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Professor Michael Sivak, at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute has published just a series of reports looking at car use,

a graduate student at Cornell University in New york. He raised the money, more than $70, 000, through the Kickstarter crowd-funding website to enable people to have their own personal spacecraft, known as a sprite.

says Dr Jeffrey Miller, at the University of Southern California Computer science Dept, and member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

In 2008, Formula Zero a race between hydrogen-powered cars built by six competing universities tried to show that sustainable energy needn be faced po,

working for longer and driving for longer, says Barbara Sahakian, Professor of Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge,

and access to top universities cheating, and will those not taking them feel obliged to do

and the cognitive disorder drug piracetam in the final year of his politics degree course at Warwick University, UK.

and normalised, says Anjan Chatterjee, a neuroscentist at the University of Pennsylvania. Students think of these as study aids in the same way as someone might drink coffee before work.

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania led by psychologist Irena Ilieva found volunteers given Adderall performed no better in 13 different cognitive ability tests,

Another study, led by Martha Farah, Director of the Center for Neuroscience & Society at the University of Pennsylvania

and Director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovations, University of Manchester, UK. But then so are many things, such as education,

This leads to fears that it will become even harder for those from low income backgrounds to get into the best schools, universities and jobs.

claims Rabinowitch, who is based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The idea may seem absurd,

and Boris Rubinsky of the University of California, Berkeley. e looked at 20 different types of potatoes,

So a team of scientists at the University of Kelaniya recently decided to try the experiment with something more widely available,

says Derek Lovley at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. t just using a different matrix.

which offer anyone with access to the internet the chance to sign up for university courses and study them for free.

or endanger the traditional university degree. But arguably the real novelty they offer has been missed. Many critics dismiss Moocs as simply online videos of lectures

universities and entrepreneurship centres in every corner of the country like the King Abdulla City for Atomic and Renewable energy, near the capital Riyadh,

000 Saudi students studying abroad at the world leading universities. With 70%of the population under 34,

The King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (Kaust) campus is a public research institution near the coastal village of Thuwal.

and don work until they graduate from university. n Saudi arabia, you won find someone who risen from the mailroom to be CEO,

In Saudi arabia, 52%of university graduates are women; but segregation laws, such as not allowing them to drive,

A team at the University of Groningen has demonstrated a way to switch off antibiotic agents after just a few hours using warmth or sunlight.

"Here, we have universities that supply us with millions of such candidates, and we have people with management talent to add to it,

#Tal skipped university to work at a start-up before launching his own, but another important driver of the tech scene is the fact that Israeli university students pay only about $3, 100(#2, 000) a year in tuition fees.

and predictable technology,#says Professor Roch Guerin, Chair of Computer science and Engineering at Washington University, St louis."Bluetooth targets lower transmission ranges and data rates than wi-fi,

Gary Marsden, a computer scientist at the University of Cape town, developed Big board, an electronic notice board that disseminates information wirelessly and for free.

#Its author Ferdinando Boero, Professor of Zoology at Salento University, Italy, concludes:""If you cannot fight them...

With an entire technology budget of just $12, 000 per year, including one part-time IT person (an undergraduate at a local university),

The same year Pluznick came across scent receptors in the kidney, biologists at the University of California, San diego identified sour receptors in the spine.

Yehuda Ben-Shahar, now a professor at Washington University in St louis, found cells in the human airway equipped with bitter receptors.

"In fact, work by Noam Cohen, an ear, nose and throat doctor at University of Pennsylvania Medical school,

which Professor Lee Cronin's group at the University of Glasgow are using to develop into a carbon-fixing paint.

Simon Park at the University of Surrey is integrating bacterial technology into building facades, and using 3d desktop printers to mix chemistries as a form of wet fabrication,

The team of scientists was led by Jeffrey Meyer, M d.,Ph d.,of the University of Toronto and included five other past NARSAD grant recipients.*

Nature Communications published the findings, emerging from a collaboration with Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research and Emory University.

The center brings together scientists from leading research universities across the United states, Asia and Europe-as well as from private industry-with the aim of making organic synthesis faster, simpler and greener.

