Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics and an associate faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, describes the research in a paper published today in Science. his is a surprisingly simple way to make amorphous nanoparticles from almost any material,
this templated polymerization approach paves the way for the design of novel one-dimensional nanomaterials. Nanosized materials such as nanowires offer unique properties that are completely distinct from those of the bulk materials.
2015, a team of researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and the University of Colorado Boulder combined two optical systems in a new way to get around the natural limits of optical microscopes.
We have found that different coatings does change the way that they interact with the tooth surface.""
#Novel Nano-Dispenser Systems Uses Less Insecticide to Kill Citrus Greening Bugs Researchers with the University of Florida and several other institutions have found a way in laboratory tests to use
Using insecticides is one of the few ways farmers currently have to treat their groves for greening, also known as Huanglongbing or HLB.
paves the way for better-and cheaper-DNA sequencing. DNA sequencing is a technique that can determine exact sequence of a DNA molecule.
they block the current in individual ways that can be used to identify them. Though powerful, the method suffers from high speed:
The work offers an innovative way that can improve one of the best DNA sequencing methods available."
producing the material in a different way to allow it to remain fatigue-free through thousands of cycles s
because different arrangements of atoms cause electrons to interact in different ways. However, scanning transmission electron microscopes only produce two-dimensional images.
but we're showing a versatile method of fabrication that can lead to structures you can't make any other way."
opening the way to direct applications for medical research"he said. Professor Lithgow and his team used a novel technology that enables the systematic expansion of the genetic codes of living organisms to include unnatural amino acids beyond the common twenty.
a large, complicated set of molecules embedded in the mitochondrial membrane in ways that have confounded long researchers.
In this way, the cytoxic drug can be delivered directly to the cells it is intended to eradicate.
"But the relative lack of efficient ways to attach chemotherapeutic drugs to antibodies currently represents a major technological bottleneck,
and that is to me an opportunity to change the world in a very big way-Prof Baratunde Cola,
Cola intends to improve the efficiency of the rectennas in a number of ways such as changing materials,
pointing the way toward storage devices with more power, greater capacity, and faster charge and discharge capabilities.
In this way, the colour can be tuned through the whole of the visible spectrum depending on the amount of water vapour taken up
creating a height profile point by point in this way. Although a PFM is not capable of imaging such fine structures as an AFM,
In this way, the three-dimensional position of the probe is measured one million times per second.""The most remarkable thing is that the quivering probe is repeatedly left alone briefly
a Scotia resident and quadriplegic, began to look for ways he could remain engaged with the world of music.
Nanoparticles with sizes the order of a wavelength interact with light in specific ways. A young investigator group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, led by Professor Martina Schmid,
Researchers at Stanford used graphene in three different ways to create data storage technology that has the best features of both volatile and nonvolatile silicon chips.
Engineers led by Stanford have demonstrated a way to create memory that combines the stability of flash memory with the speed of RAM.
It has been used in various therapies as a way to remove excess fibrin proteins from the blood to treat thrombosis and as a topical hemostat.
such as common E coli, to produce valuable chemical commodities in an environmentally friendly way. By leveraging their natural metabolic processes,
In this way, they can be thought of as the medium for two-way communication between humans and cells.
"Our team is developing several different ways to make even more custom biosensors, "said Church.""We're trying to control biological processes
and we need new ways to get our hands in at the molecular level-we're now reaching in deeper than we've previously been able to,
The new method is the only way to directly measure the transmitted load through the rolling bearing components.
a 1-100 score that shows a player's overall swing performance and is a simple way to compare
and flaws in structures where safety is critical. he reason transducers are made still this way is mostly historical;
and more secure way to communicate information between wearable electronic devices, providing an improved alternative to existing wireless communication systems,
We're trying to find new ways to communicate information around the human body that use much less power,
and expanding the system to both hands. he combination of muscle activation detection with motion sensors is a new and exciting way of understanding human intent with other applications in addition to enhanced SLR systems,
Today, the most common way to determine the corrosion speed of the rebars in a reinforced concrete structure is based on destructive techniques, for
We wanted to develop a way to detect and remove this kind of contamination, so people are happy to drink water. raditionally,
such as gas chromatography or mass spectroscopy. hese are good ways to detect smell molecules, but they require a large amount of work before the sample is even ready to test,
an IMES postdoc and the paper lead author. his is used in many ways, but not so much for detection.
