#Device for guided surgery of deviations in long bones patented CEU-UCH Cardenal Herrera University patented a device that can be applied in surgeries to correct deviations in long bones.
the device our university patented could have applications in adult humans, such as to treat fractures and other pathologies that cause this kind of deviations in the bones of adult people.
professor of Veterinary medicine at the Valencia Catholic University Saint vincent Martyr (UCV), cooperated. These surgeries, which in three dimensions corrected deviations in bones,
which took place at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in September. The results of the first surgical interventions on dogs were presented
and adapt to new conditions at the metastasis location said lead author Marcelo Boareto a former visiting scholar at Rice and now a doctoral student at the University of Sao paulo Brazil.
#New technique for producing cheaper solar energy suggested by research A team of experts from the University of Exeter has examined new techniques for generating photovoltaic (PV) energy--or ways in
The research by the team from the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) based at the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus in Cornwall is published in the journal Solar energy Materials & Solar cells.
ENIGMA's scientists screen brain scans and genomes worldwide for factors that help or harm the brain said ENGIMA cofounder Professor Paul Thompson from University of Southern California.
and Virtual Environments and collaborating with Delattre in France as well as Roger Macfarlane a researcher at Brigham Young University.
and increases survival of recipients, according to a series of animal studies by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine and the Mcgowan Institute for Regenerative medicine.
However, researchers from the University of Zurich now reveal that so-called epigenetic factors play a role in the formation of metastases in malignant skin cancer.
A team of researchers headed by Professor Lukas Sommer from the University of Zurich's Institute of Anatomy has now found a possible explanation for this dynamic behavior in cancer cells:
Joining forces with dermatologists and oncologists from the University Hospital in Zurich and backed by the University Research Priority Program"Translational Cancer Research,
according to results of a new 10-state study--co-authored by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Urban Institute,
despite the various complexities and hurdles the policy faced,"said the study's lead author, Daniel Polsky, Phd, executive director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania."
"The study, conducted by a team of physician scientists and public policy researchers at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and the Perelman School of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,
and Simon Basseyn, MD/MBA candidate from the University of Pennsylvania, along with Douglas Wissoker, Phd, Genevieve M. Kenney, Phd,
researchers from the Keck School of medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) led a global consortium of 190 institutions to identify eight common genetic mutations that appear to age the brain an average of three years.
which was developed by researchers from the University's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) has potential applications in a number of fields that use pulsed lasers including telecommunications metrology sensing and material processing.
Empa and the University Hospital Zurich thus teamed up to develop the sensor"Glucolight,""which gages the blood sugar level through the skin,
which was developed at the University Hospital Zurich, with a"smart"membrane developed at Empa; light sources;
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.
Matt Eisaman of Brookhaven's Sustainable energy Technologies Department and a professor at Stony Brook University."
and possibly the overall aging process. said Audrey Tyrka MD Phd Director of the Laboratory for Clinical and Translational Neuroscience at Butler Hospital and Associate professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University.
and Shuming Nie with Emory University and Georgia Institute of technology, combines two types of imaging. A surgeon-controlled laser can be directed at any area of interest.
in addition to the inventors, were James M. Provenzale, M d.,Duke university Medical center and Emory University; and Corey F. Saba, D. V. M.,Karen K. Cornell, D. V. M.,Ph d,
. and Elizabeth W. Howerth, D. V. M.,Ph d.,University of Georgia. Media Contacts: Karen Richardson, krchrdsn@wakehealth. edu,(336) 716-4453) or Main Number (336) 716-4587.
#New antibodies for cancer treatment A research team at Aarhus University i Denmark has developed ten new antibodies that can possibly be used in the battle against cancer.
of which have the same effect as the antibodies developed by the Aarhus University researchers. However the existing antibodies are extremely expensive to produce.
and this is something the Aarhus University researchers are good at. We've got a large library of antibodies that can supplement the body's own fight against disease.
and his colleague at the University's Institute of Optics Anatoliy Vorobyev describe a powerful and precise laser-patterning technique that creates an intricate pattern of micro
and then it will just roll off from the surface said Guo professor of optics at the University of Rochester.
#Predatory sea snails produce weaponized insulin It is very unlikely that it is serving a different purpose said lead author Helena Safavi-Hemami a research assistant professor at the University of Utah.
