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An artist's conception of a pulsar (the blue-white disk in center) pulling in matter from a nearby star (the red disk at upper right).(Photo: NASA)

Neutron stars the densest objects in the universe will be the subject of a new NASA mission, the worlds first thats solely devoted to studying these bizarre outer-spaceobjects.

And talk about heavy: Neutron stars are so dense that a single teaspoon would weigh a billion tons."If you took Mount Everest and squeezed it into something like a sugar cube, that's the kind of density we're talking about," said NASA's Keith Gendreau.

The small instrument that will study neutron stars, known as NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), will be installed on the International Space Station over the next week or so. It was on board the SpaceX spacecraftthatarrived at the station Monday.

A neutron star begins its life as a regular star that's about seven to 20 times the mass of our sun, according to NASA. When it runs out of fuel, it collapses under its own weight, crushing its core and triggering a supernova. What remains is an ultra-dense sphere only about 12 miles across, the size of a city, but with up to twice the mass of our sun squeezed inside.

NICER's 56 small telescopes will observe neutron stars, enabling scientists to determine their size and composition.

The mission will also study pulsars, which are neutron stars that can spin hundreds of times a second, emitting pulses of radiation as they do. Pulsars are like cosmic lighthouses, NASA said, whichappear to wink on and off as their spin sweeps beams of radiation past us.

Amazingly, pulsars could be used as navigation beacons for us earthlings. Pulsar navigation could work similarly to GPS on Earth, NASA said, providing precise position and time for spacecraft throughout our solar system.

"Unlike GPS satellites, which just orbit around Earth, pulsars are distributed across our galaxy," said Jason Mitchell of NASA. "So we can use them to form a GPS-like system that can support spacecraft navigation throughout the solar system, enabling deep-space exploration in the future."

He said that with this technology, the "G" in GPS could stand for Galactic, not Global.

NICER should be deployed in about a week and in full operation roughly a month after checking and calibrating the instrument, NICER science lead Zaven Arzoumanian said.

An artist's conception of what the NICER instrument (blue cube) will look like once it's deployed on the International Space Station.(Photo: NASA)

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Revolutionary Nanotechnology Research by PhD Student Receives Award Recognition – AZoNano

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Recently, Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) PhD student Isha Gupta received the third prize for Engineering Sciences at the 2017 Association of British Turkish Academics (ABTA) Doctoral Awards.

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Isha, an Entrepreneurial Lead in a revolutionary nanotechnology research covering Extracellular Neural Signal Compression with Nanoscale Memristors, was bestowed the accolade at an award ceremony at University College London on May 20, 2017.

The ABTA, a non-profit organization for scholars in the U.K and Turkey devoted to developing academic partnerships and bridges between two countries, has congratulated finalists on the exceptional quality of applications this year after considering more than 180 entries from 45 leading Universities.

These Doctoral Awards have provided a great opportunity for our Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology research group to present our work to a wider audience. We are excited and proud that the technology we are developing in our labs reached the final, and I really appreciate that we have been recognised in this way. I have learned a great deal of new things by working in a team of world class experts. People in the University, Department and the group have been extremely supportive and helpful throughout my time here.

Isha Gupta, PhD Student, Electronics and Computer Science (ECS)

Ishas research within Southamptons Department of Electronics and Computer Science is designing novel bio-inspired nano-sensors using memristors. The project, referred as NeuroLink, is progressing under the guidance of Senior Advisor Professor Themis Prodromakis, an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Fellow and Reader in Nanoelectronics at the University.

NeuroLink is making use of expertise from the SETsquared business acceleration partnership and the Universitys Future Worlds incubator as it seeks to commercialize memristor-based neural data compression technologies while addressing restrictions in power, bandwidth and computation capacity. Such technologies could make an impact in applications such as brain-computer interfaces and implants that use electrical signals to cure medical conditions.

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KAN Reviews Nanotechnology Standardization Documents from OSH Perspective: Germany’s Commission for … – The National Law Review

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Since 1996, Carla Hutton has monitored, researched, and written about regulatory and legislative issues that may potentially affect Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C) clients. She is responsible for creating a number of monthly and quarterly regulatory updates for B&C's clients, as well as other documents, such as chemical-specific global assessments of regulatory developments and trends. She authors memoranda for B&C clients on regulatory and legislative developments, providing information that is focused, timely and applicable to client initiatives. These tasks have proven invaluable to many clients, keeping them aware and abreast of developing issues so that they can respond in kind and prepare for the future of their business.

Ms. Hutton brings a wealth of experience and judgment to her work in federal, state, and international chemical regulatory and legislative issues, including green chemistry, nanotechnology, the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), Proposition 65, and the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) program.

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Can nanotechnology clean Bellandur lake? – The New Indian Express

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Kirubas solution is made of nanoclusters of iron and copper

BENGALURU: The pollution levels at Bellandur lake is a hot topic among one and all in Bengaluru. Civic agencies have been grappling with the issue for a few years now with no solution in sight.

