However, scientists at the Swedish Medical Nanoscience Centre (SMNC) at Karolinska Institutet in collaboration with collegues at Linköping University, have created now an organic bioelectronic device that is capable of receiving chemical signals,
"says lead investigator Agneta Richter-Dahlfors, professor of cellular microbiology.""The sensing component of the artificial neuron senses a change in chemical signals in one dish,
and is now a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Professor Aaron Wheeler. Ng and his team's method allows the scientists to deliver a quick-fire sequence of chemicals to small groups of cells stuck to the surface of the board.
or action,"says Dean Chamberlain, a postdoctoral researcher at IBBME, the Donnelly Centre and the Department of chemistry.
resulting in two different resonance frequencies for both orthogonal polarizations"explains Matthias Mader, Phd student at the experiment."
"explained Ting Lu, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Illinois."Simultaneously, it provides a powerful tool for guiding strain design and protocol optimization,
researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of engineering have designed a responsive hybrid material that is fueled by an oscillatory chemical reaction
Ph d.,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. Their research,"Achieving synchronization with active hybrid materials:
By working with Dr. Victor V. Yashin, research assistant professor of chemical and petroleum engineering and lead author on the paper,
continuously becomes commercially available in North america Indigo-Clean#is a light fixture manufactured through an exclusive licensing agreement with the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland,
We are proud that the University of Strathclyde selected Kenall to commercialize this in the U s,
The HINS-light project was voted U k. Research Project of the Year in 2011 by Times Higher education magazine.
but also an accumulation of partly deleted mtdna molecules. These alterations cause impaired energy production in the cells and therefore, lead to the disease.
Arrayclark Johnson, a professor of geoscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and former postdoctoral researcher Weiqiang Li examined samples from the banded iron formation in Western australia.
who is currently at Nanjing University in China, show that half of the iron in banded iron was metabolized by ancient bacteria living along the continental shelves.
and research at this university, geomicrobiology gives you the answer. It has turned completely geoscience on its ear
an associate professor of physics and astronomy who led the research effort at MSU.""This combination allows many unusual properties,
City College of New york researchers led by chemist George John have developed an eco-friendly biodegradable green"herding"agent that can be used to clean up light crude oil spills on water.
According to John, professor of chemistry in City College's Division of Science,"the best known chemical herders are chemically stable, non-biodegradable,
a professor of chemical engineering in CCNY's Benjamin Levich Institute for Physicochemical Hydrodynamics who participated in the study.
John's research team also included Deeksha Gupta, a postdoctoral student now at the Royal Society of Chemistry,
and Vijay John of Tulane University. Their finding will be published in the June 26 issue of Science Advances.
The above post is reprinted from materials provided by City College of New york. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
and well-being of patients suffering from chronic diseases such as hepatitis C,"said IBN Executive director Professor Jackie Y. Ying.
The T-cell repertoire is shaped by"education"that occurs in the thymus. A huge number of immature T cells, each of which can recognize a single antigen,
The research group of Professor Shigeo Murata at the University of Tokyo Graduate school of Pharmaceutical Sciences used mass spectroscopy, capable of identifying unknown substances,
"says Professor Murata a
#New method for rapid authentication of edible oils and screening of gutter oils Researchers in Hong kong have developed a new method for rapid authentication of edible oils and screening of gutter oils.
The Food safety and Technology Research Centre under the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology of The Hong kong Polytechnic University (Polyu) has developed a new method for rapid authentication of edible oils and screening
the UNC School of medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Department of Genetics. e found that AIM2 inhibits tumorigenesis in multiple animal models of colorectal cancer by restricting the pro-survival signaling molecule, Akt,
Distinguished Professor in the UNC School of medicine Department of Genetics and a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member.
David A. Horsley, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, Davis. He is a director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center,
which is located on the campuses of UC Davis and the University of California, Berkeley and is directed co by Professor Bernhard Boser at UC Berkeley."
"After Apple announced a fingerprint sensor in their new iphone in 2013, it was inevitable that more would follow,
"Luckily, we recruited a group of exceptional students to realize our vision, as well as partners within the industry--our co-authors at Invensense Inc
#Biodegradable, flexible silicon transistors Now researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have come up with a new solution to alleviate the environmental burden of discarded electronics.
