#'Magic'plant discovery could lead to growing food in space QUT scientists have discovered the gene that will open the door for space-based food production.
Professor Peter Waterhouse, a plant geneticist at QUT, discovered the gene in the ancient Australian native tobacco plant Nicotiana benthamiana, known as Pitjuri to indigenous Aboriginals tribes.
Professor Waterhouse made the discovery while tracing the history of the Pitjuri plant, which for decades has been used by geneticists as a model plant upon
Professor Waterhouse made the discovery while tracing the history of the Pitjuri plant which for decades has been used by geneticists as a model plant upon
"Professor Waterhouse, a molecular geneticist with QUT's Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities, said scientists could use this discovery to investigate other niche
Professor Waterhouse said the team's findings also have implications for future genetic research back here On earth."
Professor Waterhouse said the fact that the N. benthamiana variety from central Australia had doubled its seed size also opened the door for investigations into how N. benthamiana could be used commercially as a biofactory,
#Researchers develop deep-learning method to predict daily activities Researchers from the School of Interactive Computing
"The group believes they have gathered the largest annotated dataset of first-person images to demonstrate that deep-learning can understand human behavior and the habits of a specific person.
Student Daniel Casto, a Ph d. candidate in Computer science and a lead researcher on the project, helped present the method earlier this month at UBICOMP 2015 in Osaka, Japan.
and Ear/Harvard Medical school and Boston University have prevented successfully the development of Parkinson's disease in a mouse using new techniques to deliver drugs across the naturally impenetrable blood-brain barrier.
Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical school.""Although we are currently looking at neurodegenerative disease, there is potential for the technology to be expanded to psychiatric diseases, chronic pain,
Eye and Ear and Dr. Xue Han of the Biomedical engineering Department at Boston University. Other authors include Richie E. Kohman, Kevin Guerra, Angela Nocera, Shrestha Ramanlal, Armine H. Kocharyan and William T. Curry.
Eye and Ear is a Harvard Medical school teaching hospital and trains future medical leaders in ophthalmology and otolaryngology, through residency as well as clinical and research fellowships.
an associate professor of the Institute of Laser Engineering at Osaka University, in cooperation with Screen Holdings Co.,Ltd.
alginates and fibrins,"said Adam Feinberg, an associate professor of Materials science and engineering and Biomedical engineering at Carnegie mellon University.
"As excellently demonstrated by Professor Feinberg's work in bioprinting, our CMU researchers continue to develop novel solutions like this for problems that can have a transformational effect on society,
"said Jim Garrett, Dean of Carnegie mellon's College of Engineering.""We should expect to see 3-D bioprinting continue to grow as an important tool for a large number of medical applications."
a graduate student in biomedical engineering at Carnegie mellon and lead author of the study.""The challenge with soft materials--think about something like Jello that we eat--is that they collapse under their own weight
a team of physicists led by The City College of New york and including Herriot-Watt University
and Corning Incorporated is showing how beams from ordinary laser pointers mimic quantum entanglement with the potential of doubling the data speed of laser communication.
"said City College Phd student Giovanni Milione.""Interestingly, a conventional laser beam (a laser pointer)' s shape
"said CCNY Distinguished Professor of Phyiscs Robert Alfano.""""While there's no'spooky action at a distance,
Researchers from the University of Michigan working with NASA have developed a material that might add an extra layer of protection from space debris
Wee learning how to make them, and how to direct their action once made they ought to be absolutely owning the headlines right now.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) ur quest on Mars has been to ollow the water, in our search for life in the universe,
an associate professor and ON Semiconductor Junior Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer engineering. e have eliminated the heat sink atop the silicon die by moving liquid cooling just a few hundred microns
The researchers, a group of Danish scientists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of British columbia
an MIT associate professor who co-invented the technology. To drop manufacturing costs, the researchers developed new fabrication technologies
said Steve Cummer, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke. When a sound wave gets to the device,
Btr1 and Btr2, are completely new genetic discoveries and according to Geoff Fincher from the University of Adelaide,
said Emeritus Professor Fincher, who co-authored the study. The study was initiated in Japan by a group of geneticists at the Okayama University Institute of Plant science
and Resources and was led by Professor Takao Komatsuda of the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences. Discoveries related to the brittle rachis show that there is a distinct difference between cell wall thickness in brittle and non-brittle plant types,
which determines whether wild barley drops its grain to the ground at maturity or retains it in the ear. he Japanese geneticists found that the cell walls were much thinner in brittle crop and much thicker in non-brittle crop.