Learning more about such viruses could help scientists find ways to permanently eliminate them. atent HIV provirus is pretty much the final barrier to curing AIDS
and there aren any ways to eradicate it, Slomovic says. While treating diseases using this system is likely many years away,
whether two genes located far from each other on a chromosome fold in such a way that they end up next to each other,
Even for scientists, it has not been easy to find other ways of using them.
less costly way to detect these fibers and to do so at a much earlier stage of their formation than has been possible before--the stage
They exploited the way a liquid crystal responds to a disturbance on its surface. The scientists made a film of a liquid crystal molecule called 5cb,
Then they applied chemicals to the 5cb film that caused the molecules to align in such a way as to block the passage of light.
this could pave the way, says Steelant. Race for the skies Other companies are already working to make the supersonic business-aviation market a reality.
The Concordes and Tupolevs that paved the way for supersonic air travel in the 1970s now gather dust in museums.
The strike price works the other way as well-EDF has to refund the difference if the price of electricity is above £92. 50/Mwh.
paving the way for other power companies to invest in new reactors in the UK, because two new reactors will not be enough
These complications temper the technique's promise for controlling brain activity in a noninvasive way. Writing in the journal Nature Communications,
"It's important for us to work in a participatory way for the people whose homes its going to be said in
"It's still a way off,"smiles Dr Caleb-Solly, who leads the research.""But our new lab will make it sooner than it was."
the encrypted passwords were said to be almost uncrackable because of the way they were scrambled. But programming changes by the site's developers meant more than a third of the passwords were protected poorly.
The way this scrambles passwords makes it hard to carry out so-called"brute force"attacks that try lots of different word
However, an amateur password cracking group called Cynosure Prime looking through code also stolen from Ashley Madison realised that at some point the site changed the way passwords were stored.
"Cynosure Prime said it was not sure exactly why Ashley Madison's developers had changed the way that it dealt with passwords that introduced the insecure functions.
#Highways and'i-ways':'How Modi wooed Silicon valley It's remarkable, given the strength of the Indian expat community in California,
and competitive spirit that brings success their way.""If an old school friend starts a company in Silicon valley,"one Valley-based Indian tech executive,
said the country needs both highways and"i-ways, "by which he meant fibre internet,
when her girls grow up they will see moving back to India as a career aspiration-in the same way she saw the US as way to a better life e
and should be able to transform the way that'age'is used to make medical decisions.
New CRISPR-Cas9 strategy edits genes 2 ways The CRISPR-Cas9 system has been in the limelight mainly as a revolutionary genome engineering tool used to modify specific gene sequences within the vast sea of an organism
This process, called phosphorylation, occurs at sites of broken DNA as a way to mediate interactions between key proteins.
The method could lead to new ways to treat cancer, type 1 diabetes and viral infections as well as facilitating research into T-cell function.'
in this way, T-cells could be manipulated to control cancer or possibly eliminate a tumour entirely. CRISPR/Cas9 involves the identification of specific areas on the DNA.
This test could help us stay a step ahead of cancer by monitoring the way it is changing
'Finding less invasive ways of diagnosing and monitoring cancer is really important and blood samples have emerged as one possible way of gathering crucial information about a patient's disease.'
