#Uncovering the Spread of Bacteria in Pneumonia Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered the role a toxin produced by a pneumonia-causing bacterium plays in the spread of infection from the lungs to the bloodstream in hospitalized patients. rior to this study,
said Dr. Hauser, also a member of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University.
Scientists from the University of Nottingham in England have discovered a fully man-made substrate that could produce billions of human embryonic stem cells and move laboratory-based research to industrial-scale biomedicine.
Morgan Alexander, professor of biomedical surfaces in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham
said Stephen Beverley, Ph d.,senior author of one of the studies and the Marvin A. Brennecke Professor and head of the Department of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University School of medicine in St louis. n the future,
Ph d.,of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, worked with colleagues studying patients in French guiana.``
. of the Cayetano Heredia University in Peru. edical resources are often very scarce in the communities where these people work,
A sixth app was released last month to collect information for a long-term health study of gays and lesbians by the University of California,
a University of Rochester neurologist who's leading the Parkinson's app study called mpower.""Participating in clinical studies is often a burden,
Aarhus University Study A major epidemiological registry-based study from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital indicates that Parkinson's disease begins in the gastrointestinal tract.
Now researchers from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital have taken an important step towards a better understanding of the disease.
"explains postdoc at Aarhus University Elisabeth Svensson on the hypothesis behind the study. A hypothesis that turned out to be correct:"
19 people including nine quadriplegics were able to remotely control a robot located in one of the university laboratories.
#Cell Structure Discovery Advances Understanding Of Cancer Development, University of Warwick Study University of Warwick researchers have discovered a cell structure
Researchers at the University Warwick Medical school made the discovery by accident while looking at gaps between microtubules
and the researchers at the University believe that the mesh is needed to give structural support.
North 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
Osaka University Study Eric is terrified. He stands outside the clinic and takes a few deep breaths before walking slowly through the automatic doors.
The authors of the study, from Osaka University in Japan, say their dissolvable patch the only vaccination system of its kind could make vaccination easier, safer and less painful.
one of the authors of the study and Professor of Biotechnology and Therapeutics at the Graduate school of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Osaka University. ecause the new patch is so easy to use,
The lightweight plastic hand itself was designed and 3d printed by a research team from Saarland University.
University of Cambridge Study A ill on a stringdeveloped by researchers at the University of Cambridge could help doctors detect oesophageal cancer cancer of the gullet at an early stage,
However, researchers from the University of Cambridge have shown that variations in mutations across the oesophagus mean that standard biopsies may miss cells with important mutations.
developed by Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald at the Medical Research Council Cancer Unit at the University of Cambridge. he trouble with Barrett oesophagus is that it looks bland
And Accurately Created, University of California, Los angeles (UCLA) Reveals UCLA Researchers Create Smartphone-Based Device That Reads Medical Diagnostic Tests Quickly And Accurately Enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay,
and Michael Lewinski, an adjunct faculty in UCLA bioengineering department. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute h
#First Artificial Ribosome Designed, University of Illinois Researchers Reveal Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago
and Northwestern University have engineered a tethered ribosome that works nearly as well as the authentic cellular component,
The teams from Australia's University of Melbourne and Shanghai's Fudan University had worked together during the first outbreak of avian flu in China in 2013.
University of Melbourne's associate professor Ms Katherine Kedzierska recently said that during the outbreak 99 percent of people with the H7n9 virus were hospitalized,
who co-led the study from Fudan University, China, said this study would significantly enlighten T-cell based vaccine development and immune intervention during severe influenza infection in the future.
Professor Elizabeth Hartland, head of the department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne added that the international collaboration has brought together the immunological expertise in Melbourne
http://www. sfu. ca) Simon Fraser University Phd alumna Ms Maryam Sadeghi has developed Molescope, an innovative hand-held tool that uses a smartphone to monitor skin for signs of cancer.
as a result of collaboration between Kobe-based medical device manufacturer My Tech researchers from Showa University uses a biochip,
Mr Hiroaki Ito, a researcher from Showa University, said the preliminary data suggests that the device could be more accurate and effective than existing blood tests."