Professor Fincher said. This characteristic originally benefited the barley plant because it helped in dispersing the seed
Professor Finch said that although the discoveries have the potential to create possibilities in barley breeding processes,
##However, Professor Tom Sanders of#King s college London warned that the study findings should not be a cause for concern-citing a major issue with the intake levels used in the study.
and Jarolimkova are studying the Erasmus Mundus Masters program Food Innovation and Product Design, at Lund University and Ngo studies a masters of Mechanical engineering and Industrial Design.
The trio said with retailers, importers, and producers throwing away a lot of food due to strict regulations on the expiration date, it makes more business sense for them to sell their fresh produce having only one day left to Fopo.
and Fopo will then sell the powder back to retailers with an extended shelf life. urrently studying Masters in Food Innovation and Product Design,
The students see the powder as a source of nutrition derived from natural sources without additives,
First place went to team Innovision from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh who won $10,
According to co-author Professor Bert Sels of hape-selective zeolite catalysis for bioplastics productionthe production process for PLA is expensive because of the intermediary steps."
"Professor Sels is confident the technology will soon take hold.""The KU Leuven patent on our discovery was sold recently to a chemical company that intends to apply the production process on an industrial scale,
"Professor Sels, is of KU Leuven Faculty of Bioscience Engineering (Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis),
and Dr Dusselier, KU Leuven Faculty of Bioscience Engineering (Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis) and California Institute of technology i
which occasionally burst into flames, said Stanford university chemistry professor Hongjie Dai, the lead researcher of the project,
Professor Dai said that his team accidentally discovered that a simple solution is using graphite.
according to Stanford graduate student and co-lead author Ming Gong. Researchers have been interested in developing a commercially viable aluminum-ion battery for decades,
are Mengchang Lin (visiting scientist from Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute), Bingan Lu (visiting scientist from Hunan University) and Yingpeng Wu (postdoctoral scholar.
Hwang (National Taiwan Normal University. Here is a video about the development of aluminum-ion battery at Stanfor a
A report just issued by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, suggests a similar problem could befall those riding in autonomous-driving cars.
and economic benefits, says Massoud Amin, chairman of the IEEE Smart grid and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota.
Professor Amin says that if wind energy is to swell by 40 percent during this time,
I was covering a Northwestern University debate on the future of nuclear energy, in which the nuclear critic Arnie Gundersen predicted Tesla new utility-scale battery would render new-build nuclear plants obsolete.
According to principal investigator Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical engineering at Harvard SEAS, omplicated effects like color correction,
according to a new research report published today by the American Association of University Women (AAUW).
When teachers and mentors emphasize the importance of computer science and engineering in helping to address global and community problems,
At Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif.,one of the world premier colleges of science, mathematics,
and engineering, the percentage of women among graduates of its computer science programs jumped to 40 percent from 12 percent in just five years.
First, the college has made the computer science path more welcoming by revising introductory classes, splitting them into two levels based on experience.
Then, after just one year in college students are offered research opportunities to give them project-based work
female students attend the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, the largest gathering of women in technical professions,
Put another way, Harvey Mudd College made entry into the STEM environment more welcoming to women,
We think those simple changes have applicability not just in college but also in middle school and the workplace.
Calif.,has achieved success by giving middle school girls the opportunity to engage in fun, hands-on projects that require teamwork, problem-solving and attention to detail.
Design code build also introduces students to project mentors and ock starscientists and engineers from local technology companies.
Professor Reid Whitlock, the new CEO of the Tony Elumelu Foundation. Parminder Vir OBE, Director of Entrepreneurship at the Tony Elumelu Foundation, said,
According to the TEEP selection committee, the winning business plans represented a multitude of value adding sectors ranging from agriculture to Information and Communications technology (ICT), education and fashion.
This cycle includes an intensive online training curriculum, mentoring, and participation in a two-day entrepreneurship boot-camp and the Elumelu Entrepreneurship Forum.
