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,
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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