or sample preparation,"said Tomasz Tkaczyk, associate professor, Dept. of Bioengineering, Rice Univ.,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 has been used in hospitals and universities for more than 30 years. It's just one of the many powerful technologies made possible by a tiny device called a SQUID, short for superconducting quantum interference device.
and also requires extensive training for its handling, "Chesca said. He also noted that the price of helium-4,
and is used already on a daily basis in colleges and universities around the world. Chesca and his colleagues are currently working on optimizing the shape
associate professor of engineering and physics at Brown and senior author of a new paper describing the work."
when coupled with a drug developed at the Univ. of Rochester School of medicine and Dentistry, rid immune cells of HIV and kept the virus in check for long periods.
lead study author and professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience at Nebraska,
a professor of chemistry who led the team at UC Riverside. n a similar way,
The research project resulted from collaboration between students and researchers at UC Riverside and the Univ. of Augsburg
For this project, Bartels lab greatly benefited from the complementary expertise between the two universities,
followed by device integration in Bavaria. t was really exciting to see how our students obtained these fascinating results by combining the 2-D materials from California
UCR graduate student Edwin Preciado and Univ. of Augsburg recent graduate Florian J. R. Schülein spearheaded the research project in the research laboratories of Bartels and Krenner
Likewise, Sebastian Hammer, a graduate student at the Univ. of Augsburg, worked in Bartels lab this summer fabricating a new batch of devices in an extension of the current project
a UC Berkeley professor of chemistry who led the project. The flexible MOF can be loaded with methane
Long and graduate student and first author Jarad Mason instead turned to flexible MOFS noting that they behave better
an associate professor in Purdue's Dept. of Physics and Astronomy who led the research.""It is something like changing water from liquid to ice;
said Eduardo Fradkin, a professor of physics at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and director of the Institute for Condensed Matter Theory at the Univ. of Illinois,
and the ultrapure crystals used in this research were grown by a group led by Michael Manfra, professor of physics and astronomy at Purdue.
Manfra also is a professor of both materials engineering and electrical and computer engineering. The gallium arsenide crystals grown using the molecular beam epitaxy technique serve as a model platform to explore the many phases that arise among strongly interacting electrons,
associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke Univ."Many labs across the world are using these tools on the assumption that they're getting specific effects,
"said Timothy Reddy, assistant professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at Duke.""Finding a change in sequence
Crawford, associate professor of pediatrics, has spent more than a decade developing techniques to identify control regions across the genome
"It fell to Pratiksha Thakore, a Phd student in Gersbach's lab, to integrate the expertise of all three laboratories for studying the specificity of CRISPR in controlling these switches.
Other participants include scientists from Manipal University, India; GSI-Giessen, Germany; Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany;
Japan Atomic energy agency; and the joint Institute for Nuclear research in Russia. The results are published in the journal Physics Letters B. The Lab Dawn Shaughnessy, Ken Moody,
says Phd student Fadel Adib, who is lead author on the new paper. F Capture would enable motion capture without body sensors
according to MIT professor and paper co-author Dina Katabi. ee working to turn this technology into an in-home device that can call 911
whose other co-authors include MIT professor Frédo Durand, Phd student Chen-Yu Hsu, and undergraduate intern Hongzi Mao. ee just at the beginning of thinking about the different ways to use these technologies.
How it works The device works by transmitting wireless signals that traverse the wall and reflect off a person body back to the device.
says Phd student Fadel Adib, who is lead author on the new paper. F Capture would enable motion capture without body sensors
according to MIT professor and paper co-author Dina Katabi. ee working to turn this technology into an in-home device that can call 911
whose other co-authors include MIT professor Frédo Durand, Phd student Chen-Yu Hsu, and undergraduate intern Hongzi Mao. ee just at the beginning of thinking about the different ways to use these technologies.
How it works The device works by transmitting wireless signals that traverse the wall and reflect off a person body back to the device.
Kyoung-Shin Choi is a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an experimentalist.
Giulia Galli is Liew Family Professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations at the IME and a theorist.
Nitrogen's role Galli and former graduate student Yuan Ping, now a post-doc at Caltech, found that the nitrogen was acting on the electrode in several ways.
