and Metabolism at BIDMC and Assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical school (HMS). If you feed animals
and measured adds co-senior author Eleftheria Maratos-Flier MD HMS Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism at BIDMC.
This is the first time that anyone has imaged directly single dopant atoms moving around inside a material said Rohan Mishra of Vanderbilt University who is also a visiting scientist in ORNL's Materials science and Technology Division.
The study was funded by the DOE Office of Science the Australian Research Council Vanderbilt University and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship for research abroad.
The project's authors include Ryo Ishikawa of Oak ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tokyo;
Scott Findlay of Monash University; Takashi Taniguchi of the National Institute for Materials science; Sokrates Pantelides of Oak ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University;
and Stephen Pennycook of the University of Tennessee. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Oak ridge National Laboratory y
#Versatile antibiotic found with self-immunity gene on plasmid in staph strain A robust broad spectrum antibiotic
but the investigators from Brigham Young University Provo Utah now report that the mechanism of synthesis is surprisingly simple.
The investigation of Strain 115 began as an undergraduate project after the bacteria had sat in a laboratory freezer for decades says Griffitts.
It quickly grew into an effort involving two Ph d. microbiologists a talented graduate student and several analytical biochemists.
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden now present the first direct evidence that the disease can actually migrate from the gut to the brain.
Researchers at Lund University have mapped previously the spread of Parkinson's in the brain. The disease progression is believed to be driven by a misfolded protein that clumps together
Professor Jia-Yi Li's research team has now been able to track this process further from the gut to the brain in rat models.
or stop the disease at an earlier stage says Professor Jia-Yi Li research group leader for Neural Plasticity and Repair at Lund University.
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It is a ferromagnetic superconductor says Professor Dirk Johrendt of the Department of chemistry. This is an important advance
In cooperation with physicists from the Technical University in Dresden and the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villingen (Switzerland) the LMU researchers have demonstrated that the magnetic field generated by the (Life) OH layers penetrates into the interleaved superconducting layers--spontaneously and in the absence of externally applied fields.
and the University of North carolina at Chapel hill. his drug delivery system is based DNA which means it is biocompatible
and less toxic to patients than systems that use synthetic materialssays Dr. Zhen Gu senior author of a paper on the work and an assistant professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at NC State and UNC
and a Ph d. student in Gu lab. Each nano-cocoon is made of a single strand of DNA that self-assembles into
Co-authors include Yue Lu a Ph d. student in Gu lab; Margaret Reiff an undergraduate student in the joint biomedical engineering department;
Tianyue Jiang a Ph d. student in the joint biomedical engineering department and at the China Pharmaceutical University;
and Dr. Ran Mo a former postdoctoral researcher in the joint biomedical engineering department now at the China Pharmaceutical University.
This research was supported by the North carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute under grant number 1ul1tr001111 and with funding from NC State and UNC Chapel hill.
and property said Yi Cui an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford. The system can detect problems that occur during the normal operation of a battery
The separator is made of the same material used in plastic bottles said graduate student Denys Zhuo co-lead author of the study.
Smart separatorin the last couple of years we've been thinking about building a smart separator that can detect shorting before the dendrites reach the cathode said Cui a member of the photon science faculty at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Researchers characterize new tumor syndrome Scientists at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have published their findings that mutations in a gene known as ARMC5 promote the growth of benign tumors in the adrenal glands
Dr. Jochen Schneider together with colleagues from Charité Berlin (Dr. Ulf Elbelt) and the Universities of Würzburg (Prof.
#Ultra-fast charging batteries that can be recharged 70 in just two minutes Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) have developed a new battery that can be recharged up to 70 per cent in only
Invented by Associate professor Chen Xiaodong from the School of Materials science and engineering at NTU Singapore the science behind the formation of the new titanium dioxide gel was published in the latest issue of Advanced Materials a leading international scientific journal
NTU professor Rachid Yazami who was the co-inventor of the lithium-graphite anode 34 years ago that is used in most lithium-ion batteries today said Prof Chen's invention is the next
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which study leader Brigitte Eisenwort from the University Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the Meduni Vienna explains as follows:
This ground-breaking study was set up under the leadership of Brigitte Eisenwort together with Thomas Niederkrotenthaler and Benedikt Till (both from the Institute for Social medicine at the Meduni Vienna's Centre for Public health) as well as Barbara Hinterbuchinger from the University
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Under the IWRM Indonesia joint project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) hydraulic engineering experts of KIT built an underground cave power station.