A startup by an Indian Institute of Science alumnus has, however, developed a solution and to clean the lake and the much-dreaded foam from itusing nanotechnology.

Dr Kiruba Daniel, CTO, J K Nano Solutions, says, The pollution levels at Bellandur lake is much lower than the kind of waste we see from textile or pharma industry where dyes are used and pollute not only lakes but also groundwater.

Kirubas company has devised a nano solution that acts as a catalyst on the surface of toxic solids. The nanosolution consists of iron and copper nanoclusters and nanoparticles which due to its high surface and small size work on the dissolved and suspended pollutants to precipitate down. Usually pollutants settle down after nanosolution treatment which can filtered by sand filters and used in landfills. Also the nanoparticles and clusters aggregate leading to micro and macro sized particles after treatment, which acts as micronutrients for plants, says Kiruba who studied at the Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics, IISc.

Kiruba recently gave a demonstration of his technology to the public in the city and it was meant to attract the attention of authorities. I took 1 litre of water from Bellandur lake and added one single drop of the nano solution. It cleared the water immediately. The Mayor has asked us to give a demonstration and hopefully we can appeal to the authorities to use our solution, he says.

He says that much talked about foam from Bellandur lake can be immediately taken care of with his solution. With a number of industries around Bellandur lake having been asked to shut shop, Kiruba says that there he also proposes to go to them and suggest treating the polluted water at source before its release. Although I have not yet conducted a thorough study of the exact pollutants of the water in the lake, most of it seems also to be coming from households nearby. The foam can be attributed to the high use of detergent that has gone into the water, adds Kiruba.

The startup already has six barrels of the nano solution so that they can immediately use on the lake with the permission of the authorities.

The team at JK Solutions won the Dev Tech Award (that recognizes innovation that helps lower income groups) from the UK and Indian government on December 2016. This is an innovative cost-effective solution for this problem in Varthur and Bellandur lakes. We have informed the environment minister and are hoping to get support from BBMP for the same, he adds.

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Brit scientist could be about to CURE multiple sclerosis and provide hope for millions – Mirror.co.uk

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A British scientist could have made one of the most important medical breakthroughs of recent years.

Dr Su Metcalfe and her team at LIFNano believe they have found the cure for the devastating condition, multiple sclerosis .

More than 2.3million people globally are affected by the debilitating condition and symptoms include blindness and muscle weakness.

Dr Metcalfe told the Cambridge News : Some people get progressive MS, so go straight to the severe form of the disease, but the majority have a relapsing or remitting version, she says.

It can start from the age of 30, and theres no cure, so all you can do is suppress the immune response, but the drugs that do that have side effects, and you cant repair the brain. The cost of those drugs is very high, and in the UK there are a lot of people who dont get treated at all.

Dr Metcalfe and her team have combined one of the bodys cleverest functions with some cutting-edge technology. The natural side of the equation is provided by a stem cell particle called a LIF.

She was working at Cambridge Universitys department of surgery when she made her big breakthrough.

Dr Metcalfe said: I was looking to see what controls the immune response and stops it auto-attacking us, she explains.

I discovered a small binary switch, controlled by a LIF, which regulates inside the immune cell itself. LIF is able to control the cell to ensure it doesnt attack your own body but then releases the attack when needed.

That LIF, in addition to regulating and protecting us against attack, also plays a major role in keeping the brain and spinal cord healthy. In fact it plays a major role in tissue repair generally, turning on stem cells that are naturally occurring in the body, making it a natural regenerative medicine, but also plays a big part in repairing the brain when its been damaged.

So I thought, this is fantastic. We can treat auto-immune disease, and weve got something to treat MS, which attacks both the brain and the spinal cord. So you have a double whammy that can stop and reverse the auto-immunity, and also repair the damage caused in the brain.

But the breakthrough wasn't over then, as the LIF could only survive outside the cell for 20 minutes before being broken down by the body, meaning there was not enough time to deploy it in a therapy. And this is where the technology, in the form of nano-particles, comes in.

Dr Metcalfe said: They are made from the same material as soluble stitches, so theyre compatible with the body and they slowly dissolve, says Su.

We load the cargo of the LIF into those particles, which become the delivery device that slowly dissolve and deliver the LIF over five days.

"The nano-particle itself is a protective environment, and the enzymes that break it down cant access it. You can also decorate the surface of the particles with antibodies, so it becomes a homing device that can target specific parts of the brain, for example. So you get the right dose, in the right place, and at the right time.

The particles themselves were developed at Yale University, which is listed as co-inventor with Dr Metcalfe on the IP. But LIFNano has the worldwide licence to deploy them, and Su believes we are on the verge of a step-change in medicine.

Dr Metcalfe said: Nano-medicine is a new era, and big pharma has already entered this space to deliver drugs while trying to avoid the side effects. The quantum leap is to actually go into biologics and tap into the natural pathways of the body.

