"said Melanie Bailey from the University of Surrey. By the very nature of the test, the identity of the subject is captured within the fingerprint ridge detail itself,
"said Melanie Bailey from the University of Surrey. By the very nature of the test, the identity of the subject is captured within the fingerprint ridge detail itself,
said Yiying Wu, professor at Ohio State. The solar panel is a solid sheet, rather than a mesh as in the previous design.
lead author of the paper and a doctoral student at Ohio State. The new solid solar panel is called a dye-sensitised solar cell,
said Yiying Wu, professor at Ohio State. The solar panel is a solid sheet, rather than a mesh as in the previous design.
lead author of the paper and a doctoral student at Ohio State. The new solid solar panel is called a dye-sensitised solar cell,
but also the safest way to prevent fatal liver failure by cell transplantation,"lead researcher professor Michael Karin from University of California, San diego (UCSD) School of medicine.
Lead author Michael Karin of the University of California said that the hybrid hepatocytes represented not only the most effective way to repair a diseased liver,
"says the former Southern University football player. who proposed last year at halftime during one of his alma mater's games at the Superdome in New orleans
The prototype developed by researchers from Loughborough University analyses changes in breathing patterns and converts'breath signals'into words using pattern recognition software and an analogue-to-digital converter.
#Thai university develops bulletproof vest made of silk BANGKOK: A team of university researchers in Thailand has developed the world's first bulletproof vest made from natural silk,
a media report said on Tuesday. The vest can withstand. 38 and. 22 calibre bullets fired from a distance of three metres, Panomkorn Khwakhong,
a researcher at Khon Kaen University's chemical engineering department, said. The armour, made from silkworm cocoons mixed with a special resin
the Bangkok Post quoted Panomkorn, a chemical engineering lecturer as saying. The vests are 14-20 millimetres thick,
To conduct the research, scientists from University college Dublin and the University of Sheffield, analyzed DNA samples and biopsy samples from joints of over 1, 000 Rheumatoid arthritis patients in the UK and Ireland."
or personalised medicine,"said Gerry Wilson from the University college Dublin's School of medicine and Medical science in Ireland,
and its significance in human health and disease,"said co-author Munitta Muthana from the University of Sheffield.
"said principal investigator Juha Kere, professor at the Karolinska Institutet. The researchers had to develop a new way of analysing the results
"Our results provide novel insights into the regulation of early embryonic development in human,"added Outi Hovatta, professor at Karolinska Institutet's department of clinical science, intervention and technology.
But new research at Washington University School of medicine in St louis suggests a different strategy: slowing the production of glucose in the liver.
"said principal investigator Brian N Finck, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science."
Finck worked with researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical centre and the biopharmaceutical company Metabolic Solutions Development Co. The company is involved in clinical trials that are evaluating the drug compound MSDC-0602 as a treatment for diabetes.
a postdoctoral research scholar, cut sugar production in liver cells by inhibiting a key protein involved in transporting pyruvate, a building block of glucose, from the bloodstream into the energy factories of liver cells, called mitochondria.
The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Toronto researchers discovered the assembly instructions for nearly 1,
and eye across the different species. Lead author Edward Marcotte of The University of Texas said that they were able to construct a sort of assembly diagram of how thousands of different proteins come together to carry out their proper roles inside the cells of most kinds of animals,
and show that such humanoid robots represent a potential solution for the accumulation and transfer of knowledge.
In a roundtable discussion on his recent breakthroughs and the future of synthetic photosynthesis, Peidong Yang, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley said his hybrid inorganic/biological systems give researchers new tools
"said Thomas moore, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Arizona State university. Ultimately, researchers hope to create an entirely synthetic system that is more robust and efficient than its natural counterpart.
or literally,"said Ted Sargent, the vice-dean of research for the Faculty of Applied science and Engineering at University of Toronto."
"Instead, it is about learning nature's guidelines, its rules on how to make a compellingly efficient and selective catalyst,
Lee Berger, a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg who led the work,
Eric Delson of Lehman College in New york, who also wasn't involved with the work, said his guess is that naledi fits within a known group of early Homo creatures from around 2 million year ago.
"This stuff is like a Sherlock holmes mystery,''declared Bernard Wood of George washington University in Washington, D c,
Not everybody agreed that the discovery revealed a new species. Tim White of the University of California,
Led by Junjiu Huang of Sun yat-sen University, Guangzhou, they used a new technology called CRISPR to try
Jennifer Doudna, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, led one of the research groups.
