#Giving Paralyzed People a Voice A new device which transforms paralysis victimsbreath into words believed to be the first invention of its kind has been developed by academics from Loughborough University.
Dr. David Kerr, Senior Lecturer in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, and Dr. Kaddour Bouazza-Marouf, Reader in Mechatronics in Medicine, said the device learns from its user,
A new device which transforms paralysis victimsbreath into words believed to be the first invention of its kind has been developed by academics from Loughborough University. hen it comes to teaching our invention to recognise words and phrases,
#Oxytocin Delivering Nasal Device to Treat Mental illness Researchers at the University of Oslo have tested a new device for delivering hormone treatments for mental illness through the nose.
Professor Ole A. Andreassen and his research team have collaborated with Optinose on a project that evaluated two different doses of oxytocin
Professor Ole A. Andreassen explains: he results show that intranasal administration, i e. introducing oxytocin through the nose,
concludes Professor Andreassen o
#New Technology Enables Completely Paralyzed Man to Voluntarily Move His Legs Robotic step training and noninvasive spinal stimulation enable patient to take thousands of steps.
and take thousands of steps in a obotic exoskeletondevice during five days of training and for two weeks afterward a team of UCLA scientists reports this week.
At UCLA, Pollock made substantial progress after receiving a few weeks of physical training without spinal stimulation
Pollock said. his is an aerobic training zone, a rate I haven even come close to
and quality of life, said V. Reggie Edgerton, senior author of the research and a UCLA distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology, neurobiology and neurosurgery.
a UCLA professor of neurology and member of the Easton Laboratory for Neurodegenerative Disease Research. ecause the presentation varies from person to person,
causing cells to experience severe power failures, according to new work by researchers at Temple University School of medicine.
The study, led by Muniswamy Madesh, Phd, Associate professor in the Department of Biochemistry, the Cardiovascular Research center,
and the Center for Translational Medicine at Temple University School of medicine (TUSM), shows that the protein, spastic paraplegia 7 (SPG7), is the central component of the so-called permeability transition pore (PTP),
and inflammatory diseases, said TSRI Assistant professor of Immunology Young Jun Kang, who collaborated on the study with the lab of TSRI Institute Professor Richard A. Lerner,
who is also Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Immunochemistry. The study was published September 18, 2015 in the journal Nature Communications.
Talking to the Immune system Previous studies have shown RIPK3 controls the induction of a type of programmed cell death, called necroptosis,
A new study led by Kirill Martemyanov, an associate professor on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI
By identifying a key signaling defect within a specific membrane structure in all cells, University of California,
said Gargus, director of the Center for Autism Research & Translation and professor of pediatrics and physiology & biophysics. qually exciting,
including ones regulating learning and memory, neuronal excitability and neurotransmitter release areas known to be dysfunctional in ASD. e propose that the proper function of this channel
said Parker, a fellow of London Royal Society and UCI professor of neurobiology & behavior, who studies cellular calcium signaling.
Now a group of researchers at the University of Chicago Institute for Molecular Engineering (IME) is putting liquid crystals to work in a completely unexpected realm:
the Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering. he liquid crystal molecules that are at the interface become distorted:
as well as Aslin Izmitli-Apik and Nicholas Abbott of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. They relied crucially on theoretical molecular models,
and University of Washington researchers have created an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can solve SAT geometry questions as well as the average American 11th-grade student, a breakthrough in AI research.
senior research manager for Vision at AI2 and UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering, e are excited about Geos performance on real-world tasks.
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.
according to Carnegie mellon University researchers who have developed a three-fingered soft robotic hand with multiple embedded fiber optic sensors.
assistant professor of robotics. uman skin contains thousands of tactile sensory units only in the fingertip
The researchers/Carnegie mellon University. Each of the fingers on the robotic hand mimic the skeletal structure of a human finger, with a fingertip,
developed with mechanical engineering students Leo Jiang and Kevin Low, incorporates commercially available fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors,
working with mechanical engineering students Celeste To from CMU and Tess Lee Hellebrekers from the University of Texas, invented a highly stretchable and flexible optical sensor, using a combination of commercially available silicone rubbers.
says Catherine Drennan, a professor of chemistry and biology at MIT. The findings are detailed this week in the journal Nature.
graduate students Percival Yang-Ting Chen, Marco Jost, and Gyunghoon Kang of MIT; Jesus Fernandez-Zapata and S. Padmanabhan of the Institute of Physical chemistry Rocasolano, in Madrid;
and Maria Carmen Polanco, of the University of Murcia, in Murcia, Spain. The researchers used a combination of X-ray crystallography techniques
since she was a graduate student, emphasizes that key elements of the research were performed by all the co-authors.
says Rowena Matthews, a professor emerita of biological chemistry at the University of Michigan, who has read the paper.
