#Schools'new rules on extremism"Extremism has no place in our schools, "said Education secretary Nicky Morgan.
"Teachers cannot be turned into spies in the classroom.""Head teachers'leader Russell Hobby said schools should see the regulations in terms of"safeguarding"and not"surveillance"."
A telephone helpline has been offered for teachers, governors and other staff to raise concerns directly with the Department for Education.
The regulations, being introduced on 1 july, set out new responsibilities for"frontline workers"in public bodies, including schools,
state and independent schools, include warnings against"nonviolent extremism"."""being drawn into terrorism includes not just violent extremism but also nonviolent extremism,
Teachers will have to assess the risk of pupils being drawn into extremist ideologies. There will be training for staff to identify children at risk
and"to challenge extremist ideas"."Schools will have to ensure that pupils do not access extremist material online.
Mr Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head teachers, said schools should"see their duties on radicalisation as another safeguarding duty"."
""Schools are used to keeping their students safe from harm and this is a version of that.
This means looking out for students rather than conducting surveillance on them.""It means understanding the risk and acting proportionately.
"But Christine Blower, leader of the National union of teachers, said the"jury is out"on whether such regulations are the best way to get young people to"reject engagement with groups who advocate violence".
"She said that the Prevent counter-extremism strategy was already causing"significant nervousness and confusion among teachers".
"Ms Blower warned that concerns over extremism could"close down"the classroom debates which could encourage democracy and human rights.
That has been solved by a team at the University of California, Berkeley, and the scientists say it should now be possible to put all the steps together and"brew"morphine.
Dr John Dueber, a bioengineer at the university, said:""What you really want to do from a fermentation perspective is to be feed able to the yeast glucose,
Prof Paul Freemont, one of the directors of the Centre for Synthetic biology and Innovation at Imperial College London, said:"
instead of the many hours needed by traditional self learning systems. The system paves the way for robots to be used in a wide variety of settings,
French and US researchers have developed a learning algorithm that enables robots to adapt very quickly
Most self learning systems that seek alternative ways of continuing with the task are too slow,
Traditional self learning systems would have taken days. According to Dr Jeff Clune of the University of Wyoming, the development represents an important first step toward robots that are able to operate independently, outside of the carefully controlled confines of a laboratory or factory floor."
"Having the kind of intelligent robots you see in the movies is much closer than people realise.
according to senior author Jean-Baptiste Mouret, from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris."If you have robots in your home they would probably be expensive
such as the self learning system developed by Google's Deepmind Technologies, this development could see the emergence of new uses for robots."
Most of the development of the system was done by Antoine Cully, a Phd student working with Dr Mouret.
Discovering connections Prof Stephen Elledge from the Harvard university Medical school US, who led the research team,
professor of virology at the University of Nottingham said:""It is a technology which is applied probably best on a population-basis rather than an individual patient basis
"said co-author Alexis Bell from the University of California, Berkeley, US.""We show in this paper how we can put these components together to make jet diesel and lubricants."
"said LHCB physicist Tomasz Skwarnicki of Syracuse University, US. Previous experiments had measured only the so-called mass distribution where a statistical peak may appear against the background noise"-the possible signature of a novel particle.
"Working with collaborators from Aalto University in Finland, Dr Hogberg's team has demonstrated the system with a range of shapes, from rods and balls to a bottle, a bunny and a tiny person.
from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, said the work was a step towards"the dream of nanoscale 3d printing"."
but some copper interconnectors can be replaced with light and photodetector devices,"Professor Ritesh Agarwal, who led this study at the University of Pennsylvania,
told BBC News."This is only around five years away from now. The technology already exists,
"explained Professor Ritesh Agarwal. This is a step towards engineering new, useful properties by changing the geometry of a material l
a bioengineering research scientist at Heriot Watt university. Printing skin could be a different proposition,
say UK researchers at the University of Bristol. The team drew inspiration from the way the human body heals from a cut with blood that hardens into a scab.
