was conducted by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the University of Pennsylvania, Wayne State university/Detroit Medical center
, Seoul National University and Asan Medical center in South korea.""We believe that this technology may be used to address questions that are difficult to answer with current placenta model systems
"said Dr. Carmen Gomes, Agrilife Research engineer with the Texas A&m University department of biological and agricultural engineering, College Station.
Gomes is collaborating with Dr. Eric Mclamore at the University of Florida at Gainesville.""I do the biological and polymer engineering;
Professor of Chemistry at the University of Toronto. am pleased to partner with Bruker to expand the great potential of ssnom as a versatile tool for broader scientific discovery. nspire is a nanoscale characterization system that extends atomic force microscopy into the chemical
a senior lecturer in the Department of physics and Electrical engineering in Northumbria University, is a collaborative effort between Oxford university, the University of Barcelona and UT Malaysia.
Prof Ignacio Pagonabarraga, from the University of Barcelona, said: he ability to control drops can also be used to guide the assembly of micro robots,
#New Technique Uses Ultrasound Waves for Bulk Synthesis of Graphene A team of researchers from the University of Tabriz have developed a method to manufacture graphene, a crystalline allotrope of carbon, in a simple and economical manner.
"Dr. Hamed Asgharzadeh, University of Tabriz In addition, he explained that through their research, they had devised a simple method wherein ultrasound waves were applied at definite intervals during oxidation,
"Dr. Hamed Asgharzadeh, University of Tabriz This project was carried out in collaboration with South korea University of Science and Technology y
The project was the joint effort of a Tsinghua University-Tel aviv University research team and was led by Prof.
Francois Grey of the University of Geneva. Shake, rattle, and roll"We've discovered that very small vibrations help materials,
who graduated from Tsinghua University and is doing his postdoctoral research in Prof. Urbakh's group at TAU.
The project represents the very positive cooperation between the two universities, which is taking place at XIN
the University of Geneva; the University of Sydney and Monash University in Australia; and the Xi'an Jiaotong University in China.
The researchers are currently in discussions with companies interested in harnessing the oscillation knowhow for various commercial projects.
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#Researchers Advance Ability to Control and Harness Power of Light on the Nanoscale When a duck paddles across a pond or a supersonic plane flies through the sky, it leaves a wake in its path.
#Smart Sensor Chip with Nanocavities for Early Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Researchers at the University of Birmingham believe that the novel technology will help improve the process of early stage diagnosis. Glycoprotein molecules,
ANI partners in the program are Armortex, maker of bullet-,blast-and forced entry-resistant products, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Villanova University.
"Applied Nanotech and the university partners have made impressive technology strides to create new applications for our existing product line,
modeling and testing,"says Dr. Ahmad Hoorfar, Professor and Director of Antenna Research Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer engineering, Villanova University y
since the 17th century and so to find something that no one has seen before is amazing. esearchers at the University Warwick Medical school made the discovery by accident
and the researchers at the University believe that the mesh is needed to give structural support.
and whether drugs could be developed to stop it from happening. orth West Cancer Research (NWCR) has funded the research as part of a collaborative project between the University of Warwick and the University of Liverpool,
r Royle and Professor Ian Prior at the University of Liverpool have made significant inroads into our understanding of the way in
Taketoshi Minato (Tohoku Univ. and RIKEN, currently Kyoto University) commented that"The new reaction pathway could be exploited in nanoscale switching devices and hydrogen storage technology.
#Grolltex to Commercialize Graphene Mass Production Technology with The Triton Fund Investment A University of California,
and this year first prize at Chapman University 4th Annual California Dreaminbusiness Plan Competition. Things took off Zaretski patented the technology through UC San diego Technology Transfer Office
The von Liebig Center is recognized a nationally Proof of Concept Center with a mission to accelerate the commercialization of university discoveries.
Other researchers from the University of Hull, EPA, University college London and Wageningen University also took part in the research.
Dong Wang of the University of British columbia; Gregory Fiete, a professor at the University of Texas, Austin;
and Mercouri Kanatzidis, a professor at Northwestern University. Source: http://www. ucla. edu h
#New Multispectral Microscope for Studying Impact of Experimental Drugs on Biological Samples This is the largest such microscopic image ever created.