Another pioneer is Prashant Mali, professor at University of California, San diego. Born in Rajasthan and educated at IIT-B, John Hopkins and Harvard,
who earned his doctorate in biomedical engineering at Rutgers University. The lab-on-chip device, which employs microfluidics technology,
"said Martin Yarmush, professor of biomedical engineering at Rutgers University. Until now, animal research on central nervous system disorders, such as spinal cord injury and Parkinson's disease, has been limited
"said corresponding author Joseph Merola, a professor at the Virginia Institute of technology.""One of the reasons for this is that the compounds in this paper that target MRSA are very specific,
and their metabolism in animals,"said Joseph Falkinham, a professor of microbiology in the College of Science and an affiliate of the Virginia Tech Centre for Drug Discovery.
additional tool to manipulate neurons and other cells in the body,"informed,"Sreekanth Chalasani, assistant professor in Salk's molecular neurobiology laboratory.
Chalasani obtained his Phd from University of Pennsylvania. He then did his postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Dr Cori Bargmann at the Rockefeller University in New york k
#French start-up develops in-vitro human sperm A French start-up working with a government lab said it has developed in-vitro human sperm,
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, say the outcome marks a promising but incremental achievement in the development of brain-computer interfaces that may one day help stroke
former graduate student Adam Fritz, who injured his back in a motorcycle accident, appear modest as seen in the video.
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine, say the outcome marks a promising but incremental achievement in the development of brain-computer interfaces that may one day help stroke
former graduate student Adam Fritz, who injured his back in a motorcycle accident, appear modest as seen in the video.
"said senior author Holger Schmidt, professor of Optoelectronics at University of California, Santa cruz.""We're detecting the nucleic acids directly,
Schmidt's lab at UC Santa cruz worked with researchers at Brigham Young University and UC Berkeley to develop the system.
"said Alfred S Mcewen, a professor of planetary geology at the University of Arizona and the principal investigator of images from a high-resolution camera on Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Lujendra Ojha, a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of technology, turned to another instrument on the orbiter that identifies types of molecules by
a professor of civil and environmental engineering who supervises plastics research by Wu and others at Stanford."
and papers'lead author, Jun Yang of Beihang University in China, and other Chinese researchers.
a professor of civil and environmental engineering who supervises plastics research by Wu and others at Stanford."
and papers'lead author, Jun Yang of Beihang University in China, and other Chinese researchers.
"said co-author Hongtao Zhang, from the Perelman School of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in US.
said senior author Mark Greene, professor at Perelman School of medicine. This one-two punch renders the tumours highly sensitive to chemotherapy,
Cubesats also allow an inexpensive means to engage students in all phases of satellite development, operation and exploitation through real-world, hands-on research and development experience.
and a tumor,"said Ali Salanti from University of Copenhagen.""The placenta is an organ,
a cancer researcher at Canada's University of British columbia and one of the scientists that worked on the research."
"said lead researcher Daniel Tennant from University of Birmingham in England.""A drug that interferes with these initial metabolic changes could make very effective treatment for myeloma,
assistant professor of child psychiatry at Washington University School of medicine in St louis. White matter tracts in the brain are made of axons that connect brain regions to form networks.
particularly in a pair of networks previously implicated in learning and developmental problems. These brain circuit abnormalities likely contribute to problems that materialize as the children get older,
Devesh Mistry, a postgraduate research student in the School of Physics and Astronomy, at the University of Leeds is working with liquid crystal to create a truly adjustable artificial lens."
Mistry is working in collaboration with the Eurolens Research at the University of Manchester and with Ultravision CLPL,
a specialist contact lenses manufacturer headed by two University of Leeds alumni. His research builds upon previous work by the same collaborators,
"said one of the researchers Sriram Subramanian, professor of informatics at University of Sussex in England."
But here we have managed to control the sound to a degree never previously achieved,"Bruce Drinkwater, professor of ultrasonics at University of Bristol in Britain, pointed out t
Melbourne and Monash universities-has gone even so far as to explore how to transport the technology to some of the world most remote areas that don even use electricity."
"Monash Dean of Engineering Frieder Seible told AAP. Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Victorian MP Anna Burke toured the lab on Friday, spruiking Labor's aspirational 50 per cent renewable energy by 2030 target."
