Scientists at the Universities of Edinburgh and Dundee studied the protective film formed by the common soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis.
Professor Cait Macphee, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Physics and Astronomy said:"
"Dr Nicola Stanley-Wall, of the University of Dundee's Division of Molecular Microbiology, said:"
Human computer interaction specialists at Lancaster University have built a device which translates data into a three dimensional display.
could bring about a step change for business and education. But for these shape-changing displays to be effective,
Recently, researchers at Fudan University's Institute of Biomedical sciences in Shanghai developed a lab-on-a-chip device that can rapidly diagnose cryptosporidium infections from just a finger prickotentially bringing point-of-care diagnosis to at-risk areas in rural China
To address this need, Xunjia Cheng and Guodong Sui, both professors at Fudan University, sought to develop a device better suited for the field.
timeframe, size and the amount of training needed to operate. Future work for Sui and Cheng involves expanding the chip's sample processing capacities to include other infectious diseases
In a research paper published in the Journal of Cell biology, Alessandro Vindigni, Ph d.,professor in the Edward A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular biology at Saint louis University
The study also was highlighted in Faculty of 1000, a group of over 5000 expert scientists and clinical researchers who review
said Ryszard Stroynowski, a collaborator on one of the collider's key experiments and a professor in the Department of physics at Southern Methodist University,
the physics professor who leads the SMU data-link team.""Failure of any transmitter results in the loss of a chunk of valuable data.
a researcher on ATLAS and assistant professor of physics at SMU. The trick is to get reliable,
Lancaster University chemists in collaboration with international colleagues have uncovered a'Crystal Nuclei Breeding Factory'which, they say,
expensive business,"explains Professor Jamshed Anwar, from Lancaster University's Chemistry department.""Crystal'seeds'(very small crystals) are added to the process to act as a'template'to ensure more of the same shape
Professor Anwar and his colleagues, Dr Shahzeb Khan, of Malakand University, Pakistan, and Professor Lennart Lindfors, of Astrazeneca, Sweden, have mapped out'in diagram format the actual movements made by chemical molecules on their breeding journey using computer simulations.
The simulations rely on understanding the'forces'between the atoms from which they compute what the molecules do,
"adds Professor Anwar.""It means that one can intervene in the crystallisation process and actually engineer the shape,
"says Professor Anwar. Current ideas are that molecules of one of the mirror images came together and led to a chance formation of a mirror crystal which, subsequently, induced massive crystallisation of the same image."
and given rise to thousands of new crystals of the same image,"adds Professor Anwar A
T. C. Chang Professor of Computer science at Columbia Engineering, has invented a prototype video camera that is the first to be fully self-poweredt can produce an image each second, indefinitely, of a well-lit indoor scene.
Alvetex Scaffold technology, produced by Durham University spin out company Reinnervate, allows cells to be grown in three dimensions (3d),
and could lead to better treatments for diseases such as for osteoporosis. BBSRC-funded research by Professor Stefan Przyborski
and his team at Durham University was crucial to the development of the technology. Prof Przyborski, the CSO and founder of Reinnervate, said:"
"A continuous accumulation of micro-cracking (that leads to a softening of the material) can be used as a metric for material degradation assessment."
Universities in Australia and the Massachusetts institute of technology MIT also participated in the project, with support from the Office of Naval Research ONR.
out of the 72 loading paths we applied, an MIT student"based one dissertation out of one of these paths."
"Michopoulos has a Phd in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Applied mathematics from the National Technical University of Athens,
and applied mathematics at Lehigh University. When he tells how he came to be at NRL in 1986,
#New synthetic technology for medicines and fine chemicals A University of Tokyo research group has succeeded in synthesizing (R)- and (S)- rolipram, the active component of a medicine,
Professor Shu Kobayashi's group at the Graduate school of Science has developed highly active immobilized catalysts (heterogeneous catalysts)
Professor Kobayashi's application of flow chemistry techniques to the production of fine chemicals using heterogeneous catalysts has resulted in simple method to synthesize (R)
Professor Kobayashi says"This new technology can be applied to not only other gamma aminobutyric-acids acids and medicines but also various chemicals such as flavors, agricultural chemicals,
#Oil spill leaves half million Mexicans without water The city of Villahermosa in Tabasco state closed schools on Wednesday to protect the health of students following the incident.
