"said Percival Zhang, a professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering, which is in both the College of Agriculture and Life sciences and the College of Engineering.
The team already has received significant funding for the next step of the project, which is to scale up production to a demonstration size."
"said Lonnie O. Ingram, director of the Florida Center for Renewable Chemicals and Fuels at the University of Florida,
"Joe Rollin, a former doctoral student of Zhang's at Virginia Tech and cofounder with Zhang of the start-up company Cell-free Bioinnovations, is the lead author on the paper.
professor of macromolecular science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University and senior author of the study."
and North Texas University's Zhenhai Xia, professor of materials science and engineering, and Zhenghang Zhao, a Phd student, who performed theoretical simulations.
Zinc-air batteries mix oxygen from the air with zinc in a liquid alkaline electrolyte to create a charge.
saving critical time and trips to the lab. Researchers at Mcmaster University have developed a new way to print paper biosensors,
where the work was done with biochemist Yingfu Li and graduate student Carmen Carrasquilla.""Imagine being able to clearly identify contaminated meat, vegetables or fruit.
In fact, according to University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign professor John Rogers, the purity needs to exceed 99.999 percent--meaning even one bad tube in 100,000 is enough to kill an electronic device."
#Alternating antibiotics could make resistant bacteria beatable Researchers from the University of Exeter has shown that the use of'sequential treatments'--using alternating doses of antibiotics--might offer effective treatment against bacterial infection.
The collaborative international research, led by Professor Robert Beardmore from the University of Exeter and funded by EPSRC,
bacterial population densities and drug resistance,"said lead author, Professor Beardmore.""As we demonstrate, it is possible to reduce bacterial load to zero at dosages that are said usually to be sub lethal and,
"While bacteria are masters at adapting to antibiotic challenge, this research suggests that there is a way to use this adaptation against them.
a professor of biology at MIT and member of the Whitehead Institute, is the paper's senior author.
Matthew Vander Heiden, the Eisen and Chang Career development Associate professor of Biology and a member of the Koch Institute, also contributed to the research,
a Phd student at the York Plasma Institute who has been working with Dr Fiona Frame on the project,
was led by Eric Pei-Yu Chiou, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and of bioengineering at the Henry Samueli School of engineering and Applied science.
Collaborators included students, staff and faculty members from the engineering school and the David Geffen School of medicine at UCLA. Currently
a former student of Chiou's who received his doctorate in December. Other UCLA authors were Ting-Hsiang Wu, a former doctoral student of Chiou's;
Dr. Daniel Clemens, adjunct professor of medicine; Bai-Yu Lee, an assistant researcher; Ximiao Wen, a graduate student in mechanical engineering;
and Dr. Marcus Horwitz, professor of medicine and of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics. The research was supported by a University of California Discovery Biotechnology Award, the National institutes of health, Nanocav and the National Science Foundation n
#New understanding of electromagnetism could enable'antennas on a chip'A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge have unravelled one of the mysteries of electromagnetism,
which could enable the design of antennas small enough to be integrated into an electronic chip.
These ultra-small antennas--the so-called'last frontier'of semiconductor design--would be a massive leap forward for wireless communications.
In new results published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the researchers have proposed that electromagnetic waves are generated not only from the acceleration of electrons,
"said Professor Gehan Amaratunga of Cambridge's Department of Engineering, who led the research.""An aerial's size is determined by the wavelength associated with the transmission frequency of the application,
"said Liang Xu, associate professor of molecular biosciences and corresponding author of the paper. The results hold promise for treating a broad array of cancers in people.
The new evidence, assembled by a team led by CSHL Associate professor Lloyd Trotman, contradicts a long-held assumption about PTEN function,
"said Dr. Lisa Baumbach-Reardon, an Associate professor of TGEN's Integrated Cancer Genomics Division and the study's senior author.
A sixth patient, under the care of Dr. Judith Hall at the University of British columbia, also underwent genetic sequencing at TGEN."
UNSW Associate professor Andrea Morello from the School of Electrical engineering and Telecommunications, said his team had realised successfully a new control method for future quantum computers.
Associate professor Morello said the method works by distorting the shape of the electron cloud attached to the atom,
in collaboration with the group led by UNSW Scientia Professor Andrew Dzurak. Key to the success of this electrical control method is the placement of the qubits inside a thin layer of specially purified silicon
"Associate professor Morello said. The purified silicon was provided through collaboration with Professor Kohei Itoh from Keio University in Japan n
#Breakthrough in cancer research: Cancer-suppressing proteins The research was conducted in the laboratory of Distinguished Professor Aaron Ciechanover, of the Technion Rappaport Faculty of medicine.