#Emerging Market Medical Education Goes Digital A shortage of skilled health workers is an acute and ongoing problem in many emerging markets.
Weak medical education systems bear a major part of the blame. But a big opportunity for rapid progress has emerged as online medical education becomes increasingly common.
Doctors and nurses in even the poorest countries can now get much better training. Medical education in emerging markets typically suffers from two problems.
First, medical universities and residency programs rarely have qualified enough instructors, and sometimes lack access to modern curricula and equipment.
Second, weak or nonexistent continuing medical education (CME) programs prevent health workers from later keeping their skills sharp.
The global healthcare talent gap is particularly acute in the world poorest countries. The World health organization estimates that the world needs more than 7 million additional skilled health professionals, with shortages at crisis proportions in many parts of South Asia, Southeast asia, and Africa.
THE WHO predicts the crisis will only worsen in coming years, but that may underestimate the potential impact of new e-learning technologies to enable low-cost medical training at scale.
Many universities, government health agencies, NGOS, private companies, and doctors around the world are embracing such technologies, sometimes with promising results.
Medical education typically begins with university coursework, and many medical schools now use e-learning tools like webcasts
and online study aids to broaden enrollment and improve educational outcomes. Some are working to adopt
and apply these tools in emerging markets, though often-onerous data charges, patchy connections, lack of technological competency,
The University of Washington Department of Global Health is a leader in the use of distance learning technologies for low-resource settings.
it delivered classes to students in many of the world poorest places. Its flagship course on Clinical Management of HIV now reaches over 1,
000 students globally each year. raining qualified health workers requires a lot more than just slapping some course materials online
In a typical program, students watch lectures and submit homework virtually, but still attend regular local classes for discussions with peers and professors.
This approach, often called lended learning, helps reduce program costs without compromising quality standards. E-learning technologies can also streamline
and scale up residency programs. In radiology, for instance, a growing number of hospitals around the world now use software by Lifetrack Medical Systems,
a digital healthcare startup that Techonomy profiled in November 2014. The software enables radiology residents to receive virtual training from qualified practitioners anywhere in the world boon for places like Indonesia and Myanmar with acute radiologist shortages.
Even surgery can now be taught remotely with technologies that combine virtual reality with AI techniques to train both real time decision-making and psychomotor skills.
says theye actively being used for surgery students in Thailand. He believes they will be particularly valuable in emerging markets facing shortages of expert surgeons.
Irrespective of specialty, medical education must be a lifelong pursuit for all healthcare professionals, and in developed countries, regulators and professional associations typically require health workers to periodically participate in ongoing programs to keep their skills sharp.
for instance, a Harvard Medical school-affiliated NGO called HAIVN runs a video conferencing platform that connects HIV specialists in top Vietnamese hospitals with frontline community health workers.
a University of New mexico program that pioneered the use of video conferencing for remote training in healthcare,
FHI360 is another NGO using innovative online platforms to provide continuing medical education in emerging markets.
the University of Toronto is working with Christian Blind Mission a non-governmental organization that helps people with disabilities in developing countries as well as software supplier Autodesk ADSK+0. 17%and the Corsu rehabilitation hospital in Mpigi, Uganda.
Professor Matt Ratto, of the University of Toronto faculty of information, tells Forbes that 3d printing offers faster way to create prosthetics with the time to completion cut rom one week to approximately one
Professor Ratto explains, because ven if the prosthetic limb and fitting is paid fully for by government of philanthropy,
a biophysicist and lecturer at the University of Newcastle and a co-author of the study. ather,
said Magnus Egerstedt, Schlumberger Professor in Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer engineering, in a statement. nstead,
a roboticist at Seoul National University and Harvard university, told Live Science. Now, scientists have solved the mystery of how these insects accomplish these amazing leaps,
director of the Biorobotics Laboratory at Seoul National University, told Live Science.""Natural organisms give a lot of inspiration to engineers."
#A breakthrough in cloak technology just caught the attention of the Defense department Researchers from the University of California-San diego have created a breakthrough invisibility cloak that has caught the attention of the Defense department due to its ability to hide objects from the naked eye.
