explains the study lead author, William Eric Sponsel, MD, of the University of Texas at San antonio, Department of Biomedical engineering.
explained letter co-author Paul Artes, Phd, of Plymouth University, Department of Eye and Visual Sciences.
Along with co-author Jonathan Denniss, Phd, University of Nottingham, Visual Neuroscience Group, their letter analyzed a new cohort of glaucoma patients in which hat essentially
Co-author Ted Maddess, Phd, of the Australian National University, Center of Excellence in Vision Science, explains that these patterns mimic structures found at the very back of the brain, known as ocular dominance columns.
#Giving Paralyzed People a Voice A new device which transforms paralysis victimsbreath into words believed to be the first invention of its kind has been developed by academics from Loughborough University.
A new device which transforms paralysis victimsbreath into words believed to be the first invention of its kind has been developed by academics from Loughborough University. hen it comes to teaching our invention to recognise words and phrases,
#Oxytocin Delivering Nasal Device to Treat Mental illness Researchers at the University of Oslo have tested a new device for delivering hormone treatments for mental illness through the nose.
causing cells to experience severe power failures, according to new work by researchers at Temple University School of medicine.
and the Center for Translational Medicine at Temple University School of medicine (TUSM), shows that the protein, spastic paraplegia 7 (SPG7), is the central component of the so-called permeability transition pore (PTP),
By identifying a key signaling defect within a specific membrane structure in all cells, University of California,
Now a group of researchers at the University of Chicago Institute for Molecular Engineering (IME) is putting liquid crystals to work in a completely unexpected realm:
as well as Aslin Izmitli-Apik and Nicholas Abbott of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. They relied crucially on theoretical molecular models,
and University of Washington researchers have created an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can solve SAT geometry questions as well as the average American 11th-grade student, a breakthrough in AI research.
according to Carnegie mellon University researchers who have developed a three-fingered soft robotic hand with multiple embedded fiber optic sensors.
The researchers/Carnegie mellon University. Each of the fingers on the robotic hand mimic the skeletal structure of a human finger, with a fingertip,
working with mechanical engineering students Celeste To from CMU and Tess Lee Hellebrekers from the University of Texas, invented a highly stretchable and flexible optical sensor, using a combination of commercially available silicone rubbers.
and Maria Carmen Polanco, of the University of Murcia, in Murcia, Spain. The researchers used a combination of X-ray crystallography techniques
says Rowena Matthews, a professor emerita of biological chemistry at the University of Michigan, who has read the paper.
In newly reported research that could help provide answers, scientists at Tufts University, in collaboration with the University of Florida, have developed a novel approach that uses artificial intelligence to illuminate cellular processes
and suggest possible targets to correct aberrations. The findings, published Oct 6 in Science Signaling online in advance of print, are believed to mark the first time artificial intelligence has been used to discover a molecular model that explains why some groups of cells deviate from normal development during embryogenesis,
In addition to Levin and Lobikin, paper authors were Douglas J. Blackiston and Elizabeth Tkachenko of the Department of biology and Center for Regenerative and Developmental biology, Tufts University;
Daniel Lobo, formerly of the Levin laboratory and now at the University of Maryland in Baltimore;
and Christopher J. Martyniuk of the Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology and Department of Physiological Sciences, UF Genetics Institute, University of Florida.
Computation used a cluster computer awarded by Silicon Mechanics and the Campus Champion Allocation for Tufts University TG-TRA 130003 at the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment,
and progression of disease, says senior author Katerina Akassoglou, Phd, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and professor of neurology at the University of California,
and brain macrophages, says Scott Zamvil, MD, Phd, a professor of neurology at the University of California,
Researchers from the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine are nearing development of a blood test that can accurately detect the presence of Alzheimer disease,
DO, assistant professor of family medicine at Rowan University. can think of a single patient who wouldn take steps to prevent the progression of Alzheimer
Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical school and Boston University have shown successfully neuroprotection in a Parkinson mouse model using new techniques to deliver drugs across the naturally impenetrable blood-brain barrier.
#Step Closer to Prosthetic Limbs That Recreate Sense of touch A new study led by neuroscientists from the University of Chicago brings us one step closer to building prosthetic limbs for humans that re-create a sense of touch through a direct interface with the brain.
