from the School of dentistry at the University of Birmingham explained,"The dentine of our teeth have numerous microscopic holes,
Professor Zoe Pikramenou, from the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham, said, "These silica particles are available in a range of sizes, from nanometre to sub-micron,
#Using ultrasound to clean medical instruments Researchers from the University of Southampton have demonstrated how a pioneering ultrasonic device can significantly improve the cleaning of medical instruments
Starstream, invented and patented by the University of Southampton and in commercial production by Ultrawave Ltd.
Principal investigator Professor Tim Leighton, from the University's Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, said:"
"The other contributors to the multidisciplinary study were Dr Peter Birkin, Dr Doug Offin and Dr Chris Vian (Chemistry, Faculty of Natural and Environmental sciences), Dr Howlin and Dr Stoodley
Hervé and Professor Keevil (Centre for Biological sciences, Faculty of Natural and Environmental sciences. The team that conducted the study now forms the basis of the University's Network for Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Prevention (NAMRIP) Strategic Research Group,
which hosts over 100 members under the chairmanship of Professor Leighton. Starstream's effectiveness was demonstrated further with the publication of two additional papers--further results on its effectiveness against dental biofilms were published in the Journal of Dental Research,
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