It is shorter than any insulin that has been described in any animal said senior author Baldomero M. Olivera a distinguished professor of biology at the University of Utah.
For more clear-cut evidence that snails use insulin as a weapon Joanna Gajewiak a research assistant professor at the university came up with a fast way to synthesize enough of the insulin to directly test its effects on fish.
#New cellular pathway triggering allergic asthma response identified Researchers at the University of California, San diego School of medicine,
Our team the GFZ Hazard and Risk Team HART works in close collaboration with the University of Cape verde the Volcano Observatory of the Canary islands and the German Aerospace Centre says GFZ-volcanologist Dr
according to an examination led by scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHEALTH).
"said Richard S. Ruiz, M d.,professor of ophthalmology and holder of the John S. Dunn Distinguished University Chair in Ophthalmology at UTHEALTH."
study author Vincent Lynch, Phd, assistant professor of human genetics at the University of Chicago.""Most remarkably, we found the genetic changes that likely underlie the evolution of pregnancy are linked to domesticated transposable elements that invaded the genome in early mammals.
"The student inventors showcased their device recently at the annual Johns Hopkins Biomedical engineering Design Day event, organized by the university's Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design.
which is shared by the university's Whiting School of engineering and its School of medicine. Allen also is a lecturer in the School of medicine's Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
Moreover, many large-scale experiments have been carried out at Liverpool John Moores University in collaboration with the rest of the project group.
however, researchers at Hiroshima University revealed the mechanisms by which CCDC26 controls the receptor tyrosine kinase KIT expression.
Dr. Tetsuo Hirano from the Graduate school of Integrated Arts and Science at Hiroshima University found that knockdown of the CCDC26 gene in cells results in significant upregulation of the KIT gene,
Dr. Hirano and his collaborators at the School of medicine in Juntendo University showed that CCDC26 transcript levels are high in the nuclear fraction of human myeloid leukemia cell lines.
Researchers at the University of Bonn and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) have discovered two new groups of viruses within the Bunyavirus family in the tropical forest of Ivory coast.
"says the researcher from the University of Bonn Hospital. Simplified test to test novel viruses for risk of human infection Triggered by epidemics such as SARS and Ebola,
in association with Montpellier Regional University Hospital and Stanford university, have transformed bacteria into"secret agents"that can give warning of a disease based solely on the presence of characteristic molecules in the urine or blood.
In this new work, the teams led by Jérôme Bonnet (CBS, Inserm U1054, CNRS UMR5048, Montpellier University), Franck Molina (Sysdiag, CNRS FRE 3690),
in association with Professor Eric Renard (Montpellier Regional University Hospital) and Drew Endy (Stanford university), applied this new technology to the detection of disease signals in clinical samples.
The research team at Tohoku University turned its attention to iron selenide (Fese which is a member of iron-based superconductors*2
The new study focused on a protein called PASD1 that Partch's collaborators at the University of Oxford had found was expressed in a broad range of cancer cells,
and Phillip Messersmith, Phd (University of California, Berkeley).""We discovered that the HIF-1a pathway--an oxygen regulatory pathway predominantly used early in evolution
Dr. Oliver Eickelberg and Dr. Claudia Staab-Weijnitz of the Comprehensive Pneumology Center (CPC) at Helmholtz Zentrum München and their colleagues at LMU University Hospital in Munich and Yale university
has already been tested on a small sample of patients at the La paz University Hospital and in ex vivo tissues of animal models.
who leads the Nanoscale Optics Laboratory in the university's mechanical and aerospace engineering department.""We chose the athletic logo to fill that need.""
