#Coordinating traffic down the neuronal highway An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS),
and the University of Michigan (U-M). They identified and characterised a protein that transports the enzyme ACL to the tips of neurons,
and Motoyuki Otsuka of the University of Tokyo o
#New light shed on infertility puzzle, could improve in vitro fertilization We don't know if a sperm actually experiences joy
Patricia A. Martin-Deleon, a reproductive biologist at the University of Delaware, has witnessed this behavior many times in her studies of fertility in mice, the closest genetic model to humans (and with a much faster reproductive cycle.
as a master's student at the University of the West indies in her native Jamaica.
continuing on for her doctorate at the University of Western Ontario. She joined the UD faculty in 1976 6
#3-D printed guide helps regrow complex nerves after injury A national team of researchers has developed a first-of-its-kind,
Collaborators on the project are from the University of Minnesota, Virginia Tech, University of Maryland, Princeton university, and Johns hopkins university.
"said University of Minnesota mechanical engineering professor Michael Mcalpine, the study's lead researcher.""Someday we hope that we could have a 3d scanner
Xiaofeng Jia, University of Maryland and Johns hopkins university; and Karen Z. Lancaster, Esteban Engel, and Lynn W. Enquist, Princeton university.
#Coordinating traffic down the neuronal highway An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS),
and the University of Michigan (U-M). They identified and characterised a protein that transports the enzyme ACL to the tips of neurons,
The research, led by Yinzhi Cao assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA) with coauthors Xiang Pan and Yan Chen from Northwestern University
and a university coffee shop. During the experiments, they used a bank application, cell phone application,
The project took place in collaboration with a research group headed by Stephen Lee from the University of St andrews, Scotland n
protect women against HIV Researchers at University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne, France have succeeded in developing a vaginal silicone ring that delivers molecules that act on both HIV and herpes virus.
author of the study and Phd candidate at University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne, France.
The work was performed at the University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne, France, in close collaboration between a team of virologists belonging to the GIMAP group under the supervision of Pr.
Zhifeng Ren, a physicist at the University of Houston and principal investigator at the Texas Center for Superconductivity,
For Swartz and his principal collaborator, Yuan Lu, now a pharmacology researcher at the University of Tokyo, the result is a vindication.
Macdonald, a Canada Research Chair in Islet Biology, associate professor in the University of Alberta's Faculty of medicine & Dentistry and member of the Alberta Diabetes Institute, is the senior author of a landmark study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
an associate professor in the UF College of Medicine's department of anatomy and cell biology. Finding new treatments is critical
#Permanent data storage with light The first all-optical permanent on-chip memory has been developed by scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of technology (KIT) and the universities of Münster, Oxford, and Exeter.
the University of Münster, Oxford university, and Exeter University have developed now the first all-optical, nonvolatile on-chip memory."
"Optical bits can be written at frequencies of up to a gigahertz. This allows for extremely quick data storage by our all-photonic memory,
and recently moved to the University of Münster.""The memory is compatible not only with conventional optical fiber data transmission,
#Highly flexible and wearable tactile sensor for robotics, electronics and healthcare applications A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of engineering has developed a wearable liquid-based microfluidic tactile
Researchers at Unit 1121"Biomaterials and Bioengineering"(Inserm/Strasbourg university) have succeeded in creating a biofilm with antimicrobial, antifungal and anti-inflammatory properties.
and Biomaterials"Unit 1121 (Inserm/Strasbourg University) with four laboratories1 have developed a biofilm with antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties.
Other authors are MIT research scientist Sebastien Lemire and Diana Pires, a research fellow at the University of Minho in Portugal.
"Yang, who also holds appointments with the University of California (UC) Berkeley and is a co-director of the Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute (Kavli-ENSI),
and John van der Oost at Wageningen University, describe the unexpected biological features of this new system
#Novel prosthetic heart valve developed for treatment of severe heart disorder A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a novel prosthetic heart valve, known as Velox,
a current Biomedical engineering Masters student who is working on the design of the device under the supervision of Assoc Prof Leo,
"Dr Hon is also a Senior Consultant at the Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, National University Heart Centre, Singapore.
by a team at the University of New south wales (UNSW) in Sydney appears in the international journal Nature."
