along with his colleague at Northeastern University in Boston, microbial ecologist Slava Epstein, described a new technique for coaxing bacteria to grow:
says Helen Zgurskaya, a biochemist at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, who studies how bacteria become susceptible to antibiotics. his study demonstrates that unculturable bacteria have unrecognized new,
Collaborators at the University of Bonn in Germany figured out that teixobactin works by interfering with two important lipids that bacteria use to build their cell walls.
a microbiologist at the University of California, San francisco. But there are many paths to developing resistance,
a virologist at the University of Bonn in Germany. e know from Saudi arabia that the virus can be transmitted during this time
including at Hong kong University (HKU) in China and Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, The netherlands. e hope to have sequence analysis very soon so we can see any recent changes,
however, says microbiologist Vincent Racaniello of Columbia University. efore we view this as a definitive definition of what people have been infected with,
says materials scientist Daniel Jaque at the Autonomous University of Madrid, who was involved not in the study. t a good paper on a hot topic. he tiny diamond probes can measure temperatures ranging from 120 K to 900 K (53°C to 627°C) s cold
and precision across a wide range of temperatures, says materials scientist Estelle Homeyer of the University of Lyon in France
Her co-author, spectroscopist Christophe Dujardin of the University of Lyon, adds: here are many kinds of impurities in diamond,
too, says co-author Gilles Ledoux of the University of Lyon, especially in measuring the friction between two materials at very small scalesn area of study currently not very well understood.
a cancer biologist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical center in Dallas. Researchers have used magnets before to levitate whole creatures,
says Will Grover, a bioengineer at the University of California, Riverside, who was involved not in the new work.
says neurologist Dena Dubal of the University of California, San francisco (UCSF), who was involved not in the study. he importance of this work cannot be underestimated as the world population is aging rapidly. ultiple groups of scientists have shown that adding the blood of older mice to younger animalsbodies makes them sluggish, weaker,
and memory, says biologist Irina Conboy of the University of California, Berkeley, who recently published a scientific paper showing that targeting a separate molecule can lower levels of B2m
"says Ken Hicks of Ohio University. Curtis Meyer of Carnegie mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, agrees."
"In reading the paper, I have seen nothing that I can easily point to as a potential problem,
it looks like a team led by University of California (UC), San diego, molecular biologist Ling Zhao may have done just that.
a materials scientist and fuel cell expert at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, who was involved not in the work. think it going to generate a lot of excitement. fuel cell works much like a battery.
and muscle density change with time during a mission says Gordon Sarty at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.
But in 1974 Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge predicted they should emit a faint glow of particles now known as Hawking radiation.
In 2010 a team led by Francesco Belgiorno at the University of Milan made a model black hole the horizon
The Hawking effect comes from quantum noise at the horizon says William Unruh at the University of British columbia in Canada one of the first to propose fluid-based black hole analogues.
This work is really impressive says Daniele Faccio at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in the UK who was on the team that made the fibre-optic based black hole.
which make fuel from sunlight just like plants says Lee Cronin at the University of Glasgow UK.
and physics that govern the universe says astronomer Geoff Marcy of the University of California Berkeley.
Nikku Madhusudhan at the University of Cambridge says the results can also aid our understanding of the insides of diamond planets.
Analysing its microscopic crystals Birger Schmitz at Lund University and his colleagues found that the rock dates to the same time period
David Harper at Durham University UK agrees. The team may at last have identified the impactor responsible for the break up of the parent body of the L chondrite meteorites he says.
In 2002 a team led by astrobiologist Charles Cockell at the University of Edinburgh UK discovered a unique group of cyanobacteria in Haughton crater in northern Canada.
Alexandra Pontefract at the University of Western Ontario in Canada says the ISS experiment is a fantastic proof of concept.
Calculations by geophysicists previously suggested that gravity should compress planets so much that rocky worlds can't get bigger than twice Earth's size says Kepler team member Geoff Marcy at the University of California Berkeley.
and it's about time says John Logsdon a space policy expert at George washington University's Elliott School of International affairs in WASHINGTON DC.
This is like simulating the whole US where previously it was like just simulating your neighbourhood says Michael Boylan-Kolchin at the University of Maryland in College Park who led one of the largest previous simulations called Millennium-II.
Now Sandra Chapman of the University of Warwick UK and her colleagues have examined the solar wind's behaviour using NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft.
Now a team led by Robert Quimby at the University of Tokyo Japan has confirmed the first case of this lensing effect in a type 1a supernova:
I'm impressed they could find this thing says Brian Schmidt at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Mertsch and his colleagues led by Hao Liu at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark plotted the positions of these loops.
