or obese, study participants who took 500 milligrams of Vitamin c daily saw equal improvement in blood vessel tone key measure of cardiovascular health as did those who took up a three-month regimen of brisk walking five to seven times a week, investigators at the University of Colorado at Boulder
a professor of bioengineering and chemical engineering at MIT who is one of the senior authors on the report.
said Dr. David Milzman, a professor of emergency medicine at Georgetown University School of medicine.""Even more than food, you need clean water,
a professor at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies, told The Guardian."
"said Dr. Glenn Green, a pediatric otolaryngologist at the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital and the senior author of a new report on the boys'cases.
a research fellow and resident surgeon at the University of Michigan Health System, told Live Science.
a biomedical engineer at the University of Michigan, told Live Science.""This is very important for quality and design control,
said Adriano Aguzzi, professor of neuropathology at the University of Zurich, who led the study.
Peter Nilsson, a chemical biologist at Linköping University in Sweden, was experimenting with conductive plastics,
In Los angeles, Griffith Observatory is dedicated solely to public education. Even though a telescope is needed not to view a meteor shower
when researchers at Harvard Medical school found that both mice and people produced the hormone during exercise.
The researchers identified irisin in blood samples from both sedentary individuals and people who underwent 12 weeks of aerobic training.
and 4. 3 nanograms per milliliter in those who underwent the training.""Our paper definitively confirms that irisin circulates
"said study researcher Bruce M. Spiegelman, a professor of cell biology and medicine at Harvard Medical school.
Keith Baar, an associate professor at the University of California, Davis who has studied the gene for irisin
Alisa Blazek, a graduate student at The Ohio State university's Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental biology, agreed."
and that alpha-synuclein is the first new bona fide prion to be discovered, to our knowledge, in the last 50 years,"the researchers, from the University of California,
study researcher Amanda Woerman, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San francisco.""Until we have those answers,
Dr. Valerie Sim, of the Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases at the University of Alberta in Canada, said that the traditional definition of a prion is an infectious protein that can transmit disease to another host.
"said Harrison King-Mcbain, an engineering graduate student from the University of Toronto. India treasures Colin Clarke, the director of the Canadian Centre for Epigraphic Documents, said he became aware of the need for such a device during a trip to Kerala, India, last September.
which is part of the Mahatma Gandhi University. Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic and was used by Christians throughout Asia,
he contacted King-Mcbain and Michael Cino, a graduate student at Mcmaster University in Hamilton, Canada.
demonstrating it at the University of Toronto on Aug 19. The team has also found a place in Kottayam
"said Dr. William Petri, an expert on parasitic infections and chief of the Division of Infectious diseases & International Health at the University of Virginia.
But a chance meeting between Petri and a bladder cancer expert, Dr. Dan Theodorescu, who is director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center,
"said Dr. William Petri, an expert on parasitic infections and chief of the Division of Infectious diseases & International Health at the University of Virginia.
But a chance meeting between Petri and a bladder cancer expert, Dr. Dan Theodorescu, who is director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center,
professor of molecular engineering at the University of Chicago and one of the authors of a recent study on the tardigrade-inspired glass, said in a statement.
But the new type of glass created by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of Wisconsin-Madison defies this definition.
Like a crystal, it has a well-defined molecular organization, de Pablo said in a statement.
according to lead study author Shakeel Dalal, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In a post on Reddit's Ask Me Anything (AMA) series, Dalal wrote that, in recent years,
a physicist and electrical engineer at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, told Live Science.""Therefore, a controllable cloak that can adjust its performance is very desirable."
'Supercoiled'DNA Twists into Crazy Shapes DNA doesn't just coil in the iconic double helix immortalized in every high school biology textbook.
"said study co-author Sarah Harris, a physicist at the University of Leeds in England. Building blocks of life After molecular biologists James Watson and Francis Crick first published a paper on the structure of DNA in 1953, the double helix became the iconic symbol of the code of life.
a biochemist at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said in a statement. To make sure that this supercoiled DNA actually shows up in the body,
a mechanical engineer at the University of Bristol in the United kingdom. Levitating objects In the past, scientists have used everything from laser beams to superconducting magnetic fields to levitate objects.