Were not using any drugs, were simply switching on the bodys own systems of self-tolerance and repair. There arent any side effects because all were doing is tipping the balance.

"Auto-immunity happens when that balance has gone awry slightly, and we simply reset that. Once youve done that, it becomes self-sustaining and you dont have to keep giving therapy, because the body has its balance back.

LIFNano has already attracted two major funding awards, from drug firm Merck and the Governments Innovate UK agency.

Dr Metcalfe admits she is something of a novice when it comes to business, but has recruited cannily in the form of chairman Florian Kemmerich and ceo Oliver Jarry, both experienced operators in the pharma sector.

With the support of the Judge, the company hopes to attract more investment, with the aim of starting clinical trials in 2020.

She said: The 2020 date is ambitious, but with the funding weve got and the funding were hoping to raise, it should be possible.

Weve got everything we need in place to make the nano-particles in a clinically compliant manner, its just a case of flicking the switch when we have the money.

"Were looking at VCs and big pharma, because they have a strong interest in this area. Were doing all our pre-clinical work concurrently while bringing in the major funds the company needs to go forward in its own right.

Immune cells have been a big part of Dr Metcalfe's career, and her passion for her subject is obvious. I wanted to understand something that was so simple on one level but also so complex, she says.

The immune cell is the only single cell in the body that is its own unity, so it functions alone. Its probably one of the most powerful cells in the body because it can kill you, and if you havent got it you die because you havent got it.

And MS may just be the start for LIFNano.

MS is our key driver at the moment, but its going to be leading through to other major auto-immune disease areas, she adds.

Psoriasis is high up on our list, and diabetes is another. Downstream there are all the dementias, because a LIF is a major health factor for the brain. So if we can get it into the brain we can start protecting against dementia."

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Scholar Spotlight: Using Nano Technology, Amay Bandodkar Creates Self-Healing Wearable Devices – satPRnews (press release)

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Wearable technology has increasingly found its way into consumers lives, with the fitness tracker Fit Bit and smart watches like the Apple Watch leading the market.

In the future, we can expect to see more such wearable devicesincluding thin, small, flexible, sensors that adhere to the skin. Nano engineers have been creating prototypes of these sticker-like sensors that could have dozens of health care, consumer, and military applications.

Existing technologies present barriers to the practicality of the prototypes, however: They can tear easily, and their thin profile makes the use of batteries impractical. Nano engineer and Siebel Scholar Amay Bandodkar (University of California San Diego, BioE 16), has devoted his research to overcoming these limitations.

Siebel Scholar Amay Bandodkar is using nano technology to develop flexible and wearable health monitoring devices that use magnets to repair themselves.

As a doctoral student in the research lab of Dr. Joseph Wang at the Department of NanoEngineering at the University of California San Diego, Bandodkar worked on developing wearable devices that can sense chemicals and devices that can harvest energy from human sweat.

He also helped pioneer a breakthrough technology that enables wearable devices to heal themselves using magnetic particles. His team published an article describing the discovery in the November 2, 2016 issue of Science Advances.

Now a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University, Bandodkar is continuing his research on wearable chemical sensors. He is also researching implantable devices for monitoring brain activity. He is especially interested in developing devices for biomedical applications, such as monitoring ICU patients and people who have just undergone surgery.

Bandodkar spoke with the Siebel Scholars program about wearable devices, his research at Dr. Wangs lab, and the new paths hes forging at Northwestern.

Q: What will wearable electronic devices look like in the future?

In the very near future, wearable devices will conform to the skin. Think of a very thin, flexible, patch that you apply directly to the body, and which moves and breathes with the skin. The user wont even feel its presence.

These devices will monitor an array of vital parameters, such as glucose levels, electrolytes, heart rates, temperature, and stress levels. Multiple sensors on the body will interact, sending each other information, and to sensors on other people.

Right now, for instance, a pregnant woman needs to see her gynecologist to know the status of her baby and her own health. A wearable or implantable system could continuously monitor the health of the mother and baby and wirelessly transmit that information to the hospital or clinic without the need for a doctors visit.

In a military application, sensors placed on soldiers can keep a commanding officer updated on soldiers fitness levels. This information can help inform decisions about who needs a break in the action. For people with diabetes, sensors could track glucose levels and make needle prick tests obsolete.

Q: Your research on self-healing devices has undergone a few iterations. What steps did you take before you got to this latest breakthrough?

Wearable devices can be expensive to make, but printing them can significantly drive down the cost. So this has become an attractive approach. Printed, wearable devices move with the users bodythey bend, stretch, and twist. But they usually break when they experience mechanical stress. We wanted to incorporate self-healing systems to extend the lifespan of these devices.

The first approach we took was to disperse microcapsules filled with organic solvents within the device. Where damage happened, the capsules broke and released the solvent, which helped form a bridge across the cracks. Within a few seconds you got conductivity and could use the device again. This had two problems: First, you cant use non-bio compatible solvents for wearable devices. Second, the solvent evaporates over time, limiting the lifespan of the device.