"said chemistry professor Duncan Wass.""But micro-cracks can lead to catastrophic failures.""The technology could also be applied to other products made of carbon composite materials-including bicycle frames and wind turbines,
The head of Baidu's deep learning lab Yu Kai has told previously the press that the firm does not agree with Google's view of a completely autonomous car,
developed by Daniel Genkin and colleagues from Tel aviv University, monitors the radio signals given off by laptops when their central processing unit is crunching data.
and was led by Paulo Stanga, consultant ophthalmologist and vitreo-retinal surgeon at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and professor of ophthalmology and retinal regeneration at the University of Manchester.
a team of Northwestern University scientists is the first to develop an entirely artificial molecular pump, in
Stoddart is the Board of trustees Professor of Chemistry in Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences."
Chuyang Cheng, a fourth-year graduate student in Stoddart's laboratory and first author of the paper, has spent his Ph d. studies researching molecules that mimic nature's biochemical machinery.
'In a stunning discovery that overturns decades of textbook teaching, researchers at the University of Virginia School of medicine have determined that the brain is connected directly to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist.
"said Jonathan Kipnis, Phd, professor in the UVA Department of Neuroscience and director of UVA's Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG)."
Harris, a Phd, is an assistant professor of neuroscience and a member of the BIG center.
"In Alzheimer's, there are accumulations of big protein chunks in the brain, "Kipnis said.""We think they may be accumulating in the brain
A team of chemists and biologists at the Institute of Transformative Biomolecules (ITBM), Nagoya University have succeeded in finding new molecules that change the circadian rhythm in mammals by applying synthetic chemistry methods,
"says Tsuyoshi Hirota, a chronobiologist and an associate professor at ITBM, who works with Steve Kay, a principal investigator at ITBM and a professor at the University of Southern California."
"Tsuyoshi Oshima is a graduate student in Itami's group and worked closely with the biologists at ITBM to synthesize molecules for studying structure-activity relationships (SARS)."Through SAR studies on the molecular derivatives of KL001,
"says Takashi Yoshimura, an animal biologist and professor at ITBM, who also led this research from a biological perspective."
"says Stephan Irle, a theoretical chemist and a professor at ITBM, who also co-led this research."
ITBM was established officially in 2013 at Nagoya University and takes up a"Mix-Lab"style where chemists
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#Researchers discover how opium poppies synthesize morphine From left: Peter Facchini, professor in biological sciences, Jill Hagel, research associate,
and Scott Farrow, Phd student. Many people who live in developing countries do not have access to the pain relief that comes from morphine or other analgesics.
That's because opiates are derived primarily from the opium poppy plant (Papaver somniferum) and are dependent on the plant health and supply around the world.
After years of leading research on the opium poppy, University of Calgary scientists, Peter Facchini, his Phd student, Scott Farrow,
codeine and oxycodone,"says Facchini, professor of biological sciences in the Faculty of science and an internationally recognized expert on the opium poppy."
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#New cell division mechanism discovered Canadian and British researchers have discovered that chromosomes play an active role in animal cell division.
It was observed by a team of researchers including Gilles Hickson, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal's Department of Pathology and Cell biology and researcher at the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre, his assistant Silvana Jananji, in collaboration with Nelio
Rodrigues, a Phd student, and Sergey Lekomtsev, a postdoc, working in the group led by Buzz Baum of the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell biology at University college London.
Dr Kim Good-Jacobson, Professor David Tarlinton and colleagues from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute discovered the presence of a protein called Myb was essential for antibody-producing plasma cells to migrate into bone marrow,
"Professor Tarlinton said the discovery would mean researchers could now search for the trigger of Myb production
#Researchers create model of early human heart development from stem cells Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley,
"said Kevin Healy, a UC Berkeley professor of bioengineering, who is co-senior author of the study with Dr. Bruce Conklin, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular disease and a professor of medical genetics and cellular and molecular pharmacology at UC San francisco."
"This technology could help us quickly screen for drugs likely to generate cardiac birth defects, and guide decisions about
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#HIV uses the immune system's own tools to suppress it A Canadian research team at the IRCM in Montreal,
Lead author Professor John Ladbury Dean of the University of Leeds'Faculty of Biological sciences and Professor of Mechanistic Biology, said:"
"There has been huge investment in sequencing the human genome with the idea that if we get all the relevant genetic information we can predict
"The research, led by scientists at the University of Leeds and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, focused on the"Akt pathway,
Dr Zahra Timsah, University Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds'School of Molecular and Cellular biology,,
Professor Ladbury said:""From the patient's point of view, the key findings are that these proteins are biomarkers.
