--or sacs--released from most if not all cell types including cancer cells said Yong Zeng assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Kansas. First described in the mid-'80s they were thought once to be'cell dust
Now Zeng and colleagues from the University of Kansas Medical center and KU Cancer Center have published just a breakthrough paper in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal describing their invention of a miniaturized biomedical testing device for exosomes.
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microrna plays surprising role in cell survival Researchers at the University of California San diego School of medicine have identified a microrna molecule as a surprisingly crucial player in managing cell survival and growth.
Specifically principal investigator Albert R. La Spada MD Phd professor of cellular and molecular medicine chief of the Division of Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics and associate director of the Institute for Genomic
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Dr Joanne Hildebrand Ms Maria Tanzer Dr James Murphy Associate professor John Silke and colleagues studied how MLKL changes shape to trigger cell death.
Researchers at Inserm Unit 1073 Nutrition inflammation and dysfunction of the gut-brain axis (Inserm/University of Rouen) have demonstrated the involvement of a protein produced by some intestinal bacteria that may be the source of these disorders.
Sergueï Fetissov's team in Inserm Joint Research Unit 1073 Nutrition inflammation and dysfunction of the gut-brain axis (Inserm/University of Rouen) led by Pierre Déchelotte studies the relationships
Dynamic encryption keeps secrets Professor Lars Ramkilde Knudsen from DTU Compute has invented a new way to encrypt telephone conversations that makes it very difficult to'eavesdrop'.
This is a brief definition of dynamic encryption, the brainchild of Professor Lars Ramkilde Knudsen from DTU.
and diabetes thanks to a novel sequencing technique developed by biologists at Texas A&m University.
and Dr. Keith A. Maggert an associate professor in the Department of biology to measure variation in heterochromatin.
This enables us to answer a very specific question right here in the lab. The uncharted genome sequences have been a point of contention in scientific circles for more than a decade according to Maggert a Texas A&m faculty member since 2004.
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Results of the study are published in the Journal of American College of Cardiology Heart failure. Heart failure is one of the fastest growing forms of heart disease
and why stem-cell treatments now in clinical trials are not as effective as they could be says Krystyn Van Vliet an MIT associate professor of materials science and engineering
Lead authors of the paper are W c. Lee a former graduate student at the National University of Singapore and SMART and Hui Shi a former SMART postdoc.
Other authors are Jongyoon Han an MIT professor of electrical engineering and biological engineering SMART researchers Zhiyong Poon L. M. Nyan and Tanwi Kaushik and National University of Singapore
faculty members G. V. Shivashankar J. K. Y. Chan and C. T. Lim. Physical markersmscs make up only a small percentage of cells in the bone marrow.
For the first time, Tel aviv University scientists have discovered the exact mechanism this killer virus uses to efficiently enter the central nervous system,
This has been shown in two new studies carried out by Lund University in Sweden. Both research studies are about the same discovery made for two different viruses namely that viruses can convert their DNA to liquid form at the moment of infection.
Our results explain the mechanism behind herpes infection by showing how the DNA of the virus enters the cell said Alex Evilevitch a researcher in biochemistry and biophysics at Lund University and Carnegie mellon University.
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and it never works the first time said Krisna Bhargava materials science graduate student at the USC Viterbi School of engineering.
and materials science professor Noah Malmstadt and biomedical engineering graduate student Bryant Thompson designed computer models for eight modular fluidic and instrumentation components (MFICS pronounced em-fix) that would each perform a simple operation.
MFICS will vastly increase the productivity of a single grad student postdoc or lab tech by enabling them to build their own instruments right in the lab
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Rice graduate student Abdul-Rahman Raji is lead author of the paper. Co-authors are Rice graduate student Errol Samuel and researcher Sydney Salters, a student at Second Baptist School, Houston;
Rice alumnus Yu Zhu, now an assistant professor at the University of Akron, Ohio; and Vladimir Volman, an engineer at Lockheed martin. Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of computer science.
He is a member of the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology.
