assistant professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at at Washington University School of medicine in St louis."One of my patients told me he was able to pick up a noodle off his chest
"Surgeons at Washington University pioneered nerve-transfer surgery. Developed about 25 years ago by the study's senior author, Susan E. Mackinnon, MD, director of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the School of medicine,
Background Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (known as Tommo) has been working in cooperation with Iwate Medical University on the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project.
It is part of the universities'contribution towards reconstruction of the region following the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.
Since 2013, the two universities have been conducting cohort studies, which include some150, 000 community residents in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures e
A team of scientists from Mcgill University, Washington University in St louis, ITMO University in Saint petersburg, Russia,
and the University of Bristol in the UK studied the response of cancer cells to reduced availability of glucose, the main fuel source for most cancer cells.
Research Associate at Mcgill University and lead author of the study.""We found that some cancer cells also express PEPCK,
"adds Russell Jones, Associate professor of Physiology at Mcgill University's Goodman Cancer Research Centre. The study suggests that nutrient availability in the organism,
"explains Alexey Sergushichev, bioinformatician and Phd student at the Department of Computer technologies at ITMO University."
Scientists at the University of Bonn and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) have decoded a central signal cascade associated with epileptic seizures.
Dr. Albert J. Becker from the Institute of Neuropathology of the University of Bonn. The hippocampus, located in the temporal lobe, is a central switching station in the brain.
Becker, together with scientists from the departments of Experimental Epileptology and Neuroradiology of the University of Bonn Hospital as well as from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Israel
Dr. Susanne Schoch from the department of Neuropathology at the University of Bonn. The researchers also see a possible potential in this new technology for novel diagnostic approaches in humans s
According to the University of Melbourne, which was involved also in the development of the device, around half of the 55,000 Australians who experience heart attack
co-developer Martin Weigel of Saarland University in Germany told Matthew Stock at Reuters. ut our sensor is a flexible and stretchable sensor,
Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne have developed successfully the world most energy-efficient rtificial photosynthesistechnique, which effectively mimics plant-based photosynthesis by using solar energy to convert water into hydrogen.
Thomas Faunce, an expert on artificial photosynthesis from the Australian National University in Canberra, was involved not in the Monash study
More good news is that a study published in June by researchers at the University of California,
and so the team from the Autonomous University of Barcelona decided to see if they could build a magnetic wormhole in the lab instead.
Researchers at the University of California, San diego in the US have developed a prototype to show off a new wireless communication technique which they say massively outperforms existing wireless tech by using the human body itself to help send data between devices.
professor at the Department of Applied Physics at Kogakuin University in Japan, announced the development of this device back in 2013.
and cannabidiol-another active compound that has shown promise as a medical treatment-told The New york times. Back in August, researchers from the University of California,
Now, researchers from the Technical University of Dortmund in Germany have outlined in the journal Biotechnology Letters how they looked into
As Jonathan Page, an adjunct professor at the University of British columbia in Canada who helped sequence the THC
Developed by a team of researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt, the procedure uses a desalination technique called pervaporation to remove the salt from sea water
engineer Harish Bhaskaran from the University of Oxford, said in a press release.""But we think using light can significantly speed this up."
"lead researcher Kevin Laws from the University of New south wales (UNSW) said in a press release.""With our new instruction manual we can start to create many new useful metallic glass-types
one of the researchers, Zoran Nenadic from the University of California, Irvine in the US, said in a press release. e showed that you can restore intuitive, brain-controlled walking after a complete spinal cord injury."
Alan Duffy, a Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia.""The brine on Mars might not directly support life
at Gothenburg Sahlgrenska University hospital, orthopaedic surgery has moved to a 6-hour day, as have doctors and nurses in two hospital departments in Umeå to the north,"The Guardian reports.
Now engineers from the University of New south wales (UNSW) in Australia have overcome the final hurdle,
and fighting an important cause of progression in Alzheimer's disease,"said one of the team, Andrew Saykin from the Indiana University School of medicine.
invented research and fake journals that Wuhan University estimated in 2009 was worth $150m, "The Economist wrote back in 2013.
an innovation-studies specialist at Tsinghau University in Beijing, told Nature. He added that young scientists in China are told always to go overseas
a professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, wrote in an online commentary for China. com."The prize for Tu Youyou has raised questions precisely about this. till,
Together with researchers from the University of Washington, the Buck Institute laboriously examined the development of some 4, 698 separate yeast strains,
"explains one of the researchers, Anton Rebhan from the Vienna University of Technology. But there is one major difference between the two:
Designed by students at ETZ Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts, the Scalevo features gyroscopic technology that lets the wheelchair automatically balance itself on just two wheels
and how mutations in the gene cause disease,"said one of the team, Xin Liu, from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical centre.
#Researchers create lithium-air battery that could be 10x more powerful than lithium-ion A new lithium-air battery created by researchers at the University of Cambridge points the way to the ultimate battery packs of the future,
The prototype developed in the Research Department in Zeolites, at the Institute of Science of the Meritorious University of Puebla (BUAP), in center Mexico,
Kit could one day Be led by widely available Professor Jeffrey Bode of the Institute of Transformative Biomolecules at Nagoya University in Japan,
In 2014, researchers in South korea at IBS Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics along with Samsung Advanced Institute of technology, the Department of Nano Applied Engineering at Kangwon National University, the Department of energy Science
at Sungkyunkwan University, and Materials science department at California Institute of technology California, USA have formulated a new method for creating a novel and much more efficient TE alloy.
study suggests The simple test developed by University of Central Florida scientist Qun"Treen"Huo holds the promise of earlier detection of one of the deadliest cancers among men.