#Enzymes believed to promote cancer actually suppress tumors Upending decades-old dogma, a team of scientists at the University of California,

Boston University Medical Centeralthough it has been shown that a diet high in fat and exposure to certain bacteria can cause atherosclerosis (the buildup of fats cholesterol

In collaboration with the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at Boston University the researchers performed genome-wide microarray profiling

#Vanderbilt-led team studies blood test for prostate cancer Vanderbilt University researcher William Mitchell, M d.,Ph d,

and HIV viruses Dental and medical researchers from Case Western Reserve University found another reason to treat periodontal disease as soon as possible.

This interaction by SCFA and T-cells surprised co-investigators Fengchun Ye, assistant professor of biological sciences at the Case Western Reserve University School of dental medicine,

#UCSD Study Shows Why Protein Mutations Lead to Familial Form of Parkinson Disease Researchers at the San diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San diego, have shown for the first time why protein mutations

"said senior study author Gábor Tigyi, a professor of physiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC)."

. which was cofounded by Tigyi and other UTHSC faculty.""Humankind might soon have a defense against unintended radiation exposure,

#Reducing Myc gene activity extends healthy lifespan in mice A team of scientists based at Brown University has found that reducing expression of a fundamentally important gene called Myc significantly increased the healthy lifespan of laboratory mice,

Columbia University School of engineering and Applied science-Opening new doors for biomedical and neuroscience research, Elizabeth Hillman, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering and of radiology at Columbia University Medical center

#Biogen idec Columbia to Conduct Collaborative Genetics Research Biogen idec and Columbia University Medical center have formed a $30 million strategic alliance to conduct genetics discovery research on the underlying causes of disease

founding director of Columbia University Institute for Genomic Medicine. his collaboration marries the exceptional drug development expertise of Biogen with cutting-edge genomics expertise at Columbia University Medical center.

Harold and Margaret Hatch Professor of the University and dean of the faculties of health sciences and medicine. he development of new treatments based on this genetic understanding will have profound effects on clinical practice.

Tom Maniatis, Phd, the Isidore S. Edelman Professor of Biochemistry and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University Medical center and director of Columbia university-wide

"Built on Kyoto University research The work is built on research done by the Kyoto University lab of stem cell researcher Mitinori Saitou.

and Azim Surani of the University of Cambridge reported they had replicated the in vitro part of Saitou mouse work.

The 260-plus HR-focused undergraduate degree programs at U s. colleges and universities, as well as certificate and diploma programs offered by organizations such as SHRM

"sees the Arabic-speaking students at Israeli universities as both a business opportunity and a way to bring Israeli Arabs into the country new economy.

Those who do attend university favor professions such as medicine, pharmacy, nursing and teaching, and they have been less present in business schools.

Perdomo 29 a Sao paulo native and Tufts University grad started Gotenna in Williamsburg Brooklyn with her brother Jorge in March 2013.

Tel aviv University announced last week that it's teaming up with Tsinghua University in Beijing to establish the XIN Center for research into areas like nanotechnology.

#UCLA Researchers Develop Device To Turn Smartphones into Fluorescence Microscopes Researchers at the University of California,

An app connects the phone to the university's servers to measure the molecules which are labeled

Other printed elements include complex electronic circuits Engineers at the Raytheon University of Massachusetts Lowell Research Institute are developing ways to print such circuits,

Through established relationships with universities, research institutions, and commercial partners, we strive to identify technologies and business opportunities on the leading edge of renewable energy innovation.

ONC which is the University of Victoria largest research project already operates the world most advanced cabled ocean observatories off BC coast.

Part of IBM commitment will go toward internships for over a dozen students from BC universities to build subject matter expertise and practical experience in this emerging industry.

and university curriculum in their own community via the Internet allowing them to attend university without having to physically relocate to a campus. hrough IBM contribution wee able to draw insights

Through established relationships with universities, research institutions, and commercial partners, we strive to identify technologies and business opportunities on the leading edge of renewable energy innovation.

a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign materials science and engineering professor. hen the battery runs out, you need to have surgery to replace it.

Courtesy University of Illinois/University of Arizona. Thin, flexible mechanical energy harvester, with rectifier and microbattery, mounted on the bovine heart.

Courtesy University of Illinois/University of Arizona. The team found through testing that their system could deliver 0. 2 microwatts per square centimeter of stable electricity over 20 million cycles.

