##But our work shows it s possible to change the fate of scar-forming cells in the heart
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and Research Conference in Nashville by David Comber the graduate student in mechanical engineering who did much of the design work.
##I ve done a lot of work in my career on the control of pneumatic systems##Barth says.##
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#Why cancer researchers are excited about this amoeba A type of amoeba that lives in soil has a gene that is very similar to a tumor-fighting gene found in humans.
It works by preventing two proteins Axl and Gas6 rom interacting to initiate the spread of cancer.
##Initially we only identified the most severe cases of autism##says Johnson Harrison who works under the mentorship of Eric Morrow in the department of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown.##
Most antiviral drugs work by deactivating viral proteins but viruses often evolve and become drug resistant.
We not only found a new way in which the pathogen (dengue virus) interferes with the host response (human immune system) we also uncovered the first mechanistic insight into how this non-coding RNA works says Garcia-Blanco.
The work also highlights the differences between the four dengue strains and how more research is necessary to understand this highly complex virus. Source:
The National Science Foundation the American Heart Association the National Heart Lung & Blood Institute and the National Eye Institute provided financial support for the work.
Using a two-piece prototype device the test works this way: A patient sticks a finger with a lance similar to those used by diabetics to produce a droplet of blood.
The lab received support for this study and future work from the NIH the Merck Investigator Studies Program and the USC Regenerative medicine Initiative Award.
They say having a clearer idea of how the process works might help researchers develop drugs that speed up healing.
when a person (and their microbes) leaves a house the microbial community shifts noticeably in a matter of days.
A National institutes of health grant to Hayes and Ziegler through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases supported this work
much work needs to be done before the mouse-based research could help human patients, says Lowenstein,
The labels work because an array of tiny pillars on the top of a surface effectively hides images written on the material beneath Shyu compares the texture of the pillars to a submicroscopic toothbrush.
This work is reported in Advanced Materials. The university is pursuing patent protection for the intellectual property
When whole-body clearing is not necessary the method works just as well on individual organs by using a technique called PACT, short for passive clarity technique.
The work, published in the journal Chembiochem, centers on proteins called phosphotriesterases, which degrade chemicals in a class known as organophosphates.
and the Sidney Baer Foundation supported the work. The study appears in The American Journal of Psychiatry h
103 gave birth. etrozole works better, has about the same cost, has fewer side effects, and has a slightly lower twin rate than clomid,
Clomid works by traveling to the brain, where it partially blocks estrogen receptors. This triggers the brain to send a signal to the ovaries to produce more estrogen,
It works primarily in fat or adipose tissue throughout the body, causing estrogen levels in a woman bloodstream to fall.
public health professor and a contributing author of the paper. his work suggests a way forward to alleviate mite-induced asthma in allergy sufferers.
Researchers allowed beetle larva to feast on antibiotic-treated leaves and natural leaves and found that on the antibiotic-treated leaves,
the beetles suffered from the plant's anti-herbivore defense, but on the natural leaves the larva gained more weight and thrived.
Credit: andriux-uk/Flickr) ecause hearing aids rely on batteries, minimizing power consumption is a critical consideration in moving hearing-aid device technology forward,
Hall credits the pioneering work of Ronald Miles at Binghamton University and Ronald Hoy at Cornell University,
Researchers believe blocking the pore leaves the parasite fatally imprisoned, unable to steal resources from the red blood cell
she says. ur test works because it can detect the malaria parasite at the very early stages
and The netherlands Organization for Scientific research supported the work. Source: University of Queenslan
#Common virus targets triple-negative breast cancer A virus not known to cause disease kills triple-negative breast cancer cells
It then tells another molecule to work, and so on. Treatment of breast cancer differs by patient due to differences in tumors.
The work is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National institute of mental health, National Science Foundation, the National Instituteon Drug abuse, the Simons Foundation,
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THE NEXT CLINICAL TRIALS Two follow-up trials are in the works, one of which will be a true home study only requiring that participants stay within an hour drive of the study site.
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especially those that may be damaged, Longo says. hat we started noticing in both our human work
and animal work is that the white blood cell count goes down with prolonged fasting. Then when you re-feed, the blood cells come back.
Published in the Journal of Virology, the new findings offers important insight into how the virus works its way into cells
#LED scanner safely peeks inside your brain New brain-scanning technology that shines dozens of tiny LED LIGHTS on the head works as well as more traditional methods without radiation exposure and bulky magnets.
hen the neuronal activity of a region in the brain increases, highly oxygenated blood flows to the parts of the brain doing more work,
The technique works by detecting light transmitted through the head and capturing the dynamic changes in the colors of the brain tissue.
