"says lead author Xi Yang, a postdoctoral associate at Brown University.""We may also apply this to agriculture for predicting crop yield, drought condition, or insect outbreak."
The team led by Caroline Duchaine, professor at Université Laval's Faculty of science and Engineering and researcher at the Québec Heart and Lung Institute (IUCPQ) Research Centre
According to Professor Duchaine this previously unknown mode of norovirus propagation could explain why gastroenteritis outbreaks are so hard to contain:"
"said Elena Marks, president and CEO of the Episcopal Health Foundation and a health policy scholar at the Baker Institute."
"said Vivian Ho, the chair in health economics at Rice's Baker Institute, a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine."
"says Kathy Jones, senior author of the paper and a Salk professor. These genes are among the first steps that prompt stem cells to begin to change,
Director of the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, at Temple University, Philadelphia a
led by Professor Mark Ryan, has developed a system that allows people to vote by employing independent hardware devices in conjunction with their PCS.
Professor Ryan said:''This system works by employing a credit card-sized device similar to those used in online banking.
Three atom-thick layers of molybdenum disulfide were cooked up in the lab of Jiwoong Park, associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology and member of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science.
and grown by postdoctoral associate Kibum Kang and graduate student Saien Xie. Their work is published online in Nature, April 30."
professor of applied and engineering physics and director of Cornell's Kavli Institute, contributed advanced transmission electron microscopy to test
scientists can upload data for analysis. Work on CONSERTING began in 2010 shortly after the St jude Children's Research Hospital--Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project was launched.
"said Todd Humphreys, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace engineering and Engineering Mechanics and lead researcher."
Humphreys collaborated with Professor Robert W. Heath from the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering and graduate students on the new technology,
Humphreys and his students recently co-founded a startup, called Radiosense. Humphreys and his team are working with Samsung to develop a snap-on accessory that will tell smartphones, tablets and virtual reality headsets their precise position and orientation.
Distinguished Professor of Materials science and engineering at NC State and corresponding author of a paper describing the work.
a professor of medical pharmacology and physiology at the MU School of medicine and lead author of the study."
The findings result from experiments led by electrical engineering Professor Krishna Shenoy, whose Stanford lab focuses on movement control and neural prostheses--such as artificial arms--controlled by the user's brain."
while he was a graduate student in Shenoy's lab. Kaufman taught laboratory monkeys to perform a decision-making task.
who is now a postdoctoral scholar at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.""The most critical result of our work here is that we can track a single decision
Mark M. Churchland, now an assistant professor at Columbia University, and Stephen I. Ryu, now a consulting professor of electrical engineering at Stanford and a neurosurgeon at the Palo alto Medical Foundation.
The philosophical implications Kaufman said the team's findings also bear on a longstanding philosophical debate about human consciousness.
In the early 1980s, University of California, San francisco neuroscientist Benjamin Libet conducted an experiment to assess the nature of free will.
"says Professor for Biomedical Physics Franz Pfeiffer of the Technical University of Munich in Germany, who led the new study published April 20 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."
"says the study's lead author, Elena Eggl, a researcher at the Technical University of Munich."
#Bacteria research opens way for new antibiotics University of Adelaide researchers have discovered a target for the development of completely new antibiotics against disease-causing bacteria.
The latest findings follow more than a decade of work led by Associate professor Renato Morona looking at how bacteria cause disease.
"says Associate professor Morona.""We've discovered something that's been hidden in plain sight. It may shift the way research in this field is conducted. e
#New method detects more breast cancer in screening Tomosynthesis detects 40%more breast cancers than traditional mammography does, according to a major screening study from Lund University, Sweden.
what scale,"explains Sophia Zackrisson and Kristina Lång, radiologists at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö and researchers at Lund University.
"said Daniel Fletcher, associate chair and professor of bioengineering, whose UC Berkeley lab pioneered the Cellscope."
"said aquatic ecologist Vincent Resh, a professor at UC Berkeley's Department of Environmental science, Policy and Management."