developed by Albert Einstein College of Medicine biologist Robert Singer, uses fluorescent probes made of DNA
Zhuang credits a talented interdisciplinary team graduate student Kok Hao Chen and postdoctoral researchers Alistair Boettiger, Jeffrey Moffitt,
developed by two researchers at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, which analyses for the first time the entire life cycle of a building, from creation to deconstruction.
and Technology at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (CIT UPC) have developed the first-ever software to analyse the entire life of a building,
This is the challenge behind a unique new project at the University of Essex. Scientists have created a first-of-its-kind virtual engineering laboratory
It allows students in Mexico and Essex to collaborate on live science and engineering work using online mixed-reality environments.
Phd student Anasol Pena Rios, who is leading the project, said:""It was a real challenge to get the synchronisation right so we could accurately blend the real and virtual realities.
"Project supervisor Professor Vic Callaghan added:""This technology has the potential to significantly change in a positive way the future of our lifestyles,
which has thousands of Mexican students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in almost 300 locations across Mexico.
funded by King Abdulaziz University in Saudi arabia, has led to over 30 research papers and three patents t
"said lead author Ricardo Ramirez-Gonzalez, Phd student at TGAC.""Polymarker has demonstrated already its value having been developed
"This innovative online tool has been used to generate putative KASP probes for the 820k markers designed by the Cerealsdb project from the BBSRC funded WISP programme (a collaboration between John Innes Centre, the University of Bristol, Rothamsted Research
, NIAB and University of Nottingham. Polymarker has also been used to design probes for the 90k iselect markers set.
In this latest work Emilio Nanni and colleagues at the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT), the Center For free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) at DESY in Germany and the University of Toronto have created a terahertz accelerator module with the aim
According to Vadim Makarov of the University of Waterloo and colleagues, many scientists assume that as long as the technical shortcomings of this equipment are characterized properly,
Better detectors Norbert Lütkenhaus of the University of Waterloo, who was involved not in the current work,
"said Erik Gordon, clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of business. The deal values EMC at $33. 15 a share.
Lecture by Massimiliano Zecca In this video lecture, Massimiliano Zecca from the Healthcare Technology and Head of the Healthcare Technology group at Loughborough University discusses emotional robotics, musical robotics and wearable
and currently teaches Healthcare Technology at Loughborough University (UK), where he also leads the Wearable Biorobotics research group.
the University of California, Irvine, and the University Center in Svalbard, Norway. NASA uses the vantage point of space to increase our understanding of our home planet,
improve lives and safeguard our future. NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth interconnected natural systems with long-term data records.
also a gastroenterologist at MGH and an instructor at Harvard Medical school. material like this represents a real advance
Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute, are the senior authors of a paper in the July 27 issue of Nature Materials that describes the application
a professor of medical science and engineering at Brown University who was not involved with this study. his is a very smart approach.
The paper other authors include Andrew Bellinger, Dean Glettig, Ross Barman, Young-Ah Lee, Cody Cleveland, Veronica Montgomery,
and Landon Nash and Duncan Maitland from Texas A&m University. This research was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the National institutes of health,
the John D. Macarthur Professor of Physics at MIT. e use ultracold atoms to map out
Ketterle team members include graduate students Colin Kennedy, William Cody Burton, and Woo Chang Chung. A superfluid with loops The team first used a combination of laser cooling and evaporative cooling methods,
and James Fox all professors of biological engineering at MIT had identified the presence of a lesion,
says John Essigmann, the William R. 1956) and Betsy P. Leitch Professor in Residence Professor of Chemistry, Toxicology and Biological engineering at MIT,
Yinsheng Wang, a principal investigator in the Department of chemistry at the University of California at Riverside who was involved not in the research,
the researchers predict that accumulation of the lesions would increase the mutation rate of a cell up to 30-fold,
Now a team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University in China has found a novel way around that problem:
or anode, are reported in the journal Nature Communications, in a paper by MIT professor Ju Li and six others.
says Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Science and Engineering, who has a joint appointment in MIT Department of Materials science and engineering. e came up with the method serendipitously,
an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, who was involved not in this work. o me,
and Chang An Wang of Tsinghua University in Beijing and Junjie Niu, Kangpyo So, and Chao Wang of MIT.
researchers from the Pohang University of Science and Technology detail how they were able to turn black phosphorus into a superior conductor that can be mass produced for electronic and optoelectronics devices.