And in 2014, researchers at the University of Dundee in Scotland showed that acoustic holograms that act like a tractor beam could theoretically suck in objects."
his Ph d. student Asier Marzo and other colleagues ran computer simulations through myriad different patterns of sound waves to find the ones that produced the signature combination of a low-pressure region surrounded by high-pressure zones.
A team from Linköping University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a device that delivers the neurotransmitter?
Linköping University i
#First 3d printed Drug Approved by FDA Youl rarely see medication news on the pages of Medgadget,
or are learning to read in Braille. The Dot watch has a Braille reader on its face
Researchers from University of Sheffield have used now ultrasound to reduce healing times of diabetic wounds by 30%.
and Federal University of Rio de janeiro in Brazil has managed to develop nanoparticles capable of carrying DNA molecules through the previously impenetrable mucus barrier of the lungs.
Virtual Incision Corporation is a spin-off out of the University of Nebraska and the company just raised $11. 2m in equity financing to sponsor a feasibility study of its robotic technology.
from learning how the brain works to treating previously unmanageable neurological conditions. So far, the triggering of neurons has been compared pretty dumb to how existing biofeedback devices and many electronic systems work.
MIT, and Emory University have developed a losed-loopoptogenetic control system that can achieve optimal excitation of neurons all on its own.
Malaria Diagnosis to Smartphones Researchers at Texas A&m University have developed a novel point-of-care device for field-based diagnosis of malaria using a smartphone.
thus decreasing patient training time. The technology is based on the error-related potential (Errp) measured non-invasively using electroencephalographic (EEG) electrode arrays.
#White blood cell Mediated Therapy for Neurons in Patients with Parkinson Disease Scientists at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill have begun researching the delivery of neurotropic factors to the brain as a potential therapeutic for Parkinson disease.
an associate professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Center for Nanotechnology in Drug Delivery, has developed essentially smarter immune cells.
#New Self-Positioning Transcatheter Mitral valve Developed by National University of Singapore Transcatheter heart valve replacements have become life savers for many frail patients who are unsuitable for open heart surgery.
Now a team at National University of Singapore has developed a prosthetic transcatheter mitral heart valve that positions itself on its own to best fit each patient anatomy.
Created by Dr. Teri Dankovich, a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie mellon University, the Drinkable Book features pages embedded with silver or copper nanoparticles.
currently a manual operation done by students in a lab, and gear it up for full-scale distribution.
Queensland University of Technology researchers have created a killer robot with the singular purpose of seeking out
So COTSBOT's advanced computer vision and learning algorithm allow it to learn to target crown-of-thorns starfish more accurately.
"study co-author Dr. An Do, an assistant professor of neurology at the University of California, Irvine, said in a statement."
he first underwent mental training to learn to use his brain waves to control an avatar in virtual reality.
He also underwent physical training to strengthen his leg muscles. Then the patient used the brain-controlled system to practice walking
Dr. Elizabeth Tyler-Kabara, an associate professor of neurological surgery and bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh, who was not involved with the study,
But researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South korea may have made steel cool again, not to mention stronger and lighter, reports Popular Mechanics.
a biomedical engineer at the University of British columbia. t similar to when a grenade goes off
and the University of North carolina at Chapel hill have designed a novel drug release technology that relies on a stretchable elastomer
led by Kogakuin University president and professor Mitsunobu Sato, back in 2013. The electrolyte used for the battery positive electrode is made mostly from lithium iron phosphate,
or spherical, says grad student Nathan Cermak, one of the paper lead authors. Postdoc Selim Olcum is also a lead author of the paper;
Manalis, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in MIT departments of Biological engineering and Mechanical engineering, and a member of MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, is the paper senior author.
says Michael Roukes, a professor of physics, applied physics, and bioengineering at Caltech, who is pioneering the development of inertial imaging
New research by the Nanoparticles By design Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), in collaboration with the Materials Center Leoben Austria and the Austrian Centre for Electron microscopy and Nanoanalysis has developed an efficient
New research by the Nanoparticles By design Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), in collaboration with the Materials Center Leoben Austria and the Austrian Centre for Electron microscopy and Nanoanalysis has developed an efficient
The research jointly lead by Professor Christoph Hagemeyer, Head of the Vascular Biotechnology Laboratory at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute and Professor Frank Caruso,
an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at the University of Melbourne, was published today in the leading journal Advanced Materials.
