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. hese new cells,
2015 online issue of Cell Reports, the researchers, under the direction of senior investigator Gabriele Bergers, Phd, UCSF professor of neurological surgery,
and first author Lee B. Rivera, Phd, a UCSF postdoctoral scholar in the Bergers laboratory, also identified a potential way to stop myeloid cells from sabotaging the therapy
#Protein finding can pave the way for improved treatment of malignant melanoma Researchers from Aarhus University have linked for the first time a new protein with malignant melanomas.
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. ur studies have shown that the protein megalin is almost always detectable in malignant melanomas,
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,
Scientists with the U s. Department of energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have created a hybrid system of semiconducting nanowires and bacteria that mimics
The results contribute to a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying brain functions such as learning and memory.
said senior investigator Shingo Kajimura, Phd, UCSF assistant professor of cell and tissue biology, School of dentistry, with a joint appointment in the UCSF Diabetes Center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center
with the help of scientists at the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne and Linköping University (Sweden) have developed an organic electronic micropump which,
and Swedish scientists led by Magnus Berggren from Linköping University, have developed a biocompatible micropump that makes it possible to deliver therapeutic substances directly to the relevant areas of the brain.
associate professor of medicine at Yale School of medicine, seeks to explore with the use of a transformational tool for translational research.
who directs Yale Cytof facility at Yale School of medicine. esearchers who are eager to advance their discoveries are going to want to use the best technology they can.
Eye on immune therapies and prevention In his lab, professor of immunology Dr. Kevan Herold has used the technology to explore key questions about type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune condition.
They are based in College Station, Texas. ARS scientist Brian Scheffler, based in Stoneville, Mississippi, is a coauthor of the other.
and exploit cotton genetic diversity by tapping into the potential of genes found in the 10,000 accessions of exotic and wild cotton plants in the ARS Cotton Germplasm Collection in College Station, Texas t
#Discovery unlocks ion conductor that is 100 times faster than all the others A research group at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU),
which were not possible before says Professor Nini Pryds, head of the research in electro functional materials at DTU Energy and one of the co-authors of this paper.
explains Professor Nini Pryds. Despite the fact that d-Bismuth oxide is made of just 2 elements (bismuth and oxygen),
and our knowledge in ionic and electronic transport mechanism in these films says Professor Nini Pryds.
with applications for everything from fuel cells to biological implants. t a huge step for nanofabrication, said Jan Schroers, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Yale,
#Gamers feel the glove from Rice engineers Rice university engineering students are working to make virtual reality a little more real with their invention of a glove that allows a user to feel
said mechanical engineering student Thor Walker. Other members of the team are mechanical engineering students Kevin Koch, Kevin Gravesmill and Yi Ji and electrical engineering students Marissa Garcia and Julia Kwok.
All are seniors with the exception of Kwok who is a junior. Their faculty advisers are Fathi Ghorbel, professor of mechanical engineering and bioengineering,
and Marcia Oalley, professor of mechanical engineering and computer science. The project won the eople Choiceaward at Rice recent Engineering Design Showcase.
The glove (right-handed only at the moment) is designed to be as unobtrusive as possible, and is wireless to allow the player a full range of motion without having to worry about cables.
U of T researcher finds the ain trigger A new study led by University of Toronto researcher Dr. David Lam has discovered the trigger behind the most severe forms of cancer pain.
It was while conducting clinical research at the University of California San francisco though, that Lam noticed something interesting.
Dr. Brian Schmidt, Professor at New york University college of Dentistry, Director of the Bluestone Center for Clinical Research and a co-author of the study states,
The study also involved researchers from New york University and the Forsyth Institute (Cambridge) t
#Researchers get under the skin to develop new transplant technique James Shapiro, one of the world leading experts in emerging treatments of diabetes, can help
Shapiro, Canada Research Chair in Transplantation Surgery and Regenerative medicine in the University of Alberta Faculty of medicine & Dentistry,
or graphene, nanoengineers at the University of California, San diego have invented a new way of fabricating nanostructures that contain well-defined, atomic-sized gaps.