The research team operating out of Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), affiliated with the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Center for Artificial Low Dimensional Electronic systems (CALDES), reported a tunable band gap in BP,
an amiable professor stationed at POSTECH speaks in rapid bursts when detailing the experiment, e transferred electrons from the dopant potassium to the surface of the black phosphorus,
Professor Kim explained, raphene is a Dirac semimetal. It more efficient in its natural state than black phosphorus but it difficult to open its band gap;
said Jeffrey Fredberg, professor of bioengineering and physiology at the Harvard Chan School and one of the senior authors of the study,
and Jeffrey M. Drazen, a pulmonologist and professor in the department, who studies echanotransductionin asthma how the bronchial constriction of asthma might trigger cell changes in the epithelium.
The study also included mathematical physicists James Butler, senior lecturer on physiology in the Department of Environmental Health
and M. Lisa Manning and Max Bi at Syracuse University, as well as colleagues from the Harvard Chan School and other Harvard institutions.
The team also included MIT graduate student William Richards and postdoc Jae Chul Kim; Shyue Ping Ong at the University of California at San diego;
Yifei Mo at the University of Maryland; and Lincoln Miara at Samsung. The work is part of an alliance between MIT
and the Samsung Advanced Institute of technology focusing on the development of materials for clean energy. Publication: Yan Wang, et al.
and binary black holes are natural consequences of these mergers of galaxies, added co-investigator Xinyu Dai of the University of Oklahoma.
says Keith Schwab, a Caltech professor of applied physics, who led the study. ut we know that even at the quantum ground state, at zero-temperature, very small amplitude fluctuationsr noiseemain.
Coauthors Aashish Clerk from Mcgill University and Florian Marquardt from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light proposed a novel method to control the quantum noise,
Schwab says. n the 1970s, Kip Thorne Caltech Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical physics, Emeritus and others wrote papers saying that these pulsars should be emitting gravity waves that are nearly perfectly periodic,
and Marquardt, other coauthors include former graduate student Emma E. Wollman (Phd 5); graduate students Chan U. Lei and Ari J. Weinstein;
former postdoctoral scholar Junho Suh; and Andreas Kronwald of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen, Germany.
The work was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
said Andrei Faraon, an assistant professor of applied physics and materials science at Caltech, and the study principal investigator. ut this new technology is very similar to the one used to print semiconductor chips onto silicon wafers,
Yu Horie was supported by the Department of energy Energy Frontier Research center program and a Japan Student Services Organization fellowship.
an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the new paper. fter this write happens,
the Edwin Sibley Webster Professor in MIT Department of Electrical engineering and Computer science realized was that the physical-time order of distributed computations doesn really matter,
The new system, described in the Journal of 3d printing and Additive manufacturing, was developed by Neri Oxman, an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab;
They were joined by James Weaver of Harvard university Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Giorgia Franchin and Paolo Colombo of the University of Padova in Italy b
Shahsavari is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and of materials science and nanoengineering at Rice.
Rice university, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National institutes of health and IBM-shared University Research Award supported the research.
a core faculty member at Harvard Wyss Institute, has developed now a strategy that has improved experimentally bone repair by boosting the survival rate of transplanted stem cells
In addition to Mooney, the team included Georg Duda, a Wyss associate faculty member and director of the Julius Wolff Institute for Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Regeneration at Charité Universitätsmedizin in Berlin,
Mooney is also the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences.
a graduate student who worked with Mooney and who is the study first author. ased on our experience with mechanosensitive stem cells,
the Belgian American Education Foundation; the Einstein Foundation Berlin; the Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies;
the Harvard College Research Program; and NSF Graduate Research, Einstein Visiting, Harvard College PRISE, Herchel-Smith and Pechet Family Fund Fellowships e
#Scientists Develop an Ultrathin Invisibility Cloak for Visible light A team of scientists have invented an ultra-thin invisibility cloak that can conform to the shape of an object
Scientists at the U s. Department of energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have devised an ultra-thin invisibility kincloak that can conform to the shape
a recent member of Zhang research group who is now an assistant professor at Penn State university. ecent developments in metasurfaces,
Scientists at the U s. Department of energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have devised an ultra-thin invisibility kincloak that can conform to the shape
a recent member of Zhang research group who is now an assistant professor at Penn State university. ecent developments in metasurfaces,
a UCLA professor of physics and astronomy and a member of UCLA California Nanosystems Institute, is published September 21 in the online edition of the journal Nature Materials.
