#Use Your Smartphone For Biosensing An Australian research team has shown that smartphones can be reconfigured as cost-effective, portable bioanalytical devices, with details reported in the latest edition of the Open Access Journal ensors
Ewa Goldys, CNBP Deputy Director, Professor at Macquarie University and author of the work explained, n this instance,
said Nicholas Hud, a professor in Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. ith this work,
Rice researchers David Zhang, an assistant professor of bioengineering, and lead author and graduate student J. Sherry Wang applied their new molecular tools to 44 DNA samples with known cancer-related single-nucleotide variants.
Their proof-of-principle study located the variants with a high level of accuracy. They view their results
scientists at the University of Virginia School of medicine have found a blueprint for battling human disease using DNA clad in near-indestructible armor.
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#A new kind of wood chip: collaboration could lead to biodegradable computer chips Portable electronics typically made of nonrenewable,
a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has collaborated with researchers in the Madison-based U s. Department of agriculture Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) to develop a surprising solution:
and computer engineering professor Zhenqiang ackma, described the new device in a paper published on May 26, 2015 by the journal Nature Communications.
Working with Shaoqin arahgong, a UW-Madison professor of biomedical engineering, Cai group addressed two key barriers to using wood-derived materials in an electronics setting:
Gong and her students also have been based studying bio polymers for more than a decade. CNF offers many benefits over current chip substrates, she says. he advantage of CNF over other polymers is that it a bio-based material and most other polymers are based petroleum polymers.
Yei Hwan Jung, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering and a co-author of the paper,
With that goal in mind, a group of researchers from the University of Illinois teamed up with their colleagues from the Frederick Seitz Materials Laboratory,
led by Professor John A. Rogers, a Swanlund Chair in Materials science and engineering, have developed a line of heat-triggered,
said Aerospace engineer and team leader Professor Scott R. White. his is a way of creating sustainability in the materials that are used in modern-day electronics.
and involved 64 research centres worldwide including the University of Oxford. Researchers randomised 436 patients with aggressive
because their infection defences are compromised by genetic errors. UK trial leader Professor Kevin Harrington, Professor of Biological Cancer Therapies at The Institute of Cancer Research, London,
New research, led by University of Bristol academics in collaboration with a team from the University of Sheffield,
the team led by Professor Will Wood at the University of Bristol were able to study the process in situ
The results suggest that adaptive immune signalling pathways important in distinguishing self from non-self in vertebrates appear to have evolved from a more ancient response designed to distinguished amaged selffrom ealthy Self will Wood, Professor of Developmental biology
University of Louisville researcher Jason Chesney, M d.,Ph d.,deputy director of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center (JGBCC),
the researchers used optogenetic technology to selectively activate neurons that were labeled genetically during their training in chamber A with a blue light-sensitive protein,
during the training period, brain connections between unique memory engrams in neighboring brain structures may be strengthened
the study first author and an assistant professor of surgery in UCLA division of liver and pancreas transplantation. his device is best single predictor of organ survival in our patients,
#Researchers Discover Electron Pairing without Superconductivity A team of physicists from the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Professor of Chemistry, an international team of researchers developed a method for fabricating nanoscale electronic scaffolds that can be injected via syringe.
an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San diego who headed the research effort with Seth Cohen,
a UCLA professor of bioengineering and chemistry who is affiliated with CNSI, the multidisciplinary team also included Michel Gilliet of Switzerland Lausanne University Hospital,
and Jure Dobnikar and Daan Frenkel of the University of Cambridge. Autoimmune diseases strike when the body attacks itself
because it fails to distinguish between host tissue and disease-causing agents, or pathogens. Two such disorders are lupus,
An ISEM team led by Professor Shi Xue Dou and Dr Yi Du have published breakthrough research into a new material call silicene.
An ISEM team led by Professor Shi Xue Dou and Dr Yi Du have published breakthrough research into a new material call silicene.
