professor of biomedical surfaces at University of Nottingham. hat we are doing here is paving the way for the manufacture of stem cells in large numbers
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#Pair of compounds could hockhiv Highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) has helped millions of people survive HIV.
says lead author Satya Dandekar, who chairs the department of medical microbiology and immunology at University of California,
a new class of microbial signaling molecules, says Pamela Ronald, a professor of plant pathology at University of California, Davis,
and Schwessinger is now an independent research fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.
University of Tübingen, Germany; University of Texas at Austin; UC Irvine; and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India.
The US National institutes of health, the US Department of energy, the European Molecular biology Association, the Human Frontiers Science Program, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in India, the Welch Foundation,
associate professor of cell biology and physiology at Washington University School of medicine in St louis. y finding the mutation,
geneticist Stephen T. Warren and colleagues at Emory University replicated it in mouse brain cells and tested it for the widely known functions of FMRP.
a professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Missouri School of medicine. he benefit to patients is that more graft material will be available
says medical entomologist Gregory Lanzaro, professor in the pathology, microbiology and immunology department at University of California,
Other researchers from UC Davis and from the University of Bamako in Mali are coauthors of the study The National institutes of health funded the research
professor of psychiatry at University of Iowa. o it really providing a new picture and new insight into the composition and function of the brain in bipolar disease.
A philanthropic gift from University of Iowa alumnus Roger Koch, the National institutes of health, the Department of veterans affairs, and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression provided funding for the study.
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#Could cell#backpacks#deliver inflammation drugs? Scientists have created ellular backpacksthat could carry therapeutic agents to the site of inflammation
or even tissue death. any diseases result in inflammation, says Samir Mitragotri, professor of chemical engineering at University of California, Santa barbara,
a professor and chair of neuroscience at Brown University and senior author of the study. oo much excitation relative to inhibition you get a seizure,
Garrett Neske, a graduate student at Brown University and lead author of the study, induced up and down cycles in slices of tissue from the barrel cortex
both of the University of Rochester Institute of Optics, describe a powerful and precise laser-patterning technique that creates an intricate pattern of micro
Thomas Sand Jespersen an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen who helped create the material says it's a way to make a perfect transition between the nanowire and a superconductor.
#Molecule that Destroys Apoptotic Cells also Repairs Damaged Axons Two new studies involving the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane,
#Small Molecule Successfully Targets Telomerase to Destroy Cancer cells Scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical center report that they have targeted telomeres with a small molecule called 6-thiodg that takes advantage of the cell's biological clock to kill cancer cells
Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research at Newcastle University estimate that about 2, 500 women of childbearing age in Britain carry mitochondrial disease.
director of the center at Newcastle University. his novel approach would allow women who carry these mutations greater reproductive choice. e
and overseers such as institutional review boards, research ethics committees, investigators, their research institutions or universities, journals,
#Inexpensive Technique Developed to Manufacture Nanofibers Scientists at the University of Georgia say they have developed an inexpensive way to manufacture nanofibers,
#Researchers Discover New ain Sensinggene An international scientific team led by the University of Cambridge reports the identification of a gene essential to the production of pain-sensing neurons in humans.
"says Geoff Woods, M d, from the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research at the University of Cambridge,
#New Hope for ALS Sufferers Researchers at the CHUM Research center and the University of Montreal report the discovery of a previously unknown link between the immune system and the death of motor neurons in Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou gehrig's disease.
and trigger the disease, said Alex Parker, Ph d.,CHUM researcher and associate professor in the department of neuroscience at the University of Montreal.
Now, a collaboration of researchers from UT Southwestern Medical center, Case Western Reserve University, and the University of Kentucky has identified an enzyme they say regulates tissue regeneration.
The scientists believe that the inhibition of this enzyme could accelerate tissue recovery from injury, disease,
and conducted in collaboration with New york University Langone Medical center and Brigham and Women Hospital of Harvard Medical school.
The team from led by the Universities of Bristol and Liverpool has shown that it is possible to combine cells with a special scaffold to produce living tissue in the laboratory.
said Adam Perriman, Ph d.,from the University of Bristol school of cellular and molecular medicine."
but also for other tissue such as cardiac muscle or bone, according to the University of Liverpool Anthony Hollander, Ph d.,head of integrative biology."