'He added:''But there is some way to go before this could be developed into a test that doctors could use routinely,
and doing so is never simple. l
#Breakthrough in rare disease that causes growth of second skeleton Scientists have developed a potential antibody treatment for the rare genetic disease fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), in
""v"and"n")by their images, each letter stylized in different ways or saturated with"noise".
similar to the way human neural cells generate neural electrical signals.""The memory state is stored as a specific concentration profile of defects that can be moved back and forth within the memristor,
"This memristor-based technology relies on a completely different way inspired by biological brain to carry on computation."
"There are so many potential applications--it definitely gives us a whole new way of thinking, "he said.
while studying the way in which the parasites Toxoplasma gondii, which causes toxoplasmosis, and Plasmodium, which causes malaria, access vital nutrients from their host cells.
he said. o they have had to evolve ways to get around their own barriers, to gain access to these nutrients.
or operated On that way, the researchers could account for the changes, following a surgery or injury, in inflammation-related gene activity over time, independent of the presence or absence of infection.
Similar to the way the lymphatic system clears waste from organs, the glymphatic pathway is where cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) filters through the brain
Results indicated that the level of drugs needed was often two orders of magnitude higher than predictions based on traditional assaid. o there no way to effectively predict, from the 2-D assaid,
however, was on only one way that the enzyme was activated. Miller and Whittington research showed there is actually another avenue for activation. glucokinase The work showed that this new activation mechanism is operational in clinically characterized disease forms of the enzyme.
Allostery is one way in which the function of proteins in the cell are controlled and regulated.
But for Cas9 to do its work, it must first find its way into the cell.
The CRISPR-Cas9 complexes can then free themselves from the nanoclew to make their way to the nucleus
The researchers had to develop a new way of analyzing the results in order to find the new genes.
and points the way to future anticancer approaches, including combination therapies of coiled-coil STAT3 inhibitors in tandem with other agents,
Such knowledge could pave the way for new drugs for a myriad of diseases, including cancer.
The human body has a nifty way of turning its proteins on and off to alter their function and activity in cells:
Jewett said. ere we are finding new ways to leverage this machinery to understand fundamental biological questions, specifically protein phosphorylation.
In this study, identifying a specific gene behind more aggressive forms of acute myeloid leukaemia could give clues for new ways to personalise treatments for select patients.
the sooner we can find new ways to stop it. Somerville et al. Frequent derepression of the mesenchymal transcription factor gene FOXC1 in acute myeloid leukemia.
and that other cell types are unaffected. here was no efficient way of conducting this kind of experiment until now,
but to do so in very precise ways that are only possible since gene-editing technologies became available. nterest in exploring the potential clinical uses of the molecular switch,
The models could provide a more intuitive way for surgeons to assess and prepare for the anatomical idiosyncrasies of individual patients. ur collaborators are convinced that this will make a difference,
Human factors Typically, the way to make an image-segmentation algorithm more precise is to augment it with a generic model of the object to be segmented.
That anatomical consistency could give a segmentation algorithm a way to weed out improbable conclusions about object boundaries.
#A Better Way to See and Study How Two Cells Interact Interactions between brain cells hold the key to healthy brain function and cognition,
But to figure out exactly what going wrong, we needed a better way to study that interface.
Not only would this provide a more accurate way of delivering drugs, but the cages themselves could be used therapeutically. hese packaging systems have always been inert,
an IMES postdoc and the paper lead author. his is used in many ways, but not so much for detection.
Learning more about such viruses could help scientists find ways to permanently eliminate them. atent HIV provirus is pretty much the final barrier to curing AIDS
and there aren any ways to eradicate it, Slomovic said. While treating diseases using this system is likely many years away,
whether two genes located far from each other on a chromosome fold in such a way that they end up next to each other,
but there are no great ways to tell who can safely skip it. A California company, Genomic Health Inc.
and put them to work in new ways. ature borrowed not just the vitamin, but really the whole enzyme unit,
the authors said. e think of this as a way to have a better in vitro lab model that can maybe reduce animal use,
It continues and may eventually provide a way of increasing survival from cancer r
#Scientists Grow Old Brain cells from Patientsskin Cells Researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have found a way to create aged brain cells from patientsskin samples for the first time.
