Chemical Synthesis Could Produce More Potent Antibiotics By: Anne Trafton | MIT News Office Using a novel type of chemical reaction, MIT researchers have shown that they can modify antibiotics in a way that could potentially make them more effective against drug-resistant infections. By chemically linking the antibiotic vancomycin to [..]
Artificial Intelligence in The Future By: Aysha Naurein| TOC August finalist Artificial intelligence (AI) or hybrid intelligence has definitely taken the world by storm. From the smart phones we use today that can detect speech and identify faces to the human-like robots, we have come a long way. The idea of artificial [..]
How to Mass Produce Cell-Sized Robots By: David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Tiny robots no bigger than a cell could be mass-produced using a new method developed by researchers at MIT. The microscopic devices, which the team calls “syncells” (short for synthetic cells), might eventually be used to monitor [..]
New CRISPR Tool Opens Up More of The Genome For Editing By: Helen Knight | MIT News correspondent The genome editing system CRISPR has become a hugely important tool in medical research, and could ultimately have a significant impact in fields such as agriculture, bioenergy, and food security. The targeting system [..]
Probiotics And Antibiotics Create a Killer Combination By: Anne Trafton | MIT News Office In the fight against drug-resistant bacteria, MIT researchers have enlisted the help of beneficial bacteria known as probiotics. In a new study, the researchers showed that by delivering a combination of antibiotic drugs and probiotics, they could [..]
New, Highly Stable Catalyst May Help Turn Water Into Fuel By: Lois Yoksoulian |Physical Sciences Editor Breaking the bonds between oxygen and hydrogen in water could be a key to the creation of hydrogen in a sustainable manner, but finding an economically viable technique for this has proved difficult. Researchers report [..]
Perovskite Solar Cells Leap Towards Commercialization By : Ipsita Herlekar |OSIT News Solar energy has long been considered the most sustainable option for replacing our dependence on fossil fuels, but technologies for converting solar energy into electricity must be both efficient and inexpensive. Scientists from the Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit at [..]
New Battery Gobbles Up Carbon Dioxide By: David L. Chandler | MIT News Office A new type of battery developed by researchers at MIT could be made partly from carbon dioxide captured from power plants. Rather than attempting to convert carbon dioxide to specialized chemicals using metal catalysts, which is currently [..]
Nanotubes Change The Shape of Water By: Rice University News First, according to Rice University engineers, get a nanotube hole. Then insert water. If the nanotube is just the right width, the water molecules will align into a square rod. Rice materials scientist Rouzbeh Shahsavari and his team used molecular models to [..]
Shape-Shifting Material Can Morph, Reverse Itself Using Heat, Light By: University of Colorado at Boulder A new material developed by CU Boulder engineers can transform into complex, pre-programmed shapes via light and temperature stimuli, allowing a literal square peg to morph and fit into a round hole before fully reverting to [..]
New Antibiotic Candidates Discovered by MIT Scientists By: Anne Trafton | MIT News Office The human body produces many antimicrobial peptides that help the immune system fend off infection. Scientists hoping to harness these peptides as potential antibiotics have now discovered that other peptides in the human body can also [..]
Picture This: Camera With No Lens By: University of Uta News In the future, your car windshield could become a giant camera sensing objects on the road. Or each window in a home could be turned into a security camera. University of Utah electrical and computer engineers have discovered a [..]
Revolutionary Printable Metal Tags Turn Everyday Objects Into Smart, Connected Devices By: University of California – San Diego Engineers have developed printable metal tags that could be attached to everyday objects and turn them into “smart” Internet of Things devices. The metal tags are made from patterns of copper foil printed onto [..]
Novel Optics for Ultrafast Cameras By: Rob Matheson | MIT News Office MIT researchers have developed novel photography optics that capture images based on the timing of reflecting light inside the optics, instead of the traditional approach that relies on the arrangement of optical components. These new principles, the researchers [..]
