They will be retrofitted by or before the year 2025, with interim goals along the way.
To address the escalating demands of existing and future residents cities are looking for ways to introduce more technology to become smarter about the use of limited resources The Smart cities USA pilot project will give San jos residents real-time local data that can
#Tiny needles could target drugs to front of eye Georgia Institute of technology rightoriginal Studyposted by John Toon-Georgia Tech on November 14 2014microneedles almost too small to be seen with the naked eye may offer the best way
and could provide a new way to deliver drugs to specific areas within the eye relevant to these diseases.
and pushing their way through the wall of an artificial vessel lined with human endothelial cells the kind that line human blood vessels.
If we can find a way to stop one of these steps in the metastatic cascade we may be able to find a new strategy to slow down
and analyze them in sophisticated labs. Now a team of biologists has created a new tool that could provide a quick cheap way to perform sophisticated lab analyses
and diagnostics in the field and may also offer a way to speed science in the lab. The tool called a paper gene circuit takes biological reactions out of cells and puts them onto a piece of paper.
and putting them together in new ways. Pardee s circuits use a device called a##toehold switch##created by coauthor Alexander Green also a postdoctoral fellow at Boston and Pardee s colleague at the Wyss Institute
##Pardee wondered if there was a way to build a gene circuit that could function outside a cell.
#Iron-rich biochar filters arsenic from water Biochar may be a fast inexpensive and easy way to remove arsenicâ one of the world s most common pollutantsâ from water.
Arsenic finds its way into drinking water supplies through natural or human-made sources affects millions of people worldwide
and cost-effective way for arsenic removal says Bin Gao associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering at University of Florida.
and the way they usually do things says lead author Curtis Weiss assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
The current way to diagnose infection is a culture but those results take 48 to 72 hours.
and we worked intensively to test the integrity of this result in many ways and we found out how robust it was.
but we are keen to seek ways to stabilize the brain in normal operating regimes
Biomedical engineers exploring ways to toughen up engineered cartilage and keep natural tissues strong outside the body report new developments in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.##
"In electronics the different components that make up a circuit are connected always in the same way:
One way that Staphylococcus aureus and other pathogens can become resistant to antibiotics is to change the way they generate energy
if perhaps instead there are a bunch of organisms that became resistant in different ways and that can exchange the molecules they're each individually missing.
#Drug flips cells to limit damage after heart attack University of North carolina at Chapel hill rightoriginal Studyposted by Mark Derewicz-UNC on October 16 2014a new way to generate more blood vessels after a heart attack can reduce damage
if people respond in the same way.####After a heart attack fibroblasts replace damaged heart muscle with scar tissue.
Now engineers are developing a way to send power safely and wirelessly to smart chips programmed to perform medical tasks and report back the results.
The goal is to produce smaller devices that could be used to create a network of electrodes to study the brains of experimental animals in ways not currently possible."
if it was possible to address epileptic seizures in a less invasive way? They decided it would be possible.
If the hypothesis holds true for human cells it could lead to a new way to treat cancer.
because the only way now known to##cure##the condition involves major gastric bypass surgery.##
##Our goal in this study was to find a safe and practical way of diminishing fat content in the liver.
Evilevitch believes that researchers now have a possible new way to prevent infectionâ blocking the phase transition.
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.
One can imagine cosmetics companies being interested in the ability to measure skin s dryness in a portable and non-intrusive way Huang says.
But metagenomics is still some way from routine diagnostic use Pallen says. We have provided proof-of-principle here
and respond in a graduated way##says Wilbur Lam assistant professor in the pediatrics department at Emory University School of medicine and a physician in the Aflac Cancer and Blood disorders Center at Children s Healthcare of Atlanta.
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.
##These particles could potentially be a way to obviate the need for a transfusion. Though they don t have all the assets of natural platelets a number of intriguing experiments have shown that the particles help augment the clotting process.##
##Like many other personal health technologies that have emerged in recent years the authors see this as a way to diagnose
or rectally offer a way to slow the spread of the virus notes lead researcher Toral Zaveri postdoctoral scholar in the food science department at Penn State.
and immunology at University of Washington in St louis.##Now that our map of the combined structure of these two proteins has revealed one critical way Ebola does this the information it provides will guide the development of new treatments.##
Potentially we could use these cells in many more ways than current transplantation strategies to treat serious blood disorders
The researchers noted abrupt changes in each gut s bacterial composition along the way to 36 weeks in gestational age but found that somehow the gut ecosystems adjusted
allowing us to see vasculature in an almost noninvasive way, says first author Guosong Hong,
#This can make the organs in your body transparent Scientists have developed a way to see through tissues, organs,
#Fabric dissolves to deliver HIV drug faster Bioengineers have developed a new way to protect women from HIV medicated,
discreet way to protect themselves from HIV infection by inserting the drug-loaded materials into the vagina before sex,
and sarin gas Scientists are developing a way to prevent brain damage among people exposed to poisonous chemicals found in pesticides and chemical weapons.
public health professor and a contributing author of the paper. his work suggests a way forward to alleviate mite-induced asthma in allergy sufferers.