The new study was performed by a research team led by Jordan Miller, assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice,
and Pavan Atluri, assistant professor of surgery at Penn. The study showed that blood flowed normally through test constructs that were connected surgically to native blood vessels.
Bioengineering 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 3
there significant potential to lower costs and increase efficiency, said Nick Auyeung, an assistant professor of chemical engineering in the OSU College of Engineering, corresponding author on this study,
In addition, USDA is launching a new consumer education campaign through its Center for Nutrition policy and Promotion with information on food loss and waste facts and reduction tips.
#Brain training app could help people with schizophrenia Scientists at Cambridge university said tests on a small number of patients who played the game over four weeks found they had improvements in memory and learning.
or stay in education. There is increasing evidence that computer-assisted training can help people with schizophrenia overcome some of their symptoms, with better outcomes in their daily lives.
This study, published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, found that 22 patients who played the memory game made significantly fewer errors
and were motivated to play it across the eight hours of cognitive training. The researchers said this was important,
even those patients with a general lack of motivation are spurred on to continue the training. g
Guy Houlsby, professor of civil engineering at Oxford university, says their design is an improvement on the vertical Darrieus wind turbine used in some turbine systems."
A scale prototype of THAWT has been stress tested successfully twice at Newcastle University. The developers say the system could be used in waters off France and many Asian countries, such as Japan, China, the Koreas, Indonesia, India,
since I was doing my masters in engineering specifically on electric car motor control systems, "he told Reuters. Sato says he is confident that Walkcar goes beyond bulkier devices such as the Segway or Toyota's Winglet."
Developed by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University, the experimental system has been produced in different shapes and sizes to suit various locations on the body, such as the finger,
a professor at North carolina State university, told the New yorker. early 20 percent of the world remaining forests are the distance of a football field or about 100 meters away from forest edges,
William Laurance, a professor at Australia James Cook University and another of the study co-authors
which provide the playgrounds in which to search for new macroscopic physical properties, said Dr David Hsieh of California Institute of technology in Pasadena, California.
Dr Hsieh and his colleagues from Tel aviv University California Institute of technology, Iowa State university, and the University of Kentucky, made the discovery
while testing a laser-based measurement technique that they recently developed to look for what is called multipolar order. o understand multipolar order,
it brilliant, said Asier Marzo of the University of Bristol and the Public University of Navarre, a team member and the first author of a paper in the journal Nature Communications.
Bruce Drinkwater of the University of Bristol. ut here we have managed to control the sound to a degree never previously achieved. n our device we manipulate objects in mid-air
added co-author Prof Sriram Subramanian of the University of Sussex and Ultrahaptics Ltd. The team used an array of 64 miniature loudspeakers (driven at 40khz with 15vpp;
led by scientists at the University of Leeds and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, focused on the"Akt pathway,"a signaling pathway within cells that drives cancer formation and the spread of cancers
Lead author Professor John Ladbury, Dean of the University of Leeds'Faculty of Biological sciences and Professor of Mechanistic Biology, said,
"Dr Zahra Timsah, University Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds'School of Molecular and Cellular biology, who was the lead researcher on the study,
It involved researchers from the University of Leeds, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the UT Health Science Center at Houston t
Researchers at the University of California, San diego (UCSD) School of medicine and the University of Wollongong in Australia have discovered that, 30 years ago,
. UCSD Professor of Pediatrics and Pharmacy. he consequences of this event on human health are still being felt three decades later.
said lead author Mark Walker, Ph d. a Professor of Biological sciences at the University of Wollongong. n the case of the invasive strep clone,
Walker Australian-American Fulbright Commission Senior Scholar Award sabbatical in Dr. Nizet laboratory, and financed by grants from the National institutes of health, the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia,
and Jason Mcarthur of the University of Wollongong; Katrin Dinkla and Gurshan Chhatwal of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig, Germany;
Rita Kansal and Malak Kotb of the University of Tennessee-Memphis; Ramy Aziz of the University of Cairo, Egypt;
Amy Simpson, UCSD Medical student, and John Buchanan, UCSD Assistant Research Scientist in Pediatrics
#Spontaneous Rare Mutations Cause Half Of Autism Researchers are saying a new analysis of data on the genetics of autism spectrum disorder disputes a commonly held belief that autism results from the chance combinations
a Cold Spring Harbotr Laboratory assistant professor and on faculty at the New york Genome Center, finds that"autism genes"-i e.,
This result supports a theory first published in 2007 by senior author Michael Wigler, a CSHL professor,
and Dr. Kenny Ye, a statistician at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. They predicted that unaffected mothers are"carriers"of devastating mutations that are transmitted preferentially to children affected with severe ASD.