UCSD Professor Boubacar Kante and his colleagues created a"dielectric metasurface cloak"which uses an ultra-thin
Using the system devised by the university team, the robot will then set out on a mission,
he added during a report appeared within the university Technology Review n
#Heroin, painkiller addictions go hand-in-hand Heroin use has increased a staggering 63 percent over the last 10 years in the United Statesn increase made all the worse by the growing abuse of prescription opioids such as oxycodone (Percocet
assistant professor of pharmacy practice at Texas A&m University. f someone becomes addicted, they can walk into a safe,
or more, says Nate Lewis, a chemistry professor at Caltech and scientific director of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP).
says Keith Schwab, a Caltech professor of physics and applied physics, who led the study published in Science. 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,
Kip Thorne a professor of theoretical physics at Caltech and others wrote papers saying that these pulsars should be emitting gravity waves that are nearly perfectly periodic,
an assistant professor of applied physics and materials science at Caltech. ut this new technology is very similar to the one used to print semiconductor chips onto silicon wafers,
professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State. here are other materials that are self-healing,
Other researchers from Penn State and from Carnegie mellon University and the Max Planck Institute at Stuttgart, Germany contributed to the paper.
says Mehdi Ghodbane, a former Phd student at Rutgers who now works at Glaxosmithkline. The device also requires one-tenth of the chemicals used in a conventional multiplex immunoassay
says Martin Yarmush, professor of biomedical engineering at Rutgers and Ghodbane adviser. Until now, animal research on central nervous system disorders, such as spinal cord injury and Parkinson disease, has been limited
explains Chiara Daraio, professor of mechanics and materials at ETH Zurich. A new polymer structure, developed
A new artificial intelligence system can solve SAT geometry questions as well as the average American 11th-grade student.
Researchers from Allen Institute for Artificial intelligence (AI2) and the University of Washington computer science and engineering department shared a paper on the findings at the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural language processing (EMNLP) in Lisbon
senior research manager for Vision at AI2 and UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering. ur biggest challenge was converting the question to a computer-understandable language.
which is an important dimension of learning. Today, Geos can solve plane geometry questions; AI2 is moving to solve the full set of SAT math questions in the next three years.
says Cornelia Trimble, professor of gynecology and obstetrics, oncology, and pathology at Johns hopkins university School of medicine. vaccine able to cure precancerous lesions could eventually be one way women can avoid surgery that is invasive
and can also harm their fertility. The cervix is the lower part of a woman uterus.
involved a vaccine developed by University of Pennsylvania scientist David Weiner that is engineered to teach immune system cells to recognize precancerous and cancerous cells.
professor of structural bioengineering, who studies bacterial microcompartments (BMCS), to build the protein. BMCS are self-assembling cellular organs that perform myriad metabolic functions,
a professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech. his earlier approach essentially requires controlling the heat applied throughout the component in both space
a professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design who is also the director of the SUTD Digital Manufacturing
and Women Hospital in Boston and is now an assistant professor of medicine in the nephrology division at the University of Washington. nswering this question was important for understanding the potential of mini-kidneys for clinical kidney regeneration and drug discovery.
the National Kidney Foundation, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative medicine and the Kidney Research Institute, both at the University of Washington,
and the Biomedical Research Centre at the University of British columbia funded the work. Bonventre holds patents on kidney injury molecule-1
allowing visually impaired people to detect their environment without the need for hours of training or intense concentration.
a professor of experimental psychology at the California Institute of technology (Caltech) and principal investigator on the study. ut 99 percent of our daily life depends on multisensorylso called multimodalrocessing.
Shimojo and postdoctoral scholar Noelle Stiles have exploited these crossmodal mappings to stimulate the visual cortex with auditory signals that encode information about the environment.
sighted people with no training or instruction were asked to match images to sounds; while the blind subjects were asked to feel textures and match them to sound.
can be used to make sensory substitution intuitive with no instruction or training. The researchers do not exactly know yet what each sensory region of the brain is doing
the group is currently using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) data to analyze the crossmodal neural network. These preexisting neural connections provide an important starting point for training visually impaired people to use devices that will help them see.
says David Hsieh, an assistant professor of physics at California Institute of technology (Caltech), who previously was on a team that discovered another form of matter called a topological insulator. he whole field of electronic materials is driven by the discovery of new phases,
which provide the playgrounds in which to search for new macroscopic physical properties. Hsieh and his colleagues describe their findings in Nature Physics.
