and the Elderly Researchers from the University of Sheffield Department of Biomedical science discovered the ultrasound transmits a vibration through the skin
from the University Centre for Membrane Interactions and Dynamics (CMIAD), said: kin ulcers are excruciatingly painful for patients
was carried out in collaboration with the School of Biochemistry at the University of Bristol, the Wound Biology Group at the Cardiff Institute of Tissue Engineering and Repair,
The University of Sheffiel u
#Stem Cells Create Early Human Heart Development Model UC Berkeley researchers, in collaboration with scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, have developed a template for growing beating cardiac tissue from stem cells,
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. his technology could help us quickly screen for drugs likely to generate cardiac birth defects,
said Warren Ruder, an assistant professor of biological systems engineering in both the College of Agriculture and Life sciences and the College of Engineering."
and the Virginia Tech Student Engineerscouncil has provided funding to move these models and resulting mobile robots into the classroom as teaching tools.
Ruder conducted his research in collaboration with biomedical engineering doctoral student Keith Heyde, of Wilton, Connecticut, who studies phyto-engineering for biofuel synthesis. e hope to help democratize the field of synthetic biology for students and researchers all over the world with this model,
said Ruder. n the future, rudimentary robots and E coli that are used already commonly separately in classrooms could be linked with this model to teach students from elementary school through the Ph d.-level about bacterial relationships with other organisms. ource:
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#Immunotherapy Show Promise In fighting Blood Cancer In recent years, immunotherapy has emerged as a promising treatment for certain cancers.
the Gary Jobson Professor in Medical Oncology at the University of Maryland School of medicine. ur findings provide a strong foundation for further research in the field of cellular immunotherapy for myeloma to help achieve even better
who is the Director of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.
Some patients are still in remission after nearly three years. he research is a collaboration between the University of Maryland School of medicine, the Perelman School of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Adaptimmune
Dr. Rapoport and co-authors Edward A. Stadtmauer, M d.,of the University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center,
Half the patients were treated at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center and half at the University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center.
The study was developed originally by Carl H. June, M d.,of the University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center,
said E. Albert Reece, M d..,Ph d.,MBA, vice president for medical affairs at the University of Maryland and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and dean of the University of Maryland School of medicine. his trial is also an excellent example of significant
scientific advances that result from collaborations between academic medical institutions and private industry. ource: University of Marylan n
#Uncovering the Spread of Bacteria in Pneumonia Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered the role a toxin produced by a pneumonia-causing bacterium plays in the spread of infection from the lungs to the bloodstream in hospitalized patients. rior to this study,
. professor in Microbiology-Immunology and Medicine-Infectious disease. hese findings lay the foundation for future studies to further understand the mechanisms for how the escape to the bloodstream occurs.
said Dr. Hauser, also a member of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University.
Scientists from the University of Nottingham in England have discovered a fully man-made substrate that could produce billions of human embryonic stem cells and move laboratory-based research to industrial-scale biomedicine.
Morgan Alexander, professor of biomedical surfaces in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Nottingham
professor of stem cell biology in the School of medicine led the research project, iscovery of a Novel Polymer for Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion and Multilineage Differentiation. he possibilities for regenerative medicine are still being reached in the form of clinical trials,
Professor Denning said: he field of regenerative medicine has snowballed in the last five years and over the coming five years a lot more patients will be receiving stem cell treatments.
said Stephen Beverley, Ph d.,senior author of one of the studies and the Marvin A. Brennecke Professor and head of the Department of Molecular Microbiology at Washington University School of medicine in St louis. n the future,
Ph d.,of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, worked with colleagues studying patients in French guiana.``
. of the Cayetano Heredia University in Peru. edical resources are often very scarce in the communities where these people work,
More than 75,000 people have enrolled in health studies that use specialized iphone apps, built with software Apple Inc. developed to help turn the popular smartphone into a research tool.
than they're able to reach with traditional health studies. A smartphone"is a great platform for research,
A sixth app was released last month to collect information for a long-term health study of gays and lesbians by the University of California,
a University of Rochester neurologist who's leading the Parkinson's app study called mpower.""Participating in clinical studies is often a burden,
a genomics professor who's using an iphone app to study asthma at New york's Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai."
and Jonathan Weissman, Ph d.,professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at UCSF and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator.
