when he was studying at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London. e have been using the same sort of weaving techniques for thousands of years.
#Brain-training game helps'minimise impact of schizophrenia on life'A rain traininggame improves the cognitive function of people with schizophrenia
and facilitates everyday tasks, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge. Wizard, which will now be available on ios (Apple operating system) as part of the Peak app,
Professor Barbara Sahakian, who developed the game alongside Tom Piercy at Cambridge, said: e need a way of treating the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as problems with episodic memory,
even those patients with a general lack of motivation are spurred on to continue the training.
The Wizard game will be included as a mode within the popular brain-training app, Peak, after it began a partnership with Cambridge in April 2015. his new app will allow the Wizard memory game to become widely available, inexpensively.
State-of-the-art neuroscience at the University of Cambridge combined with the innovative approach at Peak, will help bring the games industry to a new level
Professor Sahakian said e
#Revolutionary tidal fence is set to trap the sea power A British company has announced plans for an array of unique marine turbines that can operate in shallower and slower-moving water than current designs.
an internet domain registry company that owns a range of suffices including. college. His latest client?
Though not much use for capturing vessels in the vacuum of space, the team at the Public University of Navarre in Pamplona,
#Boffins have made optical transistors that can reach 4 TERAHERTZ Aluminum-doped zinc oxide is the key to building faster, optical chips, according to researchers at Purdue University, Indiana.
Here's how Bristol University explains one goes about making acoustic pincers: The researchers used an array of 64 miniature loudspeakers to create high-pitch and high-intensity sound waves.
Researchers at Flinders University in Australia believe that they have finally found the solution that meets both of those criteria.
the university says the material is"dirt cheap"to produce meaning it could easily be used in widespread applications like lining pipes for domestic and waste water, large-scale environmental cleanup operations and even for reducing mercury levels in large bodies of water like the oceans.
Sixense has made a living in part by offering VR to developers for such experiential applications as learning to drive a crane
but there is arguably a big difference between learning how a machine operates via mediated VR the step-by-step processes and actually entering into an experience.
after the two met as students at Stanford university. Before Google, the two worked together on a search engine called Backrub,
what MIT grad student Fadel Adib called a crazy idea. What if Wifi could see through walls?
Adib posed the question to his adviser, professor Dina Katabi. It set them on a journey to today.
what MIT grad student Fadel Adib called a crazy idea. What if Wifi could see through walls?
Adib posed the question to his adviser, professor Dina Katabi. It set them on a journey to today.
and energy saving desalination technology Researchers at the Alexandria University in Egypt have developed a new desalination technology that can produce potable water at reduced energy.
Developed by University of Alexandria researchers Mona Naim, Mahmoud Elewa, Ahmed El-Shafei and Abeer Moneer,
Alexandria University agricultural and biosystems engineering associate professor Ahmed El-Shafei was quoted by Yahoo News as saying:"
States Professor Joseph Perry, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech,"sol-gels...such as phosphonic acids are well known...
it was local graduates who started developing local versions of foreign services.""We have received around 11,000 applications in the last six years the Turkish market,
"mostly from males aged 25 to 30, well-educated, with a university degree. Initially, in the first two or three years, a higher percentage of the applications were for launching ecommerce companies."
Gil Press, managing Partner at gpress, a marketing, publishing, research and education consultancy, talks extensively about this great shift in his latest Forbes post, in
Aerospace companies, consulting firms, retailers and even educational institutions are exploring these new universes. Thanks to cloud
One example is Virginia Tech computer science professor Wu Feng and his team, who have developed tools to help other researchers
The aim of the NSF initiative is to provide science communities with the opportunity to conduct research and education activities on applications running in the cloud.
#SAP and Heidelberg University Hospital Personalize Pregnancy Care This Sunday is International Women's Day,
Heidelberg University Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in all of Europe is a perfect example of connected care working to improve women's lives.
In partnership with SAP and abcmedien, the University Hospital developed an app to provide pregnant women all information needed along their pregnancy and beyond.
which only pushes consumer product information, the healthcare experts at Heidelberg University Hospital created this app to serve as a dual resource for both mothers and physicians alike.
