a professor of catalysis at England University of Bristol who led the technology development, tells me that
But Professor Wass adds: he devil is in the detail and they would need to check that it doesn adversely effect other properties.
Professor Wass explains. arbon fiber composites have been used widely in Formula one and performance cars for many years,
Professor Wass notes. t the consumer end of the market that could be sports equipment, bike frames, and so on.
which also involves the NASA Jet propulsion Lab, University of Maryland, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania.
The MAST-inspired micro robots could provide U s. ground forces, small units and individual soldiers with the capability to conduct surveillance within complex urban environments
The University of Pennsylvania smallest robot weighs less than three quarters of an ounce and is travelling very quick at about 53 body lengths per second.
and education but tries to block material deemed subversive or obscene. Beijing regularly launches new censorship initiatives to respond to changes such as the growing popularity of social media.
Northwestern University scientists have invented new advanced fluorescent inks revealed through a phone's ultraviolet light that serve as the product barcodes of the future.
Sir Fraser Stoddart, Northwestern University professor and senior author of the research, said in a press release. ur inks are similar to the proprietary formulations of soft drinks.
from oncological research to education. This latest collaboration makes Watson somewhat more tangible to the average person,
GHOST is the brainchild of four universities in the U k.,Holland and Denmark. Launched in 2013,
maybe even in mid-air, explained GHOST Coordinator and University of Copenhagen Professor Kasper Hornbaek, in a statement. hrough ultrasound levitation technology, for example,
which change shape as you are using them are probably only five years off now, noted Professor Hornbaek,
lead analyst Leif Andersson, a professor of functional genomics at Uppsala University, the Swedish University of Agricultural sciences, said in a press release.
Supporting Andersson in the study, among others, was Peter Grant and his wife Rosemary, both professors at Princeton university.
An associate professor of physics, Jason Petta at Princeton and the lead author of the study,
said Jacob Taylor, a subordinate associate professor at the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland-National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Researchers from the University of Rochester have developed a method to make metals hydrophobic or waterproof when they are treated with lasers.
a professor of optics at Rochester, explained in a recent news release. These laser treated surfaces are highly absorbent of heat
says co-principal investigator Michael R. Bruchas, associate professor of anesthesiology and neurobiology at Washington University in St louis. ith one of these tiny devices implanted,
a graduate student in the Bruchas lab. ee designed it to exploit infrared technology, similar to that used in a TV remote.
with application opportunities not only in the brain but in other parts of the nervous system and other organs as well, says the study other co-principal investigator, John A. Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois. For now,
says Stephanie Lanza, professor of biobehavioral health, and scientific director of the Methodology Center at Penn State. owever, we were surprised to find the very clear message that kids are choosing marijuana over cigarettes.
Lanza and colleagues analyzed data collected from US high school seniors between 1976 and 2013. Nearly 600,000 students took a survey over this time period as part of the project Monitoring the Future
a long-term ongoing epidemiological study conducted by the University of Michigan. Lanza and her team focused on information reported about the rates of use of three different substanceslcohol, cigarettes,
and marijuanaver the course of 37 years. They report their results today in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
Students were asked about their use of these three substances in the 30 days prior to taking the survey.
Students were more likely to use marijuana if they also smoked cigarettes than if they did not, and vice versa.
Additional researchers from Penn State and University of North carolina at Chapel hill also collaborated on this research.
a nanomedicine expert at Northwestern University and corresponding author of the study. e hope that many more researchers will be able to use this platform to increase our understanding of RNA function inside cells.
Mirkin is professor of chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and professor of medicine, chemical and biological engineering, biomedical engineering and materials science and engineering.
Aurasense, Inc.,a biotechnology company that licensed the Nanoflare technology from the university, and EMD-Millipore, another biotech company, have commercialized Nanoflares.
professor of biomedical surfaces at University of Nottingham. hat we are doing here is paving the way for the manufacture of stem cells in large numbers
professor of stem cell biology. linical trials are still in the very early stages. However with this kind of product,
University of Nottingha c
#Pair of compounds could hockhiv Highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) has helped millions of people survive HIV.
says lead author Satya Dandekar, who chairs the department of medical microbiology and immunology at University of California,
and Williams College. The NIH; a UC Davis Research Investments in Science and Engineering (RISE) grant;
a professor of Cornell entomology and a coauthor of the study in Pest Management Science. his is an insecticide that is based on a specific gene.
a new class of microbial signaling molecules, says Pamela Ronald, a professor of plant pathology at University of California, Davis,
Pruitt and Schwessinger both worked on the new study as postdoctoral scholars in the Ronald lab
and Schwessinger is now an independent research fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.