This level of multicolor detail is essential for studying the impact of experimental drugs on biological samples
RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. e recognized that the microscopy part of the drug development pipeline was much slower than it could be designed
an associate professor from the Monash University ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging, has devised a breakthrough imaging technique for capturing the 3d structures of nanocrystals,
Particle 1 in action Monash University Youtube. comthe field had expected cubical or at least highly symmetrical platinum nanocrystals. t was surprising to learn that they form asymmetrical multi-domain structures,
#Sticky-Flare Nanotechnology Reveals RNA Misregulation in Living Cells A new technology--called"Sticky-flares"--developed by nanomedicine experts at Northwestern University offers the first real-time method to track
Aurasense, Inc.,a biotechnology company that licensed the Nanoflare technology from Northwestern University, and EMD-Millipore, another biotech company, have commercialized Nanoflares.
researchers from MIT and the Federal University of Goiás in Brazil demonstrate a novel method for using nanoparticles
Eliana Martins Lima, of the Federal University of Goiás, is the other co-author. Both Brandl and Bertrand are trained as pharmacists,
says Frank Gu, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and an expert in nanoengineering for health care and medical applications. hen you think about field deployment,
The researchers, from Anhui Jianzhu University in China, say their new material could provide inspiration for other approaches to removing pollutants.
"said Dr. Xianbiao Wang, one of the authors of the study from Anhui Jianzhu University in China."
#Nano Cages Provide New Approach for Structuring Catalysts University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed a new approach to structuring the catalysts used in essential reactions in the chemical and energy fields.
and researchers at Georgia Tech--led by professor Younan Xia--Oak ridge National Laboratory, Arizona State university and Xiamen University in China a
#New Revolutionary One-step, High-Yield Graphene Generation Process Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and University of Western australia researchers have developed a new process to develop few-layer
H. T. Chua group at the University of Western australia (UWA, Perth. Their ultra-bright lamp-ablation method surmounts the shortcomings
#Novel Fabrication Technique Helps Produce Ultra-Thin Hollow Platinum Nanocages for Fuel cells Researchers from Georgia Tech, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oak ridge National Laboratory,
Arizona State university and Xiamen University in China have developed a new fabrication method that minimizes the need for expensive metal to induce catalytic activity in fuel cell applications.
said Younan Xia, a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
Xia also holds joint faculty appointments in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the School of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at Georgia Tech. e have made hollow nanocages of platinum with walls as thin as a few atomic layers
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison designed the system such that the etching of palladium from the core could be understood,
The co-authors of the paper include Professor Manos Mavrikakis and researchers Luke Roling and Jeffrey Herron from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Miaofang Chi from Oak ridge National Laboratory, Professor Jingyue Liu from Arizona State university, Professor Zhaoxiong Xie from Xiamen University,
"says study first author Narayanan"Bobby"Kasthuri, of the Boston University School of medicine.""We had this clean idea of how there's a really nice order to how neurons connect with each other,
Three ideas were implemented by the researchers together with the thalidomide victims, Heidelberg University, and physiotherapists from Reha-Zentrum Lübben rehab center:
a student of Biondi's who is now a postdoctoral scientist at the University of Edinburgh,
and the University Hospital Zurich thus teamed up to develop the sensor Glucolight which gages the blood sugar level through the skin without taking any blood.
A microdialysis measuring head which was developed at the University Hospital Zurich with a smart membrane developed at Empa;
and a microfluidics chip with a fluorometer also developed at the University Hospital Zurich. The smart Empa membrane contains special dye molecules known as spiropyrans.
and the first clinical studies are scheduled at the University Hospital Zurich for 2015. However it could be years before the use of Glucolight becomes standard.
Empa and the University Hospital Zurich are currently in negotiations with partners for the industrial production of the sensor.
A pioneering team of researchers from the University of Bristol's Communication systems and Networks research group,
Leo Laughlin, a Phd student from the University EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Communications, together with MSC student Chunqing Zhang, supervisors Professor Mark Beach and Dr Kevin Morris,
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#Portable, Autonomous Device Analyzes Trace elements in Water, Air and Upper atmosphere Researchers from Arizona State university School of Earth and Space exploration have combined their sensors,
said Kavi Bhalla, assistant professor at the university Bloomberg School of Public health and one of the team mentors for the project.
at very limited input power levels 10 nanowatts to 1 microwatt for the Internet of things. he prototype chip was manufactured through the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's University Shuttle Program.