In newly reported research that could help provide answers, scientists at Tufts University, in collaboration with the University of Florida, have developed a novel approach that uses artificial intelligence to illuminate cellular processes
and suggest possible targets to correct aberrations. The findings, published Oct 6 in Science Signaling online in advance of print, are believed to mark the first time artificial intelligence has been used to discover a molecular model that explains why some groups of cells deviate from normal development during embryogenesis,
said senior author Michael Levin, Ph d.,the Vannevar bush Professor of Biology at Tufts and director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental biology.
Maria Lobikin, Ph d.,recent doctoral graduate from the Levin laboratory and first author on the Science Signaling paper, first identified the building blocks receptors, hormones and other signaling
In addition to Levin and Lobikin, paper authors were Douglas J. Blackiston and Elizabeth Tkachenko of the Department of biology and Center for Regenerative and Developmental biology, Tufts University;
Daniel Lobo, formerly of the Levin laboratory and now at the University of Maryland in Baltimore;
and Christopher J. Martyniuk of the Center for Environmental and Human Toxicology and Department of Physiological Sciences, UF Genetics Institute, University of Florida.
Computation used a cluster computer awarded by Silicon Mechanics and the Campus Champion Allocation for Tufts University TG-TRA 130003 at the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment,
and progression of disease, says senior author Katerina Akassoglou, Phd, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and professor of neurology at the University of California,
and brain macrophages, says Scott Zamvil, MD, Phd, a professor of neurology at the University of California,
Researchers from the Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine are nearing development of a blood test that can accurately detect the presence of Alzheimer disease,
and accelerate the accumulation of beta amyloid deposits, a hallmark of Alzheimer pathology. The blood test developed by Dr. Nagele has shown also promise in detecting other diseases,
DO, assistant professor of family medicine at Rowan University. can think of a single patient who wouldn take steps to prevent the progression of Alzheimer
Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical school and Boston University have shown successfully neuroprotection in a Parkinson mouse model using new techniques to deliver drugs across the naturally impenetrable blood-brain barrier.
Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical school. lthough we are currently looking at neurodegenerative disease, there is potential for the technology to be expanded to psychiatric diseases, chronic pain,
#Step Closer to Prosthetic Limbs That Recreate Sense of touch A new study led by neuroscientists from the University of Chicago brings us one step closer to building prosthetic limbs for humans that re-create a sense of touch through a direct interface with the brain.
Associate professor in the Department of Organismal biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago and senior author of the study. ow we understand the nuts and bolts of stimulation,
private companies and academic institutions, including the Johns hopkins university Applied Physics laboratory and the University of Pittsburgh. Bensmaia and his colleagues at UCHICAGO are working specifically on the sensory aspects of these limbs.
the Research Professor Simon Driver said. But, before you quit your job to prepare for a doomsday party,
Professor Driver from the International Centre for Radio astronomy Research, said scientists came to this conclusion after conducting the largest multi wavelength survey ever put together. e used as many space
and learning to cook things like bagels and pizza dough with the ingredients on hand. Then, just days after the mission ended in Mid-june,
Consulting with professors from the College of Veterinary medicine in Cornell University, the company established the direction a dog wags its tail directly reflected its mood.
a handful of students walked through a park behind the University of Hannover in Germany.
These stimulated the students'muscles, guiding their steps without any conscious effort. Max Pfeiffer of the University of Hannover was the driver.
His project directs electrical currentmovie Camera into the students'sartorius, the longest muscle in the human body,
which runs from the inside of the knee to the top of the outer thigh.
One of the students compared the feeling to cruise control in a car, where the driver can take control back
Pfeiffer steered students manually, but the plan is to build the mechanism into other apps.
Evan Peck of Bucknell University in Pennsylvania says Pfeiffer's system will stop us being chained to our smartphones."
