a group of University of Florida researchers has found. Carbon dioxide, a major contributor to the buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases, can be captured
#Bioengineers cut in half time needed to make high-tech flexible sensors Bioengineers at the University of California,
but a new class of spiral polypeptides developed at the University of Illinois targets one thing no bacterium can live without:
#Nanotechnology could spur new heart treatment for arrthymia A new nanoparticle developed by University of Michigan researchers could be the key to a targeted therapy for cardiac arrhythmia,
In the new paper, Kajimura team collaborated with the laboratory of Yasushi Ishihama, Phd, of the University of Kyoto, Japan,
That is precisely what University of Washington mathematics professor Gunther Uhlmann was expecting when he and three colleagues proposed a means to develop an electromagnetic wormhole in a 2007 paper in Physical Review Letters.
A group of researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona were able to design and construct a metallic metamaterial that could enclose two objects:
Uhlmann co-authors on the 2007 paper were Allan Greenleaf at the University of Rochester, Yaroslav Kurylev at University college London and Matti Lassas at Helsinki University of Technology e
#Biologist uncovers fundamental new strategy for destroying cancer cells University of Virginia cell biologist John Herr believes that the most ground-breaking findings always start with an insight built on basic science.
That what we do well as a university. That our task, to create a knowledge base and disseminate it into society by launching new ventures
#An efficient and convenient protocol for generation of human ipsc-derived hepatocytes Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed an efficient and cheap protocol for production of human ips cell-derived liver cells.
and Ronald Harty in the Department of Pathobiology of the University of Pennsylvania School of veterinary medicine demonstrates a way to do that,
#Researchers build nanoscale autonomous walking machine from DNA Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a nanoscale machine made of DNA that can randomly walk in any direction across bumpy surfaces.
Ph d.,study author from the Department of Biomedicine, at the University of Bergen in Bergen,
Now electrical engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created a new kind of phototransistor and it is the fastest,
but the one developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison can be made in any curve to fit any optical system.
Brandeis University professor Lizbeth Hedstrom and University of Minnesota professor Courtney Aldrich, two of the study other research collaborators, had identified several inhibitor molecules that bind to IMPDH,
Now, for the first time, a team of researchers from The Rockefeller University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Stony Brook University has revealed that vital complex molecular architecture.
And to their surprise, it does not look as they had expected. ur finding goes against decades of textbook drawings of
and a specialty of co-author Huilin Li, a molecular biologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University.
and Cancer Research UK scientist at The University of Oxford, said: f we can map the edge of the tumour,
said Anthony Gonzalez of the University of Florida in Gainesville, lead author of a new study published in the Oct 20 issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
was shown to be expressed specifically in the maize seed by the group of Prem Chourey at University of Florida,
such as in the mutant lines provided by the Uniformmu resource (Don Mccarty and Karen Koch at the University of Florida),
says Bruno Reichart, a professor at the University of Munich, who leads a German consortium developing transgenic pigs. t very cumbersome.
Also this summer, transplant experts at the University of Pittsburgh said they kept a baboon alive with one of Revivicor pig kidneys for more than four months.
She has been financing research at the University of Maryland, where pig lungs are being perfused with human blood in the laboratory as a way of measuring the immune response. he wants genetically modified lungs for personal reasons,
Several privately funded companies and small university-based research groups pursuing novel fusion reactor designs have delivered promising results that could shorten the timeline for producing a prototype machine from decades to several years.
Harish Krishnaswamy, an associate professor at Columbia University, says Kumu trials suggest that the idea of full-duplex wireless connections can be practical,
#Paralyzed Man Arm Wired to Receive Brain signals Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio say theye used electronics to get around a paralyzed man spinal injury,
But a new method developed at the University of Birmingham is about to change all that.
Built in partnership with the Applied Physics laboratory at John Hopkins University the attachment has been called affectionately Luke (after Luke Skywalker.