The research team behind the finding led by MIT professor Ju Li says the work could have important implications for the design of components in nanotechnology such as metal contacts for molecular electronic circuits.
But the results should apply to many different metals says Li senior author of the paper and the BEA Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering.
The phenomenon of plasticity by interfacial diffusion was proposed first by Robert L. Coble a professor of ceramic engineering at MIT
The work reported in this paper is first-class says Horacio Espinosa a professor of manufacturing and entrepreneurship at Northwestern University who was involved not in this research.
These are very difficult experiments which revealed for the first time shape recovery of silver nanocrystals in the absence of dislocation...
The research team included Jun Sun Longbing He Tao Xu Hengchang Bi and Litao Sun all of Southeast University in Nanjing China;
Yu-Chieh Lo of MIT and Kyoto University; Ze Zhang of Zhejiang University; and Scott Mao of the University of Pittsburgh.
It was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China; the National Natural science Foundation of China;
the Chinese Ministry of Education; the National Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province China; and the U s. National Science Foundation.
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Ingber is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital as well as professor of bioengineering at Harvard School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS.
The idea for the coating evolved from SLIPS a pioneering surface technology developed by coauthor Joanna Aizenberg Ph d. who is a Wyss Institute Core Faculty member and the Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials science at Harvard SEAS.
Reflecting the strong collaborative model of the Wyss Institute the cross-disciplinary team included researchers representing the Wyss Institute SEAS Harvard Medical school and Boston Children's Hospital
One of the applications we're targeting with this research is said ultrafast LEDS Maiken Mikkelsen an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at Duke.
With the help of co-author David R. Smith the James B. Duke Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer engineering at Duke they used computer simulations to determine the exact size of the gap needed between the nanocubes
according to University of Michigan research to be presented Saturday, Oct 11 at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National Conference & Exhibition in San diego. Researchers who designed the biosurveillance system will describe how it can be used to track illness trends
"says Andrew N. Hashikawa, M d.,F. A a. P.,a pediatric emergency physician at the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital.
who also is assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, at the University of Michigan Medical school.
and warning system because the younger children appeared to become sick first compared to middle school
and high school aged children within the community,"says Hashikawa a
#Sensor invented that uses radio waves to detect subtle changes in pressure Stanford engineers have invented a wireless pressure sensor that has already been used to measure brain pressure in lab mice with brain injuries.
A nine-member research team led by Chemical engineering Professor Zhenan Bao detailed two medical applications of this technology in Nature Communications.
Former Stanford graduate students Lisa Chen and Benjamin C-K Tee designed and modeled the physics behind the device
Alex Chortos graduate student in the department of materials science and engineering made the wireless device more robust and reusable.
When the engineers sought collaborators to test the device in potentially useful applications H.-S. Philip Wong a professor of electrical engineering connected them with Victor Tse a neurosurgeon and consulting associate professor at Stanford School of medicine.
In a separate effort Dr. Michael Mcconnell a professor of cardiovascular medicine used the device to take a wireless pulse reading as a proof of principle that the technology could be applied to pressures having to do with blood circulation.
The intervention included clinician education comprising a 1-hour review of current prescribing guidelines for the targeted conditions;
I think epigenetics is a new frontier of cancer research says Brian Strahl Ph d. a professor of biochemistry and biophysics in the UNC School of medicine.
Strahl and graduate student Glenn Wozniak focused on one of the proteins that add these chemical tags--a protein called Bre1
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The issue has been tackled by Dagmar Gotthardt and colleagues in the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology of the University of Veterinary medicine Vienna (Vetmeduni Vienna.
said TSRI Professor M. Reza Ghadiri, senior author of the new study with TSRI Assistant professor of Chemistry Luke Leman. his research clears a big step toward clinical implementation of new therapies.