They continue to work to make the technology more portable. Culver and Washington University have financial interests in Cephalogics LLC based on a license of related optical imaging technology by the university to Cephalogics LLC.
The work creates the potential to develop lectroceuticaltreatments as alternatives to drug therapies, says William Newsome, professor of neurobiology and director of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute.
but is familiar with her work, says such treatments could be more effective than drugs for some disorders
HOW IT WORKS The app runs in the background on an ordinary smartphone, and automatically monitors the patientsvoice patterns during any calls made as well as during weekly conversations with a member of the patient care team.
In the study, the engineers demonstrate a 3-by-3 grid of compartments that allow magnetic beads to enter but not leave.
#GPS for DNA pinpoints where your ancestors lived The new Geographic Population Structure (GPS) tool works somewhat like a satellite navigation system.
and the Department of energy supported the work. Source: Northwestern Universit o
#Microchip could detect infection in artificial joints A tiny microchip could improve postoperative care for patients with knee replacements
and whether the process could work, and they hope to try it in humans in the future. rofessor Fu
we can now continue our work to improve the chemical compounds so they will work with doses that are appropriate for people.
and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute supported the work a
#DNA sequencing reveals six new forms of blindness Scientists have discovered six new forms of inherited blindness,
Cancer Research UK and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute funded the work. Source: University of Leed e
a stem cell specialist at the University of Michigan who co-led the work. ee very excited about these findings.
it may also lead to a way to target treatment to each patient based on their specific profilend avoid the trial-and-error approach to treatment that leaves many patients with uncontrolled symptoms.
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#Take away this one gene and mice live long and lean By deleting a single gene,
The researchers device works by mimicking the way magnetic materials break the symmetry in wave transmission between two points in space a critical function that allows magnetic circulators to selectively route radio waves.
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the Air force Office of Scientific research supported the work which is described in the journal Nature Physics.
Why does this work for fungi while humans have been using antibiotics in medicine for just 70 years with many of them already becoming useless due to resistance?
and vegetable intake in the intervention setting. any diet interventions lack objective verification that subjects actually changed intake#this research demonstrates that skin carotenoids can serve that purpose. he RRS device works
and leave a time stamp on the capsule. Based on the flow rate of the stream and the diffusion rate of the timing chemical engineers would be able to estimate where along the streambed the capsule first encountered the contaminant.
and timer chemicals to increase the variety of reactions that they can record. lthough the work is still at an early stage we showed for the first time that it is possible to use chemical diffusion to record information about the time chemical reactions occurred without the need for external powertang says.
In the right order the charged amino acids crosslink into what Hartgerink calls axial salt bridges non-covalent bonds that hold the helices together with the help of stabilizing hydrogen bonds. ost of the work we ve
either formed amorphous aggregates or remained separated in solution. e chose to satisfy the critics by breaking our work into two studies.
The researchers recently published their work in the scientific journal Nature Chemical Biology. To understand the underlying technology it is important to know that these biological sensors consist of synthetic genes that are read by enzymes
and reinstalls it in the correct orientation making it active. he input signals can be transmitted much more accurately than before thanks to the precise control over timing in the circuitsays Benenson professor of synthetic biology who supervised Lapique s work.
She published her work recently in the magazine Nature Communications. A special feature of the new component is that not only it converts one signal into another
or the heart works we need to know which switches are activated. These probes tell us
or at rest is an important proof-of-concept there s still a lot of work to be done. Sack and Cohen will continue to collaborate testing other types of spider venoms that bind to different potassium channels. he beauty of this is the potentialsack says. his is a toehold into a new way of visualizing electrical activity
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The beauty of this work is in how we came to provide new schemes and techniques to engineer a physical system by controlling lossyang adds. ormally loss is considered bad
and generate electricity similar to how a typical power reactor works. his is a much more elegant solution because the medium in
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and its unique properties. his is the first experimental work in this area and is an elegant example of how the world becomes different
Grants from the Whitehall Foundation Mcknight Foundation Nakajima Foundation and the National Science Foundation funded the work.
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the team took a page from Willner previous work and twisted radio beams together. They passed each beamhich carried its own independent stream of datahrough a piral phase platethat twisted each radio beam into a unique and orthogonal DNA-like helical shape.
The Intel Labs University Research Office and the DARPA Inpho (Information in a Photon) Program supported the work n
However many experiments in quantum information make use of just such identically prepared qubits making the technique potentially very useful. his work sheds light on some of the striking differences between information in the classical and quantum worlds.
The array of radio telescopes works together to form a gigantic yepeering into the cosmos. nderstanding the production of organic material at the early stages of star formation is critical to piecing together the gradual progression from simple molecules
and hope the work will lead to better ways to predict flares which can disable power grids and communications On earth.