#Crossing a critical threshold in optical communications Researchers from Lehigh University, Japan and Canada have advanced a step closer to the dream of all-optical data transmission by building
and researchers from Kyoto University in Japan and Polytechnique Montreal in Canada. The group says its achievement will boost ongoing efforts to develop photonic integrated circuits (PICS) that are smaller, cheaper, more energy-efficient and more reliable than current networks that use discrete optoelectronic components--waveguides, splitters, modulators, filters
"After conducting experiments at Lehigh and at Kyoto University and Polytechnique Montreal, the group built a single crystal in glass,
and Kyung-Jin Lee, Department of Materials science and engineering and KU-KIST Graduate school of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul l
#How a gut feeling for infection programs our immune response An unexpected finding by an international team of scientists based at The University of Manchester
"Dr Grainger and his team are now working with other groups at The University of Manchester to carry out further studies on monocytes, particularly from patients with inflammatory conditions,
Choi, who joined Binghamton's faculty less than three years ago as an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, earned a doctorate from Arizona State university after doing undergraduate work and a master's degree in South korea.
because it creates a new class of devices for controlling X-rays,"added Paul Evans, a professor of materials science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison."
specialised labs or expensive reagents, has been developed at Uppsala University, Sweden. The technique could be developed further to be used in point of care devices, for instance for diagnostic purposes.
#New mechanism that attacks viral infections discovered An innovative mechanism that the innate immune system uses to control viral infections has been uncovered by researchers at the University Medical centers in Mainz and Freiburg.
"explained Professor Andreas Diefenbach of the Department of Medical microbiology and Hygiene of the Mainz University Medical center.
from the University's Department of Engineering Mathematics, have designed a smart materials system, inspired by biological chromatophores,
#Bacteria could help clean groundwater contaminated by uranium ore processing A team of Rutgers University scientists
D.,associate professor and researcher at the Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South carolina,
#New type of gecko-like gripper created Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are developing a new kind of gripper,
The international team of researchers co-led by Dr Natalie Borg from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular biology at Monash University,
Dr Borg's team at Monash University were able to visualise the crystal structure of the Anapn1 protein for the first time, providing valuable insights.
Experts at Monash University monitored people participating in a range of extreme endurance events, including 24-hour ultra-marathons
#Key to quick battery charging time University of Tokyo researchers have discovered the structure and transport properties of the"intermediate state"in lithium-ion batteries--key to understanding the mechanisms of charge
Now Professor Atsuo Yamada's research group at the University of Tokyo Graduate school of Engineering have developed a novel technique to stabilize the intermediate state.
Dr. Samuel Asfaha, a clinician-scientist at Lawson and an assistant professor of medicine at the Schulich School of medicine & Dentistry, Western University,
and his colleagues at Columbia University (New york), have identified a previously unknown, long-lived radiation-resistant stem cell population in the colon.
#Sediment makes it harder for baby Nemo to breathe easy Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral reef Studies at James Cook University have discovered that suspended sediment damages fish gills
#Researchers develop pioneering new method to map enzyme activity Researchers from Cardiff University have pioneered a new technique that will enable scientists to precisely pinpoint the areas on an enzyme that help to speed up chemical reactions.
Distinguished Research Professor and Head of Cardiff University's School of Chemistry, said:""Enzymes are not only central to living systems,
the research team, consisting of researchers at Cardiff University's School of Chemistry, the University of Valencia and Jaume
I University in Spain, investigated the physical movements of the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR). DHFR is a small enzyme that plays an essential role in the building of genetic material and proteins,
The researchers, who included collaborators from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, foresee wide potential for future investigation and application of this technology.
Benedetto Marelli, Miaomiao Yang and Bo An, of the Department of Biomedical engineering at Tufts University;
Serdar Onses and John Rogers, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and David Kaplan, of the Department of Biomedical engineering and Department of Chemical and Biological engineering at Tufts University.
Omenetto and Kaplan are pioneers in the use of silk as an alternative to plastics. Omenetto's 2011 TED Talk called silk a"new old material"that could have a profound impact in many technical fields.
and her research group in the University's School of Oral and Dental Sciences, Pertinax is a new formulation of chlorhexidine.
Computations made by the group of Professor Thomas Heine from Jacobs University Bremen, which is involved also in the project,
atomically-thin layered material at room temperature could lead to novel nanoelectronic circuits and devices, according to researchers at Penn State and three other U s. and international universities.
"Coauthor Robert Wallace of the University of Texas at Dallas says this collaborative work represents an important achievement in the realization of useful 2d integrated circuits."
and Lain-Jong Li, at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi arabia. The work was performed in conjunction with the Center for Two-dimensional and Layered Materials (2dlm) at Penn State and supported by the Semiconductor Research Corporation and DARPA through the Center for Low energy Systems Technology.