University of Tübingen, Germany; University of Texas at Austin; UC Irvine; and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India.
The US National institutes of health, the US Department of energy, the European Molecular biology Association, the Human Frontiers Science Program, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in India, the Welch Foundation,
and Monsanto Beachell-Borlaug International Scholars Program supported the work s
#Rare case uncovers missing clue to Fragile X Fragile X syndrome may not only be a problem of receivers in the brain letting in too much information.
associate professor of cell biology and physiology at Washington University School of medicine in St louis. y finding the mutation,
geneticist Stephen T. Warren and colleagues at Emory University replicated it in mouse brain cells and tested it for the widely known functions of FMRP.
who is also an associate professor of biomedical engineering. his patient presents a case of partial fragile X syndrome associated with mutated, rather than absent, FMRP.
A research team led by ETH Zurich Professor Dimos Poulikakos and Aldo Ferrari at the Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies, has succeeded now in creating bacterial cellulose with a controlled surface structure.
a professor of food and nutrition toxicology at ETH Zurich, has succeeded for the first time in amplifying gene samples containing DNA ADDUCTS
a professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Missouri School of medicine. he benefit to patients is that more graft material will be available
says medical entomologist Gregory Lanzaro, professor in the pathology, microbiology and immunology department at University of California,
Other researchers from UC Davis and from the University of Bamako in Mali are coauthors of the study The National institutes of health funded the research
professor of psychiatry at University of Iowa. o it really providing a new picture and new insight into the composition and function of the brain in bipolar disease.
A philanthropic gift from University of Iowa alumnus Roger Koch, the National institutes of health, the Department of veterans affairs, and the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression provided funding for the study.
University of Iow g
#Could cell#backpacks#deliver inflammation drugs? Scientists have created ellular backpacksthat could carry therapeutic agents to the site of inflammation
or even tissue death. any diseases result in inflammation, says Samir Mitragotri, professor of chemical engineering at University of California, Santa barbara,
says grad student researcher Aaron Anselmo, lead author of a study in the current issue of the Journal of Controlled Release.
a professor and chair of neuroscience at Brown University and senior author of the study. oo much excitation relative to inhibition you get a seizure,
Garrett Neske, a graduate student at Brown University and lead author of the study, induced up and down cycles in slices of tissue from the barrel cortex
both of the University of Rochester Institute of Optics, describe a powerful and precise laser-patterning technique that creates an intricate pattern of micro
says Guo, a professor of optics. That whole process takes less than a second. MORE SLIPPERY THAN TEFLON The materials Guo has created are much more slippery than Teflon common hydrophobic material that often coats nonstick frying pans.
Thomas Sand Jespersen an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen who helped create the material says it's a way to make a perfect transition between the nanowire and a superconductor.
The atoms sit in a perfectly ordered lattice in the nanowire crystal not only in the semiconductor and the metal but also in the transition between the two very different components which is significant in itself explains Peter Krogstrup an assistant professor who helped develop the contact.
#Molecule that Destroys Apoptotic Cells also Repairs Damaged Axons Two new studies involving the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane,
Ding Xue, Ph d.,a professor in the department of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at CU-Boulder.
#Small Molecule Successfully Targets Telomerase to Destroy Cancer cells Scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical center report that they have targeted telomeres with a small molecule called 6-thiodg that takes advantage of the cell's biological clock to kill cancer cells
Jerry W. Shay, Ph d.,professor and vice chairman of cell biology at UT Southwestern, and colleague, Woodring E. Wright, M d.,Ph d.,professor of cell biology and internal medicine, found that 6-thio-2'-deoxyguanosine could stop the growth of cancer cells in culture and decrease the growth of tumors in mice.
Drs. Shay and Wright are co-senior authors of the study nduction of Telomere Dysfunction Mediated by the Telomerase Substrate Precursor 6-Thio-2deoxyguanosineappearing in Cancer Discovery. reatment with 6-thio
Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research at Newcastle University estimate that about 2, 500 women of childbearing age in Britain carry mitochondrial disease.
director of the center at Newcastle University. his novel approach would allow women who carry these mutations greater reproductive choice. e
professor of medicine and leader of the YODA Project. e hope this action serves as a catalyst to others to join the momentum on open science.
and overseers such as institutional review boards, research ethics committees, investigators, their research institutions or universities, journals,
However, researchers from Harvard Medical school have developed a microfluidic chip that can capture CTC clusters which could yield important new insights into how different cancers spread."