The Lockheed martin Aerospace Co. through the LANCER IV Program, the Office of Naval Research's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative and the Air force Office of Scientific research supported the research h
#Artificial membranes on silicon Artificial membranes mimicking those found in living organisms have many potential applications ranging from detecting bacterial contaminants in food to toxic pollution in the environment to dangerous diseases in people.
Our idea is to create a biosensor that can transmit electrical signals through the membrane said María José Retamal a Ph d. student at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and first author of the paper.
Dr David Barford who led the study as Professor of Molecular biology at The Institute of Cancer Research London before taking up a new position at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular biology in Cambridge said:
Professor Paul Workman Interim Chief executive of The Institute of Cancer Research London said: The fantastic insights into molecular structure provided by this study are a vivid illustration of the critical role played by fundamental cell biology in cancer research.
"Tour is Rice's T. T. and W. F. Chao Chair in Chemistry and professor of mechanical engineering and nanoengineering and of computer science.
graduate students Vera Abramova, Huilong Fei and Gedeng Ruan; and Edwin Thomas, the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of Rice's George R. Brown School of engineering, professor in mechanical engineering and materials science and in chemical and biomolecular engineering g
#Researchers develop harder ceramic for armor windows The Department of defense needs materials for armor windows that provide essential protection for both personnel
and safety said J. Patrick Johnson MD a neurosurgery spine specialist and director of Spine Education and the Neurosurgery Spine Fellowship program in the Department of Neurosurgery.
Johnson and Kim as study co-authors are Doniel Drazin MD a senior resident in the Department of Neurosurgery and Robert S. Pashman MD a clinical associate professor and orthopedic spine surgeon at the Cedars
#Innovative solar-powered toilet ready for India unveiling A revolutionary University of Colorado Boulder toilet fueled by the sun that is being developed to help some of the 2. 5 billion people around the world lacking safe and sustainable sanitation
and create biochar a highly porous charcoal said project principal investigator Karl Linden professor of environmental engineering.
which includes a team of more than a dozen faculty research professionals and students many working full time on the effort.
Other institutional winners of the grants range from Caltech to Delft University of Technology in The netherlands and the National University of Singapore.
Linden is working closely with project co-investigators Professor R. Scott Summers of environmental engineering and Professor Alan Weimer chemical and biological engineering and a team of postdoctoral fellows professionals graduate students undergraduates
and a high school student. We are doing something that has never been done before said Linden.
CU-Boulder team member Elizabeth Travis from Parker Colo. who is working toward a master's degree in the engineering college's Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities said her interest in water
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The word I use is blindsiding says limnologist W. Charles Kerfoot a professor of biological sciences at Michigan Tech.
My students were first to show that the tail barbs protected them against fish. When the fish try to eat them they get stuck by the barbs said Kerfoot.
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Rethinking roboticslee a sophomore who plans to major in chemistry spent his high school years building everything from a robot that can balance on a beam to a robotic arm that can throw a ball.
With the support of a grant from the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA) Center Lee teamed up with Craig Hamilton an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Wake Forest Baptist Medical center
In addition to teaching the robot to paint autonomously Lee also explored the idea of using his robot as a training tool for surgeons who need practice operating a Da vinci surgical arm.
This April Lee will represent Wake Forest at the ACC Meeting of the Minds an event where outstanding undergraduate researchers from each ACC university gather at one member university to present their research either verbally or as a poster.
This year the event will take place at the University of Pittsburgh where Lee will demonstrate his robot's painting abilities.
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invented at Rice by Tittel, Professor Robert Curl and their collaborators in 2002, offers the possibility that such devices may soon be as small as a typical smartphone.
Co-authors include Rice graduate student Wenzhe Jiang and former Rice Laser Science Group members Przemystaw Stefanski, Rafat Lewicki, Jiawei Zhang and Jan Tarka.
Tittel is the J. S. Abercrombie Professor in Electrical and Computer engineering and a professor of bioengineering.
a member of the Koch Institute and a professor of biological engineering and of materials sciences and engineering, is the paper senior author.
a professor of microbiology at the University of Iowa Carver School of medicine and director of the school Center for Immunology and Immune-Based Diseases, says that this paper presents a reative new approach with considerable potential in the development
developed Cellsqueeze while he was a graduate student in the laboratories of Klavs Jensen, the Warren K. Lewis Professor of Chemical engineering and a professor of materials science and engineering,
and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor and a member of the Koch Institute.