"says Noreen Hickok, Ph d.,Associate professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University.""These properties allow sterilization during surgical procedures,
#Smarter, cheaper technologies offer improved point-of-care medicine A team from Stanford university School of medicine (Bio-Acoustic MEMS in Medicine Labs) developed assays for the simple and rapid detection
of the Demirici Bio-Acoustic-MEMS in Medicine Laboratory at Stanford School of medicine,"is to simplify the techniques that both capture the biotarget
#Urine test for early stage pancreatic cancer possible after biomarker discovery A team at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, has shown that the three-protein'signature'can both identify the most common
"says co-author and Director of Barts Cancer Institute, Professor Nick Lemoine.""With pancreatic cancer, patients are diagnosed usually
ACES Director and research author Professor Gordon Wallace said that the breakthrough is significant progress in the quest to create a bench-top brain that will enable important insights into brain function,
"Professor Wallace said. To create their six-layered structure, researchers developed a custom bio-ink containing naturally occurring carbohydrate materials.
"Professor Wallace said.""This paves the way for the use of more sophisticated printers to create structures with much finer resolution."
A new University of Washington study seeks to answer that question and offers visual simulations of what someone with restored vision might see.
a UW associate professor of psychology, said the simulations are unprecedented.""This is the first visual simulation of restored sight in any realistic form,
"said Boynton, a UW psychology professor.""Electrically stimulating the retina excites all of these cells at the same time,
#Small tilt in magnets makes them viable memory chips University of California, Berkeley, researchers have discovered a new way to switch the polarization of nanomagnets,
an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, has found that a slight tilt of the magnets makes them easy to switch without an external magnetic field.
#Quantum states in a nano-object manipulated using a mechanical system Scientists at The swiss Nanoscience Institute at the University of Basel have used resonators made from single-crystalline diamonds to develop a novel device in
the research team led by Georg H. Endress Professor Patrick Maletinsky described how resonators made from single-crystalline diamonds with individually embedded electrons are suited highly to addressing the spin of these electrons.
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's Department of Materials science and engineering."
and Chang An Wang of Tsinghua University in Beijing and Junjie Niu, Kangpyo So, and Chao Wang of MIT.
Bruce Wang, a gastroenterologist at the Liver Center at the University of California, San francisco, led the experiments as a visiting scholar in Nusse's lab. Wang began by searching for fluorescently labeled
Horses and humans share facial expressions Horses share some surprisingly similar facial expressions to humans and chimps, according to new University of Sussex research.
as devised by the Sussex team in collaboration with researchers at the University of Portsmouth and Duquesne University, identified 17"action units"(discrete facial movements) in horses.
Co-lead author Professor Karen Mccomb said:""It was thought previously that, in terms of other species, the further away an animal was from humans,
"In addition to researchers from SLAC and Stanford university, the research team included scientists from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln,
and the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany n
#New 2d transistor material made using precision lasers Last year a multi-discipline research team led by South korea's Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics
at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) director Young Hee Lee devised a fabrication method for the creation of pure Mote2.
Professor Heejun Yang of SKKU said, "There are many candidates for 2d semiconductors, but Mote2 has a band gap of around 1 ev
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have produced some promising results toward that goal,
With funding from the Dow chemical Company, the research team, led by Electrical & Computer engineering (ECE) Professor Brian Cunningham, Chemistry Professor Ralph Nuzzo,
and Mechanical Science & Engineering Professor Andrew Alleyne, embedded QDS in novel polymer materials that retain strong quantum efficiency.
an ECE graduate student and lead author of the research reported in Applied Physics Letters, their replica molded photonic crystals could someday lead to brighter, less expensive,
"We make one expensive'master'molding template that must be designed very precisely, but we can use the template to produce thousands of replicas very quickly and cheaply
and the Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS) at Toyohashi University of Technology has developed a methodology to temporarily enhance the stiffness of a long,
and confirm that by observing fluorescenctce confocal microscope"explained the first author, master's degree student Satoshi Yagi,
The leader of the research team, Associate professor Takeshi Kawano said:""Preparation of the dissolvable base scaffold is very simple,
Arrayflagship-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 with the help of intermolecular forces.