Other research groups have used self-healing polymers and other chemistries to initiate the self-healing process. Those approaches require that you manually trigger self-healing by exposing the device to heat or UV light and leave it for several hours or days. These systems are also very sensitive, so under certain weather conditions, they wont perform.

Q: How has your research overcome these limitations?

We came up with the idea of using magnets. Magnets attract each other. They are very inexpensive. And they will work under just about any weather condition.

We literally bought magnets at the supermarket, then ground them down into very fine particles and infused the ink with them. That worked. When the device split or broke, the magnetic particles attracted each other and it self-healed automatically, over and over. This is what we reported on in Science Advances.

You can the self-healing process in action in this video.

Q: All of these devices need power. Your research has helped devise novel ways to harness electricity. Tell us about that.

The groups I worked with at Dr. Wangs laboratory and at Northwestern are both exploring ways to circumvent the need for batteries. The problem with batteries is that they discharge and are bulky. During my Ph.D., I worked on developing wearable biofuel cells that can scavenge energy from human sweat. We recently demonstrated that such a system can power LED lights and even a Bluetooth device.

One of the biggest challenges is optimizing the ink compositionfinding the right balance of magnetic material, binder, and electric system components. If you put in too much magnetic material, the amount of the other components you can add decreases. There is a fixed amount of solid materials that can be suspended in a polymeric binder system. All of this material affects printability as well.

Q: Where is your research headed?

In my present lab, I am working on implantable devices that can monitor neurochemicals to measure brain activity as well as wearable non-invasive chemical sensors for fitness and health care applications.

I am currently exploring integrating near-field communications (NFC) technologiesthe kind used for applications such as Apple Payinto wearable patches to overcome the need for batteries. The patch will have a small antenna on it. When you tap your phone on it, the device will transmit information to your phone such as your glucose and sodium levels, temperature, and sweat rate.

Q: What inspired you to become a nano engineer?

I have always been interested in doing research. Every day offers a new challenge. I find it much more exciting than the prospect of a 9-5 job. Growing up in Mumbai, India, I knew I wanted to do my Ph.D. in the United States.

I began my graduate studies in 2011, not long after researchers had begun developing wearable devices. I wanted to be involved in the budding nano field. I was really excited to see how we could make chemical devices and sensors that could be integrated on wearable platforms.

Wearable technology has increasingly found its way into consumers lives, with the fitness tracker Fit Bit and smart watches like the Apple Watch leading the market.

In the future, we can expect to see more such wearable devicesincluding thin, small, flexible, sensors that adhere to the skin. Nano engineers have been creating prototypes of these sticker-like sensors that could have dozens of health care, consumer, and military applications.

Existing technologies present barriers to the practicality of the prototypes, however: They can tear easily, and their thin profile makes the use of batteries impractical. Nano engineer and Siebel Scholar Amay Bandodkar (University of California San Diego, BioE 16), has devoted his research to overcoming these limitations.

Siebel Scholar Amay Bandodkar is using nano technology to develop flexible and wearable health monitoring devices that use magnets to repair themselves.

As a doctoral student in the research lab of Dr. Joseph Wang at the Department of NanoEngineering at the University of California San Diego, Bandodkar worked on developing wearable devices that can sense chemicals and devices that can harvest energy from human sweat.

He also helped pioneer a breakthrough technology that enables wearable devices to heal themselves using magnetic particles. His team published an article describing the discovery in the November 2, 2016 issue of Science Advances.

Now a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University, Bandodkar is continuing his research on wearable chemical sensors. He is also researching implantable devices for monitoring brain activity. He is especially interested in developing devices for biomedical applications, such as monitoring ICU patients and people who have just undergone surgery.

Bandodkar spoke with the Siebel Scholars program about wearable devices, his research at Dr. Wangs lab, and the new paths hes forging at Northwestern.

Q: What will wearable electronic devices look like in the future?

In the very near future, wearable devices will conform to the skin. Think of a very thin, flexible, patch that you apply directly to the body, and which moves and breathes with the skin. The user wont even feel its presence.

These devices will monitor an array of vital parameters, such as glucose levels, electrolytes, heart rates, temperature, and stress levels. Multiple sensors on the body will interact, sending each other information, and to sensors on other people.

Right now, for instance, a pregnant woman needs to see her gynecologist to know the status of her baby and her own health. A wearable or implantable system could continuously monitor the health of the mother and baby and wirelessly transmit that information to the hospital or clinic without the need for a doctors visit.

In a military application, sensors placed on soldiers can keep a commanding officer updated on soldiers fitness levels. This information can help inform decisions about who needs a break in the action. For people with diabetes, sensors could track glucose levels and make needle prick tests obsolete.

Q: Your research on self-healing devices has undergone a few iterations. What steps did you take before you got to this latest breakthrough?