#Supercomputers surprisingly link DNA crosses to cancer Supercomputers have helped scientists find a surprising link between cross-shaped (or cruciform) pieces of DNA and human cancer, according to a study at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin.
Vasquez is the James T. Delucio Regents Professor in the Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology at The University of Texas at Austin.'
Support is acknowledged also from the Alexander Von humboldt Foundation, the NASA Office of the Chief Technologist's Space technology Research Fellowship, the AFOSR Quantum memories Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative,
The Max Planck researchers, together with colleagues from the High-Field magnet Laboratories at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and at the Radboud University in The netherlands
as well as the High-Field magnet Laboratory at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, and the Diamond Light source in Oxfordshire, England.
#New formula expected to spur advances in clean energy generation Researchers from the University of Houston have devised a new formula for calculating the maximum efficiency of thermoelectric materials, the first new formula in more than a half-century,
Researchers from UCL (University college London), Keele University Medical school, Heyrovsky Institute of Physical chemistry and Academy of Sciences of the Czech republic were involved also in the study.
Venkat Viswanathan, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie mellon University who was involved not in this work, says the analysis presented in the new paper"addresses a very important question of
and Kyle Smith of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The work was supported by the U s. Department of energy's Center for Energy storage Research,
#Biomanufacturing of Cds quantum dots A team of Lehigh University engineers have demonstrated a bacterial method for the low-cost, environmentally friendly synthesis of aqueous soluble quantum dot (QD) nanocrystals at room temperature.
supplied by Lehigh's Faculty Innovation Grant (FIG) and Collaborative Research Opportunity Grant (CORE) programs.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a simple'recipe'for combining multiple materials with single functions into a single material with multiple functions:
rather than functional things,"said Dr Stoyan Smoukov of the University's Department of Materials science and Metallurgy,
However, scientists at the Swedish Medical Nanoscience Centre (SMNC) at Karolinska Institutet in collaboration with collegues at Linköping University, have created now an organic bioelectronic device that is capable of receiving chemical signals,
researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of engineering have designed a responsive hybrid material that is fueled by an oscillatory chemical reaction
continuously becomes commercially available in North america Indigo-Clean#is a light fixture manufactured through an exclusive licensing agreement with the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland,
We are proud that the University of Strathclyde selected Kenall to commercialize this in the U s,
Arrayclark Johnson, a professor of geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and former postdoctoral researcher Weiqiang Li examined samples from the banded iron formation in Western australia.
who is currently at Nanjing University in China, show that half of the iron in banded iron was metabolized by ancient bacteria living along the continental shelves.
and research at this university, geomicrobiology gives you the answer. It has turned completely geoscience on its ear
and Vijay John of Tulane University. Their finding will be published in the June 26 issue of Science Advances.
The research group of Professor Shigeo Murata at the University of Tokyo Graduate school of Pharmaceutical Sciences used mass spectroscopy, capable of identifying unknown substances,
The Food safety and Technology Research Centre under the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology of The Hong kong Polytechnic University (Polyu) has developed a new method for rapid authentication of edible oils and screening
David A. Horsley, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, Davis. He is a director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center,
which is located on the campuses of UC Davis and the University of California, Berkeley and is directed co by Professor Bernhard Boser at UC Berkeley."
#Biodegradable, flexible silicon transistors Now researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have come up with a new solution to alleviate the environmental burden of discarded electronics.
Columbia University, the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology were also part of the team.
Yan-Xiao Gong of Southeast University in Nanjing, China; and Joshua Bienfang and Alessandro Restelli, affiliated with both the University of Maryland and the NIST.
The work was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency y
#Chemists characterize 3-D macroporous hydrogels Arraythe 3dom hydrogels contain a network of interconnected pores with uniform size.
"said Matyjaszewski, the J. C. Warner University Professor of Natural sciences.""Well-defined 3dom hydrogels provide a versatile platform for a wide variety of functional materials."
was done by RIKEN in collaboration with the University of Tokyo, University of Osaka, and was funded by JST and DFG G
000 Faculty Early Career development grant awarded to Liu to improve the way solar energy is captured, stored and transmitted for use.
superbugs Researchers at Mcmaster University have developed a new way to detect the smallest traces of metabolites, proteins or fragments of DNA.