A team of Ph d. students and undergraduate researchers led by UC San diego nanoengineering professor Darren Lipomi demonstrated that the key to generating a smaller nanogap between two nanostructures involves using a graphene spacer,
a graduate student in Lipomi research group who pioneered the technique and is the first author of the study. etal-assisted exfoliation can potentially be useful for industries that use large areas of graphene.
University researchers, working in collaboration with scientists at King College London and the Mayo Clinic (USA), describe the previously unproven role of the calcium sensing receptor (Casr) in causing asthma,
the principal investigator, Professor Daniela Riccardi, from the School of Biosciences. or the first time we have found a link airways inflammation,
According to Cardiff Professor Paul Kemp, who co-authored the study, the identification of Casr in airway tissue means that the potential for treatment of other inflammatory lung diseases beyond asthma is immense.
Professor Riccardi and her collaborators are now seeking funding to determine the efficacy of calcilytic drugs in treating asthmas that are especially difficult to treat,
and potentially stop asthma from happening in the first place, added Professor Riccardi. The study was part-funded by Asthma UK
after completing his Phd at the Imperial College, London in materials science. ittle by littlealking to people,
The work was led by Professor John Sader at the University of Melbourne 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. ou can imagine situations where you don know exactly what you are looking for,
Phd, the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Professor of Cell biology at NYU Langone and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
Engineering professor Jeffrey La Belle use of biomarkers in saliva could replace current tests that require individuals with TYPE II DIABETES to draw blood samples each day.
ASU Engineering professor Jeffrey La Belle use of biomarkers in saliva could replace current tests that require individuals with TYPE II DIABETES to draw blood samples each day.
Now, research from an ASU professor is being used in the quest for a noninvasive alternative. Arizona State university engineering professor Jeffrey La Belle use of biomarkers measurable indicators of wellness or disease in body fluids to diagnose
and monitor individualshealth is finding a new application through a commercialization agreement with a United kingdom-based technology development company.
La Belle is an assistant professor in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, one of ASU Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
Tekcapital seeks out university research that can fill client and market needs. Dr. Clifford M. Gross, Tekcapital executive chairman, said the company is excited about the potential of La Belle work. he self-monitoring of blood glucose is a significant industry,
Azte works with ASU faculty, post-docs and graduate students to help move university inventions from the lab to commercial application. have had many interactions with the very efficient and professional staff at Azte
Researchers at the MESA+Institute of the University of Twente in The netherlands have developed a new and powerful approach to use these fine speckles for high resolution imaging.
Professor Dietmar Hutmacher Professor Dietmar Hutmacher In an article published in Nature Communications, the biomedical engineers outlined how they had reinforced soft hydrogels via a 3d printed scaffold.
Professor Dietmar W. Hutmacher, from QUT Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, said nature often used fibre reinforcement to turn weak structures into outstanding mechanically robust ones. uch
Professor Hutmacher said. y bringing this natural design perspective of fibre reinforcement into the field of tissue engineering (TE),
Professor Hutmacher said hydrogels were favoured because they had excellent biological properties, however, the hydrogels currently available for tissue regeneration of the musculoskeletal system couldn meet the mechanical and biological requirements for successful outcomes. ur international biofabrication research team has found a way to reinforce these soft hydrogels via a 3d printed scaffold structure
Professor Hutmacher said the team had introduced organised high-porosity microfiber networks that are printed using a new technique called elt electrospinning writing e found that the stiffness of the gel/scaffold composites increased synergistically up to 54 times,
Queensland University of Technolog a
#Nepal earthquake on the radar Radar imagery from the Sentinel-1a satellite shows that the maximum land deformation is only 17 km from Nepal capital, Kathmandu,
Keiichi Nakagawa/University of Tokyospeed of the camera is hard to grasp. But, in comparison, it is more than one thousand times faster than conventional high-speed cameras.