ISEM, led by Professor Shi Xue Dou was the first research group in Australia to make silicene
because it provides a direct benefit to our nation warfighters. he ETOWL program was developed by the Center for Computer aided design at the University of Iowa.
its design software (called the SANTOS human simulation environment) will be made available to the academic community to access free of charge from the center website. his will allow for further research
#Ultrafast heat conduction can manipulate nanoscale magnets Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have uncovered physical mechanisms allowing the manipulation of magnetic information with heat.
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#Small changes have large benefits for crop breeding Researchers from The University of Western australia have developed a new method for breeding crops that will improve the potential for long-term, sustainable genetic improvement.
In a world first, Professor Wallace Cowling from The UWA Institute of Agriculture and his team have taken the breeding model commonly used by animal breeders,
and implemented it in self-pollinating crops. Self-pollinating crops, or elfingcrops, are plants that are normally fertilised from their own pollen.
as proposed in Professor Cowling model for selfing crops, means there can be more accurate selection and shorter generation intervals with more sustainable long-term genetic improvement.
Professor Cowling said crossing and recombination in self-pollinating crops normally occurs after selfing and selection of pure lines. n our research we changed the breeding process to allow rossing before selfingrather than elfing before crossing,
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#Scientists invent a new method to synthesize highly valuable amines Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have created a new method for synthesizing minesa class of organic compounds prominent in drugs and other modern products.
are reported in a paper in the journal Advanced Functional Materials co-authored by MIT graduate student Mark Guttag and Mary Boyce,
a former MIT professor of mechanical engineering who is now dean of engineering at Columbia University. epending on the arrangement of the particles,
a professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering at Northwestern University who was involved not in this work.
a multidisciplinary team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has created a umor in a dish:
Led by Shigeki Miyamoto, a professor of oncology at UW-Madison, and David Beebe, the John D. Macarthur Professor and Claude Bernard professor of biomedical engineering at UW-Madison, the researchers published news of the advance May 1, 2015, in the Royal Society
of Chemistry journal Integrative biology. ee taking the first steps toward mimicking the body in a dish,
who previously was a graduate student working in Miyamoto lab. Pak and Edmond Young (now at the University of Toronto) and the other researchers produced an assay,
or testing process, which involves co-culturing multiple myeloma tumor cells with their surrounding nontumor cells, all from the same patient, in a microscale petri dish.
Rising in the blood marrow due to an accumulation of abnormal, or cancerous, plasma cells, myeloma is treatable
#First functional, synthetic immune organ with controllable antibodies created by engineers Cornell University engineers have created a functional,
The first-of-its-kind immune organoid was created in the lab of Ankur Singh, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
the Ingalls Professor of Cancer Genetics at the university School of medicine and a medical oncologist at University Hospitals Case Medical center Seidman Cancer Center. e have developed a drug that acts like a vitamin for tissue stem cells,
Markowitz and University of Kentucky Professor Hsin-Hsiung Tai earlier had demonstrated that a gene product found in all humans,
Markowitz, also a Harrington Discovery Institute Scholar-Innovator, and James K. V. Willson, MD, a former Case Western Reserve colleague now at UT-Southwestern, hypothesized that inhibiting 15-PGDH would increase PGE2 in tissues.
as well as the Asa and Patricia Shiverick-Jane Shiverick (Tripp) Professor of Hematological Oncology. Case Western Reserve research associate Amar Desai, Phd, worked between the Markowitz
For example, the investigators teamed with Fabio Cominelli, MD, Phd, a Case Western Reserve Professor and Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Liver disease,
It helps put us on the map as a place where new drugs get invented. arkowitz added that this research received crucial financial assistance from Case Western Reserve University School of medicine Council to Advance Human Health (CAHH
from the Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals, and from multiple National institutes of health grants that included the Case GI SPORE,
Inje University; and the Korean National Research Foundation. Generous major gifts also came from the Leonard and Joan Horvitz Foundation and the Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation.
at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, originally discovered 15-PGDH and tested SW033291 as a 15-PGDH inhibitor.
Yang and Bae, now at Inje University in Korea, worked in the Markowitz laboratory on studies of colitis (Yang) and on liver regrowth after surgery (Bae.