Professor Hagemeyer said this latest step offers a revolutionary difference between the current treatments for blood clots and
Professor Hagemeyer said. nce located at the site of the blood clot, thrombin (a molecule at the centre of the clotting process) breaks open the outer layer of the nanocapsule,
Professor Frank Caruso from the Melbourne School of engineering said the targeted drug with its novel delivery method can potentially offer a safer alternative with fewer side effects for people suffering a heart attack
Now a team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University in China has found a novel way around that problem:
or anode, are reported in the journal Nature Communications, in a paper by MIT professor Ju Li and six others.
says Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Science and Engineering, who has a joint appointment in MIT Department of Materials science and engineering. e came up with the method serendipitously,
an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, who was involved not in this work. o me,
CVD graphene with help from intermolecular forces Flagship-affiliated physicists from RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich have together with colleagues in Japan devised a method for peeling graphene flakes from a CVD substrate
the first author of which is research student Luca Banszerus. Key to the process is the strong Van der waals interaction that exists between graphene and hexagonal boron nitride, another 2d material within
Now, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have discovered a way to grow graphene nanoribbons with desirable semiconducting properties directly on a conventional germanium semiconductor wafer.
In a paper published August 10, 2015 in the journal Nature Communications, Michael Arnold, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at UW-Madison, Phd student Robert Jacobberger,
The research team operating out of Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), affiliated with the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Center for Artificial Low Dimensional Electronic systems (CALDES), reported a tunable band gap in black phosphorus (BP),
an amiable professor stationed at POSTECH speaks in rapid bursts when detailing the experiment, e transferred electrons from the dopant-potassium-to the surface of the black phosphorus,
Professor Kim explained, raphene is a Dirac semimetal. It more efficient in its natural state than black phosphorus but it difficult to open its band gap;
Ke Xu, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab Life sciences Division, has dubbed his innovation SR-STORM,
Xu is also an assistant professor at UC Berkeley Department of chemistry. e measure both the position and spectrum of each individual molecule, plotting its super-resolved spatial position in two dimensions and coloring each molecule according to its spectral position,
Dr Thomas Bennett from the Department of Materials science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge says:
Professor Yuanzheng Yue from Aalborg University adds: second facet to the work is in the glasses themselves,
Professor Trevor Rayment Physical science Director at Diamond, comments:""This work is an exciting example of how work with synchrotron radiation
including researchers from the University of Exeter, has replicated the surface chemistry found in the iridescent scales of the Morpho butterfly to create an innovative gas sensor.
Professor Pete Vukusic, one of the authors of the research and part of the Physics department at the University of Exeter said:
and also comprised of University of Exeter, State university of New york at Albany, and Air force Research Laboratory, produced these new kind of colorimetric sensors that favourably compete with conventional gas sensor arrays in simplicity, stability,
Dr. Timothy Starkey, researcher at the University of Exeter, said: ur research into these bio-inspired sensors demonstrates the huge value in applying the scientific learnings from the biological world to develop technologies for real world applications. d
#Making 3d objects disappear Invisibility cloaks are a staple of science fiction and fantasy, from Star trek to Harry potter,
Scientists at the U s. Department of energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have devised an ultra-thin invisibility kincloak that can conform to the shape
a recent member of Zhang research group who is now an assistant professor at Penn State university. ecent developments in metasurfaces,
"Valentyn Volkov is the co-lead author, a visiting professor from the University of Southern Denmark.