Keiichi Nakagawa/University of Tokyoin the first attempts to capture an ultra-fast images frames per shot were limited to six.
a professor of physics who joined the University of California, San diego this year. o the question was,
#Researchers find bitter taste receptors on human hearts A team of University of Queensland researchers is investigating the surprising discovery that smell
and Head of the School Professor Walter Thomas said the team would investigate the phenomenon,
which was discovered originally by former UQ Phd student Dr Simon Foster. Dr Foster findings are published in The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental biology here. r Foster was able to show that around 12 taste receptors,
Professor Thomas said. his is quite remarkable, as the human genome only has 25 of these bitter taste receptors,
Professor Thomas said. ut a common end result of this compensatory growth is eventual heart failure, a major cause of death in Australia. uring laboratory tests,
Professor Thomas said the project progressed from animal studies to human investigations through collaborations with the Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane. sing heart tissue from humans undergoing heart surgery
#Alzheimer pathology and neural activity An international research group including the University of Tokyo, Stanford university and Washington University has discovered that neuronal activity augments the accumulation of amyloid ß that is observed in the brains of patients with Alzheimer disease (AD).
The accumulation of deposits of a protein fragment termed amyloid ß is thought to be the cause of the development of dementia in AD brains.
Neurons in the brain are connected through junctions termed synapses and function by transmitting electrical activity (i e.,
Professor Takeshi Iwatsubo, graduate students Kaoru Yamamoto and Zen-ichi Tanei, Assistant professor Tadafumi Hashimoto and Professor Haruhiko Bito at the University of Tokyo Graduate school of Medicine, Professor
and Professor David Holtzman at Washington University chronically increased the activity of a neuronal pathway projecting to the hippocampus,
affiliated with the University of Montreal, have identified a way to use a an openerto force the virus to open up
says study lead author Andrés Finzi, researcher at the CRCHUM and a professor at the University of Montreal.
The JP-III-48 molecule was developed by researchers at Harvard university and the University of Pennsylvania;
a professor of materials science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. hey have found a way to significantly shrink the optics,
Distinguished Professor of Materials science and engineering at NC State and corresponding author of a paper describing the work.
along with groups from Woods hole oceanographic institution, the Australian Center for Field Robotics, the University of Rhode island, and elsewhere, tested several classes of AUVS,
a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, and principal developer of the mission-planning system. ith this system, we were showing we could safely zigzag all the way around the reef,
said Daniel Fletcher, an associate chair and professor of bioengineering, whose UC Berkeley lab pioneered the Cellscope. he video Cellscope provides accurate,
said aquatic ecologist Vincent Resh, a professor in UC Berkeley Department of Environmental science, Policy and Management. he research offering a phone-based app is ingenious,
says Mogens Havsteen Jakobsen, Associate professor at DTU Nanotech. He has been coordinating DTU participation in the project.
#Artificial blood vessels become resistant to thrombosis Scientists from ITMO University developed artificial blood vessels that are not susceptible to blood clot formation.
head of the International Laboratory of Solution Chemistry of Advanced Materials and Technologies at ITMO University proposed a solution to the problem.
Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), in cooperation with colleagues at the University of Zurich and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, have tested for the first time successfully a new tumor diagnosis method under near-real conditions.
because the resulting images are less sharp. ogether with colleagues at the University of Zurich and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum,
says senior author Björn Lillemeier, an assistant professor in the Nomis Foundation Laboratories for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis and the Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center at the Salk Institute.
Researchers at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine, Johns hopkins university Department of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering, and Federal University of Rio de janeiro in Brazil have designed a DNA-loaded nanoparticle that can pass through the mucus barrier covering conducting airways of lung tissue proving the concept,
they say, that therapeutic genes may one day be delivered directly to the lungs to the levels sufficient to treat cystic fibrosis (CF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
. a biomedical engineer and faculty member at the Center for Nanomedicine at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins. A report on the work appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on June 29.
an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, has found that tilting magnets slightly makes them easy to switch without an external magnetic field.
and Color, to Microparticles A team of New york University scientists has developed a technique that prompts microparticles to form ordered structures in a variety of materials.
a professor of physics at NYU and chair of the Chemical and Bioengineering Department at NYU Polytechnic School of engineering. ur research shows that this be done
and Jisha Hazra and Naduvalath Balakrishnan of the University of Nevada-Las vegas a
#Words That Work Together Stay together How language gives your brain a break. Here a quick task:
says Richard Futrell, a Phd student in the Department of Brain and Cognitive sciences at MIT,
a professor of cognitive science and co-author of the paper. e though it was probably true more widely,
one from Charles University in Prague, one from Google, one from the Universal Dependencies Consortium (a new group of computational linguists),
and a Chinese-language database from the Linguistic Dependencies Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania.