Vaccination will no longer be a painful process as researchers from Japan's Osaka University have developed a new technique that can deliver vaccines without needles.
Vaccination will no longer be a painful process as researchers from Japan's Osaka University have developed a new technique that can deliver vaccines without needles.
and in some cases even more effective,"said Professor Nakagawa, one of the authors of the Osaka University study.
#Approval for AIDS Vaccine at Canadian University The Food and Drug Administration has given Canadian researchers approval to test a vaccine for HIV/AIDS on humans.
Researchers from the University of Western Ontario are hopeful that with further tests, a vaccine could be on the market in about five years.
researchers at the University Medical center Utrecht announced that they have identified a gene that puts women at higher risk for breast cancer.
#Biodiesel production from Sugarcane A multi-institutional team led by plant biology professor Stephen P. Long from the University of Illinois reports that it can increase sugarcane's geographic range boost its photosynthetic rate by 30 percent
The research team led by the University of Illinois includes scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory the University of Florida and the University of Nebraska.
Long is an affiliate of the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois s
generating creative initiatives from universities, tech transfer organizations, government and biotechs. BIO-X is an open innovation vehicle run by Uppsala BIO.
It was established in the Stockholm-Uppsala Region of Sweden almost ten years ago to act as an independent bridge-builder between universities
Alexis A. Thompson, head of hematology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine in Chicago, and lead investigator of the study. n a relatively short period of time,
"A research paper at Cornell University outlines a system that learns to identify fine-grained visual features of images,
The research was conducted by a team comprised of experts from the Chinese Internet search company Baidu and a student at the University of California at Los angeles,
"The eight year old Swedish company grew out of a piece of university research and was funded initially by DARPA, the US defence programme that funds technology with potential military use.
"The study was conducted at UC Berkeley (the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center) together with Taiwan's National Chiao tung University.
and device during her Phd research at Simon Fraser University.""It enables patients to have access to the same system that doctors have in their clinic,
Simon Fraser University) This allows people to monitor their moles and skin health, share images with family
"Dr. Susan Poelman, a dermatologist at the University of Calgary, says the device could help solve problems in her own clinic."
"says the university of Calgary professor. While the Devines have taken the plunge and transformed the way they watch TV,
A sixth app was released last month to collect information for a long-term health study of gays and lesbians by the University of California,
a University of Rochester neurologist who's leading the Parkinson's app study called mpower.""Participating in clinical studies is often a burden,
In the latest development, a team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside, has come up with a paperlike material that could bring in a new generation of high-range batteries.
and universities can use microgrids to better manage their energy and reduce costs. In fact, a document called the Microgrid Blueprint will be published
Henk Jonkers from Netherlands-based Delft University of Technology has created bioconcrete, a product that can heal its own cracks and faults.
#Weirdest Biofuel Ever Powers Strangest Car Ever The folks at Columbia University have come up with a loating enginethat runs on evaporating water
The company Joule updated us on new patents for its cyanobacteria-to-biofuel process powered by sunlight and carbon dioxide, researchers at Tohoku University hit upon a new method for converting algae to biofuel precursors,
and lowered operating voltage has been developed by researchers at Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, the University of Science and Technology of China,
and the South China University of Technology. The new approach, interestingly, doesn rely on exotic chemicals or processes,
and storage at the University of Edinburgh who was involved not in the research. Durable safe and secure capsules containing solvents tailored to diverse applications can place CO2 capture for CCS firmly onto the cost-reduction pathway.
and associate professor of Earth and environmental engineering at Columbia University who was involved not in the research.
The array of perceptive faculties we have is actually pretty impressive but what we don't have is called a sense magnetoception.
and Materials Research in Dresden Germany and the TU Chemnitz in close collaboration with partners at the University of Tokyo and Osaka University in Japan led by Dr Denys Makarov.
A new technique developed by researchers at the University of Rochester, however, can make a surface hydrophobic without the use of coatings.
