and quickly turns into a gel that conforms to the site of a wound, keeping it closed,
and injected at the site of a wound, where they reassemble themselves into a gel.
this indicates that the mouse is developing chronic epileptic seizures, says the molecular biologist Prof. Dr. Susanne Schoch from the department of Neuropathology at the University of Bonn.
mouse models were used in this research. Team of scientists took mouse hematopoetic progenitor cellsells that give rise to white blood cells.
and an elaborate computer analysis to identify the actual mutations in INTERGENIC DNA near the PDRM13 gene. ndividuals with this disease have normal eyes except that they fail to form maculas,
#New company to produce water-disinfecting tablets invented at UVA A new University of Virginia-inspired public benefit company with a global health mission,
The Madidrop tablet which will cost between $5 and $10, can provide clean water for up to six months.
The technology transfer company will produce ceramic water disinfection tablets called adidropsfor people in developing countries who have poor access to clean drinking water.
The Madidrop tablet, which uses silver to disinfect water, was developed and extensively tested by UVA scientists and students.
a research scientist in Smith lab, demonstrate use of the Madidrop tablet. UVA maintains ownership of intellectual property rights for Madidrop
000 to 200,000 Madidrop tablets in its first year, for sale primarily to nongovernmental aid organizations such as the U s. Agency for International Development, the International Rescue Committee, Catholic Relief Services
Those entities then would distribute the tablets to developing countries as needed, particularly during times of crises such as after a natural disaster.
The tablets also would be available in the United states. Madidrop PBC expects to eventually build capacity to produce 1 million to 2 million Madidrops per year.
Smith expects Madidrop tablets to cost less than $10 each, and possibly as low as $5 each.
With an effective use life of about six months per tablet, this is significantly cheaper than single-use chemical water purifying tablets,
Madidrop tablets are inexpensive to produce, are durable, reusable and easy to package, transport and ship.
Unlike small chemical tablets that dissolve in water and leave a chlorine aftertaste, Madidrop is made of a continuously reusable ceramic that is simply placed in a water vessel,
Silver ions are released gradually from the tablet, killing pathogens by penetrating cell membranes and disrupting cell division.
Extensive testing at UVA labs show that the tablet causes better than a 99.99 percent reduction in such infectious waterborne bacteria as Vibrio cholera
said Shu-Bing Qian, associate professor of nutritional sciences, and the paper senior author, along with Dr. Samie Jaffrey, professor of pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine.
That is precisely what University of Washington mathematics professor Gunther Uhlmann was expecting when he and three colleagues proposed a means to develop an electromagnetic wormhole in a 2007 paper in Physical Review Letters.
because it explores the world of atter computers, where computations (including walking) are carried out by physical objects, rather than by electronic or magnetic shuttles.
DNA walkers may eventually allow protective cells to walk the surface of organs, constantly computing whether a cancer is present. ore immediate practical applications may include deploying the DNA walker in the body
especially the mouse model, will be used by academics to isolate healthy cells modified by tumors, and by the pharmaceutical industry in the quest for novel anticancer drugs that block tumor-organ communication,
#Google Project Loon Set to Enmesh the Globe with Internet Balloons by 2016 Project Loon is yet another highly ambitious project of the tech-giant Google,
which aims to deliver Internet connectivity to areas of the world that don already enjoy good access to the web.
and finally onto the global Internet. The service will become available by attaching a special antenna to the roof of a user building.
Despite the project sounding like a pie-in-the-sky dream straight from a science fiction movie,
with Google itself calling it nprecedentedand even razy provided that all tests go as planned,
connectivity at the ground was provided akin to that by 3g cellular networks, whereas now the balloons can deliver speeds up to 10 megabits per second,
or the equivalent to 4g mobile speeds in many parts of the world. Cassidy said that
and then determined the structure employing synchrotron protein crystallography at the Advanced Photon Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility (both at Argonne).
rice and other crops, said Bing Yang from Iowa State university, whose team performed all the rice studies.
Algorithms for processing the signals have already been developed and they can be programmed into small chips to compute things like distance to objects or the time until a potential collision.