Liuyan Zhao, a postdoctoral scholar in Hsieh group, is lead author. The physicists made the discovery
Tel aviv University, Iowa State university, and the University of Kentucky. The Army Research Office, the National Science Foundation (NSF),
and the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, funded the work o
A research team led by Jordan Miller, assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice university, and Pavan Atluri, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted the study.
Published in the journal Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods, it shows that blood flowed normally through test constructs that were connected surgically to native blood vessels.
SUGAR AGESBIOENGINEERING graduate student Samantha Paulsen and research technician Anderson Ta worked together to develop a proof-of-concept construct small silicone gel about the size of a small candy gummy bearsing 3d printing.
says lead author Jian Feng, professor in the department of physiology and biophysics in the University at Buffalo School of medicine and Biomedical sciences.
and tissues in the body. eng coauthors are from University at Buffalo, and Ruijin Hospital and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of medicine.
Feng also has an appointment at the Veterans Affairs Western New york Healthcare System in Buffalo.
University at Buffal t
#Drug combo shows promise for skin cancer n transitnew melanoma research finds a combination therapy is highly effective at treating patients with skin metastases.
says study leader Emanual Maverakis, an associate professor of dermatology at the University of California, Davis. ur results demonstrate that intralesional therapy with a protein that causes immune cells to divide,
Called Ribo-T, the artificial ribosome was created in the laboratories of Michael Jewett, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering in the Northwestern University Mccormick School of engineering and Applied science
and Alexander Mankin, director of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy Center for Biomolecular Sciences.
Sam Hostettler at the University of Illinois at Chicago contributed to writing of this release.
a doctoral student and first author of the study published in the journal Nature Communications. or example,
associate professor of robotics at Carnegie mellon University. e don need new image-processing algorithms, and we don need extra processing to eliminate the noise,
if only briefly, notes Kyros Kutulakos, a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto. ven though wee not sending a huge amount of photons, at short time scales,
William edwhittaker, a robotics professor at Carnegie mellon, says the system offers a number of advantages for extraterrestrial robots.
Researchers from Korea University-Korea Institute of Science and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, collaborated on the project
says senior author Christina Smolke, an associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford university. Now, though the output is smallt would take 4,
a Phd student in chemistry and a member of Smolke team. heye the action heroes of biology. o get the yeast assembly line going,
#Scientists Identify Molecular Mechanism that Leads to Maturation of Heart Cells A multi-university team of researchers has identified a molecular switch that seems to be essential for embryonic heart cells to grow into more mature, adult-like
"said Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Ph d.,University of Washington professor of biochemistry and senior author of the paper."
"We believe we've now found the master switch that drives the maturation process.""In the months before and after birth, an infant's heart cells undergo dramatic changes.
and easily repeatable test for pancreatic cancer, scientists at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University, have developed a three-protein biomarker panel that can screen urine samples to identify pancreatic cancer
the resulting areas under the receiver-operating characteristic curves (AUC) of the panel were 0. 89 in the training (70%of the data)
the panel achieved AUCS of 0. 90 and 0. 93 in the training and validation datasets,
However, researchers from The Hospital for Sick Children (Sickkids) and the Research Institute of the Mcgill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) have uncovered evidence for genetic causes of CP that may precipitate a change in the clinical
However, researchers from The Hospital for Sick Children (Sickkids) and the Research Institute of the Mcgill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) have uncovered evidence for genetic causes of CP that may precipitate a change in the clinical
"said Dmitri Kudryashov, Ph d.,assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at OSU and senior author of the study."
"said first author David Heisler, a graduate student in the Ohio State Biochemistry Program.""This establishes an entirely new toxicity mechanism. e
"said senior investigator Richard A. Lerner, Ph d.,the Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Immunochemistry at TSRI.
Friedman, M d.,Ph d.,at Rockefeller University and the TSRI groups of Ian A. Wilson and Patrick R. Griffin, appears in Chemistry and Biology.
Scripps Family Chair Professor of Chemistry, described such a feat. But Dr. Lerner's team reasoned that a selection-based design of these junctions would be a more general approach to making useful protein-in-protein molecules.
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