#Researchers Discover Initiation Mechanism for Dendritic Spines Researchers from the University of Helsinki, ETH Zürich,
Furthermore, this will help us to understand the molecular basis of learning, as new spines are initiated readily during learning,
says project leader Pirta Hotulainen from the Neuroscience Center of the University of Helsinki. This research has been collaboration between many distinct research groups combining cell biology to neuroscience. o sole research group could have achieved such a comprehensive view of the dendritic spine initiation mechanism and show its importance for the brain function
says Pirta Hotulainen
#Planarian Regeneration Model Discovered by Artificial intelligence An artificial intelligence system has for the first time reverse-engineered the regeneration mechanism of planariahe small worms
The discovery by Tufts University biologists presents the first model of regeneration discovered by a nonhuman intelligence and the first comprehensive model of planarian regeneration,
. Vannevar bush professor of biology and director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental biology. ost regenerative models today derived from genetic experiments are arrow diagrams,
Professor of Chemistry, an international team of researchers has developed a method of fabricating nanoscale electronic scaffolds that can be injected via syringe.
also known as Lou Gehrig disease, has been discovered by scientists at the CHUM Research Centre and the University of Montreal.
and trigger the disease, said Alex Parker, CRCHUM researcher and associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Montreal.
lead investigator and doctoral student under the supervision of Alex Parker. Results were remarkable. orms with an immune deficit resulting from the tir-1 gene mutation were in better health
All authors are affiliated with the CHUM Research Centre and the University of Montreal: Julie Veriepe, Lucresse Fossouo and J. Alex Parker.
University of Montrealimage Credit: The image is credited to the NIHORIGINAL Research: Abstract for eurodegeneration in C. elegans models of ALS requires TIR-1/Sarm1 immune pathway activation in neuronsby Julie Vérièpe, Lucresse Fossouo and J Alex Parker
says Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, M d.,a professor of neurosurgery, neuroscience and oncology at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine and the clinical leader of the research team. e think optical coherence tomography has strong potential for helping surgeons know exactly where to cut.
First developed in the early 1990s for imaging the retina, optical coherence tomography (OCT) operates on the same echolocation principle used by bats and ultrasound scanners,
. a professor of biomedical engineering, has been working to further develop and apply the technology to other organs beyond the relatively transparent eye.
Carmen Kut, an M d./Ph d. student working in Li lab, thought OCT might provide a solution to the problem of separating brain cancers from other tissue during surgery.
In a recent study, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain sciences in Leipzig, the University of Amsterdam and INSERM Caen have pinpointed the location of musical memory for the first time
says Jörn-Henrik Jacobsen, scientist at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig and the University of Amsterdam.
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. e
However, scientists at the Swedish Medical Nanoscience Centre (SMNC) at Karolinska Institutet Department of Neuroscience in collaboration with colleagues at Linköping University, have created now an organic bioelectronic device that is capable of receiving chemical signals,
professor of cellular microbiology. he sensing component of the artificial neuron senses a change in chemical signals in one dish,
. 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,
Now, researchers from the Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai have discovered that histones are replaced steadily in brain cells throughout life a process
described in a study led by researchers in the Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics at the Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai,
and at the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics, The Rockefeller University, was published today in the journal Neuron.
Assistant professor of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics at the Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai. y identifying this new mechanism of epigenetic regulation,
David Slotnick Icahn School of medicine at Mount Sinaiimage Credit: Image is credited to Zephyris and is licensed CC BY-SA 3. 0original Research:
Despite such accumulation, H3. 3-containing nucleosomes remain highly dynamicn a modification-independent mannero control neuronal-and glial-specific gene expression patterns throughout life.
#Novel Disease Gene Linked to Neurodegenerative Disorders Identified Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) have discovered
Ph d. student in Neuroscience at the UM Miller School of medicine and first author of the study. lthough we study rare diseases such as CMT2 and optic atrophy,
assistant professor of Biology in the UM College of Arts and Sciences and a senior author of the study. hese data support a critical role for SLC25A46 and mitochondrial dynamics in the establishment and maintenance of neuronal processes.
said Dr. Stephan Züchner, professor and chair of the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human genetics, at UM Miller School of medicine,
said Dr Kevin Harrington, professor of biological cancer therapies at the Institute of Cancer Research London (ICR),
Professor Paul Workman, Chief executive of the ICR, said in a statement, e may normally think of viruses as the enemies of mankind,
#Aussie student proves existence of plasma tubes floating above Earth AN AUSTRALIAN scientist has discovered that giant, invisible,
but a University of Sydney undergraduate student Cleo Loi, 23, has proven that the phenomenon exists.