At Heidelberg University Hospital, doctors can analyze the answers obtained through the app, and proactively identify mothers at risk for such illness
and was built on the SAP Mobile Platform to provide Heidelberg University Hospital an intuitive interface to connect doctors with patients and vice versa.
In the future, Heidelberg University Hospital hopes to expand the app to help treat and monitor cancer patients as well as other diseases.
Heidelberg University Hospital can reduce immediate and long-term risks for mother and for baby. The traditional relationship between patient and doctor still exists
In 2011, researchers at the University of Exeter made headlines with a 3d printer that created designs in chocolate,
It was against this background that the the University of Barcelona (UB), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and the Fundació CIM, an organization
LAB OPENS ITS DOORS The facility is located in the Torribera campus of the University of Barcelona,
The foundation, attached to Polytechnic University of Catalonia and working on an open hardware basis, has been selling 3d printers since 1998, according to Felip Fonollosa, its director general.
the agreement signed by the two Catalan universities is for an initial three-year period,
It's also part of a larger project to create the Center for Gastronomic Studies and Research of Catalonia, an initiative by the University of Barcelona,
IBM, in partnership with Marist College and Syracuse University's School of Information Studies will host clouds that provide developers access to a virtual IBM Linuxone at no cost.
or failed to respond to standard therapies went into remission after receiving an investigational personalized cellular therapy CTL019 developed at the Perelman School of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
) treated at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and first five adults (ages 26 to 60 treated at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Their cancers were so aggressive they had no treatment options left said the study's senior author Stephan Grupp MD Phd a professor of Pediatrics in Penn's Perelman School of medicine and director of Translational Research in the Center
Shannon Maude MD Phd an assistant professor of Pediatrics and a pediatric oncologist at CHOP and Noelle Frey MD MSCE an assistant professor of Medicine and an oncologist at Penn's Abramson's Cancer Center
The research team is led by Carl June MD the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and director of Translational Research in the Abramson Cancer Center
along with David Porter MD the Jodi Fisher Horowitz Professor in Leukemia Care Excellence and director of Blood and Marrow Transplantation in the Abramson Cancer Center.
The above story is provided based on materials by University of Pennsylvania School of medicine e
#Optimal particle size for anticancer nanomedicines discovered Nanomedicines consisting of nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery to specific tissues
--and their interactions with biological systems explains Jianjun Cheng an associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
To further develop insight into the size dependency of nanomedicines in tumor accumulation and retention the researchers developed a mathematical model of the spatiotemporal distribution of nanoparticles within a spherically symmetric tumor.
Cheng a Willett Faculty Scholar at Illinois is affiliated with the departments of Bioengineering and of Chemistry the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory the Institute of Genomic Biology the Frederick
Seitz Materials Research Laboratory and University of Illinois Cancer Center. Tang who obtained his Phd degree from the University of Illinois with Jianjun Cheng is currently a CRI Irvington postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts institute of technology.
Collaborators and co-corresponding authors of the paper at Illinois include Timothy Fan associate professor veterinary clinical medicine;
Andrew Ferguson assistant professor materials science and engineering; and William Helferich professor food science and human nutrition. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Illinois College of Engineering g
#Weather history time machine created During the 1930s North america endured the Dust bowl a prolonged era of dryness that withered crops
and dramatically altered where the population settled. Land-based precipitation records from the years leading up to the Dust bowl are consistent with the telltale drying-out period associated with a persistent dry weather pattern
but they can't explain why the drought was pronounced so and long-lasting. The mystery lies in the fact that land-based precipitation tells only part of the climate story.
Now a new software program developed by a research team including San diego State university Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
'The National Science Foundation-funded project is a collaboration between Shen University of Maryland atmospheric scientist Phillip A. Arkin and National oceanic and atmospheric administration climatologist Thomas M. Smith.
Shen and his SDSU graduate students Nancy Tafolla and Barbara Sperberg produced a user friendly technologically advanced piece of software that does the statistical heavy lifting for researchers.
and power wearable sensors or medical devices or perhaps supply enough energy to charge your cell phone in your pocket says James Hone professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia and co-leader of the research.
Proof of the piezoelectric effect and piezotronic effect adds new functionalities to these two-dimensional materials says Zhong Lin Wang Regents'Professor in Georgia Tech's School of Materials science and engineering and a co-leader of the research.