Professor Seible said the new cells could be publicly available in just a few years with government support.
According to Kim Francois, a spokeswoman from Materialise, the company will contribute with training for digital modeling and 3d printing procedures, clinical software development and technology support.
and Cai Hong of Peking University Third Hospital in cooperation with AK Medical, a Chinese private medical company.
Professor Zhang Ke and doctor Cai Hong went to Sweden for an academic meeting and encountered a metal 3d printer.
he received support from Liu Zhongjun, Director of the bone department at the Beijng University Third Hospital.
A team from the Institute of Precision Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong kong as developed 3d printed tadpole-like devices that can improve diagnosis of various cancers by entering the patient stomach
The new research, led by Professor Jennifer A. Lewis, instead uses active mixing and fast-switching nozzles, allowing for the printing of concentrated viscoelastic inks and the simultaneous control of composition and geometry during printing.
Lewis is the Hansjörg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS) and a Core Faculty member at the Ywss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard.
She designed the active mixing technology alongside Thomas Ober, postdoctoral research scholar at the Wyss Institute,
explains Chiara Daraio, professor of mechanics and materials at ETH Zurich and one half of the research team behind the project.
#Scientists announce a method for 3d printing objects out of living human cells Scientists at the University of Florida developed a way to print detailed soft structures from a 3d printer.
assistant professor in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Florida, took advantage of the physical properties of a commercially available granular hydrogel made up of 7 m-wide particles.
mechanical engineering professor Robert Shepherd. The 3d printed heart, made from elastomeric foam, can pump fluid at a higher volume
A breakthrough uper-materialcreated by University of California Riverside engineers has the ability to repel water
Created by Mihri Ozkan, electrical engineering professor at UC Riverside Bourns College of Engineering, Cengiz Ozkan, her husband and fellow engineering professor, Daisy Patino,
but two researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology have been developing a way to use 3d printing technology
Dr. Frank Liou and Dr. Jagannanthan Sarangapani, distinguished professors in Product Innovation and Creativity, and Electrical and Computer engineering, respectively, have been working towards using cyber additive manufacturing technology
an associate professor of materials science and engineering. Their work is being sponsored by NASA Langley Research center In virginia, which has interests in the developing technology.
He believes in training local people to learn how to use the device for their own communities
Other, more theoretical aspects, such as training requirements, consumer needs, legal framework, and reverse engineering, were determining factors for only less than 30%of respondents.
The MIT professor and founder of the Mediated Matter design research group at MIT Media Lab has rightfully been enjoying a celebrity-like status in the 3d printing industry.
Pamela Silver at Harvard Medical school, and Christopher Bader & Dominik Kolb from Deskriptiv) develop concepts of wearables capable of augmenting human capabilities and making life possible on inhospitable planets.
The next step for the professor was to introduce living matter. e live in a special time, alongside the latest advances in computational design, materials engineering, synthetic biology, and additive manufacturing
Imagining exactly how those microorganisms might aid us is a job for designers and artists such as Professor Oxman, with
ent beyond the boundaries of our existing technology, formulating a dedicated improved support structure to allow a smooth, effective process in support of Professor Oxman vision.
Experiments such as this and previous ones carried out by Professor Oxman which include the Gemini lounge chair
the release of irst-ever virtual reality robotic prostatectomy simulation training as well as patient-specific 3d printed kidney models for surgical planning and training, developed in partnership with Tulane University School of medicine.
with its Robotix Mentor training module. The Robotix Mentor allows trainees to practice the surgery in a virtual environment using step-by-step guidance, performance metrics, anatomy recognition,
The additional LAP Mentor Express simulator even provides laparoscopic assistants training to aid the primary surgeon in the virtual procedure. 3ds Vice president
he addition of the Prostatectomy Module changes the future of Robotic Urology training. 3d Systems is committed to supporting medical advancements that ultimately affect patient safety by providing innovative products that range from virtual reality training
In addition to their new Robotix system, 3ds has developed also a new series of soft, 3d printed kidney models for surgical training.
the models developed by 3ds in tandem with surgeons at Tulane University School of medicine actually have the texture and consistency of the kidneys on
The kidney model can then be used to train med-students plan surgeries, or practice procedures before operation.
