#Elastic Gel to Heal Wounds A team of bioengineers at Brigham and Women Hospital (BWH), led by Ali Khademhosseini, Phd,
with the participation of researchers from the CNIO Molecular Imaging Core Unit and from the Complutense University of Madrid, is being published this week in the journal Cell Reports.
A group of researchers, lead by Vasily M. Studitsky, professor at the Lomonosov Moscow State university, discovered a new mechanism of DNA repair,
who is the leading researcher and the head of the Laboratory of Regulation of Transcription and Replication at the Biological Faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State university.
The damage of the DNA, if not repaired, leads to accumulation of mutations, cell death, and to the development of various diseases, including neurodegenerative, e g.
Now a team from Harvard Medical school, using electron cryomicroscopy (imaging frozen specimens to reduce damage from electron radiation),
HMS professor of microbiology and immunobiology and senior author of the paper. think if you were trying to develop a viral-specific target to block the replication of one of these viruses,
A team from Whelan lab, working with a group led by Stephen Harrison, Giovanni Armenise Harvard Professor of Basic Biomedical science at HMS and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator
At the end of 2009n collaboration with Phd student Søren Helstrup Kvist from DTU Electrical Engineeringhe company further developed the so-called 2. 4 GHZ technology
Radio waves creeping over your head Kaj Bjarne Jakobsen is an associate professor at DTU Electrical engineering. He has acted as supervisor for the group of Phd students who,
together with Jesper Thaysen, have developed the antenna technology used in GN Resound ear-to-ear hearing aids today.
#Tablet technology to help children with autism Monash University researchers have developed the world first tablet technology designed to assist children with developmental disabilities such as autism and Down syndrome.
in a bid to facilitate learning and inclusion within the school environment. The gaming technology developed with Dreamworks contractor Torus Games and Australian Technology Commercialisation firm,
Disruption to these processes can lead to difficulties in learning and academic performance, as well as difficulties developing social skills.
Lead researcher, Professor Kim Cornish, from the Monash School of Psychological sciences, said traditional methods, such as IQ TESTS
According to Professor Cornish, these testing methods also did not isolate which areas needed improvement, or in fact which interventions have made the improvement.
These were maintained for up to three months after the training ceased (longer term testing has yet to be conducted.
Numeracy abilitiesthe new gaming technology developed by Professor Cornish and her team is being commercialised by a spinoff company, Tali Health,
According to Professor Cornish, while there are literally hundreds of apps available that claim to improve attention, intelligence,
At Monash and previously at Mcgill University in Canada, Professor Cornish has been studying attention delays in children with developmental disorders,
#Crowd-sourced computing reveals how to make better water filters with nanotubes Crowd-sourced computing has helped an international research team including researchers from the University of Sydney discover a new method of improving water filtration systems and water quality.
The research was led by the Center for Nano and Micro Mechanics (CNMM) at Tsinghua University in Beijing
with international partners including researchers from the University of Sydney in Australia. rior to our project,
a Phd from Tsinghua University, was also a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney working with nanotechnology expert Associate professor Luming Shen on the research.
says co-author Associate professor Shen. he volunteers downloaded and ran the project on their computers. The project results have important implications for desalination
Associate professor Shen explains the ongoing research. e plan to explicitly include the effects of defects in carbon nanotubes,
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#Bats do it, dolphins do it. Now humans can do it too University of California, Berkeley, physicists have used graphene to build lightweight ultrasonic loudspeakers and microphones,
enabling people to mimic bats or dolphinsability to use sound to communicate and gauge the distance and speed of objects around them.
Bat expert Michael Yartsev, a newly hired UC Berkeley assistant professor of bioengineering and member of the Helen wills said Neuroscience Institute
a team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Laura Kiessling describes the knack of a human protein known as intelectin to distinguish between our cells
In addition to Kiessling lab, groups in the labs of UW-Madison bacteriology Professor Katrina Forest, Scripps Research Institute cell and molecular biology Professor James Paulson,
and Emory University biochemistry Professor Richard Cummings contributed to the study. Intelectin is not new to science, Kiessling notes,
The research team led by Professor Chun T. Rim of the Nuclear and Quantum Engineering Department at KAIST has made great strides in WPT development.
Professor Rim team has showcased successfully the technology on July 7, 2015 at a lab on KAIST campus. They used high-frequency magnetic materials in a dipole coil structure to build a thin,
Professor Rim succeeded in transferring 209 watts of power wirelessly to the distance of five meters.