One focus of the group current work is integrating this system into ery small aerial platformslike the foldable quadrotor the lab recently developed.
#Google Bids to Make its Sideshows into Main Attractions Google founders Larry page and Sergey Brin seem determined to prove they gave the world more than a great advertising business.
and Internet balloons, ads on Web pages and inside apps provide over 90 percent of their company revenue.
Googleomprising the search engine, ad business, Youtube, and Android mobile softwares now just one of many subsidiaries of a conglomerate called Alphabet.
The CEO of the new Google is Sundar Pichai an executive who was most recently in charge of Google main products
and previously led work on the Chrome browser and operating system and Android. Alphabet other subsidiariest not clear just how many will bere a grab bag of attempts to shake up the world using new technologies.
They include the antiaging company Calico; a life sciences division, working on electronic contact lenses; the research lab Google X, where oonshotprojects include self-driving cars
and delivering Wireless internet via stratospheric balloons; and Nest, which sells connected home devices and is trying to reinvent the face-worn computer Google glass.
Larry page (as of today Alphabet CEO; Brin is described president Alphabet as ostly a collection of companiesin a blog post announcing the reorganization today.
Right nownd probably for a whilene of those ompanieswill be pulling the weight of all the rest.
But the message seems to be that ideas like self-driving cars and defeating aging could become as successful and influential as Google online services are today.
How long that will take is anybody guess. Calico looks to be the mooniest of moonshots.
Nest generates revenue today, but its thermostat and smoke detector likely don sell in huge volumes.
And although Google X Loon balloon project for Internet access is at the point of testing with wireless carriers
Many projects inside the Google X lab, such as the self-driving car, are about as distinct and mature as other Alphabet subsidiaries named today, for example.
a way for another drug to attach to the protein at a specific site. The technology might also pave the way to new biotech drugs.
the investment fund of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allenas solved the long-enough problem. Making the plasma hot enough is the next key challenge.
whose own program recently completed a $94 million upgrade of its experimental machine, has followed closely developments with the Tri Alpha
#Trick That Doubles Wireless Data Capacity Stands Up in Cell Network Tests Major wireless carriers have begun testing a technology that can double the capacity of any wireless data connection.
Recent tests by one of America largest wireless carriers and by Deutsche telekom, the German telecom giant that owns a majority stake in U s. carrier T-Mobile,
have shown now that doubling is feasible in real cellular networks. The results suggest that products Kumu Networks has in the works for cellular operators could help expand the capacity of mobile data networks.
In the longer term, the company hopes to deliver further capacity boosts by making its technology compact enough to fit inside mobile devices.
For this reason, the radios in our phones and computers either use separate channels to send
Kumu founders developed hardware and software that enables a radio receiver to filter out interference from outgoing signals.
This summer, Kumu worked with major wireless carriers on the first tests of its technology in real cellular network conditions.
Earlier this month, Deutsche telekom, Germany largest telecom provider, installed a small LTE cell tower containing Kumu technology on a rooftop in Prague.
Devices with Kumu technology mounted on top of cars played the role of cell phones linking to the network.
or people from making a direct line-of-site connection with the tower. On the whole, the capacity-doubling trick worked in those varying conditions,
when one of the largest U s. carriershich Kumu declines to namearried out similar but smaller tests on its own LTE network in the area around Kumu office in Sunnyvale, California. e
For example, when the devices playing the role of phones in the trial were close together, they sometimes interfered with each other.
and is a version of the small mobile base stations, known as small cells, used to improve coverage in busy locations such as stadiums.
and make a high-powered LTE link back to the core network. Making small cells fully wireless should help carriers deploy them in a wider range of places
and improve data coverage and capacity, says Hong. He expects that carriers will test that product in the field,
He confident that the technology will eventually arrive in phones. It is already being talked about in the industry as one part of a future 5g wireless data standard. ee maybe one
or two years away from having something that can be deployed in mobile, says Krishnaswamy b
a consortium that is developing brain-computer interfaces and includes the Case Western team. ut the fact that they got a person to control their own body,
Volunteers in brain-implant studies have moved previously computer cursors and controlled robotic arms. Last year, a different Ohio man with partial arm paralysis received a brain implant
and connect to computers that interpret the signals. To complete the bridge of the man spinal cord injury,
According to Kirsch, the volunteer is able to very accurately control a computer simulation of his wired-up arm using his brain signals.
