The researchers did most of their work in a five-liter industrial blender, but they also replicated it in a fairly low-end kitchen blender.
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#Synthetic yeast chromosome paves the way for designer genomes A chunk of the genetic blueprint for yeast has been created
The work also brings scientists closer to creating synthetic plants and animals. For me one of most exciting aspects is the fact that we've so extensively edited the sequence of natural chromosome
Undergraduate students at Johns hopkins university did much of the work fusing together short pieces of DNA into longer segments as part of a class project
This work is another remarkable example of how synthetic biology can be used to rewrite chromosome sequences at a sizable scale Venter
Despite its utility the work poses questions about the ethics of creating man-made genomes especially in more complex organisms such as animals.
"I think this is really fantastic work that represents a great integration of synthetic biology and materials engineering,"said Lingchong You, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke university i
(or biomethane as they might say across the pond) gas which requires the annual waste of five people to produce according to the operator of the Bristol sewage treatment works GENECO.
along with local grocery stores and food manufacturers is treated annually at Bristol sewage treatment works located in the suburb of Avonmouth.
however, a lot of testing must be done to make sure it works as well as the Canadian space agency (CSA) hopes it will.
The idea came from another biologist at the same facility Haruko Obokata who says it took her five years to persuade her colleagues that this technique would work.
The work ties into Obokata's other research into stress. As explained on her lab's web page All organisms possess instincts to survive exposures to external stresses by adapting to their environment and to some degree regenerating injured tissues or organs.
This could potentially save humans from doing dangerous work by sending robots in their place.
How the smartphone is changing the way we live and work. I made a number of predictions,
which except for work I don't. Now I can spend all day on the sofa in front of the TV
Although you can watch the informative video above to learn more about exactly how the Omniprocessor works, here the gist of it.
one of the authors of the work published in Nature Nanotechnology1. Pushing the limit The researchers have built on a tradition of inscribing information in small spaces that began
The work was based on 76 long-term forest studies, and is published in the journal Science1. Study co-leader Phillip van Mantgem of the Western Ecological Research center in Arcata
What the work means for the carbon balance of the Earth is also not as obvious as it may seem.
Their work is published in Nature1. The samples aren't perfect each layer covers only around two-thirds of the sample
Work by two independent groups will make it easier to find out the structure of single biological molecules such as proteins without destroying
Compressive sensing works by sampling at random##eliminating the need to sift through data ##and it still produces enough information to generate a good image.
2012), has long been negotiating with the government for facilities to link basic research at the Center for Developmental biology in Kobe, where he works, with clinics and industry.
An even bigger windfall will benefit work by Shinya Yamanaka, a Nobel laureate who developed the first recipe for ips cells.
mainly to support Masayo Takahashi, who works next door at the Center for Developmental biology. Takahashi is planning the first trial of ips cells in humans,
which co-funded his work, to test the ceramics in real-world applications a
#Novel solar photovoltaic cells achieve record efficiency using nanoscale structures Here's how to make a powerful solar cell from indium and phosphorus:
In that work, published in Applied Physics Letters, Dubrovinskaia and her colleagues presented data from Vickers testing with loads of up to 10 newtons n
or fear adding to her work with experiments using ES cells, which she finds much easier to prompt into neurons than ips cells."
September 2010 NIH-funded work is allowed to resume but eligibility for funding is uncertain as case works through the courts.
October 2010 Biotechnology company Geron doses first patient in world s first clinical trial to test an ES-cell product.
and six months later it doesn t work, Bawendi says.""Television technology is more stable.
declares the experiment"very significant work that shakes up the mainstream beliefs in a whole class of atomic experiments.
M#ller and his colleagues say that their work goes back to the basics of quantum mechanics#to Arthur Compton's demonstration in 1923 that X-ray photons can deliver a detectable momentum impulse to an electron,
The work is already running into criticism, however. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, who won the 1997 Nobel prize alongside Steven Chu,
"It s one of Dave s best papers, says physical organic chemist Alan Rowan at Radboud University Nijmegen in The netherlands, who also works with rotaxanes."
if Dubois and colleagues programme will work, but thinks that it is"a worthy effort and
by refusing to hear a case that challenged the legality of funding for the work by the National institutes of health (NIH).
to stop NIH backing of the work, which holds the promise of treatments for a variety of diseases,
The work will appear on 7 january in Molecular Ecology1. The DNA is"not gorgeous but still usable, says Calvignac-Spencer:
calls the latest work an"experimental tour de force. Exotic high-energy states that are hard to generate in the laboratory at positive temperatures become stable at negative absolute temperatures#"as
Nicolelis says that the work, published today in Scientific Reports1, is the first step towards constructing an organic computer that uses networks of linked animal brains to solve tasks.