Cassini scientist Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University of Rome Italy and colleagues have mapped now Enceladus's gravity
Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University of Rome in Italy and his colleagues used radar On earth to track Cassini on three separate fly-bys of Enceladus
and also that it has a surprisingly low density says team member Francis Nimmo at the University of California Santa cruz. That might be due to open fractures
because it wouldn't be in contact with the rock says team member Jonathan Lunine at Cornell University in Ithaca New york. This gravity map hinting at a much larger ocean is a more favourable model for having some sort of life in Enceladus's interior.
The subsurface-sea idea is just the simplest possible interpretation of the gravity data cautions William Mckinnon at Washington University in St louis who was involved not in the work.
"says team member Shane Farritor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Medical emergency For now, the only humans in space venture no further than the International space station.
"says Dmitry Oleynikov at the University of Nebraska Medical center.""That difficulty increases logarithmically when you're trying to do complex procedures such as an operation."
James Burgess at Carnegie mellon University in Pittsburgh thinks robots like these could be particularly useful
A net isn't necessarily the best option to collect debris says Hugh Lewis an aerospace engineer at the University of Southampton UK.
Meanwhile, Benjamin Longmier at the University of Michigan in Ann arbor, who leads a rival project, announced that his team also has private funding
It's a stretch goal says Scott Pace director of the Space Policy Institute at George washington University in WASHINGTON DC.
I'd say the data are equivocal at the moment says John Mustard of Brown University in Providence Rhode island.
We do however know that high speed impacts are a ubiquitous process as we see impact craters on every solid surface in the solar system says Mark Price at the University of Kent UK.
Fabienne Bastien of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and colleagues used Kepler data to watch instead for flickers in starlight due to short-lived convection cells or granules on the star's surface.
or asteroseismology signals from sun-like stars says Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard of Aarhus University in Denmark who leads a consortium of researchers who analyse Kepler's starquake data.
Now Guillem Anglada-Escudé of the University of Göttingen in Germany and his colleagues have reanalysed the original data
and the interpretation of the dust clump as a vortex is plausible says Philip Armitage an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
If we could find evidence primitive life got a start on Mars that could fill in a lot of gaps in our understanding of conditions on early Earth says Jeffrey Bada of the University of California in San diego. What we find on Mars won't be a magic bullet to say'Ah!
Last year Fusa Miyake at Nagoya University Japan and colleagues discovered that two Japanese cedar trees had unexpectedly high levels of carbon-14 in tree rings formed between 774 and 775.
The aurora would have been seen up to tropical latitudes says Valeri Hambaryan of the University of Jena Germany.
Roger Clowes of the University of Central Lancashire in Preston UK and colleagues discovered the structure using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey the most comprehensive 3d map of the universe.
and creating new and improved cosmological models says Subir Sarkar of the University of Oxford.
says James Cutler at the University of Michigan. These have combined to increase access to orbit as never before."
Simultaneous funding to MIT Stanford university and the University of California at Berkeley is intended to jumpstart a new field of cyber policy research.
Each of the three universities will take complementary approaches to addressing this challenge. MIT s CPI will focus on establishing quantitative metrics
For example the MIT Energy Initiative has brought together faculty from across campus including the social sciences to conduct energy studies designed to inform future energy options and research.
but University of Nebraska chemistry professor Andrzej Rajca who is also an author of the new Nature Communications paper recently discovered that their half-life can be extended by attaching two bulky structures to them.
Steven Bottle a professor of nanotechnology and molecular science at Queensland University of Technology says the most impressive element of the study is the combination of two powerful imaging techniques into one nanomaterial.
A study with Cornell University in 2013 for instance allowed the startup to prove that it could accurately predict high levels of cortisol in someone s saliva an indicator of high stress based on their tone of voice.
long-lasting analog distributed genomic storage with a variety of readout options says Shawn Douglas an assistant professor at the University of California at San diego who was involved not in the study.
Under their guidance the center will seek to develop a regional ecosystem together with other hospitals universities and research institutions.
Opening up the country Keystone is now conducting structural validation of towers created by its system in collaboration with structural engineers at Northeastern University and Johns hopkins university.
at Brigham and Women s Hospital and now an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical school.
Ignacio Pagonabarraga a professor of fundamental physics at the University of Barcelona who was connected not with this research says This simple synthetic system may be valuable to gain more insight into basic physical principles associated with durotaxis the mechanical sensing mechanism by
Christopher Murray a professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania who was connected not with this research says This work exemplifies the power of using nanocrystals as building blocks for multiscale and multifunctional structures.
and Cornell University. The work was supported by the National institutes of health the Army Research Office through MIT s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies and the Department of energy y
along with computer scientists at Columbia University, have developed a method that predicts the pattern of coils and tangles that a cable may form
and Eitan Grinspun of Columbia University. Shipping up to Boston Fiber-optic cables are deployed typically from a sailing vessel,
Lonnie Ingram director of the Florida Center for Renewable Chemicals and Fuels at the University of Florida describes the MIT team s discovery as remarkable and unexpected.