For this study the research team also worked with Tony Heinz David M. Rickey Professor of Optical Communications at Columbia Engineering and professor of physics at Columbia's Graduate school of Arts and Sciences.
and at this level of detail said Suresh Babu the University of Tennessee-ORNL Governor's Chair for Advanced Manufacturing.
Other contributors to the research are ORNL's Mike Kirka and Hassina Bilheux University of California Berkeley's Anton Tremsin and Texas A&m University's William Sames.
The team lead by Professor Lester Kobzik at the Harvard university School of Public health introduced Streptococcus pneumoniae into the lungs of mice to mimic the inhalation of bacteria that occurs naturally as we breathe.
or pandemic influenza said Professor Lester Kobzik the senior author. We were pleased quite that the work led us to NOS3-targeting drugs that are already available
Dylan Ward a University of Cincinnati assistant professor of geology will present a case study on this unique technology application at The Geological Society of America's Annual Meeting & Exposition.
The above story is provided based on materials by University of Cincinnati. The original article was written by Dawn Fuller.
The study--authored by scientists from the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory Stony Brook University Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
and Imperial College London--published on Oct 15 2014 in the journal Genes and Development. The genesis of the DNA-unwinding machinery is wonderfully complex
and surprising said study coauthor Huilin Li a biologist at Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University.
We now have clues to how that double-ring structure stably lingers until the cell enters the DNA-synthesis phase much later on in replication said study coauthor Christian Speck of Imperial College London.
Imperial College and Cold Spring Harbor handled the challenging material preparation and functional characterization while Brookhaven and Stony Brook led the sophisticated molecular imaging and three-dimensional image reconstruction.
and contributing to greenhouse gas accumulation. As a byproduct of this process the microbes create a type of rock known as authigenic carbonate
a geobiology graduate student in the lab of Victoria Orphan of Caltech. These assemblages are also found in the Gulf of mexico as well as off Chile New zealand Africa Europe
--and pretty much every ocean basin in the world noted Thurber an assistant professor (senior research) in Oregon State's College of Earth Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences The study is important scientists say
#Tool enhances social inclusion for people with autism The University of Alicante has developed together with centres in the UK Spain
and definitions of complex verbs explains Paloma Moreda computer programmer at the University of Alicante. It provides additional information to understand the main ideas of a document
and social inclusion of the users as they gain better access to education employment health care and social activities she adds.
Furthermore it is applicable to a broad range of documents from school textbooks children's stories and literature.
In this regard the researcher points out that Open Book can also be helpful for people with low literacy
or learning difficulties as well as people who are learning a foreign language and the elderly who have problems grasping new words.
The project coordinator was Ruslan Mitkov Professor of Computational linguistics and Language Engineering at the University of Wolverhampton (UK).
Androgens the male hormones that fuel prostate cancer increase the copper accumulation in the cancer cells.
Andrew Armstrong M d. associate professor of medicine was involved with a recent study at Duke testing disulfiram in men with advanced prostate cancer.
Now a new study by a team of scientists from Italy France Columbia University and the University of California Berkeley demonstrates that the last magnetic reversal 786000 years ago actually happened very quickly in less than 100 years--roughly a human lifetime.
It's amazing how rapidly we see that reversal said UC Berkeley graduate student Courtney Sprain.
Sprain and Paul Renne director of the Berkeley Geochronology Center and a UC Berkeley professor-in-residence of earth and planetary science are coauthors of the study
The above story is provided based on materials by University of California-Berkeley. The original article was written by Robert Sanders.
but we didn't know what part of the nervous system was doing this said Jason Kutch corresponding author on a study about the research and an assistant professor in the Division of Biokinesiology & Physical therapy at the USC Ostrow School of dentistry.
Kutch collaborated with colleagues at USC Ostrow the Keck School of medicine of USC and Loma Linda University on the research.
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Achim Weber from Zurich University Hospital and Dr. Monika Wolf Institute of Surgical Pathology University Hospital Zurich.
But new research from Concordia University suggests that the opposite is more likely to occur.
Patterson who is a professor in Concordia's Department of Geography says that this is an unfortunate trend.
