said study author Rusty Gage, a professor in the Salk Institute Laboratory of Genetics. Researchers believe this technique will be very helpful to scientists studying age-related diseases
, based on a new study from Northwestern Medicine and the University of Chicago. Children with the disease lose significant muscle strength early in life.
Mcnally is director of the Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine and the former director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Research at UCHICAGO,
which included Quan Gao a University of Chicago graduate student and Dr. Eugene Wyatt, a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern, demonstrated that protein made from exon skipping was functional to stabilize and slow progress of the disease.
A new partnership among the University of Chicago Northwestern University and The Kurt+Peter Foundation will support the development of therapies for Limb Girdle Muscular dystrophy Type 2c.
The Kurt+Peter Foundation is licensing Mcnally research and hopes to turn her discoveries in the laboratory into treatments that could help to slow the decline in muscle function.
said Thelma Tennant, assistant director at UCHICAGOTECH, the University of Chicago Center for Technology Development & Ventures,
a spin out company from the University of Oxford. The smallest high-throughput sequencing system currently available,
like teachers in a classroom, could be using this device to teach science in new,
and Senior Analyst in Microbial Genomics at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human genetics. using the Minion in a project with secondary-school students in Oxford,
led by bioengineering professor Shyni Varghese at the University of California, San diego and Colin Jamora, a biologist at the IFOM-instem Joint Research Laboratory in India, published the findings in the Oct 15 issue of Nature Communications. ee identified a new component that hasn previously been studied as a factor contributing to fibrosis,
the study senior author and a professor and vice chair for research and programs in the UCLA department of neurology. he brain has limited a capacity for recovery after stroke,
or off by GDF10 in brain cells after a stroke and compared the cellsrna to RNA in comparable cells during brain development and normal learning,
was developed by a team from the University of North Texas System College of Pharmacy, led by professor Anthony J. Di Pasqua, Ph d,
. as a possible alternative to surgery for minimally invasive, cosmetic solution, or for SCC where surgery cannot be performed.
a graduate student who worked on the team. There are about 700,000 new cases of SCC diagnosed in the U s. each year.
University of Illinois Reveals Molecule-Making Machine Simplifies Complex Chemistrychampaign, Ill. A new molecule-making machine could do for chemistry
Chemists at the University of Illinois, led by chemistry professor and medical doctor Martin D. Burke,
#Stellenbosch University Doctors Perform First Successful Penile Transplant In The World In a ground-breaking operation,
a team of pioneering surgeons from Stellenbosch University (SU) and Tygerberg Hospital performed the first successful penile transplant in the world.
"says Prof Jimmy Volmink, Dean of SU's Faculty of medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS).""This procedure is another excellent example of how medical research,
It shows what can be achieved through effective partnerships between academic institutions and government health services.""Van der Merwe was assisted by Prof Frank Graewe, head of the Division of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery at SU FMHS, Prof Rafique Moosa, head of the FMHS Department of Medicine, transplant
Marketing and Communication Office Faculty of medicine and Health Sciences Stellenbosch University Prof Andr van der Merwe Head of the Division of Urology arvdm@sun. ac. za Department
of Surgical Sciences Faculty of medicine and Health Sciences Stellenbosch University Hey, check out all the engineering jobs. Post your resume today y
Power Naps Produce A Significant Improvement In Memory Performance Generations of school students have gone to bed the night before a maths exam
That they were taken not completely in by a superstitious belief has now been demonstrated by a team of neuropsychologists at Saarland University,
Strictly speaking, memory performance did not improve in the nap group relative to the levels measured immediately after the learning phase,
immediately after completing the learning phase, says Professor Mecklinger. The researchers were focused particularly on the role of the hippocampus-a region of the brain in
which memories are consolidated'-the process by which previously learned information is transferred into long-term memory storage.''We examined a particular type of brain activity, known as"sleep spindles,
'A short nap at the office or in school is enough to significantly improve learning success. Wherever people are in a learning environment,
A concentrated period of learning followed by a short relaxing sleep is all that's needed.##
10.1016/j. nlm. 2015.02.012) was carried out as part of the International Research Training Group'1457"Adaptive Minds:
Neural and Environmental Constraints on Learning and Memory"(Saarbr#cken, Beijing'.'The results have been published in'Neurobiology of Learning and Memory'.