The team was led by research associate Dr. Yelena Kravtsova-Ivantsiv and included additional research students and colleagues,
as well as physicians from the Rambam, Carmel and Hadassah Medical centers, who are studying tumors and their treatment. kpc1 an important and vital pathway in the life of the cell,
Professor Ciechanover, who is also the president of the Israel Cancer Society, notes that many more years are required"to establish the research
Craig Glennie, a report author and professor at the University of Houston. The authors found that the sensors in smartphones
"said Bob Iannucci of Carnegie mellon University, Silicon valley.""Thirty years ago it took months to assemble a crude picture of the deformations from an earthquake.
"said Thomas Heaton, a coauthor of the study and professor of Engineering Seismology at Caltech."
"said Renny Franceschi, U-M professor of dentistry, biological chemistry and biomedical engineering. Franceschi and colleagues recently discovered a biomarker that they believe achieves this differentiation.
A research team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee of the Department of Materials science and engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science
researchers from KAIST and Seoul National University (SNU) have collaborated and demonstrated a facile methodology to obtain a high-performance
Professor Lee said, "This exciting approach introduces an ultra-stretchable piezoelectric generator. It can open avenues for power supplies in universal wearable and biomedical applications as well as self-powered ultra-stretchable electronics
#Scientists create invisible objects in the microwave range without metamaterial cloaking Physicists from ITMO University,
Ioffe Institute and Australian National University managed to make homogenous cylindrical objects completely invisible in the microwave range.
or can be developed at will,"said Mikhail Rybin, first author of the paper and senior researcher at the Metamaterials Laboratory in ITMO University.
Dr Bilal Sheikh, Associate professor Tim Thomas, Associate professor Anne Voss and colleagues have discovered now that MOZ
Associate professor Voss said the study revealed that the proteins tightly regulated Hox gene expression in early embryonic development."
"Associate professor Voss said.""The embryo is organised along an'axis'from head to tail, and a standard pattern of development is established that subdivides the body into segments,
"Associate professor Voss said that, though they worked together, MOZ and BMI1 played opposing roles.""We discovered that MOZ
Associate professor Voss said. She said the research also showed that significantly reducing Hox gene expression still allowed normal development,
"Associate professor Voss said.""Interestingly, we also found that producing an'accurate'amount of MOZ or BMI1 in developing embryos was not nearly as important for correct development as
"Associate professor Voss said.""Substances or environmental challenges that impact MOZ or BMI1 expression could affect
"Associate professor Voss said.""In this study we showed a key difference; two molecules that have only a maintenance role in fruit flies are indispensible for initiating the blueprint in mammalian development."
Dr Sheikh was a Phd student at The University of Melbourne during part of this research study y
"said study senior author Ivan Maillard, an associate research professor at the Life sciences Institute, where his lab is located,
and an associate professor in the Division of Hematology-Oncology at the U-M Medical school.""Leukemia is a cancer of the body's blood-forming tissues,
Graduate students Morgan Jones and Jennifer Chase were the study's first authors. Dysfunction of blood-forming stem cells is well known in illnesses like leukemia and bone marrow failure disorders.
His lab's investigation of the gene began at the prompting of co-author Sally Camper, the James V. Neel Professor and Chair of the Department of Human genetics in the U-M Medical school.
#New biomarker for uterine cancer discovered Researchers at Uppsala University have, together with researchers from Turku and Bergen, discovered a new biomarker
The study was conducted in cooperation between researchers at the universities in Uppsala, Turku and Bergen and is collected based on samples from 500 women who were diagnosed with uterine cancer between the years 1981 and 2007.
and offer them more aggressive treatment after their operation increases',says Per-Henrik Edqvist, researcher at Uppsala University's Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology,
energy saving method for manufacturing virtually any industrial composite, says Brian L. Wardle, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT."
The team, including MIT graduate students Jeonyoon Lee and Itai Stein and Seth Kessler of the Metis Design Corporation, has published its results in the journal ACS Applied materials and Interfaces.
"Gregory Odegard, a professor of computational mechanics at Michigan Technological University, says the group's carbon nanotube film may go toward improving the quality and efficiency of fabrication processes for large composites, such as wings on commercial aircraft.
The novel knowledge is the result of longstanding research in the field of cell surface receptor proteins at the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University."
"says Associate professor Mette Madsen from the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University. With the new knowledge, the hope is that pathologists
which patients the most,"says Henrik Schmidt, consultant at the Department of Oncology at Aarhus University Hospital,
The findings from the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts institute of technology could bolster efforts to develop the next generation of antiviral treatments.
and so are eliminated quickly,"said Andrei Tokmakoff, the Henry G. Gale Distinguished Service Professor in Chemistry at UCHICAGO."
