the $5. 2 million Australian Research Council Training Centre for Portable Analytical Separation Technologies based at the University of Tasmania,
ASTECH Training Centre Researcher Professor Michael Breadmore said the design and development of the hemapen is a world-first
Professor Breadmore said. his is often time-consuming and costly for both the individual and health care systems.
Professor Breadmore said the Centre was aiming to bridge the gap between research and product development through the partnership with Trajan. he hemapen is an example of ASTECH core foundations;
thanks to a new diagnostic test developed by a University of Virginia Children Hospital pediatrician and his collaborators.
and Matthew Gurka of West virginia University School of Public health developed the new diagnostic test. The test relies on an evaluation of metabolic syndrome,
The research has been described in articles in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and the journal Diabetologia.
#New microscopy technology augments surgeon view for greater accuracy Researchers at the University of Arizona (UA) have developed a prototype of a new microscope technology that could help surgeons work with a greater degree
what is there said journal associate editor Brian Pogue of Dartmouth College. oo often, what they see is a report of the signals depicted in false color on a monitor.
and an assistant professor of chemistry in the College of Science at Oregon State university. hat assumption is said incorrect,
#Next-generation perovskite solar cells made stable by metal oxide andwichucla professor Yang Yang, member of the California Nanosystems Institute, is renowned a world innovator of solar cell technology
Postdoctoral scholar Jingbi You and graduate student Lei Meng from the Yang Lab were the lead authors on the paper. here has been much optimism about perovskite solar cell technology
In the edition of the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, a team of Brown University researchers describes a new method that works faster and more sensitively in lab testing than the current standard technologies.
professor of engineering at Brown and corresponding author on the paper. ach HIV contains about 10,000 nucleotides,
Aiming for the clinic The development of LRA is the product of a collaboration led by Tripathi and Dr. Rami Kantor, associate professor of medicine in the Warren Alpert Medical school.
assistant professor of medicine and a co-author on the paper. he next steps are to continue the development of LRA
Developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Cambridge-based technology company Novalia,
Hasan method, developed at the University Nanoscience Centre, works by suspending tiny particles of graphene in a arriersolvent mixture,
Hasan and Phd students Guohua Hu Richard Howe and Zongyin Yang of the Hybrid Nanomaterials Engineering group at CGC, in collaboration with Novalia, tested the method on a typical commercial printing press,
a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and a University Lecturer in the Engineering Department. e hope to use this strong local expertise to expand our functional ink platform.
But now, in a landmark study by George Church and his team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard university and Harvard Medical school, the gene editing system known as CRISPRAS9 has been used to genetically engineer pig DNA
Church is the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical school and a Wyss core faculty member.
said David H. Sachs, director of the TBRC Laboratories at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Paul S. Russell Professor of Surgery Emeritus at HMS and professor of surgical sciences at Columbia
University Center for Translational Immunology. Sachs has been developing special pigs for xenotransplantation for more than 30 years
Now University of Pennsylvania researchers have shown at the molecular level how experiencing stress changes a male mouse sperm in such a way that it affects his offspring response to stress.
professor of neuroscience in Penn School of veterinary medicine and Perelman School of medicine, provides important clues for understanding how a father life experiences may affect his children brain development and mental health through a purely biological and not behavioral means. t remarkable to
She collaborated on the work with graduate students Ali B. Rogers and Christopher P. Morgan and research specialist N. Adrian Leu of Penn Vet.
Up next for the group, including Penn Vet graduate student Jen Chan, who is taking over the project,
Now, a team of researchers from Oxford and Stony Brook universities has found a way to precisely control these waves using light.
Dr Emilia Entcheva, from Stony Brook University, said: he level of precision is reminiscent of what one can do in a computer model,
A supercomputer for the ong tailof science The San diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San diego this week formally launched omet,
Professor Gavin Giovannoni, Chair of Neurology at QMUL Blizard Institute, said: he phase III ocrelizumab results for both PPMS and RMS,
Professor in the Department of Materials at ETH Zurich and holder of a SNSF professorship grant. hey can be made much smaller than today memory modules,
The findings from the Cambridge scientists, who worked in collaboration with scientists at the University of Rennes in France,
Professor Alan Warren from the Cambridge Institute of Medical Research at the University of Cambridge, said:
e are starting to find that many forms of blood cancer can be traced back to defects in the basic housekeeping processes in our cellsmaturation.