#New Conductive Ink Can Print Sensors Onto Wearables Researchers at the University of Tokyo have invented a new conductive ink that can be used to print sensors onto wearable technologies.
and his team at the University of Tokyo's Graduate school of Engineering has resulted in the fabrication of an elastic
Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a smart mouth guard equipped with sensors that allow it to detect
has been developed by scientists at the University of Warwick. Called-Eye the invention senses radiation across the spectrum between microwaves and infrared, known as the Terahertz (THZ) region of the spectrum a goal that has challenged scientists for over 30 years.
and saw the participation of Athena IAMU RC (Greece) and INESC-ID (Portugal) research centers, the University of Graz (Austria),
The researchers at the Aalto University Department of Radio Science and Engineering have demonstrated the first realization of absorbers that do not reflect light over a wide range of frequencies.
of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Coventry University, discusses the role smart textiles have to play in remote healthcare in an article for the Guardian's Healthcare Professionals Network.
In the article, Kathryn talks about research she's currently involved in at NPL and Coventry University, printing conductive circuits directly onto the fibres of garments.
and Coventry University's Functional Materials Group to work on smart textiles. Their work was exhibited recently at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2015 5
even though it a very important phenomenon, said Mikinori Kuwata, an atmospheric chemist at Singapore Nanyang Technological University.
says Miriam Marlier, an atmospheric researcher at Columbia University, because they occur so close to dense urban centres.
Rajasekhar Balasubramanian, an American environmental engineer who studies haze at the National University of Singapore
h, yeah, it a problem that occurs in Indonesiahe told me one afternoon in his office at the National University of Singapore.
when it was 3. 5%."Making the leap from university to the'real world'of work is becoming easier,
with fewer university leavers stuck in limbo between education and work.""After years of stalemate, with fewer employees moving up or moving out of their positions,
"While university leavers are paid still better and more likely to have a job than non-graduates of the same age,
That has been solved by a team at the University of California, Berkeley, and the scientists say it should now be possible to put all the steps together and"brew"morphine.
Dr John Dueber, a bioengineer at the university, said:""What you really want to do from a fermentation perspective is to be feed able to the yeast glucose,
According to Dr Jeff Clune of the University of Wyoming, the development represents an important first step toward robots that are able to operate independently, outside of the carefully controlled confines of a laboratory or factory floor."
according to senior author Jean-Baptiste Mouret, from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris."If you have robots in your home they would probably be expensive
professor of virology at the University of Nottingham said:""It is a technology which is applied probably best on a population-basis rather than an individual patient basis
"said co-author Alexis Bell from the University of California, Berkeley, US.""We show in this paper how we can put these components together to make jet diesel and lubricants."
"said LHCB physicist Tomasz Skwarnicki of Syracuse University, US. Previous experiments had measured only the so-called mass distribution where a statistical peak may appear against the background noise"-the possible signature of a novel particle.
"Working with collaborators from Aalto University in Finland, Dr Hogberg's team has demonstrated the system with a range of shapes, from rods and balls to a bottle, a bunny and a tiny person.
from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, said the work was a step towards"the dream of nanoscale 3d printing"."
who led this study at the University of Pennsylvania, told BBC News."This is only around five years away from now.
a bioengineering research scientist at Heriot Watt university. Printing skin could be a different proposition,
say UK researchers at the University of Bristol. The team drew inspiration from the way the human body heals from a cut with blood that hardens into a scab.
developed by Daniel Genkin and colleagues from Tel aviv University, monitors the radio signals given off by laptops when their central processing unit is crunching data.
and was led by Paulo Stanga, consultant ophthalmologist and vitreo-retinal surgeon at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and professor of ophthalmology and retinal regeneration at the University of Manchester.
a team of Northwestern University scientists is the first to develop an entirely artificial molecular pump, in
'In a stunning discovery that overturns decades of textbook teaching, researchers at the University of Virginia School of medicine have determined that the brain is connected directly to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist.