Efforts to combine brain-computer interfaces with FES systems began 20 years ago. In a 1998 experiment, also at Case Western, a volunteer named Jim Jatich used signals collected from an EEG cap he wore over his head to trigger an early FES device known as Freehand,
#Google powers up highly scalable cloud-based Nosql database Google has introduced a new cloud-based Nosql database powered by Bigtable that is automatically scalable and designed specifically for large-scale implementations with an eye on the Internet of things.
Cloud Bigtable runs on Google's powerful Bigtable data storage system that already powers Gmail, Google search and Google analytics plus there's the added bonus that it's compatible with the Apache HBASE API.
The latter configuration means that it can be used with almost all existing applications in the Hadoop system whilst at the same time supporting Google's own Cloud Dataflow.
Google boasts that the solution offers its customers single-digit millisecond latency and double the performance per dollar when set against HBASE and Cassandra, according to Tech Crunch.
Cloud Bigtable is by no means Google's first trip into the cloud-based Nosql database space.
but is rather different in that it targets read-heavy workloads for mobile and web apps.
Google Cloud platform product manager told Tech Crunch, adding that many customers start on Cloud Datastore
Google is offering Cloud Bigtable in beta right now and until it is released fully there is no service level agreement or technical support available l
Researcher Kevin Mahaffey published his findings on the Lookout blog conveniently on opening day of the 23rd annual Def Con hacking conference in Las vegas
or white hats Mahaffey and partner Marc Rogers of web performance and security firm Cloudflare have worked already with Tesla to issue an over-the-air security update the week of Def Con before publishing their findings.
Mahaffey goes into exhaustive detail in his blog entry regarding the specifics of the hack.
Mahaffey and his partner in crime (for good) were able to perform any action possible from the car's touchscreen or Tesla's accompanying smartphone app.
and this interference pattern is used for writing/printing holograms. The technique requires far fewer optical components,
"It's hoped this new hologram-creation method could be miniaturized into a smartphone, or even used to create 3d artwork and"smart windows".
#This software sees if your brain is busy before interrupting There's a modern-day malady that everyone suffers from-getting distracted by phone notifications in the middle of something important and struggling to regain focus again.
But now computer scientists have developed software that automatically screens out low-priority emails or texts. It's called Phylter,
and uses a headband to detect when you're concentrating on something. Changes in blood flow in the prefrontal cortex can signal brain activity,
A machine-learning algorithm calibrates the system to different brains while tests using Google glass helped the team calibrate
A prototype of the system was shown off at the Human computer interaction International Conference in LA. As well as offering a barrier to concentration loss,
If you've been anxiously wondering what the future holds for Project Ara after Google became one part of Alphabet,
Over the course of seven rather cryptic tweets on@Projectara, the modular smartphone team confirmed that they're still"busy making stuff
The phone was scheduled to debut in Puerto rico sometime later this year. It looks like those plans might have changed,
"so it obviously still features in Google's plans in some way. The bottom line is we'll have to wait for the promised updates next week.
"so don't give up your dreams of a modular mobile just yet t
#How Siri will learn to recognise your voice at a crowded party AI assistants like Siri,
but until recently, computers lacked the same ability. That's changing, thanks to engineers at Duke university, who are developing a microphone with the same ability to zone out background noise.
but the engineers believe it could be scaled down into a smartphone or similar device.""We've invented a sensing system that can efficiently,
"We think this could improve the performance of voice-activated devices like smartphones and game consoles while also reducing the complexity of the system
#The iphone 6s release date has leaked, but no points for guessing it Apple is set to launch two new phones at the start of September in the form of the iphone 6s and iphone 6s Plus,
with an announcement heavily rumoured for September 9. Two out of the three major carriers in Germany have told German publication Macerkopf that both phones will be ready to pick up in store on September 18.
It makes sense as it'll be the second Friday after the announcement-that's the date Apple has been letting its phones loose on the wider public in recent years.