Now, a team of researchers from Oxford and Stony Brook universities has found a way to precisely control these waves using light.
Dr Emilia Entcheva, from Stony Brook University, said: he level of precision is reminiscent of what one can do in a computer model,
scientists at Washington University School of Medicinein St louis have demonstrated a way to dial up the body innate immune defenses
the Selma and Herman Seldin Professor of Medicine. t does something that other components don do,
He is now an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology at the University of Washington and a UW Medicine researcher. nswering this question
and Women Hospital and a principal faculty member at Harvard Stem Cell Institute. hese genetically engineered mini-kidneys, Freedman added,
said Joseph Bonventre, MD, Phd, HSCI Principal Faculty, Chief of the Renal Division at Brigham and Women Hospital at Harvard and the study senior author. e were interested in creating disease models using these kidney organoids,
and has taken since a position as Assistant professor at the University of Washington. his provides us with faster,
#Researchers discover an epilepsy switch A team from the University of Bonn uses a new approach to solve an old mystery Scientists at the University of Bonn
and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) have decoded a central signal cascade associated with epileptic seizures.
Dr. Albert J. Becker from the Institute of Neuropathology of the University of Bonn. The hippocampus, located in the temporal lobe, is a central switching station in the brain.
together with scientists from the departments of Experimental Epileptology and Neuroradiology of the University of Bonn Hospital as well as from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Israel), have decoded now a signaling pathway
Dr. Susanne Schoch from the department of Neuropathology at the University of Bonn. The researchers also see a possible potential in this new technology for novel diagnostic approaches in humans.
University of Georgia researchers are giving patients new hope with recent findings that help pinpoint the mechanisms causing chemoresistance.
Over the last five years, UGA College of Pharmacy associate professors Mandi Murph and Shelley Hooks have discovered that a type of protein known as RGS10 impacts the effectiveness of ovarian cancer chemotherapy.
associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke university. any labs across the world are using these tools on the assumption that theye getting specific effects,
assistant professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at Duke. inding a change in sequence or gene activity is relatively straightforward
Crawford, associate professor of pediatrics, has spent more than a decade developing techniques to identify control regions across the genome
It fell to Pratiksha Thakore, a Phd student in Gersbach lab, to integrate the expertise of all three laboratories for studying the specificity of CRISPR in controlling these switches.
#Collaboration identifies critical macular-development gene Researchers at the University of Iowa Stephen A. Wynn Institute for Vision Research announced the discovery of a gene that controls the development of the human macula.
and certain in the long term. s a public research university working to solve some of society greatest health and medical challenges,
says Jean Robillard, M d.,interim president of the University of Iowa and vice president for medical affairs, University of Iowa Health care s
the study senior author and a professor and vice chair for research and programs in the UCLA department of neurology. he brain has limited a capacity for recovery after stroke,
or off by GDF10 in brain cells after a stroke and compared the cellsrna to RNA in comparable cells during brain development and normal learning,
and other processes, is described in a paper by Department of Mechanical engineering Professor Evelyn Wang, graduate student Jeremy Cho,
and recent graduate Jordan Mizerak 4, published in the journal Nature Communications. This degree of control over the boiling process, independent of temperature, Wang says,
says Satish Kandlikar, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Rochester Institute of technology, who was involved not in this research. uch control strategies will dramatically alter the heat transfer paradigm in many applications,
#New company to produce water-disinfecting tablets invented at UVA A new University of Virginia-inspired public benefit company with a global health mission,
and Health Conference, being held this week at the University of North carolina School of Global Public health.
was developed and extensively tested by UVA scientists and students. It is inexpensive to produce and can repeatedly disinfect water for up to six months by simply resting in a 10-liter household water storage container. e wanted to maximize production and distribution of Madidrop,
The University is one of the primary shareholders in the company, and used a Virginia Innovation Grant as seed money to move the technology beyond the lab and into the marketplace.
a group of University of Florida researchers has found. Carbon dioxide, a major contributor to the buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases, can be captured
said Robert Mckenna, Ph d.,a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the UF College of Medicine,
#Bioengineers cut in half time needed to make high-tech flexible sensors Bioengineers at the University of California,
a bioengineering professor at the Jacobs School of engineering at UC San diego. Researchers describe their work in the journal Sensors. clinical need is
a Jacobs School Ph d. student in Coleman research group, set out to answer. The result of his efforts is a process that comprises only six stepshree of them in the clean room.