Hans Jurgen Herrmann a professor at the Institute for Building materials says solar flares were not the original focus of the work.
or leaves and its popularity among DIY types and gardening buffs took off after archaeological studies found that biochar added to soils in the Amazon more than 1000 years ago was still improving the water-and nutrient-holding abilities of those poor soils today.
Although both materials are cheap a lot of work is required in the cleanroom the carbon flakes must be exceptionally clean to produce a functioning component. significant part of my work consists of cleaning the graphenesays Varlet.
and Sciences and the corresponding author of the study. ow we know more about how that works. ay worked with lead author Dawn Nagel a postdoctoral researcher and coauthor Jose Pruneda-Paz an assistant professor at the University of California
and the transcriptional network work could allow scientists to breed plants that are better able to deal with stressful environments#crucial in a world where farmers attempt to feed an increasing population amid urban development of arable land
and since plants cannot run away from the heat they re going to have to adapt to a changing environmentnagel says. his study suggests one mechanism for us to understand how this interaction works. oth plants
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and fullerene as electron acceptor to allow charge separation. n their work the researchers added another polymer into the device resulting in solar cells with two polymers and one fullerene.
and the result implies that even higher efficiencies could be possible with further work. The group which includes researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory is now working to push efficiencies toward 10 percent a benchmark necessary for polymer solar cells to be viable for commercial application.
The work appears online in the journal Cell. e know that there is some hierarchy of behaviors
The Simons Foundation the National institutes of health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute supported the work. Source:
In the latest work Greer and her students used the technique to produce what they call three-dimensional nanolattices that are formed by a repeating nanoscale pattern.
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Arbabian has used these prototypes to prove that the devices work they can receive signals harvest energy from incoming radio signals
He added that design work and production could remain local. e see ourselves doing this close to Yaleschroers adds.
The new system works like this: A metal bellows about the size of a cantaloupe is filled with a temperature-sensitive gas.
The Intel Science and Technology Center for Pervasive Computing at the University of Washington and the Sloan Foundation supported the work.
In their most recent work they tested the system using Neutravidin the first molecule that binds to the nanoshuttle.
We re still far away from a technical applicationsays Vogel who believes they have shown merely that the principle works.
and cookies but it would be difficult to make hamburger patties with the existing ingredientssadtler says. e found that the brain works in a similar way during learning.
Byron M. Yu assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering at Carnegie mellon believes this work demonstrates the utility of BCI for basic scientific studies that will eventually impact people s lives. hese findings could be the basis
Additional researchers from University of Pittsburgh Carnegie mellon and Stanford university and Palo alto Medical Foundation contributed to the work.
while mitigating the potential for diversion to illegal usesays Smolke who outlines her work in the journal Nature Chemical Biology.
The thrust of Smolke s work for a decade has been to pack the entire production chain from the fields of poppies through all the subsequent steps of chemical refining into yeast cells using the tools of bioengineering.
When she began the work in 2004 Smolke started early in the process and went about halfway through these chemical steps.
but the size and shape of the leaves and how they taste. With rapeseed it s the other way around. he National Science Foundation funds the iplant Collaborative of University of Arizona s BIO5 Institute
and apply force that leaves the molecules levitating in an almost perfect vacuumdemille says. The researchers chose Srf for its structural simplicity it has effectively just one electron that orbits around the entire molecule. e thought it would be best to start applying this technique with a simple diatomic moleculedemille says.
and indirectly for its parasite that doesn t do any of the work. That led the researchers to study the genetic relationships of all fungus-growing ants in South america including all five known and six newly-discovered species of the genus Mycocepurus to determine
Ultimately we want to make solar harvesting surfaces that you do not even know are there. unt says more work is needed
because many workers need to look at a screen as part of their work. he UC Berkeley researchers
which was developed at UC Berkeley works by adjusting the intensity of each direction of light that emanates from a single pixel in an image based upon a user s specific visual impairment.
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#Copper foam could make extra CO2 useful Brown University rightoriginal Studyposted by Kevin Stacey-Brown on August 14 2014a catalyst made from a foamy form of copper has vastly different electrochemical
Researchers from University of Leicester and the Lund University Observatory contributed to the work. Source:
Backward masking works by presenting subjects with an irrelevant askimage that immediately follows an extremely brief exposure to a face
The labels work because an array of tiny pillars on the top of a surface effectively hides images written on the material beneath.
This work is reported in Advanced Materials. The university is pursuing patent protection for the intellectual property
When whole-body clearing is not necessary the method works just as well on individual organs by using a technique called PACT short for passive clarity technique.