The team led by the Universities of Bristol and Liverpool has shown that it is possible to combine cells with a special scaffold to produce living tissue in the laboratory.
said Adam Perriman, Ph d.,from the University of Bristol school of cellular and molecular medicine."
but also for other tissue such as cardiac muscle or bone, according to the University of Liverpool Anthony Hollander, Ph d.,head of integrative biology."
#Scientists Discover Specific Brain Receptor Role in Cocaine addiction Scientists at the University at Buffalo have discovered a previously unknown neural pathway that can regulate changes made in the brain due to cocaine use, providing new
The team, based at Wenzhou Medical University in China, randomized 12 patients with complete spinal cord injury (SCI) to receive OLP transplants
or sensory recovery, said Hua-Zi Xu, M d.,department of spinal surgery, the second affiliated hospital of Wenzhou Medical University.'
#Scientists Devise Promising Strategy to Tackle MERS A Purdue University-led team of scientists studying the Middle east Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) reports that it found molecules that shut down the activity of an essential enzyme
who also is deputy director of the Purdue University Center for Cancer Research e
#New Drug Prevents Cancer cells from Staging Last Stand Unlike many last stands in human history,
#Depersonalized Medicine Shows Promising Results Against Cancer Researchers at St louis University (SLU) say they have,
#Synthetic Stem Cells Might Eventually Lead to Artificial organs Scientists at the University of Washington (UW) say they have engineered yeast cells (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) that can"talk"to one another,
#Epigenetics Opens Potential Pathway to Treating Glioblastoma Scientists at the University of California, San diego School of medicine and Moores Cancer Center led an international team that discovered that cancer stem cell properties are determined by epigenetic changes.
According to scientists at the University of Utah and the University of Vermont, DNA contains an extra set of guanines,
#New Cell Structure Finding Might Lead to Novel Cancer Therapies University of Warwick scientists in the U k. say they have discovered a cell structure
and the researchers at the university believe that the mesh is needed to give structural support.
in collaboration with scientists from CREATE Fertility Center, University of Toronto, Harvard university, and Georgia Regents University.
The scientific team presented their results July 8 in Science Translational Medicine, in an article entitled,
#Dissolvable Microneedles May Herald New Age of Vaccine Delivery Scientists from Osaka University report that flu vaccines delivered using microneedles that dissolve in the skin can protect people against infection even better than the standard needle-delivered vaccine.
Cutting off a cancer cell ood supplyis a veritable lynchpin for the efficient removal of tumors and now researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center believe they may have found a protein that serves that very function.
#First Artificial Ribosome Designed Scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University say they have engineered a tethered ribosome that works nearly as well as the authentic organelle that produces all the proteins and enzymes within the cell.
Now, bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed new technology they believe will dramatically increase heating and cooling speeds with the switch of a light."
#New record efficiency for black silicon solar cells Researchers at the University of Aalto, Finland have broken the efficiency record for black silicon solar cells a type of cell that can gather sunlight even from tight
And now scientists at Northwestern University have created a machine that mimics this pumping mechanism. Their molecular pump is the world's first such machine developed entirely through chemical engineering in the laboratory,
"Though Saarland University announced a prototype EL printing method earlier this year using ink jet-printers printers,
stem cell researcher at Canada's Mcmaster University Mick Bhatia caught our attention with a novel approach to creating blood stem cells from human skin stem cells.
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#Air2nitrous device claimed to cut vehicle exhaust emissions by 90 percent Driving an electric car that gives off no emissions is one of the best ways to reduce your personal transport carbon footprint.
and copper structures The method developed at the University of Twente in The netherlands involves microscopic drops created from a thin metal film that is melted by a pulsed laser.
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#3d printing breakthrough creates tiny metal structures The method developed at the University of Twente in The netherlands involves microscopic drops created from a thin metal film that is melted by a pulsed laser.
This precision melting allows microscopic metal drops to be placed onto a substrate and stacked to create high resolution metal structures.