The researchers at the Medical Research Council's (MRC) Toxicology Unit based at the University of Leicester
which is located at the University of Leicester, said:""This is a real breakthrough in our understanding of how malaria survives in the blood stream
#Cancer drug 49 times more potent than Cisplatin Based on a compound of the rare precious metal osmium and developed by researchers at the University of Warwick's Department of chemistry and the Warwick Cancer Research Unit,
of the University of Warwick's Department of chemistry, said explains:""Healthy cells generate their energy in organelles called mitochondria,
#Key mechanism that causes neuropathic pain found Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have identified a key mechanism in neuropathic pain.
and now humans can do it, too University of California, Berkeley, physicists have used graphene to build lightweight ultrasonic loudspeakers and microphones,
"says Dr. Kim who is also Professor of Surgery at Case Western Reserve University School of medicine and the Charles Hubay Chair at UH Case Medical center."
The new Phase I clinical trial is being supported by University Hospitals as well as a significant philanthropic effort including the Immunogene Therapy Fund, Paula and Ronald Raymond Fund and the Kathryn and Paula Miller Family Fund."
#Discovery could improve in vitro fertilization success rates for women around the world Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University, Stanford university,
University of Valencia and IGENOMIX have discovered that chromosomal abnormalities in human embryos created for in vitro fertilization,
"Researchers at the University's 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,
"Dr Royle and Professor Ian Prior at the University of Liverpool have made significant inroads into our understanding of the way in
as well as Tang Du Hospital in China, University of the Negevin, Israel, and the Instituto Neurologico C. Besta in Italy.
especially for diabetics and the elderly Researchers from the University of Sheffield's Department of Biomedical science discovered the ultrasound transmits a vibration through the skin
from the University's Centre for Membrane Interactions and Dynamics (CMIAD), said:""Skin ulcers are excruciatingly painful for patients
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
For the first time, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia report a single molecule that appears to be the central regulator driving metastasis in prostate cancer.
"says Karen Knudsen, Ph d.,Director of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University, the Hilary Koprowski Professor and Chair of Cancer Biology, Professor of Urology, Radiation Oncology,
in addition to leaders of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center's Prostate Program, included the laboratories of Felix Feng (University of Michigan), Scott Tomlins (University of Michigan), Owen Witte (UCLA),
Cory Abate-Shen (Columbia University), Nima Sharifi (Cleveland Clinic) and Jeffrey Karnes (Mayo Clinic), and contributions from Genomedx.
who is also the vice president for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland, and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean of the School of medicine."
#Nanoscale light-emitting device has big profile University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created a nanoscale device that can emit light as powerfully as an object 10,000 times its size.
#Potential of blue LEDS as novel chemical-free food preservation technology A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has found that blue light emitting diodes (LEDS) have strong antibacterial
Oliver Eickelberg, Chairman of the Comprehensive Pneumology Center (CPC) at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and University Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
However, recent data from the research group led by Markus Hengstschläger of the Institute for Medical Genetics of the Medical University of Vienna now suggest that another protein complex,
"said Cassandra Callmann, a graduate student in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San diego,
a huge deal,"said George Bakris, MD, professor of medicine and director of the Comprehensive Hypertension Center at the University of Chicago Medicine."
Additional authors include Bertram Pitt, University of Michigan; Matthew Weir, University of Maryland School of medicine; Mason Freeman, Massachusetts General Hospital;
David Bushinsky, University of Rochester; and Martha Mayo, Dahlia Garza, Yuri Stasiv, Rezi Zawadzki and Lance Berman, from Relypsa a
#Noninvasive device could end daily finger pricking for people with diabetes A new laser sensor that monitors blood glucose levels without penetrating the skin could transform the lives of millions of people living with diabetes.
The new technology, developed by Professor Gin Jose and a team at the University of Leeds
and funded by the University of Leeds and Netscientific plc, a biomedical and healthcare technology group specialisingin commercialising transformative technologies from leading universities and research institutes.
Professor Grant, Professor of Medicine at the University of Leeds and Consultant diabetes specialist, said:"
"Professor Jose's research is based in the Institute for Materials Research in the University of Leeds'School of Chemical and Process Engineering.
and the research was supported by the Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the University of Leeds Research and Innovation Services s
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