#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.
#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.
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,
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.
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:
University of Exete i
#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
That long-range goal is moving toward reality thanks to an effort led by professors in the University of Wisconsin-Madison departments of computer sciences, psychology and educational psychology.
Arnold Research Group and Guisinger Research Group, news. wisc. eduscientists at University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered now a method to grow these ultra-narrow strips, called nanoribbons, with desirable semiconducting
says Hubbard, an assistant professor of pharmacology in the University of Alberta Faculty of medicine & Dentistry. ee moving towards a very logical type of treatment for genetic diseases,
During the study, 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: e used our knowledge of blood flow dynamics to pick up on markers
and out in 90.9%of cases where it is not. rofessor Marco Rossi of Pisa University said:
Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have pioneered a method to track meltwater flowing through glaciers that end in the ocean.
The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) helped pioneer this new method on glaciers in Greenland and Alaska.
The team also includes researchers from the University of Alaska Southeast, the U s. Geological Survey and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Bartholomaus did his fieldwork while studying for his doctorate at the University of Alaska Fairbanks,
but he analyzed the data and wrote the study while at UTIG. UTIG is a research unit of The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences.
The team discovered the new method while trying to study earthquakes caused by iceberg calving
NSF, University of Texas at Austi U
#Study shifts understanding of how bone fractures heal It time to rewrite the textbook description of bone fracture healing.
Now researchers at University of California, San diego School of medicine have discovered a population of liver cells that are better at regenerating liver tissue than ordinary liver cells, or hepatocytes.
says endocrinologist Francesco Celi of the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical center, who was not involved with the study. mportantly,
The work was completed at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland and was funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB),
Researchers led by the University of Cambridge have built a mother robot that can independently build its own children and test
Andreas Velten, a Morgridge medical engineering affiliate and scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI
Ke Xu, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab Life sciences Division, has dubbed his innovation SR-STORM,
For the first time, Carnegie mellon University Brainhub scientists have used a noninvasive brain imaging tool to detect the pathways that connect the parts of the basal ganglia.
said Patrick Beukema, the lead author and a graduate student in the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh (CNUP) and the joint Pitt and CMU Center for the Basis of Neural Cognition (CNBC).
The university has created some of the first cognitive tutors, helped to develop the Jeopardy-winning Watson,
#High-sensitivity, high resolution magnetocardiography (MCG) for use at room temperature developed Researchers at Tohoku University have succeeded in developing a sensor for the living body that can detect the bio-magnetic field with high sensitivity
University of Illinois researchers have developed a new technique to create a cell habitat of squishy fluids, called hydrogels,
said Steve Potter, an associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. eural modulation therapies of the future,
In research conducted with colleagues at Emory University, the optoclamp ability to maintain a steady neural firing state allowed researchers to study a key control issue in homeostatic plasticity, a phenomenon that results from a lack of neural stimulation.
and Emory University to clamp firing at normal levels during the addition of a drug that inhibits neurotransmission.
was a collaboration with Emory University Professor Pete Wenner and former graduate student Ming-fai Fong,
#Mouth Guard Monitors Health Markers, Transmits Information Wirelessly to Smart Phone Engineers at the University of California,
The team, led by nanoengineering professor Joseph Wang and electrical engineering professor Patrick Mercier, both from the University of California,
heat waves Droughts and heat waves are happening simultaneously with much greater frequency than in the past, according to research by climate experts at the University of California, Irvine.
and a Fellow of St john College at the University of Cambridge, led the research. He said:
#Scientists discover world longest continental volcanic hotspot track Scientists from the University of Aberdeen and the Australian National University (ANU) have discovered the world longest known continental volcanic hotspot track in eastern Australia.
The so-called Cosgrove track was found to be nearly three times the length of the famous Yellowstone hotspot track in the United states. Most volcanoes are found along the edge of tectonic plates,
Professor Nick Rawlinson, from the University of Aberdeen School of Geosciences, explained: hen material from a mantle plume reaches the base of the lithosphere it starts to melt,
which he sends to collaborators in a drug-delivery group at Purdue University. The team is currently targeting HIV drugs,
Tufts University biomedical engineers recently published the first report of a promising new way to induce human mesenchymal stem cells (or hmscs,
In 2015, he received a Faculty Early Career development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF),
In addition to the School of engineering, he has appointments in the School of medicine and Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical sciences at Tufts University v
Researchers from Brown University have taken a major step toward addressing one of those challenges. Theye developed
and Yasuaki Monnai from Keio University in Tokyo. One of the advantages to the approach
A research group from Osaka University is collaborating with Mittleman group to implement the device in a prototype terahertz network theye building. his is a first-generation
#Researchers find biomarker for autism that may aid diagnostics By identifying a key signaling defect within a specific membrane structure in all cells, University of California,
and Elias M. Puchner, Phd, a UCSF former postdoctoral fellow who is now assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota.
inexpensive tests using DNA Chemists at the University of Montreal used DNA molecules to developed rapid,
The design was created by the research group of Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, a professor in the Department of chemistry at University of Montreal. espite the power of current diagnostic tests,
postdoctoral scholar at the University of Montreal and first author of the study. nstead of having to fight this basic repulsion effect,
Francesco Ricci, a professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata who also participated in this study,
The research, led by Yinzhi Cao, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Lehigh University, with coauthors Xiang Pan and Yan Chen from Northwestern University, will be presented at the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network security,
September 28-30, in Florence, Italy. The study will also be published as paper, afepay: Protecting against Credit card Forgery with Existing Magnetic Card Readers. ecause Safepay is backward compatible with existing magnetic card readers,
a gas station and a university coffee shop. During the experiments, they used a bank application, cell phone application and magnetic credit card chip.