Wearable devices can be expensive to make, but printing them can significantly drive down the cost. So this has become an attractive approach. Printed, wearable devices move with the users bodythey bend, stretch, and twist. But they usually break when they experience mechanical stress. We wanted to incorporate self-healing systems to extend the lifespan of these devices.

The first approach we took was to disperse microcapsules filled with organic solvents within the device. Where damage happened, the capsules broke and released the solvent, which helped form a bridge across the cracks. Within a few seconds you got conductivity and could use the device again. This had two problems: First, you cant use non-bio compatible solvents for wearable devices. Second, the solvent evaporates over time, limiting the lifespan of the device.

Other research groups have used self-healing polymers and other chemistries to initiate the self-healing process. Those approaches require that you manually trigger self-healing by exposing the device to heat or UV light and leave it for several hours or days. These systems are also very sensitive, so under certain weather conditions, they wont perform.

Q: How has your research overcome these limitations?

We came up with the idea of using magnets. Magnets attract each other. They are very inexpensive. And they will work under just about any weather condition.

We literally bought magnets at the supermarket, then ground them down into very fine particles and infused the ink with them. That worked. When the device split or broke, the magnetic particles attracted each other and it self-healed automatically, over and over. This is what we reported on in Science Advances.

You can the self-healing process in action in this video.

Q: All of these devices need power. Your research has helped devise novel ways to harness electricity. Tell us about that.

The groups I worked with at Dr. Wangs laboratory and at Northwestern are both exploring ways to circumvent the need for batteries. The problem with batteries is that they discharge and are bulky. During my Ph.D., I worked on developing wearable biofuel cells that can scavenge energy from human sweat. We recently demonstrated that such a system can power LED lights and even a Bluetooth device.

One of the biggest challenges is optimizing the ink compositionfinding the right balance of magnetic material, binder, and electric system components. If you put in too much magnetic material, the amount of the other components you can add decreases. There is a fixed amount of solid materials that can be suspended in a polymeric binder system. All of this material affects printability as well.

Q: Where is your research headed?

In my present lab, I am working on implantable devices that can monitor neurochemicals to measure brain activity as well as wearable non-invasive chemical sensors for fitness and health care applications.

I am currently exploring integrating near-field communications (NFC) technologiesthe kind used for applications such as Apple Payinto wearable patches to overcome the need for batteries. The patch will have a small antenna on it. When you tap your phone on it, the device will transmit information to your phone such as your glucose and sodium levels, temperature, and sweat rate.

Q: What inspired you to become a nano engineer?

I have always been interested in doing research. Every day offers a new challenge. I find it much more exciting than the prospect of a 9-5 job. Growing up in Mumbai, India, I knew I wanted to do my Ph.D. in the United States.

I began my graduate studies in 2011, not long after researchers had begun developing wearable devices. I wanted to be involved in the budding nano field. I was really excited to see how we could make chemical devices and sensors that could be integrated on wearable platforms.

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IBM Says This Breakthrough Will Breathe New Life Into Moore’s Law – Fortune

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IBM , GlobalFoundries, and Samsung said Monday that they have found a way to make thinner transistors, which should enable them to pack 30 billion switches onto a microprocessor chip the size of a fingernail.

The tech industry has been fueled for decades by the ability of chipmakers to shoehorn ever smaller, faster transistors into the chips that power laptops, servers, and mobile devices. But industry watchers have worried lately that technology was pushing the limits of Moore's Law a prediction made by Intel ( intc ) co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965 that chips could double in power every two years or less.

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Monday's news means they could enable the production of smaller, 5-nanometer processors within a few years. Most of today's high-end chips sport 10 nanometer transistors. IBM said chips using this transistor technology will be 40% faster and use 75% less power than the current 10-nanometer chips. Smaller faster chips would suit artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and other compute-intensive uses, IBM said.

"This is a big change in transistor design," Jim McGregor, founder and principal analyst of Tirias Research, tells Fortune. The goal there is to keep shrinking the transistors while also improving performance, he adds.

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This work, which the three companies will discuss at a tech conference in Japan this week, should show up in working chips around 2020 or beyond. "Right now we're moving from 10 nanometer to 7 nanometer, with 5-nanometer to follow," McGregor says.

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IBM sold its chip-making capabilities to GlobalFoundries three years ago, but continues to work on server chip design. So while IBM ( ibm ) is no longer a chipmaker, it works closely with chip fabrication partners and still has key talent doing transistor and processor technology research, McGregor notes.

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New Discovery Delays Moores Law Catastrophe, Suitable Spintronic Materials Found

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For the most part, transistors found in modern processing chips are made of silicone. Unfortunately, the tech industry is fast approaching the wall that Moores Law describes. This has prompted researchers to find a better way to create computer chips, which happens to involve finding better materials. This is exactly what a team from the University of Utah have done.