"said Chunlei Guo, professor of optics in the University of Rochester Hajim School of engineering and Applied sciences.
as researchers at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies are finding out,
The human trials may start as early as June of this year at a special facility called the called the Gait Platform housed in the University Hospital of Lausanne Switzerland.
and was a spin-off from the department of Environmental technology of Wageningen University. Again they develop products in
Painless Glucose Regulation The patch, created by researchers from the University of North carolina and NC State, is a thin square covered with more than 100 tiny needles.
In a trial at the National University of Ireland, the system was tested on 60 people who'd had tinnitus for longer than six months.
Scientists at Newcastle University and the University of Iowa, in the U s.,have shown that more areas of the brain are involved in tinnitus than just the sound centre-the auditory cortex-which was thought previously to be responsible.
'said Andrew Blain of University of Leicester.''It's like winning a hot-dog-eating contest lasting hundreds of millions of years.'
A suit invented by engineers at the University of Illinois gives wearers 360-degree awareness of the environment around their body.
Researchers from the University of California, San diego and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EDFL) in Switzerland fitted a traditional contact lens with a magnifying ring which,
Researchers from Carnegie mellon University in the US demonstrated they were able to use their iris recognition technology to identify drivers from an image of their eye captured from their vehicle's side mirror.
The Carnegie mellon University Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform, or CHIMP, is designed to primarily move like a tank using tracks to cover tough terrain.
which is developed jointly by Tsinghua University and Hangzhou-based Tzekwan Technology, is able to scan the users'faces to ensure they are the genuine holders of the bank account.
Dr Daniel Weiss, an organ regeneration expert at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, said:'
Dr Oskar Aszmann, of the Medical University of Vienna, said:''Although this is a worthy endeavour,
The research, carried out at the University of Bristol, is said to have tarted on the back of an envelopeas the team looked at ways to prevent tiny cracks from forming in places such as aircraft wings.
when researchers at the University of Illinois in the US created a plastic that could repair itself
The University of Illinois team created a polymer in 2014 that they showed can fix holes of up to three centimetres.
researchers from Delft University mixed the bio material into the concrete along with calcium lactate. When cracks in the concrete appear,
James Hone, professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University said:''We've created what is essentially the world's thinnest light bulb.'
Yun Daniel Park, of Seoul National University said that carbon was one of the earliest filaments used
The discovery of graphene in 2004 by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, two Russian-born scientists at the University of Manchester, earned the pair the Nobel prize for Physics and knighthoods.
Researchers at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, used time lapse photography to film a white blood cell as it died.
Dr Ivan Poon, a molecular biologist at La Trobe University who led the work, said they may have uncovered a key part of the immune systems defence mechanism.
Urthecast says it will make the cameras commercially available in July to anyone who wants to use them, from governments and nonprofit organizations, to businesses and universities.
Professor Jill Banfield, an environmental scientist at the University of California in Berkeley who led the work
Christopher Brown, a microbiologist who was part of the team who took part in the study at the University of California Berkeley,
and one was called Berkelbacteria-after University of California Berkeley. Mr Brown added:''I think what this is telling us is that a large part of bacteria
Dr Penny Whiting, from the University of Bristol, and her team evaluated the evidence for benefits and adverse events, related to medicinal cannabis use.
'said Professor Debashis Chanda of the University of Central Florida, who developed the technique for creating the world's first full-color,
The researchers, led by Milivoj Simeonovski from Saarland University in Germany, have tested Oblivion on existing articles
'said Ian Graham, a professor at the University of York, who worked on the latest gene discovery.
The University of York team worked on the project with scientists from Glaxosmithkline. The drugmaker has long been a major supplier of opiates
Scroll down for video Researchers from the University of Tokyo used femtosecond lasers to create 3d holograms that are safe to touch
which can be touched (pictured) The breakthrough was made by Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo, University of Tsukuba, Utsunomiya University Nagoya Institute of technology.
The collaboration between the University of Leicester and Medical center revealed how a neuron in the brain instantly fired differently
'said Matias Ison, Lecturer in Bioengineering, University of Leicester.''But the astonishing fact was that these changes were dramatic,
'said Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, head of the Centre for Systems neuroscience at the University of Leicester.'
'said Tobias Moser of the University Medical center Gottingen, Germany, who was involved not in the new research.'
