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IMAGE: SFU computing science professor Ghassan Hamarneh is using his medical imaging analysis expertise to help UBC researchers understand the role of caveolin-1 (CAV1) in certain cancer types. view more
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SFU computing science professor Ghassan Hamarneh is using his medical imaging analysis expertise to help UBC researchers understand the role of caveolin-1 (CAV1) in certain cancer types.
CAV1 is a protein associated with poor outcomes in aggressive breast and prostate cancer. It is also associated with tumor metastasis and tumor suppression, but it is unclear how CAV1 differentiates between these two roles.
UBC biologist Ivan Robert Nabi and his team are investigating the contribution of CAV1. To do so, they use machine learning-based analyses of super-resolution microscopy to study and visualize caveolae and scaffolds - tiny structures that are found within a cell, and in which CAV1 is found.
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VIDEO: Standard refrigerators use vapor compression to cool down your food. But in space, there is no gravity to keep vapors and liquids secure. Purdue researchers have worked with NASA, Air. view more
Credit: Alain Bucio/Air Squared Inc., ZERO-G (www.gozerog.com), Purdue University
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Astronauts have been going to space since 1961, but they still don t have a refrigerator to use for keeping food cold on long missions to the moon or Mars.
Through experiments conducted in microgravity, a team of engineers from Purdue University, Air Squared Inc., and Whirlpool Corporation has shown that a prototype they developed could potentially overcome the challenges of getting a traditional fridge to work in space just as well as it does on Earth.
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IMAGE: A technique to sort and sequence the genome of bacteria in soil one bacterial cell at a time view more
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Researchers from the Single-Cell Center at the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a technique to sort and sequence the genome of bacteria in soil one bacterial cell at a time, while also identifying what its function is in the soil environment.
Their study was published in the journal
mSystems on May 27.
Soil is home to a vast and complex microbiome, which features arguably the highest genomic diversity and widest heterogeneity of metabolic activities of cells on Earth. In turn, these metabolic activities can in principle provide the foundation for industrial production of numerous compounds of value.
Long interested in interactions between robots and humans, Columbia Engineering researchers have created EVA, a new autonomous robot with a soft and expressive face that responds to match the expressions of nearby humans. The idea for EVA took shape a few years ago, when my students and I began to notice that the robots in our lab were staring back at us through plastic, googly eyes, said Prof Hod Lipson, who led the team.
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IMAGE: A large number of candidate materials are chosen from experimental or computational databases, and a sequence of screening calculations reduces their number down to a small set of candidates with. view more
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Over the past 20 years, first-principles simulations have become powerful, widely used tools in many, diverse fields of science and engineering. From nanotechnology to planetary science, from metallurgy to quantum materials, they have accelerated the identification, characterization, and optimization of materials enormously. They have led to astonishing predictions from ultrafast thermal transport to electron-phonon mediated superconductivity in hydrides to the emergence of flat bands in twisted-bilayer graphene that have gone on to inspire remarkable experiments.