'The publication can be accessed via: http://www. sciencedirect. com/science/article/pii/S1074742715000362hey, check out all the research scientist jobs.
has been developed by scientists at Queen University Belfast. Researchers in the Queen University Ionic Liquid Laboratories (QUILL) Research Centre have developed a unique new perfume delivery system
which releases more of its aroma when it comes into contact with moisture, meaning a person smells nicer
The research was carried out by corresponding author Dr Nimal Gunaratne, Professor Ken Seddon and Dr Peter Nockemann
) The NP28673 study will be presented by Dr. Sai-Hong Ignatius Ou, associate clinical professor, University of California, Irvine (Abstract#8008, Sunday, May 31, 10:24-10:36 A m. CDT),
and the NP28761 study will be presented by Dr. Leena Gandhi, assistant professor of medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston (Abstract#8019, Monday, June 1, 8: 00-11:30 A m. CDT).
University of Surrey Study Research published today in the journal Analyst has demonstrated a new, noninvasive test that can detect cocaine use through a simple fingerprint.
Led by the University of Surrey, a team of researchers from The netherlands Forensic Institute (NL), the National Physical Laboratory (UK), King's college London (UK) and Sheffield Hallam University (UK),
A team at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, has shown that the three-protein'signature'can both identify the most common form of pancreatic cancer
"says co-author and Director of Barts Cancer Institute, Professor Nick Lemoine.""With pancreatic cancer, patients are diagnosed usually
#Paralyzed Men Move Legs With New Noninvasive Spinal cord Stimulation, University of California, Los angeles (UCLA) Study In a study conducted at UCLA,
said V. Reggie Edgerton, senior author of the research and a UCLA distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology, neurobiology and neurosurgery.
Last year, Edgerton and colleagues, the University of Louisville Susan Harkema and Claudia Angeli and UCLA Yury Gerasimenko, reported that four young men who had been paralyzed for years were able to move their legs, hips,
along with Ruslan Gorodnichev of Russia Velikie Luky State Academy of Physical education and Sport, demonstrated that they could induce involuntary stepping movements in healthy,
as well as Lu, associate professor of neurosurgery in UCLA David Geffen School of medicine, and researchers Morteza Modaber, Roland Roy and Dimitry Sayenko, research technician Sharon Zdunowski, research scientist Parag Gad, laboratory coordinator Erika Morikawa and research
and Adam Ferguson, assistant professor of neurological surgery at UC San francisco. Edgerton and his research team also plan to study people who have severe,
Study Scientists from ITMO University developed artificial blood vessels that are not susceptible to blood clot formation.
head of the International Laboratory of Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies at ITMO University proposed a solution to the problem.
the David H. Koch (1962) Professor in Engineering in the Department of Materials science and engineering and a Koch Institute investigator who oversaw the sensor development. ather than waiting months to see
Two MIT doctoral students in Cima lab worked with him on the sensor project: Vincent Liu, now a postdoc at MIT,
and Christophoros Vassiliou, now a postdoc at the University of California at Berkeley. Their research is featured in a paper in the journal Lab on a Chip that has been published online.
said senior author Christina Smolke, Phd, associate professor of bioengineering. Now, though the output is small it would take 4,
said Stephanie Galanie, a Phd student in chemistry and a member of Smolke team. heye the action heroes of biology.
postdoctoral scholar Isis Trenchard, Phd; and undergraduate Maria Filsinger Interrante r
#Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgical Tool Feels For Tumors, Study Tumors often look identical to healthy nearby tissue,
but they tend to feel different. Surgeons often use their fingers to feel the size and shape of
A team of researchers from Canadian Surgical Technologies & Advanced Robotics (CSTAR) and Western University developed a robotic arm compatible with the Da vinci robotic surgical system that can sense how hard
The device was an entry into the Surgical Robot Challenge 2015 recently hosted by Imperial College London.
MSU associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics and co-author of the study.""We now know that ERMANI is an essential key,
the Chinese Academy of Agricultural sciences and the University of Georgia. Most viruses have viral envelopes, or protective skins,
Virginia Commonwealth University Reveals DARIEN, IL-A new study of twins suggests that insomnia in adults is explained partially by genetic factors,
"said first author Mackenzie Lind, a doctoral candidate at the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond."