This work builds upon previous research that showed how low-powered devices such as temperature sensors
This work takes that a step further by connecting each individual device to the internet
These tags work by essentially ookingfor Wi-fi signals moving between the router and a laptop or smartphone.
or offload your workout data onto a Google spreadsheet. ou might think how could this possibly work
The University of Washington Commercialization Gap Fund the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Washington Research Foundation the National Science Foundation and the University of Washington supported the work.
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and not in the other Liang Bua skeletal remains further evidence of LB1 s abnormality. his work is presented not in the form of a fanciful story
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physics at Peking University who did the work asâ a postdoctoral researcher in Zhang s lab. omb-sniffing dogs are expensive to train
The device works by detecting the increased intensity in the light signal that occurs as a result of this interaction. e think that higher electron deficiency of explosives leads to a stronger interaction with the semiconductor sensorsays study co-lead author Sadao
The new device builds upon earlier work in plasmon lasers by Zhang s lab that compensated for this light leakage by using reflectors to bounce the surface plasmons back and forth inside the sensorâ##similar to the way sound waves
The US Air force Office of Scientific research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative program helped support this work.
she says. ur test works because it can detect the malaria parasite at the very early stages
#Spinach leaves vibrate to kick off photosynthesis Vibrations deep within spinach leaves enhance the efficiency of photosynthesishe energy conversion process that powers life on our planet.
It perhaps the most important biochemical process On earth and scientists don yet fully understand how it works.
what called the photosystem II reaction centers from the leaves. Located in the chloroplasts of plant cells, photosystem II is the group of proteins
SPINACH LEAVES To get a sample the researchers bought a bag of spinach leaves from a grocery store. e removed the stems
and veins, put it in the blender and then performed several extraction steps to gently remove the protein complexes from the membrane
but it hard to maintain that separation long enough to extract it to do useful work.
The University of Texas at Austin funded the work. Source: UT Austi e
#Power plant battery uses tanks of water Scientists have created new, water-based organic batteries that are built long-lasting
In a new study, Starner and Phd student Caitlyn Seim examined how well the gloves work to teach Braille."
and electroless chemical etching with a single step that works at room temperature. The chemical stew that makes it possible is a mix of copper nitrate, phosphorous acid, hydrogen fluoride, and water.
The work appearsâ in Nature Materials. Collecting sunlight using these tiny colloidal quantum dots depends on two types of semiconductors:
but we need to work toward bringing performance to commercially compelling levels. his research was a collaborationâ with Dalhousie University King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
All of this works in ambient temperatures unlike current high-temperature capture technologies that use up a significant portion of the energy being produced.
Past work, mainly using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri), has established that brain activity can track the content of memory.
It works by taking an anaerobic digester contraption that takes waste such as manure, and produces energy as a byproductnd couples that with an ultrafiltration, air stripping,
The process oes beyond a typical digester, explains Jim Wallace, a former graduate student at Michigan State who now works for the Mclanahan Corp.
The Division of Chemical sciences Geosciences and Biosciences of the Office of Basic energy Sciences of the US Department of energy supported the work.
an engineering professor at the University of Michigan. ur detector is sensitive, compact and works at room temperature,
HOW IT WORKS When the terahertz light hits the transducer, the nanotubes absorb it, turning it into heat.
The National Science Foundation and the Air force Office of Scientific research funded the work e
#Extra-hairy microbes make biodiesel sustainable With the help of Geobacter microbes, biodiesel plants may be able to stop creating hazardous wastes
and discharging Chen adds. t will require a lot of work to take the next step. here is currently no good technology that can make effective use of the relatively low-temperature differences this system can harness Chen says. his has an efficiency we think is quite attractive.
The National Science Foundation supported the work. Materials fabrication took place in part at the Center for Nanophase Materials sciences at Oak ridge National Laboratory
you have to know how the brain works to program one of these, says Boahen, gesturing at the $40,
LOWER COST FROM $40, 000 TO $400 But much work lies ahead. Each of the current million-neuron Neurogrid circuit boards cost about $40
NASA ESA and G. Bacon (STSCL) via U. Chicago) The researchers describe their work as an important milestone on the road to identifying potentially habitable Earthlike planets beyond our Solar system.
what we have seen is that we can easily double energy efficiency. n other recent work led by former doctoral student Vinay K. Chippa the Purdue team fabricated an approximate cceleratorfor recognition
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#Car paint with graphene gets ice off radar domes Rice university rightoriginal Studyposted by Mike Williams-Rice on December 18 2013ribbons of ultrathin graphene combined with polyurethane paint meant for cars can keep ice off of sensitive military
and Zhu spray-coated a surface with soluble GNRS. hey said it works great but it comes off on our fingers
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