"said senior author Mehmet Toner, Ph d.,professor of surgery and health sciences and technology at Harvard Medical school,
#Inexpensive Technique Developed to Manufacture Nanofibers Scientists at the University of Georgia say they have developed an inexpensive way to manufacture nanofibers,
Ph d.,study co-author and the Georgia Power Professor of Polymers, Fibers and Textiles in UGA's college of family and consumer sciences."
Equipment operators must have extensive training to use the equipment safely.""In contrast to other nanofiber spinning devices, most of the equipment used in our device is said simple
#Researchers Discover New ain Sensinggene An international scientific team led by the University of Cambridge reports the identification of a gene essential to the production of pain-sensing neurons in humans.
"says Geoff Woods, M d, from the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research at the University of Cambridge,
Ph d.,research associate professor with the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, told GEN. Having numerous payers,
#New Hope for ALS Sufferers Researchers at the CHUM Research center and the University of Montreal report the discovery of a previously unknown link between the immune system and the death of motor neurons in Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou gehrig's disease.
and trigger the disease, said Alex Parker, Ph d.,CHUM researcher and associate professor in the department of neuroscience at the University of Montreal.
lead investigator and doctoral student under the supervision of Dr. Parker. Results were remarkable noted Veriepe. orms with an immune deficit resulting from the tir-1 gene's mutation were in better health
Now, a collaboration of researchers from UT Southwestern Medical center, Case Western Reserve University, and the University of Kentucky has identified an enzyme they say regulates tissue regeneration.
The scientists believe that the inhibition of this enzyme could accelerate tissue recovery from injury, disease,
. associate dean of oncology programs at UT Southwestern Medical center and co-author on the current study.""We propose that SW033291 will be useful in accelerating recovery of bone marrow cells following a bone marrow transplant
"explained co-author Dr. Joseph Ready, Ph d.,professor of biochemistry and member of the Simmons Cancer Center at UT Southwestern Medical center.
#Novel Epigenetic Technique Opens Door to Combatting Virulent Strains of Bacteria Researchers from the Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai say they have developed a novel method to more precisely analyze bacterial populations
and conducted in collaboration with New york University Langone Medical center and Brigham and Women Hospital of Harvard Medical school.
assistant professor of genetics and genomics at the Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai and senior author of the study. iven that phenotypic heterogeneity within a bacterial population can increase its advantage of survival under stress conditions such as antibiotic treatment,
. founding director of the Icahn Institute and professor of genomics at the Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai. he approach we developed can also be used to analyze DNA VIRUSES and human MITOCHONDRIAL DNA,
The team from led by the Universities of Bristol and Liverpool has shown that it is possible to combine cells with a special scaffold to produce living tissue in the laboratory.
said Adam Perriman, Ph d.,from the University of Bristol school of cellular and molecular medicine."
but also for other tissue such as cardiac muscle or bone, according to the University of Liverpool Anthony Hollander, Ph d.,head of integrative biology."
The team led by the Universities of Bristol and Liverpool has shown that it is possible to combine cells with a special scaffold to produce living tissue in the laboratory.
said Adam Perriman, Ph d.,from the University of Bristol school of cellular and molecular medicine."
but also for other tissue such as cardiac muscle or bone, according to the University of Liverpool Anthony Hollander, Ph d.,head of integrative biology."
#Scientists Discover Specific Brain Receptor Role in Cocaine addiction Scientists at the University at Buffalo have discovered a previously unknown neural pathway that can regulate changes made in the brain due to cocaine use, providing new
"Dr. Gancarz, a former postdoctoral associate with the UB Research Institute on Addictions (RIA), worked on the study under the direction of senior author David Dietz, Ph d.,assistant professor in the department of pharmacology
and toxicology in UB's School of medicine and Biomedical sciences. The study found that by manipulating the activity of Activin receptors the researchers were able to increase
The team, based at Wenzhou Medical University in China, randomized 12 patients with complete spinal cord injury (SCI) to receive OLP transplants
or sensory recovery, said Hua-Zi Xu, M d.,department of spinal surgery, the second affiliated hospital of Wenzhou Medical University.'