Other scholars who have done research on this topic say the study provides valuable new information. t interesting and exciting work,
says David Temperley, a professor at the University of Rochester, who along with his Rochester colleague Daniel Gildea has authored co a study comparing dependency length in English
said Wyss Core Faculty member George Church, Ph d, . who is a pioneer in the converging fields of synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, and genetics.
Church is the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical school and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT.
M d.,Ph d.,who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical school and Boston Children Hospital,
and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences o
#Bend me, shape me, any way you want me: Scientists curve nanoparticle sheets into complex forms Scientists have been making nanoparticles for more than two decades in two-dimensional sheets, three-dimensional crystals and random clusters.
Now researchers from the University of Chicago, the University of Missouri and the U s. Department of energy Argonne National Laboratory have found a simple way to do exactly that.
professor of chemical physics at the Imperial College in London and a leading theorist on soft matter physics. hey advance significantly our ability to make new nanostructures with controlled shapes. n principle,
the David H. Koch (1962) Professor in Engineering in the Department of Materials science and engineering and a Koch Institute investigator who oversaw the sensor development. ather than waiting months to see
Two MIT doctoral students in Cima lab worked with him on the sensor project: Vincent Liu, now a postdoc at MIT,
and Christophoros Vassiliou, now a postdoc at the University of California at Berkeley. Their research is featured in a paper in the journal Lab on a Chip that has been published online.
a research group led by Harold kipgarner, a professor in the departments of biological science, computer science, and basic science at Virginia Tech Carilion Medical school, analyzed an often ignored part of the human genome repetitive DNA sequences referred to as microsatellites.
More than 1 million microsatellites exist in the human genome including in neural crest tissues, a thin layer of cells within an embryo that contains genetic instructions to build hundreds of cell types, from neurons to adrenal cells.
and James Fox all professors of biological engineering at MIT had identified the presence of a lesion,
says John Essigmann, the William R. 1956) and Betsy P. Leitch Professor in Residence Professor of Chemistry, Toxicology and Biological engineering at MIT,
Yinsheng Wang, a principal investigator in the Department of chemistry at the University of California at Riverside who was involved not in the research,
the researchers predict that accumulation of the lesions would increase the mutation rate of a cell up to 30-fold,
#Animal-eye view of the world revealed with new visual software New camera technology that reveals the world through the eyes of animals has been developed by University of Exeter researchers.
Dr Jolyon Troscianko from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter Penryn Campus said:
University of Exete i
#It takes a lot of nerve: Scientists make cells to aid peripheral nerve repair Scientists at the University of Newcastle,
UK, have used a combination of small molecules to turn cells isolated from human skin into Schwann cells the specialised cells that support nerves and play a role in nerve repair.
Motoharu Sakaue together with Maya Sieber-Blum, Professor of Stem Cell Sciences at the Institute of Genetic Medicine in Newcastle, investigated the possibility of making Schwann cells,
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered now a ain switchthat regulates the formation of these invaginations.
without any diagnosis other than udden infant death syndrome'says Karl Swärd and Catarina Rippe, researchers at Lund University.
In a recently published study in the journal PLOS ONE (1), the researchers at Lund University reveal that a family of so-called transcription factors called yocardin family coactivatorsregulate the formation of invaginations.
together with colleagues at Lund University, is also investigating whether the regulatory mechanism is activated in the case of kidney disease h
Professor Mark Bailey, Director of Armagh Observatory, said he Perseid meteor shower is one of the best and most reliable meteor showers of the year.
the John D. Macarthur Professor of Physics at MIT. e use ultracold atoms to map out
Ketterle team members include graduate students Colin Kennedy, William Cody Burton, and Woo Chang Chung. A superfluid with loops The team first used a combination of laser cooling and evaporative cooling methods,
#Machine teaching holds the power to illuminate human learning Human learning is a complex, sometimes mysterious process.
That long-range goal is moving toward reality thanks to an effort led by professors in the University of Wisconsin-Madison departments of computer sciences, psychology and educational psychology.