Dr. Jonathan Silberstein, Assistant professor of Urology and Chief of Urologic Oncology at Tulane, says of the technology,
it will flatten the learning curve. o me, what these technologies represent, in addition to the future of surgery planning,
Two professors of nanoengineering from the University of California San diego are utilizing advanced 3d printing technology to produce icrofish fish-shaped microrobotic devices geared towards traveling
The leaders of this project, Professors Shoachen Chen and Joseph Wang, recognized that most microrobots that have already been produced are unable to perform more advanced tasks due to their simply-shaped designs and inorganic physical make-ups.
and published the results, in collaboration with the University of Aveiro (Portugal), in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research.
Dr Marcelo Jimene and Dr Gonzalo Varela from Salamanca University Hospital decided to remove the patient sternum and part of his rib cage,
A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota, Virginia Tech, University of Maryland, Princeton university,
and mechanical engineering professor at the University of Minnesota, said of the study, his represents an important proof of concept of the 3d printing of custom nerve guides for the regeneration of complex nerve injuries.
The professor says, he exciting next step would be to implant these guides in humans rather than rats.
Recently, in the case of a team of researchers based at UK Nottingham Trent University,
A team of scientists at the University of Florida, which includes Thomas E. Angelini from the University Soft Matter Research Lab,
have found that a particular type of granular gel offers the best solution to this issue.
One of the reasons may be that most European schools systems do not dedicate enough resources to those subjects that the American school system defines as STEM
Several university decision makers, company partners and other Hungarian 3d printing ventures participated at the opening ceremony held last week.
Besides offering workshops and trainings the classroom it will also serve as a reference for those interested in implementing an innovation center themselves.
They also aim to provide universities and other institutions a chance to experience owning and using a Makerbot Innovation Center.
and software, developed especially for schools and universities. At the 3d Academy, Freedee will have 10 Makerbot Replicators
and one Replicator Z18, complemented by several 3d scanners and educational materials. These will be used as a base for the courses aimed at the general public and for collaborations with public schools.
The very first class was held the day after the opening for students of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest.
Freedee recently merged with Gigamax3d and Peter Szabo, who is also well known as an artist
and creator of 3d printed parametric art, will contribute to the classes with his own experience as well as through exercises from the Makerbot in the classroom handbook.
Some feel learning about 3d printing could be useless since 3d printing, as we know it today,
But a team of engineers from the University of California Riverside are trying to help clean up the mess with an amazing 3d printed concept called the Spongesuit bikini,
The material was produced by UC Riverside electrical engineering professor Mihri Ozkan along with the help of her husband/fellow engineering professor Cengiz Ozkan and a couple of former and current Ph d students.
The team calls this material ponge a reusable material derived from heated sucrose, which is a form of sugar has a highly porous structure that is simultaneously water-repellant and pollutant-absorbent.
This 2004 story from ABC-TV's Catalyst program looked at the research of Professor Veena Sahajwalla of the University of NSW
or cushioning material in playgrounds. Together with technology partner One Steel Veena's team perfected the technique of'polymer injection'for electric arc furnaces.
"says Professor Marc Tennant of the University of Western australia, who worked for 20 years in public health dentistry."
Tennant and colleagues, including graduate student Abed Anjrini, previously found 527 per 100,000 Australians were admitted to hospital for impacted wisdom teeth removal in 2008/09--a rate seven times higher than in the UK
said Xiang Zhang, director of the Materials sciences Division of the US Department of energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley."
"said study lead author Professor Xingjie Ni of Penn State university. The researchers said they overcame two drawbacks of previous experimental microscopic cloaks that were bulkier and harder to"scale up,
Professor of Ultrasonics at the University of Bristol, said while other groups had levitated successfully objects,
However, Professor Drinkwater and colleagues managed to move the tiny objects-less than one millimetre in size-using a single-sided array of loudspeakers.
Professor Drinkwater said. He said their new study built on the work of researchers at the University of Dundee.
The Dundee team had shown there was a force attracting some acoustic waves back to their sound source."
Success lies in'brute-force inversion'Ironically, Professor Drinkwater said the team's success lay in the absence of a mathematician amongst them."
Professor Drinkwater said the successful sound wave configurations had interesting characteristics.""The successful ones were all either tweezer,
and other new potentials Professor Drinkwater said the importance of developing a single-sided device was expanded that it the potential of the technology
"Professor Drinkwater said the development could also lead to"non-contact production lines"for handling delicate or dangerous materials without contact.
professor of electrical engineering at the IISC and leader of the team that developed the new method. his pre-screening tool can detect glaucoma with 90 percent accuracy,
It is the brainchild of a joint research team from Singapore Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), SIMTECH and the Houston Methodist Hospital Research Institute.