University of British columbia Researchers UBC researchers have created the first self-propelled particles capable of delivering coagulants against the flow of blood to treat severe bleeding,
explains Christian Kastrup, an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular biology and the Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British columbia.
and found that supplementing that training with other patient information improved the system predictions. In the cases of patients with drastic changes in brain anatomy, the additional data cut the predictionserror rate in half,
a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and the senior author on the new paper. ur goal is not to prove that our model is the best model to do this kind of thing;
First author on the paper is Adrian Dalca, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and a member of Golland group at MIT Computer science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory.
Theye joined by Ramesh Sridharan, another Phd student in Golland group, and by Mert Sabuncu, an assistant professor of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital,
who was a postdoc in Golland group. The researchers are presenting the paper at the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention this week.
They then characterize each scan in the training set for their machine-learning algorithm as a deformation of the template.
Each subject in the training set is represented by two scans, taken between six months and seven years apart.
such as subject age, gender, marital status, and education level; and rudimentary clinical data, such as patientsscores on various cognitive tests.
a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical school and director of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. ut the fact that it did did as well as it is encouraging. here are lots of ways these tools could be beneficial to the research community,
Working with gut stem cells from humans and mice, scientists from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and the University of Pittsburgh have grown successfully healthy intestine atop a 3-D scaffold made of a substance used in surgical sutures.
The tube-shaped scaffold, designed several years ago in collaboration with Cornell University researchers and composed of biodegradable material similar to that used in surgical sutures
who initiated and conducted most of the work at the University of Pittsburgh. In an initial set of experiments reminiscent of a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich technique,
"says study author Stephen Badylak, D. V. M.,Ph d.,M d.,professor of surgery and deputy director of the Mcgowan Institute for Regenerative medicine at the University of Pittsburgh."
Timothy Keane, Maria Quidgley, Jenna Dziki, Stephen Badylak and Deena Wasserman of the University of Pittsburgh;
and John March and Cait Costello of Cornell University. The work was funded by a Hartwell Biomedical Collaborative Research Award with additional support from National institutes of health grants R01gm078238 and RO1DK08752 2
University of Oxford Study Researchers learn how to steer the heart--with light We depend on electrical waves to regulate the rhythm of our heartbeat.
Now, a team of researchers from Oxford and Stony Brook universities has found a way to precisely control these waves-using light.
Dr Emilia Entcheva, from Stony Brook University, said:''The level of precision is reminiscent of what one can do in a computer model,
Griffith University Study Griffith University researchers have opened a new avenue to advance a therapy to repair the paralysed spinal cord.
Lead researcher, Griffith Phd student Mr Raja Vadivelu, and Professor Nam-Trung Nguyen (Queensland Micro-and Nanotechnology Centre) collaborated with Dr Jenny Ekberg (Queensland University of Technology) and scientists in Spain."
"In Australia, more than 12,000 people live with spinal cord paralysis and there is at least one new occurrence every day,
but combining neurobiology and engineering at Griffith University has at last found an incredible use for the'round globules,
or sample preparation,"said Tomasz Tkaczyk, associate professor, Department of Bioengineering, Rice university, Houston, Texas."Many systems which work for point-of-care applications have quite expensive cartridges.
"Tkaczyk co-authors on this research included Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Fellow of The Optical Society and a professor in Rice's Department of Bioengineering.
and Dr Eugenio Butelli working in Professor Cathie Martin's lab at the John Innes Centre,
Professor Cathie Martin said:""Our study provides a general tool for producing valuable phenylpropanoid compounds on an industrial scale in plants,
(BIDMC) and Visiting professor at Harvard Medical school.""The organoids have the same properties or traits that are seen in the patient tumor from which they came and,
who conducted this research while at the University of Toronto. The research team also demonstrated that these clonally derived organoids could be used to identify patient-specific sensitivities to novel therapeutic agents."
Lead researcher, Mr Tony Jun Huang, professor at the Pennsylvania State university, said, "This is the first on-chip sputum liquefier anyone has developed so far.
political director for the Cornell Alliance for Science at Cornell University and a co-author of n Ecomodernist Manifesto,
Following the Scottish decision, signatories from numerous scientific organizations and academic institutions wrote to the Scottish government to express grave concern bout the potential negative effect on science in Scotland.?
Never mind that Professor Glover advice on G. M. O. safety reflected the scientific consensus. Mr. Juncker,
In 1983, Marc Van Montagu and Jeff Schell at the University of Ghent in Belgium introduced the world to modern plant genetic engineering.
