Researchers at the Technical University of Dortmund in Germany and firm Hyasynth Bio have now found a way to genetically engineer a strain of this bacteria to produce THC.
The team from Sun yat-sen University in Guangzhou, south China, were aiming to modify the gene responsible for beta thalassaemia-a potentially fatal inherited blood disorder.
Professor Bruce Whitelaw of the University of Edinburgh, said:''The goal of this research, to increase our understanding of how the early human embryo develops,
is precisely the type of knowledge medicine needs if we are to improve IVF methods.
Dr Meadow, of the University of Oregon, said that each of us releases million and millions of bugs into the air each day.
Professor Tim Spector of King College London, told New Scientist magazine: don think it crazy to think that in the future we could be recognising people by their bacterial mist. y
#Are we a step closer to Star trek-like travel? Physicists achieve distance record for quantum teleportation Scientists have achieved a world record in the strange world of quantum teleportation.
In 2014, physicists at the University of Geneva teleported the quantum state of a photon to a crystal over 15 miles (25km) of optical fibre.
Professor Michio Kaku said that the breakthroughs needed to transport humans instantly have already been made.
The physicist is a professor at City university in New york.''You know the expression'Beam me up Scotty'?
'said the City university professor.''We used to laugh when someone talked about teleportation, but we don't laugh anymore.''
Last year, Ford's European Research and Innovation Centre in Aachen, Germany and Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen University debuted a conceptual seat with six embedded
or pupils learning their lesson without their teacher having to speak a single word. A telepathic version of the game Twenty Questions has been played by two people a mile apart.
Lead author Andrea Stocco, of the University of Washington, said:''This is the most complex brain-to-brain experiment,
the researchers say they are now researching'brain tutoring'transferring signals directly from teacher to pupil or from the brain of a healthy person to a stroke patient.
Professor Andrew Dzurak director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at the University of New south wales, said:'
'We've demonstrated a two-qubit logic gate-the central building block of a quantum computer-and, significantly, done it in silicon.'
However their D-Wave quantum computer needs to be kept at temperatures of around-273°C(-459°F). The latest research by Professor Dzurak and his colleagues,
Lead author Dr Menno Veldhorst, also from the University of New south wales said:''The silicon chip in your smartphone or tablet already has around one billion transistors on it, with each transistor less than 100 billionths of a metre in size.'
The Oxford university professor said:''Normally, if someone is being treated for HIV infection and they stop their medication,
'Working with researchers at the University of New south wales, the team at Oxford analysed data from a patient trial where anti-retroviral therapy was interrupted at 48 weeks.
Professor Rodney Phillips, a former Oxford don and now dean of medicine at the University of New south wales, played an instrumental role.
Professor Phillips said:''The SPARTAC study will never be able to be replicated again and it has provided us with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to look at the causes of viral rebound in this particular group of patients with HIV.'
'His colleague at the UNSW, Professor Anthony Kelleher, one of the study's co-authors, said understanding the mechanisms that allow HIV to remain in'remission'is essential
The discovery was made by Professor Anton Rebhan and Frederic Brünner from the Technical University of Vienna using a new theoretical approach.
If their calculations prove to be right, their study could be key to confirming the standard model explanation of the universe.
'said Guilherme Gualda, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University, who directed the project.'
Hsin-Hua Huang from the University of Utah and his colleagues tracked seismic waves from almost 5, 000 earthquakes.
These readings combined data from the University of Utah Seismograph Stations, which collected shallow readings from nearby quakes in Utah, Idaho, the Teton range and Yellowstone,
'Robert Wood, the Charles river Professor of Engineering and Applied sciences At seas added:''Bioinspired robots, such as the Robobee, are invaluable tools for a host of interesting experiments--in this case on the fluid mechanics of flapping foils in different fluids.''
and Training Range, discharging electromagnetic pulses on to seven targets, permanently shutting down their electronics.
Professor Trevor Taylor, Professorial Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, has said previously the Western world would be more vulnerable attack because of its increased reliance on electronics.'
The University of Manchester team found that the more opiate receptors an individual has the better able they are to resist pain.
