The research was led by Harvard chemistry professor, Charles Lieber, and an international team of scientists. Rafael Yuste, director of Columbia University's Neurotechnology Center, told Nature it"left a few of us with our jaws dropping"after a 2014 presentation.
Yust wasn't involved in the research. To implant the mesh, a few centimers of the stuff is rolled up in a 100-micrometer diameter syringe
and not bring pressure to close down Al qaeda training camps. Saudi businesses, meanwhile, would ensure that money also flowed directly to Bin laden. The full cable can be read here.
For her work, Ticea has received a $50, 000 scholarship fund reward. Her device is expected to be approved FDA and mass-produced within five years.
#Students Invent Condom That Changes Color When It Comes In Contact With STIS A group of young teens are being praised after inventing a condom that changes colors
Students, Daanyaal Ali, 14, Muaz Nawaz, 13 and Chirag Shah, 14, pupils at Isaac newton Academy in Ilford
e encourage students to take their ideas out of the classroom by putting them face-to-face with industry professionals,
One example of resonance is the way a playground swing will climb higher from repeated pushes.
a silent competitor to both was setting up its office at Tokyo University Intellectual Backyard startup incubator.
At the time, he was doing university research related to psychology. One project dealt with autistic people
A group of researchers from the University of Washington were able to send energy from a Wi-fi router to low power electronics from up to 28 feet away,
Check out the researcher full paper at Cornell University Library arxiv. via New Scientist via Digital Trends
such as healthcare, social networking and education. Virtual reality is said the future Roger Entner, principal analyst at Recon Analytics.
Big Blue's partners are Globalfoundries, Samsung and the State university of New york Polytechnic institute's Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE.
said Gregory Weiss, UCI professor of chemistry and molecular biology & biochemistry. n our paper, we describe a device for pulling apart tangled proteins
a high-powered machine designed by Professor Colin Raston laboratory at South australia Flinders University. Shear stress within thin,
#Biometric information sensor that directly adheres to the body like a plaster Professor Takao Someya postdoctoral researcher Sung Won Lee
and their research group at the Graduate school of Engineering the University of Tokyo have developed an adhesive gel
sanitation and as rust-free metals Scientists at the University of Rochester have used lasers to transform metals into extremely water repellent,
Guo and his colleague at the University Institute of Optics, Anatoliy Vorobyev, describe a powerful and precise laser-patterning technique that creates an intricate pattern of micro
said Guo, professor of optics at the University of Rochester. That whole process takes less than a second.
In findings that may lead to new treatments for cognitive disorders, researchers at MIT Picower Institute for Learning and Memory zero in on how the brain forms memories of
the Picower Professor of Neuroscience, showed that dramatic changes occur in the primary visual cortex when mice learn to distinguish novel from familiar visual stimuli.
The study lead author, Picower Institute research scientist Samuel F. Cooke, working with postdoctoral fellows Robert W. Komorowski and Jeffrey Gavornik and graduate student Eitan
and memory storage. he study points to the visual cortex as a tool of learning and memory in its own right,
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#3d printed Heart Model Makes Surgery Safer and Less Dangerous Three-dimensional printing technology has just found yet another use, this time it heart surgery.
who is also an Assistant professor at the Keck School of medicine at the University of Southern California. 3d model allowed
associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering and of radiology at Columbia University Medical center (CUMC), has developed a new microscope that can image living things in 3d at very high speeds.
Hillman and her students built their first SCAPE system using inexpensive off-the-shelf components. Her hamoment came when
After several years of trial and error, Hillman and graduate student Matthew Bouchard came up with a configuration that worked,
including Randy Bruno (associate professor of neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience), Richard Mann (Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics), Wesley Grueber (associate professor
and Kimara Targoff (assistant professor of pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics), all of whom are starting to use the SCAPE system in their research. eciphering the functions of brain
says Thomas M. Jessell, co-director of the Zuckerman Institute and Claire Tow Professor of Motor neuron Disorders,
and biomedical engineering and diagnostic radiology. his chaotic cavity laser is a great example of basic research ultimately leading to a potentially important invention for the social goodsaid co-author A. Douglas Stone the Carl A. Morse Professor
and chair of applied physics and professor of physics. ll of the foundational work was motivated primarily by a desire to understand certain classes of lasers random and chaotic with no known applications.
but with low spatial coherence. or full-field imaging the speckle contrast should be less than 4%to avoid any disturbance for human inspectionexplained Hui Cao professor of applied physics
%while our laser has the speckle contrast of 3%.So our new laser has eliminated completely the issue of coherent artifact for full-field imaging. o-author Michael A. Choma assistant professor of diagnostic radiology pediatrics
and is working with Redding to apply the laser for full-field imaging at Yale School of medicine.