"said study co-author John Essigmann, MIT's William and Betsy Leitch Professor of Chemistry, Toxicology, and Biological engineering.
Scientists with the U s. Department of energy (DOE)' s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have created a hybrid system of semiconducting nanowires and bacteria
and Swedish scientists led by Magnus Berggren from Linkping University, have developed a biocompatible micropump that makes it possible to deliver therapeutic substances directly to the relevant areas of the brain.
"said study co-author Paul M Ridker, MD, MPH, the Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical school and director of the Center for Cardiovascular disease Prevention at Brigham and Women's Hospital."
Phd, research fellow and radiology resident at the UC San diego School of medicine and the study's first author.
a senior co-author and professor of biological psychiatry at the University of Oslo in Norway."
Now, researchers from the University of Missouri, in an effort to grow placenta cells to better study the causes of preeclampsia,
a Curators Professor of Animal Science and a professor of biochemistry, and his colleagues, says these new stem cells can help advance research on preeclampsia and a number of other areas of the human reproductive process."
Researchers from Imperial College London who led the study are now developing a gene therapy designed to boost the infection-fighting cells
The study also involved researchers at Queen Mary University of London, ETH Zurich and Harvard Medical school.
the technology commercialisation company for the College, the researchers have filed two patents. A company called Immunart has been formed with the aim of commercialising the technology.
Professor Philip Ashton-Rickardt from the Section of Immunobiology in the Department of Medicine at Imperial, who led the study,
based within Queen Mary University of London William Harvey Research Institute, said: his study has identified the novel protein LEM
and authorized by the laboratories of the Mexican Accreditation agency (EMA). Also, the Monterrey Institute of technology and Higher education (ITESM), the College of Mexico and the National Polytechnic institute (IPN) have given their validation that the water treated with our technology meets the SSA NOM 127 standard,
which indicates the parameters and quality characteristics for vital liquid to be used for human consumption,
Dr. Jannic Wolf, chemist at the University of Konstanz, discovered through complex experiments that a particular diarylethene compound is an eligible candidate.
Approximately ten years ago, a working group at the University of Groningen in The netherlands had managed already to construct a switch that could interrupt the current.
In addition to the HZDR, the Technische Universitt Dresden, Leibniz-Institute of Polymer Research Dresden (IPF), the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technology and Systems (IKTS) and the Namlab ggmbh all participate in running the structured doctoral program m
"said Paul Tesar, Phd, the Dr. Donald and Ruth Weber Goodman Professor of Innovative Therapeutics,
and associate professor in the Department of Genetics & Genome Sciences at the Case Western Reserve School of medicine."
"said Robert Miller, Phd, a member of the neurosciences faculty at Case Western Reserve who,
since June his primary appointments are at the George washington University School of medicine and Health Sciences, where he is Senior Associate dean for Research and Vivian Gill Distinguished Research Chair."
"The drugs that we identified are able to enhance the regenerative capacity of stem cells in the adult nervous system.
and human OPCS in our laboratory,"said Fadi Najm, MBA, the first author of the study and Research Scientist in the Department of Genetics & Genome Sciences at the Case Western Reserve School of medicine."
"The approach from Case Western Reserve University combines cutting-edge stem cell and drug screening technologies to develop new chemical therapeutics for myelin disorders,
"says Song Jin, a UW-Madison professor of chemistry and Wisconsin Energy Institute affiliate.""However, we have yet to tap its true potential."
"Graduate student Linsen Li worked with Jin and other collaborators to perform experiments with a state-of-the-art transmission X-ray microscope at the National Synchrotron Light source at Brookhaven.
"said Thinh Nguyen, an OSU associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Nguyen worked with Alan Wang, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering,
to build the first prototype. The prototype, called Wifo, uses LEDS that are beyond the visual spectrum for humans
"Professor Thrasher says:""This is a very powerful example of how gene therapy can offer highly effective treatment for patients with complex and serious genetic disease.
#Printing silicon on paper, with lasers Recently, a group of researchers at Delft University of Technology,
the professor who led the research team at Delft University of Technology, with collaborators at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Ishikawa, Japan."