Professor Rim said, ur transmitter system is safe for humans and compatible with other electronic devices.
a research team led by Weill Cornell Medical College investigators reported July 7 in the Annals of Internal medicine.
and a professor of radiology and of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. f physicians can accurately predict who is at risk,
In collaboration with researchers from Emory University School of medicine in Atlanta and Cedars-Sinai Medical center in Los angeles, the researchers reviewed medical records of 9, 715 patients in the area surrounding Nashville, Tennessee,
Juan Hinestroza and his students live in a cotton-soft nano world, where they create clothing that kills bacteria, conducts electricity, wards off malaria,
said Hinestroza, associate professor of fiber science, who directs the Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory at Cornell. n a nanoscale world
Taking advantage of cotton irregular topography, Hinestroza and his students added conformal coatings of gold nanoparticles,
Two of Hinestroza students created a hooded bodysuit embedded with insecticides using metal organic framework molecules,
Other students have used MOFS to create a mask and hood capable of trapping toxic gases in a selective manner.
was made in the lab of Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied science (SEAS).
and graduate student in the Capasso lab. t important that we not only observed these wakes but found multiple ways to control
the postdoctoral scholar has been awarded the 2015 Lindros Award from the UCSB Translational Medical Research Laboratory (TMRL).
and of his students which is especially gratifying and motivating, he added. The $10, 000 grant provided by the award will be used in direct support of the development of the Omnisense lab-on-a-chip. he promise and delivery of high-throughput, real-time,
Janssen, who received his doctoral degree from Leiden University, is no stranger to the sensing of the very small.
which he received from the University of Nijmegen in The netherlands he did internships in the country and in France on detecting neurotransmitter secretion from single neurons.
said UCSB mechanical engineering professor Sumita Pennathur. t a big step forward in terms of bringing out nanofluidic technology to real biomedical applications of disease diagnosis
#Researchers identify cause of heart damage in sepsis patients Researchers at the University of Liverpool Institute of Infection
Dr Yasir Alhamdi, from the University Institute of Infection and Global Health, said: his new discovery has important clinical implications.
Professor Cheng-Hock Toh from the University Institute of Infection and Global Health, said: he translational impact to patients with sepsis can extend beyond biomarker prediction of heart complications,
to novel targeted treatment for improved survival. his discovery could therefore enable us to better stratify patients for more precise and personalised treatment in sepsis
assistant professor in chemistry at the University of Chicago, have developed the first skeleton-like silicon spicules ever prepared via chemical processes. sing bone formation as a guide,
and Northwestern University described their new method for the syntheses and fabrication of mesocopic three-dimensional semiconductors (intermediate between the nanometer and macroscopic scales).
and stimulation at bio-interfaces, said lead author Zhiqiang Luo, a postdoctoral scholar in Tian laboratory.
researchers at Boston Children 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 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,
such strains are only found at low levels within the human gut, according to Timothy Lu, an associate professor of biological engineering and of electrical engineering and computer science,
a professor of biological engineering at MIT. e wanted to work with strains like B. thetaiotaomicron that are present in many people in abundant levels,
Tom Ellis, group leader of the Centre for Synthetic biology at Imperial College London, who was involved not in the research,
Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have found that if PTEN, a known tumor-suppressor gene, has mutated
said Dr. Wen H. Shen, the study lead investigator and an assistant professor of cell biology in radiation oncology at Weill Cornell. ased on our research,
Pushing the Envelope A new study led by scientists at Harvard Medical school and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical center demonstrates that a heterologous prime-boost HIV-1 vaccine regimen protected 50 percent of vaccinated nonhuman primates against challenges with the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV),
HMS professor of medicine and director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess. e are encouraged very by the results of this latest preclinical HIV-1 vaccine study
#Discovery of a eat-storage ceramicresearchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered a new type of material which stores heat energy for a prolonged period,
The heat storage ceramic discovered by the research group of Professor Ohkoshi at the University of Tokyo Graduate school of Science preserves heat energy for a prolonged period.
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#Researchers Build a Transistor from a Molecule and A few Atoms An international team of physicists has used a scanning tunneling microscope to create a minute transistor consisting of a single molecule and a small number of atoms.
This makes it ideal for gaming and other entertainment applications as well as training simulations remote medicine and a wide variety of other business, civil and military uses. 3d Tau SSE technology is designed to be embedded directly into a new generation of screens for televisions, movie theaters, computer displays, game
with applications in entertainment, education, scientific modeling and simulators for training, transportation and industrial uses.