Now Dao and colleagues including Subra Suresh president of Carnegie mellon University former dean of MIT School of engineering
and Vannevar bush Professor of Engineering Emeritus have developed a tiny microfluidic device that can analyze the behavior of blood from sickle cell disease patients.
The research team also includes the paper lead author E (Sarah) Du a former MIT postdoc who is now an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University;
and Gregory Kato of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. People with sickle cell disease an inherited genetic disorder have a variant form of hemoglobin that causes their red blood cells to take on a characteristic sickle shape when in low-oxygen conditions.
and treating other diseases where the deformability of blood cells is affectedsays Guruswami Ravichandran a professor of aeronautics
#Scientists discover viral#Enigma machine#Researchers at the University of York are part of a team
and the University of Leeds unlocks its meaning and demonstrates that jamming the code can disrupt virus assembly.
Professor Peter Stockley Professor of Biological Chemistry in the Faculty of Biological sciences at Leeds, who led the study,
said: f you think of this as molecular warfare, these are encrypted the signals that allow a virus to deploy itself effectively. ow, for this whole class of viruses,
In 2012, researchers at the University of Leeds published the first observations at a single-molecule level of how the core of a single-stranded RNA VIRUS packs itself into its outer shell remarkable process
University of York mathematicians Dr Eric Dykeman and Professor Reidun Twarock, working with the Leeds group
Dr Roman Tuma, Reader in Biophysics at the University of Leeds, said: e have understood for decades that the RNA carries the genetic messages that create viral proteins,
Professor Reidun Twarock, of the Departments of Mathematics and Biology at York, said: he Enigma machine metaphor is apt.
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#Single brain peptide could be the clue to improving fertility post-stress Infertility is a growing problem in the developed world,
A joint team of researchers at University of California and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research have set out to answer this very question their findings were published last week on elife.
but a team at the University of Maryland has made just a significant breakthrough that will bring this scenario one step closer to reality.
Researchers at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) partnered with a scientist at the National Information Communications technology Research Centre of Excellence in Australia (NICTA) to develop robotic systems that are able
said Yiannis Aloimonos, UMD professor of computer science and director of the Computer Vision Lab, one of 16 labs and centers in UMIACS. ut cooking is complex in terms of manipulation,
The work also relies on a specialized software architecture known as deep-learning neural networks. While this approach is not new
Self learning robots could gather the necessary information by watching others, which is the same way humans learn.
In addition to Aloimonos and Fermüller, study authors includedyezhou Yang, a UMD computer science doctoral student, and Yi Li, a former doctoral student of Aloimonos and Fermüller from NICTA.
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#Perovskites provide big boost to silicon solar cells Stacking perovskites onto a conventional silicon solar cell dramatically improves the overall efficiency of the cell,
said study co-author Michael Mcgehee, a professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford. ight now, silicon solar cells dominate the world market,
said Stanford graduate student Colin Bailie, co-lead author of the study. ith tandem solar cells, you don need a billion-dollar capital expenditure to build a new factory.
The highly interdisciplinary project was carried out together with the Vienna University of Technology. A Start-up Company and a Universitytogether Trilite and TU Vienna have created the first prototype.
Scaling it up to a display with many pixels is not a problemsays Jörg Reitterer (Trilite Technologies and Phd-student in the team of Professor Ulrich Schmid at the Vienna University of Technology.
Rice graduate student Zhiwei Peng and previous postdoctoral researcher Jian Lin, now an assistant professor at University of Missouri, are co-lead authors of the paper.
Co-authors are Rice graduate students Ruquan Ye and Errol Samuel. Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of computer science and a member of the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology.