As part of the precision medicine initiative at the Cancer Institute of New jersey, investigators--which include colleagues from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical school and RUCDR Infinite Biologics, the world's largest university-based biorepository,
standard of care laboratory testing for breast cancer,"says lead author Kim M. Hirshfield, MD, Phd, breast medical oncologist at the Cancer Institute and assistant professor of medicine at Rutgers
Robert Wood Johnson Medical school. Utilizing the invasive breast cancer data set of 962 cases in The Cancer Genome Atlas
the opportunity exists to provide tailored therapies for patients,"notes Lorna Rodriguez, MD, Phd, director of the precision medicine initiative at the Cancer Institute and professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences
at Robert Wood Johnson Medical school.""Advances in genomic sequencing are helping clinicians go beyond a'one size fits all'approach for treatment.""
and associate professor of medicine and pharmacology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical school l
#Natural reparative capacity of teeth elucidated These results are published in the journal Stem Cells. The tooth is a mineralised organ, implanted in the mouth by a root.
the researchers from Inserm and Paris Descartes University at Unit 1124,"Toxicology, Pharmacology and Cellular Signaling,"have succeeded in extracting
"explains Odile Kellermann, leader of the team from Inserm and Paris Descartes University, and the main author of this work.
Ph d.,co-author of the study and senior associate dean for research, Vivian Gill Distinguished Research Professor,
and professor of anatomy and regenerative biology at the George washington University School of medicine and Health Sciences."
taking the next steps to finding treatments for MS."Performed at Case Western Reserve University, researchers discovered the therapeutic compounds for enhancing myelination from oligodendrocyte progenitor cells through screening a library of bioactive small molecules.
Finding this cellular target for pharmacological intervention, Miller and co-author Paul Tesar, Ph d.,the Dr. Donald and Ruth Weber Goodman Professor of Innovative Therapeutics
and associate professor in the Department of Genetics & Genome Sciences at the Case Western Reserve School of medicine, found seven drugs that enhance generation of mature oligodendrocytes
"said UTMB's Thomas Geisbert, professor of microbiology and immunology.""We were able to protect all of our nonhuman primates against a lethal Makona Ebola infection
Phd student in the same laboratory and co-author of the article.""Our results demonstrate the critical role of Lmx1b for mechanical and thermal pain processing.""
researchers from Brown University have developed new textured surfaces for culturing cells in the lab that better mimic the complex surroundings in
"said Ian Y. Wong, assistant professor of engineering and one of the study's authors.""We've shown that you can make textured environments for cell culture fairly easily using graphene."
says Mehrdad Kiani, a Brown undergraduate student and member of the research team.""Other methods are much more labor-intensive,
multipolar and not aligned,"said Evelyn Kendall Williams, another undergraduate member of the research team."
The work was the result of collaboration between Wong's biomedical engineering lab and the lab of Robert Hurt, professor of engineering at Brown,
Kiani and Williams both received undergraduate research funding from Brown to work on the project during the summer of 2014.
and Ruby Dimase Undergraduate Summer Fellowship offered through the Brown School of engineering. Williams received a Karen T. Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award.
Graduate students Zhongying Wang, Daniel Tonderys, Susan E. Leggett, Ruben Spitz Steinberg, and Yang Qiu were coauthors on the paper.
The initial work was supported by the National Science Foundation (CBET-1132446 and CBET-1344097) and National institutes of health (5t32es007272-23;
"Dr Yalda Jamshidi, Senior Lecturer in Human genetics, St george's University Hospital Foundation Trust, said:""Inherited genetic conditions often result
"Prof Shirley Hodgson, Professor of Cancer Genetics, St george's University of London, said:""I think that this is a significant departure from currently accepted research practice.
"Prof Darren Griffin, Professor of Genetics, University of Kent, said:""Given the widespread use of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, such announcement was inevitable, sooner rather than later.
"Associate professor Peter Illingworth is Medical Director at IVFAUSTRALIA:""This is a fascinating piece of experimental science.
Researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have shown that a laser-generated microplasma in air can be used as a source of broadband terahertz radiation.
Ph d. student and lead author Buccheri explains that they exploited the underlying physics to reduce the necessary laser power for plasma generation.
"Odom is Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition Professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.
and Mahmud Khan (now at Miami University) demonstrated that the cerium-containing alloy's intrinsic coercivity--the ability of a magnetic material to resist demagnetization--far exceeds that of dysprosium-containing magnets at high temperatures.
#Mass and shape of single molecules revealed The work was led by Professor John Sader at the University of Melbourne's School of Mathematics and Statistics and Professor Michael Roukes of the California Institute of technology.
California Institute of technology Professor Michael Roukes says NEMS and inertial imaging could prove very useful for biological scientists."
#Electrical power converter allows grid to easily accept power from renewable energy Doctoral student Joseph Carr developed the system with his adviser, Juan Balda, University Professor and head of the department of electrical engineering.
when doctoral students who invest many hours working on various research ideas are rewarded with a patent, "Balda said."
