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.
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#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,
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#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.
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#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
and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder. his technology can actively stabilize two items relative to each other with a precision well below one nanometer at room temperature,
University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist Su-Chun Zhang has shown a new way to silence genes in stem cells and their progeny at any stage of development.
says Ian Macdonald, a professor of ophthalmology with the Faculty of medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta,
and this new study sponsored by the University of Alberta is another step forward in the development of AAV2-REP1,
and the data to date have shown very promising results. he first clinical trials took place at the University of Oxford.
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#TSRI and Biotech Partners Find New Antibody Weapons against Marburg virus A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) identifies new immune molecules that protect against deadly Marburg virus, a relative
Antibodies against one site on Marburg were revealed in a study by Vanderbilt University and TSRI in February 2015,
A University of Virginia engineering professor and her former graduate student are already there. Maite Brandt-Pearce, a professor in the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer engineering,
along with the University on their idea and Noshad has created a company, VLNCOMM, for Visible light Network Communications, to which Brandt-Pearce is a consultant.
and everybody has a good connection. e have a patent with the University and we will file more patents on the research being done now,
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#Elastic Gel to Heal Wounds A team of bioengineers at Brigham and Women Hospital (BWH), led by Ali Khademhosseini, Phd,
with the participation of researchers from the CNIO Molecular Imaging Core Unit and from the Complutense University of Madrid, is being published this week in the journal Cell Reports.
#Tablet technology to help children with autism Monash University researchers have developed the world first tablet technology designed to assist children with developmental disabilities such as autism and Down syndrome.
At Monash and previously at Mcgill University in Canada, Professor Cornish has been studying attention delays in children with developmental disorders,
#Crowd-sourced computing reveals how to make better water filters with nanotubes Crowd-sourced computing has helped an international research team including researchers from the University of Sydney discover a new method of improving water filtration systems and water quality.
The research was led by the Center for Nano and Micro Mechanics (CNMM) at Tsinghua University in Beijing
with international partners including researchers from the University of Sydney in Australia. rior to our project,
a Phd from Tsinghua University, was also a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney working with nanotechnology expert Associate professor Luming Shen on the research.
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#Bats do it, dolphins do it. Now humans can do it too University of California, Berkeley, physicists have used graphene to build lightweight ultrasonic loudspeakers and microphones,
enabling people to mimic bats or dolphinsability to use sound to communicate and gauge the distance and speed of objects around them.
a team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Laura Kiessling describes the knack of a human protein known as intelectin to distinguish between our cells
and Emory University biochemistry Professor Richard Cummings contributed to the study. Intelectin is not new to science, Kiessling notes,
In collaboration with researchers from Emory University School of medicine in Atlanta and Cedars-Sinai Medical center in Los angeles, the researchers reviewed medical records of 9, 715 patients in the area surrounding Nashville, Tennessee,
Janssen, who received his doctoral degree from Leiden University, is no stranger to the sensing of the very small.
which he received from the University of Nijmegen in The netherlands he did internships in the country and in France on detecting neurotransmitter secretion from single neurons.
#Researchers identify cause of heart damage in sepsis patients Researchers at the University of Liverpool Institute of Infection
Dr Yasir Alhamdi, from the University Institute of Infection and Global Health, said: his new discovery has important clinical implications.
from the University Institute of Infection and Global Health, said: he translational impact to patients with sepsis can extend beyond biomarker prediction of heart complications,
assistant professor in chemistry at the University of Chicago, have developed the first skeleton-like silicon spicules ever prepared via chemical processes. sing bone formation as a guide,
and Northwestern University described their new method for the syntheses and fabrication of mesocopic three-dimensional semiconductors (intermediate between the nanometer and macroscopic scales).
#Discovery of a eat-storage ceramicresearchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered a new type of material which stores heat energy for a prolonged period,
The heat storage ceramic discovered by the research group of Professor Ohkoshi at the University of Tokyo Graduate school of Science preserves heat energy for a prolonged period.
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#Researchers Build a Transistor from a Molecule and A few Atoms An international team of physicists has used a scanning tunneling microscope to create a minute transistor consisting of a single molecule and a small number of atoms.