The significant advance, by a team at the University of New south wales (UNSW) in Sydney appears today in the international journal Nature. hat we have is a game changer,
Scientia Professor and Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at UNSW. ee demonstrated a two-qubit logic gate the central building block of a quantum computer and,
But the UNSW team working with Professor Kohei M. Itoh of Japan Keio University has done just that for the first time.
but seemingly impossible (in physical reality), said Professor Mark Hoffman, UNSW's Dean of Engineering. he advance our UNSW team has made could,
we believe, be the inflection point that changes that Schrödinger paradigm, "he added.""The technology devised,
Francesco Ricci, of the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, senior co-author of the study.""This DNA nanomachine can be modified in fact custom
Vallée-Bélisle of the University of Montreal, the other senior co-author of the paper.""It is rapid,
Kevin Plaxco of the University of California, Santa barbara.""The materials needed for one assay cost about 15 cents,
but we are looking forward to improve our sensing platform even more"said Simona Ranallo, a Phd student in the group of Prof.
Ricci at the University of Rome and first-author of the paper.""For example, we could adapt our platform
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, very narrow,
Back in 2013 Martin Mittendorff, who was a Phd student at the HZDR at that time, had developed the precursor to the graphene detector.
In his present position as a postdoc at the University of Maryland he has perfected now it with his Dresden colleagues and with scientists from Marburg, Regensburg and Darmstadt.
Back in 2013 Martin Mittendorff, who was a Phd student at the HZDR at that time, had developed the precursor to the graphene detector.
In his present position as a postdoc at the University of Maryland he has perfected now it with his Dresden colleagues and with scientists from Marburg, Regensburg and Darmstadt.
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,
University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineers have created the fastest, most responsive flexible silicon phototransistor ever made.
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,
an MIT professor of biological engineering and the paper senior author. e used the tools of protein engineering to try to boost the magnetic characteristics of this protein.
The paper lead author is former MIT graduate student Yuri Matsumoto. Other authors are graduate student Ritchie Chen and Polina Anikeeva, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering.
Magnetic pull Previous research has yielded synthetic magnetic particles for imaging or tracking cells, but it can be difficult to deliver these particles into the target cells.
The device, fabricated at Purdue University's Birck Nanotechnology Center, uses a cylindrical gold"nanoantenna"with a diameter of 320 nanometers,
"said Alexandra Boltasseva, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Findings are detailed in a paper appearing online in Nature Nanotechnology Monday (Nov 2).
and photons, said Vladimir M. Shalaev, co-director of a new Purdue Quantum Center, scientific director of nanophotonics at the Birck Nanotechnology Center and a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering."
doctoral student Justus C. Ndukaife. Previous research had shown that convection using a single plasmonic nanoantenna was too weak to induce such a strong convection, below 10 nanometers per second,
said Steve Wereley, a professor of mechanical engineering. Ndukaife said, "The local electromagnetic field intensity is enhanced highly, over 200 times, at the plasmonic hotspot.
but important step,"said Dmitri Strukov, a professor of electrical and computer engineering. With time and further progress, the circuitry may eventually be expanded
###Konstantin Likharev from the Department of physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University also conducted research for this project.
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Photovoltaic device measurements were done at the University of Utah h
#Artificial photosynthesis: New, stable photocathode with great potential Many of us are familiar with electrolytic splitting of water from their school days:
HZB recipe and technology The recipe for this novel and elegant coating was developed by Anahita Azarpira in the course of her doctoral studies in a team headed by Assoc.
Yoke Khin Yap, a professor of physics at Michigan Technological University, has worked with a research team that created these digital switches by combining graphene and boron nitride nanotubes.