The researchers are now working with clinicians at the University of Leeds to study the same mechanisms in other forms of cancer.
scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Alexander Grass Center for Bioengineering report that they produced large amounts of functional liver cells from human embryonic and genetic engineered stem cells."
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#US scientists to write CRISPR'rulebook'Scientists will gather in the USA later this year to produce ethical guidelines on the use of human gene-editing techniques such as CRISPR/Cas9.
Professor Jennifer Doudna, have called for a worldwide moratorium on the use of CRISPR/Cas9 in human embryos
'said lead author Dr Mick Bhatia from Mcmaster University in Hamilton, Canada. He adds:''Now we can take easy-to-obtain blood samples,
'said Dr Ya-Chun Chen from the University of Cambridge, the first author of the study published in Nature Genetics.'
'said Professor Geoff Woods of the University of Cambridge, one of the leaders of the research.'
'said lead researcher Professor Lyn Chitty.''NIPT performed well in identifying problems, and women were very positive about it.'
who were provided with training and educational materials. Overall, 2, 500 women underwent NIPT from a population of around 40,000.
'Professor Chitty said. She also notes that the test should consequently lead to fewer miscarriages
The studies, one led by the Mayo Clinic and University of California, San francisco, and the other coordinated by the National institutes of health, analysed 1, 380 tumours in total.
'said Professor Margaret Wrensch from the University of California, San francisco and co-author of the study.
'said Professor Flora Vaccarino of the Yale School of medicine, senior author of the paper, which was published in Cell.
'Professor Vaccarino told The Scientist. Despite the fact that autism is a complex collection of disorders, the researchers found several clear differences between the brain organoids from the autistic boys and those from their fathers.
Neuroscientist Dr Alysson Muotri of the University of California, San diego, who was involved not in the study,
'Professor Vaccarino is hopeful that this approach to studying autism, as well as other brain disorders, can offer new insights.'
The professor told in-Pharmatechnologist. com the method can be used to help small and large molecule medicines hone in on their targets. ith all therapies that are used currently particularly cancer the major problem is very little of the drug makes it to the target site.
A clinical study at the University of Oxford is currently investigating using an existing drug in combination with ultrasound but without the bubble technology,
which it does more effectively than currently available commercial alternatives according to Morgan Alexander from the University of Nottingham. t is better
Professor Alexander told us: e make the substrate in our labs, the commercial cost is yet to be quantified fully-this will be done with commercial partners we hope to identify,
and for regenerative therapies according to Professor Chris Denning. He told us: or these stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes, the value lies in understanding disease, testing to make safer drugs and potential for translation into cell therapy.
which it does more effectively than currently available commercial alternatives according to Morgan Alexander from the University of Nottingham. t is better
Professor Alexander told us: e make the substrate in our labs, the commercial cost is yet to be quantified fully-this will be done with commercial partners we hope to identify,
and for regenerative therapies according to Professor Chris Denning. He told us: or these stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes, the value lies in understanding disease, testing to make safer drugs and potential for translation into cell therapy.
#New Technology Turns Smartphone into a DNA-Scanning Microscope Researchers at University of California, Los angeles (UCLA) have developed a new technology that turns a smartphone into a DNA-scanning fluorescent microscope.
Lead researcher Aydogan Ozcan, Howard Hughes Medical Institute chancellor professor at UCLA, sat down with Bioscience Technology to talk about this advancement and its implications for resource-poor labs,
Now Ph d. researcher Justin Besant and his team at the University of Toronto have designed a small and simple chip to test for antibiotic resistance in just one hour,
Besant and his team, including his supervisor Professor Shana Kelley of the Institute for Biomaterials & Biomedical engineering and the Faculties of Pharmacy and Medicine,
and Professor Ted Sargent of The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer engineering, drew on their collective expertise in electrical
says Professor Sargent. e see this as an effective tool for faster diagnosis and treatment of commonplace bacterial infections.