Professor Anthony Jones, director of the Manchester Pain Consortium, said: his is very exciting because it changes the way we think about chronic pain. here is generally a rather negative and fatalistic view of chronic pain.
from Manchester University, said: s far as we are aware, this is the first time that these changes have been associated with increased resilience to pain
and Technology, led by Professor Jonghwa Park. Human skin contains unique epidermal and dermal microstructures and sensory receptors.
Professor Park and his colleagues have designed ferroelectric films that mimic the grooved, microscopically'mountainous'structure of human fingertip skin.
Professor Park and colleagues said their e skin can be used to monitor pulse pressure by detecting the changes in skin temperature that occur
Professor Zhenan Bao, from Stanford university in the US, said:''This is the first time a flexible, skin-like material has been able to detect pressure
said MIT nuclear scientist Professor Dennis Whyte. Fusion power increases with the fourth power of magnetic field, so 2x field produces 16x power. ny increase in the magnetic field gives you a huge win,
Meredith Perry, who began tinkering with wireless charging as a paleobiology undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania,
#Wastewater treatment Captures Carbon emissions, Produces Energy A wastewater treatment process developed by engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder mitigates carbon dioxide emissions and actively captures greenhouse gases.
said Zhiyong Jason Ren, an associate professor of civil, environmental, and architectural engineering at CU-Boulder and senior author of the new study,
#Cleaning water one stroke at a time A material created by University of California, Riverside engineers is the key component of a swimsuit that won an international design competition for its ability to clean water as a person swims.
"said Mihri Ozkan, an electrical engineering professor at UC Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering. Ozkan, along with her husband and fellow engineering professor, Cengiz Ozkan, current Ph d. student, Daisy Patino,
and Hamed Bay, who recently earned his Ph d. after working with the Ozkan's, began developing the material about four years ago for applications such as cleaning up oil
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,
and turnover,"said senior author Jamey Marth, Ph d.,professor in SBP's NCI-designated Cancer Center."
and then it must be degraded--the components are recycled then basically,"added Marth, also director of UCSB's Center for Nanomedicine and a professor in the campus's Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental biology."
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,
Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany and at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa in the USA recently managed to synthesize two complex chemical substances from wood-based starting materials.
Professor Till Opatz of Mainz University. The results of their research have been published in the prominent journal Angewandte Chemie.
The German research team led by Professor Till Opatz at JGU's Institute of Organic chemistry participates in the interdisciplinary research consortium Chemical Biomedicine (Chembiomed) funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation
The US research group under Professor Anthony J. Arduengo III is interested particularly in developing industrially applicable methods for using materials derived from wood biomass for the sustainable manufacture of a broad array of basic chemicals such as, for example,
Since then, a vigorous exchange of researchers and students between Mainz and Tuscaloosa has fueled the collaboration.
"said senior author Dr. Zhijian"James"Chen, Professor of Molecular biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at UT Southwestern.
Now a team from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center offers a potential new target to block Notch without the toxic effects.
but preserve its normal function,"says Mark Chiang, M d.,Ph d.,assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical school."
but now the microbe has also found its way to the labs of University of Southern Denmark.
"explains Sara Munk Jensen, Ph d. student at both the Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (Nordcee), Department of biology and the Department of physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark (SDU).
and graduate student Gopinath Rajadinakaran teamed up with UK-based Oxford Nanopore technologies to show that the company's Minion nanopore sequencer can sequence genes faster,
"Also, thanks to the investments in genomics through the University's Academic Plan, Brent Graveley can leverage his expertise
so that faculty and students across our campuses will successfully compete for grant dollars and launch bioscience ventures."
A recent discovery in the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) research laboratory may make it possible to reduce the number of infections from this disease.
Siddiqui, a Grover E. Murray Distinguished Professor at the TTUHSC School of medicine, received a patent from the U s. Patent and Trademark Office for his schistosomiasis vaccine.
A leading neuroscientist at Florida Atlantic University has developed the"Lewy Body Composite Risk Score"(LBCRS) to quickly
education, comorbidities, behavioral, affective, motor symptoms, and diagnoses. The LBCRS was able to discriminate between Alzheimer's disease and LBD with 96.8 percent accuracy,
and a professor of clinical biomedical science in FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and a professor in FAU's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing."