#Scientists Devise Promising Strategy to Tackle MERS A Purdue University-led team of scientists studying the Middle east Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) reports that it found molecules that shut down the activity of an essential enzyme
. Purdue's Walther Professor of Cancer Structural biology and professor of biological sciences and chemistry who leads the research team."
who also is deputy director of the Purdue University Center for Cancer Research e
#New Drug Prevents Cancer cells from Staging Last Stand Unlike many last stands in human history,
"said Reuben Shaw, a senior author of the paper, professor in the Molecular and Cell biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist."
particularly in light of the huge disease burden of malaria,"explained senior author Manoj Duraisingh, Ph d.,professor of Immunology and Infectious diseases at the T. H. Chan School of Public health."
the Harvard group worked closely with a team from Boston College to determine if calcineurin had a similar effect on the parasite, Toxoplasma gondii.
#Depersonalized Medicine Shows Promising Results Against Cancer Researchers at St louis University (SLU) say they have,
#Synthetic Stem Cells Might Eventually Lead to Artificial organs Scientists at the University of Washington (UW) say they have engineered yeast cells (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) that can"talk"to one another,
"said senior author Eric Klavins, Ph d.,a UW associate professor of electrical engineering and of bioengineering. It might also enable engineered yeast to perform complicated behaviors that coordinated multicellular systems such as our immune system can accomplish,
though, the team spearheaded by lead authors Arjun Khakhar, a UW doctoral student in bioengineering, and Nicholas J. Bolten, a UW doctoral student in electrical engineering, simply wanted to see
if it could induce one yeast cell to send a signal that sets off a cascade of changes in another cell.
With co-author and UW associate biology professor Jennifer Nemhauser, Ph d, . the UW team figured out how to make a sender yeast cell produce auxin,
#Epigenetics Opens Potential Pathway to Treating Glioblastoma Scientists at the University of California, San diego School of medicine and Moores Cancer Center led an international team that discovered that cancer stem cell properties are determined by epigenetic changes.
The study, which was carried out on human tumor samples and mouse models, is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
associate professor of neurosurgery and vice-chair of research and academic development at UC San diego School of medicine.
According to scientists at the University of Utah and the University of Vermont, DNA contains an extra set of guanines,
#New Cell Structure Finding Might Lead to Novel Cancer Therapies University of Warwick scientists in the U k. say they have discovered a cell structure
such as those of the breast and bladder, according to Stephen Royle, Ph d.,team leader and associate professor and senior Cancer Research UK Fellow at the division of biomedical cell biology at Warwick Medical school."
One of Dr. Royle's Ph d. students was examining mitotic spindles in dividing cells via tomography.
and the researchers at the university believe that the mesh is needed to give structural support.
in collaboration with scientists from CREATE Fertility Center, University of Toronto, Harvard university, and Georgia Regents University.
The scientific team presented their results July 8 in Science Translational Medicine, in an article entitled,
#Dissolvable Microneedles May Herald New Age of Vaccine Delivery Scientists from Osaka University report that flu vaccines delivered using microneedles that dissolve in the skin can protect people against infection even better than the standard needle-delivered vaccine.
Cutting off a cancer cell ood supplyis a veritable lynchpin for the efficient removal of tumors and now researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center believe they may have found a protein that serves that very function.
"We know that all cancers grow by learning how to reprogram their metabolism, "said senior author Mong-Hong Lee, Ph d,
. professor of molecular and cellular oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. ut exactly how this occurs has not been understood fully.
Working and Master Cell Banks Once a biopharmaceutical company obtains a beginning cell bank from a cell culture collection,
#First Artificial Ribosome Designed Scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University say they have engineered a tethered ribosome that works nearly as well as the authentic organelle that produces all the proteins and enzymes within the cell.
The artificial ribosome, called Ribo-T, was created in the laboratories of Alexander Mankin, Ph d.,director of the UIC College of Pharmacy's Center for Biomolecular Sciences
and Northwestern's Michael Jewett, Ph d.,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 Sierra leone Trial to Introduce a Vaccine against Ebola (STRIVE) Phase III study being conducted by the Sierra leone College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, Sierra leone Ministry of Health,
Now, bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed new technology they believe will dramatically increase heating and cooling speeds with the switch of a light."
senior author Luke Lee Ph d.,professor of bioengineering at UCLA, Berkeley.""It is done usually in a lab
#New record efficiency for black silicon solar cells Researchers at the University of Aalto, Finland have broken the efficiency record for black silicon solar cells a type of cell that can gather sunlight even from tight
Now, a team of researchers led by assistant professor Hele Savin has managed to get around the issue, and in so doing, it has increased the record efficiency of black silicon cells by almost four percentage points, up to 22.1 percent.