but a new class of spiral polypeptides developed at the University of Illinois targets one thing no bacterium can live without:
Led by U. of I. materials science and engineering professor Jianjun Cheng, the researchers published their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. hen you have an infection,
#Nanotechnology could spur new heart treatment for arrthymia A new nanoparticle developed by University of Michigan researchers could be the key to a targeted therapy for cardiac arrhythmia,
The team, led by Jérôme Kalifa, M d.,Ph d.,a cardiologist and U-M Medical school assistant professor at the Center for Arrhythmia Research,
and Raoul Kopelman, a chemist, materials scientist and the Richard Smalley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Physics and Applied Physics, set out to target
said Shu-Bing Qian, associate professor of nutritional sciences, and the paper senior author, along with Dr. Samie Jaffrey, professor of pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Jun Zhou, a postdoctoral research associate in Qian lab, is the paper first author. The process of making heat shock proteins is not simple,
and accumulate during stress. he accumulation of damaged proteins disregulates the whole metabolism, said Qian. e suspect this could be one cause of obesity.
investigator Shingo Kajimura, Phd, an assistant professor of cell and tissue biology in UCSF School of dentistry. He holds a joint appointment in UCSF Diabetes Center and Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research.
In the new paper, Kajimura team collaborated with the laboratory of Yasushi Ishihama, Phd, of the University of Kyoto, Japan,
That is precisely what University of Washington mathematics professor Gunther Uhlmann was expecting when he and three colleagues proposed a means to develop an electromagnetic wormhole in a 2007 paper in Physical Review Letters.
A group of researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona were able to design and construct a metallic metamaterial that could enclose two objects:
Uhlmann co-authors on the 2007 paper were Allan Greenleaf at the University of Rochester, Yaroslav Kurylev at University college London and Matti Lassas at Helsinki University of Technology e
#Biologist uncovers fundamental new strategy for destroying cancer cells University of Virginia cell biologist John Herr believes that the most ground-breaking findings always start with an insight built on basic science.
and within the egg and the sperm, said Herr, a professor of cell biology in the School of medicine.
That what we do well as a university. That our task, to create a knowledge base and disseminate it into society by launching new ventures
#An efficient and convenient protocol for generation of human ipsc-derived hepatocytes Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed an efficient and cheap protocol for production of human ips cell-derived liver cells.
Assistant professor Taketomo Kido, Professor Atsushi Miyajima and their research group at the Laboratory of Cell Growth
says Assistant professor Kido. He continues, hese cells exhibit the characteristics of mature hepatocytes for more than two weeks,
and Ronald Harty in the Department of Pathobiology of the University of Pennsylvania School of veterinary medicine demonstrates a way to do that,
#Researchers build nanoscale autonomous walking machine from DNA Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a nanoscale machine made of DNA that can randomly walk in any direction across bumpy surfaces.
said Ellington, professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences and member of the UT Center for Systems and Synthetic biology.
Ph d.,study author from the Department of Biomedicine, at the University of Bergen in Bergen,
something that can be used immediately in cancer diagnosis. Professor Tim Maughan, Clinical Director of the Cancer Research UK/Medical Research Council Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, said:
Now electrical engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created a new kind of phototransistor and it is the fastest,
but the one developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison can be made in any curve to fit any optical system.
Professor Zhenqiang ackma, one of the developers of this project explained: his demonstration shows great potential in high-performance and flexible photodetection systems.
Brandeis University professor Lizbeth Hedstrom and University of Minnesota professor Courtney Aldrich, two of the study other research collaborators, had identified several inhibitor molecules that bind to IMPDH,
Now, for the first time, a team of researchers from The Rockefeller University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Stony Brook University has revealed that vital complex molecular architecture.
And to their surprise, it does not look as they had expected. ur finding goes against decades of textbook drawings of
says Michael Oonnell, Anthony and Judith Evnin Professor, head of Rockefeller Laboratory of DNA Replication and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
and a specialty of co-author Huilin Li, a molecular biologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University.
the team enlisted the help of co-authors postdoc Yi Shi and Brian Chait, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor at Rockefeller and head of the Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry and Gaseous Ion Chemistry.