said the study's senior author, Matthew Bogyo, Phd, professor of pathology and of microbiology and immunology at Stanford university School of medicine.
Lead authorship of the study is shared by Kristina Bender, Phd, a former postdoctoral scholar in Bogyo's lab
and Megan Garland, a student in the Medical scientist Training program. By not aiming to kill the pathogen with antibiotics,
and possibly many more, harbor C. difficile in their gut, said study co-author Justin Sonnenburg, Phd, professor of microbiology and immunology,
a postdoctoral scholar in Bogyo's lab who is now an assistant professor at the University of Vermont,
Professor of Complex Materials at ETH Zurich has developed a new procedure that mimics the natural model almost perfectly.
and combines it with modern material research, says Studart doctoral student Tobias Niebel, co-author of a study just published in the specialist journal Nature Materials.
The co-lead author of the study, doctoral student Hortense Le Ferrand, and her colleagues began by creating a plaster cast of a human wisdom tooth.
assistant professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at at Washington University School of medicine in St louis."One of my patients told me he was able to pick up a noodle off his chest
me because it restored triceps function and improvement in my grip,"said Bavlsik, an assistant professor of clinical medicine at the School of medicine."
"Surgeons at Washington University pioneered nerve-transfer surgery. Developed about 25 years ago by the study's senior author, Susan E. Mackinnon, MD, director of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the School of medicine,
the technique initially was performed to restore movement in the extremities of patients who had injured peripheral nerves
Mackinnon, director of the School of medicine's Center for Nerve Injury and Paralysis, and the Sydney M. Shoenberg Jr. and Robert H. Shoenberg Professor of Surgery."
"But once established, the surgery's benefits provide a way to let individuals with spinal cord injuries improve their daily lives."
Background Tohoku University Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization (known as Tommo) has been working in cooperation with Iwate Medical University on the Tohoku Medical Megabank Project.
It is part of the universities'contribution towards reconstruction of the region following the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.
Since 2013, the two universities have been conducting cohort studies, which include some150, 000 community residents in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures e
"said Rob Shepherd, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and senior author of a paper in Advanced Materials.
A team of scientists from Mcgill University, Washington University in St louis, ITMO University in Saint petersburg, Russia,
and the University of Bristol in the UK studied the response of cancer cells to reduced availability of glucose, the main fuel source for most cancer cells.
Research Associate at Mcgill University and lead author of the study.""We found that some cancer cells also express PEPCK,
"adds Russell Jones, Associate professor of Physiology at Mcgill University's Goodman Cancer Research Centre. The study suggests that nutrient availability in the organism,
"explains Alexey Sergushichev, bioinformatician and Phd student at the Department of Computer technologies at ITMO University."
Zhenan Bao, a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford, has spent a decade trying to develop a material that mimics skin's ability to flex and heal,
Benjamin Tee, a recent doctoral graduate in electrical engineering; Alex Chortos, a doctoral candidate in materials science and engineering;
and Andre Berndt, a postdoctoral scholar in bioengineering, were the lead authors on the Science paper.
a fellow professor of bioengineering at Stanford who pioneered a field that combines genetics and optics, called optogenetics.
Bao's team has worked already with Bianxiao Cui, an associate professor of chemistry at Stanford, to show that direct stimulation of neurons with electrical pulses is possible.
