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Nanotechnology
Chemistry World – A miniature pump that beats spontaneously has been constructed by Japanese nanotechnologists at the University of Tokyo. The device, 5 millimeters in diameter, uses heart muscle cells, which contract and extend spontaneously, to provide the power rather than an external energy source, making it of potential value in medical implants. Paul Kenis, a Beckman researcher and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Illinois, said that the device could be useful for many medical situations where pump and power source cannot be easily combined. - External Link
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#2
Computers give bugs' eye view
Niles Herald-Spectator –Fifth graders at Field School in Park Ridge-Niles District 64 took a very close look at bugs in their science class on Oct. 26 through a powerful microscope made available by researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois.
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#3
Exercise and the Brain
Seattle Post-Intelligencer – As a researcher who studies the mind, U. of I. psychology professor Arthur Kramer makes about as good a case for exercising the body as any personal trainer, coach, physical educator or obesity doctor. Kramer is a researcher at the U. of I.'s Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology who has discovered that aerobic exercise can increase brain capacity even as people age. - External Link
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#4Nelson, Martinez honored as AAAS Fellows
Beckman Institute faculty members Todd J. Martinez and Mark E. Nelson have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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#5
Cocaine Test
Science Daily – Researchers at Illinois have developed a simple "dipstick" test for detecting cocaine and other drugs in saliva, urine or blood serum. "Building upon our earlier work with lead sensors, we constructed colorimetric sensors that are based on the lateral flow separation of aptamer-linked nanostructures," says Yi Lu, a U. of I. chemistry professor who also is a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. - External Link
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#6
Exercise Shown to Reverse Brain Deterioration Brought on by Aging
U of I News Bureau – The wait for an anti-aging treatment is over, according to cognitive neuroscientists and kinesiologists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While not as effortless as popping a pill, the treatment - in the form of moderate exercise - may be a simple and effective way to reverse age-related brain deterioration. - External Link
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#7
New Bathsheba Grossman Bronze Sculpture Unveiled at the Beckman Institute
The Beckman Institute is now home to a stunning new sculpture named "Flow" by Bathsheba Grossman of Santa Cruz, California. The sculpture is a bronze cast of a single ribbon floating in the outline of two interlocking toroids. It sits on a cylindrical metal base with a complete height of 82 inches.
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#8
Bugscope
Decatur Herald & Review –Thanks to the Bugscope- housed in the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, students all over Illinois and almost anywhere else can peek at extreme close-up views of the insect world via their school computer labs - for free.
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#9
Powers wins National Book Award for Fiction
Richard Powers won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction Wednesday night for his novel, The Echo Maker. Powers is a critically acclaimed author of nine novels and a member of the Beckman Institute's Cognitive Neuroscience group. - External Link
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#10
Exercise and the Brain
The Wall Street Journal – A number of studies have shown that elderly people who take up aerobic exercise show improved cognitive function after a few months, says Beckman researcher and U. of I. psychology professor Arthur Kramer. - External Link
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#11
Detecting Cocaine
Nanotechwire.com – Researchers at Illinois led by Beckman researcher and U. of I. chemistry professor Yi Lu, have developed a simple "dipstick" test for detecting cocaine and other drugs in saliva, urine or blood serum. The test is based upon DNA-gold nanoparticle technology, and can be packaged in user-friendly kits similar to those used for home pregnancy tests. - External Link
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#12
Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Chemical & Engineering News – Metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes can be selectively etched and eliminated from a substrate without damaging their semiconducting single-walled nanotube neighbors, thanks to a finely tuned methane plasma reaction process developed by scientists at Stanford University. "The technique is important, in part, because it has the potential to advance efforts that seek to use dense, aligned arrays of nanotubes as effective thin-film semiconductors for scalable, ultra-high-performance electronics," says John Rogers, Beckman researcher and chemistry professor at Illinois. - External Link
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#13$4.5M Grant Awarded for New Center for MEM/NEMS Advancement
Thanks in large part to the efforts of five of its own researchers, the Beckman Institute will be headquarters to a new multi-university center aimed at moving forward the development of micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) for integration with larger systems.
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#14Rogers Named APS Fellow
John Rogers of the Beckman Institute's 3-D Micro and Nanosystems group has earned the honor of being named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
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#15Huang earns IBM Award
Thomas Huang, Co-chair of the Human-Computer Intelligent Interaction research initiative, has been chosen for an IBM Faculty Award for 2006.
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#16
Glowing Sugar
PhysicsWeb –As reported in today's issue of Nature (Nov. 9), Beckman researcher and U. of I. chemistry professor Kenneth S. Suslick and graduate student Nathan C. Eddingsaas have used high-intensity ultrasound in liquid slurries of sugar and other organic crystals to create mechanoluminescence up to 1,000 times more intense than can be achieved by grinding.
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Multitasking 20-Somethings
The Seattle Times –The best at switching back and forth between tasks seem to be 20-somethings, based on research at Illinois. People ages 7 to 82 were asked to switch between two memory tasks in some simple numeric experiments. Both ends of the age spectrum did poorly, with young kids faring worst, says Art Kramer, Beckman researcher and U. of I. professor of psychology.
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#18Fabiani elected president of society
Beckman Institute researcher Monica Fabiani has been elected as President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, considered one of the top professional organizations in the field of psychology.
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#19
Students Experience Bugscope
The Chattanoogan – Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois are using the latest technology to allow students in grades K-12 to explore the furriest, scaliest and slimiest details of those ever-popular creatures: bugs. Bugscope brings kids together with both science and bugs. - External Link
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#20
Fuel-Cell Engineering
Chemistry World – Paul Kenis, Beckman researcher and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Illinois, and colleagues have designed and built ceramic microreactors for the on-site reforming of hydrocarbon fuels, such as propane, into hydrogen for use in fuel cells and other portable power sources. - External Link
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