"said Zhenqiang Ma, the team leader and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UW-Madison."
a UCLA associate professor of electrical engineering who was the research project's principal investigator. Researchers from MIT
Columbia University, the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology were also part of the team.
"We are fortunate to verify a decades-old theoretical prediction by Professor Jeff Shapiro of MIT,
"Co-authors on the paper are Sajan Shrestha, Xinan Xu and Junlin Liang, prior students and postdoctoral scientists at Columbia with Wong;
Tian Zhong, professors Jeffrey Shapiro and Franco N c. Wong of MIT; Yan-Xiao Gong of Southeast University in Nanjing, China;
and Joshua Bienfang and Alessandro Restelli, affiliated with both the University of Maryland and the NIST.
The work was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency y
#Chemists characterize 3-D macroporous hydrogels Arraythe 3dom hydrogels contain a network of interconnected pores with uniform size.
a doctoral student in Matyjaszewski's lab."The pores can hold large amounts of water, but if you remove this water to study them,
"said Matyjaszewski, the J. C. Warner University Professor of Natural sciences.""Well-defined 3dom hydrogels provide a versatile platform for a wide variety of functional materials."
was done by RIKEN in collaboration with the University of Tokyo, University of Osaka, and was funded by JST and DFG G
an assistant professor in the Materials science and engineering Department who led the research team.""As renewable energy becomes more prevalent,
000 Faculty Early Career development grant awarded to Liu to improve the way solar energy is captured, stored and transmitted for use.
Arraykhosrow Behbehani, dean of the College of Engineering, said the groundbreaking research has the potential to positively impact on the way we generate
Professors in Warwick's Nano-Silicon Group, Physics department, Evan Parker and Terry Whall, led the team
Professor Parker commented, "We 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,
Warwick Ventures, Warwick's technology transfer business, has helped the professors to create a spin out company, Q-Eye Ltd,
"Professor Bert Sels explains.""This is an expensive process. The pre-plastic--a low-quality plastic--is broken then down into building blocks for PLA.
"Professor Sels is confident that the new technology will soon take hold.""The KU Leuven patent on our discovery was sold recently to a chemical company that intends to apply the production process on an industrial scale.
Researcher Laura S. Shankman, a Phd student in the Owens lab, was able to overcome the limitations of the traditional methodology for detecting smooth muscle cells in the plaque.
superbugs Researchers at Mcmaster University have developed a new way to detect the smallest traces of metabolites, proteins or fragments of DNA.
"explains Yingfu Li, a professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Biomedical sciences, Chemistry and Chemical Biology."
The researchers at the Medical Research Council's (MRC) Toxicology Unit based at the University of Leicester
Co-lead author of the study Professor Andrew Tobin from the MRC Toxicology Unit which is located at the University of Leicester,
said:""This is a real breakthrough in our understanding of how malaria survives in the blood stream
"Professor David Baker, co-lead author from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said:"
Professor Patrick Maxwell, chair of the MRC's Molecular and Cellular Medicine Board, said:""Tackling malaria is a global challenge,
#Cancer drug 49 times more potent than Cisplatin Based on a compound of the rare precious metal osmium and developed by researchers at the University of Warwick's Department of chemistry and the Warwick Cancer Research Unit,
Lead researcher Professor Peter Sadler of the University of Warwick's Department of chemistry, said explains:""Healthy cells generate their energy in organelles called mitochondria,
but cancer cells have defective mitochondria and are forced to generate energy through glycolysis in the cytoplasm.
Professor Sadler says:""Platinum-based drugs are used in nearly 50%of all chemotherapeutic regimens and exert their activity by damaging DNA
#Key mechanism that causes neuropathic pain found Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have identified a key mechanism in neuropathic pain.
"said co-author Bruce Hammock, distinguished professor at the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center."
"Working with Professor Fawaz Haj of the UC Davis nutrition department, Bettaieb found that key molecular signatures associated with diabetes
what causes neuropathic pain said John Imig, professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the Medical College of Wisconsin,
and now humans can do it, too University of California, Berkeley, physicists have used graphene to build lightweight ultrasonic loudspeakers and microphones,
Bat expert Michael Yartsev, a newly hired UC Berkeley assistant professor of bioengineering and member of the Helen wills said Neuroscience Institute
"says Dr. Kim who is also Professor of Surgery at Case Western Reserve University School of medicine and the Charles Hubay Chair at UH Case Medical center."