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, a new imaging technology invented by Carnegie mellon University and the University of Toronto addresses a major shortcoming of these cameras:
and only those rays,"said Srinivasa Narasimhan, CMU associate professor of robotics.""We don't need new image-processing algorithms
if only briefly, noted Kyros Kutulakos, U of T professor of computer science.""Even though we're not sending a huge amount of photons, at short time scales,
University Professor of Robotics at CMU, said the system offers a number of advantages for extraterrestrial robots.
Arrayin addition to Narasimhan and Kutulakos, the research team included Supreeth Achar, a CMU Ph d. student in robotics,
and Matthew O'Toole, a U of T Ph d. computer science student. The research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the U s army Research Laboratory,
Arrayabout University of Toronto: The University of Toronto has assembled one of the strongest research and teaching faculties in North america, presenting top students at all levels with an intellectual environment unmatched in breadth
and depth on any other Canadian campus. U of T faculty co-author more research articles than their colleagues at any university in the US or Canada other than Harvard.
As a measure of impact, U of T consistently ranks alongside the top five U s. universities whose discoveries are cited most often by other researchers around the world.
The U of T faculty is recognized also widely for its teaching strengths and commitment to graduate supervision.
Established in 1827 the University of Toronto today operates in downtown Toronto, Mississauga and Scarborough,
as well as in nine renowned academic hospitals s
#Scientists determine how antibiotic gains cancer-killing sulfur atoms In a discovery with implications for future drug design,
scientists have shown an unprecedented mechanism for how a natural antibiotic with antitumor properties incorporates sulfur into its molecular structure, an essential ingredient of its antitumor activity.
"says Hubbard, an assistant professor of pharmacology in the University of Alberta's Faculty of medicine & Dentistry."
"explained Ulrich-Christian Schröder, a Ph d. student at the Jena University Hospital and Leibniz Institute of technology in Germany.
"said Ute Neugebauer, group leader at the Jena University Hospital and Leibniz Institute of technology. What exactly does the team's medical device detect?"
in collaboration with the universities of Southampton (UK) and Rochester (US), have developed a simple new technique for locating them
"Dr Luca Sapienza, from the University's Quantum Light and Matter group, says:""This new technique is sort of a twist on a red-eye reducing camera flash,
where the first flash causes the subject's pupils to close and the second illuminates the scene."
Researchers at the Center for Molecular biology of Heidelberg University, the German Cancer Research center and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies collaborated on the project,
Dr. Bernd Bukau, Director of the Center for Molecular biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), who is also a researcher at the German Cancer Research center (DKFZ.
In addition to scientists from the ZMBH, DKFZ and HITS, researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology in Berlin, the Northwestern University in Illinois (USA) and The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Zurich (Switzerland) also participated in the work k
and their young,"says co-author Associate professor Mike Letnic from UNSW.""There is very good evidence from Tasmania that cats modify their movements
"says Associate professor Letnic.""We need to take action to arrest the extinction crisis we have in Australia,
Professor Kyung-Cheol Choi and his research team from the School of Electrical engineering at KAIST have developed fiber-like light emitting diodes,
Professor Choi said, "Our research will become a core technology in developing light emitting diodes on fibers,
a new genetic test developed at the Stanford university School of medicine may be able to accurately pinpoint the likely genetic causes of their conditions in just a couple of days.
and Joseph Wu, MD, Phd, professor of cardiovascular medicine and of radiology, teamed up with a group of genome-sequencing specialists to develop the new technique:
An innovative method, proposed by a group of researchers led by Professor Ananikov, investigates the synthesis of valuable organic molecules directly from calcium carbide, without separation and storage of acetylene gas.
"said Anandasankar Ray of the University of California, Riverside.""Using this amazing high-definition ability to smell'ant body odor,
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,
"said senior investigator Richard A. Lerner, the Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Immunochemistry at TSRI.
The study, a collaboration between Lerner's laboratory at TSRI, the laboratory of Jeffrey M. Friedman at Rockefeller University and the TSRI groups of Ian A. Wilson and Patrick R. Griffin, was reported on August 13 in the journal
Scripps Family Chair Professor of Chemistry, described such a feat. But Lerner's team reasoned that a selection-based design of these junctions would be a more general approach to making useful protein-in-protein molecules.