INVISTA Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at NC State and the paper corresponding author. e show here an inexpensive and environmentally responsible method to make effective antimicrobials with biomaterial cores. he researchers used the nanoparticles
#Researchers create model of early human heart development from stem cells Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley,
said Kevin Healy, a UC Berkeley professor of bioengineering, who is co-senior author of the study with Dr. Bruce Conklin,
a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular disease and a professor of medical genetics and cellular and molecular pharmacology at UC San francisco. his technology could help us quickly screen for drugs likely to generate cardiac birth defects,
The authors of the study, from Osaka University in Japan, say their dissolvable patch the only vaccination system of its kind could make vaccination easier, safer and less painful.
said Professor Shinsaku Nakagawa, one of the authors of the study from Osaka University. ecause the new patch is so easy to use,
we believe it will be particularly effective in supporting vaccination in developing countries. he new microneedle patch Microhyala is dissolvable in water.
and in some cases even more effective, said Professor Nakagawa. Previous research has evaluated the use of microneedles made of silicon or metal,
said Professor Nakagawa. Source: Eurekaler a
#Physicists discover long-sought entaquarkparticle CERN Large hadron collider announced Tuesday that researchers discovered a remarkable class of particles known as pentaquarks that could reshape scientistsunderstanding about the properties of matter.
a Syracuse University team funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), wasn specifically looking for them.
According to Syracuse physicist Sheldon Stone, graduate student Nathan Jurik was studying the decay of a different particle
when the pentaquark was detected. e asked a graduate student to examine what we thought was an uninteresting and minor source of background events,
said LHCB physicist Tomasz Skwarnicki of Syracuse University, whose research group was a leader in the analysis. ore precisely the states must be formed of two up quarks, one down quark, one charm quark and one anti-charm quark.
which supports the research through nine awards to scientists from Syracuse University, the University of Maryland College Park,
the Massachusetts institute of technology and the University of Cincinnati working at the Large hadron collider. he pentaquark is not just any new particle,
#Research Team Improves Lithium air batteries For Electric car Industry A research team from Carnegie mellon University and the University of California,
assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie mellon. very electrolyte has a solvent and a salt. So if you take Gatorade,
a team led by Viswanathan and Assistant professor Bryan Mccloskey from the University of California, Berkeley, published a paper in Nature Chemistry,
Viswanathan, Mccloskey and their colleagues Mechanical engineering Ph d. Student Vikram Pande, Abhishek Khetan, a visiting Ph d. student,
a graduate student in Mccloskey lab have published just a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Researchers at the Washington University School of medicine, St louis, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, created a remote controlled,
next-generation tissue implant that allows neuroscientists to inject drugs and shine lights on neurons deep inside the brains of mice.
Its development was funded partially by the National institutes of health. t unplugs a world of possibilities for scientists to learn how brain circuits work in a more natural setting. said Michael R. Bruchas, Ph d.,associate professor of anesthesiology and neurobiology at Washington University School of medicine and a senior author
Jae-Woong Jeong, Ph d.,a bioengineer formerly at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, worked with Jordan G. Mccall, Ph d.,a graduate student in the Bruchas lab,
said John A. Rogers, Ph d.,professor of materials science and engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a senior author. ltra-miniaturized devices like this have tremendous potential for science and medicine. ith a thickness of 80 micrometers and a width of 500 micrometers,
the optofluidic implant is thinner than the metal tubes, or cannulas, scientists typically use to inject drugs.
who is now an assistant professor of electrical, computer, and energy engineering at University of Colorado Boulder. e tried to engineer the implant to meet some of neurosciences greatest unmet needs. n the study,
the scientists provide detailed instructions for manufacturing the implant. tool is only good if it used,
Odds of recurrenceresearchers of the University of Twente have developed therefore a system, a so-called nomogram, that doctors can use together with patients to simply calculate the odds of recurrence of the disease themselves, on the basis of the age of the patient, the information on the original tumour and the treatment used.
The University of Twente will now get to work on providing doctors with concrete recommendations for planning subsequent check-ups.
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#Plankzooka Larval Sampler May Revolutionize Deep ocean Research Scientists have conducted successfully the first high-volume collection of plankton,
Scientists and engineers from Duke university, the University of Oregon and Woods hole oceanographic institution (WHOI) deployed the new sampler nicknamed Plankzooka for its uncanny resemblance to two bazooka rocket launchers on July 9 during a research expedition aboard the RV Atlantis
a Susan J. Rosowski associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering. hen you have two small grains merge into a larger grain,
developed by an international collaboration led by the University of Cambridge and IBM, opens opportunities to tailor properties and functionalities of materials for a wide range of semiconductor device applications.
a Cornell entomology professor and a co-author of the study along with Keri San miguel, the manager in Scott lab. his is an insecticide that is based on a specific gene.