The material in question is actually a group in the vein of perovskites, but with an organic-inorganic hybrid setup, Futurism reports. Using this resource, the researchers led assistant professor Sarah Li were able to bring spintronic into the veil of reality. This is notable because, up until this point, the concept was largely a theory.

Just to give a background on what this discovery means to the tech industry, spintronic is basically where the flow of information is conducted vertically, instead of horizontally. This removes much of the barrier that Moores Law presents, which states that transistors become smaller and smaller until there is no longer any space for improvement.

Before this development, many have successfully tested spintronic in a limited sense. Unfortunately, theres the small matter of actually manipulating the event in order to make it usable that prevented them from actually making it happen. The perovskites in this scenario can be manipulated and are stable enough to actually facilitate movement and storage of information.

Speaking to Newswise, Li explained as much about the properties of spintronic and why it was so hard to achieve until now. The publication then goes on to cite certain experts who say that the discovery practically amounts to a miracle.

Most people in the field would not think that this material has a long spin lifetime. Its surprising to us, too, says Li. We haven't found out the exact reason yet. But it's likely some intrinsic, magical property of the material itself.

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AUSTIN, Texas When you dine on curry and baked apples, enjoy the fact that you are eating something that could play a role starving or even preventing cancer.

New research from The University of Texas at Austin identifies several natural compounds found in food, including turmeric, apple peels and red grapes, as key ingredients that could thwart the growth of prostate cancer, the most common cancer afflicting U.S. men and a key area of focus during Mens Health Month, which public health advocates celebrate in June.

Published online this week in Precision Oncology, the new paper uses a novel analytical approach to screen numerous plant-based chemicals instead of testing a single agent as many studies do, discovering specific combinations that shrink prostate cancer tumors.

After screening a natural compound library, we developed an unbiased look at combinations of nutrients that have a better effect on prostate cancer than existing drugs, says corresponding author Stefano Tiziani, assistant professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Dell Pediatric Research Institute at UT Austin. The beauty of this study is that we were able to inhibit tumor growth in mice without toxicity.

During the past decade, some cancer research has highlighted the potential therapies found in plants, including chemicals found in foods such as turmeric, apple peels and green tea. These compounds minimize one of the risk factors for cancer, inflammation within the body. People who have chronic inflammation because of chronic infection, autoimmune disease or conditions such as obesity have a higher cancer risk because of damage to normal cells.

The researchers first tested 142 natural compounds on mouse and human cell lines to see which inhibited prostate cancer cell growth when administered alone or in combination with another nutrient. The most promising active ingredients were then tested on model animals: ursolic acid, a waxy natural chemical found in apple peels and rosemary; curcumin, the bright yellow plant compound in turmeric; and resveratrol, a natural compound common to red grapes or berries.

These nutrients have potential anti-cancer properties and are readily available, says Tiziani. We only need to increase concentration beyond levels found in a healthy diet for an effect on prostate cancer cells.

The new research paper also demonstrates how the plant-based chemicals work together. Combining ursolic acid with either curcumin or resveratrol prevents cancer cells from gobbling something that they need to grow, glutamine. This is a neat solution: blocking the uptake of a nutrient needed by prostate cancer cells with nutrients that are commonly in the human diet.

Funders of this research include that National Institutes of Health and the University of Texas System. The experiment was designed, analyzed and written up with coauthors Alessia Lodi, John DiGiovanni and Achinto Saha, all of UT Austin. Additional authors include Xiyuan Lu, Bo Wang, Enrique Sentandreu, Meghan Collins, all of UT Austin; and Mikhail Kolonin of The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston.

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Newswise The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine will launch a new center that will focus on understanding tissue regeneration and pioneering future developments in stem cell biology as a means to repair diseased organs and tissues.

The center will partner with colleges and departments across the University of Illinois System.

Researchers in the new center will investigate the molecular signals that drive stem cellsto matureinto different cell types, such as blood, heart and blood vessel cells. The center will also study the epigenetic regulation of stem cells; determine the best approaches to transplant engineered cells, tissues and organs; and look for ways to efficiently produce the regenerative cells neededfor novel treatments.

The center will use a team-oriented multi-disciplinary approach that incorporates experts in biochemistry, biophysics, bioengineering and the clinical sciences to investigate stem cell biology and tissue regeneration, says Asrar Malik, the Schweppe Family Distinguished Professor and head of pharmacology, who is guiding the effort. Asearch is underway to recruit a director and additional faculty members, he said.

The current program in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine already includes seven faculty members, most within the department of pharmacology, who together have more than $10 million in research grants from the National Institutes of Health. Malik saidthat the intent in the next few years will be to carry out additional recruitments with other departments, to build from this interdisciplinary foundation and capitalize on our strengths.

Three new faculty members have joined the center in the last two years. Owen Tamplin studies stem cells in zebrafish; Konstandin Pajcini investigates the role of stem cells in the development of leukemia; and Jae-Won Shin engineers stem cells and tissues with an eye towards transplantation.