Drexel University researchers are testing an array of new combinations that may vastly expand the options available to create faster, smaller, more efficient energy storage, advanced electronics and wear-resistant materials.
which was discovered by Distinguished Professor Michel W. Barsoum, Phd, head of the MAX/MXENE Research Group, more than two decades ago.
That order was imposed by Michel W. Barsoum, Phd and Yury Gogotsi, Phd, Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor in the College of Engineering and head of the Drexel Nanomaterials Group
The study began in a laboratory of the University of Sinaloa, then moved to an industrial level with the acquiring of the patent.
The researcher in the nutrition area of the Institute of Health Sciences (ICSA) of the University of Hidalgo (UAEH in Mexico, says that the idea for this product came after observing that people do not consume the pomegranate because of the difficulty
oil and gas pipelines and nuclear plants has been developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde with inspiration from the natural world.
Dr Mulholland was partnered in the study by Ebrahem Algehyne, a research student at Strathclyde Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering.
therefore necessary for the production of gibberellins--a mechanism that is highly relevant to the growth and development of plants,"says Poppenberger, Professor for the Biotechnology of Horticultural Crops.
A process known as state-dependent learning is believed to contribute to the formation of memories that are inaccessible to normal consciousness.
which state-dependent learning renders stressful fear-related memories consciously inaccessible.""The findings show there are multiple pathways to storage of fear-inducing memories,
"said principal investigator Dr. Jelena Radulovic, the Dunbar Professor in Bipolar Disease at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine."
a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Life sciences Division, has dubbed his innovation SR-STORM, or spectrally resolved stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy.
The research was supported partly by UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry and a Laboratory Directed Research and development (LDRD) grant by Berkeley Lab b
He is a professor at Stanford School of medicine and SLAC and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator."
a professor at Yale university who discovered the SNARE proteins and shared the 2013 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Thomas C. Südhof, a professor at the Stanford School of medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who shared that 2013 Nobel prize with Rothman,
researchers in Brunger's laboratory at the Stanford School of medicine found a way to grow crystals of the complex.
"said Katerina Akassoglou, Ph d.,a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute for Neurological disease, a professor of neurology at the University of California, San francisco,
which are patterns of neuronal activity associated with learning and memory. The cell nucleus is a ball of chromosomes wrapped in a protective fatty membrane.
the John L. Loeb Associate professor of the Natural sciences, member of the Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology,
and faculty associate of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. The work is described in a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"said Johannes Overvelde, Phd student AT SEAS and first author on the paper.""Similar to the balloons, in our research we connect fluidic segments in such a way that an interplay between their nonlinear response results in unexpected behavior.
"said the trial's co-primary investigator, Sheri D. Weiser, MD, MPH, UCSF associate professor of medicine at the UCSF Division of HIV, Infectious diseases and Global Medicine at San francisco General
The trial, conducted over one year at two Family AIDS Care & Education Services (FACES) health facilities in the Nyanza region in Kenya, enrolled 72 participants at one facility for the intervention
"said the trial's co-primary investigator, Craig R. Cohen, MD, MPH, UCSF professor in the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive health in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences.
The third element was agricultural and financial management training. Agricultural training included practical demonstrations on sustainable farming techniques, use of the water pump planting
soil and water conservation, and integrated disease and pest management. Financial training focused on record keeping,
along with savings and investments.""Shamba Maisha is the first trial to link agriculture with HIV outcomes,
because immunotherapy could be generating both short-term gain and long-term loss,"noted lead author William Murphy, professor and acting chair in the UC Davis Department of Dermatology."
Now Northwestern University engineers have examined a wide variety of surfaces that can do just that--and, better yet,
"said Patankar, a professor of mechanical engineering in the Mccormick School of engineering and Applied science.""My lab likes to defy normal experience.
