including investigators from the University of Mississippi Medical center (UMMC), has identified a gene that underlies healthy information processing--a first step on a complicated road to understand cognitive aging and age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease.
"said Dr. Carla Ibrahim-Verbaas, a resident in neurology at Erasmus University Medical center in Rotterdam, The netherlands,
and University of California Los angeles explored the mechanisms by which the nanoparticles could be a new way to tackle Acne,
such as LEDS or solar cells,"said lead researcher Dr Yuerui (Larry) Lu, from The Australian National University (ANU)."
#Novel glycoengineering technology gives qualitative leap for biologics drug research Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered a way of improving biotech drugs.
This is the result of a ground-breaking new technique developed by a group of researchers from the Faculty of health and Medical sciences at the University of Copenhagen.
"says researcher Zhang Yang from the Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, a centre of excellence at the University of Copenhagen.
Lukas Kenner from the Medical University of Vienna, the Veterinary University of Vienna, and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institiute for Cancer Research (LBI-CR) discovered a missing link for an essential role of Stat3
"says coauthor of this study, Helmut Dolznig, also from the Medical University of Vienna. The study was financed mainly by the LBI-CR and the FWF.
University Health Network assessing the safety of the device, with subsequent phases examining its efficacy.
First developed at the University of Oxford, the device could potentially preserve a liver outside the body for up to 24 hours.
a biochemistry and molecular biology professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia who specializes in such research
#Discovery about brain protein causes rethink on development of Alzheimer's disease Researchers at the University of Melbourne have discovered that a protein involved in the progression of Alzheimer's disease also has properties that could be helpful for human health.
An international team of researchers, led by Dr Simon Drew at the University of Melbourne and Prof Wojciech Bal at the Polish Academy of Sciences, has revealed that a shorter form of a protein called beta amyloid,
Joint research by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and the Los alamos National Laboratory has discovered a way to predict the emerging structures
#Heating and cooling with light leads to ultrafast DNA diagnostics New technology developed by bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley,
Led by researchers at Boston University School of medicine (BUSM), the study appears online in Breast cancer Research. Basal-like breast cancer (BLBC) is an aggressive form of breast cancer
Researchers from BUSM and the University of Cyprus compared the markers on the surface of the cancer cells to gene expression profile of breast tumors deposited by researchers in international public databases
Warren Chan, an expert in nanomaterials-based diagnostics at the University of Toronto in Canada
Amber Cooper from Washington University in St louis, US, and colleagues found women aged 45 to 55 exposed to the organic compounds were up to six times more likely to be unexposed menopausal than peers.
Jessica Tyrrell from the University of Exeter, UK, who previously found an income-chemical exposure link in NHANES data,
a very creative new approach to the problem of recording from large number of neurons in the brain, says Rafael Yuste, director of the Neuro technology Center at Columbia University in New york,
says Jens Schouenborg, head of the Neuronano Research Centre at Lund University in Sweden, who has developed a gelatin-based eedlefor delivering electrodes to the brain.
Scientists at the University of Toronto and the University of Montreal have developed software, modeled on brain cell networks,
and sentences. t about both the combination of image information with natural language, says Richard Zemel, a computer scientist at the University of Toronto. hat what new herehe marriage of image and text.
Inspired by these aquatic masters of disguise, Guttag and co-author Mary Boyce, dean of engineering at Columbia University,
Shengqiang Cai, an engineer at the University of California, San diego, who was not involved with this study,
lead author and University of Virginia neuroscience professor Dr. Jonathan Kipnis and his group identified a previously undetected network of lymphatic vessels in the meninges the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord that shuttle fluid and immune cells from the cerebrospinal fluid to a group of lymph nodes in the neck, the deep cervical lymph nodes.
Dr. Josep Dalmau, a neurology professor at the University of Pennsylvania not involved with the new study, agrees that the new findings could help to explain the initiation, maintenance,
Rafael Yuste, director of Columbia University's Neurotechnology Center, told Nature it"left a few of us with our jaws dropping"after a 2014 presentation.
a silent competitor to both was setting up its office at Tokyo University Intellectual Backyard startup incubator.