Goldberg says. ee a long way from getting a new drug, but in the short term we may look at screening a variety of compounds to see
or finding new ways to relax at bedtime, suggests lead author Kendra Krietsh, who earned her bachelor degree in psychology from University of Arizona
The alcohol-insensitive mutation does not disrupt these functions at all. e got pretty lucky and found a way to make the channel insensitive to alcohol without affecting its normal function,
and coming up with better coping mechanisms to help adults deal with depression in a healthy way would be key. e are always thinking of 20-year-olds with depression
but his group wanted to work out a way to ust grow the needle without growing the hay.
developed a way to isolate and cultivate individual bacterial species of interest. He and his colleagues began by looking for bacterial species that contained a set of specific genetic sequences.
he says. iang solves this in a really clever way; he grows a compartment full of his target microbe in the Slipchip,
The way Deisseroth and his team eliminated the fat was to build a gel within the intact brain that held all the structures and proteins in place.
the team devised an alternate way of pulling out the fat from the hydrogel-embedded brain technique they call passive CLARITY.
While it s impossible to entirely eliminate risks due to environmental exposures Hertz-Picciotto says that finding ways to reduce exposures to chemical pesticides particularly for the very young is important.##
and hints at an easier way to achieve longevity. Researchers have found that taking food away from C. elegans triggers a state of arrested development:
The trick is to find a way to pharmacologically manipulate this process so that we can get the antiaging benefits without the pain of diet restriction.
If it doesn t have enough it stays at the toll booth until it has built up the nutrients necessary to get it the rest of the way.
if they can find another way to force C. elegans into these development holding patterns.
The research team wanted to find an easy way to measure eye pressure for management of glaucoma,
Right now there are two ways to check eye pressure, but both require a visit to the ophthalmologist.
there no consistent way to check their effectiveness. As a result many patients with the disease aren diagnosed early enough
The researchers however found a way to create a small detector that is visible to the naked eye.
and make their way to the egg and fertilize it. Studies in the laboratory also suggest that sperm with poor morphology also swim less well
These emerging threads have Kuo hopeful researchers will eventually be able to find the way to ngage certain circuits of the brain to lead to a hardware upgrade.
He says perhaps there will be a way to combine behavioral therapy and stem cell treatments after a brain injury to rebuild some of the damage.
and punches its way into cells Researchers have discovered how the deadly Ebola virus disease that many fear may be used for bioterrorismmashes its way into healthy cells and turns them into virus factories.
Published in the Journal of Virology, the new findings offers important insight into how the virus works its way into cells
The ph level inside the vesicle triggers the surface glycoprotein on the virus to form a istthat lets the virus punch its way into the cell cytoplasm,
and create new ways to treat illness and alleviate pain, says Ada Poon, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford university.
and ways must be found to power them wirelessly, deep in the brain, many centimeters from the surface,
paving the way for new innovation in this field. FAR-FIELD VS. NEAR-FIELD The crux of the discovery, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, involves a new way to control electromagnetic waves inside the body.
Electromagnetic waves pervade the universe. We use them every day when we broadcast signals from giant radio towers, cook in microwave ovens,
Either way, far-field electromagnetic waves have been ignored as a potential wireless power source for medical devices. Near-field waves can be used safely in wireless power systems.
The result is an integrated circuit that controls small magnetic objects much like the way electrons are controlled on computer chips.
and analyze their genetic activity. aybe then we could find a way to target the dormant cells,
adds Yellen. ut theye on their way. This research had support from the National Science Foundation, the Research Triangle Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
It helps you to find your way home, but not the one you currently live inather, your ancestral home from 1, 000 years ago.
hat we have discovereds a way to find not where you were borns you have that information on your passportut where your DNA was formed up to 1,
complementary capabilities in engineering design, at very low cost. ur original epidermal devices exploited specialized device geometriesuper thin, structured in certain ways,
so that no matter which way the patch bends, twists or stretches, the wires can unfold in any direction to accommodate the motion.
Jianping Fu, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at University of Michigan, says the findings raise the possibility of a more efficient way to guide stem cells to differentiate
pave the way for an urgently needed therapy that is highly effective against the flu virus
clearly showing that successful ways of reducing weight such as gastric banding should have a high priority in the treatment of diabetes e
or global defects of eye development. inding these genes is important in many ways. As well as directly benefitting families it allows researchers to build a more comprehensive list of the genes needed for the eye to develop
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.