Zora Djuric, University of Michigan, Ann arbor; Ginger L. Milne, Vanderbilt University, Nashville; and Noelle S. Williams, Jacinth Naidoo,
and Shuguang Wei, all at UT-Southwestern, Dallas. n impressive number of individuals contributed to the discovery of this 15-PGDH inhibitor drug,
says Cynthia R. Sung, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and one of the robot co-developers. n previous origami robots,
and motors to actuate the body itself. oining Sung on the paper describing the robot are her advisor, Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in MIT Department of Electrical engineering and Computer science;
and Marvin Ludersdorfer of the Technical University of Munich. Fantastic Voyagethe robot design was motivated by a hypothetical application in
and bolt them together, says Hod Lipson, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University, who studies robotics. t a challenging angle of robotics,
And now scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison completed highly successful, first-of-its-kind endeavour to create tumour in a petri dish.
It rises in the blood marrow due to an accumulation of abnormal, or cancerous, plasma cells and current median survival rate only reaches about five to seven years.
#Scientists construct first whole genome sequence of bighorn sheep Geneticists at the University of Alberta have constructed the first whole genome sequence of a bighorn sheep in a new study that could have a significant impact on conservation efforts of the species,
Phd student in the Department of Biological sciences and lead author on the study. hus, there is active interest in how best to manage the species to ensure their long-term survival.
and is a collaboration of Los alamos National Laboratory, Harvard university, Vanderbilt University, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, CFD Research Coporation,
and the University of California San francisco o
#Revolutionary New High-speed Infrared detector Sees First Light The first prototype of a new generation of fast and very sensitive detectors has been installed successfully on the PIONIER instrument at ESO Paranal Observatory.
#An origami battery that generates power from bacteria An engineer at Binghamton University has created a flexible, origami-style battery.
But now Seokheun eanchoi, engineer from Binghamton University, has developed an inexpensive, bacteria-powered battery made from paper.
a partnership led by the University of California (UC) Berkeley that includes Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
and Dean Toste, a chemist with joint appointments at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley, are the other two corresponding authors.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have pioneered now a process that could enable the efficient recycling two of these metals, neodymium and dysprosium.
The research was lead by Eric Schelter, assistant professor in the Department of chemistry in Penn School of arts & Sciences,
and graduate student Justin Bogart. Connor A. Lippincott, an undergraduate student in the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research,
and Patrick J. Carroll, director of the University of Pennsylvania X-ray Crystallography Facility, also contributed to the study.
It was published in Angewandte Chemie, International Edition. eodymium magnets can be beat in terms of their properties,
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.
Research led by the Universities of Bristol and Liverpool has shown that it is possible to combine cells with a special scaffold to produce living tissue in the laboratory.
led by Dr Adam Perriman from the University of Bristol and Professor Anthony Hollander from the University of Liverpool,
Professor Hollander said: e have shown already that stem cells can help create parts of the body that can be transplanted successfully into patients,
Professor Hollander pioneering work includes the development of a method of creating cartilage cells from stem cells,
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#New tool on horizon for surgeons treating cancer patients Surgeons could know while their patients are still on the operating table
if a tissue is cancerous, according to researchers from the Department of energy Oak ridge National Laboratory and Brigham and Women Hospital/Harvard Medical school.
#Scientists successfully test immunogen a component for potential HIV vaccine Team of researchers from The Scripps Research Institute, INTERNATIONAL AIDS Vaccine Initiative and The Rockefeller University have shown successfully that an experimental vaccine candidate
Professor David Nemazee evaluated results like that he vaccine appears to work well in our mouse model to rimethe antibody response In another research scientists used the same immunogen in a slightly different mouse model,
a UCSF graduate student in the Biomedical sciences Program. his represents a new and exciting finding in regard to how we might target the development of tumors.
and Maria Barna, Phd, assistant professor of developmental biology and genetics at Stanford, co-senior authors of the new study. he dogma in every textbook was that
To that end, in 2013 Ruggero and UCSF colleague Kevan M. Shokat, Phd, professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, founded San diego
said principal investigator Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, UCSF professor of neurological surgery, Heather and Melanie Muss Endowed Chair and a principal investigator in the UCSF Brain tumor Research center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research. t may be unwelcome
a UCLA professor of chemistry and one of the senior authors of the research. lants do this through photosynthesis with extremely high efficiency.?
