#Microscopic Sonic Screwdriver Invented A team of engineers have created tiny acoustic vortices and used them to grip
The research by academics from the University of Bristol's Department of Mechanical engineering and Northwestern Polytechnical University in China, is published in Physical Review Letters.
Bruce Drinkwater, Professor of Ultrasonics in the Department of Mechanical engineering and one of the authors of the study
Dr Zhenyu Hong, of the Department of Applied Physics at Northwestern Polytechnical University in China, added:"
shape and orientation, said the paper's senior author, Michael Levin, Ph d.,Vannevar bush professor of biology and director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental biology.
Daniel Lobo/Michael Levin-Tufts University"Most regenerative models today derived from genetic experiments are arrow diagrams,
A team at the University of York isolated a rare subset of stem cells in bone marrow that
and researchers at Washington University School of medicine in St louis have identified a key player in that maintenance process.
"said senior author Albert H. Kim, MD, Phd, assistant professor of neurological surgery.""A successful brain cancer treatment will very likely require blocking the tumor stem cells'ability to survive
who treats patients at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of medicine.
says Professor Christof Wöll, Director of KIT Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG). his new application of metal-organic framework compounds is the beginning only.
Computations made by the group of Professor Thomas Heine from Jacobs University Bremen, which is involved also in the project,
What Your Clothes May Literally Say About You In the future Wearing a computer on your sleeve may be a lot cooler than a plastic watch with an Apple logo on it-researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have designed a responsive hybrid material fueled by an oscillatory chemical reactions.
distinguished professor of chemical and petroleum engineering, and Steven P. Levitan, Ph d.,John A. Jurenko professor of electrical and computer engineering, integrated models for self-oscillating polymer gels and piezoelectric micro-electric-mechanical systems to devise a new
reactive material system capable of performing computations without external energy inputs, amplification or computer mediation. The studies combine Balazs'research in Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) gels, a substance that oscillates in the absence of external stimuli,
By working with Dr. Victor V. Yashin, research assistant professor of chemical and petroleum engineering and lead author on the paper,
from everyday interaction with mobile phones to learning with computers and design work,"says GHOST coordinator Professor Kasper Hornbaek of the University of Copenhagen."
the University of Bristol, has spun off a startup, now employing 12 people, called Ultrahaptics, to develop technology being studied in GHOST that uses ultrasound to create feeling in mid-air.
"says senior study author Jeffrey Ravetch, professor of Molecular genetics and Immunology at Rockefeller University.""We believe these results may represent a preliminary step toward a universal flu vaccine,
S m. Lok at Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical school in Singapore; G. Fibriansah; T s. Ng;
S m. Lok at National University of Singapore in Singapore; K. D. Ibarra; E. Harris at University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, CA;
S. A. Smith; J. E. Crowe Jr. at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN; A m. de Silva at University of North carolina School of medicine in Chapel hill, NC C
#Gene therapy Restores Hearing In Deaf Mice Using gene therapy, researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical school have restored hearing in mice with a genetic form of deafness.
Their work, published online July 8 by the journal Science Translational Medicine, could pave the way for gene therapy in people with hearing loss caused by genetic mutations."
"Our gene therapy protocol is not yet ready for clinical trials--we need to tweak it a bit more
"says Jeffrey Holt, Phd, a scientist in the Department of Otolaryngology and F. M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Children's and an associate professor of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical school.
and we are delighted to be associated with this study program, "says Ernesto Bertarelli, co-chair of the Bertarelli Foundation, the primary funder of the research."
Suchitra Sebastian is University Lecturer in Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory at University of Cambridge.
It was observed by a team of researchers including Gilles Hickson, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal 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.
Rajesh Menon from the University of Utah, said in press release.""But that information has to be converted to electrons
"project coordinator Hele Savin from Aalto University in Finland said in a press release.""We have demonstrated that in winter Helsinki,
the researchers from Aalto University worked with a team from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain
This requires an intense amount of mental training by the patient, because their brain has to get used to their muscle tissue functioning in a completely different region of the body.
The idea came to University of Guelph public health researcher Christopher Charles, during a trip to Cambodia six years ago,
dry concrete and rubber sliding past each other have a friction coefficient of around 1. Tobias Schaetz, a physicist at the University of Freiburg in Germany,
A team from the University of Washington in the US has accomplished now this by simply changing the way a router broadcasts.