At the time, he was doing university research related to psychology. One project dealt with autistic people
A group of researchers from the University of Washington were able to send energy from a Wi-fi router to low power electronics from up to 28 feet away,
Check out the researcher full paper at Cornell University Library arxiv. via New Scientist via Digital Trends
a high-powered machine designed by Professor Colin Raston laboratory at South australia Flinders University. Shear stress within thin,
and their research group at the Graduate school of Engineering the University of Tokyo have developed an adhesive gel
sanitation and as rust-free metals Scientists at the University of Rochester have used lasers to transform metals into extremely water repellent,
Guo and his colleague at the University Institute of Optics, Anatoliy Vorobyev, describe a powerful and precise laser-patterning technique that creates an intricate pattern of micro
said Guo, professor of optics at the University of Rochester. That whole process takes less than a second.
who is also an Assistant professor at the Keck School of medicine at the University of Southern California. 3d model allowed
associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering and of radiology at Columbia University Medical center (CUMC), has developed a new microscope that can image living things in 3d at very high speeds.
Now Dao and colleagues including Subra Suresh president of Carnegie mellon University former dean of MIT School of engineering
The research team also includes the paper lead author E (Sarah) Du a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University;
and Gregory Kato of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. People with sickle cell disease an inherited genetic disorder have a variant form of hemoglobin that causes their red blood cells to take on a characteristic sickle shape when in low-oxygen conditions.
#Scientists discover viral#Enigma machine#Researchers at the University of York are part of a team
and the University of Leeds unlocks its meaning and demonstrates that jamming the code can disrupt virus assembly.
Professor of Biological Chemistry in the Faculty of Biological sciences at Leeds, who led the study,
In 2012, researchers at the University of Leeds published the first observations at a single-molecule level of how the core of a single-stranded RNA VIRUS packs itself into its outer shell remarkable process
University of York mathematicians Dr Eric Dykeman and Professor Reidun Twarock, working with the Leeds group
Dr Roman Tuma, Reader in Biophysics at the University of Leeds, said: e have understood for decades that the RNA carries the genetic messages that create viral proteins,
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#Single brain peptide could be the clue to improving fertility post-stress Infertility is a growing problem in the developed world,
A joint team of researchers at University of California and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research have set out to answer this very question their findings were published last week on elife.
but a team at the University of Maryland has made just a significant breakthrough that will bring this scenario one step closer to reality.
Researchers at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) partnered with a scientist at the National Information Communications technology Research Centre of Excellence in Australia (NICTA) to develop robotic systems that are able
The highly interdisciplinary project was carried out together with the Vienna University of Technology. A Start-up Company and a Universitytogether Trilite and TU Vienna have created the first prototype.
Scaling it up to a display with many pixels is not a problemsays Jörg Reitterer (Trilite Technologies and Phd-student in the team of Professor Ulrich Schmid at the Vienna University of Technology.
Rice graduate student Zhiwei Peng and previous postdoctoral researcher Jian Lin, now an assistant professor at University of Missouri, are co-lead authors of the paper.
The Air force Office of Scientific research and its Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) and the Office of Naval Research MURI supported the research e
#Carbon nanotube finding could lead to flexible electronics with longer battery life University of Wisconsin-Madison materials engineers have made a significant leap toward creating higher-performance electronics with improved battery life and the ability to flex
Purdue University researchers had created previously uperlatticesfrom layers of the metal titanium nitride and the dielectric, or insulator, aluminum scandium nitride.
#New catalyst process uses light not metal for rapid polymerization A team of chemistry and materials science experts from University of California,
Hawker, and postdoctoral researcher Brett Fors, now with Cornell University, led the study that was inspired initially by a photoreactive Iridium catalyst.
Chemistry Professor Linda Nazar and her research team in the Faculty of science at the University of Waterloo have announced a breakthrough in Li-S battery technology based on chemical process discovered 170 years ago. his is a major step forward
. a postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry at the University of Utah. ature is capable of more than we realize.
says Adam Frost, M d.,Ph d.,assistant professor at University of California, San francisco (UCSF) and adjunct professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah.