And now scientists at Northwestern University have created a machine that mimics this pumping mechanism. Their molecular pump is the world's first such machine developed entirely through chemical engineering in the laboratory,
These bionic prostheses are computerized smart limbs capable of real-time learning with the ability to adjust themselves to the wearer's gait as well as the walking speed and terrain."
Rainer Kling, associate professor at the Light Technology Institute of KIT. Electroluminescent panels are a very popular way to backlight a screen,
"Though Saarland University announced a prototype EL printing method earlier this year using ink jet-printers printers,
stem cell researcher at Canada's Mcmaster University Mick Bhatia caught our attention with a novel approach to creating blood stem cells from human skin stem cells.
Mcmaster University (PDF P
#Air2nitrous device claimed to cut vehicle exhaust emissions by 90 percent Driving an electric car that gives off no emissions is one of the best ways to reduce your personal transport carbon footprint.
when my biology classmate inhaled a little too much ether while mouth-pipetting. Using a beam of IR light invisible to the fly,
Associate professor of biology Mark Schnitzer and his team were even able to perform behavioral studies with the robot,
Stanford assistant professor Manu Prakash has spent almost a decade thinking about such a device, ever since he was a graduate student.
The many and varied components required of a fluidic computer have coalesced slowly in his mind over that time
Prakash and Stanford graduate student Georgios Katsikis constructed assortments of miniscule iron blocks on glass slides to act as physical logic gates.
and copper structures The method developed at the University of Twente in The netherlands involves microscopic drops created from a thin metal film that is melted by a pulsed laser.
University of Twent t
#3d printing breakthrough creates tiny metal structures The method developed at the University of Twente in The netherlands involves microscopic drops created from a thin metal film that is melted by a pulsed laser.
This precision melting allows microscopic metal drops to be placed onto a substrate and stacked to create high resolution metal structures.
#3d printed flutes hit the right notes Researchers at Australia's University of Wollongong (UOW) have created a number of 3d printed custom flutes that can play microtonal tunings otherwise unachievable with standard flutes,
"says UOW's Global Challenges, Manufacturing Innovation Leader, Professor Geoffrey Spinks.""We can see many applications moving forward with areas like custom-made instruments for people with physical restrictions,
student models for use by children where the instrument grows as they do customized instrument design where alternative designs can be printed and tested prior to production,
#Graphene used to create world's thinnest light bulb Researchers and engineers from Columbia University, Seoul National University (SNU),
"said James Hone, Professor of Mechanical engineering at Columbia.""This new type of'broadband'light emitter can be integrated into chips
"Not the first graphene light-bulb University of Manchester researchers lay claim to that but certainly the thinnest,
or catalysis."said Professor Hone. The results of this research were published recently in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have developed a technique to print images that uses the manipulation of light, rather than the application of ink,
"said Dr. Jie Gao, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&t. The nanoscale perforations used to provide this color are so small as to only be visible with the help of an electron microscope,
The students took inspiration from one of the more invasive and advanced treatment options: deep brain stimulation.
"From there, the students learned about an experimental clinical treatment called transcranial direct current stimulation, which involves low-level current being passed through electrodes on a patient's head.
The students essentially developed a portable version of the treatment one that could run off a battery
The students obtained provisional patents to cover STIMBAND's design, which is still a work in progress.
Another Johns Hopkins student team will take over development in September, with a likely additional feature being remote connectivity that allows a doctor to adjust a home patient's treatment levels from his or her office.
a specialist in ergonomics and product design at the University of Limerick in Ireland.""We want to develop a helper that supports production workers in their everyday work
and Radbound University, found that a material called niobium phosphide, which is a compound of transition metal niobium and phosphorus,
#Wonder-ink could soon let you 3d print objects out of stretchy graphene A new 3d printing ink being developed at Northwestern University could soon make it possible to build objects
Overtext Web Module V3.0 Alpha
Copyright Semantic-Knowledge, 1994-2011