#olecular spongeadvancement in storing hydrogen Researchers at the University of Bath have discovered that hydrogen absorbed in specialised carbon nanomaterials can achieve extraordinary storage densities at moderate temperatures and pressures.
It was led by Dr Valeska Ting from University Department of Chemical engineering in conjunction with researchers from Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and collaborators in the USA and Germany.
#Scientists Stretch Electrically Conducting Fibers to New Lengths An international research team based at The University of Texas at Dallas has made electrically conducting fibers that can be stretched reversibly to over 14 times their initial length and
#How to make chromosomes from DNA Researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered a long-overlooked process important for converting a long, string-like DNA molecule into a chromosome.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo, including Assistant professor Takashi Sutani, Professor Katsuhiko Shirahige (Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences) and Ph d student Toyonori Sakata (Graduate school of Agricultural and Life sciences), isolated from cells
and analyzed DNA segments to which condensin binds, and revealed that condensin is associated with single stranded-dna DNA (ssdna)
says Assistant professor Sutani u
#Discovery: cells unwillingly help adenoviruses Various viruses claim many lives every day and cause other nonlethal infections that can lead to serious complications.
Now scientists at the University of Zurich have found that adenoviruses penetrate the cells with the help of the cells themselves.
adenoviruses, as now team of scientists from the University of Zurich have discovered, use this natural repair mechanism to cause infections.
a Professor in the Faculty of medicine Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology. ee now discovered the DNA mbulanceand the road it takes. ekhail discovered this DNA ambulance,
said graduate student and first author Daniel Chung. lmost every aspect of disease can be linked to problems with DNA. ow Mekhail team is searching for more DNA ambulances
For well more than a decade, Chang Lu, a professor of chemical engineering at Virginia Tech, has worked on the development of tools to effectively analyze living cells with the long-term goal of gaining a better understanding of a range of diseases.
Lu and his students develop small microfluidic devices with micrometer features for examining molecular events inside cells.
The latest breakthrough comes from Lu collaboration with Kai Tan at the University of Iowa, a systems biologist and associate professor of internal medicine.
The work is based on a team effort of ASU faculty Wei Liu Petra Fromme, Raimund Fromme, John Spence and Uwe Weierstall, with their teams of researchers and students, including:
researchers Nadia Zatsepin and Stella Lisova from the Department of physics as well as the graduate students Shibom Basu, Jesse Coe, Chelsie Conrad and Shatabdi Roy-Chowdhury from the Department of chemistry and Biochemistry,
and Daniel James and Dingjie Wang from the Department of physics. In the future, the researchers hope to study the signaling protein arrestin with other GPCRS that are involved in heart disease
assistant professor in the Department of chemistry and Biochemistry and member of the Center for Applied Structural Discovery. his study provides important clues about how we can improve human health
also a gastroenterologist at MGH and an instructor at Harvard Medical school. material like this represents a real advance
Traverso and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute, are the senior authors of a paper in the issue of Nature Materials that describes the application of this new
a professor of medical science and engineering at Brown University who was not involved with this study. his is a very smart approach.
an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at Duke. e can now start to think about making fast-switching devices based on this research, so there a lot of excitement about this demonstration. leb Akselrod, Maiken Mikkelsen,
and Jonathan Weissman, Phd, professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at UCSF and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator.
Doudna, professor of chemistry and of cell and molecular biology at Berkeley, and an HHMI investigator,
while at the Swedish University of Agricultural sciences and carried out ongoing studies at the university
and with colleagues at China Fujian Academy of Agricultural sciences and Hunan Agricultural University. he need to increase starch content and lower methane emissions from rice production is recognized widely
CSIRO new method, developed in collaboration with The University of Padova (Italy) and The University of Adelaide, makes the crystals viable to manufacture for the first time by reducing the production time from up to two days down to as few as 15 minutes.
The crystals are made of extremely porous metal organic frameworks (MOFS) and have an internal storage capacity of 7,
Cun-Zheng Ning, professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, authored the paper, monolithic white laser, with his doctoral students Fan Fan, Sunay Turkdogan, Zhicheng Liu
who also spent extended time at Tsinghua University in China during several years of the research.