I guess being a student and being a bit stubborn, I was so curious, so mystified. was careful about
As an undergraduate student with no prior background in this, that is an impressive achievement, said Dr Murphy, also of CAASTRO and the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. hen they first saw the data,
Founder Bob Roohparvar, a computer science professor at California State university, likened the technology a tube of toothpaste. f you just squeeze from the top,
Desmond Ramirez and Todd Oakley of the University of California at Santa barbara shone light on samples of skin from the octopus and within around 6 seconds,
A charitably funded team at the universities of Oxford and Leicester has started a project called Endangered Archaeology of the Middle east and North africa.
AAAA or TTTT,"says Millie Georgiadis of Indiana University in Indianapolis. Because of the way they are joined together Romesberg's bases can't form such long runs.
says team member Vamsi Talla from the University of Washington in Seattle. When someone is browsing the web,
says Ben Potter at the University of Reading, UK.""Where we're heading is to have more sensors in everything around us,
"says Daniel Weiss at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, who works on lung regeneration."
"says Steve Badylak of the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, who has used grafts built on scaffolds made from pig muscle to rebuild damaged leg muscles in 13 people."
"says Oskar Aszmann of the Medical University of Vienna in Austria, inventor of a bionic hand that people can control through their own thoughtsmovie Camera."
David Matthews at Bristol University in the UK thinks the best use of Virscan might lie outside of diagnostics,
says Pamela Vallely at the University of Manchester, UK.""If we'd have had this test during the HIV outbreak in the 1980s,
Trine Olsen and Frederik Ekholm Gaardsted Christensen, students from the University of South Denmark in Odense, made the discovery
Raghu Kalluri of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston found that there is so much more glypican-1 in people with pancreatic cancer that a blood test can be used to accurately distinguish them from both healthy controls and people with the disease pancreatitis."
In 2011, Luc Douay at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France, and his colleagues performed the first small transfusion of such lab-grown red blood cells into human volunteers.
"This whole levitation thing exploits unusual magnetic properties of very weird elements,"says William Grover of the University of California Riverside.
The revelation has come from work led by Andrei Sommer of the University of Ulm in Germany. var ord=window. ord Math. floor (Math. random()*10e12;
"says Horst-Dieter Försterling of the Philipp University of Marburg in Germany.""This is the first explanation of how the light might work."
says Matja Humar of Harvard Medical school. The feat allows cells to be labelled and monitored more accurately,
Humar results echo research published last week by Malte Gather and his group at the University of St andrews
For instance, you have your gut-on-a-chip being developed at the Johns Hopkins School of medicine. It's a high-tech approach to dealing with a scourge of the low-tech world."
but that the pattern fits into one described by Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen in The Innovator's Dilemma-a low-cost low-quality alternative that slowly improves until it has claimed the bulk of an industry's customers s
In 2000, a high school student named Michael Calce, who went by the online handle Mafiaboy,
In 2000, he launched the hack that made him famous first taking over a handful of university networks,
the university networks all respond at the same exact time and basically overwhelm websites with too much information,
"This is exactly the area of the brain that is involved with learning and memory,"says Berislav Zlokovic, the study's senior author and director of the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute at the University of Southern California.
The study, published in Neuron, also found that blood vessels in the hippocampus tend to become leakier in all people as they age.
But George Church a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical school, has created a bacterium that requires an additional amino acid,
"said Farren Isaacs, an assistant professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at Yale university. Isaacs left Church's lab at Harvard to start his own at Yale.
preliminary results of this vaccine trial from Guinea,"says Dr. Jesse Goodman, an infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University, who once led vaccine development at the U s. Food and Drug Administration.
including the Mayo Clinic, Stanford university and the University of Oxford. Levine said the Food and Drug Administration initially wanted to take a"watch
At the University of California, San francisco, a team of researchers in the cardiology division are hoping to use the Living Heart Project to figure out the best time to replace patients'heart valves.
a Syracuse University team funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), wasn't specifically looking for them.