Making Cancer Treatment Less Toxic by AI Based Machine-Learning From Patient Data By: Rob Matheson | MIT News Office MIT researchers are employing novel machine-learning techniques to improve the quality of life for patients by reducing toxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy dosing for glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer. [..]
These On-chip Optical Filter Can Processes Wide Range of Light Wavelengths By: Rob Matheson’ | MIT News Office MIT researchers have designed an optical filter on a chip that can process optical signals from across an extremely wide spectrum of light at once, something never before available to integrated optics [..]
Let it rain! New coatings make natural fabrics waterproof MIT-developed process could offer nontoxic alternative to environmentally harmful chemicals. By: David L. Chandler | MIT News Office Fabrics that resist water are essential for everything from rainwear to military tents, but conventional water-repellent coatings have been shown to persist in [..]
This Wireless System Can Power Devices Inside the Body By: Anne Trafton | MIT News Office MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have developed a new way to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within the human body. Such devices could be used to deliver [..]
First-in-World Robot-Assisted Spinal Surgery By: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Noah Pernikoff is back to his life in New York City after becoming the first patient in the world to undergo a complex three-part, robotic-assisted surgery. The robotic arms made it possible for the multidisciplinary team at Penn to successfully [..]
Could Robots be Counsellors? Early Research Shows Positive User Experience By: University of Plymouth News New research has shown for the first time that a social robot can deliver a ‘helpful’ and ‘enjoyable’ motivational interview (MI) – a counselling technique designed to support behaviour change. Many participants in the University of [..]
FDA Permits Marketing of Artificial Intelligence-Based IDx-DR for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy By: FDA News The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today permitted marketing of the first medical device to use artificial intelligence to detect greater than a mild level of the eye disease diabetic retinopathy in adults who have diabetes. Diabetic [..]
Breakthrough Made in Atomically Thin Magnets By: Syl Kacapyr | Cornell News Cornell researchers have become the first to control atomically thin magnets with an electric field, a breakthrough that provides a blueprint for producing exceptionally powerful and efficient data storage in computer chips, among other applications. The research is detailed [..]
New Test Kit for Personalized, Precise Cancer Therapy A team of scientists led by Professor Lim Chwee Teck, Principal Investigator at the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and NUS PhD graduate Dr Khoo Bee Luan, has developed [..]
Novel Chip for Fast and Accurate Disease Detection at Low Cost By: NYU News A novel invention by a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) holds promise for a faster and cheaper way to diagnose diseases with high accuracy. Professor Zhang Yong from the Department of [..]
Greener and Cheaper Technique for Biofuel Production By: NYU News A team of engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently discovered that a naturally occurring bacterium, Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum TG57, isolated from waste generated after harvesting mushrooms, is capable of directly converting cellulose, a plant-based material, to biobutanol. A research team [..]
New insight about how viruses use host proteins to their advantage By: Uppsala University Viruses have a very limited set of genes and therefore must use the cellular machineries of their hosts for most parts of their growth. A new study, led by scientists at Uppsala University, has discovered a specific [..]
Even DNA that Doesn’t Encode Genes Can Drive Cancer By: UCSD News Most of the human genome — 98 percent — is made up of DNA but doesn’t actually encode genes, the recipes cells use to build proteins. The vast majority of genetic mutations associated with cancer occur in these [..]
MIT Engineers Turn Plastic Insulator into Heat Conductor By: Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Plastics are excellent insulators, meaning they can efficiently trap heat — a quality that can be an advantage in something like a coffee cup sleeve. But this insulating property is less desirable in products such [..]
Paper-Folding Art Inspires Better Bandages By: Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office Scraped up knees and elbows are tricky places to securely apply a bandage. More often than not, the adhesive will peel away from the skin with just a few bends of the affected joint. Now MIT engineers have [..]
Newly Described Human Antibody Prevents Malaria in Mice By: NIAID News Scientists have discovered a human antibody that protected mice from infection with the deadliest malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. The research findings provide the basis for future testing in humans to determine if the antibody can provide short-term protection against malaria, [..]
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