Study leader Professor Janet Shipley Professor of Cancer Molecular Pathology at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, said,
"Our research has led to the development of a test that can detect patients that will benefit from treatment up front
"Professor Robert Huddart, Professor of Urological Cancer at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and Consultant at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, said,
and lung cancers,"said Dr. Nhan Tran, an Associate professor in Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGEN)' s Cancer and Cell biology Division,
"said project leader Mads Daugaard, an assistant professor of urologic science at UBC and a senior research scientist at the Vancouver Prostate Centre, part of the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute."
"said Poul Sorensen, a UBC professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and distinguished scientist with the BC Cancer Agency and co-senior investigator on the study y
Scientists at the University of Bonn and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) have decoded a central signal cascade associated with epileptic seizures.
Dr. Albert J. Becker from the Institute of Neuropathology of the University of Bonn. The hippocampus, located in the temporal lobe, is a central switching station in the brain.
Becker, together with scientists from the departments of Experimental Epileptology and Neuroradiology of the University of Bonn Hospital as well as from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Israel
Dr. Susanne Schoch from the department of Neuropathology at the University of Bonn. The researchers also see a possible potential in this new technology for novel diagnostic approaches in humans s
doctoral student Mingzhe Yu, said in the press release. The design is now patent pending, and the team reports the results of their testing in the Journal of the American Chemical Society S
The radio enthusiast had spent several weeks trying to make contact with the space station after learning it was due to pass over his house."
According to the University of Melbourne, which was involved also in the development of the device, around half of the 55,000 Australians who experience heart attack
co-developer Martin Weigel of Saarland University in Germany told Matthew Stock at Reuters. ut our sensor is a flexible and stretchable sensor,
Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne have developed successfully the world most energy-efficient rtificial photosynthesistechnique, which effectively mimics plant-based photosynthesis by using solar energy to convert water into hydrogen.
Thomas Faunce, an expert on artificial photosynthesis from the Australian National University in Canberra, was involved not in the Monash study
More good news is that a study published in June by researchers at the University of California,
and so the team from the Autonomous University of Barcelona decided to see if they could build a magnetic wormhole in the lab instead.
Researchers at the University of California, San diego in the US have developed a prototype to show off a new wireless communication technique which they say massively outperforms existing wireless tech by using the human body itself to help send data between devices.
professor at the Department of Applied Physics at Kogakuin University in Japan, announced the development of this device back in 2013.
and cannabidiol-another active compound that has shown promise as a medical treatment-told The New york times. Back in August, researchers from the University of California,
Now, researchers from the Technical University of Dortmund in Germany have outlined in the journal Biotechnology Letters how they looked into
As Jonathan Page, an adjunct professor at the University of British columbia in Canada who helped sequence the THC
a professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai, told Tech Insider that using all the compounds in marijuana simultaneously is like"throwing 400 tablets in a cocktail
Developed by a team of researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt, the procedure uses a desalination technique called pervaporation to remove the salt from sea water
a professor of water contamination at Egypt National Research Centre, told Scidev. net.""It can effectively desalinate water with high concentration of salt like that of the Red sea, where desalination costs more and yields less."
-but perhaps the grand masters of chess should be the ones looking over their shoulders.
A computer scientist in the UK has invented a new type of chess artificial intelligence that's able to get up to the International Master level after just 72 hours of tuition.
In contrast, the Giraffe AI developed by Matthew Lai from the University college London assesses the current state of the board instead, hence the accelerated learning time.
engineer Harish Bhaskaran from the University of Oxford, said in a press release.""But we think using light can significantly speed this up."
"lead researcher Kevin Laws from the University of New south wales (UNSW) said in a press release.""With our new instruction manual we can start to create many new useful metallic glass-types
one of the researchers, Zoran Nenadic from the University of California, Irvine in the US, said in a press release. e showed that you can restore intuitive, brain-controlled walking after a complete spinal cord injury."