According to Syracuse physicist Sheldon Stone, graduate student Nathan Jurik was studying the decay of a different particle
"We asked a graduate student to examine what we thought was an uninteresting and minor source of background events,
"said LHCB physicist Tomasz Skwarnicki of Syracuse University, whose research group was a leader in the analysis."More precisely the states must be formed of two up quarks, one down quark, one charm quark and one anti-charm quark."
which supports the research through nine awards to scientists from Syracuse University, the University of Maryland College Park, the Massachusetts institute of technology and the University of Cincinnati working at the Large hadron collider."
The first contract is led by 3ds, in partnership with the University of Delaware Center for Composite Manufacturing,
"In traditional approaches, where the image of a fixation target passes through only one point of the pupil
if the edge of their pupil is occluding the image of the retina.""The key development behind eyeselfie involves the idea of"virtual pinholes,
and produced at their pupil. A novel interactive ray-based approach developed by the team allows images with the same field-of-view to be projected onto the retina simultaneously,
but pass through a different part of the eye's cornea, pupil and lens. Lateral and axial movement of the eye is perceived then by the user as a shift in this pattern of pinhole light."
which the patient's pupil must remain in order to sample all desired ray angles. Traditional systems, including applications found outside ophthalmology in head-mounted displays,
and accounting for differences in pupil size and corneal shape was another important consideration. With those hurdles now tackled,
a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering and the senior author on the Science paper. ur approach conditions the information before it is sent even,
first author on the paper and a UCSD electrical engineering Phd student. he frequency comb ensured that the system did not accumulate the random distortions that make it impossible to reassemble the original content at the receiver. he laboratory experiments involved setups with both three and five optical channels,
has been developed by scientists at the University of Warwick, UK. Called Q-Eye, the invention senses radiation across the terahertz (THZ) region of the spectrum between microwaves and infrared.
Professors in Warwick Nano-Silicon Group, Physics department, Evan Parker and Terry Whall, led the team
Professor Parker commented, e were surprised very when our first very crude prototype showed such impressive speed
Professors Parker and Whall are currently working on a demonstrator of the device having been awarded a £100,
the university technology transfer business, has helped the professors to create a spin out company, Q-Eye Ltd,
Professor Parker told opitcs. org, erry Whall and myself are excited about this new company. We anticipate that our terahertz device will have applications in personal security, scanning and various medical sectors.
Professor Parker continued e are hopeful that it will become a significant undertaking; it early days and we are an early-stage company.
#Improved, cheaper hybrid solar cell material created Researchers at Lithuania Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) Organic chemistry department have developed a new semiconductor material,
The work of the Kaunas team, led by Professor Vytautas Getautis, head of the chemistry research group,
%Professor Getautis commented, he material created by us is considerably cheaper and the process of its synthesis is complicated less than that of the currently-used analog material.
will hopefully bring financial gain for the university. c
#Meet the LHC Latest Discovery, the Long-Sought Pentaquark The Large hadron collider, the world most powerful particle accelerator, has given physicists yet another gifthysical proof of the existence of the pentaquark,
The algorithm gives rise to a new branch of artificial intelligence, known as deep learning. The researchers chose Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks (BRETT) to take up a challenge of dealing with a relatively promising form of artificial intelligence called deep structured learning.
The researchers have claimed that smaller amount of pre-programming is required when the algorithm is used in the robot.
an associate professor in the campus electrical engineering and computer sciences department, developed the new algorithm. Abbeel said the best thing about the technique is that it rids the need of reprogramming
#New Algorithm enables Robot to Learn through Trial and error UC Berkeley's BRETT (Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks) is capable of learning through trial and error, like humans.
was used to allow the robot to learn all the different tasks we gave it said UC Berkeley Professor Pieter Abbeel.
