#Study shifts understanding of how bone fractures heal It time to rewrite the textbook description of bone fracture healing.
assistant professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation. n certain instances it may help, but wee shown for sure that you don need it.
Now researchers at University of California, San diego School of medicine have discovered a population of liver cells that are better at regenerating liver tissue than ordinary liver cells, or hepatocytes.
In this latest study, led by Michael Karin, Phd, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and Pathology, researchers traced the cells responsible for replenishing hepatocytes following chronic liver injury induced by exposure to carbon tetrachloride, a common environmental toxin.
Senior study author Bruce Spiegelman of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical school says that the confusion over irisin comes down to disagreement over how irisin protein is made in skeletal muscle cells and the detection limits
says endocrinologist Francesco Celi of the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical center, who was not involved with the study. mportantly,
but data suggest that high-intensity training protocols are particularly effective. The protocol described in the Cell Metabolism paper is likely to help such studies,
The work was completed at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland and was funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB),
. CWRU M. Frank Rudy and Margaret Domiter Rudy Professor of biomedical engineering and an expert in molecular imaging for cancer and other diseases. e showed with this technique that we can detect very tiny tumors of just
Researchers led by the University of Cambridge have built a mother robot that can independently build its own children and test
whether that learning about intelligence, or finding ways to improve robotic locomotion. A robot requires between ten and 100 times more energy than an animal to do the same thing.
explains Abhijeet Chaudhari, a DPHIL student in the Multifunctional Materials & Composites (MMC) Laboratory at Oxford university Department of Engineering science,
Professor Jin-Chong Tan of the Department of Engineering science, who led the team, says: ecause of its fine-scale fibre network architecture,
Andreas Velten, a Morgridge medical engineering affiliate and scientist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI
Assisted by chemical engineering undergraduate Jessica Zeman, Velten completed a first phase using cave models this summer,
Harvard Medical school associate professor of neurosurgery at Boston Children Hospital and senior author of the paper. he 3-D printed models allowed us to rehearse the cases beforehand
Darren Orbach, HMS associate professor of radiology and co-director of the Cerebrovascular Surgery and Interventions Center at Boston Children, treated a 2-month-old infant who had a rare vein of Galen malformation in
directed by HMS associate professor of anesthesia Peter Weinstock, the paper first author. Measurements of the models showed 98 percent agreement with the children actual anatomy.
Ke Xu, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab Life sciences Division, has dubbed his innovation SR-STORM,
Xu is also an assistant professor at UC Berkeley Department of chemistry. e measure both the position and spectrum of each individual molecule, plotting its super-resolved spatial position in two dimensions and coloring each molecule according to its spectral position,
For the first time, Carnegie mellon University Brainhub scientists have used a noninvasive brain imaging tool to detect the pathways that connect the parts of the basal ganglia.
said Patrick Beukema, the lead author and a graduate student in the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh (CNUP) and the joint Pitt and CMU Center for the Basis of Neural Cognition (CNBC).
said Timothy J. Verstynen, assistant professor of psychology in CMU Dietrich College of Humanities and Social sciences and CNBC faculty member.
The university has created some of the first cognitive tutors, helped to develop the Jeopardy-winning Watson,
founded a groundbreaking doctoral program in neural computation, and completed cutting-edge work in understanding the genetics of autism.
#High-sensitivity, high resolution magnetocardiography (MCG) for use at room temperature developed Researchers at Tohoku University have succeeded in developing a sensor for the living body that can detect the bio-magnetic field with high sensitivity
In a world first, the group led by Professor Yasuo Ando of the Graduate school of Engineering in collaboration with Konica Minolta,
University of Illinois researchers have developed a new technique to create a cell habitat of squishy fluids, called hydrogels,
Led by materials science and engineering professor Kristopher Kilian, chemistry professorjeffrey Moore and graduate student Joshua Grolman, the team published its results in the journal Advanced Materials.
said Steve Potter, an associate professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. eural modulation therapies of the future,
who built the optoclamp while a Ph d. student in Georgia Tech Laboratory for Neuroengineering. Newman is now a postdoctoral researcher at MIT. he amount of optical stimulation needed to achieve the same level of activity varied by orders of magnitude,
In research conducted with colleagues at Emory University, the optoclamp ability to maintain a steady neural firing state allowed researchers to study a key control issue in homeostatic plasticity, a phenomenon that results from a lack of neural stimulation.