"says John Aplin of the University of Manchester, UK. During pregnancy, the lining of the uterus behaves quite differently to normal:
"says Graham Burton of the University of Cambridge, whose team discovered in 2002 that the uterus lining not the mother's blood nourishes the embryo."
Andres Clarens at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his team say pumping CO2 into the wells could prevent this.
a petroleum geologist at Newcastle University in the UK but unnecessary. ractures rarely extend past a few hundred metres above the shale reservoir,
says team member Miles Montgomery at the University of Toronto, Canada. ou could build it in situ, almost like designer tissue.
says Jay Zhang of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, although he adds that clinical applications are some way off. he real test is how it works in vivo,
says Lonnie Shea of the University of Michigan at Ann arbor, one of the developers. So far the idea has been tested in mice.
and use a few hundred watts, says Wilfred van der Wiel of the University of Twente in The netherlands. he human brain can do orders of magnitude more and uses only 10 to 20 watts.
says Jie Han of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. he physics is there, but of course you still have to demonstrate it.
and night, says Roman Hovorka of the University of Cambridge. This means there is no need to wake up to check blood sugar levels throughout the night.
and use a few hundred watts, says Wilfred van der Wiel of the University of Twente in The netherlands. he human brain can do orders of magnitude more and uses only 10 to 20 watts.
says Jie Han of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Van der Wiel hopes the work will lead to specialised processors that can solve problems that are difficult for computers, such as pattern recognition.
says Thomas Angelini at the University of Florida in Gainesville, who led the research. Print for your life Angelini team has used already the technique to print material out of living cells including human blood-vessel and canine kidney cells.
so they based the brain on detailed images of the professor grey matter. e could foresee a future in which, before brain surgery,
says Neil Roberts at the University of Edinburgh, UK. The water content of our cells doesn tend to vary much,
says Mark Skilton of the Warwick Business school in Coventry, UK. Nyst adds that eyond it being a slap in the face to the US,
Paul Bernal of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, says the judgement makes it hard to see how it is legal for any personal data gathered in the EU to now be sent to the US for processing. he ruling basically says US surveillance cannot be allowed to override our fundamental rights,
Now, a team at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, has taken a significant step forward by making a cloak for infrared radiation,
says John Pendry of Imperial College London, who pioneered the mathematics behind invisibility cloaks. ith the basic theory done
says Debbie Hay at the University of Auckland in New zealand. here has been a great deal of debate around the mechanisms of migraine.
To investigate, Simon Akerman at New york University and Peter Goadsby at Kings College London, UK,
they could open up space exploration to students and countries that lack their own space programmes, says Paulo Lozano at the Massachusetts institute of technology. e want to offer space access to people who don currently have space access,
This August, Lozano and his students tested the complete system, Cubesat and all. They put it in a vacuum chamber
Now Joel Carpenter at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and his colleagues have demonstrated a workaround.
Ludwig Aigner at Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg in Austria and his colleagues targeted a set of receptors in the brain that, when activated,
The rats took part in a range of learning and memory tests. One of these involved the rats being placed in a pool of water with a hidden escape platform.
though, old animals performed as well as their younger companions. e restored learning and memory 100 per cent,
says James Nicoll, a neuropathologist at the University of Southampton, UK. Aigner agrees he will start by testing the drug in people with Parkinson disease,
Semantic Scholar, which launches today from the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Artificial intelligence (AI2), can automatically read, digest
By identifying citations and references in the text, Semantic Scholar can work out which are the most influential or controversial papers.
Kenneth Forbus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, is confident that services like this will prove useful in the future. achines that help us filter could increase the rate at
but professors already routinely use graduate students and colleagues for the same service, so the risks are understood well.
Semantic Scholar is focusing on computer science papers. It will then gradually expand its scope to include biology,
"says Carrie Albertin, a biologist at the University of Chicago. As technology to sequence DNA has gotten faster and cheaper,
And after a team at the University of Chicago started sequencing a particular octopus species,
Surgeons at Salamanca University Hospital reported the man's case and how they made the prosthesis last month in the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.
of Salamanca University Hospital, said in a statement. He and his colleagues hope the better fit will mean fewer complications in the long run.