Meanwhile, the cellssignaling patterns changed in different ways when the researchers introduced lithium, which many bipolar patients take to regulate their moods,
In general, lithium alters the way calcium signals are sent and receivednd the new cell lines will make it possible to study this effect specifically in bipolar disorder-specific cells.
They also hope to develop a way to use the cells to screen drugs rapidly,
#Math that predicts glucose paves way for artificial pancreas A mathematical model can predict with more than 90 percent accuracy the blood glucose levels of individuals with type 1 diabetes up to 30 minutes before a change
The researchers wanted to find another way of making gas-filled structures that could be nanoscale.
#Tiny circulator in phones could double bandwidth University of Texas at Austin rightoriginal Studyposted by Sandra Zaragoza-UT Austin on November 12 2014engineers have found a way to dramatically shrink a critical component of cellphones
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.
and a doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering. n doing so we may pave the way to simultaneous two-way communication in the same frequency band
#dgy films are perfect catalysts for fuel cells Chemists have found an easy and inexpensive way to create flexible films from molybdenum disulfide a versatile chemical compound with edges that are highly efficient catalysts.
#Iron-rich biochar filters arsenic from water Biochar may be a fast inexpensive and easy way to remove arsenic one of the world s most common pollutants from water.
Arsenic finds its way into drinking water supplies through natural or human-made sources affects millions of people worldwide
and has been shown to cause cancer. ecause biochar can be produced from various waste biomass including agricultural residues this new technology provides an alternative and cost-effective way for arsenic removalsays Bin Gao associate professor of agricultural
and cancer cells. n electronics the different components that make up a circuit are connected always in the same way:
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
The discovery points to new ways to create mart materialscutting-edge materials that adapt to their environment by taking new forms
or light packets to achieve optical gain. his turns the conventional textbook understanding of lasers upside down. ut now scientists have demonstrated a more effective#yet counterintuitive#way to reap energy gains:
In other words they ve invented a way to win by losing. oo much of something can be really detrimentalsays Sahin Kaya Ozdemir a research scientist at Washington University in St louis. f you pump in more energy to get more laser intensity
There are several ways to create a magnetic field which is crucial to keeping a fusion reactor going.
while seeking ways to improve algae's capacity as a biofuel. Its application in cancer research
and gives scientists a way to potentially produce high amounts of oil and biomass. In terms of human medicine this discovery gives scientists a promising new model to study tumor suppression and growth.
and animals it's a model that can provide important insights into the regulation of cellular behavior in organisms such as us humans in ways that traditional yeast models simply can't replicate. he switch that tells an organism to grow
Hilliges is convinced that this new way of operating smartphones greatly increases the range of interactivity.
or at least parts of it will find its way onto the market. Source: ETH Zuric
#Hybrid#dots#offer cheaper way to run fuel cells Last year chemist James Tour made graphene quantum dots from coal.
-and-a-half-long HD movies in one second and is 30 times faster than LTE wireless. ot only is this a way to transmit multiple spatially collocated radio data streams through a single aperture,
Then as the researchers slowly release the pressure the atoms reconnect in an entirely different yet very orderly way.
Measured one way a qubit might reveal a value of either zero or one. Measured another way it might show a value of either plus or minus.
So you don t want to collapse the quantum state of the qubit until you re ready to.
or millions of qubits. ur proposal gives you a way to hold onto a smaller quantum memory
and that might ultimately find their way to the surfaces of planets says Garrod. The branched carbon structure of isopropyl cyanide is a common feature in molecules that are needed for life such as amino acids
and hope the work will lead to better ways to predict flares which can disable power grids and communications On earth.
The topology of quantum states for example offers a way of decoupling them from their environment
and somebody that s traveling along the street can find a way to go from this end to anotheryu explains.
and the team is investigating ways to improve their electrical properties through doping the nanotubes with iodide. he research is basically analogous to
and director of Rice university s Laboratory for Nanophotonics. e know cephalopods have some of the same proteins in their skin that we have in our retinas so part of our challenge as engineers is to build a material that can see light the way their
ways first by varying the length of the nanorods and second by adjusting the length of the spaces between nanorods. his arrangement allowed us to narrow the output spectrum to one individual color instead of the typical muted shades that are produced usually by aluminum nanoparticlesshe adds.
It could be useful in a number of ways. hey hope to further develop the display technology
and you get the added benefit of needing only a very small amount of material in making them. he Greer lab is now aggressively pursuing various ways of scaling up the production of these so-called meta-materials.
We found that subjects were able to more readily recombine familiar activity patterns in new ways relative to creating entirely novel patterns
Since she wanted to produce several different opioids her team hacked the yeast genome in slightly different ways to produce each of the slightly different opioid formulations such as oxycodone or hydrocodone.