"In his research laboratory at the School of medicine, Dr. Kim and his team developed a new method to grow
The new Phase I clinical trial is being supported by University Hospitals as well as a significant philanthropic effort including the Immunogene Therapy Fund, Paula and Ronald Raymond Fund and the Kathryn and Paula Miller Family Fund."
Professor Rim succeeded in transferring 209 watts of power wirelessly to the distance of five meters.
Professor Rim said, "Our transmitter system is safe for humans and compatible with other electronic devices.
#Discovery could improve in vitro fertilization success rates for women around the world Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University, Stanford university,
University of Valencia and IGENOMIX have discovered that chromosomal abnormalities in human embryos created for in vitro fertilization,
and assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Physiology and Pharmacology, in the OHSU School of medicine.""A failed IVF attempt takes an emotional toll on a woman who is anticipating a pregnancy as well as a financial toll on families, with a single IVF treatment costing thousands and thousands of dollars per cycle.
Our findings also bring hope to couples who are struggling to start a family and wish to avoid the selection
"said Jianlin Cheng, an associate professor of computer science in the MU College of Engineering.""RNA sequencing is the means by
"Cheng and doctoral students Jilong Li and Jie Hou partnered with members of the MU Center for Botanical Interaction Studies, the Division of Biological sciences, the Department of chemistry, the Department of Biochemistry,
and stimulation at bio-interfaces,"said lead author Zhiqiang Luo, a postdoctoral scholar in Tian's laboratory.
researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical school have restored hearing in mice with a genetic form of deafness.
"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."
associate professor and senior Cancer Research UK Fellow at the division of biomedical cell biology at Warwick Medical school.
"Researchers at the University's Warwick Medical school made the discovery by accident while looking at gaps between microtubules
One of Dr Royle's 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,
"Dr 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's leading professors, award-winning scientists and pioneering professionals
"Jordan Green, Ph d.,of the Johns hopkins university School of medicine Biomedical engineering Department and a senior author of the work,
The collaborators include colleagues from the Johns hopkins university School of medicine Departments of Neurosurgery, Oncology, Ophthalmology, and Pathology,
as well as Tang Du Hospital in China, University of the Negevin, Israel, and the Instituto Neurologico C. Besta in Italy.
especially for diabetics and the elderly Researchers from the University of Sheffield's Department of Biomedical science discovered the ultrasound transmits a vibration through the skin
from the University's Centre for Membrane Interactions and Dynamics (CMIAD), said:""Skin ulcers are excruciatingly painful for patients
It was observed by a team of researchers including Gilles Hickson, an assistant professor at the University of Montreal's Department of Pathology and Cell biology and researcher at the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre, his assistant Silvana Jananji, in collaboration with Nelio
Rodrigues, a Phd student, and Sergey Lekomtsev, a postdoc, working in the group led by Buzz Baum of the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell biology at University college London.
For the first time, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia report a single molecule that appears to be the central regulator driving metastasis in prostate cancer.
"says Karen Knudsen, Ph d.,Director of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University, the Hilary Koprowski Professor and Chair of Cancer Biology, Professor of Urology, Radiation Oncology,
in addition to leaders of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center's Prostate Program, included the laboratories of Felix Feng (University of Michigan), Scott Tomlins (University of Michigan), Owen Witte (UCLA),
Cory Abate-Shen (Columbia University), Nima Sharifi (Cleveland Clinic) and Jeffrey Karnes (Mayo Clinic), and contributions from Genomedx.
"Knightly, professor and department chair of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Rice Wireless Network Group, said the UHF spectrum,
Knightly and Rice graduate student Xu Zhang developed a technology called"Wi-fi in Active TV Channels,
The advance is from the lab of Uli Wiesner, Professor of Engineering in the Department of Materials science and engineering,
in collaboration with Michael Thompson, associate professor of materials science and engineering, got around this issue by using extremely short melt periods induced by a laser.
"said Dean E. Albert Reece, MD, Phd, MBA, who is also the vice president for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland,
and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean of the School of medicine."
"Dr. Thompson's work lays the crucial groundwork to transform the treatment of depression and reduce the tragic loss of lives to suicide
#Nanoscale light-emitting device has big profile University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created a nanoscale device that can emit light as powerfully as an object 10,000 times its size.