But the UNSW team--working with Professor Kohei M. Itoh of Japan's Keio University--has done just that for the first time.
Graduate student Hanju Oh, co-advised with College of Engineering Dean Gary May, fabricated high aspect ratio copper vias through the silicon columns, reducing the capacitance of the connections that would carry signals between chips in an array."
Employing a scanning tunneling microscope researchers of the University of Hamburg were now able to demonstrate that the resistance changes also
In collaboration with theoretical physicists from the University of Kiel the researchers were able to identify the origin of the resistance change in the magnetic whirl:
Stefan Heinze from the University of Kiel. When the electrons are travelling through a magnetic whirl,
CFEL is a cooperation between DESY, the University of Hamburg and the Max Planck Society.
who is also a professor at the University of Hamburg and at MIT, as well as being a member of the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI), one of Germany's Clusters of Excellence.
can now be predicted for adolescents thanks to a new diagnostic test developed by a University of Virginia Children's Hospital pediatrician and his collaborators.
The Role of Metabolic syndrome The new diagnostic test has been developed by a team that included Mark Deboer, MD, of the University of Virginia Children's Hospital's Department of Pediatrics,
and Matthew Gurka, Phd, of West virginia University's School of Public health. The test relies on an evaluation of metabolic syndrome,
an aggressive leukemia of mature T cells, is complicated more at a molecular level than ever suspected, according to investigators from the Perelman School of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
#Scientists pave way for diamonds to trace early cancers Physicists from the University of Sydney have devised a way to use diamonds to identify cancerous tumours before they become life threatening.
researchers from the University investigated how nanoscale diamonds could help identify cancers in their earliest stages."
Institute researchers Dr James Murphy and Dr Isabelle Lucet, in collaboration with Dr Peter Mace from the University of Otago, New zealand, characterised the human Tribbles protein Trib1.
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 technology is being commercialised by Cambridge Enterprise, the University's commercialisation arm r
#Bacterium capable of aquifer decontamination characterized, cultivated for first time in Europe UAB researchers have identified in the Besòs river estuary (Barcelona, Spain) a bacterium of the genus Dehalogenimonas,
& Technology, was conducted at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Department of Chemical engineering and Department of Genetics and Microbiology) in collaboration with the University of Barcelona (Research Group in Applied Mineralogy and Fluid Geochemistry) and the Helmholtz Centre
Scientists at the University of Nebraska Medical center designed a new delivery system for these drugs that,
when coupled with a drug developed at the University of Rochester School of medicine and Dentistry, rid immune cells of HIV and kept the virus in check for long periods.
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,
from the University of Birmingham, explained, "A number of patients who appear to be in a vegetative state are actually aware of themselves and their surroundings,
was observed in a case study at the imaging centre at the Brain and Mind Institute, at Western University, Canada.
Shiladitya Dassarma's laboratory at the University of Maryland School of medicine, Baltimore, USA, who has developed Archaeal gas vesicle nanoparticles (GVNPS.
Scientists from the University of Colorado are developing a new type of system to efficiently capture some of that lost heat.
similar to the alternating current (AC) that powers homes and businesses, said Won Park, an electrical engineer at the University of Colorado Boulder.
and Ear/Harvard Medical school and Boston University have shown successfully neuroprotection in a Parkinson's mouse model using new techniques to deliver drugs across the naturally impenetrable blood-brain barrier.
and a former NFL athlete crippled by end-stage heart failure were treated all successfully with a surgical approach pioneered by cardiac experts at University of California, San diego School of medicine.
University of London has been able to predict participants'movements just by analysing their brain activity. The research,
. Since there are no effective treatments for the deadly disease, University of California, San diego researchers developed a new computational strategy to search for molecules that could be developed into glioblastoma drugs.
University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineers have created the fastest, most responsive flexible silicon phototransistor ever made.
#Super sensitive magnetic sensor created Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a new hybrid magnetic sensor that is more sensitive than most commercially available sensors.
Professor Andre K. Geim of the University of Manchester; and Professor Antonio H. Castro Neto of the NUS Department of physics and Director of CA2DM.
#World first lab-in-a-briefcase Academics at Loughborough University hope to boost early detection rates of cancer in developing countries with their portable lab-in-a-briefcase that can operate even at high temperatures.
