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.
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.
Camera Over Wi-fi Signals, Internet of things, Power-over-WI-FI, University of Washington, Vamsi Talla, Wi-fi, Wi-fi Router i
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.
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
University of Nottingha c
#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,
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