"said Lonnie O. Ingram, director of the Florida Center for Renewable Chemicals and Fuels at the University of Florida,
professor of macromolecular science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University and senior author of the study."
and North Texas University's Zhenhai Xia, professor of materials science and engineering, and Zhenghang Zhao, a Phd student, who performed theoretical simulations.
saving critical time and trips to the lab. Researchers at Mcmaster University have developed a new way to print paper biosensors,
In fact, according to University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign professor John Rogers, the purity needs to exceed 99.999 percent--meaning even one bad tube in 100,000 is enough to kill an electronic device."
#Alternating antibiotics could make resistant bacteria beatable Researchers from the University of Exeter has shown that the use of'sequential treatments'--using alternating doses of antibiotics--might offer effective treatment against bacterial infection.
The collaborative international research, led by Professor Robert Beardmore from the University of Exeter and funded by EPSRC,
The research was supported by a University of California Discovery Biotechnology Award, the National institutes of health, Nanocav and the National Science Foundation n
#New understanding of electromagnetism could enable'antennas on a chip'A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge have unravelled one of the mysteries of electromagnetism,
A sixth patient, under the care of Dr. Judith Hall at the University of British columbia, also underwent genetic sequencing at TGEN."
The purified silicon was provided through collaboration with Professor Kohei Itoh from Keio University in Japan n
Craig Glennie, a report author and professor at the University of Houston. The authors found that the sensors in smartphones
"said Bob Iannucci of Carnegie mellon University, Silicon valley.""Thirty years ago it took months to assemble a crude picture of the deformations from an earthquake.
researchers from KAIST and Seoul National University (SNU) have collaborated and demonstrated a facile methodology to obtain a high-performance
#Scientists create invisible objects in the microwave range without metamaterial cloaking Physicists from ITMO University,
Ioffe Institute and Australian National University managed to make homogenous cylindrical objects completely invisible in the microwave range.
or can be developed at will,"said Mikhail Rybin, first author of the paper and senior researcher at the Metamaterials Laboratory in ITMO University.
Dr Sheikh was a Phd student at The University of Melbourne during part of this research study y
#New biomarker for uterine cancer discovered Researchers at Uppsala University have, together with researchers from Turku and Bergen, discovered a new biomarker
The study was conducted in cooperation between researchers at the universities in Uppsala, Turku and Bergen and is collected based on samples from 500 women who were diagnosed with uterine cancer between the years 1981 and 2007.
and offer them more aggressive treatment after their operation increases',says Per-Henrik Edqvist, researcher at Uppsala University's Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology,
"Gregory Odegard, a professor of computational mechanics at Michigan Technological University, says the group's carbon nanotube film may go toward improving the quality and efficiency of fabrication processes for large composites, such as wings on commercial aircraft.
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."
"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,
The findings from the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts institute of technology could bolster efforts to develop the next generation of antiviral treatments.
Scientists with the U s. Department of energy (DOE)' s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have created a hybrid system of semiconducting nanowires and bacteria
and Swedish scientists led by Magnus Berggren from Linkping University, have developed a biocompatible micropump that makes it possible to deliver therapeutic substances directly to the relevant areas of the brain.
a senior co-author and professor of biological psychiatry at the University of Oslo in Norway."
Now, researchers from the University of Missouri, in an effort to grow placenta cells to better study the causes of preeclampsia,
The study also involved researchers at Queen Mary University of London, ETH Zurich and Harvard Medical school.
based within Queen Mary University of London William Harvey Research Institute, said: his study has identified the novel protein LEM
Dr. Jannic Wolf, chemist at the University of Konstanz, discovered through complex experiments that a particular diarylethene compound is an eligible candidate.
Approximately ten years ago, a working group at the University of Groningen in The netherlands had managed already to construct a switch that could interrupt the current.
"said Robert Miller, Phd, a member of the neurosciences faculty at Case Western Reserve who,
since June his primary appointments are at the George washington University School of medicine and Health Sciences, where he is Senior Associate dean for Research and Vivian Gill Distinguished Research Chair."
"The approach from Case Western Reserve University combines cutting-edge stem cell and drug screening technologies to develop new chemical therapeutics for myelin disorders,
#Printing silicon on paper, with lasers Recently, a group of researchers at Delft University of Technology,
the professor who led the research team at Delft University of Technology, with collaborators at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Ishikawa, Japan."
As part of the precision medicine initiative at the Cancer Institute of New jersey, investigators--which include colleagues from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical school and RUCDR Infinite Biologics, the world's largest university-based biorepository,
the researchers from Inserm and Paris Descartes University at Unit 1124,"Toxicology, Pharmacology and Cellular Signaling,"have succeeded in extracting
"explains Odile Kellermann, leader of the team from Inserm and Paris Descartes University, and the main author of this work.
and professor of anatomy and regenerative biology at the George washington University School of medicine and Health Sciences."
taking the next steps to finding treatments for MS."Performed at Case Western Reserve University, researchers discovered the therapeutic compounds for enhancing myelination from oligodendrocyte progenitor cells through screening a library of bioactive small molecules.
researchers from Brown University have developed new textured surfaces for culturing cells in the lab that better mimic the complex surroundings in
"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.
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
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,
"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."
who was a Fulbright Cancer Research Fellow at Cornell University in Dr. Lyden's lab."But when TGF?
"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."
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,
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.
"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,
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