It quite different from how people usually think about education, says Zhu. t will give us optimal, personalized lessons for real,
human students. achine learning is established a well subfield of computer science in which experts develop mathematical tools to help computers learn from data
The machine learner (the computer) is like a student The goal of machine learning is to develop models that will prove useful in the future
Practical tasks like speech recognition are aided by machine learning. Machine teaching turns this concept on its ear. Rather than dealing with pools of data and not knowing at the outset what patterns might be revealed through analysis,
or she wants to impress upon the learner. Machine teaching uses sophisticated mathematics to allow researchers to model actual human students and devise the best possible lessons for teaching them.
While the definition of estin a particular setting is up to the teacher one example could be identifying the smallest number of exercises needed for a particular student to grasp a concept.
Or, as Zhu puts it, an five really good questions teach the material, rather than 20?
hile this work is still in its early stages, it has immense potential to impact education.
Timothy T. Rogers, a professor of cognitive psychology at UW-Madison and one of Zhu collaborators, explains how computer science
and psychology come together. n order for the machine teaching approach to work, it needs a good model of how the learner behaves that is,
how the learner behavior changes with different kinds of learning or practice experiences, Rogers says. lso,
the model needs to be computational; it has to be able to make concrete, quantitative predictions about the learner behavior.?
Ultimately, we hope that the work can be used to help teachers develop lesson plans and curricula that promote learning in a wide variety of fields,
Rogers says, citing math, science and reading as examples. nd, just as important, the effort to bring cognitive models of learning to bear on real-world problems is bound to lead to important new advances in our understanding of how people learn generally. hu presented some of his research earlier this year in Austin, Texas, at the 29th annual
Conference on Artificial intelligence, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial intelligence. A two-year seed grant from the UW-Madison Graduate school currently supports this work.
Future funding from outside sources will be sought. ith machine teaching it conceptually easy, but quite challenging to implement in the real world.
It a major undertaking, says Zhu. In addition to Zhu and Rogers, the UW research team includes computer sciences professors Michael Ferris, Bilge Mutlu andstephen Wright;
engineering professor Rob Nowak; psychology professor Martha Alibali; and educational psychology professorsmartina Rau and Percival Matthews. Machine teaching probes fundamental mathematical and scientific concepts.
In part because of that, the team research is open-ended at this stage h
#Scientists find a new way to manufacture graphene nanoribbons for future electronics There is no doubt that graphene is the key to the future of electronics.
It is the most significant material for developing new types of electronic devices because of its many extraordinary properties,
Arnold Research Group and Guisinger Research Group, news. wisc. eduscientists at University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered now a method to grow these ultra-narrow strips, called nanoribbons, with desirable semiconducting
Professor Michael Arnold, one of the authors of the study, said raphene nanoribbons that can be grown directly on the surface of a semiconductor like germanium are more compatible with planar processing that used in the semiconductor industry,
said Jacob Yount, assistant professor of microbial infection and immunity at The Ohio State university and senior author of the study.
In a series of experiments in mouse and human lung cells, Yount and colleagues showed that inhibiting NEDD4 from doing this job led to an accumulation of IFITM3 in the cells
says Hubbard, an assistant professor of pharmacology in the University of Alberta Faculty of medicine & Dentistry. ee moving towards a very logical type of treatment for genetic diseases,
During the study, 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: e used our knowledge of blood flow dynamics to pick up on markers
and out in 90.9%of cases where it is not. rofessor Marco Rossi of Pisa University said:
an associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford. Now, though the output is small it would take 4,
a Phd student in chemistry and a member of Smolke team. heye the action heroes of biology. o get the yeast assembly line going,
Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have pioneered a method to track meltwater flowing through glaciers that end in the ocean.
The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) helped pioneer this new method on glaciers in Greenland and Alaska.
The team also includes researchers from the University of Alaska Southeast, the U s. Geological Survey and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Bartholomaus did his fieldwork while studying for his doctorate at the University of Alaska Fairbanks,
but he analyzed the data and wrote the study while at UTIG. UTIG is a research unit of The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences.
The team discovered the new method while trying to study earthquakes caused by iceberg calving
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