a UCLA professor of chemistry and another senior co-author. his is the first time this has been shown using modern synthetic organic photovoltaic materials. n the new system,
Yves Rubin, a UCLA professor of chemistry and another senior co-author of the study, led the team that created the uniquely designed molecules. e don have these materials in a real device yet;
and microwave needed Researchers at University of Illinois have created a new inexpensive and simple way to produce carbon nanoparticles.
bioengineering professor one of authors of the study, said that you just have to mix honey
But now scientists from University of Washington have conducted the study that links artificial light to our contemporary sleep deprivation.
from researchers at the University of North carolina and NC State, who have created the first mart insulin patchthat can detect increases in blood sugar levels
biocompatible materials, said co-senior author Zhen Gu, Phd, a professor in the Joint UNC/NC State department of Biomedical engineering.
Gu also holds appointments in the UNC School of medicine, the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, and the UNC Diabetes Care Center. he whole system can be personalized to account for a diabetic weight and sensitivity to insulin,
a Phd student in Gu lab. The first material was hyaluronic acid or HA, a natural substance that is an ingredient of many cosmetics.
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#Expanding the DNA alphabet: xtradna base found to be stable in mammals A rare DNA base,
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Babraham Institute have found that a naturally occurring modified DNA base appears to be incorporated stably in the DNA of many mammalian tissues,
said Professor Shankar Balasubramanian of the Department of chemistry and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, who led the research. t had been thought this modification was solely a short-lived intermediate,
says Yet-Ming Chiang, the Kyocera Professor of Ceramics at MIT and a cofounder of 24m (and previously a cofounder of battery company A123).
and colleagues including W. Craig Carter, the POSCO Professor of Materials science and engineering. In this so-called low battery, the electrodes are suspensions of tiny particles carried by a liquid
Venkat Viswanathan, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie mellon University who was involved not in this work, says the analysis presented in the new paper ddresses a very important question of
an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San diego who headed the research team, which included scientists from the campusbiocircuits Institute. any other scientists have exploited the ability of lipids to self-assemble into bilayer vesicles with properties reminiscent of cellular membranes,
#Nanowire implants offer remote-controlled drug delivery A team of Purdue University researchers developed a new implantable drug-delivery system using the nanowires,
Purdue University Mari Hulman George Professor of Applied Neuroscience and director of Purdue Center for Paralysis Research. his tool allows us to apply drugs as needed directly to the site of injury,
Youngnam Cho, a former faculty member at Purdue Center for Paralysis Research; and Jianming Li, a research assistant professor at the center.
For the most recent study the team used mice that had been modified genetically such that the protein Glial fibrillary acidic protein,
But bacteriophages can also cause potentially harmful side effects, according to James Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science in MIT Department of Biological engineering and Institute of Medical Engineering and Science,
says Alfonso Jaramillo, a professor of synthetic biology at the University of Warwick in the U k.,
Caltech graduate student Ariel Furst (Phd 5) and her adviser, Jacqueline K. Barton, the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial professor of chemistry, are the paper authors. urrently,
#Risk of bowel cancer reduced by taking aspirin for Lynch syndrome patients An international study led by The University of Melbourne has confirmed that long-term regular taking of aspirin
University of Melbourne researchers and international collaborators, led by Dr Driss Ait Ouakrim and Dr Aung Ko Win from the School of Population and Global Health confirmed that those with Lynch syndrome who took aspirin regularly were less likely to develop bowel cancer than Lynch syndrome patients who did not take aspirin.
Researchers from the University of Exeter have discovered an innovative new method to produce the wonder material Graphene significantly cheaper,
The research team, led by Professor Monica Craciun, have used this new technique to create the first transparent and flexible touch-sensor that could enable the development of artificial skin for use in robot manufacturing.
Professor Craciun from Exeter Engineering department, believes the new discovery could pave the way for graphene-driven industrial revolutionto take place.