He and his graduate students turned to nanotechnology to achieve their milestone. The key is that at nanometer scale larger mismatches can be tolerated better than in traditional growth techniques for bulk materials.
He and his students have been researching various nanomaterials to see how far they could push the limit of advantages of nanomaterials to explore the high crystal quality growth of very dissimilar materials.
who is now assistant professor at University of Yalova in Turkey. After exhaustive research, the group finally came up with a strategy to create the required shape first
in research published on the cover of the July edition of Hepatology, scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Alexander Grass Center for Bioengineering report that they produced large amounts of functional liver cells from human
said V. Reggie Edgerton, senior author of the research and a UCLA distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology,
Edgerton and colleagues, the University of Louisville Susan Harkema and Claudia Angeli and UCLA Yury Gerasimenko, reported that four young men who had been paralyzed for years were able to move their legs, hips,
along with Ruslan Gorodnichev of Russia Velikie Luky State Academy of Physical education and Sport, demonstrated that they could induce involuntary stepping movements in healthy,
as well as Daniel Lu, associate professor of neurosurgery, researchers Morteza Modaber, Roland Roy and Dimitry Sayenko, research technician Sharon Zdunowski, research scientist Parag Gad, laboratory
and Adam Ferguson, assistant professor of neurological surgery at UC San francisco. Edgerton and his research team also plan to study people who have severe,
An international group of clinicians and scientists from different universities and research institutions, among them the Berlin-based Max Planck Institute for Molecular genetics (Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Hans Lehrach, group
Further, researchers from the team of Jean-Pierre Bourquin from the University Children Hospital in Zürich
It a wonderful example of the power that comes from combining advances in basic biological research with technological innovation. he study was conducted by a team of researchers at the University of California, Los angeles;
University of California, San francisco; and the Pavlov Institute, St petersburg, Russia. The team was led by V. Reggie Edgerton, Ph d.,a distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology at UCLA and Yury Gerasimenko, Ph d.,director of the laboratory of movement physiology at Pavlov Institute and a researcher
in UCLA Department of Integrative biology and Physiology. They reported their results in the Journal of Neurotrauma.
and Claudia Angeli, Ph d.,from the University of Louisville, Kentuckyeported that four men with complete motor paralysis were able to generate some voluntary movements while receiving electrical stimulation to their spinal cords.
whether physical training combined with electrical stimulation could enhance efforts to move voluntarily. For the final four weeks of the study, the men were given the pharmacological drug buspirone
After just four weeks of receiving stimulation and physical training, the men were able to double their range of motion
of the Boston University School of medicine. e had this clean idea of how there a really nice order to how neurons connect with each other,
called Ribo-T, was created in the laboratories of Alexander Mankin, director of the UIC College of Pharmacy Center for Biomolecular Sciences,
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University have engineered a tethered ribosome that works nearly as well as the authentic cellular component,
called Ribo-T, was created in the laboratories of Alexander Mankin, director of the UIC College of Pharmacy Center for Biomolecular Sciences,
and Northwestern Michael Jewett, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering. The human-made ribosome may be able to be manipulated in the laboratory to do things natural ribosomes cannot do.
a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard university. Existing implantable electrodes are too large and rigid,
whose energy harvesting technology was invented by Chi-Chih Chen, a research associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ohio State university.
That possible because Google engineers created slimmed-down versions of the artificial neural networks it uses in a technique called deep learning (see 0 Breakthrough Technologies 2013:
Deep Learning. They live inside the translation app and recognize the characters used by the different languages,
Nvidia Demos a Car Computer Trained with Deep Learning Many cars now include cameras or other sensors that record the passing world and trigger intelligent behavior,
Most impressive, it includes a system trained to recognize different objects using a powerful technique known as deep learning (see 0 Breakthrough Technologies 2013:
Deep Learning. Another computer from Nvidia, called the Drive CX, is designed to generate realistic 3-D maps
said John Leonard, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, who works on autonomous car technology. t the first such computer that seems really designed for a carn autopilot computer.
The introduction of Nvidia product is a landmark moment for deep learning, a technology that processes sensory information efficiently by loosely mimicking the way the brain works.
Yoshua Bengio, a deep-learning researcher at the University of Montreal, says the Nvidia chipset is an important commercial milestone. would not call it a breakthrough,
Yann Lecun, a data scientist at New york University who leads deep-learning efforts at Facebook (see acebook Launches Advanced AI Effort to Find Meaning in Your Posts,
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