Jamie Davies of the University of Edinburgh wrote in an accompanying commentary. here is a long way to go until transplantable kidneys can be engineered,
when researchers at the Jikei University School of medicine in Tokyo created mini-kidneys that from human stem cells that excreted urine
who is developing electronic skin at the University of California, Berkeley, told Chemical & Engineering News. t could have important implications for the development of smarter prosthetics.
to charge the batteries or power onboard systems, according to the University of Manchester. Graphene-doped strontium titanium oxide has the ability to generate electricity from relatively small amounts of heat
#obo-whiskers build picture of surroundings Researchers at the University of Illinoisadvanced Digital Sciences Centre in Singapore have developed a whisker-like sensor array that measures the fluid flow of its surroundings
and the University of North carolina at Chapel hill. his could be used to release painkillers whenever a patient with arthritic knees goes for a walk,
The university said in a statement that the microcapsules stick halfway out of the film, on the side of the film that touches a patient skin.
The results delivered by scientists at Korea University and TU Berlin-are published in the Journal of Neural engineering.
#K scientists create magnetism in nonmagnetic metals Scientists at Leeds University have discovered a method to create magnetism in metals that aren naturally magnetic,
or toxic materials, said Tim Moorsom from the School of Physics & Astronomy at Leeds University,
such as carbon and copper, said co-lead author Fatma Al Maari, also from the University School of Physics & Astronomy. uture technologies,
both at the Chinese University of Hong kong, attempting to mimic the movement of the larval amphibians to design a capsule endoscope with a controllable swimming action that doctors can steer around inside the stomach to provide a guided tour,
However, a special algorithm, developed by a group from North carolina State university and the University of North carolina, allows this process to happen automatically,
The technique, developed by researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex in collaboration with Ultrahaptics, could be developed for a wide range of applications,
Bruce Drinkwater, Professor of Ultrasonics in Bristol University Department of Mechanical engineering said: e all know that sound waves can have a physical effect.
Sriram Subramanian, Professor of Informatics at Sussex University and cofounder of Ultrahaptics, added: n our device we manipulate objects in mid-air
Bristol University said that the third could be described as a high-intensity cage that surrounds the objects and holds them in place from all directions.
The technique, developed by researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex in collaboration with Ultrahaptics, could be developed for a wide range of applications,
Bruce Drinkwater, Professor of Ultrasonics in Bristol University Department of Mechanical engineering said: e all know that sound waves can have a physical effect.
Sriram Subramanian, Professor of Informatics at Sussex University and cofounder of Ultrahaptics, added: n our device we manipulate objects in mid-air
Bristol University said that the third could be described as a high-intensity cage that surrounds the objects and holds them in place from all directions.
#New electrode improves solar efficiency to split water Scientists from the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin have developed a new type of electrode for splitting water with sunlight,
a professor at the University of Chicago Institute for Molecular Engineering. o people can use these concepts ncorporation of a new element
a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin. o it not just about achieving higher efficiency,
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created miniature lenses with vast range of vision. Their new approach is claimed to have created the first-ever flexible Fresnel zone plate microlenses with a wide field of view,
That the idea behind AIM autonomous intersection management at the artificial intelligence laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin.
says Newcastle University professor of intelligent transport systems Phil Blyte, announcing the project. n more congested areas or particularly busy times of the day,
Dr Vikas Shah a consultant radiologist at University Hospitals Leicester. upload radiology cases such as x-rays or CT SCANS with a question or two,
and facilitates everyday tasks, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge. Wizard, which will now be available on ios (Apple operating system) as part of the Peak app,
State-of-the-art neuroscience at the University of Cambridge combined with the innovative approach at Peak, will help bring the games industry to a new level
Though not much use for capturing vessels in the vacuum of space, the team at the Public University of Navarre in Pamplona,
#Boffins have made optical transistors that can reach 4 TERAHERTZ Aluminum-doped zinc oxide is the key to building faster, optical chips, according to researchers at Purdue University, Indiana.