That's the suggestion being put forward by Michael Levin and Daniel Lobo, two computer scientists at Tufts University, Massachusetts in the US,
a group of international researchers led by Professor Charles Lieber of Harvard university have developed a method for injecting nanoscale electronic scaffolds into animal bodies.
director of the Neuro technology Centre at Columbia University in New york, told Nature. com. At this stage not everyone is confident the new procedure can be applied safely to human beings, however.
Jens Schouenborg, who is head of the Neuronano Research Centre at Lund University in Sweden,
#These tiny plastic chips can deliver therapeutic genes into cells A graduate student is developing a cost-effective new method of delivering desirable genes into human cells using a tiny plastic chip.
which is being developed by engineering Phd student Ryan Pawell from the University of New south wales (UNSW) in Australia,
an oncologist from Case Western Reserve University in the US, said in a press release.""We have developed a drug that acts like a vitamin for tissue stem cells,
and a team of engineers from Arizona State university in the US and Jinan University in China is the latest to show off their progress.
a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health in Maryland, told Linn.
#Researchers have worked out how to mind control cockroaches Engineering students in China have worked out how to control live cockroaches using a brain-to-brain interface technique,
essentially creating tiny biological robots that perform the will of their human masters. Using the interface,
the team of students from Shanghai Jiao Tong University describe how they fitted one of their team members with a bluetooth electroencephalogram (EEG) headset.
and created what the students call a"machine animal"."They've illustrated this process below:
A team at the University of Texas created similar mind-controlled cockroaches a few months ago,
The students from Shanghai believe their cockroaches could also be used to help map out complex terrains,
In a press release the students explain that their research"extended the traditional brain-computer interface technology
won second prize in the conference's student video competition. The team is are now planning to upgrade the control mode
#A deep learning machine just beat humans in an IQ TEST For the first time ever, a computer has outperformed humans in the verbal reasoning portion of an IQ TEST.
The machine was programmed by researchers in China using a technique known as deep learning, which involves converting data into a set of algorithms that a computer can make sense of.
"This is where the deep learning comes in. In the past, the furthest programmers had gotten was to build machines that were capable of analysing millions of millions of texts to figure out which words are associated often with each other,
The researchers, from the University of Science and Technology of China and Microsoft Research in Beijing, tried a different tack-they looked at words
and shows just how powerful deep learning can be. The strategy has also been used to teach computers how to beat us at 49 old-school Atari games,
"With appropriate uses of the deep learning technologies, we could be a further step closer to the true human intelligence,
"said senior researcher Scott Lowe from the Weill Cornell Medical College in New york . But his team may have now found a new way to fight the cancer type,
Now researchers at the University of Illinois in the US have found a much easier way to create a certain type of nanoparticle:
"explains bioengineering professor, Dipanjan Pan, who worked on the study alongside his colleague Rohit Bhargava.
biocompatible materials,"said one of the researchers, Zhen Gu, from the joint University of North carolina/NC State's Department of Biomedical engineering."
The toilets are currently being trailed in three locations around the wold-the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala
"Each of the nine subjects with disabilities managed to remotely control the robot with ease after less than 10 days of training,"lead researcher José del R. Millán,
#This new roof material stays colder than the air around it-even in summer Researchers from the Faculty of science, University of Technology Sydney (UTS Science) have created a material that can stay cooler than the ambient air
The lasers used by the team from the University of Tsukuba's Digital Nature Group (DNG) are special femtosecond lasers transmitting in bursts of 30 to 270 femtoseconds (1 femtosecond is a quadrillionth of a second
The technology has been developed by a team from England University of Bristol, led by chemist Duncan Wass,
or a military platoon, commented Anders Sandberg of the University of Oxford, who was involved not in the research. ut there no guarantee that brain-to-brain interfaces will be a sensible thing in practice.