#Squid skin inspires eyelike photodetector Rice university rightoriginal Studyposted by Jade Boyd-Rice on August 27 2014the technology behind a new type of photodetector mimics the way squid likely sense colors.
The photodetector which sees colors in much the same way the human eye does uses an aluminum grating that can be added to silicon photodetectors with the silicon microchip industry s mainstay technology omplementary metal-oxide
and more closely mimics the way living organisms see colors. Zheng s color photodetector uses a combination of band engineering and plasmonic gratings comb-like aluminum structures with rows of parallel slits.
#Chilly molecules pave way for ultracold science Yale university rightoriginal Studyposted by Jim Shelton-Yale on August 25 2014physicists have chilled molecules to almost absolute zero using lasers fired from an apparatus they built in the lab. The molecules
so scientists have developed a way to detect and identify out of place-place molecules on its surface using terahertz spectroscopy.
In a process called deconvolution the light passes through the pinhole array in such a way that the user will perceive a sharp image. ur technique distorts the image such that
and that continued improvements in eye-tracking technology would make it easier for the displays to adapt to the position of the user s head position. n the future we also hope to extend this application to multi-way correction on a shared display
As levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere continue to rise researchers are looking for ways to make use of it.
The goal is to find ways to produce some of the world s largest-volume chemicals from a sustainable carbon source that the Earth not only has in excess
and Conversion of CO2. his is a way for us as scientists to begin thinking of how we produce industrial chemicals in more sustainable ways and control costs at the same time.
It s an achievement that could pave the way for the technology s use in military
while keeping personnel out of harm s way. arian O. Scully professor physics and astronomy and researchers from Moscow State university contributed to the report.
but still in some sort of binary systems as there is no known way that a single low-mass star can go supernova by itself
#This can make the organs in your body transparent California Institute of technology rightoriginal Studyposted by Jessica Stoller-Conrad-Caltech on August 6 2014scientists have developed a way to see through tissues organs and even an entire body.
But needing a way to cheaply power and connect these devices to the internet has kept this from taking off. f Internet of things devices are going to take off we must provide connectivity to the potentially billions of battery-free devices that will be embedded in everyday objectssays Shyam Gollakota an assistant professor of computer science
In this way your smart watch could download emails or offload your workout data onto a Google spreadsheet. ou might think how could this possibly work
The algorithm then uses the learned dictionary to decide in a very efficient way if a newly seen segment is similar to previously observed events such as routine traffic on a highway.
and agriculturalists can search for ways to cross Asian and African species to develop new varieties of rice with the high-yield traits of Asian rice
Stretching the material known as carbyne a hard-to-make one-dimensional chain of carbon atoms by just 3 percent can begin to change its properties in ways that engineers might find useful for mechanically activated nanoscale electronics and optics.
#Laser device sniffs out tiny traces of explosives University of California Berkeley rightoriginal Studyposted by Sarah Yang-Berkeley on July 24 2014mechanical engineers have found a way to dramatically increase the sensitivity of a light-based plasmon sensor.
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
or look down on people the way another human might. The findings show promise for people suffering from posttraumatic stress
#A cheaper way to enrich super pricey isotopes Chemical elements often exist in nature as a blend of different variants called isotopes.
and more environmentally friendly way to enrich stable isotopes, which are used for medical imaging and nuclear powernd are some of the world most expensive chemical commodities.
where it could make the energy grid more resilient and efficient by creating a large-scale way to store energy for use as needed. he batteries last for about 5,
Renewable energy The batteries could pave the way for renewable energy sources to make up a greater share of the nation energy generation.
and Barron lab is working on ways to shorten the eight-hour process needed to perform the etching in the lab
#Material snags CO2 from natural gas Rice university rightoriginal Studyposted by Mike Williams-Rice on June 9 2014scientists have created an Earth-friendly way to separate carbon dioxide a greenhouse gas from natural gas right
and scientists have struggled to develop a practical way to detect it. Current detectors are need bulky
It more than 1, 000 times too high for human ears to pick up. here are many ways to detect ultrasound,
wee come up with a way to allow producers to generate bioethanol, which replaces petrochemical methanol.
Researchers have spent decades seeking ways to harness some of this wasted energy. Most such efforts have focused on thermoelectric devicesâ##solid-state materials that can produce electricity from a temperature gradientâ
That is important because structural energy storage will change the way in which a wide variety of technologies are developed in the future. hen you can integrate energy into the components used to build systems it opens the door to a whole new world of technological possibilities.
The new device that Pint and Westover have developed is a supercapacitor that stores electricity by assembling electrically charged ions on the surface of a porous material instead of storing it in chemical reactions the way batteries do.
When the electrodes are pressed together the polymer oozes into the tiny pores in much the same way that melted cheese soaks into the nooks and crannies of the bread in a panini.
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