Germany is a first-tier launch country for the iphone so it's likely many other countries will get the phone on the same day.
These countries include Australia, Canada, France, Hong kong, Japan, Singapore, the UK and the US. At the moment rumours of the iphone 6s suggest the design will stay the same with big changes coming in the form of the A9 processor
and Force Touch being adapted for the new phone's display y
#Algae inspiration could boost your phone's battery Materials engineers trying to work out a way of boosting the performance of lithium-ion batteries have hit upon an unlikely inspiration-algae from a local pond.
In nature, single cells of algae can grow to huge sizes. Now, a team at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research has developed a new type of battery component out of carbon that mimics the way that single-celled algae forms,
and early testing shows a solid improvement on traditional batteries.""In nature, a great number of microorganisms, like diatoms, can assemble biominerals into intricate hierarchical three-dimensional architectures with great structural control,
"said Xi Li, who heads up the research group that made the discovery. Li and his team examined how the algae forms,
then used a similar process to develop tiny carbon spheres that act as a battery's anode.
Black Friday deals in 2015 will lead to the biggest day of spending the internet has seen ever It's now only 71 days until Black Friday!
On Black Friday last year, websites crashed, sales records were smashed and shoppers ravenously scooped up deals on tech, games and clothing in
Adobe crunched the numbers and reported that on Black Friday in the US last year consumers spent a record-breaking $2. 4 billion-up an extraordinary 24%on the previous year.
while GAME's website was selling PS4 and Xbox One consoles to British gamers at a rate of 3, 600 per hour.
of which the internet had seen never before. So what's in store for Black Friday 2015? Well despite MPS having urged UK retailers to boycott Black Friday this year,
The numbers on Black Friday in 2014 were so big that websites fell over like Victorian ladies on a hot day, with HP, Best Buy, Currys, Tesco, Argos,
Boots and Game's websites all requiring smelling salts. The Currys website in the UK crashed
despite the company having implemented a system where users had to queue to use it,
a queue that was still over an hour long by lunchtime. The chaos isn't over, either.
And while Black Friday chaos online led to websites crashing, bedlam on the highstreet tends to be a lot more troublesome.
Clearly-it's much safer to stay at home and pick up your deals on the internet, and that's what the majority of people did on Black Friday 2014.
To give you an idea of just how busy the sites were, John Lewis and Currys-two of the UK's biggest retail websites-both saw their web traffic triple compared to Black Friday 2013.
Meanwhile, Techradar's own Black Friday pages attracted more than 1. 6 million page views. So it's no exaggeration to say that the pre-Christmas retail landscape was changed forever on November 28 last year.
they would lose out on footfall or website hits in a key spending weekend.""The upshot?
According to IBM, Black Friday sales were 63.5%higher than Thanksgiving day sales -but last year they were 70%.
and consoles had a negative effect on its bottom line. In the US, IBM reported that while overall sales were up,
the average order value was down across both Black Friday and Thanksgiving. That might explain why John Lewis boss Andy Street has poured cold water on the idea of Black Friday,
"Street predicts that Black Friday 2015 will still see lots of deals around electronics and computing,
One of the hottest products on Black Friday last year was the ipad mini and that will likely be the case again in 2015.
In the UK the ipad mini was going for under £150 practically everywhere. It's worth retailers offering us these headline products with big discounts
because they expect that we'll buy more than one item once we're on their site.
If you fancy buying your kids a console this Christmas, wait until November 27. We saw many amazing deals on TVS last year
so if you're interested in buying a 4k TV in time for Christmas, again you'd be wise to wait for the Black Friday deals madness to begin.
Last year in the we also saw amazing soundbar deals, Dualshock 4 game controllers for under half price, Google Chromecasts for under $23/£18, huge savings on iphones, amazing deals
#Sharp wants to sell you a little robot as your next smartphone Not taken by the Nexus 6p?
Turned off by the iphone 6s? A little cool on the Lumia 950 XL? If you remain to be convinced by any of the current handsets then Sharp
"a mixture of the Japanese words for"robot"and"phone")and it does everything from make phonecalls to project movies on your living room wall.