Here's how Bristol University explains one goes about making acoustic pincers: The researchers used an array of 64 miniature loudspeakers to create high-pitch and high-intensity sound waves.
Researchers at Flinders University in Australia believe that they have finally found the solution that meets both of those criteria.
the university says the material is"dirt cheap"to produce meaning it could easily be used in widespread applications like lining pipes for domestic and waste water, large-scale environmental cleanup operations and even for reducing mercury levels in large bodies of water like the oceans.
and energy saving desalination technology Researchers at the Alexandria University in Egypt have developed a new desalination technology that can produce potable water at reduced energy.
Developed by University of Alexandria researchers Mona Naim, Mahmoud Elewa, Ahmed El-Shafei and Abeer Moneer,
Alexandria University agricultural and biosystems engineering associate professor Ahmed El-Shafei was quoted by Yahoo News as saying:"
"mostly from males aged 25 to 30, well-educated, with a university degree. Initially, in the first two or three years, a higher percentage of the applications were for launching ecommerce companies."
#SAP and Heidelberg University Hospital Personalize Pregnancy Care This Sunday is International Women's Day,
Heidelberg University Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in all of Europe is a perfect example of connected care working to improve women's lives.
In partnership with SAP and abcmedien, the University Hospital developed an app to provide pregnant women all information needed along their pregnancy and beyond.
which only pushes consumer product information, the healthcare experts at Heidelberg University Hospital created this app to serve as a dual resource for both mothers and physicians alike.
At Heidelberg University Hospital, doctors can analyze the answers obtained through the app, and proactively identify mothers at risk for such illness
and was built on the SAP Mobile Platform to provide Heidelberg University Hospital an intuitive interface to connect doctors with patients and vice versa.
In the future, Heidelberg University Hospital hopes to expand the app to help treat and monitor cancer patients as well as other diseases.
Heidelberg University Hospital can reduce immediate and long-term risks for mother and for baby. The traditional relationship between patient and doctor still exists
In 2011, researchers at the University of Exeter made headlines with a 3d printer that created designs in chocolate,
It was against this background that the the University of Barcelona (UB), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and the Fundació CIM, an organization
LAB OPENS ITS DOORS The facility is located in the Torribera campus of the University of Barcelona,
The foundation, attached to Polytechnic University of Catalonia and working on an open hardware basis, has been selling 3d printers since 1998, according to Felip Fonollosa, its director general.
the agreement signed by the two Catalan universities is for an initial three-year period,
It's also part of a larger project to create the Center for Gastronomic Studies and Research of Catalonia, an initiative by the University of Barcelona,
IBM, in partnership with Marist College and Syracuse University's School of Information Studies will host clouds that provide developers access to a virtual IBM Linuxone at no cost.
or failed to respond to standard therapies went into remission after receiving an investigational personalized cellular therapy CTL019 developed at the Perelman School of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
) treated at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and first five adults (ages 26 to 60 treated at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
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#Optimal particle size for anticancer nanomedicines discovered Nanomedicines consisting of nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery to specific tissues
--and their interactions with biological systems explains Jianjun Cheng an associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Cheng a Willett Faculty Scholar at Illinois is affiliated with the departments of Bioengineering and of Chemistry the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory the Institute of Genomic Biology the Frederick
Seitz Materials Research Laboratory and University of Illinois Cancer Center. Tang who obtained his Phd degree from the University of Illinois with Jianjun Cheng is currently a CRI Irvington postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts institute of technology.
Collaborators and co-corresponding authors of the paper at Illinois include Timothy Fan associate professor veterinary clinical medicine;
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#Weather history time machine created During the 1930s North america endured the Dust bowl a prolonged era of dryness that withered crops
'The National Science Foundation-funded project is a collaboration between Shen University of Maryland atmospheric scientist Phillip A. Arkin and National oceanic and atmospheric administration climatologist Thomas M. Smith.
and at this level of detail said Suresh Babu the University of Tennessee-ORNL Governor's Chair for Advanced Manufacturing.