Doudna, professor of chemistry and of cell and molecular biology at Berkeley, and an HHMI investigator,
Aarhus University Study A major epidemiological registry-based study from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital indicates that Parkinson's disease begins in the gastrointestinal tract.
Now researchers from Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital have taken an important step towards a better understanding of the disease.
"explains postdoc at Aarhus University Elisabeth Svensson on the hypothesis behind the study. A hypothesis that turned out to be correct:"
19 people including nine quadriplegics were able to remotely control a robot located in one of the university laboratories.
was able to interact with whoever the robot crossed paths with. ach of the 9 subjects with disabilities managed to remotely control the robot with ease after less than 10 days of training,
said Professor Millán. Shared control between human and machine The brain-machine interface developed by the researchers goes even further.
Too soon to say, according to Professor Millán . or this to happen, insurance companies will have to help finance these technologies. ey,
"said Maya Koronyo-Hamaoui, Phd, assistant professor of neurosurgery and biomedical sciences at Cedars-Sinai, and the senior author of the article published in Brain, a journal of Oxford university Press."
steadily impairing memory and learning functions. In efforts to boost an effective immune response, the Cedars-Sinai scientists have devised ways to"recruit"white blood cells known as monocytes from bone marrow to attack the protein fragments
said Koronyo-Hamaoui, the head of Cedars-Sinai's neuroimmunology laboratory at themaxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute and a faculty member in the Department of Neurosurgery and Department of Biomedical sciences.
directly clear abnormal protein accumulation and preserve cognitive function,"said Yosef Koronyo, the article's first author and a research associate in the Department of Neurosurgery.
#Cell Structure Discovery Advances Understanding Of Cancer Development, University of Warwick Study University of Warwick researchers have discovered a cell structure
associate professor and senior Cancer Research UK Fellow at the division of biomedical cell biology at Warwick Medical school.
Researchers at the University Warwick Medical school made the discovery by accident while looking at gaps between microtubules
One of Dr Royle Phd students was examining structures called mitotic spindles in dividing cells using a technique called tomography
and the researchers at the University believe that the mesh is needed to give structural support.
North West Cancer Research (NWCR) has funded the research as part of a collaborative project between the University of Warwick and the University of Liverpool,
r Royle and Professor Ian Prior at the University of Liverpool have made significant inroads into our understanding of the way in
Our specially selected scientific committee includes some of the UK leading professors, award-winning scientists and pioneering professionals.
Warwick Medical school division of biomedical cell biology carries out fundamental molecular and cellular research into biomedical problems.
Osaka University Study Eric is terrified. He stands outside the clinic and takes a few deep breaths before walking slowly through the automatic doors.
The authors of the study, from Osaka University in Japan, say their dissolvable patch the only vaccination system of its kind could make vaccination easier, safer and less painful.
one of the authors of the study and Professor of Biotechnology and Therapeutics at the Graduate school of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Osaka University. ecause the new patch is so easy to use,
The lightweight plastic hand itself was designed and 3d printed by a research team from Saarland University.
University of Cambridge Study A ill on a stringdeveloped by researchers at the University of Cambridge could help doctors detect oesophageal cancer cancer of the gullet at an early stage,
However, researchers from the University of Cambridge have shown that variations in mutations across the oesophagus mean that standard biopsies may miss cells with important mutations.
developed by Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald at the Medical Research Council Cancer Unit at the University of Cambridge. he trouble with Barrett oesophagus is that it looks bland
explains Professor Fitzgerald. e created a map of mutations in a patient with the condition
Professor Fitzgerald and colleagues carried out whole genome sequencing to analyse paired Barrett oesophagus and oesophageal cancer samples taken at one point in time from 23 patients,
And Accurately Created, University of California, Los angeles (UCLA) Reveals UCLA Researchers Create Smartphone-Based Device That Reads Medical Diagnostic Tests Quickly And Accurately Enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay,
along with Dino Di Carlo, professor of bioengineering, and Omai Garner, associate director of clinical microbiology for the UCLA Health System.