Associate professor in the Department of Organismal biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago and senior author of the study. ow we understand the nuts and bolts of stimulation,
private companies and academic institutions, including the Johns hopkins university Applied Physics laboratory and the University of Pittsburgh. Bensmaia and his colleagues at UCHICAGO are working specifically on the sensory aspects of these limbs.
Consulting with professors from the College of Veterinary medicine in Cornell University, the company established the direction a dog wags its tail directly reflected its mood.
a handful of students walked through a park behind the University of Hannover in Germany.
Max Pfeiffer of the University of Hannover was the driver. His project directs electrical currentmovie Camera into the students'sartorius, the longest muscle in the human body,
Evan Peck of Bucknell University in Pennsylvania says Pfeiffer's system will stop us being chained to our smartphones."
"says John Aplin of the University of Manchester, UK. During pregnancy, the lining of the uterus behaves quite differently to normal:
"says Graham Burton of the University of Cambridge, whose team discovered in 2002 that the uterus lining not the mother's blood nourishes the embryo."
Andres Clarens at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his team say pumping CO2 into the wells could prevent this.
a petroleum geologist at Newcastle University in the UK but unnecessary. ractures rarely extend past a few hundred metres above the shale reservoir,
says team member Miles Montgomery at the University of Toronto, Canada. ou could build it in situ, almost like designer tissue.
says Jay Zhang of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, although he adds that clinical applications are some way off. he real test is how it works in vivo,
says Lonnie Shea of the University of Michigan at Ann arbor, one of the developers. So far the idea has been tested in mice.
and use a few hundred watts, says Wilfred van der Wiel of the University of Twente in The netherlands. he human brain can do orders of magnitude more and uses only 10 to 20 watts.
says Jie Han of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. he physics is there, but of course you still have to demonstrate it.
and night, says Roman Hovorka of the University of Cambridge. This means there is no need to wake up to check blood sugar levels throughout the night.
and use a few hundred watts, says Wilfred van der Wiel of the University of Twente in The netherlands. he human brain can do orders of magnitude more and uses only 10 to 20 watts.
says Jie Han of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Van der Wiel hopes the work will lead to specialised processors that can solve problems that are difficult for computers, such as pattern recognition.
says Thomas Angelini at the University of Florida in Gainesville, who led the research. Print for your life Angelini team has used already the technique to print material out of living cells including human blood-vessel and canine kidney cells.
says Neil Roberts at the University of Edinburgh, UK. The water content of our cells doesn tend to vary much,
Paul Bernal of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, says the judgement makes it hard to see how it is legal for any personal data gathered in the EU to now be sent to the US for processing. he ruling basically says US surveillance cannot be allowed to override our fundamental rights,
Now, a team at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, has taken a significant step forward by making a cloak for infrared radiation,
says Debbie Hay at the University of Auckland in New zealand. here has been a great deal of debate around the mechanisms of migraine.
To investigate, Simon Akerman at New york University and Peter Goadsby at Kings College London, UK,
Now Joel Carpenter at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and his colleagues have demonstrated a workaround.
Ludwig Aigner at Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg in Austria and his colleagues targeted a set of receptors in the brain that, when activated,
says James Nicoll, a neuropathologist at the University of Southampton, UK. Aigner agrees he will start by testing the drug in people with Parkinson disease,
Kenneth Forbus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, is confident that services like this will prove useful in the future. achines that help us filter could increase the rate at
"says Carrie Albertin, a biologist at the University of Chicago. As technology to sequence DNA has gotten faster and cheaper,
And after a team at the University of Chicago started sequencing a particular octopus species,
Surgeons at Salamanca University Hospital reported the man's case and how they made the prosthesis last month in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.
of Salamanca University Hospital, said in a statement. He and his colleagues hope the better fit will mean fewer complications in the long run.
And that search brought him to a team of astronomers at Leiden University including Frans Snik, Matthew Kenworthy,
For example, Escuti's university startup company, Imagineoptix Corporation, has created technologies ranging from an ultra-efficient pocket projector the size of a few quarters to components for active photonic hardware supporting internet traffic."
By contrast, the laser-driven system in combination with phase-contrast X-ray tomography only requires a university laboratory to view soft tissues.