Good vs. Bad Cholesterol To combat atherosclerosis, researchers are looking for new ways to target
A Surprising Finding In collaboration with Linda Curtiss, formerly a faculty member at TSRI, and Bruce Maryanoff, formerly at Johnson & johnson and currently a visiting scholar at TSRI, the researchers tested this synthetic peptide in a mouse model prone to atherosclerosis.
The team originally used the synthetic peptide in an experiment the researchers thought was a gamble.
Newly arrived at Washington University in St louis Kinch is just beginning to think about the role the university might play in redefining its role.
He points out that the university excels in biomedical research but is losing brilliant ideas in the Valley of Death between the lab and the market.
Led by Provost and Executive Vice chancellor H. Holden Thorp Phd an enterpreneurship team has been convened to redefine what the university does with biomedical discoveries after the peer-reviewed articles are in print.
One of the university's assets is School of medicine research with the human microbiome the trillions of organisms that live in our guts many performing beneficial tasks such as digesting food and fighting off infections.
Work the microbiome was pioneered by Washington University scientists led by Jeffrey Gordon MD the Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor and director of the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology.
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#Detecting depressive states in elderly with on-line monitoring devices Specialists at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) of Mexico developed a system that achieved detecting depression in older adults,
The study developed the prediction tool using 4575 patients admitted to the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) in October 2011.
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and Estuaries Clarkson University is the first step in overcoming hurdles of historically prohibitive costs for long-term water resource monitoring.
Applying world class research to water quality has to be viewed as a critical component for sustaining society as a whole says Clarkson University President Tony Collins. As healthy water becomes increasingly scarce establishing real-time data as the new standard for understanding water quality around the globe
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In a study published today in the journal PLOS ONE University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wisconsin Department of Natural resources (DNR) scientists examined
Monica Turner UW-Madison professor of zoology and study lead author Peter Blank a postdoctoral researcher in her lab hope the findings help drive decisions that benefit both birds
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and designed said Peng Yin senior author of the paper Wyss Core Faculty member and Assistant professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical school.
Over the years scientists have been very successful at making complex 3d shapes from DNA using diverse strategies said Wei Sun a postdoctoral scholar in the Wyss'Molecular Systems Lab
and East asia threatening the economic slowdown associated with aging populations a global study from the University of California Berkeley
and Europe where the governments should encourage people to have said more children Mason an economics professor at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.
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Study author Professor Charles Swanton at Cancer Research UK's London Research Institute and the UCL Cancer Institute said:
The Centre--where Professor Swanton is joint centre lead--is a key part of Cancer Research UK's renewed focus to beat lung cancer;
Professor Nic Jones Cancer Research UK's chief scientist said: This fascinating research highlights the need to find better ways to detect lung cancer earlier
and chromium can develop chronic inflammation that promotes the development of skin cancers report researchers at Washington University School of medicine
or food said senior author Wayne M. Yokoyama MD a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the School of medicine.
but the patient couldn't said Yokoyama the Sam and Audrey Loew Levin Professor of Medicine.
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researchers at Washington University in St louis have created a unique platform, known as"plasmonic paper, "for detecting and characterizing even trace amounts of chemicals and biologically important molecules-from explosives, chemical warfare agents and environmental pollutants to disease markers.
The work will be described by Srikanth Singamaneni, assistant professor in the department of mechanical engineering and materials science at Washington University in St louis,
#Unstoppable magnetoresistance Mazhar Ali a fifth-year graduate student in the laboratory of Bob Cava the Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry at Princeton university has spent his academic career discovering new superconductors materials
Intrigued Ali worked with Jun Xiong a student in the laboratory of Nai Phuan Ong the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Princeton to re-measure the material's magnetoresistance
say the authors of a new Cornell University study. From recognizing speech to identifying unusual stars,
Hod Lipson, associate professor of mechanical engineering and computing and information science, and Ishanu Chattopadhyay, a former postdoctoral associate with Lipson and now at the University of Chicago, have described their method in Royal Society Interface, Oct 1.