#CHINA AND UC DAVIS PARTNER TO PUT ZERO EMISSION VEHICLES ON A FASTER TRACK In a landmark international collaboration on clean vehicle adoption, the University of California, Davis,

S. ZEV Policy Lab, a partnership between UC Davis, the world leading university on sustainable transportation,

and the PH&EV Research center ITS-Davis is the leading university center in the world on sustainable transportation.

Home to more than 60 affiliated faculty and researchers and 120 graduate students the Institute interdisciplinary scientific research and policy analysis supports California state and U s. government policy development on advanced clean vehicles, fuels and land use planning.

ITS-Davis established the China Center for Energy and Transportation in partnership with leading Chinese universities.

facilitating study and research in China for U s. graduate students and faculty, as well as inviting Chinese researchers and students to visit

and study at UC Davis. The UC Davis Policy Institute leverages world-class university expertise

and the full-time equivalent of 4, 100 faculty and other academics and 17,400 staff. The campus has an annual research budget of over $750 million, a comprehensive health system and about two dozen specialized research centers.

The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and 99 undergraduate majors in four colleges and six professional schools c

says Professor Michele Rossi from Consorzio Ferrara Ricerche and the University of Padova, Italy. here were many technical limitations in terms of communication capabilities that have been solved

explains project coordinator Fabio Ciravegna from the University of Sheffield in the UK. ot all necessary information can be captured with sensors.

says Professor Sabine Bahn of the University of Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research, a partner in the project.

ALERT project picks up research from the 1990s by the University of Hertfordshire, UK, which found a way to detect asbestos fibres through a new light-scattering technique.

and printing machine manufacturers their suppliers and universities approached the problem by focusing on a process central to their manufacturing activities:

Then prototypes were built at universities before being tested in industrial plants. The full system adaptation is controlled by sensors.

In each an industrial partner teamed up with a university and a sensor provider. In the case study involving Daimler one of the biggest automotive manufacturers in Europe the research led to a new milling strategy to reduce the manufacturing time for new gear concepts.

says Smarthand coordinator Fredrik Sebelius of Lund University in Sweden. his offers hope to amputees for a more functional artificial hand,

Professor Dolores Fregona and her research team at the University of Padua in Italy designed and tested gold compounds with the aim of elivering the metal as a cytotoxic smart bombkilling off cancer cells while minimising the impact on other organs.

Olli Tenovuo, Neurologist, Turku University Hospital explains the content: ll (the patient) clinical background. What kind of diseases has had the patient before?

and Marie Curie University in Paris. Researchers from six EU countries joined forces to make a hand that looks,

The research was led by scientists at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, the University of Cambridge and the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in the UK,

One of the study authors, Professor Doug Easton from the University of Cambridge who led several of the studies,

Robert Meijer, a Professor of Applied Sensor Networks, at the University of Amsterdam, who is coordinating the Urbanflood project said:

The project coordinated by The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge, UK has 7 participants from 4 countries i

Outside the European union EU), the project team partners were universities and governmental emergency agencies in New zealand, Thailand, Indonesia and Sri lanka,

and Space Programme and was coordinated by the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) at the University of Sheffield in collaboration with partners in Belgium,

RAPOLAC project coordinator Dr Rosemary Gault of the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), Sheffield University, commented:"

The company's Chief Technology Officer is Gert-Jan Gruter former Professor for Polymer Catalysis at Eindhoven University of Technology who explains:

Bringing together biologists, chemists, microbiologists, biochemists, molecular geneticists and biotechnologists from universities, biotech firms and food and pharmaceutical multinationals from around Europe, Polymode has identified now its first eadingand ritingenzymes.

but also in agriculture, cosmetics and beyond, says Polymode project co-ordinator, Professor Bruno Moerschbacher of the University of Münster in Germany.

and Slovakia and with universities from Italy and Germany to develop the Silco-sensor states Mr van der Linde.

has all the makings of a big future. fotolia. com Antal Berényi left Szeged University in Hungary for the United states with a plan.

and information technology to establish an electrophysiology lab back at Szeged University (HU).""As a boy,

Contributing to this effort is a European union (EU)- funded project that has united a Russian-born physicist working at a Dutch university with a private company in the UK.