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%The current study to be published in the Journal of Clinical Infectious diseases by Johan Nordgren from Professor Lennart Svensson's research group shows that up to four of ten children in Burkina faso are genetically resistant to the virus strains found in the vaccines.
The above story is provided based on materials by Linköping University. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
Christoph Benning MSU professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and his colleagues unearthed the protein's potential
#Jobs plentiful for college grads The job market for new college graduates is red hot. After several years of modest growth hiring is expected to jump a whopping 16 percent for newly minted degree-holders in 2014-15 according to key findings from Recruiting Trends.
Employers are recruiting new college graduates at levels not seen since the dot-com frenzy of 1999-2000 said Gardner director of MSU's Collegiate Employment Research Institute.
Those with an MBA degree lead the way with an estimated 38 percent spike in hiring followed by doctorate (up 20 percent) associate's (up 19 percent) bachelor's (up 16 percent) and professional (up 8 percent.
Hiring for new master's degree graduates should be stagnant. When all degrees are taken into account hiring is expected to increase 16 percent.
whether the double-digit increase in hiring for college graduates will become the norm or if it's simply a one-year surge before the market settles down to slower yet steady growth.
#Scientists create new protein-based material with some nerve Scientists at the University of California Berkeley have taken proteins from nerve cells
and synthetic biology said principal investigator Dr. Sanjay Kumar UC Berkeley associate professor of bioengineering. We created a new class of smart protein-based materials
The above story is provided based on materials by University of California-Berkeley. The original article was written by Sarah Yang.
Carl Gwinn a professor in UCSB's Department of physics and colleagues have analyzed images collected by the Russian spacecraft Radioastron.
In order to better understand the substructure Michael Johnson Gwinn's former graduate student now at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics conducted theoretical research.
The above story is provided based on materials by University of California-Santa barbara. The original article was written by Julie Cohen.
Scientists from Tohoku University in Japan have developed a new type of energy-efficient flat light source based on carbon nanotubes with very low power consumption of around 0. 1 Watt for every hour's operation
which holds excellent potential for a lighting device with low power consumption said Norihiro Shimoi the lead researcher and an associate professor of environmental studies at the Tohoku University.
#Research leads to brain cancer clinical trial Researchers at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI)
Samuel Weiss Phd Professor and Director of the HBI and Research Assistant professor Artee Luchman Phd and colleagues published their work today in Clinical Cancer Research
Our research has identified a key process in brain tumour growth that we were able to target with AZD8055 says Luchman from the university's Cumming School of medicine and a member of the HBI.
and their families says Weiss leader of the university's Brain and Mental health strategic research priority.
University of Calgary researchers including Luchman Weiss and Dr. Greg Cairncross--director of SACRI and leader of the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI'Therapeutic Targeting of Glioblastoma research program at the university--are now working with cancer researchers Dr. Warren Mason (Princess
Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto) and Dr. Lesley Seymour (Director of the NCIC Clinical Trials Group's Investigational New Drug Program) and drug manufacturer Astrazeneca to plan a clinical trial testing a similar but newer drug
In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications University of Illinois physics professor Aleksei Aksimentiev
and graduate student Manish Shankla applied an electric charge to the graphene sheet hoping that the DNA would react to the charge in a way that would let them control its movement down to each individual link or nucleotide in the DNA chain.
The researchers extensively used the Blue waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications housed at the University of Illinois. They mapped each individual atom in the complex DNA molecule
#Timing is key for traumatic brain injury treatment Researchers at the University of Adelaide have discovered two potential treatments for traumatic brain injury that are most effective
Laboratory studies conducted in the University's School of Medical sciences have confirmed that changes in brain water channels over time play a critical role in traumatic brain injury.
For his Phd at the University researcher Dr Joshua Burton tested two compounds that alter the natural flow of water activity in and out of the brain.
This work builds on more than a decade of research conducted by the University of Adelaide's Professor Andrea Yool on the water channel proteins known as aquaporins.
and then enhance water exit over time Professor Yool says. Most current therapeutic approaches are limited in their ability to reduce injury-induced brain swelling
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Michael Kanost university distinguished professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics led a study by Kansas State university researchers that looked at how protein molecules in the blood of insects function in insects'immune system.