This will be the only dedicated stem cell and regenerative medicine center in Chicago with a focus on basic biology and translational science, and will affirm UICs leadership role in these fields, and help attract additional talent to our team, said Malik.

The opening of the center will be commemorated with a June 12 symposium on stem cell and regenerative medicine from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Faculty Alumni Lounge, UIC College of Medicine West building, 1853 W. Polk Street.

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Liquid biopsy highlights from #ASCO2017 – MedCity News

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Liquid biopsies were unsurprisingly a hot topic for discussion at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting, held in Chicago from June 2-5.

A proper smorgasbord of posters and abstracts were on display. For the main course, approximately 1,500 attendees packed into one of the auditoriumsfor a joint ASCO-American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) education session about progress in the field.

Here are some highlights from their analyses.

Young at heart.While the concept of circulating cell-free DNA dates back to the 1940s, the term liquid biopsy was first coined in a 2010paper published in the journal Trends in Molecular Medicine.

Blood is where its at. If they had to pick one and they did have to pick one, for time reasons the panelists would choose blood-based liquid biopsies as the immediate future of the field. Other bodily fluids, such as saliva and sputum, are several steps behind and likely dont offer the same breadth of diagnostic potential.

Look for CTCs and ctDNA. Within blood,the experts singled out circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) as the most advanced and readily applicablemarkers. Again, there are many more molecules to explore, includingimmune cells and miRNA. At least one company is even looking for patterns across multiple markers, identified through the use of machine learning. But thats a longer play.

For ctDNA, it matters when you take the blood sample. Maximilian Diehn of the Stanford Cancer Institute noted that ctDNA has ahalf-life of around 30 minutes. So youre really looking at what has been released within the last few hours, he said. Fortunately, one of the major perks of liquid biopsies is that you can test patients regularly in a minimally invasive way

Surveillance and testing for minimal residual diseaseis one of the most exciting applications. Just because you cant see cancer in a scan doesnt mean it isnt there. In the future, liquid biopsies could be used to routinely check for any remnants of the disease, or recurrence at its very earliest stages before any tumor is visible or palpable. The tests could also be used to monitor a patients response to a targeted therapy. Is the number of CTCs in the bloodstream falling? If not, what else can we do?

CTCs can cross theblood-brain barrier.As Klaus Pantel of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf eloquently put it; The blood-brain barrier is no Berlin Wall for these tumor cells. Up until 2014, the scientific consensus was that tumor cells couldnt cross from the brain into the blood. It turns out they can. It was an important discovery, not least because brain cancers can be particularly hard to biopsy using traditional tissue collection methods.

Liquid biopsies could help doctors plan for secondary treatment options.Scientists increasingly recognize that standard tissue biopsies may deliver an incomplete picture, given the heterogeneity of the cells within any one cancer. So if one mutation is identified and targeted, the treatment may miss another important cluster of tumor cells driven bydifferent mutations. By capturing a diverse line-up of cancer cells and DNA fragments, liquid biopsies could help oncologists identify secondary and tertiary mutations to target if the first therapy fails.

As long as the tests are actionable. The catch is that early detection of metastasis doesnt necessarily help us treat it, said Daniel Hayes, clinical director of the breastoncology program at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. And thats a critical leap. Patient outcomes need to be improved to justify the tests. Part of that rests on the diagnostics, but a lot is also in the hands of drug developers.

And just because the DNA carries a mutation doesnt mean that it has been shed from a cancer cell.Another word of warning fromHayes:Healthy tissues also undergo genetic changes. Thats very relevant as we begin earlier cancer screening with liquid biopsies, he said. Its important not to overreact or to intervene in early-stage cancers that would have resolved on their own.

Aformal positioning statement is on the way.ASCO and the College of American Pathologists (CAP) have teamed up to deliver a formal positioning statement, according to Diehn, recognizing the field is now taking giant steps into the unknown. He stressed that it wont cover practicing guidelines; the organizations instead want to establish standards for things like the scientific validationof the tests.

With few exceptions (two liquid biopsies have thus far been approved by FDA), the tests havent yet proven clinical validity and utility, the panelists agreed. There is plenty of optimism, however, particularly in regards to the use of liquid biopsies as a complement to existing diagnostic options.

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You ask the spectator to pick a number from 0 to 9 in his/her head. Later on after some steps they pick another number from 0 to 9. After one more step they tell you the answer and you can tell them the two numbers they picked in the same order!

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Ask them to pick a number in their mind from 0 to 9. ( Let's say 2 ).

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Tell them to double the number. ( 2+2=4 ).

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Tell them to add five to the new number. ( 4+5=9 ).

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Tell them to multiply the answer by five. ( 9*5=45 ).

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Now tell them to remember the answer. ( 45 ).

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Ask them to pick another number from 0 to 9. ( in this case 4 )

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Ask them to add this number to their answer. ( 45+4=49 ).

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Ask them to tell you the answer. ( 49 ).