The volunteer had to undergo months of mental training to reactivate his brain conceptual walking ability,
The mental training consisted of the man wearing an EEG cap that would read his brain waves as he was being instructed to think about walking.
before physical training commenced in earnest. The man first practised walking while suspended in the air, before finally standing on his own two feet again,
an assistant clinical professor of neurology. e hope that an implant could achieve an even greater level of prosthesis control
Hallisey, who is currently entering her junior year at Greenwich High school in Connecticut, says her test could also be adapted to detect HIV, Dengue and Yellow fever viruses, Lyme disease,
She takes home US$50, 000 in scholarship funding from Google. The science fair is meant to challenge the next generation of young scientists, inventors,
the Texas teen who was arrested at school after bringing in a clock to show his teachers c
the American Midwest was devastated by heavy and repeated flash flooding as a result of Hurricane Dean and Tropical Storm Erin dumping massive amounts of rain on several states.
Alan Duffy, a Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia.""The brine on Mars might not directly support life
at Gothenburg Sahlgrenska University hospital, orthopaedic surgery has moved to a 6-hour day, as have doctors and nurses in two hospital departments in Umeå to the north,"The Guardian reports.
Now engineers from the University of New south wales (UNSW) in Australia have overcome the final hurdle,
Older adults and Alzheimer's patients who are carrying a specific variant of the IL1RAP gene were found to have higher rates of amyloid plaque accumulation in the brain,
and fighting an important cause of progression in Alzheimer's disease,"said one of the team, Andrew Saykin from the Indiana University School of medicine.
invented research and fake journals that Wuhan University estimated in 2009 was worth $150m, "The Economist wrote back in 2013.
an innovation-studies specialist at Tsinghau University in Beijing, told Nature. He added that young scientists in China are told always to go overseas
a professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, wrote in an online commentary for China. com."The prize for Tu Youyou has raised questions precisely about this. till,
Together with researchers from the University of Washington, the Buck Institute laboriously examined the development of some 4, 698 separate yeast strains,
"explains one of the researchers, Anton Rebhan from the Vienna University of Technology. But there is one major difference between the two:
Fortunately, students in Switzerland have answered this very problem with the calevo an electric wheelchair that has the ability to ascend steps directly by lowering a tank-style tread that can roll the wheelchair up a flight of stairs.
Designed by students at ETZ Zurich and the Zurich University of the Arts, the Scalevo features gyroscopic technology that lets the wheelchair automatically balance itself on just two wheels
While the student prototypes that have been developed so far are not for sale, interest in the project has led the Scalevo creators to consider crowdfunding a more affordable consumer version.
if the students decide to pursue the idea. t was built very compact, so it not much wider than a classic manual wheelchair and it can still go under tables,
Based on this knowledge, Learner and his colleagues started looking for an antibody that could transform cancerous leukaemia cells back into healthy bone marrow cells.
and how mutations in the gene cause disease,"said one of the team, Xin Liu, from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical centre.
#Researchers create lithium-air battery that could be 10x more powerful than lithium-ion A new lithium-air battery created by researchers at the University of Cambridge points the way to the ultimate battery packs of the future,
said Meghan Moran, an associate professor in the Bloomberg School department of health, behaviour and society. n our review,
The prototype developed in the Research Department in Zeolites, at the Institute of Science of the Meritorious University of Puebla (BUAP), in center Mexico,
Kit could one day Be led by widely available Professor Jeffrey Bode of the Institute of Transformative Biomolecules at Nagoya University in Japan,
Inspired by this approach, Professor Bode and his colleagues found that they could make large mixtures of biologically active compounds from a few chemical ingredients in just a few hours,
"says Professor Bode.""For example, we envision that synthetic fermentation could be used by farmers to generate
In 2014, researchers in South korea at IBS Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics along with Samsung Advanced Institute of technology, the Department of Nano Applied Engineering at Kangwon National University, the Department of energy Science
at Sungkyunkwan University, and Materials science department at California Institute of technology California, USA have formulated a new method for creating a novel and much more efficient TE alloy.
"says the leader of the study Stevens Rehen, Professor at UFRJ and researcher at IDOR.
study suggests The simple test developed by University of Central Florida scientist Qun"Treen"Huo holds the promise of earlier detection of one of the deadliest cancers among men.
"said Charles Gersbach, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke.""That becomes immediately obvious when you consider that we have over 200 cell types,
"Timothy Reddy, assistant professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at Duke, has spent the better part of a decade mapping millions of these enhancers across the human genome.
assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering and lead author of the paper.
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