Fibroblasts, which are cells in connective tissue, from older people are converted directly into induced neurons. his lets us keep age-related signatures in the cells
it became clear that during the process of reprogramming to create stem cells the cell was rejuvenated also in other ways,
and development of this potential therapy. here are always new ways to treat a disease,
exciting ways that have never been possible before, explains Dr. Camilla Ip, lead author of the study
which is exploring ways to reduce the error rate of the device as well as ensuring that it can work with small samples of DNA o
and paves the way toward new and improved therapies for the disease. The study reveals a new mechanism for the development of fibrosis in skin tissues
Our study points to a new way to target this debilitating disease, said Jamora. By focusing on elastin, the team discovered that the development of fibrosis in skin tissues was linked to a particular molecule:
the way that a child s interconnecting plastic blocks can have different shapes but all snap together.
Perhaps most exciting, this work has opened up an actionable roadmap to a general and automated way to make most small molecules.
potentially providing a new way to develop products for the huge personal care market. QUILL researchers are currently working with a perfume development company to identify a number of product ideas that could eventually be sold in shops.
and I know they will be extremely proud that they have contributed directly to research progress in ways that go beyond traditional financial support
The results are reported in the Journal of Neurotrauma. hese findings tell us we have to look at spinal cord injury in a new way
however, is good reconnaissance a reliable way to obtain real-time data about how well a particular therapy is working for any given patient.
a breakthrough that heralds a faster and potentially less expensive way to produce many different types of plant-based medicines.
Smolke said. e need options to help ensure that the bio-based production of medicinal compounds is developed in the most responsible way.
"We see a way to treat this disease by helping the body protect itself, "he said."
a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical school and director of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. ut the fact that it did did as well as it is encouraging. here are lots of ways these tools could be beneficial to the research community,
Now, a team of researchers from Oxford and Stony Brook universities has found a way to precisely control these waves-using light.
So, the research team set out to find ways to steer the excitation waves, borrowing tools from the developing field of optogenetics,
"Liquid marbles are a remarkably simply way to culture cells in 3d, "says Dr St john."A droplet of liquid that contains the cells is placed upon a carpet of teflon powder to create a liquid marble
Study Reveals Scientists produce beneficial natural compounds in tomato--industrial scale up potential Scientists at the John Innes Centre have found a way to produce industrial quantities of useful natural compounds efficiently,
Scientists at the John Innes Centre have found a way to produce industrial quantities of useful natural compounds efficiently,
therefore production of valuable compounds like Resveratrol or Genistein in tomatoes could be a more economical way of producing them than relying on artificial synthesis in a lab
streaming will be the way people enjoy music,"according to Re/code.""We'll continue to collaborate with our streaming partners to expand their businesses,
"Paid downloads have long been the primary way listeners consume music, with downloads overtaking physical sales in the US (by volume) back in 2012.
outlined to Business Insider four major ways that advancements in internet technology could threaten national security.
At Infiltrate, a professional penetration tester for a major company in Silicon valley told Business Insider that the easiest way to infiltrate a client's system is to bait an employee into clicking on an infected link in a seemingly innocuous email.
He told us that Aspiro's customers loved the way Wimp and Tidal curated music using actual people, rather than algorithms:
explaining that accepting Jay z's offer was the only way the company could continue: In my opinion, the recommendation to not accept the offer involves high risk,
Music presented and heard the way the artists intended. We want our mission with TIDAL to spark conversation
Spotify has also been moving forward and developing new ways to bring in customers. It has launched playlists designed to surface up-and-coming music,
although The Daily mirror (one of the newspapers that partnered with Prince) compared it to his greatest hits. There's no denying that Tidal has come a long way from Aspiro's innovative WAP services in 1998.
Massdrop prioritizes relationships with its vendors and manufacturers in a few ways: it uses a third-party shipping service to get products to customers,
and copper mine gave way, spilling 24 million cubic metres of mine waste and water into nearby lakes and rivers.