Wolfgang Theis of the University of Birmingham; Hadi Ramezani-Dakhel and Hendrik Heinz of the University of Akron;
and Laurence Marks of Northwestern University. This work was supported primarily by the U s. Department of energy Office of Basic energy Sciences (grant DE-FG02-13er46943 and contract DE-AC025CH11231
#New Protein-Based Sensor Detects Viral Infection, Kills Cancer cells Biological engineers from MIT have designed a modular system of proteins that can detect a particular DNA sequence in a cell
says James Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science in MIT Department of Biological engineering and Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).
a professor of biotechnology and bioengineering at The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Zurich, described this experiment as an legant proof of conceptthat could lead to greatly improved treatments for viral infection. entinel designer cells engineered with the DNA sense
the Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical engineering. anoparticles are large enough to keep from going through the skin surface,
said co-author Michael Girardi, a professor of dermatology at Yale Medical school. n fact, the indirect damage was worse
Researchers at the Department of Connectomics are already working on increasing the number of participants by developing a platform where also non-qualified personnel (e g. students) can assist in the analysis of the connections between the neurons.
The research group already recruited large populations of students to help determine the connectome of a part of the mouse retina
researchers from the University of Montreal have taken a major step forward in the fight against age-related macular degeneration.
thanks to findings published today by Professor Gilbert Bernier of the University of Montreal and its affiliated Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital.
Professor Gilbert explained. ithin 45 days, the cones that we allowed to grow towards confluence spontaneously formed organized retinal tissue that was 150 microns thick.
Beyond the clinical applications, Professor Bernier findings could enable the modelling of human retinal degenerative diseases through the use of induced pluripotent stem cells,
Pedro del Nido, chief of cardiac surgery at Boston Children Hospital, the William E. Ladd Professor of Child Surgery at Harvard Medical school,
said Conor Walsh, a contributing author of the study, a Wyss Institute core faculty member, an assistant professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering AT SEAS,
UCLA professor Yang Yang, member of the California Nanosystems Institute, is renowned a world innovator of solar cell technology
Postdoctoral scholar Jingbi You and graduate student Lei Meng from the Yang Lab were the lead authors on the paper. here has been much optimism about perovskite solar cell technology,
This research is a joint project with National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the U s. Air force Office of Scientific research and the Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan n
and other processes, is described in a paper by Department of Mechanical engineering Professor Evelyn Wang, graduate student Jeremy Cho,
and recent graduate Jordan Mizerak 4, published in the journal Nature Communications. This degree of control over the boiling process, independent of temperature, Wang says,
says Satish Kandlikar, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Rochester Institute of technology, who was involved not in this research. uch control strategies will dramatically alter the heat transfer paradigm in many applications,
Patrick Vogel of the Free University in Berlin Germany, was quoted as saying: car never gets tired.
As Peter Stone, a University of Texas computer scientist put it, efore it became clear that the technical issues could be addressed,
A group of computer scientists at John Hopkins University partnered with Hagar, and created an algorithm that can predict septic shock
Andrea Damascelli at the University of British Colombia in Vancouver, together with collaborators in Europe, grew layers of graphene on silicon-carbide substrates,
Now researchers at Hong kong Polytechnic University have combined these two materials to make a semitransparent solar cell capable of power conversion efficiencies around 12 percent, a significant improvement over the roughly 7-percent efficiency of traditional
Now researchers at Hong kong Polytechnic University have combined these two materials to make a semitransparent solar cell capable of power conversion efficiencies around 12 percent, a significant improvement over the roughly 7-percent efficiency of traditional
Now materials scientist Max Shtein and his colleagues at the University of Michigan at Ann arbor have developed novel solar cells that integrate tracking into their design.
This is essentially what researchers at Chalmers University in Sweden have been able to achieve with a new microscopy technique that is capable of looking at a single nanoparticle rather than just a mass of them all clumped together. e were able to show that you gain deeper insights into the physics
which is what is done usually, said Associate professor Christoph Langhammer, who led the project, in a press release.
said Polina Golland, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and leader of the project,
an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, managed to create a fairly accurate digital 3-D model of each patient heart in just an hour.