+LHCB physicist Tomasz Skwarnicki of Syracuse University in New york, said:''We have examined all possibilities for these signals
we're thinking of the recycling sector, universities and other knowledge institutions.'
#The tiny beating heart grown from STEM CELLS -and scientists say other organs could be on the way Researchers have used stem cells to create a tiny,
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, say their template for growing beating cardiac tissue from stem cells
University launches autonomous driving test track The village where only ROBOTS drive: Inside the autonomous...
Martin Tajmar, professor and chair for Space Systems at the Dresden University of Technology, presented his work at the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics'Propulsion and Energy Forum in Orlando yesterday.
Professor Axel van de Walle, an engineer at Brown University, Rhode island, who led the research,
They are working with researchers at the University of California, Davis, to synthesise the compound.
The researchers used a set of 1, 586 images from the University of Notre dame which included pictures of 82 people with different facial expressions and in different lighting.
#Harvard Yale scientists develop technique to make GMOS safer A new milestone has been reached by scientists at Ivy League universities Yale and Harvard;
and brain cells has been found by researchers at Northwestern University, Illinois and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Caltec team shared the research with scientist from the University of Southern California. According to Caltech
#Imec Milab medical game-changer Imec and John Hopkins University of Baltimore have delivered a ame-changer in healthcarewith a chip-based technology called Milab
#University embeds RFID chips in yarn Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have come up with a way of embedding RFID chips in yarns
say researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). TUM chemists have developed a semiconducting material in
A co-operation between the TUM, the University of Regensburg, the University of Southern California (USC) and Yale has produced a field effect transistors (fet) made of black arsenic phosphorus. The compounds were synthesised by Marianne Koepf
#Graphene film can super cool LEDS Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method for efficiently cooling electronics using graphene-based film.
Research team leader Johan Liu, professor at Chalmers University of Technology, writes: The stronger bonds result from so-called functionalisation of the graphene,
say researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). TUM chemists have developed a semiconducting material in
A co-operation between the TUM, the University of Regensburg, the University of Southern California (USC) and Yale has produced a field effect transistors (fet) made of black arsenic phosphorus. The compounds were synthesised by Marianne Koepf
#Graphene-based film can super cool LEDS Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method for efficiently cooling electronics using graphene-based film.
Research team leader Johan Liu, professor at Chalmers University of Technology, writes: ut the methods that have been in place so far have presented the researchers with problems
Dube came to the U s. to pursue a doctorate in theoretical computer science at New york University.
It not just people on the street, Christian says. t also true for a lot of the people at the very places developing these technologies. hristian cites the example of Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley,
however, and a research team from the University of Manchester has published a report detailing how flexible 2d graphene arrays could be used in the next-generation of LED screens.
The new LEDS built by the University of Manchester in this experiment were engineered apparently at an atomic level from multiple layers of crystal lattice as shown below.
the University of Manchester team certified that the graphene-based LEDS have remained robust and continued to emit light for weeks.
A new device developed at the National University of Singapore aims to fulfill both of those requirements.
Now, researchers at the University of Rochester have used lasers to create a surface so hydrophobic that a single droplet of water can bounce up and down on it multiple times like a ball.
While it not glass, the University of Rochester researchers have discovered a simple technique to make metal surfaces inherently superhydrophobic:
Chunlei Guo and Anatoliy Vorobyev of the University Institute of Optics discovered a laser-patterning technique that etch nanoscopic structures onto a surface.
Researchers at Finland Aalto University have achieved a record-breaking 22.1%efficiency for a nanostructured silicon, or black, solar cell.
said professor Hele Savin from Aalto University, who coordinated the study, in a statement. e have demonstrated that in winter Helsinki,
The Aalto University team results were published in Nature Nanotechnology s
#Quantum signatures of electronic transport in graphene discovered The key to making useful nanoelectronic devices from graphene is to first understand,
the country is nonetheless leading the way in developing robots that can assist nurses with the enormous workloads they handle on a daily basis. The latest example is from researchers at Toyohashi University of Technology,
Toyohashi University professor Ryosuke Tasaki says, n ongoing daily effort to incorporate high-tech robotics into our activities will be the best way to realize life in our future society. arlier this year,
#Low-cost, tunable smart windows developed with lectrokinetic pixelsresearchers at the University of Cincinnati with industry partners,
The challenge for the the team from the university, and the two companies (Merck and HP), was how to apply common e-paper technology to larger structures such as windows, but inexpensively.