UCLA undergraduate Brandon Berg was the study first author, and two other undergraduates also contributed to the research. t is quite important to have these kinds of mobile devices,
especially for administering medical tests that are done usually in a hospital or clinical laboratory, said Ozcan,
who is also Chancellor Professor of Electrical engineering and Bioengineering. his mobile platform can be used for point-of-care testing,
The other authors on the paper were UCLA graduate students Bingen Cortazar, Derek Tseng, Haydar Ozkan, Raymond Yan-Lok Chan, and Steve Feng;
postgraduate scholar Qingshan Wei; undergraduates Jordi Burbano and Qamar Farooki; and Michael Lewinski, an adjunct faculty in UCLA bioengineering department.
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute h
#Smart Hydrogel Coating Creates"Stick-Slip"Control Of Capillary Action, Georgia Institute of technology Study Coating the inside of glass microtubes with a polymer hydrogel material dramatically alters the way capillary forces draw water into the tiny structures,
a professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech. nstead of filling the tube with a rate of liquid penetration that slows with time,
The researchers who included graduate students James Silva Drew Loney and Ren Geryak and senior research engineer Peter Kottke tried the experiment again using glycerol,
the research team included Professor Vladimir Tsukruk from the Georgia Tech School of Materials science and engineering and Rajesh Naik, Biotechnology Lead and Tech Advisor of the Nanostructured and Biological Materials Branch
#Oil Droplets Into Human Cells, Harvard Medical school Study Scientists have turned individual cells into miniature lasers by injecting them with droplets of oil
The system was devised by Seok Hyun Yun and Matja Humar, both optical physicists at Harvard Medical school in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
#First Artificial Ribosome Designed, University of Illinois Researchers Reveal Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago
and Northwestern University have engineered a tethered ribosome that works nearly as well as the authentic cellular component,
The artificial ribosome, called Ribo-T, was created in the laboratories of Alexander Mankin, director of the UIC College of Pharmacy's Center for Biomolecular Sciences
and Northwestern's Michael Jewett, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering. The human-made ribosome may be able to be manipulated in the laboratory to do things natural ribosomes cannot do.
The teams from Australia's University of Melbourne and Shanghai's Fudan University had worked together during the first outbreak of avian flu in China in 2013.
University of Melbourne's associate professor Ms Katherine Kedzierska recently said that during the outbreak 99 percent of people with the H7n9 virus were hospitalized,
Researchers said that the breakthrough could lead to the development of a vaccine that can fight all new influenza viruses. Professor Xu,
who co-led the study from Fudan University, China, said this study would significantly enlighten T-cell based vaccine development and immune intervention during severe influenza infection in the future.
Professor Elizabeth Hartland, head of the department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne added that the international collaboration has brought together the immunological expertise in Melbourne
"The company also announced the appointment of Professor Pierce Chow as chairman to lead primary liver cancer-hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)- Scientific Advisory board d
http://www. sfu. ca) Simon Fraser University Phd alumna Ms Maryam Sadeghi has developed Molescope, an innovative hand-held tool that uses a smartphone to monitor skin for signs of cancer.
This is exactly what I imagined doing as a student and now my vision is being realized through the launch of Molescope,
as a result of collaboration between Kobe-based medical device manufacturer My Tech researchers from Showa University uses a biochip,
Mr Hiroaki Ito, a researcher from Showa University, said the preliminary data suggests that the device could be more accurate and effective than existing blood tests."
Vaccination will no longer be a painful process as researchers from Japan's Osaka University have developed a new technique that can deliver vaccines without needles.
Vaccination will no longer be a painful process as researchers from Japan's Osaka University have developed a new technique that can deliver vaccines without needles.
and in some cases even more effective,"said Professor Nakagawa, one of the authors of the Osaka University study.
#Approval for AIDS Vaccine at Canadian University The Food and Drug Administration has given Canadian researchers approval to test a vaccine for HIV/AIDS on humans.
Researchers from the University of Western Ontario are hopeful that with further tests, a vaccine could be on the market in about five years.
researchers at the University Medical center Utrecht announced that they have identified a gene that puts women at higher risk for breast cancer.
or building blocks for peptide drugs, explains Jin-Quan Yu, chemistry professor at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI),
#Biodiesel production from Sugarcane A multi-institutional team led by plant biology professor Stephen P. Long from the University of Illinois reports that it can increase sugarcane's geographic range boost its photosynthetic rate by 30 percent
The research team led by the University of Illinois includes scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory the University of Florida and the University of Nebraska.