#3d printed flutes hit the right notes Researchers at Australia's University of Wollongong (UOW) have created a number of 3d printed custom flutes that can play microtonal tunings otherwise unachievable with standard flutes,
#Graphene used to create world's thinnest light bulb Researchers and engineers from Columbia University, Seoul National University (SNU),
"Not the first graphene light-bulb University of Manchester researchers lay claim to that but certainly the thinnest,
researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have developed a technique to print images that uses the manipulation of light, rather than the application of ink,
a specialist in ergonomics and product design at the University of Limerick in Ireland.""We want to develop a helper that supports production workers in their everyday work
and Radbound University, found that a material called niobium phosphide, which is a compound of transition metal niobium and phosphorus,
#Wonder-ink could soon let you 3d print objects out of stretchy graphene A new 3d printing ink being developed at Northwestern University could soon make it possible to build objects
The university is currently looking into developing and testing it further, with an eye on possible commercialization.
A student team at Brigham Young University previously developed a somewhat similar device, although it utilizes a timer and a combination lock instead of a fingerprint scanner.
The ADAMAAS project is being conducted at the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interactive Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University in Germany.
In an advance that could help this clean energy source play a stronger role within the smart grid, researchers at the University of Texas,
Researchers from the University of Sheffield and the University of Bristol say that low-intensity ultrasounds can overcome this deficiency.
Researchers at Purdue University have developed what they are describing as a smart capsule. The device is around the same mass as a 000-size gelatin capsule
Now engineers at the University of Toronto (U of T) have combined both of these materials to create an ultra-efficient,
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#Implantable device hits targeted brain cells with light and drugs when triggered remotely The field of optogenetics where individual brains cells are made to behave differently
"says Jordan Mccall, a graduate student at Washington University in St louis and member of the research team."
professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois. The research was published in the journal Cell l
#Smart low-carbon Solcer House generates more electricity that it uses A Welsh university claims to have built the UK first low-cost, low-carbon, energy-positive house.
The Solcer House was built by Cardiff University Solcer Project, part of the LCRI Program (Low Carbon Research Institute.
Gin Jose and his team at the University of Leeds. To use it patients simply place the pad of their finger against a small glass window on the device.
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#New molecular transistor can control single electrons Researchers from Germany, Japan and the United states have managed to create a tiny,
so the University of Cambridge's Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald and her team have developed what they claim to be a more accurate tool for early-diagnosis. Billed as"a pill on a string,
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#Ford's smart lighting technology spots potential hazards There are some incredible technological strides being made to improve road safety,
Scientists at Pohang University of Science and Technology have taken a slightly different approach. Their solution was inspired by intersections of amino acids called tyrosines that can be found in dragonfly wings and insect cuticles.
researchers from Hiroshima University recently demonstrated a new model that is said to be"the world fastest, largest, strongest,
A team of engineers and doctors at Vanderbilt University has developed a tiny mechanical wrist that can be used for millimeter-sized incisions
Vanderbilt University applied for a provisional patent on the design in May, and the software interface that allows surgeons to control the mechanical wrist should be completed by the end of August.
#Synthetic material mimics coral's ocean-cleaning attributes Researchers from China's Anhui Jianzhu University have developed a synthetic substance that mimics coral's ability to collect harmful heavy metals from water.
it did give the researchers at Anhui Jianhu University an idea. The researchers worked with aluminum oxide,
But a team at the Cockrell School of engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has developed a"smart window"technology that allows the passage of light
Researchers at Tufts University have developed now silk-based inks containing bacteria-sensing agents that can withstand the rigors of inkjet printing,
"The study was conducted by researchers at UCLA, the University of California, San francisco, and Russia's Pavlov Institute.
The finding comes courtesy of University of Rochester geophysicist John Tarduno, who was one of the researchers responsible for the previous-best estimate of the age of Earth's magnetic field (3. 2 to 3. 45 billion years).
Researchers at UK Cardiff University and King College London identified which cells cause the airways to narrow
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#For the first time, Artificial Feet Can Feel the Ground Scientists in Austria are taking their research on prosthetic limbs one step further by restoring the sense of touch to those who wear them.