Edman Tsang, a chemist at the University of Oxford, UK, who also works on storing hydrogen in liquids including methanol2,
says that the work is a major discovery. In particular, he says, the low temperature of the reaction is attractive
which work is immediately free to read. The UK funding agencies plan to finance this gold open-access route by diverting some 1%of the national research budget
researchers in the United states and the rest of Europe are obliged not to use science funds to make their work free immediately i
The work could also lead to better techniques caring for the most vulnerable brains, Wallois adds,
Biophysicist Dennis Discher, who led the work, says that he was inspired when he saw another group's work describing the structure of CD47."
"I saw a minimal part of CD47 we could take out and make, he says. This was the part of CD47 that attaches to a macrophage receptor protein,
The work of Discher and his team is published today in Science1. Using computer simulations to make sure that the CD47 fragment was folded correctly
this work focuses on the quality of the artificial signals themselves so as to improve their ability to carry impulses to the brain t
for example#the latest work takes the idea a step further by making the DNA part of the computation itself."
that work by activating the cellular messenger tumour protein 53 (p53). But p53-based methods are not always effective,
one in Scotland and one in The netherlands, will soon be humming again with the work of drug discovery.
"If it really works, it might provide a future model to operate early drug discovery,
says J#rg H#ser, a champion of the idea who works at Bayer Healthcare in Wuppertal, Germany.
so that they can pursue further work and publications. The hope is that members will build on the results to improve the molecules biological properties
such as tumour shrinkage, that the compounds may work as drugs. These molecules can then be licensed back to companies for further development.
the real value is created in subsequent work.""I ve never worried about the notion that the MLP was a public collection,
that challenged the legality of funding for the work by the National institutes of health (NIH. This means NIH-funded researchers can continue to work with the 195 new human embryonic stem cell lines the federal government has made available to them.
Massachusetts, who was involved not in the work but wrote a commentary accompanying the paper2. X-ray crystallography is one of the most important techniques in science,
a chemist at the University of Tokyo who led the work along with colleague Yasuhide Inokuma.
partly because researchers had a poor understanding of how these proteins work. But in the past three years scientists have made some progress mapping the transporters detailed architecture.
says Paul Dufour, director of Paulicy Works, a science-and-technology consultancy in Gatineau, Quebec.
and cancer biologists that this new kind of immunotherapy can work, he says. Oncologist Renier Brentjens, also at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, remembers the day that he had to tell one of the patients in the trial that the weeks of high-dose chemotherapy the 58-year-old man had endured had worked not after all."
Nick Holliman, a computer scientist at Durham University, UK, describes the work from Fattal's team as a very nice idea and a great technology demonstrator.
Now, Saraf s team has shown that the nano-necklace device works in water and can monitor a cell s vital signs."
Jalas and the way he works represent a new and mostly untapped market for a new crop of genetics interpretation and analysis firms,
but work towards harvesting has been slow. The UK effort has advantages, says Antrim: Lockheed has proven technologies and the most nodule-bed data.
For one thing, it works best in zebrafish embryos, which are transparent. Ahrens and Keller think that it could work in intact mammal brains,
Another limitation is that neither the protein sensor nor the imaging system yet works fast enough to distinguish
Tom Milliken, who works for the wildlife trade monitoring group TRAFFIC, which is headquartered in Cambridge, UK and has been involved heavily in the debates about elephant poaching,
All my hard work had paid finally off, says Samuel Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle and one of the driving forces behind the push for forensic examinations of elephant ivory.
#Wireless brain-computer interface streams thought commands with the speed of an Internet connection Following more than a decade of engineering work,
It appears January 13 in the open-access journal elife. he beauty of this work is that it can serve as a test bed for clinical trials in a dish,
and media to make this work with human muscle cells, said Madden. Madden subjected the new muscle to a barrage of tests to determine how closely it resembled native tissue inside a human body.
and Memory Works Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found out how a protein crucial to learning works:
The finding moves neuroscientists a step closer to figuring out how learning and memory work,
But the new work shows that the Agrp-POMC circuit responds within seconds to the mere presence of food,
and POMC neurons have laid the foundation of the dominant model of how the hunger circuit works.
now we are now starting to reap the rewards of this hard work. Our study shows, for the first time, one of these critical processes being inhibited specifically,
such as PD. hough a tremendous amount of work has been conducted showing the involvement of the tau protein in Alzheimer disease,
principal investigator of the Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium and a study co-author. n important aspect was the collaborative nature of this work.