Peng Shi a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor at the University of Hong kong is the paper s other lead author.#
and materials science to advance solar energy harvesting says Paul Braun a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was involved not in this research.
which in principle could help to combat the spread of antibiotic resistance fueled by excessive broad-spectrum treatment says Ahmad Khalil an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University who was not part of the research team.
Zhao, who joined the MIT faculty from Duke this month and holds a joint appointment with the Department of Civil and Environmental engineering, says the new material is essentially a layer of electro-active elastomer that could be adapted quite easily to standard manufacturing processes
But in today s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences researchers at MIT Cornell University
and is now at Northeastern University and Giovanni Resta a researcher at Santi s home institution the Institute for Informatics and Telematics.
Peter Rainer Preiser of SMART and Nanyang Technical University in Singapore is also a senior author.
and Carnegie mellon University have devised a new way to separate cells by exposing them to sound waves as they flow through a tiny channel.
a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor at the University of Notre dame. The researchers have filed for a patent on the device, the technology
a professor of mechanical science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. hat is just enough to make cells of different sizes
Yang Yang, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of California at Los angeles who was involved not in this research,
and materials science at the University of Southern California who was not part of the research team.
and immunology at Cornell University who was not part of the research team. Now based on CRISPR we can modify genes in a shorter timeframe and with greatly enhanced precision.
and computer science at the University of California at Berkeley who has been following the MIT and Harvard researchers work.
This is a game-changer for the production of engineered strains of human cancer says Ronald Depinho director of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center who was not part of the research team.
says Alexei Efros, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California at Berkeley. ee scientists,
In the desert environment dust is present on a daily basis says co-author Numan Abu-Dheir of the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi arabia.
Neelesh Patankar a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University who was involved not in this work says this research introduces a new class of approach for droplet-based microfluidic platforms
#Vision-correcting displays Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have developed a new display technology that automatically corrects for vision defects no glasses (or contact lenses) required.
that brings together faculty from MIT Harvard university Harvard-affiliated hospitals and collaborators worldwide. Stanley s commitment to support the work of the Broad Institute will consist of annual gifts during his lifetime followed by a bequest with a total current value exceeding $650 million.
and institutions it brings together faculty from MIT Harvard and the five major Harvard-affiliated hospitals:
and its affiliated hospitals and the visionary Los angeles philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad the Broad Institute includes faculty professional staff
and robots interact says Matthew Mason director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie mellon University who was involved not in the research.
Chuanhua Duan an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University who was involved not in this research says This work provides a new approach for energy harvesting
Anish Tuteja an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan who was involved not in this research calls it a very interesting and innovative approach to fabricating membranes that can separate out nanoemulsions.
says Garret Stuber, an assistant professor of psychiatry and cell biology and physiology at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill. n animals with larger brains,
Brojan (now at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. The ability to change the surface in real time comes from the use of a multilayer material with a stiff skin and a soft interior the same basic configuration that causes smooth plums to dry into wrinkly prunes.
and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was involved not in this work,
The research was supported by the National Science Foundation, MIT Charles E. Reed Faculty Initiatives Fund, the Wallonie-Bruxelles International, the Belgian American Education Foundation,
a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. heir contribution is an interesting one:
Now researchers at MIT and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi arabia have devised a robotic system that can detect leaks at a rapid pace and with high accuracy by sensing a large pressure
Other customers include universities, health-care and life-science facilities, schools, and retail buildings. Equipment-level detection Fault-detection and diagnostics research spans about 50 years with contributions by early KGS advisors
Gayeski says. ajor health-care institutions, global pharmaceuticals, universities, and others are starting to see the value
The research team also included Jianshu Cao, a professor of chemistry at MIT, Vincent Ball at the University of Strasbourg in France,
#Illuminating neuron activity in 3-D Researchers at MIT and the University of Vienna have created an imaging system that reveals neural activity throughout the brains of living animals.
Boyden team developed the brain-mapping method with researchers in the lab of Alipasha Vaziri of the University of Vienna and the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.
and Robert Prevedel, a postdoc at the University of Vienna. High-speed 3-D imaging Neurons encode information sensory data
Spreading pixels Oliver Cossairt, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Northwestern University, once worked for a company that was attempting to commercialize glasses-free 3-D projectors. hat
and knowing that traditional towers could never reach high-altitude winds he designed the BAT in his free time receiving technical guidance from Institute Professor Sheila Widnall and other faculty.