#Activated glass chip creates widest wavelength range Scientists from University of Twente research institute MESA+(Twente,
and the universities of Münster, also Germany, and Oxford and Exeter, both UK, has developed the first all-optical permanent on-chip memory.
and recently moved to the University of Münster. Professor Harish Bhaskaran of Oxford university added, he memory we have developed is compatible not only with conventional optical fiber data transmission,
and University of Ghent team describes the development as the irst highly scalable monolithic solutionto a longstanding problem:
said Dr Mohamed Albed Alhnan, a lecturer in pharmaceutics at the University of Central Lancashire.
In 2011, Dr. Mcewen (a planetary geologist at the University of Arizona and principal investigator of images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) spotted dark streaks sloping down some of Mars canyons and mountains.
#Journey of an adorable hitchhiking robot itchbotended in Philadelphia A social research experimental robot named itchbotwas made by Dr. David Harris Smith of Mcmaster University in Hamilton, Ontario,
and Dr Frauke Zeller Ryerson University, Toronto to explore the streets and make new friends.
According to Rose Ricciardelli, assistant professor of sociology at Memorial University in Newfoundland, who also authored the study,
According to Michael Cunningham, a psychologist who teaches in the Department of Communication at the University of Louisville,
Developed by a team from the University of Bristol and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. NTT) in Japan, the fully reprogrammable chip brings together a multitude of existing quantum experiments
. in collaboration with engineers from the University of Bradford and with funding from Innovate U k.,a government funding agency.
an assistant professor of robotics at Carnegie mellon University who led the project.""Human skin contains thousands of tactile sensory units only in the fingertip,
Under development by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research, the Hypercam uses both visible and near-infrared light to peer beneath the surface
Hypercam is a low-cost multispectral camera developed by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research that reveals details that are difficult
Courtesy of the University of Washington. Hypercam illuminates a scene with 17 wavelengths. Software analyzes the resulting images to present the user with the most useful information."
"said Mayank Goel, a University of Washington doctoral student and Microsoft Research graduate fellow. Compared to an image taken with a normal camera (top),
Courtesy of the University of Washington. When Hypercam captured images of a person's hand, for instance,
"said University of Washington professor Shwetak Patel.""With this kind of camera, you could go to the grocery store
a professor in Viking studies at the University of Nottingham, translated the recipe from the Old english in Bald Leechbook,
Now researchers from the University of British columbia have figured out a way to change the type of blood donated by volunteers,
Now, researchers from the University of California Irvine have isolated the source of the creature's disappearing act:
made by roboticists Fabien Expert and Franck Ruffier at Aix Marseille University in Marseille, France, manages to fly without one.
#Terminator 2 like"smart liquid metal"developed by Tsinghua University researchers These diagrams from the Advanced Materials journal show stages of the Tsinghua University experiment,
and movement/fusion of gallium alloy droplets (e). Tsinghua University scientists led by Jing Liu, have discovered a'smart'liquid metal alloy that moves on its own.
In 2014, both Tsinghua University and North carolina State university discovered that applying electrical currents to gallium alloys (like the liquid metal) would allow for controlled shape-shifiting in the metal
you'd need a substance like Tsinghua University's self powered liquid metal to avoid those embarrassing and inconvenient electrical cords.
At the University of Cambridge, scientists have created a"mother robot"that can not only build smaller robots,
Researchers from the University of Bradford and Sofmat, an anti-fraud technology company, developed a system to add microscopic indentations to the surface of a product.
"said Timmons Roberts, a professor of environmental studies at Brown University.""It really does matter what the actual cap is."
Now a team led by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has developed a flexible electronic sensor that can measure blood flow on top of the skin or
Aipoly is a smartphone app that acts as an intelligent assistant to the non-sighted user Students at Singularity University Silicon valley-based benefit corporation, educational program,
Singularity University estimates that two-thirds of the visually impaired people in the world will become smartphone users in the next five years, making technology like Aipoly essential for this growing market.
A relatively recent addition to the university, Park is a"top-talent"educator who was recruited for her leadership in a high-impact, high-demand area"in
which the university wants to continue to position itself as a global leader. The area in which Park has established herself as an expert is the field of study related to the creation and monitoring of delivery vehicles that carry medicine to specific locations within the body.