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#Thermal Imaging Software for Research and Science Applications FLIR Systems'new version 4. 2 of its Researchir thermal imaging software provides researchers and scientists with a powerful tool for viewing,
an assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation. his device is best single predictor of organ survival in our patients,
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#Building a Better Microscope to See at the Atomic Level One of the more famous images in biology is known as"Photo 51,
Ph d.,professor and chair of UCSF Department of Physiology. Julius collaborated with Yifan Cheng, Ph d.,associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics,
to use CRYO EM to visualize the structure of the body receptors that sense the spiciness of chili peppers and, in work reported last month, wasabi.
and design, said David Agard, Ph d.,professor of biophysics and biochemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator,
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#New Sensing Tech Could Help Detect Diseases, Fraudulent Art, Chemical weapons From airport security detecting explosives to art historians authenticating paintings,
An international research team led by University at Buffalo engineers has developed nanotechnology that promises to make SERS simpler and more affordable.
said Qiaoqiang Gan, UB assistant professor of electrical engineering and the study lead author. Additional authors of the study are:
and Suhua Jiang, associate professor of materials science, and Zhejun Liu, Ph d. candidate, both at Fudan University in China.
When a powerful laser interacts chemical and biological molecules, the process can excite vibrational modes of these molecules and produce inelastic scattering, also called Raman scattering, of light.
both assistant professors of electrical engineering at UB. Source: University at Buffal S
#South korea Reports its First 2 Deaths From MERS Virus South korea on Tuesday confirmed the country's first two deaths from Middle east Respiratory Syndrome as it fights to contain the spread of a virus that has killed hundreds of people
in the middle East. South korea has reported 24 cases of the disease since diagnosing the country's first MERS illness last month in a man who had traveled to Saudi arabia and other Middle Eastern countries.
More than 50 schools and kindergartens near a hospital near Seoul where the 58-year-old patient who died was treated have canceled classes from Wednesday to Friday to let children stay home, according to the education agency in Gyeonggi province,
The current study uses technology Ott discovered as a research fellow at the University of Minnesota
Ott is an assistant professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical school. Bernhard Jank, M d.,of the MGH Center for Regenerative medicine is lead author of the Biomaterials paper.
Other diagnostic uses for smartphones have included using them as low-cost microscopes, in settings from the classroom to medically underserved areas r
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#Data Scientists Find Connections Between Birth Month and Health Columbia University scientists have developed a computational method to investigate the relationship between birth month and disease risk.
The researchers used this algorithm to examine New york city medical databases and found 55 diseases that correlated with the season of birth.
Ph d.,an assistant professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University Medical center (CUMC) and Columbia Data science Institute.
a graduate student at Columbia. e are working to help doctors solve important clinical problems using this new wealth of data.
Researchers at the University of Virginia have discovered that blood vessels directly connect the brain to the body immune system.
Ph d.,a postdoctoral fellow at the University Of Virginia School of medicine, told Bioscience Technology. ecently, we have seen that the areas that are surrounding the brain are full of immune cells, even in normal conditions,
which is characterized by an accumulation of protein in the brain, Louveau said. e think that protein might start to accumulate in the meninges
a UCLA professor of bioengineering and chemistry who is affiliated with CNSI, the multidisciplinary team also included Michel Gilliet of Switzerland Lausanne University Hospital and Jure Dobnikar and Daan Frenkel of the University of Cambridge.
Autoimmune diseases strike when the body attacks itself because it fails to distinguish between host tissue
so that the receptors bind to them strongly. he research was supported by the National institutes of health, the National Science Foundation, the European commission, the European Research Council, the Slovenian Research Agency, The swiss National Science Foundation and the University of Cambridge.
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#MERS Not Given Same Vaccine Attention as Ebola, Other Viruses A MERS outbreak has infected about 150 people in South korea,
#Newfound Groups of Bacteria are Mixing Up the Tree of Life University of California, Berkeley,
said lead author Jill Banfield, a professor of earth and planetary science and of environmental science, policy and management. hese new groups of bacteria and Archaea are changing our understanding of the number and arrangement of branches on the tree of life.
Graduate student Christopher Brown Banfield and their colleagues reported the discovery online (Monday, June 15) in the journal Nature.
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#Protein Plays Unexpected Role in Embryonic Stem Cells What if you found out that pieces of your front door were occasionally flying off the door frame to carry out chores around the house?
a professor in Salk Molecular and Cell biology Laboratory and senior author of the new paper. hope people start to accept
#Smart Insulin Patch Could Replace Painful Injections for Diabetes Painful insulin injections could become a thing of the past for the millions of Americans who suffer from diabetes, thanks to a new invention from researchers at the University of North carolina
biocompatible materials, said co-senior author Zhen Gu, Ph d.,a professor in the Joint UNC/NC State department of Biomedical engineering.