Professor Hubert Egger from the University of Linz recently unveiled research which enables patients to actually feel the bottom of their artificial feet.
has been testing out the technology at the University of Linz laboratory and at home. t feels like
Girls from Nepal Group Home Jump into Action Providing Earthquake Relief Researchers at the University of Brighton in the UK have come up with a ibrating barrier (Viba) that absorbs the energy from an earthquake
Researchers Tout Solar panels Made With erovskitemineral A new generation of solar panels made from a mineral called perovskite has the potential to convert solar energy into household electricity more cheaply than ever before, according to a study from Britain Exeter University.
Meanwhile, a team at University of Rome Tor Vergata supplies scientific know-how. We spoke to Angelo Aliquò, a senior partner with Management Innovation and long-time energy industry consultant,
"As for technological input, the company is working both with the original Harvard team and researchers from the Department of Chemical science and Technology of the University Tor Vergata.
The money will come from philanthropists, universities, big banks and environmental nonprofits. The committed funds are more than double the goal of the President Obama Clean energy Investment Initiative that was announced earlier this year.
Led by the University of California, a group of institutional investors has committed already more than $1 billion for igh-potential companies
#Patient safety driving increased RFID use in hospitals The University of Vermont Medical center in Burlington, Vt.
Led by Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) in partnership with Obsidian Strategic, Tata Communications and Rutgers University,
seven universities and two large research organizations (A*Star in Singapore and Oak ridge National Laboratory in Oak ridge, Tenn..
also using ADIOS (Stony Brook University/ORNL) Researchers who are accustomed to TCP IP based file transfer (FTP) will want to note the major increase in data throughput enabled by long distance Infiniband.
A preview of upcoming projects includes GPGPU applications with Reims University in France, asynchronious linear solvers with University of Lille,
Young Duck Kim, has led a team of scientists from Columbia, Seoul National University (SNU), and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) that have demonstrated for the first time ever an on-chip visible light source using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon,
Yun Daniel Park, professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Seoul National University and co-lead author,
and capacitors A University of Texas at Dallas research team has made electrically conducting fibers that can be stretched reversibly to more than 14 times their initial length and
Besides the convenience of a great model, wrote Dr. Arnold Kriegstein, a stem cell researcher at the University of California, San francisco, in an article accompanying Lancaster publication,
the devices could start being sold worldwide Flinders University, where it was created, has formed already a company to sell the devices."
"There are 10,000 universities in the world and this has got applications in chemistry, engineering, biology, medicine,
A team at the University of Bristol has been quietly developing the technology for the past three years.
Professor Wass and his team have been working with aerospace engineers at the university, who wanted to know
The research was funded by the Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council UK Catalysis Hub, a collaborative project between universities and industry.
The BMW i8 electric sports car has a carbon fibre passenger compartment to make up for the weight of its heavy battery Professor Richard Catlow of the University of London,
when researchers at the University of Illinois in the US created a plastic capable of repairing itself
as they are damaged often by bird strikes (AFP/Getty) Professor Wass team at the University of Bristol has been focusing on the creation of self-healing versions of carbon fibre composite materials,
Alex will be starting at Montreal Mcgill University in the autumn, but hopes the iaid will be approved for US and Canadian rights so that, one day,
from the University of California at Berkeley, told the magazine. The same technique might also be used to create other parts of the human body.
and Tissue Engineering (3d printing Industry) A research team at Northwestern University has begun printing three-dimensional structures with graphene nanoflakes.
#Researchers Develop 3d printing Method to Produce Shell Capsules That Can Be loaded with Therapeutic Drugs Researchers at the University of Minnesota have introduced a novel 3d printing based method to produce highly monodisperse core/shell capsules that can
and particle distributions throughout a 3d matrix, Michael Mcalpine, an associate professor in mechanical engineering at the university, said. urthermore,
#3d printing Technique Being developed for Bone Regeneration A team of scientists from the University of Nottingham has developed a new 3d bioprinting technique that allows them to 3d-print a thick paste filled with protein-releasing microspheres that can be used to greatly speed up bone regeneration
Dr. Jing Yang from the University of Nottingham one of the leading researchers, explained, nitially wee targeting the clinical application of this material as injectable bone defect filler,
Yes, says Massimiliano Di Ventra, a physicist and computer scientist at the University of California, San diego. His team has built a memcomputing prototype with standard electronics that operate at room temperature.