Peter Mccormick from the University of East Anglia in the UK said in press release.""THC acts through a family of cell receptors called cannabinoid receptors.
surgical oncologist David Linehan from the University of Rochester Medical centre in the US told Elaine Schattner at Forbes. The key to the new blood test is a tiny,
"Through our work with the University of Auckland, we have been able to create a compact,
A team Eindhoven University of Technology investigated the potential of gallium phosphide (Gap), which is a compound of gallium and phosphide that also used in the production of red,
"The study was carried out over an 18-week period at the University of California, Los angeles (UCLA). Each of the five participants had been paralysed for at least two years before they were fitted with the stick-on electrodes,
and they underwent one 45-minute training session each week, during which the researchers asked them to remain passive
During the final four weeks of training, the men were given also a drug called buspirone,
a distinguished professor in biology and physiology at UCLA. The team backed up this hypothesis by recording the electrical signals generated in the men's calf muscles
if further noninvasive spinal stimulation and training can get them back on their feet-something that the four earlier patients who had implanted electrodes on their spines have achieved already
"The initial results of the study show that the vaccine can effectively contain the further spread of the Ebola virus,"the University of Bern in Switzerland,
University of Melbourne researchers say their discovery of the highly sought-after'nematic liquid crystals'can now lead to vastly improved organic solar cell performance.
Lead author Dr David Jones of the University's School of Chemistry and Bio 21 Institute, said these cells will be easier to manufacture,
The highly interdisciplinary project was carried out together with the Vienna University of Technology. Together Trilite and TU Vienna have created the first prototype.
Scaling it up to a display with many pixels is not a problem says Jrg Reitterer (Trilite Technologies and Phd-student in the team of Professor Ulrich Schmid at the Vienna University of Technology.
#Carbon nanotube finding could lead to flexible electronics with longer battery life Led by materials science Associate professor Michael Arnold
and Professor Padma Gopalan the team has reported the highest-performing carbon nanotube transistors ever demonstrated. In addition to paving the way for improved consumer electronics this technology could also have specific uses in industrial and military applications.
In a paper published recently in the journal ACS Nano Arnold Gopalan and their students reported transistors with an on-off ratio that's 1000 times better and a conductance that's 100 times better than previous state-of-the-art carbon nanotube transistors.
The work was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation as well as grants from the UW-Madison Center of Excellence for Materials Research and Innovation the U s army Research Office the National Science Foundation Graduate
Additional authors on the ACS Nano paper include UW-Madison materials science and engineering graduate students Gerald Brady Yongho Joo and Matthew Shea and electrical and computer engineering graduate student Meng-Yin
It was fabricated in the Penn State Nanofabrication Laboratory by doctoral student Lan Lin and characterized by doctoral student Ding Ma.
Co-authors include Seokho Yun, a former postdoctoral scholar in the Penn State Electrical engineering Department, Douglas H. Werner, John L. and Genevieve H. Mccain Chair Professor of Electrical engineering
, Zhiwen Liu, associate professor of electrical engineering, and Theresa Mayer, Distinguished Professor of Electrical engineering. The paper is titled"Broadband and Wide field-of-view Plasmonic Metasurface-enabled Waveplates."
"This work was supported by the National Science Foundation through Penn State's Center for Nanoscale Science e
#Tattoo-like sensor can detect glucose levels without painful finger prick Scientists have developed the first ultra-thin,
A Northwestern University collaboration has developed a novel microfluidic device that allows for electroporation of stem cells during differentiation
Developed by Horacio Espinosa, the James and Nancy Farley Professor of Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship at the Mccormick School of engineering,
and John Kessler, the Ken and Ruth Davee Professor of Stem Cell biology at the Feinberg School of medicine, the localized electroporation device (LEPD) can be applied to adherent cells,
The study appears in the early online edition of the peer-reviewed Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
The retrospective study included 865 liver cancer patients who had transplants between 1984 and 2013 said study first author Dr. Vatche G. Agopian an assistant professor of surgery in the division
Hamilton Moses III M d. of the Alerion Institute and Alerion Advisors LLC North Garden Va. and Johns Hopkins School of medicine Baltimore and colleagues examined developments over the past two decades
and creates an environment that enables innovation write Victor J. Dzau M d. of the Institute of Medicine Washington D c. and Harvey V. Fineberg M d. Ph d. of the University of California San francisco in an accompanying editorial.
The needed changes include better coordination across funders and research institutions development of new funding sources improved grant evaluation processes changes in education and training rationalization of capital
and Reinhard Nesper professor emeritus of chemistry have made now a discovery. Over the course of their several years of research they discovered a material that may have the potential to double battery capacity:
Afyon currently works as a project leader in a research consortium led by Jennifer Rupp professor of electrochemical materials focused on developing an innovative solid-state battery.