The underlying idea is to make the phone more personal: like Siri in a physical form.
a phone that you feel like talking to, a phone that also wants to know you".
"Or at least a phone that wants to know you until the robot revolution arrives. Standing 19. 5cm tall (a robot head taller than the iphone 6s Plus) and weighing 390g (almost three times the Samsung galaxy S6),
Robohon has a 2-inch QVGA screen and can connect to 3g, 4g and Wi-fi networks.
Inside there's a 1. 2ghz CPU keeping everything moving...quite literally. It can make calls,
send texts and manage your email, as well as respond to your questions and even recognise your face in a crowd.
Robohon is able to walk and move independently, so you can send it to the other end of the room to take a photo of you and your friends.
A modified version of Android runs the whole show. It's certainly something different if nothing else.
The humanoid robot is going on sale in 2016 but at the moment we don't have any details on pricing or international availability y
Sure enough, when the researchers spiked mouse serum with a dose of nicotine equivalent to one cigarette, then added Nica2 to the mix, the enzyme cut nicotine half-life from more than two hours to less than 15 minutes.
they may inject them into the mouse bloodstream. The bubbles should travel into the tiny blood vessels of the brain.
according to the in vitro mouse study published last week (October 15) in Science. reviously, with plastic material,
Bao and her colleagues demonstrated that the sensors could relay pressure signals to the mammalian nervous system by linking them to a blue LED light that in turn stimulated slices of mouse brain that had been engineered to respond to those wavelengths.
means that the high-density storage of computers could now be incorporated directly into the circuits that perform calculations.
and improving computer performance. o reduce the power draw and increase the speed, we want to be able to manufacture a computer chip that includes memory
so that it is close to the computational action, said Sayeef Salahuddin, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences,
and head of the research team at Berkley. owever, the physics needed to create long-term storage are not compatible with integrated circuits.
nonvolatile computer memory, said James Tour, professor of materials science, nanoengineering and computer science at Rice university. While current flash technology requires three electrodes per circuit,
This will be a real competitor for the growing memory demands in high-definition video storage and server arrays. uring development
After being stretched, the microcapsule is refilled by the drugs that continue to leak out of the nanoparticles. his can be used to apply drugs directly to sites on the skin
#Metamaterials assist in'cocktail party'voice recognition Engineers at Duke university have developed a new type of sensor that enhances a computer ability to identify individual sounds that are overlapping,
helping address the so-called ocktail partyproblem of voice recognition software. The device, described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is shaped like a large honeycombed pie with dozens of interlocking slices.
professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke. heepth of the cavitiesffects the pitch of the sound they make,
then transmitted to a computer that is able to separate the overlapping noises based on the unique distortion patterns.
a Phd student in electrical and computer engineering at Duke and lead author of the paper. e think this could improve the performance of voice-activated devices like smart phones
and game consoles while also reducing the complexity of the system. ith the extra information,
#Researchers demonstrate thought-controlled exoskeleton Scientists have developed a brain-computer control interface for a lower limb exoskeleton by decoding specific brain signals.
the system allows users to move forwards, turn left and right, sit and stand by staring at one of five flickering light emitting diodes (LEDS).
and when the user focusses their attention on a specific LED this frequency is reflected within the EEG readout.
with EEG caps and hardware now emerging on the consumer market. It only took volunteers a few minutes to be trained in how to operate the system
and researchers are now working to reduce the isual fatigueassociated with longer-term users of such systems. e were driven to assist disabled people,
it can sometimes be pointing in the wrong direction to provide a picture of a site of concern.
#Algorithm helps prosthetic leg automatically adapt to user Researchers in the US have developed software that enables powered prosthetic legs to automatically adapt to individual users.
However, a special algorithm, developed by a group from North carolina State university and the University of North carolina, allows this process to happen automatically,
The automatic-tuning algorithm takes a similar approach, tracking the angle of the prosthetic joint while walking.
the software is also able to track changes in a patient physical condition and make adjustments accordingly. or example,
the algorithm could provide more power to a prosthesis when a patient carries a heavy suitcase through an airport,
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