In a paper published July 10 in the journal Physical Review Letters, Zongfu Yu, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering,
a Ph d. student in Yu's group and lead author of the paper. Much as a very thin string on a guitar can absorb a large amount of acoustic energy from its surroundings
"explains Giovanni Vanacore, a postdoctoral scholar and an author on the study. The speed with which data can be recorded is determined both by the speed of the laser--that is,
one 0 or 1, every nanosecond,"says Jianbo Hu, a postdoctoral scholar and the first author of the paper."
#Potential of blue LEDS as novel chemical-free food preservation technology A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has found that blue light emitting diodes (LEDS) have strong antibacterial
The NUS team, led by Assistant professor Yuk Hyun-Gyun, from the Food science and Technology Programme at the NUS Faculty of science, is the first so far to show that factors such as temperature and ph levels,
Oliver Eickelberg, Chairman of the Comprehensive Pneumology Center (CPC) at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and University Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
who worked on the project for six years as a Rice graduate student. But electronic structure calculations showed a 1-to-1 mix of titanium
another Morosan lab graduate student and co-author of the paper.""This is the first time such an antiferromagnetic material has been discovered,
However, recent data from the research group led by Markus Hengstschläger of the Institute for Medical Genetics of the Medical University of Vienna now suggest that another protein complex,
"said Cassandra Callmann, a graduate student in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San diego,
The work, led by Nathan Gianneschi a professor of chemistry and biochemisty at UC San diego, builds on his group's earlier sucess using a similar strategy to mark tumors for both diagnosis and precise surgical removal.
a huge deal,"said George Bakris, MD, professor of medicine and director of the Comprehensive Hypertension Center at the University of Chicago Medicine."
The findings"have the potential to fundamentally change the current treatment approach to hyperkalemia,"according to an accompanying editorial by nephrologist Wolfgang Winklemayer, MD, Scd, of Baylor College of Medicine.
Additional authors include Bertram Pitt, University of Michigan; Matthew Weir, University of Maryland School of medicine; Mason Freeman, Massachusetts General Hospital;
David Bushinsky, University of Rochester; and Martha Mayo, Dahlia Garza, Yuri Stasiv, Rezi Zawadzki and Lance Berman, from Relypsa a
#Noninvasive device could end daily finger pricking for people with diabetes A new laser sensor that monitors blood glucose levels without penetrating the skin could transform the lives of millions of people living with diabetes.
The new technology, developed by Professor Gin Jose and a team at the University of Leeds
Professor Jose said:""Unlike the traditional method, this new noninvasive technology can constantly monitor blood glucose levels."
and funded by the University of Leeds and Netscientific plc, a biomedical and healthcare technology group specialisingin commercialising transformative technologies from leading universities and research institutes.
Professor Jose said:""The glass used in our sensors is hardwearing, acting in a similar way as that used in smartphones.
"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,
Professor Grant, Professor of Medicine at the University of Leeds and Consultant diabetes specialist, said:"
"Professor Jose's research is based in the Institute for Materials Research in the University of Leeds'School of Chemical and Process Engineering.
and the research was supported by the Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the University of Leeds Research and Innovation Services s
including investigators from the University of Mississippi Medical center (UMMC), has identified a gene that underlies healthy information processing--a first step on a complicated road to understand cognitive aging and age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease.
"said Dr. Carla Ibrahim-Verbaas, a resident in neurology at Erasmus University Medical center in Rotterdam, The netherlands,
associate professor of dermatology at the GW School of medicine and Health Sciences and co-author of the study."
Friedman and his research team at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and University of California Los angeles explored the mechanisms by
which the nanoparticles could be a new way to tackle Acne, one of the most common dermatologic diseases affecting between 40-50 million people each year.
Uday Vaidya, Ph d.,professor and chair of UAB's Department of Materials science and engineering, worked with Storm Resistant Systems
and new shielding for use in CT SCANNERS,"says Afsaneh Rabiei, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State and corresponding author of a paper on the work.
such as LEDS or solar cells,"said lead researcher Dr Yuerui (Larry) Lu, from The Australian National University (ANU)."
#Novel glycoengineering technology gives qualitative leap for biologics drug research Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered a way of improving biotech drugs.
This is the result of a ground-breaking new technique developed by a group of researchers from the Faculty of health and Medical sciences at the University of Copenhagen.