In fact, it was the superb medical facilities she would have access to as a professor at UC that aided in her decision to accept the position at the university.
Her Phd at Purdue University and her research at Boston's Massachusetts institute of technology were dedicated both to studying particle stabilization to avoid clogging arteries with the nanoparticles and drug delivery vehicles;
and has been used in hospitals and universities for more than 30 years. It's just one of the many powerful technologies made possible by a tiny device called a SQUID, short for superconducting quantum interference device.
and is used already on a daily basis in colleges and universities around the world. Chesca and his colleagues are currently working on optimizing the shape
For this project, Bartels lab greatly benefited from the complementary expertise between the two universities,
Other participants include scientists from Manipal University, India; GSI-Giessen, Germany; Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany;
Japan Atomic energy agency; and the joint Institute for Nuclear research in Russia. The results are published in the journal Physics Letters B. The Lab Dawn Shaughnessy, Ken Moody,
Kyoung-Shin Choi is a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an experimentalist.
A scale prototype of THAWT has been stress tested successfully twice at Newcastle University. The developers say the system could be used in waters off France and many Asian countries, such as Japan, China, the Koreas, Indonesia, India,
Developed by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University, the experimental system has been produced in different shapes and sizes to suit various locations on the body, such as the finger,
William Laurance, a professor at Australia James Cook University and another of the study co-authors
Dr Hsieh and his colleagues from Tel aviv University California Institute of technology, Iowa State university, and the University of Kentucky, made the discovery
while testing a laser-based measurement technique that they recently developed to look for what is called multipolar order. o understand multipolar order,
it brilliant, said Asier Marzo of the University of Bristol and the Public University of Navarre, a team member and the first author of a paper in the journal Nature Communications.
Bruce Drinkwater of the University of Bristol. ut here we have managed to control the sound to a degree never previously achieved. n our device we manipulate objects in mid-air
added co-author Prof Sriram Subramanian of the University of Sussex and Ultrahaptics Ltd. The team used an array of 64 miniature loudspeakers (driven at 40khz with 15vpp;
led by scientists at the University of Leeds and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, focused on the"Akt pathway,"a signaling pathway within cells that drives cancer formation and the spread of cancers
Lead author Professor John Ladbury, Dean of the University of Leeds'Faculty of Biological sciences and Professor of Mechanistic Biology, said,
"Dr Zahra Timsah, University Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds'School of Molecular and Cellular biology, who was the lead researcher on the study,
It involved researchers from the University of Leeds, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the UT Health Science Center at Houston t
Researchers at the University of California, San diego (UCSD) School of medicine and the University of Wollongong in Australia have discovered that, 30 years ago,
said lead author Mark Walker, Ph d. a Professor of Biological sciences at the University of Wollongong. n the case of the invasive strep clone,
and Jason Mcarthur of the University of Wollongong; Katrin Dinkla and Gurshan Chhatwal of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig, Germany;
Rita Kansal and Malak Kotb of the University of Tennessee-Memphis; Ramy Aziz of the University of Cairo, Egypt;
Amy Simpson, UCSD Medical student, and John Buchanan, UCSD Assistant Research Scientist in Pediatrics
#Spontaneous Rare Mutations Cause Half Of Autism Researchers are saying a new analysis of data on the genetics of autism spectrum disorder disputes a commonly held belief that autism results from the chance combinations
a postdoctoral scholar in Bogyo's lab who is now an assistant professor at the University of Vermont,
assistant professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at at Washington University School of medicine in St louis."One of my patients told me he was able to pick up a noodle off his chest
"Surgeons at Washington University pioneered nerve-transfer surgery. Developed about 25 years ago by the study's senior author, Susan E. Mackinnon, MD, director of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the School of medicine,
Background Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (known as Tommo) has been working in cooperation with Iwate Medical University on the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project.
It is part of the universities'contribution towards reconstruction of the region following the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.
Since 2013, the two universities have been conducting cohort studies, which include some150, 000 community residents in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures e
A team of scientists from Mcgill University, Washington University in St louis, ITMO University in Saint petersburg, Russia,
and the University of Bristol in the UK studied the response of cancer cells to reduced availability of glucose, the main fuel source for most cancer cells.