and Emory University to clamp firing at normal levels during the addition of a drug that inhibits neurotransmission.
was a collaboration with Emory University Professor Pete Wenner and former graduate student Ming-fai Fong,
Newman, an engineer by training, says concepts common in engineering can be useful in the life sciences. losed-loop control is a concept that is woven through all engineered systems,
said Andrei Faraon, an assistant professor of applied physics and materials science at Caltech, and the study principal investigator. ut this new technology is very similar to the one used to print semiconductor chips onto silicon wafers,
UQ researchers Mr Paul Miller and Associate professor Derek Arnold say most people don even know they have a blind spot in their vision,
though you can shrink your blind spot by up to 10 per cent with training, even though there will always be a hole in your visual field. he neuroscientists at UQ School of Psychology may have opened the way to new treatments for the developed world leading cause of blindness,
The research involved training 10 people for 20 consecutive days on a direction-discrimination task.
Participants were presented with a drifting waveform in a ring centred around the blind spot in one of their eyes. t the end of the training
as you can never develop photosensitivity within the blind spot itself. f training can reduce the physiological blind spot,
the paper senior author and an associate professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at UCSF. e can take any cell type we want
when both were graduate students in the Gartner research group. t lets us ask questions about complex human tissues without needing to do experiments on humans. o specify the 3-D structure of their organoids,
#Mouth Guard Monitors Health Markers, Transmits Information Wirelessly to Smart Phone Engineers at the University of California,
The team, led by nanoengineering professor Joseph Wang and electrical engineering professor Patrick Mercier, both from the University of California,
heat waves Droughts and heat waves are happening simultaneously with much greater frequency than in the past, according to research by climate experts at the University of California, Irvine.
assistant professor of civil & environmental engineering. ith these two extremes happening at the same time, the threat is far more significant.
Professor Mete Atature, from the Cavendish Laboratory, Department of physics, and a Fellow of St john College at the University of Cambridge,
led the research. He said: t one of those cases of a fundamental question that theorists came up with,
assistant professor of mechanical engineering and a faculty member in the Penn State Materials Research Institute. ur surfaces combine the unique surface architectures of lotus leaves
said Birgitt Boschitsch Stogin, graduate student in Wong group and coauthor of lippery Wenzel State, published in the online edition of ACS Nano. roplets on conventional rough surfaces are mobile in the Cassie state
postdoctoral scholar in Wong group and the lead author on the paper. In the last decade, tremendous efforts have been devoted to designing rough surfaces that prevent the Cassie-to-Wenzel wetting transition.
Shannon Hilton and Paul Jones The microfluidic technology, developed in the lab of professor Mark Hayes in the Department of chemistry and Biochemistry at Arizona State university, uses microscale electric field gradients, acting on extremely small samples,
Two members of Hayesteam graduate students Paul V. Jones and Shannon (Huey) Hilton work in the lab. They have separated extremely similar bacteria:
Mark Hayes Two members of Hayesteam graduate students Paul V. Jones and Shannon (Huey) Hilton work in the lab. They have separated extremely similar bacteria:
along with Dr. Mark Spangehl of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Arizona. By most metrics the antibiotic-resistant and susceptible strains of Staphylococcus epidermidis are phenotypically identical,
Hayesteam, including graduate students Paul V. Jones and Shannon (Huey) Hilton, has separated extremely similar bacteria Gentamicin (antibiotic) resistant and susceptible bacteria.
an assistant professor in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular engineering at the Georgia Institute of technology. he information we can provide could one day help nutritional epidemiologists
King College London, have discovered a new molecular witchthat controls the properties of neurons in response to changes in the activity of their neural network. The findings,
and could have implications that go far beyond basic neuroscience from informing education policy to developing new therapies for neurological disorders such as epilepsy.
Researchers from the MRC CDN, led by Professor Oscar Marín, have shed light on this problem by discovering that some neurons in the cerebral cortex can adapt their properties in response to changes in network activity such as those observed during learning of a motor task.
and the constraints that disease and ageing impose to this multi-modal plasticity has important implications that go beyond fundamental neuroscience, from education policies to brain repair.