Sharei, Jensen, and Langer are also authors of this paper. In a separate study published last month in the journal PLOS ONE, Sharei and his colleagues first demonstrated that Cellsqueeze can deliver functional macromolecules into immune cells.
says Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in MIT Department of Electrical engineering and Computer science,
and Andrew Spielberg and Stuart Baker, both graduate students in electrical engineering and computer science. Grasping consequencesthe problem the researchers address is one in
the Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at Swiss Federal Institute of technology in Zurich. y biggest concern about their work is that it will ruin one of the things
Thinking small Velásquez-García and his co-authors Philip Ponce de Leon, a former master student in mechanical engineering;
says Reza Ghodssi, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Maryland. Relative to other approaches, he adds,
Vladan Vuletic, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics at MIT, says the ability to tune friction would be helpful in developing nanomachines tiny robots built from components the size of single molecules.
along with graduate students Alexei Bylinskii and Dorian Gangloff, published their results in the journal Science. Learn about the technique MIT physicists developed to simulate friction at the nanoscale.
a professor of physics at the University of Freiburg in Germany, sees the results as a lear breakthroughin gaining insight into therwise inaccessible fundamental physics.
Prakash, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford, and his students have built a synchronous computer that operates using the unique physics of moving water droplets.
The computer is nearly a decade in the making incubated from an idea that struck Prakash
when he was a graduate student. The work combines his expertise in manipulating droplet fluid dynamics with a fundamental element of computer science an operating clock. n this work,
The crucial clock For nearly a decade since he was in graduate school, an idea has been nagging at Prakash:
and in the early stages of the project, Prakash recruited a graduate student, Georgios orgoskatsikis, who is the first author on the paper.
said graduate student and co-author Jim Cybulski. hat lends itself very well to a variety of applications.
and at Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center and led by HSCI principal faculty member Yu-Hua Tseng,
Tseng collaborated with HSCI Lee Rubin and researchers at the National institutes of health, the Joslin, Boston University, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital,
and Fudan University in China. Knowing which genes control UCP1 should help scientists develop therapies. e could take fat samples from patients undergoing liposuction
and metabolic disease, said Chad Cowan, an HSCI principal faculty member who, among other things, also studies the therapeutic potential of brown fat cells.
Sahin Laboratory, Columbia University An immensely powerful yet invisible force pulls water from the earth to the top of the tallest redwood
In the June 16 online issue of Nature Communications, Columbia University scientists report the development of two novel devices that derive power directly from evaporation a floating,
. an associate professor of biological sciences and physics at Columbia University and the paper lead author. vaporation is a fundamental force of nature,
which was based on work Sahin had started as a Scholar in Residence at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard university.
#Safe drinking water Via Solar power Desalination Natasha Wright, an MIT Phd student in mechanical engineering, has designed a solar powered system that makes water safe to drink for rural, off-grid Indian villages.
When graduate student Natasha Wright began her Phd program in mechanical engineering, she had no idea how to remove salt from groundwater to make it more palatable,
an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, in 2012. The lab was just getting established, and the aim of Wright project was vague at first:
says Yet-Ming Chiang, the Kyocera Professor of Ceramics at MIT and a cofounder of 24m (and previously a cofounder of battery company A123).
and colleagues including W. Craig Carter, the POSCO Professor of Materials science and engineering. In this so-called low battery, the electrodes are suspensions of tiny particles carried by a liquid
Venkat Viswanathan, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie mellon University who was involved not in this work, says the analysis presented in the new paper ddresses a very important question of
the Power Sources paper was authored co by graduate student Brandon Hopkins, mechanical engineering professor Alexander Slocum, and Kyle Smith of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The work was supported by the U s. Department of energy Center for Energy storage Research, based at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Source:
an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the new paper. e need to regulate the input to extract the maximum power,
The prototype chip was manufactured through the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company University Shuttle Program. Ups and downs The circuit chief function is to regulate the voltages between the solar cell, the battery,
the Joseph F. and Nancy P. Keithley Professor in Electrical engineering, use an inductor, which is a wire wound into a coil.