He is a Ph d. student in Patankar's research group. The researchers focused on the nanoscopic structure of surfaces,
and design of the device, is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
Dr. Lewis is an interventional cardiologist and a professor in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Tuchek said the unique design of the Corevalve Evolut R System llows for superior control during deployment of the Corevalve,
Dr. Leya is a professor in the Division of Cardiology of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of medicine.
led by Lancaster University and Pisa University in Italy, 55 patients with atypical moles agreed to have monitored their skin by researchers at Pisa University Hospital using a laser Doppler system.
The laser Doppler was used to record the complex interactions taking place in the minute blood vessels beneath their suspicious mole for around 30 minutes.
The fluctuations in recorded signals were analysed then using methods developed by physicists at Lancaster University.
Professor Aneta Stefanovska of Lancaster University said:""We used our knowledge of blood flow dynamics to pick up on markers
"Professor Marco Rossi of Pisa University said:""Skin malignant melanoma is a particularly aggressive cancer associated with quick blood vessel growth
which transforms paralysis victims'breath 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,
"The trio will be joined by Loughborough mechanical engineering student Robert Green, 20, who will work alongside them on the device as part of his final year individual project.
and engineers at Monash University has led to the development of a new noninvasive image processing technique to visualise embryo formation.
Dr Melanie White, Research Fellow at the Plachta Lab at Australian Regenerative medicine Institute (ARMI), Dr Yanina Alvarez of University of Buenos aires and Rajeev Samarage, Phd candidate
supervised by Prof Andreas Fouras at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace engineering at Monash University.
the Monash University researchers were able to demonstrate that this model of embryo formation was incorrect.
#New synthetic tumor environments make cancer research more realistic University of Illinois researchers have developed a new technique to create a cell habitat of squishy fluids, called hydrogels,
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."
"said Tak-Sing Wong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and a faculty member in the Penn State Materials Research Institute."
"said Birgitt Boschitsch Stogin, a graduate student in Wong's group and coauthor on a paper titled"Slippery Wenzel State,"published in the August 28 online edition of the journal ACS Nano."
a postdoctoral scholar in Wong's group and the lead author on the ACS Nano paper.
This research was funded by the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a Graduate Research Fellowship,
Shikuan Yang, a postdoctoral scholar in Wong's group, also contributed to the work k
Researchers at the George washington University, working in collaboration with the Center for Nanophase Materials sciences at the Oak ridge National Laboratory,
After years of trying to find an efficient and affordable way to extract uranyl, researchers at the University of Chicago, Peking University,
Professor Mete Atature, a Fellow of St john's College at the University of Cambridge, who led the research,
#Scientists create designer proteins that control enzyme activity Scientists from the University of Chicago have developed a novel approach to control the activity of enzymes through the use of synthetic, antibody-like proteins known as monobodies.
professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, was able to change the specificity of an enzyme,
said Zev Gartner, Phd, the paper's senior author and an associate professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at UCSF."
when both were graduate students in the Gartner research group.""It lets us ask questions about complex human tissues without needing to do experiments on humans."
An international team of researchers led by Christian Haass (Professor of Metabolic Biochemistry at LMU and Speaker for the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Munich) and Dr. Michael Willem (LMU) has made now a discovery
In collaboration with neurobiologist Dr. Hélène Marie based at the IPMC-CNRS in Valbonne (France) and with the local colleagues from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in the Synergy Excellence Cluster (Professor Arthur Konnerth
Prusiner, a professor of neurology and director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (IND) at UCSF
"said UCSF's Kurt Giles, DPHIL, associate professor of neurology, IND researcher and senior author on the second of the two new studies."
the Massachusetts Alzheimer's disease Research center in Boston, the Parkinson's UK Brain Bank at Imperial College London,
#Magnetic fields provide a new way to communicate wirelessly Electrical engineers at the University of California, San diego demonstrated a new wireless communication technique that works by sending magnetic signals through the human body.
a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at UC San diego who led the study.
"said Jiwoong Park, a Ph d student in Mercier's Energy-efficient Microsystems Lab at the UC San diego Jacobs School of engineering and first author of the study.
Arrayin 2004, professor Petter Strømme examined a child with congenital cataract, growth delay and symptoms from the brain, the peripheral nervous system,
professor Eirik Frengen's group scanned every gene from two of the patients and their mother.
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