Other contributors to the research are ORNL's Mike Kirka and Hassina Bilheux University of California Berkeley's Anton Tremsin and Texas A&m University's William Sames.
Dylan Ward a University of Cincinnati assistant professor of geology will present a case study on this unique technology application at The Geological Society of America's Annual Meeting & Exposition.
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The study--authored by scientists from the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory Stony Brook University Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
and surprising said study coauthor Huilin Li a biologist at Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University.
#Tool enhances social inclusion for people with autism The University of Alicante has developed together with centres in the UK Spain
and definitions of complex verbs explains Paloma Moreda computer programmer at the University of Alicante. It provides additional information to understand the main ideas of a document
The project coordinator was Ruslan Mitkov Professor of Computational linguistics and Language Engineering at the University of Wolverhampton (UK).
Now a new study by a team of scientists from Italy France Columbia University and the University of California Berkeley demonstrates that the last magnetic reversal 786000 years ago actually happened very quickly in less than 100 years--roughly a human lifetime.
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Kutch collaborated with colleagues at USC Ostrow the Keck School of medicine of USC and Loma Linda University on the research.
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Achim Weber from Zurich University Hospital and Dr. Monika Wolf Institute of Surgical Pathology University Hospital Zurich.
But new research from Concordia University suggests that the opposite is more likely to occur.
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#Scientists create new protein-based material with some nerve Scientists at the University of California Berkeley have taken proteins from nerve cells
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Scientists from Tohoku University in Japan have developed a new type of energy-efficient flat light source based on carbon nanotubes with very low power consumption of around 0. 1 Watt for every hour's operation
which holds excellent potential for a lighting device with low power consumption said Norihiro Shimoi the lead researcher and an associate professor of environmental studies at the Tohoku University.
#Research leads to brain cancer clinical trial Researchers at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI)
Our research has identified a key process in brain tumour growth that we were able to target with AZD8055 says Luchman from the university's Cumming School of medicine and a member of the HBI.
and their families says Weiss leader of the university's Brain and Mental health strategic research priority.
University of Calgary researchers including Luchman Weiss and Dr. Greg Cairncross--director of SACRI and leader of the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI'Therapeutic Targeting of Glioblastoma research program at the university--are now working with cancer researchers Dr. Warren Mason (Princess
Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto) and Dr. Lesley Seymour (Director of the NCIC Clinical Trials Group's Investigational New Drug Program) and drug manufacturer Astrazeneca to plan a clinical trial testing a similar but newer drug
In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications University of Illinois physics professor Aleksei Aksimentiev
The researchers extensively used the Blue waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications housed at the University of Illinois. They mapped each individual atom in the complex DNA molecule
#Timing is key for traumatic brain injury treatment Researchers at the University of Adelaide have discovered two potential treatments for traumatic brain injury that are most effective
Laboratory studies conducted in the University's School of Medical sciences have confirmed that changes in brain water channels over time play a critical role in traumatic brain injury.
For his Phd at the University researcher Dr Joshua Burton tested two compounds that alter the natural flow of water activity in and out of the brain.
This work builds on more than a decade of research conducted by the University of Adelaide's Professor Andrea Yool on the water channel proteins known as aquaporins.
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Michael Kanost university distinguished professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics led a study by Kansas State university researchers that looked at how protein molecules in the blood of insects function in insects'immune system.
The research paper published today in the Lancet was authored by researchers from UCL Basel University Switzerland the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine the University Medical center Utrecht Netherlands Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University. The brain's blood supply comes from the carotid arteries two large blood vessels that run through the neck.
From theory to practicekuosmanen began her academic career in Kiev Polytechnic University Ukraine and graduated in environmental sciences in Wageningen University The netherlands.