#Robots learn to use kitchen tools by watching Youtube videos Researchers at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) partnered with a scientist at the National Information Communications technology Research Centre
and understands it said Yiannis Aloimonos UMD professor of computer science and director of the Computer Vision Lab one of 16 labs and centers in UMIACS.
The work also relies on a specialized software architecture known as deep-learning neural networks. While this approach is not new it requires lots of processing power to work well
Self learning robots could gather the necessary information by watching others which is the same way humans learn.
#Researchers develop new instrument to monitor atmospheric mercury Researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine
UM Rosenstiel School Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Anthony Hynes and colleagues tested the new mobile instrument
and fears among those affected and their families says lead investigator Uzma Samadani MD Phd assistant professor in the Departments of Neurosurgery Psychiatry Neuroscience and Physiology at NYU Langone.
whom the NYU School of medicine has an affiliation agreement. They tracked and compared the movements of patients'pupils for over 200 seconds while watching a music video.
All participants were between 18 and 60 years of age. The study showed that 13 trauma patients who had hit their heads
and professor and chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at University of Washington Medicine and co-chair of the Head Neck and Spine Committee of the National Football league.
Also lending third-party support for Dr. Samadani's research is M. Sean Grady MD the Charles Harrison Frazier Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Perelman School of medicine at the University
When 11 year old Naomi Lalandec walked into Dr. Robert Koenekoop's clinic at the Montreal Children's Hospital of the Mcgill University Health Centre (MUHC) with blindness and dwarfism due to
who is also a researcher at the Research Institute of the MUHC and a Professor of Human genetics, Paediatric Surgery and Ophthalmology at Mcgill University."
including Dr. Michel Cayouette at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM), Dr. Doris Kretzschmar at the Oregon Health and Science University, Dr. Jacek Majewski
from the Mcgill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre and more than 30 others from around the world.
and Dr. Cayouette,"said Dr. Mary Sunderland, Director of research & Education at the Foundation Fighting Blindness."
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen are behind the breakthrough, which has great potential. The development and quality of extremely small electronic circuits are critical to how
"says Associate professor Thomas Sand Jespersen, who has worked in the field for more than 10 years, ever since research into nanowire crystals has existed at the Nanoscience Center at the Niels Bohr Institute.
"explains Assistant professor Peter Krogstrup, who has worked hard in the laboratory to develop the contact. Chips with billions of nanowire hybrids In their publication in Nature Materials, the research group has demonstrated this perfect contact
Both Peter Krogstrup and Thomas Sand Jespersen is part of The Center for Quantum Devices led by Professor Charles Marcus,
or something blocking the object that causes a systematic error in the detector says Lawson Wong a graduate student in electrical engineering
Wong and his thesis advisors--Leslie Kaelbling the Panasonic Professor of Computer science and Engineering and Toms Lozano-Prez the School of engineering Professor of Teaching Excellence--considered scenarios in which they had 20 to 30
and then bring them together explains Faraz Najafi a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and first author on the new paper.
or hundreds of photonic qubits it becomes unwieldy to do this using traditional optical components says Dirk Englund the Jamieson Career development Assistant professor in Electrical engineering and Computer science at MIT and corresponding author on the new paper.
which is led by Karl Berggren an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and of which Najafi is a member.
Transforming planar materials into 3-D microarchitectures Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a unique process for geometrically transforming two dimensional (2d) micro/nanostructures into extended 3d layouts
a Swanlund Chair and professor of materials science and engineering at Illinois."We have presented a remarkably simple route to 3d that starts with planar precursor structures formed in nearly any type of material,
and Yonggang Huang and Yihui Zhang (Northwestern University
#Neuroprosthetics for paralysis: Biocompatible flexible implant slips into the spinal cord EPFL scientists have managed to get rats walking on their own again using a combination of electrical and chemical stimulation.
This is precisely what the teams of professors Stéphanie Lacour and Grégoire Courtine have developed. Their e-Dura implant is designed specifically for implantation on the surface of the brain or spinal cord.
allowing the rats to regain the ability to walk on their own again after a few weeks of training."