Long is an affiliate of the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois s
along with academic institutions and disease foundations. These collaborations are defined coming together, in re-competitivespaces, to generate tools
and acclaimed academic institutions like MIT and Harvard. I am confident that discussions started at the summit will lead to the types of large collaborations
generating creative initiatives from universities, tech transfer organizations, government and biotechs. BIO-X is an open innovation vehicle run by Uppsala BIO.
It was established in the Stockholm-Uppsala Region of Sweden almost ten years ago to act as an independent bridge-builder between universities
Alexis A. Thompson, head of hematology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine in Chicago, and lead investigator of the study. n a relatively short period of time,
which must be diverted from training, maintenance, and other mission-essential programs. The Pentagon spent $17. 3 billion on petroleum in 2011, a 26 percent increase from the previous year with practically no change in the volume purchased.
to invest in education, in research, in engineering; to set a goal of reaching space
but expand investments in R&d and commercialization, education and workforce development, financial capital, and the nation science and technology infrastructure.
"A research paper at Cornell University outlines a system that learns to identify fine-grained visual features of images,
The research was conducted by a team comprised of experts from the Chinese Internet search company Baidu and a student at the University of California at Los angeles,
and various other academic institutions that came out recently.""Our goal is to enable the computer to connect language with experiences in the physical world,
"In the future, potential applications are education and mobile image search, "Xu says. AI might cater lessons to students by,
for instance, quizzing them on the types of animals in a photo their parents shot on a weekend trip to the zoo.
"The eight year old Swedish company grew out of a piece of university research and was funded initially by DARPA, the US defence programme that funds technology with potential military use.
According to a Babson College report, only 15%of VC-funded companies in the US have a female executive,
For example, teachers can collect homework assignments all in one go in a single folder, from both existing and non-Dropbox users, forgoing the need to go through multiple email attachments or physical copies.
"The study was conducted at UC Berkeley (the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center) together with Taiwan's National Chiao tung University.
Prakash, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford, is the proprietor of"frugal science, "a term he coined to explain the movement toward building cheap versions of high tech tools.
Prakash also hopes his"frugal science"movement will make science education and research accessible across the globe.
and device during her Phd research at Simon Fraser University.""It enables patients to have access to the same system that doctors have in their clinic,
Simon Fraser University) This allows people to monitor their moles and skin health, share images with family
"Dr. Susan Poelman, a dermatologist at the University of Calgary, says the device could help solve problems in her own clinic."
A City College of New york study of the New york city system found a two per cent increase in bus ridership through 2013
"says the university of Calgary professor. While the Devines have taken the plunge and transformed the way they watch TV,
"says professor Taylor r
#Smartphones tested as tools for medical research Jody Kearns doesn't like to spend time obsessing about her Parkinson's disease.
Eric Risberg/Associated press) More than 75,000 people have enrolled in health studies that use specialized iphone apps, built with software Apple Inc. developed to help turn the popular smartphone into a research tool.
than they're able to reach with traditional health studies. A smartphone"is a great platform for research"
A sixth app was released last month to collect information for a long-term health study of gays and lesbians by the University of California,
a University of Rochester neurologist who's leading the Parkinson's app study called mpower.""Participating in clinical studies is often a burden,
Imergy is already collaborating on a California college campus microgrid project not far from the company Fremont headquarters,
and it could become the blueprint for a number of other college microgrids. Like other Imergy flow batteries, they also use vanadium from fly ash and mining slag.
In the latest development, a team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside, has come up with a paperlike material that could bring in a new generation of high-range batteries.
from the school Bourns College of Engineering, involves a new paperlike material made from silicon in the form of spongy silicon nanofibers.
#Imergy Power systems & Geli Awarded College Microgrid Project Advanced energy storage systems leader Imergy Power systems and Growing Energy Labs Inc. Geli) are collaborating on a microgrid project for Chabot-Las Positas Community college District in Livermore, California.
Geli is a designer of energy storage and microgrid solutions. The joint project at Las Positas College will add renewable energy sources,
reduce peak power, and allow the district to be more energy independent. Imergy Power Systemseps30 series institutional scale vanadium redox flow batteries will be installed as part of the microgrid.