"Music-streaming researcher Dr. Todd Green, a professor at the Goodman School of business at Brock University, is also critical of Tidal's New york relaunch.
"and joked about the event feeling like a graduation. Then, the assembled musicians signed a"declaration":
In 2012, a chemistry professor and his neighbour in Kolkata were arrested for forwarding a cartoon that made fun of West Bengal's top elected official, Mamata Banerjee.
And last week, police in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh arrested a teenage student for posting comments on Facebook he attributed to a top state minister.
The student jailed for two days before being released on bail, told reporters he was happy the provision was scrapped,
Armin Alaedini, assistant professor of medical sciences at Columbia University and a researcher at the New york-based school's Celiac disease Center, said the project may end up with a less toxic wheat product that isn't completely safe for all celiac disease patients."
Professor of Mycology at ETH Zurich (The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Zurich), believes it may have found the answer.
"Essig and his colleagues from ETH Zurich and the University of Bonn cultivated the fungus in a laboratory,
Ubisoft developed the game in collaboration with researchers from Mcgill University and Amblyotech, an Atlanta, Ga.-based company that develops therapies for eye diseases.
it'S'i'll do my homework at the last minute.'"'"But he says we are quickly approaching the last minute."
The crew is part of the University of Hawaii's fourth Hawaii space exploration analog and simulation (HI-SEAS) mission,
body movement trackers and other devices will monitor them, according to a University of Hawaii statement.
and more Chinese graduate from university, resulting in a dwindling supply of unskilled workers, annual double-digit percentage increases in the minimum wage and rising labour unrest.
researchers from the University of Montreal describe a novel way to detect large molecules like antibodies in blood using a quick,
"said paper co-author Alexis Vallée-Belisle, a University of Montreal chemistry professor and the Canada Research Chair in bioengineering and bionanotechnology."
"Electrical current Vallée-Belisle and his team, working with a chemist from the University of Rome, came up with a way to detect antibodies by having them bind to loose, single strands of DNA.
"Biochemistry professor Kevin Plaxco of the University of California at Santa barbara, who supervised Vallée-Belisle's previous postdoctoral work and who is himself an expert in electrochemical methods to detect antibodies,
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.
which began about five years after Fritz became paralyzed, involved months of mental training in
#Toronto teens invent wearable heart-monitoring device Two Grade 12 students from Danforth Tech have invented a watch that tracks vital signs
Bertram and Nguyen are working with Ryerson University and St michael's Hospital to refine the tool
The new study comes from a team at the University of California Berkeley with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
writes Michael Mcelfresh of Santa clara University. Combined with other innovations, batteries in homes and businesses will transform how people
The University of Delaware for example, has experimented with ways to connect parked EVS to the electric grid.
University of Science and Technology has shown good potential, according to recent reports. The new battery was developed with the intention of dealing with two of the primary issues facing conventional solid-state Li-air battery performance:
we believe we are also making an important contribution to Article 6 of the Convention as it relates to education and public awareness.
Nanoengineers at the University of California, San diego, have designed enzyme-functionalized micromotors that rapidly zoom around in water,
led by distinguished nanoengineering professor and chair Joseph Wang, published the work this month in the journal Angewandte Chemie."
an undergraduate researcher in Wang's lab and a co-author of the study. The micromotors are essentially six-micrometer-long tubes that help rapidly convert carbon dioxide into calcium carbonate,
source) according to theoretical chemist Jeff Reimers of the University of Sydney, Australia. In the experiment, two adjacent but physically separate test tubes were placed within a copper coil
For example, Giuseppe Vitiello, of the University of Salemo in Italy, is confident that the experiment is reliable.
Greg Scholes, from the University of Toronto, Canada, who last year demonstrated that quantum effects occur in plants,
One example comes from the work of Professor Rainer Blatt at the University of Innsbruck.
source) Another study, published by a team of University of Queensland physicists in the journal Nature in 2013, demonstrated successful teleportation with solid state systems.
A team from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) at the University of Maryland (UMD) and the University of Michigan has succeeded in teleporting a quantum state directly from one atom to another over a substantial distance.
and the researchers involved came from various colleges and sectors of the Department of defense. Furthermore, scientists have conducted studies on people in the lab
Instead, researchers at the University of Manchester, have found that glands in the lining of the uterus produce a sugary substance known as glycogen and fragments of sugary protein.
a research fellow at the University of Manchester who conducted the research, said the work could help improve treatments like IVF by allowing the medium the fertilised eggs are kept in before implantation to be improved.