Five years later, Udalov was working as a researcher at the University of Twente in the field of high-power pulsed electron beams

universities and small and medium sized companies with specialist expertise in areas like textile and aeronautics."High-tech textiles have advanced a lot in the last few years.

and the National Technical University of Athens); experimental test facilities operators (Chalmers and IVD Stuttgart;

and universities across the EU helping to develop knowledge and foster innovation. Project details Participants:

A Spanish university has patented a breakthrough new process, producing smiles all round. Orthodontic treatment is carried out using braces,

and we get support from the University to produce a first-rate product, which is then advantageous in the agreements

The fellow, Diego Gómez-Nicola, from the CNS Inflammation group at the University of Southampton in the United kingdom, examined how a specific cell protein receptor called CSF1R controls the spread and inflammation in neurodegenerative diseases.

and also Professor of Experimental Neuropathology at the University of Southampton, says the research looked at an aspect that all neurodegenerative diseases have in common:

the University of Thessalonika and research institutes in Greece and abroad. Loufakis Chemicals SA expects that this low-cost material will be used widely as the adsorbent media in new water treatment plants,

Spitzer, a process metallurgy professor at the Clausthal University of Technology in the German town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld, says the key challenge was to develop a production process that brought all the elements together. his high strength steel cannot be cast by conventional continuous casting,

As the ACTINOGEN project coordinator, Professor Paul Dyson of the Institute of Life science at Swansea University in the UK explains,

Lund University, a project partner in Sweden, studied what happens when robotic arms go off course

Tóth is assistant professor at the Slovak University of Agriculture in the city of Nitra where he teaches in agricultural entomology,

ran from October 2008 to October 2010 at Wageningen University, in The netherlands. Tóth is now working on two patents for applications from the research.

The approval from the MHRA was described by the project's scientific co-ordinator, Professor Julian Ma of St george's, University of London,

Researchers at Ghent University and the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) in Belgium, and the University of Surrey in the United kingdom, who designed the modulator,

supported the research. The group from CEA-Leti and III-V lab also demonstrated single wavelength tuneable lasers

Fernando Fernández-Aranda is a researcher in Eating Disorders at Bellvitge University Hospital. He said:"

The project partners made up of three small and medium-sized European companies, a health institute in Tanzania and a US university plan to commercialise the eave tubes

Bernhard Peters as the principal investigator at the University of Luxembourg, and the German SME inutech with its complementary expertise in designing software for multi-physics applications.

and their relevant sub-components--was put forward by Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California as far back as 2009.

"Langdon says in an article in the University's newspaper.""There hasn't been a lot of interest in using it in a fresh form.

said Joel M. Moskowitz, director of the Center for Family and Community Health at University of California, Berkeley School of Public health.

chairman of preventive medicine at University of Southern California who led THE WHO panel that determined the classification.

"said David A. Savitz, professor of epidemiology at Brown University, who was involved not in the Interphone study.

"said University of Southern California's Samet. New studies are underway that might provide a better idea of

Hans Grossniklaus professor of ophthalmology at Emory University contributed to the study. Yoo C. Kim Henry F. Edelhauser and Mark R. Prausnitz hold microneedle patents and Mark Prausnitz and Henry Edelhauser have significant financial interest in Clearside

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#Scientists grow norovirus stomach bug in a dish University of Florida rightoriginal Studyposted by Morgan Sherburne-Florida on November 13 2014researchers have grown for the first time a human norovirus in a cell culture dish taking a step toward developing medications to treat the stomach

##since it was discovered in 1972â##has been that we can t culture the human viruses in a cell culture dish##says Stephanie Karst associate professor in the molecular genetics and microbiology department at University of Florida College of Medicine.##

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##This could really be a game-changer for a lot of applications including diagnostics##say James Collins who is a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at Boston University and a core faculty member at Harvard s Wyss Institute.##

Researchers from the University of Bonn collaborated on the study which was published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry y

Brenda Cartmel a senior research scientist and lecturer at the Yale School of Public health is a co-author of the paper along with researchers from the USDA/Agricultural research service Grand Forks Human nutrition Research center and the University of Utah.

and cost-effective way for arsenic removal says Bin Gao associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering at University of Florida.