But really IPV4 as a resource in any meaningful way is exhausted. And you can see that in that there is a secondary market that has sprung up,
what the government has described as a way to protect social decency. N. N. Kaul, a spokesman for India's department of telecom, said Monday that the government was trying to control easy access to pornography following a directive from the country's top court.
Almost half a billion years ago, way before the dinosaurs roamed, Earth's dominant large predator was a sea scorpion that grew to 170 centimetres (5 feet 7 inches), with a dozen claw arms sprouting from its head and a spike tail, according to a new study.
researchers from the University of Montreal describe a novel way to detect large molecules like antibodies in blood using a quick,
"Electrical current Vallée-Belisle and his team, working with a chemist from the University of Rome, came up with a way to detect antibodies by having them bind to loose, single strands of DNA.
Scientists Enlist E coli To Make Planet-Saving Plastic Out Of Practically Nothing The Intertubes have buzzing with news of a new way to make plastic without using petroleum or petrochemicals.
#New Battery technology Will Fundamentally Change The Way The Grid Operates Originally published on Energy Post.
By Michael Mcelfreshthe spread of cost-effective batteries, such as Tesla new Powerwall, will fundamentally change the way the electric grid operates,
Along the way, these batteries will improve the efficiency and reliability of the grid overall.
for example, has experimented with ways to connect parked EVS to the electric grid. When grid operators need a short burst of power
For the consumer, energy storage enables a whole new way to look at home electricity use. It can provide energy security,
but we also plan to offer ways for people to get it for free, says Droege. Sunport screenshot bigco How Solar RECS Work with Sunport Any device, be it your phone
In the late 1990s, the government created renewable energy credits (RECS) as a way to separate renewable from nonrenewable energy.
which are the only way to legally and legitimately claim use of any grid-connected renewable energy.
That way, each Sunjoule micro credit upgrades a little bit of power today, helps add a little more new solar production to the grid
so many ways a product like this could branch out, said Agust Agustsson, Vice president of Janulus. enewable energy is close to our heart
and we saw a way to do something that we thought was pretty cool, said Einar.
(which can be read in full by way of the various resources provided by WWVIEWS on Climate and Energy):
causing indoor air quality issues. apping into renewable energy resources is the only way African nations can fuel economic growth,
paving the way for Africa unfettered, sustainable development. i
#Micro motors could soak up CO2 pollution in the oceans, study finds Machines that are smaller than the width of a human hair could one day help clean up carbon dioxide pollution in the oceans,
Researchers believe the results could lead to new ways of using the hormone to treat psychological problems such as stress and speech disorders.
They found the sugary molecule which is used as a way of storing energy in the body was present in high levels in the womb lining.
'The findings could also help scientists develop ways of improving fertility treatments like IVF by ensuing an embryo gets the nutrients it needs during the early weeks of development.
Google patents a way for autonomous vehicles to understand hand signals A Google patent has revealed that the firm self-driving cars will be able to detect
and negotiate its way around pedestrians and other vehicles. Under the vision unveiled by Google,
Bitcoins, an online currency that is hard to trace, are becoming the preferred way hackers collect ransoms, according to FBI Special agent Thomas Grasso,
'Audio is one of the best ways to help us relax and switch off naturally,'said Antos.'
'I wanted a natural way to help myself to sleep better that fit in with my lifestyle
trains and cars are replaced by craft that can whisk us from London to Sydney in a just a few hours by flying most of the way in the outer limits of our atmosphere. he most important thing is that Emdrive is green,
But an invention from Hampshire may yet pave the way for us to turn science fiction into reality
which are difficult to maintain, like underground buildings, motorways or oil rigs,'added Dr Jonkers.''It is extremely durable.
'We need a way of treating the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as problems with episodic memory,
if Airbus has its way. The aerospace manufacturer is designing a hypersonic jet that it hopes will take people between the two major cities faster than most daily commutes.
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