"At the same time, it is an indication of research work that several faculty members and their students are doing in the field of future energy systems."
"The availability and use of renewable energy sources, such as solar, geothermal and wind, and their associated harvesting systems increase the need for new power converters that can efficiently convert diverse energy sources to work across modern electrical grid systems.
Carr received his doctorate from the university in 2011. He Was distinguished a Doctoral Fellow from 2005 to 2009
Balda has been a professor at the university since 1989. His main research interests are power electronics, electric power distribution systems, motor drives and electric power quality.
As associate director of the National Center for Reliable Electric power Transmission, a 7, 000-square-foot, $5-million power electronic test facility at the University of Arkansas
and major universities and medical schools has broken substantial new ground, establishing how genes work together within 144 different human tissues
who also is a professor in the computer science department and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton university."
Aaron K. Wong, a data scientist at SCDA and formerly a graduate student in the computer science department at Princeton, led the way in creating GIANT."
and Casey S. Greene, assistant professor of genetics at Dartmouth College, who was a postdoctoral fellow with the Troyanskaya group from 2009 to 2012.
Other key collaborators on this study were Emanuela Ricciotti, Garret A. Fitzgerald and Tilo Grosser of the pharmacology department and the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at the Perelman School of medicine, University of Pennsylvania;
Daniel I. Chasman of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical school in Boston; and Kara Dolinski at the Lewis-Sigler Institute at Princeton university."
Thanks to a joint project undertaken by TU Wien and the Medical University of Vienna,
"explains Robert Liska from the Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry of Vienna University of Technology."
"says Heinz Schima of the Medical University of Vienna. The polymer fabric is slightly porous and so,
and the investigators encourage elementary school nurses, pediatricians, and other professionals who work with children ages 3-7 years to download
"explains theorist Jani Tuorila from the University of Oulu. In the work reported here, the researchers combine their knowledge on experimental and theoretical physics,
especially its nonlinear character,"explains Juha Pirkkalainen from Aalto University, the postdoctoral researcher who conducted the measurements.
--With the superconducting island, the radiation pressure increased a millionfold the value we had achieved previously, reports the supervisor of the experimental group, professor Mika Sillanp##from Aalto University.
the measurement of quantum information from an oscillator nearly visible to the naked eye,"explains professor Tero Heikkil#from the University of Jyv#skyl#who was in charge of the theoretical studies.
Four new atomic structures for gold nanoparticle clusters Led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemistry professor Xiao Cheng Zeng,
"said Zeng, an Ameritas University Professor of chemistry.""We've now found new coating structures of much lower energy,
#Switching on one-shot learning in the brain This type of one-shot learning is more than handy
Scientists have suspected long that one-shot learning involves a different brain system than gradual learning, but could not explain what triggers this rapid learning
or how the brain decides which mode to use at any one time. Now Caltech scientists have discovered that uncertainty in terms of the causal relationship
and then activate one-shot learning when needed. The findings, described in the April 28 issue of the journal PLOS Biology,
"Many have assumed that the novelty of a stimulus would be the main factor driving one-shot learning,
a postdoctoral scholar in neuroscience at Caltech and lead author of the new paper.""If you are uncertain,
and then couples with the hippocampus to switch on one-shot learning, as needed. Indeed, a switch is an appropriate metaphor,
says Shinsuke Shimojo, Caltech's Gertrude Baltimore Professor of Experimental psychology. Since the hippocampus is known to be involved in so-called episodic memory, in which the brain quickly links a particular context with an event
the researchers hypothesized that this brain region might play a role in one-shot learning. But they were surprised to find that the coupling between the VLPFC
The researchers hypothesize that the VLPFC acts as a controller mediating the one-shot learning process.
the researchers are intrigued by the fact that the VLPFC is very close to another part of the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex that they previously found to be involved in helping the brain to switch between two other forms of learning--habitual and goal-directed learning,
"says coauthor John O'Doherty, professor of psychology and director of the Caltech Brain imaging Center r
Researchers at the University of California, Los angeles (UCLA) have developed recently a device that can turn any smartphone into a DNA-scanning fluorescent microscope."
"said Aydogan Ozcan, HHMI Chancellor Professor, UCLA."For perspective, that makes DNA about 50,000 times thinner than a human hair.
"said senior author Dr. David Lyden, the Stavros S. Niarchos Professor in Pediatric Cardiology and a professor of pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College."
who was a Fulbright Cancer Research Fellow at Cornell University in Dr. Lyden's lab."But when TGF?
who also has appointments in the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center and the Gale and Ira Drukier Institute for Children's Health at Weill Cornell Medical College."
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