According to Trevor Darrell, director of the Berkeley Vision and Learning Center, it is very essential to empower robots to learn
A team of Columbia Engineering researchers under the guidance of an Indian-American associate professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, Latha Venkataraman have designed this single-molecule electronic device
Brian Capozzi, Phd student working with Venkataraman and lead author of the paper stated that
Richard Kock, a professor at the Royal Veterinary College in London who recently returned from Kazakhstan,
Kock from the Royal Veterinary College in London said that the government has showed commitment to help resolve the issue.
According to Ian Lipkin, a professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University
This prosthetic limb, invented by Professor Hubert Egger from the University of Linz in Austria is fitted with six sensors
Professor Egger who is credited also with the development of a mind-controlled prosthetic arm in 2010,
The lucky recipient, Wolfang Rangger is a former teacher who lost his right leg in 2007 after a cerebral stroke.
Stanford assistant professor Manu Prakash was working on an interesting project and he developed the computer which could run with water.
Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, MD, PHD, co-director of the Center for Neuroengineering at the Duke university School of medicine and principal investigator for the study,
who is also a professor at Rice university, have formed successfully a heterojunction solar cell using germanium QDS on an ordinary n-type silicon wafer.
Developed by Columbia University professor Dr. Elizabeth Hillman and graduate student Matthew Bouchard, swept confocally aligned planar excitation (SCAPE) microscopy involves simplified equipment
Together they are being used to peer into the microenvironment of tumors and other tissues while learning about the coregistration of multiple lines of imaging data."
versus images of a live subject,"said Zhen Liu, a doctoral candidate from the department of nuclear medicine at the Technical University of Munich."
researchers at Lehigh University have reported creating waveguides with a loss of 2. 64 db/cm at 1530 nm."
"said professor Himanshu Jain.""With the quality of our crystal, we have crossed the threshold for the idea to be useful.
Courtesy of Lehigh University. The fabrication technique involves focusing femtosecond pulses inside a glass substrate to selectively melt regions and turn them into crystal.
"said professor Volkmar Dierolf.""With our crystal, it is possible to do this in 3-D
"said Columbia University engineering professor James Hone.""This new type of broadband light emitter can be integrated into chips
"said Yun Daniel Park, professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Seoul National University. The group is now working to further characterize the performance of these devices for example,
University of Science and Technology (POSTECH. The research was published in Nature Nanotechnology (doi: 10.1038/nnano. 2015.118.
and isn't,"said professor Xingdi Li. So far the system has been tested on fresh human brain tissue removed during surgeries
"said Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, a professor of neurosurgery, neuroscience and oncology at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine and the clinical leader of the research team."
said doctoral student Carmen Kut. She is working on combining OCT with a different imaging technique that would detect blood vessels to help surgeons avoid cutting them.
Developed at the University of Strathclyde in the U k. and licensed to Kenall Manufacturing Co. Inc,
Courtesy of the University of Strathclyde. The lights can be used to inactivate a range of microorganisms that are known causes of hospital-acquired infections,
#Boron Turns Graphene into Blue light Emitter FRANKFURT, Germany, July 14, 2015 Chemists at Goethe University Frankfurt have developed a new class of organic luminescent materials through the targeted introduction of boron
Courtesy of Goethe University Frankfurt. The boron-containing nanographenes have an impact on two key properties of an OLED luminophore
"said professor Matthias Wagner. In recent years, he said, researchers have become much more capable in their abilities to modify the inner structures by embedding foreign atoms within the carbon network."
every nanosecond,"said postdoctoral scholar Jianbo Hu.""To go even faster, people have started to use femtosecond lasers,
just because of the physics of these phase-change materials,"said postdoctoral scholar Giovanni Vanacore.""It's something that cannot be solved technologically it's fundamental."
#Optical Glucose Sensors on Commercial Path Optical Glucose Sensors on Commercial Pathleeds, England, July 17, 2015 A University of Leeds spin out company is seeking to commercialize an optical glucose sensor that could make finger
"said Leeds professor Gin Jose, who developed the technology.""This will allow people to self-regulate
"The results of a pilot clinical study, carried out at the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine under the supervision of professor Peter Grant,
and funded by the University of Leeds and Netscientific PLC, a biomedical and health care technology group specializing in commercializing technologies from universities and research institutes.