Gu also holds appointments in the UNC School of medicine the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, and the UNC Diabetes Care Center. he whole system can be personalized to account for a diabetic weight and sensitivity to insulin,
a Ph d. student in Gu lab. The first material was hyaluronic acid or HA, a natural substance that is an ingredient of many cosmetics.
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#Eavesdropping on the Body: New Device Tracks Chemical Signals Within Cells Biomedical engineers at the University of Toronto have invented a new device that more quickly
and accurately"listens in on the chemical messages that tell our cells how to multiply. The tool improves our understanding of how cancerous growth begins,
and is now a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Professor Aaron Wheeler. Ng and his team's method allows the scientists to deliver a quick-fire sequence of chemicals to small groups of cells stuck to the surface of the board.
or action,"said Dean Chamberlain, a postdoctoral researcher at IBBME, the Donnelly Centre and the Department of chemistry.
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#Specific Roles of Adult Neural stem cells May be determined Before Birth Adult neural stem cells, which are thought commonly of as having the ability to develop into many type of brain cells,
said principal investigator Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, Ph d.,UCSF professor of neurological surgery, Heather and Melanie Muss Endowed Chair and a principal investigator in the UCSF Brain tumor Research center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research. t may be unwelcome
Invented by Microchips Biotech cofounders Michael Cima, the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering, and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor, the microchips consist of hundreds of pinhead-sized reservoirs,
each capped with a metal membrane, that store tiny doses of therapeutics or chemicals. An electric current delivered by the device removes the membrane,
and then-graduate student John Santini Phd 9 co-founded Microchips, and invented a prototype for their microchip that was described in a paper published that year in Nature.
"explained Matthew Torres, an assistant professor in the School of Biology at the Georgia Institute of technology.""SAPH-ire is a tool for discovery,
and developed by him and graduate student Henry Dewhurst, while experimental validation of the tool was accomplished by graduate student Shilpa Choudhury.
Their next step is to develop collaborations with scientists who will try it out on the protein families they study.
E. P. Taylor Professor of Pain Studies at Mcgill University and Director of the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain. he realization that the biological basis for pain between men and women
The research was conducted by teams from Mcgill University, The Hospital for Sick Children (Sickkids), and Duke university
said Michael Salter, M d.,Ph d.,Head and Senior Scientist, Neuroscience & Mental health at Sickkids and Professor at The University of Toronto,
#Researchers Develop Innovative Gene Transfer-based Treatment Approach University of North carolina (UNC) School of medicine researchers have developed an innovative,
. assistant professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and a researcher in UNC Gene therapy Center and Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, developed the experimental treatment in studies conducted at UNC.
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#Microarray for Research into Haematological and Solid Cancers Oxford Gene Technology (OGT) released a new microarray designed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of cancer research.
The array has been optimized in collaboration with Professor Jacqueline Schoumans from the Lausanne University Hospital in Switzerland, an expert in both acgh and cancer genomics.
because theye so hard to study, said Tony Hunter, American Cancer Society Professor, holder of the Dulbecco Chair in the Salk Molecular and Cell biology Laboratory and senior author of the new paper.
who also is a professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics and a director of the signal transduction and therapeutics program at the Jonsson Cancer Center. his demonstrates the effectiveness of our treatment
an associate professor at the City of Hope who has been studying the function of Twist for 20 years.
who also is distinguished a UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry and a pioneer in the design and synthesis of multifunctional mesoporous silica nanoparticles u
Other Diseases Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia are using optical spectroscopy to develop a quick,
Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Fellow with the University Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS), compared the instrument to an ptical dog nosewhich uses a special laser to measure the molecular content
Anstie said in a university press release. hose molecules are by-products of metabolic processes in the body
such strains are only found at low levels within the human gut, according to Timothy Lu, an associate professor of biological engineering and of electrical engineering and computer science,
a professor of biological engineering at MIT. e wanted to work with strains like B. thetaiotaomicron that are present in many people in abundant levels,
Tom Ellis, group leader of the Centre for Synthetic biology at Imperial College London, who was involved not in the research,
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