And that search brought him to a team of astronomers at Leiden University including Frans Snik, Matthew Kenworthy,
and in partnership with fellow NC State faculty member Michael Kudenov on projects supported by the National institutes of health, the Department of energy and the Department of defense.
For example, Escuti's university startup company, Imagineoptix Corporation, has created technologies ranging from an ultra-efficient pocket projector the size of a few quarters to components for active photonic hardware supporting internet traffic."
By contrast, the laser-driven system in combination with phase-contrast X-ray tomography only requires a university laboratory to view soft tissues.
Fine details When the physicists Professors Stefan Karsch and Franz Pfeiffer illuminate a tiny fly with X-rays, the resulting image captures even the finest hairs on the wings of the insect.
#Activated glass chip creates widest wavelength range Scientists from University of Twente research institute MESA+(Twente,
and the universities of Münster, also Germany, and Oxford and Exeter, both UK, has developed the first all-optical permanent on-chip memory.
Professor Wolfram Pernice explained, ptical bits can be written at frequencies of up to a gigahertz. This allows for extremely quick data storage by our all-photonic memory.
and recently moved to the University of Münster. Professor Harish Bhaskaran of Oxford university added, he memory we have developed is compatible not only with conventional optical fiber data transmission,
but also with the latest optical processors. The new memory can store data for decades even
The 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. t could also improve entanglement between quantum bits,
and University of Ghent team describes the development as the irst highly scalable monolithic solutionto a longstanding problem:
Learning from recent attempts to combine III-V and silicon materials in Finfet electronic devices, the Belgian team grew their laser structures directly onto a standard silicon wafer.
said Dr Mohamed Albed Alhnan, a lecturer in pharmaceutics at the University of Central Lancashire.
In 2011, Dr. Mcewen (a planetary geologist at the University of Arizona and principal investigator of images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) spotted dark streaks sloping down some of Mars canyons and mountains.
#Journey of an adorable hitchhiking robot itchbotended in Philadelphia A social research experimental robot named itchbotwas made by Dr. David Harris Smith of Mcmaster University in Hamilton, Ontario,
and Dr Frauke Zeller Ryerson University, Toronto to explore the streets and make new friends.
According to Rose Ricciardelli, assistant professor of sociology at Memorial University in Newfoundland, who also authored the study,
According to Michael Cunningham, a psychologist who teaches in the Department of Communication at the University of Louisville,
Professor Cathie Martin from the John Innes Centre in Norwich said, ur study provides a general tool for producing valuable phenylpropanoid compounds on an industrial scale in plants
Developed by a team from the University of Bristol and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. NTT) in Japan, the fully reprogrammable chip brings together a multitude of existing quantum experiments
and milliseconds for the chip to switch to the new experiment,"said Jacques Carolan, a doctoral student at Bristol."
"said Niels Holten-Andersen, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at MIT.""Whatever you do will change the bond dynamics,
a professor of chemistry at Duke university who was involved not in this research.""The fact that the reference state can be made white is quite useful;
"said Samuel Pfaff, a professor in Salk's Gene expression Laboratory.""These are just raw signals you can see through the eyepiece of a microscope.
in collaboration with engineers from the University of Bradford and with funding from Innovate U k.,a government funding agency.
"said Dr. Ben Whiteside, a senior lecturer at Bradford.""While our system has been developed initially for products made from plastics or composites through injection molding,
an assistant professor of robotics at Carnegie mellon University who led the project.""Human skin contains thousands of tactile sensory units only in the fingertip,
or holes anywhere in the body,"said Harvard professor Dr. Conor Walsh.""The device is a minimally invasive way to deliver a patch
Under development by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research, the Hypercam uses both visible and near-infrared light to peer beneath the surface
Hypercam is a low-cost multispectral camera developed by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research that reveals details that are difficult
Courtesy of the University of Washington. Hypercam illuminates a scene with 17 wavelengths. Software analyzes the resulting images to present the user with the most useful information."
"said Mayank Goel, a University of Washington doctoral student and Microsoft Research graduate fellow. Compared to an image taken with a normal camera (top),
Courtesy of the University of Washington. When Hypercam captured images of a person's hand, for instance,
"said University of Washington professor Shwetak Patel.""With this kind of camera, you could go to the grocery store
a professor in Viking studies at the University of Nottingham, translated the recipe from the Old english in Bald Leechbook,
By their fourth day of training, bionic rats chose the correct branch 82 percent of the time,
and is incredibly durable--according to Stanford chemistry professor Hongjie Dai, you can even drill a hole through the battery
A team of student engineers at Rice university has developed a clever pair of VR gloves that make it feel like you're actually interacting with virtual objects.