The research, led by chemists at The University of Nottingham and the VU University Amsterdam, and published in the academic journal Nature Communications,
The chemistry of life Dr Ivan Powis, Professor of Chemical Physics in the University School of Chemistry, who led the research,
was funded by the Division of Chemical sciences of The netherlands Organisation for Scientific research, with further European support from LASERLAB-EUROPE and the Marie Curie Initial Training Network ICONIC t
a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at UC San diego and the senior author on the Science paper. ur approach conditions the information before it is sent even,
said UC San diego electrical engineering Ph d. student Eduardo Temprana, the first author on the paper. The frequency comb ensured that the system did not accumulate the random distortions that make it impossible to reassemble the original content at the receiver.
The University of California has filed a patent on the method and applications of frequency-referenced carriers for compensation of nonlinear impairments in transmission.
says Moungi Bawendi, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry at MIT and the paper senior author.
an associate professor of physics at the University of California at Berkeley who was involved not in the research.
and an associate professor of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology at the David Geffen School of medicine at UCLA. Kitchen and his colleagues were the first to report the use of an engineered molecule called a chimeric antigen receptor,
said Jerome Zack, professor of medicine and of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics in the UCLA David Geffen School of medicine and a co-author of the study. ith the CAR approach,
we aim to change that. Zack is co-director of the UCLA AIDS Institute and is affiliated with UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and a member of the Broad Stem Cell Research center.
The concept is described in a paper in the journal ACS Applied materials and Interfaces by MIT professor of mechanical engineering Ian W. Hunter, doctoral student Seyed M. Mirvakili,
and three others at the University of British columbia. Nanotechnology researchers have been working to increase the performance of supercapacitors for the past decade.
says Hunter, the George N. Hatsopoulos Professor in Thermodynamics in MIT Department of Mechanical engineering, ut it may not be needed for very long.
and future wearable technologies, says Geoff Spinks, a professor of engineering at the University of Wollongong, in Australia,
The team also included Phd student Mehr Negar Mirvakili and professors Peter Englezos and John Madden, all from the University of British columbia s
senior author Robert J. Wood, Charles river Professor of Engineering and Applied sciences at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS) and core faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired
The design builds from previous work of co-author and chemist George Whitesides, the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard.
first author of the paper and a graduate student AT SEAS. he robot stiffness gradient allows it to withstand the impact of dozens of landings
The co-first author of the paper is Michael Tolley of the University of California
Bobak Mosadegh of Weill Cornell Medical College; and, as noted, Whitesides of Harvard and the Wyss Institute.
and conclude that they can only be explained by pentaquark states says LHCB physicist Tomasz Skwarnicki of Syracuse University. ore precisely the states must be formed of two up quarks,
said LHCB physicist Liming Zhang of Tsinghua University, r they could be loosely bound in a sort of meson-baryon molecule, in
Based on current scientific models of eczema biology, assistant professor of dermatology Dr. Brett King. hypothesized that a drug approved for rheumatoid arthritis,
a UCLA professor of chemistry and one of the senior authors of the research. lants do this through photosynthesis with extremely high efficiency. n photosynthesis,
a UCLA professor of chemistry and another senior co-author. his is the first time this has been shown using modern synthetic organic photovoltaic materials.