They report their results today (Feb 5) in Nature Communications. e partnered with colleagues at the University of Illinois
John A Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; and Bram M. Meulblok, technical representative, LUXEXCEL Group B. V.,The netherlands.
#One-atom-thin silicon transistors hold promise for super-fast computing Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of engineering have created the first transistors made of silicene, the world thinnest silicon material.
University of Manchester and University of Sheffield researchers show that new 2d esigner materialscan be produced to create flexible, see-through and more efficient electronic devices.
and explored in 2004 at The University of Manchester. Its potential uses are vast but one of the first areas in
Freddie Withers, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at The University of Manchester, who led the production of the devices,
Prof Alexander Tartakovskii, from The University of Sheffield added: he novel LED structures are robust
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#Smart devices track hand-washing in hospitals to help reduce the spread of infection In fact,
Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology have found a way to compress intense laser pulses by a factor of 20 to just 4. 5 just by sending them through a cleverly designed hollow fibre.
and fabricated by the research group of Fetah Benabid at Limoges University France. For years extremely short infrared laser pulses have been used to unravel the secrets of the quantum world.
New Tool for Further Researchin their recent publication the researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have demonstrated already that their laser pulses can be used for highly advanced experiments:
The photonics team at the Vienna University of Technology is planning to use this new technology for a variety of measurements in the future
#Computing at the speed of light University of Utah engineers have taken a step forward in creating the next generation of computers
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.
Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineeringsilicon photonics could significantly increase the power and speed of machines such as supercomputers, data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection.
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#Taking control of light emission Researchers have found a way to couple the properties of different two-dimensional materials to provide an exceptional degree of control over light waves.
and their co-authors at IBM T. J. Watson Research center, Hong kong Polytechnic University, and the University of Minnesota.
Although the two materials are structurally similar both composed of hexagonal arrays of atoms that form two-dimensional sheets they each interact with light quite differently.
a researcher at IBM and the University of Minnesota, says, ur work paves the way for using 2-D material heterostructures for engineering new optical properties on demand.
Sheng Shen, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie mellon University who was involved not in this research, says, his work represents significant progress on understanding tunable interactions of light in graphene-hbn.
a team of Northwestern University scientists is the first to develop an entirely artificial molecular pump, in
That could finally change with a new process described in the journal Scientific Reports by researchers at MIT and the University of Michigan.
a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania who was involved not in this work. think that the concentric tube approach is very creative.
#Discovery of a treatment to block the progression of multiple sclerosis A drug that could halt the progression of multiple sclerosis may soon be developed thanks to a discovery by a team at the CHUM Research Centre and the University of Montreal.
and professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of Montreal. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease that is characterized by paralysis, numbness, loss of vision,
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#Hydrogen-Powered Hycopter Drone can fly for 4 Hours on a Single Charge This month,
Using human embryonic stem cells, researchers at University of California San diego School of medicine and Moores Cancer Center and Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute created a model that allows them to track cellular behavior during the earliest stages of human development in real-time.
Mcmaster scientists turn blood into neural cells Adult sensory neurons made from human patients blood samplescientists at Mcmaster University have discovered how to make adult sensory neurons from human patients simply by having them roll up their sleeve and providing
#Semiliquid Battery Almost As good as its Lithium Ion Counterparts and Supercapacitators Developed by researchers at the University of Texas, Austin,
#Scientists teach robot to learn new skills via trial and error Scientists at University of California, Berkeley have taught robots to learn.
#ain sensinggene discovery could help in development of new methods of pain relief A gene essential to the production of pain-sensing neurons in humans has been identified by an international team of researchers co-led by the University
says Professor Geoff Woods from the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research at the University of Cambridge,
adds Dr Ya-Chun Chen from the University of Cambridge, the study first author. his could potentially benefit those who are at danger from lack of pain perception and help in the development of new treatments for pain relief. n
QAAFI Director and plant geneticist Professor Robert Henry said a Trailblazer award from The University of Queensland commercialisation arm
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#Use Your Smartphone For Biosensing An Australian research team has shown that smartphones can be reconfigured as cost-effective, portable bioanalytical devices, with details reported in the latest edition of the Open Access Journal ensors
Ewa Goldys, CNBP Deputy Director, Professor at Macquarie University and author of the work explained, n this instance,
scientists at the University of Virginia School of medicine have found a blueprint for battling human disease using DNA clad in near-indestructible armor.