Professor Nicola Sibson, study author and Cancer Research UK scientist at The University of Oxford, said:
f we can map the edge of the tumour, surgery and radiotherapy often fail to remove aggressive tumour cells
Professor Charlie Swanton, NCRI chair and Cancer Research UK scientist at the Francis Crick Institute, said:
said Anthony Gonzalez of the University of Florida in Gainesville, lead author of a new study published in the Oct 20 issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
was shown to be expressed specifically in the maize seed by the group of Prem Chourey at University of Florida,
such as in the mutant lines provided by the Uniformmu resource (Don Mccarty and Karen Koch at the University of Florida),
says Bruno Reichart, a professor at the University of Munich, who leads a German consortium developing transgenic pigs. t very cumbersome.
Also this summer, transplant experts at the University of Pittsburgh said they kept a baboon alive with one of Revivicor pig kidneys for more than four months.
She has been financing research at the University of Maryland, where pig lungs are being perfused with human blood in the laboratory as a way of measuring the immune response. he wants genetically modified lungs for personal reasons,
Harvard university scientist George Church and his former student, Farren Isaacs, of Yale, held a press conference to announce a breakthrough of their own.
Several privately funded companies and small university-based research groups pursuing novel fusion reactor designs have delivered promising results that could shorten the timeline for producing a prototype machine from decades to several years.
a professor of nuclear science and engineering and the center director, published a conceptual design in July for a machine called the ARC reactor (ffordable, robust, compact.
Harish Krishnaswamy, an associate professor at Columbia University, says Kumu trials suggest that the idea of full-duplex wireless connections can be practical,
#Paralyzed Man Arm Wired to Receive Brain signals Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio say theye used electronics to get around a paralyzed man spinal injury,
But a new method developed at the University of Birmingham is about to change all that.
Built in partnership with the Applied Physics laboratory at John Hopkins University the attachment has been called affectionately Luke (after Luke Skywalker.
a Scripps graduate student, said in the release d
#Stimulating Neurons with Sound Over the past five years, optogenetics method for stimulating genetically engineered neurons with lightas taken the life sciences by storm.
said Stephen Baccus, a neurobiologist at the Stanford university School of medicine, who was involved not in the study. t an awesome study
Jamie Davies of the University of Edinburgh wrote in an accompanying commentary. here is a long way to go until transplantable kidneys can be engineered,
when researchers at the Jikei University School of medicine in Tokyo created mini-kidneys that from human stem cells that excreted urine
who is developing electronic skin at the University of California, Berkeley, told Chemical & Engineering News. t could have important implications for the development of smarter prosthetics.
to charge the batteries or power onboard systems, according to the University of Manchester. Graphene-doped strontium titanium oxide has the ability to generate electricity from relatively small amounts of heat
Working with the thermoelectric base material strontium titanium oxide, the team led by Professors Ian Kinloch and Robert Freer has found that making it into a composite with grapheme could be advantageous.?
said Sayeef Salahuddin, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, and head of the research team at Berkley. owever, the physics needed to create long-term storage are not compatible with integrated circuits.
#obo-whiskers build picture of surroundings Researchers at the University of Illinoisadvanced Digital Sciences Centre in Singapore have developed a whisker-like sensor array that measures the fluid flow of its surroundings
nonvolatile computer memory, said James Tour, professor of materials science, nanoengineering and computer science at Rice university. While current flash technology requires three electrodes per circuit,
and the University of North carolina at Chapel hill. his could be used to release painkillers whenever a patient with arthritic knees goes for a walk,
co-senior author of a paper describing the work and an assistant professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at NC State and UNC-Chapel hill.
The university said in a statement that the microcapsules stick halfway out of the film, on the side of the film that touches a patient skin.
co-senior author of the paper and an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State. hat compression helps push the drug out of the microcapsule.
and a Ph d student in Gu lab. The researchers are said also to have incorporated microneedles into the system,
and a Ph d student in Zhu lab. ee now exploring how this tool can be used to apply drugs efficiently
professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke. heepth of the cavitiesffects the pitch of the sound they make,
a Phd student in electrical and computer engineering at Duke and lead author of the paper. e think this could improve the performance of voice-activated devices like smart phones
The results delivered by scientists at Korea University and TU Berlin-are published in the Journal of Neural engineering.