Data smashing is based on a new way to compare data streams. The process involves two steps. First, the data streams are smashed algorithmically"to"annihilate"the information in each other.
The research group and paper authors include a Harvard undergraduate.""You never know for sure that something like this is going to work until you've tested it numerous ways,
"said Melton, Harvard's Xander University Professor and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.""We've given these cells three separate challenges with glucose in mice
Elaine Fuchs, the Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor at Rockefeller University, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator who is involved not in the work,
And Jose Oberholtzer, M d.,Associate professor of Surgery, Endocrinology and Diabetes, and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
and its Director of the Islet and Pancreas Transplant Program and the Chief of the Division of Transplantation, said work described in today's Cell"will leave a dent in the history of diabetes.
and the University's Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology--both of which were created more than a decade after he began his quest--said that
the Samuel A. Goldblith Professor of Applied Biology, Associate professor in the Department of Chemical engineering, the Institute of Medical Engineering and Science,
and autism-spectrum disorder can have profound lifelong effects on learning and memory but relatively little is known about the molecular pathways affected by these diseases.
Neurodevelopmental disorders are rare meaning trying to treat them is not efficient says senior study author Carl Ernst of Mcgill University.
Columbia University Medical center (CUMC) researchers have found that loss of a gene called KLHL9 is the driving force behind the most aggressive form of glioblastoma, the most common form of brain cancer.
the Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical Biology (in Biomedical Informatics and the Institute for Cancer Genetics), chair of the Department of Systems Biology,
and director of the JP Sulzberger Columbia Genome Center, at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons.
and KLHL9--that appear to activate glioblastoma's master regulators. C/EBPD, had already been identified by the labs of Dr. Califano and of Antonio Iavarone, MD, professor of neurology and of pathology & cell biology (in the Institute for Cancer Genetics),
as a master regulator of the disease, so the researchers focused on KLHL9, which had never been tied to this or any other form of cancer.
and repressing gene expression. or the first time we see that the structure of the chromosomes contributes to gene controlsays Whitehead Member Richard Young who is also a professor of biology at MIT. n the past there have been all kinds of ideas around how the structure might affect gene control
Led by scientists from the University of Warwick the discovery of the new particle will help provide greater understanding of the strong interaction the fundamental force of nature found within the protons of an atom's nucleus. Named Ds3*(2860) the particle
Lead scientist Professor Tim Gershon from The University of Warwick's Department of physics explains: Gravity describes the universe on a large scale from galaxies to Newton's falling apple
and electromagnetic interactions but the strength of the strong interaction makes it impossible to solve the equations in the same way Calculations of strong interactions are done with a computationally intensive technique called Lattice QCD says Professor Gershon.
what the particle is adds Professor Gershon. Therefore it provides a benchmark for future theoretical calculations.
Warwick Ph d. student Daniel Craik who worked on the study adds Perhaps the most exciting part of this new result is that it could be the first of many similar discoveries with LHC data.
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Scientists at Brigham Young University discovered the two proteins that pair up and switch on this process--known as autophagy."
"said Josh Andersen, a BYU chemistry professor.""The idea would be to make tumors more chemo-sensitive.
But the BYU team, comprised mainly of undergraduate students, stumbled into the race unexpectedly, coming at it from a different direction.
"says Andreas Ostmann, a graduate of physics and the group manager at IZM. The advantage for traffic signal detection:
#Mining big data yields Alzheimers discovery Scientists at The University of Manchester have used a new way of working to identify a new gene linked to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.
"The ENIGMA Consortium is led by Professor Paul Thompson based at the University of California, Los angeles, and contains brain images and gene information from nearly 25,000 subjects.
The Mouse Brain Library, established by Professor Robert Williams based at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center,
"said Ranjan J. Perera, Ph d.,associate professor and scientific director of Analytical Genomics and Bioinformatics at Sanford-Burnham's Lake Nona campus in Orlando."
"said Subinoy Das, MD, an adjunct professor of otolaryngology at Ohio State's College of Medicine,
who is also a professor of Pediatrics and Otolaryngology at Ohio State's College of Medicine."
or dangerous by the immune system of the skin said Cecilia Berin Phd Associate professor of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai.