A device that detects in saliva a biological indicator of a possible risk of TYPE II DIABETES is the development of a technological and scientific team of the Tec de Monterrey (Mexican University) in collaboration with the University of Houston.
#Researchers develop 3-D printing method for creating patient-specific medical devices A team of researchers at Northeastern University has developed an innovative 3-D printing technology that uses magnetic fields to shape composite materials
"The researchers, based at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, used extrusion-based 3-D printing to produce a grid-like 3-D structure to grow embryoid body that demonstrated cell viability
and rapid self-renewal for 7 days while maintaining high pluripotentcy.""Two other common methods of printing these cells are either two-dimensional (in a petri dish)
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.
#Sound waves levitate cells to detect stiffness changes that could signal disease Utah Valley University physicists are literally applying rocket science to the field of medical diagnostics.
Brian Patchett, a research assistant and instructor within the Department of physics at Utah Valley University, will describe the group's method,
"pointed out Timothy Doyle, lead scientist on the project and an assistant professor of physics at Utah Valley University.
"We're collaborating with the Huntsman Cancer Institute--part of the University of Utah healthcare system--to explore various types of breast tissues under levitation to refine our pathology detection methods,
A team of microbiologists based at the University of California, Berkeley, recently figured out one such new way of detecting life.
and co-workers at Nanjing University in China to design a single fluorescent probe capable of detecting
Ben Zhong Tang from the Hong kong University of Science and Technology particularly likes the design
Theresa Dankovich from Carnegie mellon University used the idea to launch the concept of a book that could both encourage proper sanitation practices
During her Phd at Mcgill University, Dankovich successfully created a page made from cellulose, impregnated with silver nanoparticles.
Following a postdoctoral stint at the University of Virginia (UVA), she was also able to dope the paper with relatively inexpensive copper nanoparticles. he paper is really thick and sturdy,
Stuart Kahn from the University of New south wales, Australia, who was involved not in the research, says that the team efforts have been admirable,
who is developing electronic skin at the University of California, Berkeley. t could have important implications for the development of smarter prosthetics. his is just the beginning of the path toward building fully integrated artificial skin,
says biological engineer Theodore Berger at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los angeles. That is because repeated seizures can destroy the brain tissue needed for long-term-memory formation.
says neuro biologist Howard Eichenbaum at Boston University in Massachusetts. But he cautions that mimicking it could be difficult
A team at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) in Philadelphia is taking a different approach to enhancing memory that requires an even less detailed understanding of how the process works.
of the University of Western australia, said in a statement. The astronomers created a video explaining the slow death of the universe to illustrate the discovery.
Developed by a team of government and university researchers, including physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
which included researchers from Rutgers, the University of Colorado at Colorado springs, and Argonne National Laboratory, fabricated their device using commercial nanofabrication equipment at the NIST Nanofab.
#Study finds cystic fibrosis decreases muscle strength Patients with cystic fibrosis have a muscle deficiency that gets worse with age, according to the findings of a joint study by researchers at the University of Georgia and Georgia Regents University.
The study, conducted as a partnership between the kinesiology department at the UGA College of Education
and Georgia Regents University, measured the oxygen capacity of muscles in patients age 7-42.
#said Kevin Mccully, one of the authors of the study and a professor in the UGA College of Education#s kinesiology department.#
Mccully and other UGA researchers will continue to work with Georgia Regents University to determine what is keeping cystic fibrosis patients#muscles from properly functioning,
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#New treatment options for colon cancer Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Sweden Karolinska Institutet, one of Europe largest and most prestigious medical universities, have discovered that an existing
chemotherapy drug used to treat leukaemia could prevent and control the growth of colorectal tumours. Colorectal cancer commonly referred to as colon cancer is one of the three most common cancers worldwide and the most common in Singapore.
#Scientists discover new treatment for dementia Pushing new frontiers in dementia research, Nanyang Technological University,
Dr Lim Lee Wei, an associate professor at Sunway University, Malaysia, who worked on the research project
a professor of medicine and cellular biology at Northwestern University who was not part of the research team.
Rockefeller University researchers have found the experimental therapy can dramatically reduce the amount of virus present in a patient blood.