Ramaswamy Krishnamoorthi associate professor of biochemistry and bimolecular physics; Huaien Dai a doctoral graduate; and former faculty member Yasuaki Hiromasa.
The team's study revolved around the tobacco hornworm. The insect's immune system has been studied by Kanost and others for more than 30 years.
Building on the decades of research on the tobacco hornworm's immune system researchers concentrated on particular molecules in the blood that form pathways in
The research paper published today in the Lancet was authored by researchers from UCL Basel University Switzerland the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine the University Medical center Utrecht Netherlands Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University. The brain's blood supply comes from the carotid arteries two large blood vessels that run through the neck.
At the moment stenting is used not widely in the UK due to historical uncertainty over its long-term effectiveness says study leader Professor Martin Brown from the UCL Institute of Neurology.
The static approach ignores the accumulation of nutrients in the environment and overlooks the dynamic nature of the nutrient cycles Kuosmanen says.
From theory to practicekuosmanen began her academic career in Kiev Polytechnic University Ukraine and graduated in environmental sciences in Wageningen University The netherlands.
She is ready to take her results from theory to practice. Our dynamic approach would provide better estimations of the nutrient leaching from agriculture to environment than the conventional method of OECD. Story Source:
#Personalized treatment for stress-related diabetes Researchers at Lund University in Sweden are testing a treatment for type 2 diabetes
Our results show that it is possible to block the effects of a common risk gene for type 2 diabetes says Anders Rosengren the diabetes researcher at Lund University in charge of the project.
At the time several research teams from Lund University were able to report that a common gene variant in the population makes insulin-producing cells sensitive to stress hormones.
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#Big foray in the DNA pool: Retrieving small genomes from a mix of organisms Scientists from the IZW led by Alex Greenwood publish in PLOS ONE a simple way to retrieve small genomes from a mix of various organisms.
Greenwood's doctoral student Kyriakos Tsangaras discovered the additional value of hybridisation capture by chance. This technology is based on tiny magnetic beads with short baitsequences of a few base pairs (oligonucleotides
Auroras and ozone lossaccording to the research study conducted by the Finnish Meteorological Institute University of Otago
In their latest study Christian Seiser and his team at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL) of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna addressed this question.
Anna Sawicka addressed this question as a Phd student in the lab of Christian Seiser at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL) of the Medical University of Vienna.
The former Phd student of the FWF-funded doctoral program Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Signaling found that the hallmark is mainly present at paused gene.
Story Source The above story is provided based on materials by Medical University of Vienna. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
Considering the cost it would be 40 times lower says Thomas Wågberg Senior lecturer at Department of physics Umeå University.
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Zoologists at the University of Basel in Switzerland have discovered now a new parasite species that represents the missing link between fungi and an extreme group of parasites.
Dieter Ebert from the Department of Environmental science at the University of Basel has discovered now the missing link that explains how this large group of extreme parasites the microsporidia has evolved.
#Greater rates of mitochondrial mutations discovered in children born to older mothers The discovery of a maternal age effect by a team of Penn State scientists that could be used to predict the accumulation of MITOCHONDRIAL DNA mutations in maternal egg cells
Many mitochondrial diseases affect more than one system in the human body said Kateryna Makova professor of biology and one of the study's primary investigators.
whether maternal age is important in the accumulation of MITOCHONDRIAL DNA (mtdna) mutations both in the mother and in the child as a result of transmission.
The Suntag was developed by researchers in the lab of Ron Vale Phd a professor of molecular and cellular pharmacology and a HHMI investigator at UCSF.
In collaboration with Jonathan Weissman Phd professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at UCSF UCSF researchers also used the Suntag to supercharge a variation of a biochemical approach
#New cancer drug to begin trials in multiple myeloma patients Scientists at Imperial College London have developed a new cancer drug
Professor Guido Franzoso from the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London who led the research said:
-B pathway with our DTP3 peptide therapeutic selectively kills myeloma cells could offer a completely new approach to treating patients with certain cancers such as multiple myeloma Professor Franzoso said.
and other drug candidates based on Professor Franzoso's research with support from Imperial Innovations a technology commercialisation company focused on developing the most promising UK academic research.
The significant progress made by Professor Franzoso in multiple myeloma is one of the many cancers we believe his signal transduction research could be applied to.
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