At the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in June Hamed Pirsiavash a postdoc at MIT and his former thesis advisor Deva Ramanan of the University of California at Irvine will present a new activity
if they didn t. We ve known for a very long time that the things that people do are made up of subactivities says David Forsyth a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
a professor of systems biology at the Technical University of Denmark who was not part of the research team. he latter is vital,
David Reichman, a professor of chemistry at Columbia University who was involved not in this research, considers the new findings very important contribution to the singlet fission literature.
and Yuval Kochman a former postdoc who is now an assistant professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
working with colleagues at the University of Washington, have developed a new computer system that can automatically solve the type of word problems common in introductory algebra classes.
and by the University of Washington Yoav Artzi and Luke Zettlemoyer. The researchers will present their work at the annual meeting of the Association for Computational linguistics in June.
a professor of computer science of the University of Southern California. he approach of building a generative story of how people get from text to answers is a great idea.
Open to students at any U s. university and now partnered with Cleantech Open, the competition aims to promote clean energy innovation
The top prize for energy efficiency (and an Audience Choice Award) went to a University of Maryland team, MF Fire,
David Lidzey a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Sheffield who was involved not in this work calls the research a really impressive demonstration of a direct measurement of the diffusion of triplet excitons and their eventual trapping.
an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of North carolina who was involved not in this work. He adds that the resulting increase in energy storage density s surprising and remarkable. his result provides additional motivation for researchers to design more
along with a colleague from the University of Chicago, presents evidence of a strong convergence of prices within the Eurozone, the region of European countries sharing a common currency.
Along with Cavallo and Rigobon, the study was conducted by Brent Neiman, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of business.
and Dexin Ye of Zhejiang University in China. The work was supported in part by the Army Research Office, through MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies,
In a lab at Boston University Lu engineered phages that could break apart antibiotic-resistant biofilms coatings where bacteria live
through university business-plan competitions across the country, and outfitted nearly an entire lab with reused equipment from MIT and auctions.
In an incubator at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, the renamed Sample6 tailored the product for the food industry before relocating to its current headquarters in Boston Seaport District,
Many universities, including MIT, have facilities to manufacture these peptides, but the process usually takes two to six weeks,
a professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University who was involved not in the research. he authors nicely show that self-assembling nanoparticles can be used to enhance the photosynthetic capacity of plants,
Video Melanie Gonick All of our algorithms and control theory are designed pretty much with the idea that we ve got rigid systems with defined joints says Barry Trimmer a biology professor at Tufts University who specializes in biomimetic soft robots.
This is a clever and inspired technology to develop new exogenous compounds that can detect clinical conditions with aberrantly high protease concentrations says Samuel Sia an associate professor of biological engineering at Columbia University who was involved not in the research.
University) and Roman Stocker an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT. Their results are published in the journal Nature Physics.
a professor of dermatology at University Hospital Zurich who was not part of the research team. oth the effect on the stimulated immune responses
a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of California at Irvine. obotic measurements will help us identify promising treatments with smaller numbers of patients
director of the Cochlear Implant Center at the University of California at San francisco. here a much greater stigma of having a hearing loss than there is of having a visual loss.
William Jack of Georgetown University, show that income shocks force households without access to M-PESA to reduce their consumption by 7 percent more than households in the M-PESA network.
an economist at Georgetown University who has read the paper. However, Vella adds, oving forward,
Evidence from Oregon Health insurance Experiment, were lead author Sarah Taubman of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Heidi Allen of Columbia University School of Social work,
which is also impressive says John Howell a professor of physics at the University of Rochester.
and Christopher Barsi at MIT and Adrian Dorrington and Lee Streeter from the University of Waikato in New zealand. e use a new method that allows us to encode information in time,
much like the human eye, says James Davis, an associate professor of computer science at the University of California at Santa cruz. In contrast,
Laurent Cognet, a senior scientist at the Institute of Optics at the University of Bordeaux, says this approach should prove useful for many applications requiring reliable detection of specific molecules. his new concept,
along with James Bird, a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University, former MIT postdoc Rajeev Dhiman,
and genetics at Rockefeller University who was not part of the research team. Using these mice the researchers found that before treatment tumors lacking both MK2
who is now an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Boston University. ommon knowledge suggests that the closely spaced posts would provide greater surface area,
The research was supported by a Young Faculty Award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the MIT Energy Initiative,
A new study from MIT and the University of Toronto offers a possible way to overcome that resistance.
Kelley a professor of biochemistry and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Toronto. Lead authors are Simon Wisnovsky who received his Phd from the University of Toronto and MIT alumnus Justin Wilson Phd 13.
This is the first study to isolate the effects of a platinum drug in mitochondria and we were intrigued very to observe that the DNA damage caused by this drug outside of the nucleus were highly toxic Kelley says.
Victor Galitski, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland who was involved not in this research,
and Hermano Krebs from MIT and Mohammad Rastgaar Aagaah from Michigan Technological University. A robotic walking coach Hogan and Krebs
Eric Perreault, a professor of biomedical engineering and physical medicine and rehabilitation at Northwestern University, says the group findings present the first insight into how muscle activation alters the ankle mechanical properties over its normal range of motion,
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