Now, researchers from Umeå University and University of Gothenburg have identified a molecular switch-MYSM1-that can suppress such an overreaction
research leader at MIMS, Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden at Umeå University. Our innate immune system is activated
Nelson O. Gekara's at Umeå University and his doctoral student Swarup Panda are now closing in on a solution.
Together with Professor Jonas A Nilsson at Sahlgrenska Cancer Center at the University of Gothenburg
who is a research fellow in Dermatology at Harvard Medical school.""What is really exciting is that these drugs are already in the clinic;
'In recent years, Héctor Peinado, Head of the Microenvironment and Metastasis Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), David Lyden from Weill Cornell Medical College,
or byproducts,"says senior author Inder Verma, professor of genetics and holder of Salk's Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair in Exemplary Life science."
who is also an American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular biology.""This molecule Epha2 is having a huge effect on restraining cancer growth
Ph d.,study author from the Department of Biomedicine, at the University of Bergen in Bergen, Norway."
#New research opens door to understanding human tonsil cancer Researchers at Simon Fraser University and the BC Cancer Agency have developed a groundbreaking method to identify
a Phd student in the Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology and lead author of the paper.
Kang, who is working with BPK professor Miriam Rosin, director of the BC Oral Cancer Prevention Program,
and UBC professor Connie Eaves of the Terry Fox Laboratory, was interested in finding out why the tonsil is particularly susceptible to HPV
a Phd student in Samuels'lab and lead author of the paper r
#DNA in blood can track cancer development and response in real time Scientists have shown for the first time that tumour DNA shed into the bloodstream can be used to track cancers in real time as they evolve
Over three years, researchers at the University of Cambridge took surgical tumour samples (biopsies) and blood samples from a patient with breast cancer that had already spread to other parts of her body.
Study author Professor Carlos Caldas, senior group leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, said:"
Professor Caldas added:""We were able to use the blood tests to map out the disease as it progressed.
#Scientists paint quantum electronics with beams of light A team of scientists from the University of Chicago
"said David D. Awschalom, Liew Family Professor and deputy director in the Institute of Molecular Engineering at UCHICAGO,
"said Andrew Yeats, a graduate student in Awschalom's laboratory and the paper's lead author."
"One exciting aspect of this work is that it's noninvasive"said Nitin Samarth, Professor and Downsbrough Head of Physics at Penn State,
Thompson was referred to the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital where doctors had to decide
"says senior author Glenn Green, M d.,associate professor of pediatric otolaryngology at U-M's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital."
. professor of biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering and associate professor of surgery at U-M. The models were printed by Ann arbor-based Thingsmiths.
At the University of Michigan, 3-D printed splints have helped save the lives of babies with severe tracheobronchomalacia
researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen have uncovered now how the protein interacts with other proteins.
professor at the Department of chemistry of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and group leader at the Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, have succeeded now in uncovering precisely this mechanism.
"In close collaboration with his TUM colleagues Johannes Buchner, professor of biotechnology and Sevil Weinkauf, professor of electron microscopy, Reif determined that the small heat shock protein uses a specific nonpolar beta-sheet structure pile in its center
The researchers will be supported by the new NMR Center that is currently under construction at the Garching campus of the Technical University of Munich
who developed the experiment in the group of ETH professor Klaus Ensslin. Differently from light waves, the spin of the electrons also causes them to behave as tiny magnets.
who has developed a theoretical model for Rössler's experiment in the group of ETH professor Gianni Blatter.
#CWRU researcher lands grant to build stealthy brain tumor treatment A Case Western Reserve University researcher has received a 5-year,
The Karathanasis and Rich labs will work with Mark Griswold, professor of radiology at Case Western Reserve School of medicine,
Ketan Ghaghada, assistant professor of radiology at Baylor College of Medicine, will guide and oversee the steps taken to translate the research toward clinical trials.
Developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Cambridge-based technology company Novalia,
"Hasan's method, developed at the University's Nanoscience Centre, works by suspending tiny particles of graphene in a'carrier'solvent mixture,
Hasan and Phd students Guohua Hu, Richard Howe and Zongyin Yang of the Hybrid Nanomaterials Engineering group at CGC
but mostly for graphics printing and packaging,"said Hasan, a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and a University Lecturer in the Engineering Department."