Ongoing clinical research in Nussenzweig lab and The Rockefeller University Hospital aims to address the impact of additional broadly neutralizing antibodies, alone or in combination, on viral load in HIV-infected patients.
a major clinical trial at the University of Virginia School of medicine and more than 80 other institutions has found.
and Poor Language Outcomes in ASD Toddlers Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri), University of California, San diego School of medicine researchers say it may be possible to predict future language development outcomes in toddlers with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD),
Courchesne, first author Michael V. Lombardo, Phd, a senior researcher at the University of Cambridge and assistant professor at the University of Cyprus, Pierce and colleagues describe the first effort to create a process capable
said study co-author Michael Grabe, an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California,
Now, researchers from the University of Missouri, in an effort to grow placenta cells to better study the causes of preeclampsia,
#Protein finding can pave the way for improved treatment of malignant melanoma Researchers from Aarhus University have linked for the first time a new protein with malignant melanomas.
The novel knowledge is the result of longstanding research in the field of cell surface receptor proteins at the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University. ur studies have shown that the protein megalin is almost always detectable in malignant melanomas,
says Associate professor Mette Madsen from the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University. With the new knowledge, the hope is that pathologists
which patients the most, says Henrik Schmidt, consultant at the Department of Oncology at Aarhus University Hospital,
Scientists with the U s. Department of energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have created a hybrid system of semiconducting nanowires and bacteria that mimics
with the help of scientists at the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne and Linköping University (Sweden) have developed an organic electronic micropump which,
and Swedish scientists led by Magnus Berggren from Linköping University, have developed a biocompatible micropump that makes it possible to deliver therapeutic substances directly to the relevant areas of the brain.
They are based in College Station, Texas. ARS scientist Brian Scheffler, based in Stoneville, Mississippi, is a coauthor of the other.
and exploit cotton genetic diversity by tapping into the potential of genes found in the 10,000 accessions of exotic and wild cotton plants in the ARS Cotton Germplasm Collection in College Station, Texas t
#Discovery unlocks ion conductor that is 100 times faster than all the others A research group at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU),
Their faculty advisers are Fathi Ghorbel, professor of mechanical engineering and bioengineering, and Marcia Oalley, professor of mechanical engineering and computer science.
U of T researcher finds the ain trigger A new study led by University of Toronto researcher Dr. David Lam has discovered the trigger behind the most severe forms of cancer pain.
It was while conducting clinical research at the University of California San francisco though, that Lam noticed something interesting.
The study also involved researchers from New york University and the Forsyth Institute (Cambridge) t
#Researchers get under the skin to develop new transplant technique James Shapiro, one of the world leading experts in emerging treatments of diabetes, can help
Shapiro, Canada Research Chair in Transplantation Surgery and Regenerative medicine in the University of Alberta Faculty of medicine & Dentistry,
or graphene, nanoengineers at the University of California, San diego have invented a new way of fabricating nanostructures that contain well-defined, atomic-sized gaps.
A team of Ph d. students and undergraduate researchers led by UC San diego nanoengineering professor Darren Lipomi demonstrated that the key to generating a smaller nanogap between two nanostructures involves using a graphene spacer,
University researchers, working in collaboration with scientists at King College London and the Mayo Clinic (USA), describe the previously unproven role of the calcium sensing receptor (Casr) in causing asthma,
after completing his Phd at the Imperial College, London in materials science. ittle by littlealking to people,
The work was led by Professor John Sader at the University of Melbourne School of Mathematics and Statistics and Professor Michael Roukes of the California Institute of technology.
Tekcapital seeks out university research that can fill client and market needs. Dr. Clifford M. Gross, Tekcapital executive chairman, said the company is excited about the potential of La Belle work. he self-monitoring of blood glucose is a significant industry,
Azte works with ASU faculty, post-docs and graduate students to help move university inventions from the lab to commercial application. have had many interactions with the very efficient and professional staff at Azte
Researchers at the MESA+Institute of the University of Twente in The netherlands have developed a new and powerful approach to use these fine speckles for high resolution imaging.
Queensland University of Technolog a
#Nepal earthquake on the radar Radar imagery from the Sentinel-1a satellite shows that the maximum land deformation is only 17 km from Nepal capital, Kathmandu,
Keiichi Nakagawa/University of Tokyospeed of the camera is hard to grasp. But, in comparison, it is more than one thousand times faster than conventional high-speed cameras.