Professor Seigo Tarucha from the University of Tokyo, coordinator of the Global Center of Excellence for Physics at Tokyo university and director of the Quantum Functional System Research Group at Riken Center
After starting the collaboration with Professor Craciun group, we are using Exeter CVD grown graphene instead of the exfoliated material in our graphene-based devices, whenever possible.
Dr Thomas Bointon, from Moorfield Nanotechnology and former Phd student in Professor Craciun team at Exeter added:
Professor Saverio Russo, co-author and also from the University of Exeter added: his breakthrough will nurture the birth of new generations of flexible electronics and offers exciting new opportunities for the realization of graphene-based disruptive technologies.
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#Electrical engineers Break Power and Distance Barriers for Fiber optic communication Electrical engineers have broken key barriers that limit the distance information can travel in fiber optic cables
Photonics researchers at the University of California, San diego have increased the maximum power and therefore distance at which optical signals can be sent through optical fibers.
a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at UC San diego and the senior author on the Science paper. ur approach conditions the information before it is sent even,
said UC San diego electrical engineering Ph d. student Eduardo Temprana, the first author on the paper. The frequency comb ensured that the system did not accumulate the random distortions that make it impossible to reassemble the original content at the receiver.
John Laporte Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious diseases. s drug resistance is a major problem for malaria control and eradication,
Studies from a group at the University of Glasgow which are published in the same issue of the journal,
Researchers at Boston College working in collaboration with the Harvard Chan group showed that calcineurin is also important for cellular attachment by a related parasite that causes toxoplasmosis. ur study shows that the ability of malaria parasites to engage red blood cells is driven by an ancient mechanism
researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of engineering have designed a responsive hybrid material that is fueled by an oscillatory chemical reaction
Anna C. Balazs, Phd, Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Steven P. Levitan, Phd, 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,
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#NRL Researchers First to Detect Spin Precession in Silicon nanowires Scientists at the U s. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have reported the first observation of spin precession of spin currents flowing in a silicon nanowire
after all, masters in the mechanics of opening and closing again at the right time. Source:
#New nanogenerators collect friction energy from rolling tires Team of engineers from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a collaborator from China have developed a new nanogenerator that is able to generate power from friction created by rolling
Professor Xudong Wang, one of the authors of the study, noted that he friction between the tire
and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder. his technology can actively stabilize two items relative to each other with a precision well below one nanometer at room temperature,
University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist Su-Chun Zhang has shown a new way to silence genes in stem cells and their progeny at any stage of development.
The advance is from the lab of Uli Wiesner, the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering in the Department of Materials science and engineering,
But the scientists, 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.
says Ian Macdonald, a professor of ophthalmology with the Faculty of medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta,
and this new study sponsored by the University of Alberta is another step forward in the development of AAV2-REP1,
and the data to date have shown very promising results. he first clinical trials took place at the University of Oxford.
Alberta Innovates (Alberta Innovation and Advanced education), The Foundation Fighting Blindness, Choroideremia Research Foundation Canada, and private donors.
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#TSRI and Biotech Partners Find New Antibody Weapons against Marburg virus A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) identifies new immune molecules that protect against deadly Marburg virus, a relative
said Erica Ollmann Saphire, senior author of the new study, professor at TSRI and director of the Viral Hemorrhagic fever Immunotherapeutic Consortium.
Antibodies against one site on Marburg were revealed in a study by Vanderbilt University and TSRI in February 2015,
A University of Virginia engineering professor and her former graduate student are already there. Maite Brandt-Pearce, a professor in the Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer engineering,
and Mohammad Noshad, now a postdoctoral fellow in the Electrical engineering Department at Harvard university, have devised a way of using light waves from light-emitting diode fixtures to carry signals to wireless devices at 300 megabits per second from each light.
and earned his doctoral degree from U. Va. in 2013. e came up with the idea together,
and so it makes sense that we wanted the names of both professor and student on the patent,
along with the University on their idea and Noshad has created a company, VLNCOMM, for Visible light Network Communications, to which Brandt-Pearce is a consultant.
Jie Lian, another one of Brandt-Pearce graduate students who has finished his master degree in electrical engineering
and everybody has a good connection. e have a patent with the University and we will file more patents on the research being done now,
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