The project will also involve the University of Tokyo and Nagoya University, with their research institutes handling analyses of data,
said Michael Liehr, the university vice president of innovation and research. The research focused on getting around the physical limitations of existing materials,
London University. eres Power was set up in 2001, after years of research at the university. e have had several rounds of investment;
last year, for example, we received about $35 million of additional investment, so we have enough cash to see us through for several years of further development.
Materials scientist John Rogers, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his colleagues want to create similarly complex devices that can wrap around these biological structures,
"study co-author Yonggang Huang, a professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, said in a statement."
Dan Moran, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Washington University in St louis, said he was a bit skeptical that the new prosthesis provided any finer motor control than already-developed methods of connecting with bionic arms through motor and premotor cortexes.
a mechanical engineer at Columbia University in New york, said in a statement. Scientists have wanted long to create a teensy"light bulb"to place on a chip, enabling
a professor of physics at Seoul National University, noted that graphene is embedded usually in or in contact with a substrate."
"said study co-author Tomasz Skwarnicki, a physicist at Syracuse University in New york. Based on the LHC data,
#Novel Use of WI-FI Signals to Power Remote Devices, named Powi-Fi The scientists from the University of Washington have devised a method to utilize Wi-fi signals to power a battery-free camera,
an Indian origin scientist along with colleagues at the University of Washington in Seattle have asserted that Wi-fi radio broadcasts are a form of energy
with the researches at the University of Columbia devising the world's first evaporation-driven engine that runs by harvesting energy from the evaporating water.
"The technology has been developed by a team of bioengineers led by Ozgur Sahin at Columbia University by making use of the property of bacterial spores,
which hinders the strong electric properties said Youngpak Lee a professor at Hanyang University in Seoul South korea.
researchers at the University of Bonn in Germany made a skeletal muscle of a mouse contract in response to light.
said Dr. Simon Thomson, a consultant in Pain Management and Neuromodulation at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals, UK. he simplicity of the programming software saves valuable time in the operating theatre,
#World First Prosthetic Leg With Real Sense of Feeling Researchers at the University of Applied sciences Upper Austria are reporting the installation of the first prosthetic leg with the ability of letting the wearer feel the ground beneath.
Researchers at Purdue University have come up with a new way of releasing drugs into the body in a controlled manner using tiny injectable nanowire implants.
but researchers at University of Tokyo are looking forward to a time when the very clothes we wear are outfitted with interconnected sensors.
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#Artificial Neurons That Work Like Real Ones to Treat Neurological Conditions, Paralysis Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have created reportedly an artificial neuron that apparently works just like our own living neurons
Researchers at Purdue University have unveiled a new technique that can harness just about any atomic force microscope to be able to watch the changing dynamics of large groups of live cells at high spatial and temporal resolutions.
Now a partnership between scientists at University of Nottingham in the UK and Cornell University in New york have developed a way of printing bonelike biocompatible material at room temperature
#New Technology for Blood-Free Glucose Sensing The University of Leeds may have solved one of the biggest holy grails in medicine,
The University of Leeds has partnered with Netscientific to spin off Glucosense Diagnostics, a company tasked with further developing the technology
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#St jude Medical Invisible Trial System Uses ipads, ipods to Control Pain Relieving Neurostimulator St jude Medical landed FDA approval to introduce its Invisible Trial System,
researchers from Washington Universityin St louis and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a wireless implant that can be controlled remotely to release drugs right into the brain.
the university said in a news release. More than 115 million animals worldwide are used in lab experiments annually, according to the Humane Society International,
Researchers at Columbia University are hoping to change that. They have invented a novel new type of engine that is powered entirely by evaporating water,
Two New york University researchers have taken inspiration from avian locomotion strategies and created a pump that moves fluid using vibration instead of a rotor.
University of Utah Electrical and Computer engineering Associate professor Rajesh Menon is leading a team that has created the world smallest beamsplitter for silicon photonic chips.
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#Charting quantum signatures of electronic transport in graphene Over the last seven years, Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi has built several hundred nanoscale stacked graphene systems to study their electronic properties."
now assistant professor at the University of California at Santa barbara, and Hunt, who will join the faculty of the Carnegie mellon physics department this fall.
Hofstadter butterfly Graphene and boron nitride layers each have arranged atoms in a hexagonal, or six-sided, pattern.
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