Now, University of Missouri researchers have made a discovery in how specialized proteins can inhibit the virus,
Eric O. Freed, director and a senior investigator of the HIV Dynamics and Replication Program within the National Cancer Institute, Chen Liang, an associate professor at Mcgill University and Benjamin Chen
and John van der Oost at Wageningen University, describe the unexpected biological features of this new system
inexpensive tests using DNA Chemists at the University of Montreal used DNA molecules to developed rapid,
The design was created by the research group of Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, a professor in the Department of chemistry at University of Montreal. espite the power of current diagnostic tests,
postdoctoral scholar at the University of Montreal and first author of the study. nstead of having to fight this basic repulsion effect,
Francesco Ricci, a professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata who also participated in this study,
and changes shape could lead to artificial arteries Researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have developed a way of assembling organic molecules into complex tubular tissue-like structures without the use of moulds
and Other Acute Infections A group of scientists, led by colleagues from the University of California,
and Maria Carmen Polanco, of the University of Murcia, in Murcia, Spain. The researchers used a combination of X-ray crystallography techniques
says Rowena Matthews, a professor emerita of biological chemistry at the University of Michigan, who has read the paper.
says Zhen Gu, corresponding author of a paper on the work and an assistant professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North carolina State university and the University of North carolina at Chapel hill. irst,
But an associate professor in the University of Arizona School of Information Clayton Morrison, is doing just that one algorithm at a time.
animals A new test detects virtually any virus that infects people and animals, according to research at Washington University School of medicine in St louis,
Developed in collaboration with the university Mcdonnell Genome Institute, the test sequences and detects viruses in patient samples
The Washington University researchers are making the technology they developed publicly available to scientists and clinicians worldwide
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering think so. They have created a new type of lithium-ion battery anode using portabella mushrooms,
The Ozkan research is supported by the University of California Riverside. This paper involving mushrooms is published just over a year after the Ozkan labs developed a lithium-ion battery anode based on nanosilicon via beach sand as the natural raw material.
according to Carnegie mellon University researchers who have developed a three-fingered soft robotic hand with multiple embedded fiber optic sensors.
So Park, working with mechanical engineering students Celeste To from CMU and Tess Lee Hellebrekers from the University of Texas, invented a highly stretchable and flexible optical sensor, using a combination of commercially available silicone rubbers.
said John Guy, M d.,professor of ophthalmology and director of the ocular gene therapy laboratory at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of medicine.
thanks to findings published today by Professor Gilbert Bernier of the University of Montreal and its affiliated Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital.
the $5. 2 million Australian Research Council Training Centre for Portable Analytical Separation Technologies based at the University of Tasmania,
thanks to a new diagnostic test developed by a University of Virginia Children Hospital pediatrician and his collaborators.
and Matthew Gurka of West virginia University School of Public health developed the new diagnostic test. The test relies on an evaluation of metabolic syndrome,
#New microscopy technology augments surgeon view for greater accuracy Researchers at the University of Arizona (UA) have developed a prototype of a new microscope technology that could help surgeons work with a greater degree
In the edition of the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, a team of Brown University researchers describes a new method that works faster and more sensitively in lab testing than the current standard technologies.
Developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Cambridge-based technology company Novalia,
Hasan method, developed at the University Nanoscience Centre, works by suspending tiny particles of graphene in a arriersolvent mixture,
a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and a University Lecturer in the Engineering Department. e hope to use this strong local expertise to expand our functional ink platform.
University Center for Translational Immunology. Sachs has been developing special pigs for xenotransplantation for more than 30 years
Now University of Pennsylvania researchers have shown at the molecular level how experiencing stress changes a male mouse sperm in such a way that it affects his offspring response to stress.
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: he level of precision is reminiscent of what one can do in a computer model,
A supercomputer for the ong tailof science The San diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San diego this week formally launched omet,
The findings from the Cambridge scientists, who worked in collaboration with scientists at the University of Rennes in France,
from the Cambridge Institute of Medical Research at the University of Cambridge, said: e are starting to find that many forms of blood cancer can be traced back to defects in the basic housekeeping processes in our cellsmaturation.
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: he level of precision is reminiscent of what one can do in a computer model,
scientists at Washington University School of Medicinein St louis have demonstrated a way to dial up the body innate immune defenses
He is now an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Washington and a UW Medicine researcher. nswering this question
said Joseph Bonventre, MD, Phd, HSCI Principal Faculty, Chief of the Renal Division at Brigham and Women Hospital at Harvard and the study senior author. e were interested in creating disease models using these kidney organoids,
and has taken since a position as Assistant professor at the University of Washington. his provides us with faster,
#Researchers discover an epilepsy switch A team from the University of Bonn uses a new approach to solve an old mystery 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.
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), have decoded now a signaling pathway
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.
University of Georgia researchers are giving patients new hope with recent findings that help pinpoint the mechanisms causing chemoresistance.
#Collaboration identifies critical macular-development gene Researchers at the University of Iowa Stephen A. Wynn Institute for Vision Research announced the discovery of a gene that controls the development of the human macula.
and certain in the long term. s a public research university working to solve some of society greatest health and medical challenges,
says Jean Robillard, M d.,interim president of the University of Iowa and vice president for medical affairs, University of Iowa Health care s
#New company to produce water-disinfecting tablets invented at UVA A new University of Virginia-inspired public benefit company with a global health mission,
and Health Conference, being held this week at the University of North carolina School of Global Public health.
The University is one of the primary shareholders in the company, and used a Virginia Innovation Grant as seed money to move the technology beyond the lab and into the marketplace.
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