Yves Rubin, a UCLA professor of chemistry and another senior co-author of the study, led the team that created the uniquely designed molecules. e don have these materials in a real device yet;
The study other co-lead authors were UCLA graduate students Rachel Huber and Amy Ferreira. UCLA Electron Imaging Center for Nanomachines imaged the assembled structure in a lab led by Hong Zhou.
researchers from MIT and the Federal University of Goiás in Brazil demonstrate a novel method for using nanoparticles
Ferdinand Brandl and Nicolas Bertrand, the two lead authors, are former postdocs in the laboratory of Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT Koch Institute
Eliana Martins Lima, of the Federal University of Goiás, is the other co-author. Both Brandl and Bertrand are trained as pharmacists,
says Frank Gu, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and an expert in nanoengineering for health care and medical applications. hen you think about field deployment,
said Dr. Michael Krauthammer, associate professor of pathology and the study corresponding author. Additionally, researchers observed that melanoma patients with the NF1 mutation were had older
Projects run the gamut from health care and public safety to education and entrepreneurship. A project in India is helping to educate migrant children.
A University of Pennsylvania study, however, found the homeless seem to waste opportunities because they don have housing.
000 students in the IT industry to ensure the city has the talent it needs, according to an article in IT News Africa.
Students selected for the program will have the opportunity to see smart cities connectivity in action in other countries.
The first group of students is immersed now in an intensive four-month technical training program. During the program launch, Johannesburg Mayor Parks Tau said"This program will go a long way in improving IT skills and expertise in Johannesburg.
Check a university course catalogmicrosoft targets TV white spaces to improve education in Afric n
In a vein similar to the Trakür, a group at an Argentine university lab has designed a low-cost prosthetic hand called Electromioprótesis (at a price of $2, 500 versus a usual $8, 000),
and our education to be student-centric, "O'sullivan explains of the growing market opportunity.""Better digital platforms and technology have meant all of this is possible now."
but 3d printers in big cities and college towns, at least to start, could really help evolve their printing chain's brand.
as well as the University of Texas and its new medical research hospital, Google said in a statement.
as well as research universities, and major companies such as Verizon, Comcast, Juniper Networks, and Cisco. While the executive order is fairly simple to parse,
Specifically, U s. Ignite is targeting new applications in education healthcare, clean energy, public safety, and workforce development, including advanced manufacturing.
In the conference call yesterday, Dr. Janhanian cited the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's work connecting radars to high-speed networks to improve weather prediction,
The participants in the event--from officials in various agencies to business leaders in energy and technology to a couple high school students who've pioneered smart meters in their school--all spoke with the enthusiasm you don't typically see at government events.
#says study researcher Nicholas Loman at the University of Birmingham, UK. A team including Loman, Mark Pallen from University of Birmingham,
and John Wain from University of East Anglia decided to compare the 3 by using them to sequence the bacterium E coli,
which caused an outbreak of food poisoning in Germany last year. And the winner? Well, each platform has strengths
A recent survey of college students in Colorado (where sending messages from smartphones while driving is not illegal) found that
A lot of our doctors did their training at the VA. We knew we could download it
Hammond is a professor at the Intelligent information Laboratory at Northwestern University, who has built a computer that can create movie reviews by curating text online found on blogs and on Twitter.
While pursuing his JD/MBA at Pepperdine Jason Nazar was the guy in the study group who always had the documents.
which offers full immersion language classes to toddlers, preschoolers and elementary school children. She currently has 15 language centers in Chicago and Washington, D c,
. and offers programs at 140 elementary schools, teaching Spanish, French, Italian, German and Mandarin chinese. Lancry, who speaks five languages besides English
Parents recognize that learning Mandarin and starting early--will help their children, she says, It s an investment in their future.
What can you tell me about trends in language education and the demand for different languages in the U s.?
Often a student enrolled will have more reinforcement because one of the parents or grandparents speaks it.
and educators who support this. When do most students start to learn a language now?
In junior high or high school, which is precisely after the natural window of opportunity to learn a language closes.
Every human brain has the capacity to learn a language the same way we learn our native tongue.
and they can pick up on their teacher s native accent. They will benefit cognitively. Kids who learn more than one language young become smarter.
Our teachers know what the goal is that week, but from a child s perspective, they are in an exciting parents
Unbeknownst to them, they are absorbing a foreign language. They are in their formative years. How do you advise a parent on which language is best for their kid?
What language is most likely to have reinforcement outside the classroom? Which language do you think will give your child the biggest advantage in the future?
We ve seen a shift about the age that parents want their children to start learning.
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