Professor John Aplin, a specialist in reproductive medicine at Manchester University who also took part in the study,
'Professor Aplin and his team, whose research is published in the journal Placenta, used womb, placenta and embryonic tissue donated by women who had undergone abortions.
Professor Alpin and his colleagues said:''Our data are consistent with a model in which internalisation of glycoprotein is a major nutritional pathway in first trimester,
Professor Graham Burton, a reproductive physiologist at the University of Cambridge whose team first discovered that the uterus lining produced nourishment for the embryo in 2002,
the high school chemistry teacher in Breaking Bad who becomes a methamphetamine dealer. As well as asking for money, the demand also features an email address containing one of the show's most famous lines,
an NYU School of engineering professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace engineering and the study's co-author.
It was created by Deep Springs Technology and the New york University Polytechnic School of engineering.''The ability of metals to withstand higher temperatures can be a huge advantage for these composites in engine and exhaust components, quite apart from structural parts.'
Scroll down for video University of Michigan scientists have demonstrated a supercool liquid. The liquid is below its freezing point
American Chemical Societythe research, reported by the American Chemical Society, was carried out by Kyeongwoon Chung and Dr Jinsang Kim from the University of Michigan.
allowing the first author on the paper, Kyeongwoon Chung, a U-M doctoral student, to scrawl messages such as hear-triggered crystal. he researchers said the molecule may be useful in biosensors,
usually in stones,'explained inventor Hendrik Marius Jonkers from Delft University of Technology.''The special thing about them is that they form spore meaning they are suited well to the concrete
#Brain training app that could help schizophrenia sufferers live a normal life A new brain training app developed to help improve the memory of people with schizophrenia could save taxpayers thousands of pounds,
to either the cognitive training group or a control group at random. Participants in the training group played the memory game for a total of eight hours over a four-week period.
Those in the control group continued their treatment as usual. Scientists found that the patients who had played the memory game made significantly fewer errors in memory testing.
Professor Barbara Sahakian of the Department of Psychiatry, said:''We need a way of treating the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as problems with episodic memory,
even those patients with a general lack of motivation are spurred on to continue the training.'
'Professor Peter Jones, also from the Department of Psychiatry, added:''These are promising results and suggest that there may be the potential to use game apps to not only improve a patient's episodic memory,
Professor Sahakian and colleagues began a collaboration with the team behind the popular brain training app Peak
'This vehicle is really all about us learning.''This vehicle could go on a freeway, but when we think about introducing the technology,
Google could make self-driving urban pods for universities or urban centers, for example, or sell its technology to automakers.
when he was struggling to sleep during his exams at a medical university. He said:'
'said lead scientist Professor Simon Driver, from the International Centre for Radio astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Western australia.'
Professor Driver said:''While most of the energy sloshing around was created in the aftermath of the Big bang,
Professor Driver presented the findings at the International Astronomical Union's general assembly in Honolulu, Hawaii i
however, researchers at the Massachusetts institute of technology and Tsinghua University, Beijing, found the aluminium could expand and shrink freely.
Professor Ju Li, a materials scientist at MIT who led the work, said:''We made a titanium oxide shell that separates the aluminum from the liquid electrolyte.'
Professor Li said:''It's probably the best anode material available. i
#Perseids meteor shower will show hundreds of shooting stars across Europe Stargazers across Britain were treated to a stunning lightshow overnight as hundreds of shooting stars filled the sky as the annual Perseids meteor shower neared its peak.
Professor Mark Bailey, director of Armagh Observatory in Northern ireland, called the Perseids the'best and most reliable meteor shower of the year'.
Scroll down for video The robots were built by engineers from the University of Cambridge lead by Dr Fumiya Iida.
whether that's learning about intelligence, or finding ways to improve robotic locomotion. A robot requires between ten and 100 times more energy than an animal to do the same thing.
'said Steve Clapcote, a lecturer in pharmacology at Leeds University, who led the study. He said his team is now working on developing drugs that will specifically inhibit PDE4B.
'This study highlights a potentially important role for the PDE4B gene in learning and memory in mice,
Maryland and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. e were pleased very to not only finally confirm its presence,
'Lead researcher Professor Rene Anand, from Ohio State university in the US, said:''It not only looks like the developing brain,
The technology has been developed by scientists at the University of Miami and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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