Keiichi Nakagawa/University of Tokyoin the first attempts to capture an ultra-fast images frames per shot were limited to six.
a professor of physics who joined the University of California, San diego this year. o the question was,
#Researchers find bitter taste receptors on human hearts A team of University of Queensland researchers is investigating the surprising discovery that smell
#Alzheimer pathology and neural activity An international research group including the University of Tokyo, Stanford university and Washington University has discovered that neuronal activity augments the accumulation of amyloid ß that is observed in the brains of patients with Alzheimer disease (AD).
The accumulation of deposits of a protein fragment termed amyloid ß is thought to be the cause of the development of dementia in AD brains.
Professor Takeshi Iwatsubo, graduate students Kaoru Yamamoto and Zen-ichi Tanei, Assistant professor Tadafumi Hashimoto and Professor Haruhiko Bito at the University of Tokyo Graduate school of Medicine, Professor
and Professor David Holtzman at Washington University chronically increased the activity of a neuronal pathway projecting to the hippocampus,
affiliated with the University of Montreal, have identified a way to use a an openerto force the virus to open up
says study lead author Andrés Finzi, researcher at the CRCHUM and a professor at the University of Montreal.
The JP-III-48 molecule was developed by researchers at Harvard university and the University of Pennsylvania;
a professor of materials science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. hey have found a way to significantly shrink the optics,
along with groups from Woods hole oceanographic institution, the Australian Center for Field Robotics, the University of Rhode island, and elsewhere, tested several classes of AUVS,
#Artificial blood vessels become resistant to thrombosis Scientists from ITMO University developed artificial blood vessels that are not susceptible to blood clot formation.
head of the International Laboratory of Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies at ITMO University proposed a solution to the problem.
Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), in cooperation with colleagues at the University of Zurich and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, have tested for the first time successfully a new tumor diagnosis method under near-real conditions.
because the resulting images are less sharp. ogether with colleagues at the University of Zurich and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum,
and Federal University of Rio de janeiro in Brazil have designed a DNA-loaded nanoparticle that can pass through the mucus barrier covering conducting airways of lung tissue proving the concept,
and Color, to Microparticles A team of New york University scientists has developed a technique that prompts microparticles to form ordered structures in a variety of materials.
and Jisha Hazra and Naduvalath Balakrishnan of the University of Nevada-Las vegas a
#Words That Work Together Stay together How language gives your brain a break. Here a quick task:
one from Charles University in Prague, one from Google, one from the Universal Dependencies Consortium (a new group of computational linguists),
and a Chinese-language database from the Linguistic Dependencies Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania.
says David Temperley, a professor at the University of Rochester, who along with his Rochester colleague Daniel Gildea has authored co a study comparing dependency length in English
Now researchers from the University of Chicago, the University of Missouri and the U s. Department of energy Argonne National Laboratory have found a simple way to do exactly that.
professor of chemical physics at the Imperial College in London and a leading theorist on soft matter physics. hey advance significantly our ability to make new nanostructures with controlled shapes. n principle,
and Christophoros Vassiliou, now a postdoc at the University of California at Berkeley. Their research is featured in a paper in the journal Lab on a Chip that has been published online.
Yinsheng Wang, a principal investigator in the Department of chemistry at the University of California at Riverside who was involved not in the research,
#Animal-eye view of the world revealed with new visual software New camera technology that reveals the world through the eyes of animals has been developed by University of Exeter researchers.
Dr Jolyon Troscianko from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter Penryn Campus said:
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#It takes a lot of nerve: Scientists make cells to aid peripheral nerve repair Scientists at the University of Newcastle,
UK, have used a combination of small molecules to turn cells isolated from human skin into Schwann cells the specialised cells that support nerves and play a role in nerve repair.
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered now a ain switchthat regulates the formation of these invaginations.
without any diagnosis other than udden infant death syndrome'says Karl Swärd and Catarina Rippe, researchers at Lund University.
In a recently published study in the journal PLOS ONE (1), the researchers at Lund University reveal that a family of so-called transcription factors called yocardin family coactivatorsregulate the formation of invaginations.
together with colleagues at Lund University, is also investigating whether the regulatory mechanism is activated in the case of kidney disease h
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