The Air force Office of Scientific research and its Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) and the Office of Naval Research MURI supported the research e
#Carbon nanotube finding could lead to flexible electronics with longer battery life University of Wisconsin-Madison materials engineers have made a significant leap toward creating higher-performance electronics with improved battery life and the ability to flex
and stretch. 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.
Gopalan and their students reported transistors with an on-off ratio that 1, 000 times better and a conductance that 100 times better than previous state-of-the-art carbon nanotube transistors. arbon nanotubes are very strong and very flexible,
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 Research Fellowship Program,
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 Wu r
#Fujitsu develops ring-type wearable device capable of text input by fingertip Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of a compact and lightweight wearable ring-type device that offers handwriting-input
The device is based on microfluidic technology developed by Joel Voldman an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) in 2009.
and a graduate student in EECS spent several years re-engineering the device to get it to work with immune cells which are much smaller than the cells analyzed in 2009.
Hidde Ploegh an MIT professor of biology and member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is also a senior author of the paper.
and when they turn on a type of protein signaling known as phosphorylation. his is a very elegant way of doing these experimentssays Hang Lu a professor of chemical
The study was led by Nenad Bursac associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke university and Lauran Madden a postdoctoral researcher in Bursac laboratory.
The statins had a dose-dependent response causing abnormal fat accumulation at high concentrations. Clenbuterol showed a narrow beneficial window for increased contraction.
Bursac is already working on a study with clinicians at Duke Medicinencluding Dwight Koeberl associate professor of pediatricso try to correlate efficacy of drugs in patients with the effects on lab-grown muscles.
and never have to bother the patient again. ther investigators involved in this study include George Truskey the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical engineering and senior associate dean for research for the Pratt School of engineering and William Krauss
professor of biomedical engineering medicine and nursing at Duke university. The research was supported by NIH Grants R01ar055226 and R01ar065873 from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin disease and UH2TR000505 from the NIH Common Fund for the Microphysiological Systems Initiative.
Purdue University researchers had created previously uperlatticesfrom layers of the metal titanium nitride and the dielectric, or insulator, aluminum scandium nitride.
associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue. he single-photon emitters could be used to build highly efficient room temperature CMOS-compatible single-photon sources.
said graduate student Mikhail Y. Shalaginov, the paper lead author. He and Kildishev are working with a team of researchers led by Vladimir M. Shalaev, scientific director of nanophotonics at Purdue Birck Nanotechnology Center and a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering,
and Alexandra Boltasseva, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Professors Shalaev, Kildishev and Boltasseva are a part of a Purdue reeminent teamworking on quantum photonics.
Because the studied system represents a stable source of single photons that functions at room temperature
it is potentially practical for commercial applications. When exposed to a laser light, the system rises from its round stateto an excited state,
#New catalyst process uses light not metal for rapid polymerization A team of chemistry and materials science experts from University of California,
principal investigator and professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCSB. eople are used already to the same starting materials for ATRP,
Hawker, and postdoctoral researcher Brett Fors, now with Cornell University, led the study that was inspired initially by a photoreactive Iridium catalyst.
a research partner of the UCSB College of Engineering. ATRP is used already widely across dozens of major industries,
Chemistry Professor Linda Nazar and her research team in the Faculty of science at the University of Waterloo have announced a breakthrough in Li-S battery technology based on chemical process discovered 170 years ago. his is a major step forward
and graduate students Connor Hart and Quan Pang also discovered that graphene oxide seems to work by a similar mechanism.
a postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry at the University of Utah. ature is capable of more than we realize.
says Adam Frost, M d.,Ph d.,assistant professor at University of California, San francisco (UCSF) and adjunct professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah.
said Noel C. Giebink, assistant professor of electrical engineering, Penn State. urrent CPV systems are the size of billboards
They report their results today (Feb 5) in Nature Communications. e partnered with colleagues at the University of Illinois
The researchers tested their prototype concentrator panel outside over the course of a day in State College, Penn.