Professor Oscar Marín last author from the MRC CDN, said: ur study demonstrates the tremendous plasticity of the brain,
and how this relates to fundamental processes such as learning. Understanding the mechanisms that regulate this plasticity,
when we age, has enormous implications that go beyond fundamental neuroscience, from informing education policies to developing new therapies for neurological disorders such as epilepsy
Now, a team led by Wyss Institute Core Faculty member David Mooney, Ph d.,has developed a new strategy embedding stem cells into porous,
Mooney who is also the Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering
The team included Georg Duda, Ph d.,who a Wyss Associate Faculty member and the director of the Julius Wolff Institute and Professor of Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Regeneration at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin,
and Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, 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
a Graduate student who worked with Mooney and who is the study first author. ased on our experience with mechanosensitive stem cells,
#Scientists discover world longest continental volcanic hotspot track Scientists from the University of Aberdeen and the Australian National University (ANU) have discovered the world longest known continental volcanic hotspot track in eastern Australia.
The so-called Cosgrove track was found to be nearly three times the length of the famous Yellowstone hotspot track in the United states. Most volcanoes are found along the edge of tectonic plates,
Professor Nick Rawlinson, from the University of Aberdeen School of Geosciences, explained: hen material from a mantle plume reaches the base of the lithosphere it starts to melt,
Xiangtao Meng, a fourth-year graduate student in the College of Natural resources and Environment, has developed a new technique to make that easier.
According to Kevin Edgar, a professor of sustainable biomaterials and Meng doctoral adviser, the new method an get drugs to market,
a renewable resource supporting the mission of the College of Natural resources and Environment to advance the science of sustainability.
With the help of Edgar and John Matson, a chemistry professor in the College of Science, Meng developed a method to successfully modify cellulose using cross-metathesis,
recently won the American Chemical Society CELL DIVISION Graduate student Award for this work. The prestigious, annual, international award carries a cash prize
which he sends to collaborators in a drug-delivery group at Purdue University. The team is currently targeting HIV drugs,
Meng, an ICTAS doctoral scholar from Shandong Province, China, is now working on incorporating another type of chemical reaction that will allow even more versatility like rowing apples and peaches on the same tree,
Tufts University biomedical engineers recently published the first report of a promising new way to induce human mesenchymal stem cells (or hmscs,
assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Tufts School of engineering. Xu work focuses on material science engineering, specifically nanoscience and its biomedical application:
In 2015, he received a Faculty Early Career development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF),
He was named a Pew Scholar in biomedical sciences by the Pew Charitable trusts in 2013. In addition to the School of engineering, he has appointments in the School of medicine and Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical sciences at Tufts University v
#Researchers develop key component for terahertz wireless Terahertz radiation could one day provide the backbone for wireless systems that can deliver data up to one hundred times faster than today cellular or Wi-fi networks.
Researchers from Brown University have taken a major step toward addressing one of those challenges. Theye developed
professor of engineering at Brown and senior author of a paper describing the new device. his is, to our knowledge,
said Nicholas Karl, a graduate student at Brown and the paper lead author. Karl led the experiments on the device with fellow graduate student Robert Mckinney.
Other authors on the study are Rajind Mendis, a research professor at Brown, and Yasuaki Monnai from Keio University in Tokyo.
One of the advantages to the approach the researchers say, is that by adjusting the distance between the plates,
it possible to adjust the spectrum bandwidth that can be allocated to each channel. That could be especially useful
A research group from Osaka University is collaborating with Mittleman group to implement the device in a prototype terahertz network theye building. his is a first-generation
said Martin Yarmush, the Paul and Mary Monroe Chair and Distinguished Professor of biomedical engineering at Rutgers and Ghodbane adviser.
#Researchers find biomarker for autism that may aid diagnostics By identifying a key signaling defect within a specific membrane structure in all cells, University of California,
said Gargus, director of the Center for Autism Research & Translation and professor of pediatrics and physiology & biophysics. qually exciting,
including ones regulating learning and memory, neuronal excitability and neurotransmitter release areas known to be dysfunctional in ASD. e propose that the proper function of this channel
said Parker, a fellow of London Royal Society and UCI professor of neurobiology & behavior, who studies cellular calcium signaling.
and just hope for the best, said Wendell Lim, Phd, professor and chair of UCSF Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology,
and Elias M. Puchner, Phd, a UCSF former postdoctoral fellow who is now assistant professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota.
and too high-maintenance, said Tony Jun Huang, Penn State professor of engineering science and mechanics. ore importantly,
a graduate student in Huang group. he focused acoustic waves have shown better performance in terms of sorting resolution and energy-efficiency than the existing acoustic methods.