Researchers at Vanderbilt University have used silver nanowires to fabricate a metamaterial that is capable of detecting polarized light in a way not unlike the way cuttlefish, bees,
said assistant professor Jason Valentine in a press release. owever, the traditional way of detecting it requires several optical elements that are quite bulky and difficult to miniaturize.
said Vanderbilt University doctoral student Wei Li, in a press release. ortable detectors could be used to determine drug chirality in hospitals
Now researchers at the University of California, Santa barbara (UCSB), and Rice university in Houston, Texas, have developed a TFET that could operate with voltages as low as 0. 1 volts.
The research group includes scientists from the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT), the University of Toronto, and the Deutsches Electronen Synchrotron (DESY, the German Electron Syncrotron), the Center For free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), the Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics,
and the University of Hamburg (all in Hamburg, Germany). It was led by Franz Kärtner, who is affiliated with MIT, CFEL,
about 10 times less,"says study lead author Jaesang Lee, an electrical engineer at the University of Michigan, Ann arbor."
The software, developed by University of Central Florida researchers, can drastically cut the time needed for crowd counts from a week to just half an hour.
said Mubarak Shah, computer science professor and director of the Center for Research in Computer Vision at the University of Central Florida, in a press release.
The images and software calculations were double checked by a team at the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain.
#Apple Patents Learning Computer Vision For Gesture Control Apple has a new patent (via Appleinsider) for 3d gesture control,
are shaking out into increased opportunities for edtech startups in the U k. Making learning to code accessible,
Its educational Javascript teaching software targets the six-to 13-year-old age-range and can be played either as a web app via the Code Kingdomssite,
So a sort of learning ite ode Kingdom is a game that teaches kids how to code
since youe inevitably competing in that same ntertainment space Using a game and game mechanics as a wrapper for teaching coding also brings native stickiness to the learning experience,
rather than a pseudo-language. ost things out there are designed for teachers, or for how adults perceive kids to be learning nothing really designed to make it really fun for kids,
so we wanted to make it super fun for kids so they get excited about learning to code computer science,
and then hopefully go on because theye excited to actually explore it as a career, or look at it in other subjects,
more teachers engaged. We get a lot of goodwill from our teacher community. It also a pretty delicate balancing act when free educational software at school morphs into a money-hungry parent pesterer at home.
But that the balance Code Kingdoms is aiming to strike. e plan to have premium content in the app
which is noneducational, it more entertainment focused, so a kid that doesn want to spend money can still learn,
#Researchers Create The Ultimate Smartphone Ultra Zoom To See And Measure Strands Of DNA Researchers at the University of California,
the UCLA professor involved in the project. urrently, imaging single DNA molecules requires bulky, expensive optical microscopy tools,
Eyewire executive director, Amy Robinson, tells me its users are igh school students, grandmothers, tugboat drivers, animators, everything.
Robinson notes, ee working now to create a lot of interesting visuals, educational material, all sets built around a mobile game,
Foldit, a research project out of the University of Washington Center for Game Science in collaboration with the UW Department of Biochemistry,
Built on over 15 years of patented university research, the team is a who who from the biggest and most respected names in the water business.
and patented out of Stony Brook University. It a membrane with pores of. 2 microns in width, small enough to eliminate microbial contaminants that make up the vast majority of water quality incidents.
Furthermore, the Voxiebox could be used in classrooms, allowing children to manipulate, for instance, a blood cell in biology classes without being exposed to dangerous materials.
who previously spent ten years researching digital health and holding clinical trials at Columbia University Medical center.
A few years later, Christoph von der Malsburg from the University of Bochum in Germany developed a system known as ZN-Face that was capable of making facial matches on imperfect images.
And Researchers rawin 3d Space A new 3d interactive system created by researchers at the University of Montreal allows designers and builders to rawin scenes in real time.
The research is a combination of work from a student on fellowship at NASA from the University of Michigan and nearly a decade and a half of study on self-healing materials for both aircrafts and spacecrafts.
"The study, led by Kosmas Prassides of Tohoku University in Japan, provides important clues about how the interplay between the electronic structure of the molecules
"The study, led by Kosmas Prassides of Tohoku University in Japan, provides important clues about how the interplay between the electronic structure of the molecules
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