University of Hiroshima (Japan) researchers created the new light-emitting diode using silicon quantum dot solution and a polymer solution on top of an indium-tin-oxide (ITO) glass ply that was used as the anode for the LED.
but Cockrell School of engineering (University of Texas-Austin) researchers, led by mechanical engineering professor Dr. Carolyn Conner Seepersad
In fact, Leiden University Phd student Bastiaan Florijn created a sponge-like object as a prop for the concept at the American Physical Society March Meeting,
University of Texas-Austin (UT-A) researchers are using Wegener work (and that of others) to apply negative stiffness to ballistics by using nylon (rather than a sponge) as their build material.
Arizona State university and China Jinan University have teamed up to create what could become the first flexible batteries inside wearable electronics.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemist Xiao Cheng Zeng found that the computer model predicted the crystals were incredibly conductive,
#New material combines photons for big solar energy gains An innovative new approach to solar energy from University of California Riverside could dramatically increase the amount of light available to contemporary solar panel designs.
Developed by doctoral student Vamsi Talla and colleagues at University of Washington in Seattle, the system is known as power-over-Wi-fi. The idea is simple in concept.
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after taking a course in artificial intelligence supervised by Professor Shaul Markovich, of the Technion Faculty of Computer science.
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a method for efficiently cooling electronics using graphene-based film.
A team led by professor Johan Liu from Chalmers University had shown earlier that graphene can have a cooling effect on silicon-based electronics
at a U s.-China Forum Tuesday at the University of Chicago. e have announced two targets already:
in a statement from the university. he key is that when a robot is faced with something new,
a professor of catalysis at England University of Bristol who led the technology development, tells me that
which also involves the NASA Jet propulsion Lab, University of Maryland, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania.
The MAST-inspired micro robots could provide U s. ground forces, small units and individual soldiers with the capability to conduct surveillance within complex urban environments
The University of Pennsylvania smallest robot weighs less than three quarters of an ounce and is travelling very quick at about 53 body lengths per second.
Northwestern University scientists have invented new advanced fluorescent inks revealed through a phone's ultraviolet light that serve as the product barcodes of the future.
Sir Fraser Stoddart, Northwestern University professor and senior author of the research, said in a press release. ur inks are similar to the proprietary formulations of soft drinks.
GHOST is the brainchild of four universities in the U k.,Holland and Denmark. Launched in 2013,
maybe even in mid-air, explained GHOST Coordinator and University of Copenhagen Professor Kasper Hornbaek, in a statement. hrough ultrasound levitation technology, for example,
lead analyst Leif Andersson, a professor of functional genomics at Uppsala University, the Swedish University of Agricultural sciences, said in a press release.
said Jacob Taylor, a subordinate associate professor at the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland-National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Researchers from the University of Rochester have developed a method to make metals hydrophobic or waterproof when they are treated with lasers.
says co-principal investigator Michael R. Bruchas, associate professor of anesthesiology and neurobiology at Washington University in St louis. ith one of these tiny devices implanted,
with application opportunities not only in the brain but in other parts of the nervous system and other organs as well, says the study other co-principal investigator, John A. Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois. For now,
a long-term ongoing epidemiological study conducted by the University of Michigan. Lanza and her team focused on information reported about the rates of use of three different substanceslcohol, cigarettes,
Additional researchers from Penn State and University of North carolina at Chapel hill also collaborated on this research.
a nanomedicine expert at Northwestern University and corresponding author of the study. e hope that many more researchers will be able to use this platform to increase our understanding of RNA function inside cells.
Aurasense, Inc.,a biotechnology company that licensed the Nanoflare technology from the university, and EMD-Millipore, another biotech company, have commercialized Nanoflares.
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