#Lab mice bred to test Ebola vaccines University of North carolina at Chapel hill University of Washington rightoriginal Studyposted by Mark Derewicz-UNC on November 3 2014researchers have developed the first genetic strain

unless you have an animal model that mimics the Ebola virus disease spectra##says study coauthor Ralph Baric professor of epidemiology at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill.

To find out the team including researchers from the University of Washington and the NIH Rocky mountain National Laboratory where the research took place were breed able to together eight genetic mouse variants

and the way they usually do things says lead author Curtis Weiss assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

The researchers who also included Yina Wei a former doctoral student at Penn State and currently a postdoctoral fellow at University of California Riverside and Ghanim Ullah former Penn State postdoctoral fellow

and now a professor of physics at University of South Florida explored extending older models of brain cell activity with basic conservation principles.

cut the oxygen University of California Davis rightoriginal Studyposted by Andy Fell-UC Davis on October 31 2014both natural

##The problem with engineered tissue is that the mechanical properties are far from those of native tissue##says first author Eleftherios Makris a postdoctoral researcher biomedical engineering department of University of California Davis

#Team makes spiny neurons without stem cells Washington University in St louis rightoriginal Studyposted by Julia Evangelou Strait-WUSTL on October 30 2014scientists have figured outâ#howâ#to convert human skin cells

##Not only did transplanted these cells survive in the mouse brain they showed functional properties similar to those of native cells##says senior author Andrew S. Yoo assistant professor of developmental biology at the Washington University School of medicine in St louis.##These cells

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For a lot of at-risk children intake of vegetables is really low says Jaimie Davis assistant professor in the nutritional sciences department at University of Texas at Austin.

Researchers from the Keck School of medicine at the University of Southern California are coauthors of the study.

and computer engineering and materials science and engineering at Boston University in collaboration with physics professor Bennett Goldberg showed the ability to pinpoint

and handling our system can reduce potential exposure to health care workers##says Connor a researcher at Boston University s National Emerging Infectious diseases Laboratories (NEIDL).#

SP-IRIS devices are now being tested in several labs including a Biosafety Level-4 (BSL-4) lab at the University of Texas Medical Branch

which is equipped to work with hemorrhagic viruses. Other tests will be conducted at the university s NEIDL once the facility is approved for BSL-4 research.

#Ebola family is at least 16 million years old University at Buffalo rightoriginal Studyposted by Charlotte Hsu-Buffalo on October 26 2014the family of viruses to

##Filoviruses are far more ancient than previously thought##says lead researcher Derek Taylor professor of biological sciences at University at Buffalo.##

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Researchers from the University of California San diego and the University of Texas Medical school at Houston collaborated on the project.

#Therapy cures hearing loss from loud noises University of Michigan rightoriginal Studyposted by Kara Gavin-U. Michigan on October 21 2014scientists restoredâ#hearing to mice that were deafened partly by noise.

and directs the University of Michigan Medical school s Kresge Hearing Research Institute.####We began this work 15 years ago to answer very basic questions about the inner ear

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#Staph bacteria gang up to outsmart antibiotics Vanderbilt University rightoriginal Studyposted by Leigh Macmillan-Vanderbilt on October 20 2014 Relatively harmless bacteria can turn deadly

and become small and weak colony variantssays Eric Skaar professor of pathology microbiology and immunology at Vanderbilt University.

#Drug flips cells to limit damage after heart attack University of North carolina at Chapel hill rightoriginal Studyposted by Mark Derewicz-UNC on October 16 2014a new way to generate more blood vessels after a heart attack can reduce damage

but our study suggests this may not be entirely true##says Eric Ubil a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill and first author of the study.##

"Tiny wireless nodes such as these have the potential to become a key tool for addressing neurological disorders"says Florian Solzbacher professor of electrical and computer engineering at University of Utah and director of its Center for Engineering Innovation.

#Brain surgery robot would go through the cheek Vanderbilt University Posted by David Salisbury-VU on October 16 2014for people with severe epilepsy treatment can mean drilling through the skull deep into the brain

Five years ago a team of engineers at Vanderbilt University wondered if it was possible to address epileptic seizures in a less invasive way?

In addition to researchers from Penn State, coauthors contributed from Nottingham Trent University in the United kingdom and the University of California

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