Scientists from ITMO University developed artificial blood vessels that are not susceptible to blood clot formation. The achievement was made possible by a new generation of drug-containing coating applied to the inner surface of the vessel.
head of the International Laboratory of Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies at ITMO University proposed a solution to the problem.
researchers from North carolina State university and the University of North carolina-Chapel hill show that magnetic nanoparticles encased in oily liquid shells can bind together in water,
"said Orlin Velev, INVISTA Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at NC State and the corresponding author of the paper."
research assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at NC State and first author of the paper.
and Engineering Center that facilitates interactions between Triangle universities.""said Michael Rubinstein, John P. Barker Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at UNC and one of the co-authors of the paper r
#Tantalizing discovery may boost memory technology: Rice university scientists make tantalum oxide practical for high-density devices Scientists at Rice university have created a solid-state memory technology that allows for high-density storage with a minimum incidence of computer errors.
Wang is an assistant professor at the Korea University-Korea Institute of Science and Technology's Graduate school of Converging Science and Technology.
Co-authors are former Rice research scientist Jae-Hwang Lee, an assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Massachusetts
Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of computer science and a member of Rice's Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology y
Now, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have discovered a way to grow graphene nanoribbons with desirable semiconducting properties directly on a conventional germanium semiconductor wafer.
In a paper published Aug 10 in the journal Nature Communications, Michael Arnold, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at UW-Madison, Ph d. student Robert Jacobberger,
The new approach being developed by researchers from the OSU College of Pharmacy and the University of Nebraska takes existing approaches to photodynamic therapy
and makes them significantly more effective by adding compounds that make cancer cells vulnerable to reactive oxygen species,
"said Oleh Taratula, an assistant professor in the Oregon State university/Oregon Health & Science University college of Pharmacy."
Now, researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in Japan, have pulled off the same feat for light in the quantum world by developing an optical chip that can process photons in an infinite number
Bristol Phd student Jacques Carolan, one of the researchers, added:""Once we wrote the code for each circuit,
Professor Jeremy O'brien, Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics at Bristol University, explained:""Over the last decade, we have established an ecosystem for photonic quantum technologies,
"The University of Bristol's pioneering'Quantum in the Cloud'is the first and only service to make a quantum processor publicly accessible
a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Life sciences Division, has dubbed his innovation SR-STORM, or spectrally resolved stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy.
Xu is also an assistant professor at UC Berkeley's Department of chemistry.""We measure both the position
and on budget,"says Caltech's Nate Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor and professor of chemistry,
The work was done by researchers in the laboratories of Lewis and Harry Atwater, director of JCAP and Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials science."
Nobody had seen ever this before,"said LSU Physics Professor Ward Plummer, a co-author on the study.
head of the Department of physics at Fudan University and a co-author on the paper.""What you really would like to do is get this temperature above room temperature,
an author of the paper now based at Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea."
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and flexible electronics University of Vermont scientists have invented a new way to create what they are calling an electron superhighway in an organic semiconductor that promises to allow electrons to flow faster
UVM graduate students (from left) Naveen Rawat and Lane Manning, and professors Randy Headrick and Madalina Furis, deployed this table-top scanning laser microscope.
Their latest finding is reported in the journal Nature Communications--and may someday not too far off, let you roll up your computer like a piece of paper.
"says Lane Manning'08 a doctoral student in Furis'lab and co-author on the new study.
the team worked in the lab of UVM physics and materials science professor Randy Headrick to successfully form films with jumbo-sized crystal grains and"small angle boundaries."
"The new UVM study--led by two of Furis'students, Zhenwen Pan G'12, and Naveen Rawat G'15--opens a window to view how increasing"long-range order"in the organic semiconductor films is a key mechanism that allows excitons to migrate farther."
FOM workgroup leader prof. dr. Bart van Wees and his Phd student Ludo Cornelissen, both from the University of Groningen and FOM workgroup leader dr. Rembert
Duine from Utrecht University have succeeded to use spin waves in an electric circuit by carefully designing the device geometry.
"said Liangfang Zhang, a nanoengineering professor at UC San diego and the senior author of the study."
"said Shu Chien, a professor of bioengineering and medicine, director of the Institute of Engineering in Medicine at UC San diego,
The collaborative effort also includes Kang Zhang, a professor of ophthalmology and chief of Ophthalmic Genetics at UC San diego and a corresponding author on this study y
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