Research Associate at Mcgill University and lead author of the study.""We found that some cancer cells also express PEPCK,
"adds Russell Jones, Associate professor of Physiology at Mcgill University's Goodman Cancer Research Centre. The study suggests that nutrient availability in the organism,
"explains Alexey Sergushichev, bioinformatician and Phd student at the Department of Computer technologies at ITMO University."
Scientists at the University of Bonn and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) have decoded a central signal cascade associated with epileptic seizures.
Dr. Albert J. Becker from the Institute of Neuropathology of the University of Bonn. The hippocampus, located in the temporal lobe, is a central switching station in the brain.
Becker, together with scientists from the departments of Experimental Epileptology and Neuroradiology of the University of Bonn Hospital as well as from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Israel
Dr. Susanne Schoch from the department of Neuropathology at the University of Bonn. The researchers also see a possible potential in this new technology for novel diagnostic approaches in humans s
According to the University of Melbourne, which was involved also in the development of the device, around half of the 55,000 Australians who experience heart attack
co-developer Martin Weigel of Saarland University in Germany told Matthew Stock at Reuters. ut our sensor is a flexible and stretchable sensor,
Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne have developed successfully the world most energy-efficient rtificial photosynthesistechnique, which effectively mimics plant-based photosynthesis by using solar energy to convert water into hydrogen.
Thomas Faunce, an expert on artificial photosynthesis from the Australian National University in Canberra, was involved not in the Monash study
More good news is that a study published in June by researchers at the University of California,
and so the team from the Autonomous University of Barcelona decided to see if they could build a magnetic wormhole in the lab instead.
Researchers at the University of California, San diego in the US have developed a prototype to show off a new wireless communication technique which they say massively outperforms existing wireless tech by using the human body itself to help send data between devices.
professor at the Department of Applied Physics at Kogakuin University in Japan, announced the development of this device back in 2013.
and cannabidiol-another active compound that has shown promise as a medical treatment-told The New york times. Back in August, researchers from the University of California,
Now, researchers from the Technical University of Dortmund in Germany have outlined in the journal Biotechnology Letters how they looked into
As Jonathan Page, an adjunct professor at the University of British columbia in Canada who helped sequence the THC
Developed by a team of researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt, the procedure uses a desalination technique called pervaporation to remove the salt from sea water
engineer Harish Bhaskaran from the University of Oxford, said in a press release.""But we think using light can significantly speed this up."
"lead researcher Kevin Laws from the University of New south wales (UNSW) said in a press release.""With our new instruction manual we can start to create many new useful metallic glass-types
one of the researchers, Zoran Nenadic from the University of California, Irvine in the US, said in a press release. e showed that you can restore intuitive, brain-controlled walking after a complete spinal cord injury."
Alan Duffy, a Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia.""The brine on Mars might not directly support life
at Gothenburg Sahlgrenska University hospital, orthopaedic surgery has moved to a 6-hour day, as have doctors and nurses in two hospital departments in Umeå to the north,"The Guardian reports.
Now engineers from the University of New south wales (UNSW) in Australia have overcome the final hurdle,
and fighting an important cause of progression in Alzheimer's disease,"said one of the team, Andrew Saykin from the Indiana University School of medicine.
invented research and fake journals that Wuhan University estimated in 2009 was worth $150m, "The Economist wrote back in 2013.
an innovation-studies specialist at Tsinghau University in Beijing, told Nature. He added that young scientists in China are told always to go overseas
a professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, wrote in an online commentary for China. com."The prize for Tu Youyou has raised questions precisely about this. till,
Together with researchers from the University of Washington, the Buck Institute laboriously examined the development of some 4, 698 separate yeast strains,
"explains one of the researchers, Anton Rebhan from the Vienna University of Technology. But there is one major difference between the two:
Designed by students at ETZ Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts, the Scalevo features gyroscopic technology that lets the wheelchair automatically balance itself on just two wheels
and how mutations in the gene cause disease,"said one of the team, Xin Liu, from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical centre.
#Researchers create lithium-air battery that could be 10x more powerful than lithium-ion A new lithium-air battery created by researchers at the University of Cambridge points the way to the ultimate battery packs of the future,
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