who is also a professor of biology at MIT. his reporter is a very important tool.
a postdoctoral researcher in Jaenisch lab. Working with graduate student Chikdu Shivalila, Stelzer synthesized a DNA methylation reporter that mirrors
inexpensive tests using DNA Chemists at the University of Montreal used DNA molecules to developed rapid,
The design was created by the research group of Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, a professor in the Department of chemistry at University of Montreal. espite the power of current diagnostic tests,
postdoctoral scholar at the University of Montreal and first author of the study. nstead of having to fight this basic repulsion effect,
Francesco Ricci, a professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata who also participated in this study,
The research, led by Yinzhi Cao, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Lehigh University, with coauthors Xiang Pan and Yan Chen from Northwestern University, will be presented at the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security,
September 28-30, in Florence, Italy. The study will also be published as paper, afepay: Protecting against Credit card Forgery with Existing Magnetic Card Readers. ecause Safepay is backward compatible with existing magnetic card readers,
a gas station and a university coffee shop. During the experiments, they used a bank application, cell phone application and magnetic credit card chip.
Now, University of Missouri researchers have made a discovery in how specialized proteins can inhibit the virus,
In his study, Shan-Lu Liu, an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology in the School of medicine and an investigator in the Bond Life sciences Center at MU, targeted IFITM proteins
Jingyou Yu, a doctoral student in MU pathobiology graduate program, conducted experiments to show that IFITM proteins, particularly IFITM2 and IFITM3, block HIV cell-to-cell transmission.
who is also a graduate student in pathobiology, and discovered that IFITM proteins specifically interact with the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein
Eric O. Freed, director and a senior investigator of the HIV Dynamics and Replication Program within the National Cancer Institute, Chen Liang, an associate professor at Mcgill University and Benjamin Chen
, an associate professor of infectious diseases at the Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai, New york contributed to the study o
and John van der Oost at Wageningen University, describe the unexpected biological features of this new system
says Zhang, the W. M. Keck Assistant professor in Biomedical engineering in MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive sciences.
inexpensive tests using DNA Chemists at the University of Montreal used DNA molecules to developed rapid,
The design was created by the research group of Alexis Vallée-Bélisle, a professor in the Department of chemistry at University of Montreal. espite the power of current diagnostic tests,
postdoctoral scholar at the University of Montreal and first author of the study. nstead of having to fight this basic repulsion effect,
Francesco Ricci, a professor at University of Rome Tor Vergata who also participated in this study,
and changes shape could lead to artificial arteries Researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have developed a way of assembling organic molecules into complex tubular tissue-like structures without the use of moulds
and Other Acute Infections A group of scientists, led by colleagues from the University of California,
and that is to me an opportunity to change the world in a very big waysaid Baratunde Cola, an associate professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech. s a robust, high-temperature detector,
Study author Professor Kazem Rahimi, Deputy Director of the George Institute for Global Health UK, said that in face of earlier conflicting and inconclusive reports,
Professor Rahimi said that the link between hypertension and fatal heart issues had been documented well, but the connection to diabetes had been less clear. revious smaller studies have varied significantly
which has been published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC), looked at the health records of 4. 1 million adults in the UK who were initially free of diabetes and cardiovascular disease and found:
Professor Rahimi said the research also pooled together 30 prior studies that examined risk factors for diabetes. here were similar results in this section of the research with a 77%higher chance of getting diabetes for every 20 mm
Professor Rahimi said researchers could now examine the causal relationship between blood pressure and diabetes. t a minimum we know for certain that the link exists,
says Catherine Drennan, a professor of chemistry and biology at MIT. The findings are detailed this week in the journal Nature.
graduate students Percival Yang-Ting Chen, Marco Jost, and Gyunghoon Kang of MIT; Jesus Fernandez-Zapata and S. Padmanabhan of the Institute of Physical chemistry Rocasolano, in Madrid;
and Maria Carmen Polanco, of the University of Murcia, in Murcia, Spain. The researchers used a combination of X-ray crystallography techniques
since she was a graduate student, emphasizes that key elements of the research were performed by all the co-authors.
says Rowena Matthews, a professor emerita of biological chemistry at the University of Michigan, who has read the paper.
says Zhen Gu, corresponding author of a paper on the work and an assistant professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North carolina State university and the University of North carolina at Chapel hill. irst,
lead author of the paper and a Ph d. student in the joint biomedical engineering program. Here how the process works.