NTU Professor Joseph Chang, who is involved in the design and construction of the prototype, said,
since the discovery of plastics more than 50 years ago, says study author, Dr. Kevin Laws from the University of New south wales (UNSW).
Professor Leslie Yeo, Director of RMIT University Micronanophysics Research Laboratory, said the Respite technology had the potential to revolutionize how patients were treated with drugs
In the Labasianscientist (Oct 13, 2015)- A team of scientists from Duke-NUS Graduate Medical school Singapore (Duke-NUS) and the University of Michigan at Ann arbor have discovered a molecular switch that regulates the body's circadian clock
and led by Professor David Virshup from Duke-NUS and Professor Daniel Forger from Michigan, the findings shed light on how PER2 regulates our circadian clock.
and Technology (KAIST) mathematician Assistant professor Kim Jae Kyoung, will be useful in determining when drugs should be administered to modify circadian rhythms
In the Labasianscientist (Oct 13, 2015)- Researchers at the University of Tokyo and Miyazaki University have produced hydrogen under natural sunlight at an energy conversion efficiency of 24.4 percent,
A team of researchers led by Associate professor Masakazu Sugiyama and Project Professor Katsushi Fujii from The University of Tokyo and Associate professor Kensuke Nishioka from Miyazaki University have doubled now more than the solar conversion efficiency to 24.4 percent.
They used concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) modules, which includes a photovoltaic cell using a high-quality semiconductor crystal similar to the ones for lasers
from Imperial College London and Houston Methodist Research Institute in the USA, hope their nanoneedle technique could ultimately help damaged organs
"Professor Molly Stevens, co-corresponding author from the Departments of Materials and of Bioengineering at Imperial College London, said:"
"says Dr. Zheng, Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret and also Professor of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto.
and bachelor's student Andrea Neuner from TUM's Munich School of engineering-took inspiration from a mechanism that allows nucleic acid molecules to bond through interactions weaker than base-pairing.
#Breakthrough, Low-cost Method to Build DNA NANOTUBES Block By Block Researchers at Mcgill University have developed a new,
a Phd student in Mcgill Department of chemistry and lead author of the study. y using a fluorescence microscope we can further visualize the formation of the tubes at each stage of assembly,
Hariri research is supervised jointly by chemistry professors Gonzalo Cosa and Hanadi Sleiman, who co-authored the new study.
who is also an adjunct assistant professor of chemistry at Iowa State university. e are the only CMI scientists looking at catalysis,
Liliana Werner and Nick Mamalis, Co-Directors of the Intermountain Ocular Research center at the University of Utah.
"Dr. Mindy George-Weinstein, Professor of Biomedical sciences at the Cooper Medical school of Rowan University, stated,"Myo/Nog cells have also been found in a variety of tumors,
All three graduates who studied math, physics and applied and engineering physics at Cornell worked in the laboratory of Watt Webb,
professor emeritus of applied and engineering physics, where multiphoton microscopy for biological applications was pioneered. hese alumni embody the ebb Groupstyle of mixing physics,
says Warren R. Zipfel, associate professor of biomedical engineering and a former Webb research associate. or decades,
Denk took the first two-photon microscopy images with the help of Frank Wise, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Engineering,
director and professor of applied and engineering physics. hey are examples for the next generation of students we are now training,
who work at the interface between the life sciences and the physical, computational and engineering sciences. hese recipients of the Brain Prize reflect Cornell long history of fruitful collaborations across campus,
professor of neurobiology and behavior in the College of Arts and Sciences and senior associate vice provost for research. e know that the technological breakthroughs
Linda B. Glaser is a staff writer for the College of Arts and Sciences a
thanks to an imaging technique developed by University of Illinois researchers and clinical partners. Breast tissue is stained computationally using data from infrared imaging without actually staining the tissue,
Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois Using a combination of advanced microscope imaging and computer analysis,
Led by Rohit Bhargava, U. of I. professor of bioengineering and member of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology,
and now is a professor at the University of Houston. ne of the bottlenecks in automated pathology is the extensive processing that must be applied to stained images to correct for staining artifacts and inconsistencies.
and the University of Illinois Cancer Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago were partners in this work e
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