#Researchers create model of early human heart development from stem cells Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley,
The authors of the study, from Osaka University in Japan, say their dissolvable patch the only vaccination system of its kind could make vaccination easier, safer and less painful.
one of the authors of the study from Osaka University. ecause the new patch is so easy to use,
a Syracuse University team funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), wasn specifically looking for them.
said LHCB physicist Tomasz Skwarnicki of Syracuse University, whose research group was a leader in the analysis. ore precisely the states must be formed of two up quarks, one down quark, one charm quark and one anti-charm quark.
which supports the research through nine awards to scientists from Syracuse University, the University of Maryland College Park,
the Massachusetts institute of technology and the University of Cincinnati working at the Large hadron collider. he pentaquark is not just any new particle,
#Research Team Improves Lithium air batteries For Electric car Industry A research team from Carnegie mellon University and the University of California,
a team led by Viswanathan and Assistant professor Bryan Mccloskey from the University of California, Berkeley, published a paper in Nature Chemistry,
Researchers at the Washington University School of medicine, St louis, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, created a remote controlled,
next-generation tissue implant that allows neuroscientists to inject drugs and shine lights on neurons deep inside the brains of mice.
Its development was funded partially by the National institutes of health. t unplugs a world of possibilities for scientists to learn how brain circuits work in a more natural setting. said Michael R. Bruchas, Ph d.,associate professor of anesthesiology and neurobiology at Washington University School of medicine and a senior author
Jae-Woong Jeong, Ph d.,a bioengineer formerly at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, worked with Jordan G. Mccall, Ph d.,a graduate student in the Bruchas lab,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a senior author. ltra-miniaturized devices like this have tremendous potential for science and medicine. ith a thickness of 80 micrometers and a width of 500 micrometers,
and energy engineering at University of Colorado Boulder. e tried to engineer the implant to meet some of neurosciences greatest unmet needs. n the study,
Odds of recurrenceresearchers of the University of Twente have developed therefore a system, a so-called nomogram, that doctors can use together with patients to simply calculate the odds of recurrence of the disease themselves, on the basis of the age of the patient, the information on the original tumour and the treatment used.
The University of Twente will now get to work on providing doctors with concrete recommendations for planning subsequent check-ups.
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#Plankzooka Larval Sampler May Revolutionize Deep ocean Research Scientists have conducted successfully the first high-volume collection of plankton,
Scientists and engineers from Duke university, the University of Oregon and Woods hole oceanographic institution (WHOI) deployed the new sampler nicknamed Plankzooka for its uncanny resemblance to two bazooka rocket launchers on July 9 during a research expedition aboard the RV Atlantis
developed by an international collaboration led by the University of Cambridge and IBM, opens opportunities to tailor properties and functionalities of materials for a wide range of semiconductor device applications.
#olecular spongeadvancement in storing hydrogen Researchers at the University of Bath have discovered that hydrogen absorbed in specialised carbon nanomaterials can achieve extraordinary storage densities at moderate temperatures and pressures.
It was led by Dr Valeska Ting from University Department of Chemical engineering in conjunction with researchers from Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and collaborators in the USA and Germany.
#Scientists Stretch Electrically Conducting Fibers to New Lengths An international research team based at The University of Texas at Dallas has made electrically conducting fibers that can be stretched reversibly to over 14 times their initial length and
#How to make chromosomes from DNA Researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered a long-overlooked process important for converting a long, string-like DNA molecule into a chromosome.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo, including Assistant professor Takashi Sutani, Professor Katsuhiko Shirahige (Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences) and Ph d student Toyonori Sakata (Graduate school of Agricultural and Life sciences), isolated from cells
Now scientists at the University of Zurich have found that adenoviruses penetrate the cells with the help of the cells themselves.
adenoviruses, as now team of scientists from the University of Zurich have discovered, use this natural repair mechanism to cause infections.
The latest breakthrough comes from Lu collaboration with Kai Tan at the University of Iowa, a systems biologist and associate professor of internal medicine.
a professor of medical science and engineering at Brown University who was not involved with this study. his is a very smart approach.
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