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That's one of several types of sensation Spetic, of Madison, Ohio, can feel with the prosthetic system being developed by Case Western Reserve University and the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical center.
"said Dustin Tyler, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve and director of the research."
Surgeons Michael W Keith, MD and J. Robert Anderson, MD, from Case Western Reserve School of medicine and Cleveland VA, implanted three electrode cuffs in Spetic
research scientist at Chalmers University of Technology and leading author of the publication.""We have used osseointegration to create a long-term stable fusion between man and machine,
a technology in limb prostheses pioneered by associate professor Rickard Brånemark and his colleagues at Sahlgrenska University Hospital.
and collaborated closely with Max Ortiz Catalan and Professor Bo Håkansson at Chalmers University of Technology on this project.
Assistant professor of Internal medicine and Medical Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, with Dr. Michael Luna, Assistant professor of Internal medicine, performed the first Mitraclip procedures.
"said Dr. Steven Marso, Medical Director of Interventional Cardiology and Professor of Internal medicine.""People who wouldn't have had an option for treatment now have an option for treatment,
#Smartphone understands hand gestures Professor Otmar Hilliges and his staff at ETH Zurich have developed a new app enabling users to operate their smartphone with gestures.
All this gesturing wizardry is made possible by a new type of algorithm developed by Jie Song a Master's student in the working group headed by by Otmar Hilliges Professor of Computer science.
Seen in real time, for the first time Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College have developed technologies that allow investigators, for the first time,
says Dr. Scott Blanchard, an associate professor of physiology and biophysics at Weill Cornell, and one of three co-lead authors on the Science study.
Dr. Blanchard worked with Dr. Walther Mothes, a HIV specialist at the Yale university School of medicine, and with Dr. James Munro, who was Dr. Blanchard's first graduate student
and who is now an assistant professor at Tufts University School of medicine. Drs. Mothes and Munro are the two other co-lead investigators.
Dr. Blanchard adapted an imaging technique that uses fluorescence to measure distance on molecular scale--single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smfret) imaging--to study viral particles.
professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell.""The antibodies used in the crystallography study are ones that we observed to stop the dance of the HIV envelope proteins,
New clues for early detection Researchers at the University of Luxembourg have identified potential new ways to test for the first signs of one of the most deadly types of cancer:
But diagnosed in time it can be cured in 9 out of 10 cases said Professor Serge Haan from the Life science Research Unit at the University of Luxembourg.
Other authors include SMART co-Investigators--Associate professor Jerry Chan from KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH) and G. Shivashankar from NUS;
"Associate professor Jerry Chan, who is also Director, KK Research Centre and Senior Consultant, Department of Reproductive Medicine at KKH, said,
#Smallest world record has ndless possibilitiesfor bionanotechnology Scientists from the University of Leeds have taken a crucial step forward in bionanotechnology a field that uses biology to develop new tools for science technology and medicine.
"said Professor Steve Evans, from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds and a co-author of the paper.
In the study, the researchers used something called Atomic force microscopy (AFM), which is an imaging process that has a resolution down to only a fraction of a nanometer
a Phd student from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds and the lead author of the research paper.
Working in collaboration with researchers at the University of Sheffield, Evans and his team have all of the membrane proteins required to construct a fully working mimic of the way plants capture sunlight.
#Universal Ebola drug target identified by researchers University of Utah biochemists have reported a new drug discovery tool against the Ebola virus.
The University of Utah (U of U) work which was funded by the National institutes of health, was conducted by a large collaborative team led by Debra Eckert,
Ph d.,(research assistant professor of biochemistry) and Michael Kay, M d.,Ph d.,(professor of biochemistry). Key contributions to this work were provided by Dr. John Dye's laboratory at the U s army Medical Research Institute of Infectious diseases (USAMRIID), the lab of Christopher P. Hill, D. Phil.
professor and co-chair of the U of U Department of Biochemistry, and a group led by Brett Welch, Ph d. at Navigen, Inc.,a Salt lake city pharmaceutical discovery and development company.
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