This new metamaterial was developed in the lab of Eric Mazur, the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics and Area Dean for Applied Physics AT SEAS,
a graduate student in the Mazur lab and co-author on the paper.""It could also improve entanglement between quantum bits,
"said Roman Engel-Herbert, assistant professor of materials science and engineering.""But there are some materials, like vanadium oxide, that you can add to existing devices to make them perform even better."
Earlier this year, also in Nature Communications, a research group led by Suman Datta, professor of electrical and electronic engineering,
"said Sumeet Gupta, Monkowski Assistant professor of Electrical engineering and group leader of the Integrated circuits and Devices Lab, Penn State.
"said Haitian Zhang, Ph d. student in Engel-Herbert's group.""Using this'library'of vanadium-to-oxygen ratios,
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's co-authors on this research included Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Fellow of The Optical Society and a professor in Rice's Department of Bioengineering.
and turnover,"said senior author Jamey Marth, director of UCSB's Center for Nanomedicine and a professor in the campus's Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental biology."
and then it must be degraded--the components are recycled then basically,"added Marth, also a professor at the SBP Medical Discovery Institute in La jolla, California."
The multi-institutional group includes researchers from Baylor College of Medicine Rice university, Stanford university and the Broad Institute.
"said study co-first author Adrian Sanborn, a graduate student in the Aiden lab and at Stanford university."
"Aiden, assistant professor of genetics at Baylor and of computer science and computational and applied mathematics at Rice, said Sanborn
"said Rao, a graduate student in the Aiden lab and at Stanford university.""What was stunning was that once we understood how the loops were forming,
which acts like a brake,"said Rao, a student in the Aiden lab and at Stanford university."
An international team of researchers, including Carnegie mellon University President Subra Suresh, Zhiwei Shan and colleagues from Xi'an Jiaotong University in China, Ming Dao and Ju Li from MIT
In these larger samples, repeated stretching generally leads to the creation, accumulation and interaction of defects,
"explains Giuseppe Legname, professor at the International school for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste who coordinated the new study,
"explains Gabriele Giachin, first author of the study and former SISSA Phd student (today at the European Synchrotron radiation Facility, ESRF, in Grenoble, France)."
Giulia Salzano and Federico Benetti) and a group coordinated by the University of Rome"La Sapienza",led by Paola D'Angelo.
antifouling materials developed in the lab of Joanna Aizenberg, the Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials science and core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard university.
and skin cancers Scientists from the University of Granada (UGR) have patented an effective drug for treating cancer stem cells (CSCS) in breast, colon, and skin cancers.
"directed by Professor Joaquín Campos Rosa, and"Advanced Therapies: Differentiation, Regeneration and Cancer",directedby Professor Juan Antonio Marchal Corrales.
The Córdoba-based company Canvax Biotech has participated also in the development of the patent. A nontoxic drug One of the major advantages of the drug is that it is nontoxic.
3-D cell growth opens new pathway for spinal cord repair 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,
"explained Mutsuko Hatano, a professor in the Graduate school of Science and Engineering's Department of Physical Electronics at Tokyo Institute of technology.
The Rice lab of chemist James Tour and colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Texas at San antonio and the University of Houston have reported the development of a robust,
and cheaply perform important chemical reactions is reported today by Tufts University researchers in the journal Nature Communications.
while a relatively cheap metal, is not nearly as catalytically powerful as platinum, noted Professor of Chemistry Charles Sykes, Ph d.,one of the senior authors on the paper."
With that knowledge, Sykes and his fellow chemists turned to long-time Tufts collaborator Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Ph d.,the Robert and Marcy Haber Endowed Professor in Energy Sustainability at the School of engineering,
"Using an experimental model, researchers from Boston University School of medicine (BUSM) and the University of California,
"explained corresponding author James Hamilton, Phd, professor of physiology and biophysics and research professor of medicine at BUSM."
and a group led by Nobel laureate, Roger Tsein, Phd, from the University of California, San diego that is developing probes to visualize plaques.
Funding for this study was provided by a Boston University Nanomedicine grant and NIH P50hl083801 to James Hamilton and by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and NIH CA158448 to the Roger Tsien group p
and the University of New mexico School of medicine has identified a small molecule that treats animal models of aged macular degeneration (AMD)
"said the study's corresponding author Richard L. Sidman, MD, an investigator in the Department of Neurology at BIDMC and Bullard Professor of Neuropathology (Neuroscience), Emeritus, at Harvard Medical school.