She is ready to take her results from theory to practice. Our dynamic approach would provide better estimations of the nutrient leaching from agriculture to environment than the conventional method of OECD. Story Source:
#Personalized treatment for stress-related diabetes Researchers at Lund University in Sweden are testing a treatment for type 2 diabetes
Our results show that it is possible to block the effects of a common risk gene for type 2 diabetes says Anders Rosengren the diabetes researcher at Lund University in charge of the project.
At the time several research teams from Lund University were able to report that a common gene variant in the population makes insulin-producing cells sensitive to stress hormones.
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#Big foray in the DNA pool: Retrieving small genomes from a mix of organisms Scientists from the IZW led by Alex Greenwood publish in PLOS ONE a simple way to retrieve small genomes from a mix of various organisms.
Auroras and ozone lossaccording to the research study conducted by the Finnish Meteorological Institute University of Otago
In their latest study Christian Seiser and his team at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL) of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna addressed this question.
Anna Sawicka addressed this question as a Phd student in the lab of Christian Seiser at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL) of the Medical University of Vienna.
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Considering the cost it would be 40 times lower says Thomas Wågberg Senior lecturer at Department of physics Umeå University.
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Zoologists at the University of Basel in Switzerland have discovered now a new parasite species that represents the missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites.
Dieter Ebert from the Department of Environmental science at the University of Basel has discovered now the missing link that explains how this large group of extreme parasites the microsporidia has evolved.
This is the first time that anyone has imaged directly single dopant atoms moving around inside a material said Rohan Mishra of Vanderbilt University who is also a visiting scientist in ORNL's Materials science and Technology Division.
The study was funded by the DOE Office of Science the Australian Research Council Vanderbilt University and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship for research abroad.
The project's authors include Ryo Ishikawa of Oak ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tokyo;
Scott Findlay of Monash University; Takashi Taniguchi of the National Institute for Materials science; Sokrates Pantelides of Oak ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University;
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#Versatile antibiotic found with self-immunity gene on plasmid in staph strain A robust broad spectrum antibiotic
but the investigators from Brigham Young University Provo Utah now report that the mechanism of synthesis is surprisingly simple.
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden now present the first direct evidence that the disease can actually migrate from the gut to the brain.
Researchers at Lund University have mapped previously the spread of Parkinson's in the brain. The disease progression is believed to be driven by a misfolded protein that clumps together
or stop the disease at an earlier stage says Professor Jia-Yi Li research group leader for Neural Plasticity and Repair at Lund University.
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In cooperation with physicists from the Technical University in Dresden and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villingen (Switzerland) the LMU researchers have demonstrated that the magnetic field generated by the (Life) OH layers penetrates into the interleaved superconducting layers--spontaneously and in the absence of externally applied fields.
and the University of North carolina at Chapel hill. his drug delivery system is based DNA which means it is biocompatible
Tianyue Jiang a Ph d. student in the joint biomedical engineering department and at the China Pharmaceutical University;
and Dr. Ran Mo a former postdoctoral researcher in the joint biomedical engineering department now at the China Pharmaceutical University.
Smart separatorin the last couple of years we've been thinking about building a smart separator that can detect shorting before the dendrites reach the cathode said Cui a member of the photon science faculty at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Researchers characterize new tumor syndrome Scientists at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have published their findings that mutations in a gene known as ARMC5 promote the growth of benign tumors in the adrenal glands
Dr. Jochen Schneider together with colleagues from Charité Berlin (Dr. Ulf Elbelt) and the Universities of Würzburg (Prof.
#Ultra-fast charging batteries that can be recharged 70 in just two minutes Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) have developed a new battery that can be recharged up to 70 per cent in only
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which study leader Brigitte Eisenwort from the University Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the Meduni Vienna explains as follows:
This ground-breaking study was set up under the leadership of Brigitte Eisenwort together with Thomas Niederkrotenthaler and Benedikt Till (both from the Institute for Social medicine at the Meduni Vienna's Centre for Public health) as well as Barbara Hinterbuchinger from the University
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