Others working on this project include Jared Price, graduate student Penn State; Xing Sheng, postdoctoral fellow; John A Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign;
and Bram M. Meulblok, technical representative, LUXEXCEL Group B. V.,The netherlands. Source: PS X
#One-atom-thin silicon transistors hold promise for super-fast computing Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin Cockrell School of engineering have created the first transistors made of silicene, the world thinnest silicon material.
Their research holds the promise of building dramatically faster, smaller and more efficient computer chips.
Deji Akinwande, an assistant professor in the Cockrell School Department of Electrical and Computer engineering, and his team, including lead researcher Li Tao,
which chipmakers already know how to work with. part from introducing a new player in the playground of 2-D materials, silicene,
University of Manchester and University of Sheffield researchers show that new 2d esigner materialscan be produced to create flexible, see-through and more efficient electronic devices.
and explored in 2004 at The University of Manchester. Its potential uses are vast but one of the first areas in
Freddie Withers, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at The University of Manchester, who led the production of the devices,
Prof Alexander Tartakovskii, from The University of Sheffield added: he novel LED structures are robust
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#Smart devices track hand-washing in hospitals to help reduce the spread of infection In fact,
But the students soon found themselves presenting a prototype to hundreds at human computer interaction conference in Portland,
the students launched SNIF Labs (an acronym for ocial Networking in Fur in 2008 and began selling the collars.
And after learning about WHO hand-hygiene guidelines, the team developed Medsense as an automated way to help administrators monitor hand-washing among staff.
Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology have found a way to compress intense laser pulses by a factor of 20 to just 4. 5 just by sending them through a cleverly designed hollow fibre.
and fabricated by the research group of Fetah Benabid at Limoges University France. For years extremely short infrared laser pulses have been used to unravel the secrets of the quantum world.
New Tool for Further Researchin their recent publication the researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have demonstrated already that their laser pulses can be used for highly advanced experiments:
The photonics team at the Vienna University of Technology is planning to use this new technology for a variety of measurements in the future
These cavities, nanofabricated at Brookhaven by MIT graduate student Luozhou Li with the help of staff scientist Ming Lu of the CFN, consist of layers of diamond
and Edward Chen, who is also a graduate student studying under the guidance of Englund at MIT. oupling the NV centers with these optical resonator cavities seemed to preserve the NV spin coherence timehe duration of the memory,
#Computing at the speed of light University of Utah engineers have taken a step forward in creating the next generation of computers
Electrical and computer engineering associate professor Rajesh Menon and colleagues describe their invention today in the journal Nature Photonics.
University of Utah Electrical and Computer engineering Associate professor Rajesh Menon is leading a team that has created the world smallest beamsplitter for silicon photonic chips.
Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineeringsilicon photonics could significantly increase the power and speed of machines such as supercomputers, data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection.
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#Taking control of light emission Researchers have found a way to couple the properties of different two-dimensional materials to provide an exceptional degree of control over light waves.
The work is authored co by MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Nicholas Fang and graduate student Anshuman Kumar
and their co-authors at IBM T. J. Watson Research center, Hong kong Polytechnic University, and the University of Minnesota.
Although the two materials are structurally similar both composed of hexagonal arrays of atoms that form two-dimensional sheets they each interact with light quite differently.
a researcher at IBM and the University of Minnesota, says, ur work paves the way for using 2-D material heterostructures for engineering new optical properties on demand.
Sheng Shen, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie mellon University who was involved not in this research, says, his work represents significant progress on understanding tunable interactions of light in graphene-hbn.
said Raymond obrowland, professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology at Kansas State College of Veterinary medicine. t really the future of diagnostics for both humans and animals.
a team of Northwestern University scientists is the first to develop an entirely artificial molecular pump, in
Stoddart is the Board of trustees Professor of Chemistry in Northwestern Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. ll living organisms,
he said. e are trying to recreate the actions of these proteins using relatively simple small molecules we make in the laboratory. huyang Cheng, a fourth-year graduate student in Stoddart laboratory and first author of the paper,
That could finally change with a new process described in the journal Scientific Reports by researchers at MIT and the University of Michigan.