But an associate professor in the University of Arizona School of Information Clayton Morrison, is doing just that one algorithm at a time.
associate professor in the School of Information and REACH principal investigator, trained a computer system to read papers using hundreds of algorithms.
Others on the UA research team include Ryan Gutenkunst, assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology; Guang Yao, assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology;
and Kobus Barnard, professor of computer science. Morrison, who also has a strong, academic background in developmental psychology, said,
think that collaborative computers are going to be like children, and wel have to raise them, in a way.
animals A new test detects virtually any virus that infects people and animals, according to research at Washington University School of medicine in St louis,
the Ruth L. Siteman Professor of Pediatrics. t casts a broad net and can efficiently detect viruses that are present at very low levels.
Developed in collaboration with the university Mcdonnell Genome Institute, the test sequences and detects viruses in patient samples
The Washington University researchers are making the technology they developed publicly available to scientists and clinicians worldwide
or other drugs, said co-author Kristine Wylie, Phd, assistant professor of pediatrics. In the meantime, the technology can be used by scientists to study viruses in a research setting.
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering think so. They have created a new type of lithium-ion battery anode using portabella mushrooms,
said Brennan Campbell, a graduate student in the Materials science and engineering program at UC Riverside. The research findings were outlined in a paper, io-Derived, Binderless,
It was authored by Cengiz Ozkan and Mihri Ozkan, both professors in the Bourns College of Engineering,
and three of their current or former graduate students: Campbell, Robert Ionescu and Zachary Favors. Nanocarbon architectures derived from biological materials such as mushrooms can be considered a green and sustainable alternative to graphite-based anodes,
said Cengiz Ozkan, a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering. The nanoribbon-like architectures transform upon heat treatment into an interconnected porous network architecture
said Mihri Ozkan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering. Therefore, the UC Riverside team is focused on naturally-derived carbons,
The Ozkan research is supported by the University of California Riverside. This paper involving mushrooms is published just over a year after the Ozkan labs developed a lithium-ion battery anode based on nanosilicon via beach sand as the natural raw material.
according to Carnegie mellon University researchers who have developed a three-fingered soft robotic hand with multiple embedded fiber optic sensors.
assistant professor of robotics. uman skin contains thousands of tactile sensory units only in the fingertip
The hand, developed with mechanical engineering students Leo Jiang and Kevin Low, incorporates commercially available fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors,
So Park, working with mechanical engineering students Celeste To from CMU and Tess Lee Hellebrekers from the University of Texas, invented a highly stretchable and flexible optical sensor, using a combination of commercially available silicone rubbers.
and created a new diagnostic technology based on advanced self learning computer algorithms whichn the basis of a biopsy from a metastasisan with 85 per cent certainty identify the source of the disease
Associate professor Aron Eklund from DTU Systems Biology explains: e are pleased very that we can now use the same sequencing data together with our new algorithms to provide a much faster diagnosis for cancer cases that are difficult to diagnose,
said John Guy, M d.,professor of ophthalmology and director of the ocular gene therapy laboratory at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of medicine.
distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry and materials science and engineering, was published recently by the journal ACS Nano.
a former UCLA doctoral student who now is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford university and was the study first author. he vertical orientation can save a great deal of space,
says Conor Walsh, Ph d.,Wyss Institute Core Faculty member, Assistant professor of Mechanical and Biomedical engineering AT SEAS, founder of the Harvard Biodesign Lab AT SEAS,
and author on the paper. he device is a minimally invasive way to deliver a patch
assistant professor of applied and engineering physics, detail this new way to directly measure magnetic moments and how it may be used to break fundamental limits of spatial resolution that are imposed in purely optical magnetic measurements.
graduate student in the field of applied physics. t an exciting area to start looking at
thanks to findings published today by Professor Gilbert Bernier of the University of Montreal and its affiliated Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital.
Professor Gilbert explained. ithin 45 days, the cones that we allowed to grow towards confluence spontaneously formed organised retinal tissue that was 150 microns thick.
Beyond the clinical applications, Professor Bernier findings could enable the modelling of human retinal degenerative diseases through the use of induced pluripotent stem cells,
UW professor emeritus of psychology and director of the lab work at the Washington National Primate Research center. o the extent that macaques mirror human physiology,
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