A team of chemists and biologists at the Institute of Transformative Biomolecules (ITBM), Nagoya University have succeeded in finding new molecules that change the circadian rhythm in mammals by applying synthetic chemistry methods,
"says Tsuyoshi Hirota, a chronobiologist and an associate professor at ITBM, who works with Steve Kay, a principal investigator at ITBM and a professor at the University of Southern California."
ITBM was established officially in 2013 at Nagoya University and takes up a"Mix-Lab"style where chemists
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#Researchers discover how opium poppies synthesize morphine From left: Peter Facchini, professor in biological sciences, Jill Hagel, research associate,
After years of leading research on the opium poppy, University of Calgary scientists, Peter Facchini, his Phd student, Scott Farrow,
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#New cell division mechanism discovered Canadian and British researchers have discovered that chromosomes play an active role in animal cell division.
It was observed by a team of researchers including Gilles Hickson, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal's Department of Pathology and Cell biology and researcher at the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre, his assistant Silvana Jananji, in collaboration with Nelio
#Researchers create model of early human heart development from stem cells Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley,
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#HIV uses the immune system's own tools to suppress it A Canadian research team at the IRCM in Montreal,
Dean of the University of Leeds'Faculty of Biological sciences and Professor of Mechanistic Biology, said:"
"The research, led by scientists at the University of Leeds and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, focused on the"Akt pathway,
Dr Zahra Timsah, University Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds'School of Molecular and Cellular biology,,
The researchers are now working with clinicians at the University of Leeds to study the same mechanisms in other forms of cancer.
scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Alexander Grass Center for Bioengineering report that they produced large amounts of functional liver cells from human embryonic and genetic engineered stem cells."
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#US scientists to write CRISPR'rulebook'Scientists will gather in the USA later this year to produce ethical guidelines on the use of human gene-editing techniques such as CRISPR/Cas9.
'said lead author Dr Mick Bhatia from Mcmaster University in Hamilton, Canada. He adds:''Now we can take easy-to-obtain blood samples,
'said Dr Ya-Chun Chen from the University of Cambridge, the first author of the study published in Nature Genetics.'
'said Professor Geoff Woods of the University of Cambridge, one of the leaders of the research.'
The studies, one led by the Mayo Clinic and University of California, San francisco, and the other coordinated by the National institutes of health, analysed 1, 380 tumours in total.
'said Professor Margaret Wrensch from the University of California, San francisco and co-author of the study.
Neuroscientist Dr Alysson Muotri of the University of California, San diego, who was involved not in the study,
A clinical study at the University of Oxford is currently investigating using an existing drug in combination with ultrasound but without the bubble technology,
which it does more effectively than currently available commercial alternatives according to Morgan Alexander from the University of Nottingham. t is better
which it does more effectively than currently available commercial alternatives according to Morgan Alexander from the University of Nottingham. t is better
#New Technology Turns Smartphone into a DNA-Scanning Microscope Researchers at University of California, Los angeles (UCLA) have developed a new technology that turns a smartphone into a DNA-scanning fluorescent microscope.
Now Ph d. researcher Justin Besant and his team at the University of Toronto have designed a small and simple chip to test for antibiotic resistance in just one hour,
Besant and his team, including his supervisor Professor Shana Kelley of the Institute for Biomaterials & Biomedical engineering and the Faculties of Pharmacy and Medicine,
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#Thermal Imaging Software for Research and Science Applications FLIR Systems'new version 4. 2 of its Researchir thermal imaging software provides researchers and scientists with a powerful tool for viewing,
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#Building a Better Microscope to See at the Atomic Level One of the more famous images in biology is known as"Photo 51,
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#New Sensing Tech Could Help Detect Diseases, Fraudulent Art, Chemical weapons From airport security detecting explosives to art historians authenticating paintings,
An international research team led by University at Buffalo engineers has developed nanotechnology that promises to make SERS simpler and more affordable.
and Zhejun Liu, Ph d. candidate, both at Fudan University in China. When a powerful laser interacts chemical and biological molecules,
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#South korea Reports its First 2 Deaths From MERS Virus South korea on Tuesday confirmed the country's first two deaths from Middle east Respiratory Syndrome as it fights to contain the spread of a virus that has killed hundreds of people
The current study uses technology Ott discovered as a research fellow at the University of Minnesota
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#Data Scientists Find Connections Between Birth Month and Health Columbia University scientists have developed a computational method to investigate the relationship between birth month and disease risk.