A summary of their work in human tumor cells and mice will be published on Feb 9 in the journal Nature Communications. y laboratory research on cargo transport inside the cells of patients with autism has led to a new strategy
This work was supported by grants from the National Institute of Neurological disorders and Stroke (NS070024), the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney diseases (DK054214
the new method works by physically enlarging the specimen itself, in some cases more than five times in each dimension. he other methods currently have better resolution,
But since the fictional device only works over land, it may have lifted off the ground by electromagnets,
Researchers from Tsinghua University and Tzekwan technology, a financial security protection firm, have announced the first ATM that works with facial recognition capabilities, reports the South China Morning Post.
Getting approval for such work in the human patients is still a few years away he said i
you can always get work as a bricklayer. Oops, check that. An Australian engineer has developed an industrial-sized bricklaying robot that can put down hundreds of bricks per hour, 24 hours a day, with superhuman precision.
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.
who was involved not in the new work. But others point out that it's unclear how many past infections the new technology misses.
and space. think this work is a real advance, says materials scientist Daniel Jaque at the Autonomous University of Madrid,
who was involved not in the new work. For one, it could be much simpler than designing unique labels. ensity comes for free,
The dance of levitating cells can also carry information about how well a drug works.
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,
#Cool new material could make fuel cells cheaper It not enough for a new alternative energy technology to work.
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.
Commercial devices, by contrast, work by wiring many such devices together into what known as a fuel cell tackthat generates more power.
If future BZY-based SOFC stacks work as well as the individual devices, then it could finally produce the tipping point the fuel cell industry has been looking for n
Estes, who works with virologist Jeffrey Lifson, has developed also a DNASCOPE to visualize this HIV DNAALLED the provirushich becomes integrated into human cells
To double check their work, they counted HIV virions by eye in one of their new images,
Conventional MRIS found in hospitals work by inducing a magnetic field gradient across your entire body.
While a system based on permanent magnets sounds perfect for use in space where power is scarce the Canadians will have their work cut out expanding the technology On earth predicts David Taylor founder of scanner-maker MR Solutions in Guildford UK.
This tells us that the idea of Hawking actually works Steinhauer says. A black hole should really produce Hawking radiation.
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.
Although he stands by his work as the first to show that Hawking-like effects can be measured he admits that it was more open to interpretation than Steinhauer's. This work has raised really the bar
I think this work is really a game changer. Unruh is reserved a bit more. I would not say that the case is provenbut it is probably the closest anyone has come he says.
But most of the work will involve images taken by orbiting satellites especially as recent earth observation start-ups like Planet Labs
& Bird in London because finding the right pictures takes a lot of work. If you are looking for imagery in the past it is difficult to find exactly what you are looking for she says.
This work is useful no matter what because it's cataloguing the mid-infrared of our stars
The more we can get at these processes by trying to make realistic galaxies and seeing what works and
and human spaceflight programme and works with many other countries including Russia in space. When the Soviet union collapsed
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.
The team says the next step is to work in human cadavers and then test the technology in a living human On earth.
To find out if this works in practice Price and colleagues made model comet ice in the lab containing various amounts of ammonia carbon dioxide and methanol.
Advances in pre-flight automation mean that the rocket dubbed Epsilon can be ready to lift off in about a week with fewer people in mission control helping to slash costs to about $38 million per launch much cheaper than its heavier labour-intensive predecessors.
if it continues to look promising we'll do more work he said. If not we'll get on the road.
First stepsin pioneering a new field of study CPI s first challenge is to identify key research questions select appropriate methodologies to guide the work
and work with them on formulating solutions Weitzner said. In addition to research a contribution of the CPI in the long run will be to create a pipeline of students to serve as the next generation of leaders working at this intersection of technology and public policy.
and got more work done more efficiently. They also found evidence of communication overload where high volumes of email due to lack of face-to-face interaction were causing some employees difficulty in concentrating
Waber points to his firm s work with a major online travel company. While looking at the employees lunchtime interactions they discovered one of the most predictive measures of good performance was the number of people an employee ate with the more the merrier.
This work is very exciting because it integrates many useful capabilities in a single system:
Because of the scale of the work, Spielberg and Keating encountered some obstacles. For instance, Spielberg says,
and music that offer a form of self-expression that sometimes hard to attain in other forms of work,
or restructure your vision of how your algorithm works. You could see applications where you might cut down a whole month of work into a few days.
Bringing the outdoors in The group has explored a few such applications using the visualization system. In one scenario, the team is looking into the role of drones in fighting forest fires.
So far the work has been carried out on a model cell surface on a functionalized microscope slide
The initial work was done with flat surfaces; the team now aims to conduct studies in complex 3-D settings to make sure the process works effectively in situations that more closely resemble a real cellular environment.