#K scientists create magnetism in nonmagnetic metals Scientists at Leeds University have discovered a method to create magnetism in metals that aren naturally magnetic,
or toxic materials, said Tim Moorsom from the School of Physics & Astronomy at Leeds University,
such as carbon and copper, said co-lead author Fatma Al Maari, also from the University School of Physics & Astronomy. uture technologies,
Surgery Training Centre, both at the Chinese University of Hong kong, attempting to mimic the movement of the larval amphibians to design a capsule endoscope with a controllable swimming action that doctors can steer around inside the stomach to provide a guided tour,
then orient it ideally for its dive into the intestines where peristalsis can take over for the rest of its journey.
However, a special algorithm, developed by a group from North carolina State university and the University of North carolina, allows this process to happen automatically,
Helen Huang, an associate professor in the biomedical engineering program at NC State and UNC-Chapel hill said that as well helping streamline the initial set up of prosthetics,
It was developed in the lab of materials science professor Joanna Aizenberg, whose team has been working on Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces (SLIPS) since 2011. o far,
The technique, developed by researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex in collaboration with Ultrahaptics, could be developed for a wide range of applications,
Bruce Drinkwater, Professor of Ultrasonics in Bristol University Department of Mechanical engineering said: e all know that sound waves can have a physical effect.
Sriram Subramanian, Professor of Informatics at Sussex University and cofounder of Ultrahaptics, added: n our device we manipulate objects in mid-air
Bristol University said that the third could be described as a high-intensity cage that surrounds the objects and holds them in place from all directions.
The technique, developed by researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex in collaboration with Ultrahaptics, could be developed for a wide range of applications,
Bruce Drinkwater, Professor of Ultrasonics in Bristol University Department of Mechanical engineering said: e all know that sound waves can have a physical effect.
Sriram Subramanian, Professor of Informatics at Sussex University and cofounder of Ultrahaptics, added: n our device we manipulate objects in mid-air
Bristol University said that the third could be described as a high-intensity cage that surrounds the objects and holds them in place from all directions.
#New electrode improves solar efficiency to split water Scientists from the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin have developed a new type of electrode for splitting water with sunlight,
a professor at the University of Chicago Institute for Molecular Engineering. o people can use these concepts ncorporation of a new element
a professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin. o it not just about achieving higher efficiency,
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created miniature lenses with vast range of vision. Their new approach is claimed to have created the first-ever flexible Fresnel zone plate microlenses with a wide field of view,
Led by Hongrui Jiang, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW-Madison, the researchers designed lenses no larger than the head of a pin and embedded them within flexible plastic.
Jiang and his team-including postdoctoral scholar Mohammad J. Moghimi, graduate student Jayer Fernandes and recent graduate Aditi Kanhere-are exploring ways to integrate the lenses into existing optical detectors and directly incorporate silicon electronic components into the lenses themselves e
#Aluminium battery can charge phone in one minute, scientists say Scientists say they have invented a new battery that could fully charge a smartphone in just one minute.
Hongjie Dai, a professor of chemistry at Stanford university, hailed it as a breakthrough in battery technology that went further than previous attempts using aluminium.
As Maryland law professor Frank Pasquale writes in his acclaimed new book The Black box Society:
For Pasquale, the solution lies in greater transparency. oogle secrecy keeps rivals from building upon its methods or even learning from them,
Teacher training will be reinforced, headteachers will be encouraged to report incidents and pupils will be taken to visit memorial sites.
There will also be tougher penalties for crimes deemed to have been fuelled by racism and antisemitism.
That the idea behind AIM autonomous intersection management at the artificial intelligence laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin.
says project leader Professor Peter Stone and then it wouldn seem so terrifying. hen I show people that video,
says Newcastle University professor of intelligent transport systems Phil Blyte, announcing the project. n more congested areas or particularly busy times of the day,
but with privacy and learning in mind. Figure 1 looks like Instagram. Pictures are uploaded into feeds,
it about sharing and learning, said Landy. The patient also has to sign a consent form either digitally on screen with their finger or via paper copies.
Dr Vikas Shah a consultant radiologist at University Hospitals Leicester. upload radiology cases such as x-rays or CT SCANS with a question or two,
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