University of Virgini
#A new kind of wood chip: collaboration could lead to biodegradable computer chips Portable electronics typically made of nonrenewable,
a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has collaborated with researchers in the Madison-based U s. Department of agriculture Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) to develop a surprising solution:
With that goal in mind, a group of researchers from the University of Illinois teamed up with their colleagues from the Frederick Seitz Materials Laboratory,
and involved 64 research centres worldwide including the University of Oxford. Researchers randomised 436 patients with aggressive
New research, led by University of Bristol academics in collaboration with a team from the University of Sheffield,
the team led by Professor Will Wood at the University of Bristol were able to study the process in situ
University of Louisville researcher Jason Chesney, M d.,Ph d.,deputy director of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center (JGBCC),
#Researchers Discover Electron Pairing without Superconductivity A team of physicists from the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
the multidisciplinary team also included Michel Gilliet of Switzerland Lausanne University Hospital, and Jure Dobnikar and Daan Frenkel of the University of Cambridge.
Autoimmune diseases strike when the body attacks itself because it fails to distinguish between host tissue
because it provides a direct benefit to our nation warfighters. he ETOWL program was developed by the Center for Computer aided design at the University of Iowa.
#Ultrafast heat conduction can manipulate nanoscale magnets Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have uncovered physical mechanisms allowing the manipulation of magnetic information with heat.
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#Small changes have large benefits for crop breeding Researchers from The University of Western australia have developed a new method for breeding crops that will improve the potential for long-term, sustainable genetic improvement.
In a world first, Professor Wallace Cowling from The UWA Institute of Agriculture and his team have taken the breeding model commonly used by animal breeders,
University of Western Australi
#Scientists invent a new method to synthesize highly valuable amines Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have created a new method for synthesizing minesa class of organic compounds prominent in drugs and other modern products.
a former MIT professor of mechanical engineering who is now dean of engineering at Columbia University. epending on the arrangement of the particles,
a professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering at Northwestern University who was involved not in this work.
a multidisciplinary team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has created a umor in a dish:
and Edmond Young (now at the University of Toronto) and the other researchers produced an assay,
#First functional, synthetic immune organ with controllable antibodies created by engineers Cornell University engineers have created a functional,
the Ingalls Professor of Cancer Genetics at the university School of medicine and a medical oncologist at University Hospitals Case Medical center Seidman Cancer Center. e have developed a drug that acts like a vitamin for tissue stem cells,
Markowitz and University of Kentucky Professor Hsin-Hsiung Tai earlier had demonstrated that a gene product found in all humans,
It helps put us on the map as a place where new drugs get invented. arkowitz added that this research received crucial financial assistance from Case Western Reserve University School of medicine Council to Advance Human Health (CAHH
from the Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals, and from multiple National institutes of health grants that included the Case GI SPORE,
Inje University; and the Korean National Research Foundation. Generous major gifts also came from the Leonard and Joan Horvitz Foundation and the Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation.
at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, originally discovered 15-PGDH and tested SW033291 as a 15-PGDH inhibitor.
Yang and Bae, now at Inje University in Korea, worked in the Markowitz laboratory on studies of colitis (Yang) and on liver regrowth after surgery (Bae.
Zora Djuric, University of Michigan, Ann arbor; Ginger L. Milne, Vanderbilt University, Nashville; and Noelle S. Williams, Jacinth Naidoo,
and Shuguang Wei, all at UT-Southwestern, Dallas. n impressive number of individuals contributed to the discovery of this 15-PGDH inhibitor drug,
and Marvin Ludersdorfer of the Technical University of Munich. Fantastic Voyagethe robot design was motivated by a hypothetical application in
and bolt them together, says Hod Lipson, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University, who studies robotics. t a challenging angle of robotics,
And now scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison completed highly successful, first-of-its-kind endeavour to create tumour in a petri dish.