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
because the obvious solution doesn work.?Heejin then redesigned the device as a pretzel-shaped structure by incorporating a superelastic wire made from a special nitinol alloy.
and some of the students had done the work, collected the data to determine it was thought feasible,
As the work continues later experiments may add additional materials to the particles coating so that they interact in specific ways with molecules or structures within the cell either for diagnosis or treatment.
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.
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
But in the new work they instead used carbon nanotubes atom-thick sheets of carbon rolled into cylinders grown on the slopes of the emitters like trees on a mountainside.
We also show that they work uniformly that each emitter is doing exactly the same thing Velsquez-Garc a says.
They also showed that this approach works with commercial yeast strains and other types of alcohols including propanol and butanol
This work goes a long way to squeezing the last drop of ethanol from sugar adds Gerald Fink an MIT professor of biology member of the Whitehead Institute and the paper s other senior author.
Industrial relevancebefore yeast begin their work producing ethanol the starting material usually corn must be broken down into glucose.
By combining this work with our previously published high-throughput screening system we are able to create a drug-discovery pipeline with efficiency we had imagined never before adds Tsung-Yao Chang a recent MIT Phd recipient and one of the paper s lead authors.
#Jeff Karp an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical school who was not part of the research team says this work is an excellent example of harnessing a multidisciplinary team to partner complementary technologies for the purpose of solving a unified problem.
The material works as part of a solar-thermophotovoltaic (STPV) device: The sunlight s energy is converted first to heat
This work shows the potential of both photonic engineering 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.
however the work here is one of the most important steps in that process. The group is now working to optimize the system with alternative metals.
The work was supported by the Solid-state Solar Thermal energy Conversion Center and the U s. Department of energy y
This is a finding of fundamental importance in the biology of pancreatic cancer says David Tuveson a professor at the Cancer Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory who was involved not in the work.
The findings may also allow scientists to pursue new treatments that would work by targeting tumor metabolism
Ultrasound however works only when the emitter is in direct contact with the object to be scanned
but in ongoing work Bhattacharyya and Asada are exploring mechanical systems that would create hydrodynamic buffers of just the right depth to enable the robot to perform ultrasound scans without surface contact.
Last month Lu s lab reported a different approach to combating resistant bacteria by identifying combinations of genes that work together to make bacteria more susceptible to antibiotics.
Cutting out resistancemost antibiotics work by interfering with crucial functions such as cell division or protein synthesis. However some bacteria including the formidable MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)
This work represents a very interesting genetic method for killing antibiotic-resistant bacteria in a directed fashion
but it doesn t necessarily tell you why they work well Lu says. This is a high-throughput technology for uncovering genetic combinations that look really interesting
and learn how it works. Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT Toward the ultimate gaitthe act of running can be parsed into a number of biomechanically distinct gaits from trotting
This work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency g
#Making drones more customizable A first-ever standard perating systemfor drones, developed by a startup with MIT roots, could soon help manufacturers easily design
Sure enough, the team earned second-to-last place. ut we learned that black-box solution didn work
hobbyists built computers using software that didn work with different computers. At the same time, powerful mainframes were only available to a select few
when the work was done and is now at Northeastern University and Giovanni Resta a researcher at Santi s home institution the Institute for Informatics and Telematics.
who was involved not in this work. In this study, the researchers first tested the system with plastic beads, finding that it could separate beads with diameters of 9. 9 and 7. 3 microns (thousandths of a millimeter) with about 97 percent accuracy.
algorithms can do less work and hence finish more quickly. hese days, with cloud technology, storing lots of data is no big deal.
along with Leurent who actually started FEA work with Patera group back in 2000 earned a Deshpande innovation grant for their upercomputing-on-a-smartphoneinnovation. hat was a trigger,
But it was good to have that solid footing in academic work that we could build on
I think the work demonstrated here can resolve a major issue of industrial waste, and provide a solution for future renewable energy.
The work, which also included research scientist Jifa Qi, graduate student Matthew Klug and postdoc Xiangnan Dang, was supported by Italian energy company Eni through the MIT Energy Initiative y
and this work goes a long way in showing that this is achievable. RNA therapies are very flexible
The new work is similar but a network of electrical leads rather than an oven or hot plate delivers heat to the robot s joints to initiate folding.
In prior work Rus Demaine and Wood developed an algorithm that could automatically convert any digitally specified 3-D shape into an origami folding pattern.
and computer science at the University of California at Berkeley who has been following the MIT and Harvard researchers work.
The work was funded by the National Science Foundation the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Research at Harvard and the Air force Office of Scientific research h
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