«We can control whether the carbon forms one or two monolayers on the surface of the material by manipulating the intensity of the laser and the depth of the melting,» says Jay Narayan, the John C. Fan Distinguished Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at NC State and senior
author of a paper describing the work.
«Social research has a history of using both small - scale experiments and computer models to explore questions about human behavior — but there are very few examples of how to use these two techniques in concert,» says William Rand, a computer scientist and assistant professor of business management in NC State's Poole College of Management who is co-lead
author of a paper describing the work.
«This is a proof - of - concept study demonstrating that frontal sinus X-rays offer a viable, noninvasive technique for estimating the age range of juvenile remains,» says Ann Ross, a professor of biological sciences at NC State and senior
author of a paper describing the work.
«This is important because there's a robust body of research showing that the ability to talk about sexual health with a partner, such as a willingness to talk about condoms, is one of the strongest predictors of whether a couple will engage in safer sex,» says Laura Widman, lead
author of a paper describing the work and an assistant professor of psychology at NC State.
«This is the first study to look at this issue at this level of detail, and the findings are extremely promising,» says Ann Ross, a professor of anthropology at North Carolina State University and senior
author of a paper describing the work.
«It sounds like magic but the idea of non-line-of-sight imaging is actually feasible,» said Gordon Wetzstein, assistant professor of electrical engineering and senior
author of the paper describing this work, published March 5 in Nature.
«Our experimental results show double the efficiency using the MRFE in comparison to air alone,» says David Ricketts, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State and corresponding
author of a paper describing the work.
«We have discovered that by inserting a very thin film of gallium arsenide into the connecting junction of stacked cells we can virtually eliminate voltage loss without blocking any of the solar energy,» says Dr. Salah Bedair, a professor of electrical engineering at NC State and senior
author of a paper describing the work.
«People involved with these gardens are passionate about healthy eating, food security and helping people connect to where their food comes from,» says Ashley Chaifetz, lead
author of a paper describing the work and its effect on school and community gardening practices.
«For military applications, sensor technology needs to be able to sense, manipulate, and respond to data quickly — and this work achieves that,» says Dr. Jay Narayan, John C. Fan Distinguished Chair Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at NC State and senior
author of a paper describing the work.
«Earlier studies have shown that urban warming increases pest abundance in street trees,» says Emily Meineke, lead
author of a paper describing the work.
«It's an early result,» says David H. Sachs, senior
author of a paper describing the work in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Wittrup, an associate director of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and also a faculty member in the Department of Biological Engineering, is the senior
author of a paper describing the work in the journal Cancer Cell.
«These origami can be customized for use in everything from studying cell behavior to creating templates for the nanofabrication of electronic components,» says Dr. Thom LaBean, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at NC State and senior
author of a paper describing the work.
«Noise has always been a big problem in almost all engineering applications including computing devices and communications,» says Vivek Kohar, postdoctoral research scholar at NC State and lead
author of a paper describing the work.
«Unfortunately, we have a lot of experience in studying the skeletal remains of children in criminal investigations to determine how they were treated and how they died,» says Ann Ross, a professor of anthropology at NC State and lead
author of a paper describing the work.
Glenn Cruse, formerly of the NIH, current assistant professor of immunology at NC State and corresponding
author of a paper describing the work, along with NIH colleague and co-author Dean Metcalfe, wanted to try and block the allergic reaction at its source.
«We believe members of the astronomical community could greatly benefit in their exoplanet hunting and characterization studies with this new laser frequency comb instrument,» says Xu Yi, a graduate student in Vahala's lab and the lead
author of a paper describing the work published in the January 27, 2016, issue of the journal Nature Communications.
«By figuring out a way to get genes across the blood - brain barrier, we are able to deliver them throughout the adult brain with high efficiency,» says Ben Deverman, a senior research scientist at Caltech and lead
author of a paper describing the work in the February 1 online publication of the journal Nature Biotechnology.
Not exact matches
«We'd been seeing higher numbers
of plant - eating insects like the gloomy scale in cities, and now we know why,» says Adam Dale, a Ph.D. student at NC State and lead
author of two
papers describing the
work.