The development, by researchers at The University of Manchester, will allow noninvasive detection of the origin of heart problems
Professor Henggui Zhang describes how the new algorithm had a success rate of 94%.%Using 3d computer modelling of the human heart,
Henggui Zhang, Professor of Biological Physics at The University of Manchester and lead author of the study,
Tracy C. Grikscheit MD a principal investigator in The Saban Research Institute of CHLA and its Developmental biology and Regenerative medicine program is also a pediatric surgeon at Children's Hospital Los angeles and an assistant professor of surgery at the Keck School of medicine
of the University of Southern California. Grikscheit aims to help her most vulnerable young patients including babies who are born prematurely
We believe it will soon be possible to distribute quantum information between any two points on the globe said lead author Manjin Zhong from the Research School of Physics and Engineering (RSPE) at The Australian National University (ANU.
The team of physicists at ANU and the University of Otago stored quantum information in atoms of the rare earth element europium embedded in a crystal.
and prevent the quantum information leaking away said Dr Jevon Longdell of the University of Otago.
We have had never before the possibility to explore quantum entanglement over such long distances said Associate professor Matthew Sellars leader of the research team.
Resilience to extreme conditions Researchers from the University of Exeter have discovered that Graphexeter--a material adapted from the'wonder material'graphene--can withstand prolonged exposure to both high temperature and humidity.
Lead researcher University of Exeter engineer Dr Monica Craciun said: This is an exciting development in our journey to help Graphexeter revolutionize the electronics industry.
Dr Saverio Russo also from the University of Exeter added: The superior stability of Graphexeter as compared to graphene was unexpected
In 2012 the teams of Dr Craciun and Profesor Russo from the University of Exeter's Centre for Graphene science discovered that sandwiched molecules of ferric chloride between two graphene layers make a whole new system that is the best known transparent
Senegal, the Public health Institute of Guinea, the University of Stirling, Robert Koch Institute, and Twistdx Ltd.
"From 216 applications, this project was one of six selected for funding by The british Enhancing Learning
professor in the Department of chemistry and core member of the Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics at Georgia State, organized a research team,
including graduate students Lu Huo, Ian Davis, Fange Liu and Shingo Esaki, and researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Kansai University in Osaka,
Japan. They used new scientific techniques, including time-lapse crystallography and single-crystal spectroscopy, to slow down the reaction rate by nearly 10,000 times.
They will partner with Dr. Andy Miller, director of psychiatry at Emory University, to determine the physiological application of this pathway in humans s
Co-first author Alice Eunjung Lee, Phd, from the lab of Peter Park, Phd, at the Center for Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical school, developed the study's retrotransposon analysis tool,
That was the first description of hevin's function in the nervous system said Eroglu an assistant professor of cell biology and neurobiology and a member of the Duke Institute for Brain sciences.
and Daniel Wilton and Beth Stevens of Boston Children's Hospital Department of Neurology Harvard Medical school.
Now, researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have uncovered a key gene that may explain this paradox
. Ruth Tuttle Freeman Research Professor of radiation oncology and radiology and co-director of the Center for Molecular Imaging at the University of Michigan Medical school. ub1 is well-known for its role in cell division.
The team of researchers at the University of Michigan, including Shyam Nyati, Ph d, . and Brian D. Ross,
#New cells may help treat diabetes In the new study published Jan 28 in the journal PLOS ONE the UI team led by Nicholas Zavazava MD Phd UI professor of internal medicine reprogrammed human skin cells
Professor of Ultrasonics at the University of Bristol and Dr Mike Macdonald at the University of Dundee is published in the journal, Optics Express.
Professor Drinkwater from the Department of Mechanical engineering said:""This reconfigurability can happen extremely fast, limited only by the speed of the sound waves.
Dr Mike Macdonald, Head of the Biophotonics research group at the University of Dundee, explained:"
"Professor Drinkwater added:""The number of applications of this new technology is vast. Optical devices are everywhere
I. Shulman the George R. Cowgill professor of medicine and cellular & molecular physiology--developed a novel method to measure the rate of triglyceride production from fatty acids in three types of animals:
when we can use ipscs for human therapy aren't that far away says Zhaohui Ye Ph d. an instructor of medicine at the Johns hopkins university School of medicine.
Linzhao Cheng Ph d. a professor of medicine and oncology in the Johns hopkins university School of medicine; and their colleagues pitted CRISPR against TALEN in human ipscs adult cells reprogrammed to act like embryonic stem cells.
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