MIT mechanical engineering Associate professor A. John Hart, the paper senior author, says the new roll-to-roll manufacturing process described by his team addresses the fact that for many proposed applications of graphene
who is the Mitsui Career development Associate professor in Contemporary Technology at MIT. So far, the new system produces graphene that is ot quite equal to the best that can be done by batch processing,
and learning about tradeoffs that can inform the selection of process conditions for specific applications,
a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania who was involved not in this work. think that the concentric tube approach is very creative.
#Discovery of a treatment to block the progression of multiple sclerosis A drug that could halt the progression of multiple sclerosis may soon be developed thanks to a discovery by a team at the CHUM Research Centre and the University of Montreal.
and professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of Montreal. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disease that is characterized by paralysis, numbness, loss of vision,
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#Hydrogen-Powered Hycopter Drone can fly for 4 Hours on a Single Charge This month,
Using human embryonic stem cells, researchers at University of California San diego School of medicine and Moores Cancer Center and Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute created a model that allows them to track cellular behavior during the earliest stages of human development in real-time.
The model reveals, for the first time, how autonomic neurons and blood vessels come together to form the neurovascular unit.
said co-senior author of the study David Cheresh, Phd, Distinguished Professor of Pathology, vice-chair for research and development and associate director for translational research at UC San diego. nd if wee ever going to use stem cells to develop new organ systems,
Phd, professor and director of the Center for Stem Cells and Regenerative medicine at Sanford-Burnham. urthermore, we demonstrate here that modeling human development
Mcmaster scientists turn blood into neural cells Adult sensory neurons made from human patients blood samplescientists at Mcmaster University have discovered how to make adult sensory neurons from human patients simply by having them roll up their sleeve and providing
and is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical sciences of the Michael G. Degroote School of medicine.
a clinician and professor of medicine. his research will help us understand the response of cells to different drugs and different stimulation responses,
The results of the trial, led by principal investigator Richard Andersen, the James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience,
Once training was complete, the researchers saw just what they were hoping for: intuitive movement of the robotic arm. or me, the most exciting moment of the trial was when the participant first moved the robotic limb with his thoughts.
such as those of the Andersen Lab at Caltech, to human patients, ultimately turning transformative discoveries into effective therapies, says center director Charles Y. Liu, professor of neurological surgery, neurology,
#Semiliquid Battery Almost As good as its Lithium Ion Counterparts and Supercapacitators Developed by researchers at the University of Texas, Austin,
and Assistant professor Guihua Yu. he battery shows excellent rate capability that can be charged fully or discharged almost within one minute
#Scientists teach robot to learn new skills via trial and error Scientists at University of California, Berkeley have taught robots to learn.
Photo courtesy of UC Berkeley Robot Learning Lab) The concept of robot learning new things by itself has been puzzling scientists for quite some time.
Professor Pieter Abbeel of UC Berkeley Department of Electrical engineering and Computer sciences said it is a new way to empower robot
Deep learning programs create eural netsin which layers of artificial neurons process overlapping raw sensory data,
Deep learning is used already by programs, such as Siri on iphones, Google speech-to-text program or Google street view,
but learning to accomplish motor tasks has proved to be far more challenging. BRETT demonstrates its abilities to learn without preprogrammed knowledge about its surroundingslike in many cases,
the learning process takes about three hours. With more data robots will soon be able to learn much more complex things.
Even though learning processes are still not perfect, this shows that future might be imagined just as we it with robot butlers.
#ain sensinggene discovery could help in development of new methods of pain relief A gene essential to the production of pain-sensing neurons in humans has been identified by an international team of researchers co-led by the University
says Professor Geoff Woods from the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research at the University of Cambridge,
adds Dr Ya-Chun Chen from the University of Cambridge, the study first author. his could potentially benefit those who are at danger from lack of pain perception and help in the development of new treatments for pain relief. n
QAAFI Director and plant geneticist Professor Robert Henry said a Trailblazer award from The University of Queensland commercialisation arm
Professor Henry said. Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops in the world,
Professor Henry said. owever new wheat varieties must retain the essential quality characteristics of wheat. heat varieties are assessed normally for bread-making quality by conducting a baking test. his is only possible late in the breeding process
Professor Henry and his colleagues are eager to produce new premium wheat varieties. he good news is that premium wheats attract better prices so this discovery potentially means more dollars for Australian farmers.
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