«In these diseases
of mitochondrial dysfunction, in a sense, it's a false starvation situation for the cell — there are plenty
of nutrients, but because there's a block in the mitochondria's normal function, the mitochondria behave as if there's not enough oxygen,» says Chen, who with Birsoy,
authored a
paper in the journal Cell Reports
describing this
work.
He is lead
author on a
paper describing the
work, published June 27 in the Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences.
King says that by
working through the original
author's
paper and discovering the «enormous number
of small decisions» he or she made that aren't explicitly
described in the methods section, young scientists can often identify entirely new questions that the original
author never thought to address.
«This
work tells us that persistent childhood asthma can develop into COPD, something that up until now has not been well
described,» said Scott T. Weiss, MD, one
of the
paper's senior
authors and Co-Director
of the Systems Genetics and Genomics Section
of the BWH Channing Division
of Network Medicine.
Price is first
author on a
paper describing the
work, published April 2 in the journal Proceedings
of the Royal Society B.
Dr Matthew Gregory, a corresponding
author of the
paper and CEO
of Isomerase Therapeutics Ltd, said: «The
work described in this
paper has important ramifications for the natural products field and synthetic biology generally.»
The
work described in the new
paper — published December 8, 2017, in Science — was led by three young UCSF researchers: Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD, an assistant professor
of anatomy; Alex Pollen, PhD, an assistant professor
of neurology; and Aparna Bhaduri, PhD, when all three were post-doctoral researchers in the UCSF lab
of Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, the new
paper's senior
author.
«New pharmacologic options are welcomed by practicing clinicians like me who struggle to
work with our patients who have diabetes — each
of whom have unique circumstances that require customized approaches,» says Dr. Vivian Fonseca, M.D., Chief, Section
of Endocrinology, Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, and
author of a
paper describing new pharmacological advances in the management
of type 2 diabetes.
Because these networks are based on neuroscientists» current understanding
of how the brain performs object recognition, the success
of the latest networks suggest that neuroscientists have a fairly accurate grasp
of how object recognition
works, says James DiCarlo, a professor
of neuroscience and head
of MIT's Department
of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the senior
author of a
paper describing the study in the Dec. 11 issue
of the journal PLoS Computational Biology.
«We've now created a third solid phase
of carbon,» says Jay Narayan, the John C. Fan Distinguished Chair Professor
of Materials Science and Engineering at NC State and lead
author of three
papers describing the
work.
Eduard Rusu, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis, is first
author on one
of five
papers describing the
work, due to be published in the Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society.
«The end goal is to break out those molecular building blocks — the protons and electrons — to make fuels such as hydrogen,» said David Shaffer, a Brookhaven research associate and lead
author on a
paper describing the
work in the Journal
of the American Chemical Society.
An enzyme known as SHP - 1, which can suppress the growth
of smooth muscle cells lining the inside
of blood vessels, plays a crucial role in stent failure, says George King, M.D., Joslin's Chief Scientific Officer and senior
author on a
paper in the journal Diabetologia
describing the
work.
«The complete surprise to us was that although most forms
of PKC make inflammation worse, PKC - delta happens to be the opposite, a natural protective mechanism,» says George King, M.D., Joslin Chief Scientific Officer and corresponding
author on a
paper describing the
work published in the journal Circulation Research.
The
work described in the new
paper — published Dec. 8, 2017, in Science — was led by three young UCSF researchers: Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD, an assistant professor
of anatomy; Alex Pollen, PhD, an assistant professor
of neurology; and Aparna Bhaduri, PhD, when all three were post-doctoral researchers in the UCSF lab
of Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, the new
paper's senior
author.
«This research opens up an entirely new set
of questions about the development
of type 2 diabetes,» says Susan Bonner - Weir, a Joslin Senior Investigator and corresponding
author on a
paper describing the
work in the journal Cell Metabolism.
No one tells bone what to do, but it generates a material in response to environmental signals», says Timothy Lu, an assistant professor
of electrical engineering and biological engineering and senior
author of the
paper describing the team's
work in Nature Materials