Now researchers from the University of British columbia have figured out a way to change the type of blood donated by volunteers,
squid are masters of camouflage, blending in to the scenery to avoid detection. Now, researchers from the University of California Irvine have isolated the source of the creature's disappearing act:
a protein appropriately named reflection. Additionally, when the researchers layered this protein on a piece of tape,
made by roboticists Fabien Expert and Franck Ruffier at Aix Marseille University in Marseille, France, manages to fly without one.
#Terminator 2 like"smart liquid metal"developed by Tsinghua University researchers These diagrams from the Advanced Materials journal show stages of the Tsinghua University experiment,
and movement/fusion of gallium alloy droplets (e). Tsinghua University scientists led by Jing Liu, have discovered a'smart'liquid metal alloy that moves on its own.
In 2014, both Tsinghua University and North carolina State university discovered that applying electrical currents to gallium alloys (like the liquid metal) would allow for controlled shape-shifiting in the metal
you'd need a substance like Tsinghua University's self powered liquid metal to avoid those embarrassing and inconvenient electrical cords.
Medical schools teach doctors almost nothing about it, spending a median of nine hours on the topic over four years.
and rooms of students at work, asking the students if they need a beer and then returning with a beverage
At the University of Cambridge, scientists have created a"mother robot"that can not only build smaller robots,
Researchers from the University of Bradford and Sofmat, an anti-fraud technology company, developed a system to add microscopic indentations to the surface of a product.
but by training with a robot now, theye learning what they need from a robot,
"said Timmons Roberts, a professor of environmental studies at Brown University.""It really does matter what the actual cap is."
Now a team led by researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has developed a flexible electronic sensor that can measure blood flow on top of the skin or
Aipoly is a smartphone app that acts as an intelligent assistant to the non-sighted user Students at Singularity University Silicon valley-based benefit corporation, educational program,
Singularity University estimates that two-thirds of the visually impaired people in the world will become smartphone users in the next five years, making technology like Aipoly essential for this growing market.
but for the Univ. of Cincinnati (UC)' s Yoonjee Park, assistant professor in the College of Engineering and Applied science biomedical engineering professor, these words are central to every conversation relating to her cutting edge research on drug delivery vehicles.
A relatively recent addition to the university, Park is a"top-talent"educator who was recruited for her leadership in a high-impact, high-demand area"in
which the university wants to continue to position itself as a global leader. The area in which Park has established herself as an expert is the field of study related to the creation and monitoring of delivery vehicles that carry medicine to specific locations within the body.
and resources for Park to pursue her research in tandem to her responsibilities as a professor.
In fact, it was the superb medical facilities she would have access to as a professor at UC that aided in her decision to accept the position at the university.
Her Phd at Purdue University and her research at Boston's Massachusetts institute of technology were dedicated both to studying particle stabilization to avoid clogging arteries with the nanoparticles and drug delivery vehicles;
and learning how drugs could be released time at the proper time. With the support of the Univ. of Cincinnati behind her efforts, Park hopes to be able to overcome the barriers that have slowed others,
said Danfeng (Daphne) Yao, associate professor of computer science at Virginia Tech. Xiaokui Shu, a computer science doctoral student of Anqing, China, advised by Yao,
was the first author.""Stealthy attacks buried in long execution paths of a software program cannot be revealed by examining fragments of the path,"Yao,
who holds the title of the L-3 Communications Cyber Faculty Fellow of Computer science, said.
armchair edges,"said Michael Arnold, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at UW-Madison.""The widths can be very, very narrow,
The multi-institutional group includes researchers from Baylor College of Medicine Rice Univ.,Stanford Univ. and the Broad Institute.
a graduate student in the Aiden lab and at Stanford university. he protein complex that forms DNA loops appears to operate like the plastic slider that is used to adjust the length of the straps:
Aiden, assistant professor of genetics at Baylor and of computer science and computational and applied mathematics at Rice, said Sanborn
a graduate student in the Aiden lab and at Stanford university. hat 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. o it not so much that the keywords need to point at one another;
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