Funding for the initial feasibility study came from the National Institute for Health Research; the work was supported also by the U k. Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council and University of Leeds Research and Innovation Services c
#Microlens Array Spawns Massive Microscope Image A new multispectral device is said to have produced the largest microscope image ever,
and smaller,"said Antony Orth, a former Harvard university researcher now at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia."
a microbiologist at Delft University of Technology, is working on a concrete with built-in bacteria that can fill in cracks as they form.
Researchers at Harvard Medical school and Technicolor have led the charge in storing data within DNA. DNA, instead of having two binary options,
Harvard professor of genetics George Church previously used this DNA method to print 70 million copies of his book to DNA, fitting all that data in a drop of liquid,
Now researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have found a way to 3d print objects from cellulose,
a professor of biopolymer technology at Chalmers and one of the study authors, envisions a huge range of applications for products printed with cellulose."
Studies showed that 69 percent of the test subjects were able to identify an object using the Brainport device after a year of training.
The team at the University of Central Florida created a 1mm-sized"Afghan Girl"image
says Chunlei Guo, professor of optics and physics at the University of Rochester, but the study should help in designing future femtosecond laser displays.
including the University of Hawaii, who independently verified that the generators were working and supplying power to the grid.
The patient is required then to go through six months of training before being fitted with a customized prosthetic.
#Stretchy Sensors Remind You to Take a Break from the Sun Researchers at RMIT University in Australia have developed stretchy sensors that detect harmful UV radiation and toxic gases such as hydrogen and nitrogen dioxide.
It follows the university Micronano Research Facility breakthrough in bendable electronics, which has helped paved the way for flexible mobile phones.
In learning of the daily pollution problem, it became apparent that the suit should double as solution for cleaner air.
a 29-year old industrial engineer and graduate of Loughborough University. The technology is optimal for high-traffic pathways.
'With more sites, a focus on education, and an opportunity to build our collection networks together,
"said Professor Nathan Intrator, a bio signal expert and chief technology officer for Nuvo Group.
Nuvo Group's advisory board member Professor Simcha Yagel, who also heads the division of obstetrics and gynecology at Hadassah,
Hebrew University Medical centers, said the electrocardiogram (ECG) provides the added value to the device.""I think the new achievement of Nuvo is in the field of detection of the ECG traces of the fetus,
so the learning curve is hardly a learning curve any more, "he said. The arms themselves might not look polished
engineers and designers who met on a joint course run by Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art.
They say doppel was tested also independently by psychologists at Royal Holloway University of London; with their controlled tests showing the device can improve alertness when correctly set to the user's preference.
It's better than x-ray vision, according to Dr. Samuel Achilefu, a professor of radiology at Washington University,
The optofluidic implant developed by the team from Washington University School of medicine and the University of Illinois was found to damage
and displace much less brain tissue than the metal tubes, or cannulas, scientists typically use to inject drugs.
J. Watson Research center and Mark Ratner of New york University. Scientists have since been exploring the charge-transport properties of molecules.
team member Brian Capozzi, a Phd student at Columbia University. In order to overcome the issues associated with asymmetric molecular design,
for example, said study co-author Dr Gilles Hickson from the University of Montreal, Canada. Working with fruit fly cells, Dr Hickson and co-authors discovered that chromosomes emit signals that influence the cortex of the cell to reinforce microtubule action.
and engineers, led by Dr Kyu-Jin Cho of Seoul National University in Korea, has created an insect-like robot that can jump on water surfaces.
Harper and colleagues in the Department of Urology and Applied Physics laboratory at the University of Washington have invented a new way to facilitate kidney stone passage
and buttons and computers,"said María Luz Rodríguez-Méndez, a professor of inorganic chemistry at University of Valladolid in Spain."
a professor of chemistry at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Anheuser-busch, for example, probably wants to make sure that every bottle of Bud Light tastes the same before it hits grocery and liquor store coolers.
The study was published by researchers from Cardiff University, The Open university, the University of Manchester, the University of California
the San francisco School of medicine and King College, London. It was funded by Asthma UK, the Cardiff Partnership Fund, Marie Curie Initial Training Network, the Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council and the US National institutes of health t
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