"says researcher Zhang Yang from the Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, a centre of excellence at the University of Copenhagen.
Lukas Kenner from the Medical University of Vienna, the Veterinary University of Vienna, and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institiute for Cancer Research (LBI-CR) discovered a missing link for an essential role of Stat3
"says coauthor of this study, Helmut Dolznig, also from the Medical University of Vienna. The study was financed mainly by the LBI-CR and the FWF.
University Health Network assessing the safety of the device, with subsequent phases examining its efficacy.
First developed at the University of Oxford, the device could potentially preserve a liver outside the body for up to 24 hours.
"said Joel Singer, professor in the School of Population and Public health at UBC, who is presenting at IAS 2015."
a biochemistry and molecular biology professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia who specializes in such research
"said Manish Kumar, assistant professor of chemical engineering, Penn State.""They have functions that are hard to replicate in synthetic systems."
#Discovery about brain protein causes rethink on development of Alzheimer's disease Researchers at the University of Melbourne have discovered that a protein involved in the progression of Alzheimer's disease also has properties that could be helpful for human health.
An international team of researchers, led by Dr Simon Drew at the University of Melbourne and Prof Wojciech Bal at the Polish Academy of Sciences, has revealed that a shorter form of a protein called beta amyloid,
The doctoral student initially made a suspension of silver nanowires in ethanol using wet-chemistry techniques. She then transferred this suspension with a pipette onto a substrate, in this case a silicon solar cell.
Joint research by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and the Los alamos National Laboratory has discovered a way to predict the emerging structures
"said Tamoghna Das, the paper's lead author and a postdoctoral scholar in the OIST Collective Interactions Unit.
#Heating and cooling with light leads to ultrafast DNA diagnostics New technology developed by bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley,
study senior author Luke Lee, a professor of bioengineering.""It is done usually in a lab
Led by researchers at Boston University School of medicine (BUSM), the study appears online in Breast cancer Research. Basal-like breast cancer (BLBC) is an aggressive form of breast cancer
Researchers from BUSM and the University of Cyprus compared the markers on the surface of the cancer cells to gene expression profile of breast tumors deposited by researchers in international public databases
"explained corresponding author Sam Thiagalingam, Phd, associate professor of genetics & genomics, medicine and pathology & laboratory medicine at BUSM.
Lee Gehrke and his team at the Massachusetts institute of technology and Harvard Medical school adapted the traditional single marker lateral flow test to diagnose several diseases at once.
Warren Chan, an expert in nanomaterials-based diagnostics at the University of Toronto in Canada
Amber Cooper from Washington University in St louis, US, and colleagues found women aged 45 to 55 exposed to the organic compounds were up to six times more likely to be unexposed menopausal than peers.
Jessica Tyrrell from the University of Exeter, UK, who previously found an income-chemical exposure link in NHANES data,
a professor at Stanford university earth sciences school, said. He was not involved with the new study. The deforestation slowdown has, n large part,
a very creative new approach to the problem of recording from large number of neurons in the brain, says Rafael Yuste, director of the Neuro technology Center at Columbia University in New york,
says Jens Schouenborg, head of the Neuronano Research Centre at Lund University in Sweden, who has developed a gelatin-based eedlefor delivering electrodes to the brain.
Scientists at the University of Toronto and the University of Montreal have developed software, modeled on brain cell networks,
and sentences. t about both the combination of image information with natural language, says Richard Zemel, a computer scientist at the University of Toronto. hat what new herehe marriage of image and text.
a Phd student at Massachusetts institute of technology who conducted this study as part of his master thesis. Cuttlefish are cephalopods with large, elongated bodies and tentacles around their mouths.
Inspired by these aquatic masters of disguise, Guttag and co-author Mary Boyce, dean of engineering at Columbia University,
Shengqiang Cai, an engineer at the University of California, San diego, who was not involved with this study,
lead author and University of Virginia neuroscience professor Dr. Jonathan Kipnis and his group identified a previously undetected network of lymphatic vessels in the meninges the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord that shuttle fluid and immune cells from the cerebrospinal fluid to a group of lymph nodes in the neck, the deep cervical lymph nodes.
Dr. Josep Dalmau, a neurology professor at the University of Pennsylvania not involved with the new study, agrees that the new findings could help to explain the initiation, maintenance,
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