The researchers used this algorithm to examine New york city medical databases and found 55 diseases that correlated with the season of birth.
Ph d.,an assistant professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University Medical center (CUMC) and Columbia Data science Institute.
Researchers at the University of Virginia have discovered that blood vessels directly connect the brain to the body immune system.
Ph d.,a postdoctoral fellow at the University Of Virginia School of medicine, told Bioscience Technology. ecently, we have seen that the areas that are surrounding the brain are full of immune cells, even in normal conditions,
the multidisciplinary team also included Michel Gilliet of Switzerland Lausanne University Hospital and Jure Dobnikar and Daan Frenkel of the University of Cambridge.
so that the receptors bind to them strongly. he research was supported by the National institutes of health, the National Science Foundation, the European commission, the European Research Council, the Slovenian Research Agency, The swiss National Science Foundation and the University of Cambridge.
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#MERS Not Given Same Vaccine Attention as Ebola, Other Viruses A MERS outbreak has infected about 150 people in South korea,
#Newfound Groups of Bacteria are Mixing Up the Tree of Life University of California, Berkeley,
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#Protein Plays Unexpected Role in Embryonic Stem Cells What if you found out that pieces of your front door were occasionally flying off the door frame to carry out chores around the house?
#Smart Insulin Patch Could Replace Painful Injections for Diabetes Painful insulin injections could become a thing of the past for the millions of Americans who suffer from diabetes, thanks to a new invention from researchers at the University of North carolina
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#Eavesdropping on the Body: New Device Tracks Chemical Signals Within Cells Biomedical engineers at the University of Toronto have invented a new device that more quickly
and accurately"listens in on the chemical messages that tell our cells how to multiply. The tool improves our understanding of how cancerous growth begins,
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#Specific Roles of Adult Neural stem cells May be determined Before Birth Adult neural stem cells, which are thought commonly of as having the ability to develop into many type of brain cells,
. E. P. Taylor Professor of Pain Studies at Mcgill University and Director of the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain. he realization that the biological basis for pain between men and women
The research was conducted by teams from Mcgill University, The Hospital for Sick Children (Sickkids), and Duke university
said Michael Salter, M d.,Ph d.,Head and Senior Scientist, Neuroscience & Mental health at Sickkids and Professor at The University of Toronto,
#Researchers Develop Innovative Gene Transfer-based Treatment Approach University of North carolina (UNC) School of medicine researchers have developed an innovative,
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#Microarray for Research into Haematological and Solid Cancers Oxford Gene Technology (OGT) released a new microarray designed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of cancer research.
The array has been optimized in collaboration with Professor Jacqueline Schoumans from the Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland, an expert in both acgh and cancer genomics.
Other Diseases Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia are using optical spectroscopy to develop a quick,
Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Fellow with the University Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS), compared the instrument to an ptical dog nosewhich uses a special laser to measure the molecular content
Anstie said in a university press release. hose molecules are by-products of metabolic processes in the body
and the Elderly Researchers from the University of Sheffield Department of Biomedical science discovered the ultrasound transmits a vibration through the skin
from the University Centre for Membrane Interactions and Dynamics (CMIAD), said: kin ulcers are excruciatingly painful for patients
was carried out in collaboration with the School of Biochemistry at the University of Bristol, the Wound Biology Group at the Cardiff Institute of Tissue Engineering and Repair,
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#Stem Cells Create Early Human Heart Development Model UC Berkeley researchers, in collaboration with scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, have developed a template for growing beating cardiac tissue from stem cells,
. the Gary Jobson Professor in Medical Oncology at the University of Maryland School of medicine. ur findings provide a strong foundation for further research in the field of cellular immunotherapy for myeloma to help achieve even better
who is the Director of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.
Some patients are still in remission after nearly three years. he research is a collaboration between the University of Maryland School of medicine, the Perelman School of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Adaptimmune
Dr. Rapoport and co-authors Edward A. Stadtmauer, M d.,of the University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center,
Half the patients were treated at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center and half at the University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center.
The study was developed originally by Carl H. June, M d.,of the University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center,
vice president for medical affairs at the University of Maryland and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and dean of the University of Maryland School of medicine. his trial is also an excellent example of significant
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