MD, Phd, of the University of New mexico, had developed a laboratory screening technique called in vivo phage display
"said Harold F. Dvorak, MD, Mallinckrodt Distinguished Professor of Pathology at HMS and BIDMC, whose laboratory first identified the VEGF signaling protein nearly 30 years ago o
and spread, has been made by an international research team led by scientists at The University of Nottingham.
Now in new research published in Oncotarget, a multi-disciplinary team at Nottingham, Weill Cornell Medical school,
Lund University in Sweden and Copenhagen University in Denmark, have identified a significant gene called mir137 that is switched off in prostate cancer cells.
"It has been postulated that tangles-the abnormal accumulation of tau protein that fills neurons in Alzheimer's disease-can travel from neuron to neuron as the disease progresses,
"says Hyman, the John Penny Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical school.""Since that spread likely underlies clinical progression of symptoms,
Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System have identified a new way of triggering the instructions normally given by the muscle protein dystrophin,
. and Joanne Garbincius, of the University of Michigan Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, found an explanation for this debilitating protein malfunction
"says Michele, senior study author and professor of molecular & integrative physiology and internal medicine at the University of Michigan."
"says Michele whose lab at the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Research center focuses on inherited forms of skeletal and cardiac diseases.
#Controllable protein gates deliver on-demand permeability in artificial nanovesicles Researchers at the University of Basel have succeeded in building protein gates for artificial nano-vesicles that become transparent only under specific conditions.
The experiments performed at the university are part of the National Center of Competence in Research Molecular Systems Engineering (NCCR MSE),
and quantum microchips has been made by team of scientists from Penn State university and the University of Chicago.
The research, led by Nitin Samarth, Professor and Downsbrough Head of Physics at Penn State and David D. Awschalom
Liew Family Professor and deputy director in the Institute of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, will be published on October 9, 2015 in Science Advances, the new online journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
"said Andrew Yeats, a graduate student in Awschalom's laboratory and the paper's lead author."
a research team from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW) and the U s. Department of energy's Argonne National Laboratory has confirmed a new way to control the growth paths of graphene nanoribbons on the surface of a germainum crystal.
armchair edges,"said Michael Arnold, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at UW-Madison.""The widths can be very,
University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineers have created the fastest, most responsive flexible silicon phototransistor ever made.
Developed by UW-Madison collaborators Zhenqiang"Jack"Ma, professor of electrical and computer engineering and research scientist Jung-Hun Seo, the high-performance phototransistor far and away exceeds all previous flexible phototransistor parameters,
#Researchers build nanoscale autonomous walking machine from DNA Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a nanoscale machine made of DNA that can randomly walk in any direction across bumpy surfaces.
"said Ellington, professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences and member of the UT Center for Systems and Synthetic biology."
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created miniature lenses with vast range of vision. Their new approach created the first-ever flexible Fresnel zone plate microlenses with a wide field of view--a development that could allow everything from surgical scopes to security cameras to capture a broader perspective at a fraction of the size required by conventional lenses.
Led by Hongrui Jiang, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW-Madison, the researchers designed lenses no larger than the head of a pin and embedded them within flexible plastic.
Jiang and his team--including postdoctoral scholar Mohammad J. Moghimi, graduate student Jayer Fernandes and recent graduate Aditi Kanhere--are exploring ways to integrate the lenses into existing optical detectors and directly incorporate silicon electronic components into the lenses themselves s
#Minuscule, flexible compound lenses magnify large fields of view Drawing inspiration from an insect's multifaceted eye,
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created miniature lenses with vast range of vision. Their new approach created the first-ever flexible Fresnel zone plate microlenses with a wide field of view--a development that could allow everything from surgical scopes to security cameras to capture a broader perspective at a fraction of the size required by conventional lenses.
Led by Hongrui Jiang, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW-Madison, the researchers designed lenses no larger than the head of a pin and embedded them within flexible plastic.
Jiang and his team--including postdoctoral scholar Mohammad J. Moghimi, graduate student Jayer Fernandes and recent graduate Aditi Kanhere--are exploring ways to integrate the lenses into existing optical detectors and directly incorporate silicon electronic components into the lenses themselves s
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