#Scientists construct first whole genome sequence of bighorn sheep Geneticists at the University of Alberta have constructed the first whole genome sequence of a bighorn sheep in a new study that could have a significant impact on conservation efforts of the species,
and is a collaboration of Los alamos National Laboratory, Harvard university, Vanderbilt University, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, CFD Research Coporation,
and the University of California San francisco o
#Revolutionary New High-speed Infrared detector Sees First Light The first prototype of a new generation of fast and very sensitive detectors has been installed successfully on the PIONIER instrument at ESO Paranal Observatory.
#An origami battery that generates power from bacteria An engineer at Binghamton University has created a flexible, origami-style battery.
But now Seokheun eanchoi, engineer from Binghamton University, has developed an inexpensive, bacteria-powered battery made from paper.
a partnership led by the University of California (UC) Berkeley that includes Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have pioneered now a process that could enable the efficient recycling two of these metals, neodymium and dysprosium.
and Patrick J. Carroll, director of the University of Pennsylvania X-ray Crystallography Facility, also contributed to the study.
Research 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.
led by Dr Adam Perriman from the University of Bristol and Professor Anthony Hollander from the University of Liverpool,
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#New tool on horizon for surgeons treating cancer patients Surgeons could know while their patients are still on the operating table
#Scientists successfully test immunogen a component for potential HIV vaccine Team of researchers from The Scripps Research Institute, INTERNATIONAL AIDS Vaccine Initiative and The Rockefeller University have shown successfully that an experimental vaccine candidate
and microwave needed Researchers at University of Illinois have created a new inexpensive and simple way to produce carbon nanoparticles.
But now scientists from University of Washington have conducted the study that links artificial light to our contemporary sleep deprivation.
from researchers at the University of North carolina and NC State, who have created the first mart insulin patchthat can detect increases in blood sugar levels
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#Expanding the DNA alphabet: xtradna base found to be stable in mammals A rare DNA base,
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Babraham Institute have found that a naturally occurring modified DNA base appears to be incorporated stably in the DNA of many mammalian tissues,
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 ddresses a very important question of
#Nanowire implants offer remote-controlled drug delivery A team of Purdue University researchers developed a new implantable drug-delivery system using the nanowires,
Purdue University Mari Hulman George Professor of Applied Neuroscience and director of Purdue Center for Paralysis Research. his tool allows us to apply drugs as needed directly to the site of injury,
says Alfonso Jaramillo, a professor of synthetic biology at the University of Warwick in the U k.,
#Risk of bowel cancer reduced by taking aspirin for Lynch syndrome patients An international study led by The University of Melbourne has confirmed that long-term regular taking of aspirin
University of Melbourne researchers and international collaborators, led by Dr Driss Ait Ouakrim and Dr Aung Ko Win from the School of Population and Global Health confirmed that those with Lynch syndrome who took aspirin regularly were less likely to develop bowel cancer than Lynch syndrome patients who did not take aspirin.
Researchers from the University of Exeter have discovered an innovative new method to produce the wonder material Graphene significantly cheaper,
Professor Seigo Tarucha from the University of Tokyo, coordinator of the Global Center of Excellence for Physics at Tokyo university and director of the Quantum Functional System Research Group at Riken Center
Professor Saverio Russo, co-author and also from the University of Exeter added: his breakthrough will nurture the birth of new generations of flexible electronics and offers exciting new opportunities for the realization of graphene-based disruptive technologies.
University of Exete s
#Electrical engineers Break Power and Distance Barriers for Fiber optic communication Electrical engineers have broken key barriers that limit the distance information can travel in fiber optic cables
Photonics researchers at the University of California, San diego have increased the maximum power and therefore distance at which optical signals can be sent through optical fibers.
Studies from a group at the University of Glasgow which are published in the same issue of the journal,
researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of engineering have designed a responsive hybrid material that is fueled by an oscillatory chemical reaction
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#NRL Researchers First to Detect Spin Precession in Silicon nanowires Scientists at the U s. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have reported the first observation of spin precession of spin currents flowing in a silicon nanowire
#New nanogenerators collect friction energy from rolling tires Team of engineers from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a collaborator from China have developed a new nanogenerator that is able to generate power from friction created by rolling
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