Las Positas College in Livermore will be the site of the flow batteries installation, where there is already a 2. 35 MW solar array that generates about 55%of the campus electricity.
which seeks to demonstrate how colleges and universities can use microgrids to better manage their energy
and reduce costs. In fact, a document called the Microgrid Blueprint will be published and shared with other educational institutions containing data
so they can evaluate the benefits of installing and managing their own microgrids. icrogrids will become one of the primary ways consumers
Las Positas College has about 9, 0001,000 students and prepares them for the transition to 4-year educational institutions and new careers through classes,
degree programs, and training programs n
#NISSAN LEAF Challenges Chicago Slush With Self-Cleaning Paint What the worst part of winter? Some winter-weary northerners might say all the snow wee gotten in the past month is almost intolerable,
but for me nothing is worse than seeing my car covered in slush and road salt.
Henk Jonkers from Netherlands-based Delft University of Technology has created bioconcrete, a product that can heal its own cracks and faults.
#Weirdest Biofuel Ever Powers Strangest Car Ever The folks at Columbia University have come up with a loating enginethat runs on evaporating water
The company Joule updated us on new patents for its cyanobacteria-to-biofuel process powered by sunlight and carbon dioxide, researchers at Tohoku University hit upon a new method for converting algae to biofuel precursors,
and lowered operating voltage has been developed by researchers at Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, the University of Science and Technology of China,
and the South China University of Technology. The new approach, interestingly, doesn rely on exotic chemicals or processes,
and agriculture--for controlled delivery and release but this is one of the first demonstrations of this approach for controlled capture says Jennifer A. Lewis the Hansj rg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard School of engineering
Lewis is also a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard.
and cheap to make says Stuart Haszeldine professor of carbon capture and storage at the University of Edinburgh who was involved not in the research.
Durable safe and secure capsules containing solvents tailored to diverse applications can place CO2 capture for CCS firmly onto the cost-reduction pathway.
and associate professor of Earth and environmental engineering at Columbia University who was involved not in the research.
The array of perceptive faculties we have is actually pretty impressive but what we don't have is called a sense magnetoception.
and Materials Research in Dresden Germany and the TU Chemnitz in close collaboration with partners at the University of Tokyo and Osaka University in Japan led by Dr Denys Makarov.
"said Alexey Terskikh, Ph d.,associate professor in the Development, Aging and Regeneration Program at Sanford-Burnham.
A new technique developed by researchers at the University of Rochester, however, can make a surface hydrophobic without the use of coatings.
"said Chunlei Guo, professor of optics in the University of Rochester Hajim School of engineering and Applied sciences.
as researchers at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies are finding out,
"said UMD professor of computer science and director of the UMIACS Computer Vision Lab Yiannis Aloimonos."
led by Nenad Bursac, Duke university associate professor of biomedical engineering, and postdoctoral researcher Lauran Madden.""The beauty of this work is that it can serve as a test bed for clinical trials in a dish,
The statins caused abnormal fat accumulation at high doses, while the clenbuterol had a narrow beneficial window for increased contraction--both
The human trials may start as early as June of this year at a special facility called the called the Gait Platform housed in the University Hospital of Lausanne Switzerland.
and was a spin-off from the department of Environmental technology of Wageningen University. Again they develop products in
Painless Glucose Regulation The patch, created by researchers from the University of North carolina and NC State, is a thin square covered with more than 100 tiny needles.
In a trial at the National University of Ireland, the system was tested on 60 people who'd had tinnitus for longer than six months.
Scientists at Newcastle University and the University of Iowa, in the U s.,have shown that more areas of the brain are involved in tinnitus than just the sound centre-the auditory cortex-which was thought previously to be responsible.
Phd students Chance Coughenour and Matthew Vincent, from the Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural heritage (ITN-DCH) came up with the idea of reconstructing objects digitally from crowd sourced images days after ISIS
but also uses the pupils'reaction to light. Founders of the project claim that by being able to calculate the subtle changes in both pupils,
it can present virtual environments with realistic depth of field. Yuka Kojima CEO and Cofounder of Fove, explained:'
the technology can also be used in real-world applications, such in medicine, education, virtual tourism and for conferences.
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