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Listen to it carefully and then in your mind subtract 25 from the total. ( 49-25=24 )

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The first digit of the answer YOU get in your mind after subtracting 25 ( 24 ) is the first number they picked ( 2 ) and the second digit is the second number they picked ( 4 ).

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Star Wars Battlefront 2 is one of the industrys most anticipated upcoming games, period. Theres no caveat to that. The previous game from EA and DICE was an excellent multiplayer-only shooter that captured the sights and sounds of a galaxy far, far away like never before. Now this sequel ups the production values, increases the content, and finally reintroduces a single player campaign thats set to deliver on big thrills and narrative excitement.

But what about VR?

Okay so we dont know that Battlefront 2 is going to have VR support, but we know it will. The evidence is piling up really fast and E3 isnt even here yet. For starters, the developers that created the fantastic X-Wing VR Mission from the first Battlefront took to Twitter to let fans know theyre working on something awesome in Battlefront II. That statement wasnt limited to just VR content, mind you, but its a fair assumption given the context. Check.

Then in an interview with Eurogamer, a developer said he wasnt willing to talk about VR in Battlefront II in that interview simply because thats a story for anotherday which is about as cryptic as you can get without denying something. Check.

Then the real kicker is when PlayStation itself (the previous X-Wing VR Mission was a PSVR-exclusive) sent out an email to its Danish fans that has the PSVR logo specifically listed on the product image. Woops. Sony eventually came out and said the email was incorrect and that nothing has been announced for PSVR support in Battlefront II. Again, not denying it. Check.

Now at E3 2017 the ball is in EA and Sonys court. The game is already confirmed to be playable at the EA Play event (well be going hands-on with the non-VR version this coming weekend) and it follows that perhaps if there is VR support this time around it will be playable at some point during E3 as well. Sony is having another big showcase this year (similar to its showcase of content last year) and the game could very well show up in its VR form at that event on Monday.

We also expect it to be talked about during Sonys press conference since it will likely be an exclusive again, although this time perhaps only timed like Batman Arkham VR and Resident Evil 7: BIohazard. We wont have to wait long to find out.

That covers whats likely, now lets dip our toes into the unlikely (but nice-to-haves.) My bold prediction for Battlefront II at E3 2017 is that instead of just being a single mission well get much deeper VR support. I dont think the entire game will be playable in VR, but perhaps a handful of missions and flight challenge maps. If were really lucky it might even get multiplayer VR support for some of the upcoming space battles. That would be excellent.

What do you think is going on with Battlefront IIs (non-confirmed) VR support? Regardless of how its implemented, Battlefront II is a game that absolutely needs VR support. Let us know down in the comments below!

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How can I control negative thoughts?

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Try to remember a good moment in your life. Recall how you felt then and compare it to how you feel now. Try to summon that feeling from your memory. Think of it as though you have just experienced it again.

Is prayer a type of meditation?

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Yes it is. Meditation is basically focusing your brain on a certain thing. If you focus yourself on God/the universe/a higher consciousness/peace, etc., while saying your prayers, then you are meditating,

What are the benefits of controlling the unconscious mind?

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If you control your subconsious mind, you can easily identify your feelings and take control of your life.

How do I start at the beginning?

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Don't think how to start. Simply start in the most comfortable way you feel.

After a relationship breakup, how can I control my thoughts subconsciously to stop thinking about past events, let go of attachments, and avoid going into a negative emotional state?

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The past is gone, the future has not come yet. Live the present moment. Focus on what's going on right now, and engage in activities you enjoy to help distract yourself from negative thought patterns.

Why do I forget my dreams sometimes?

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It is no different than forgetting other new things like musical instruments, new dance forms or new languages. You can train your brain to remember better and make sure that you record your dreams first thing after waking up.

Can these exercises also enhance mental and physical performance?

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They can do, yes. You are creating a belief system that will help you to progress towards your goals. Thus, if your goal is to improve something involving physical or mental performance, the exercises may take you there.

How do I identify positive thoughts?

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Think of the things that stress you out/make you feel unhappy. Then think the opposite of those thoughts, like "I can do it" or " I will succeed".

What are the mental and physical effects of dreams or nightmares?

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Dreams and nightmares are thought to have a number of benefits for the mind and brain. Bad dreams are a way for your brain to practice dealing with difficult and emotional situations so that you are better prepared to face problems and challenges in real life. You will always have some of these, whether you remember them or not. However, the more stressed, afraid, or otherwise agitated you are, the more likely they are to increase in frequency and intensity. They should help keep you strong mentally. Good dreams, meanwhile, have benefits similar to daydreaming - they make you feel good and they enhance creativity/imagination. Dreams don't have any physical effects beyond helping keep your brain chemistry in check. If you find that, for example, you look or feel worse when you have nightmares, it's not caused by the nightmares - it's more likely that you're just in a poor mental and/or physical state, which is causing both the nightmares and the physical symptoms.

Why do I sometimes have negative thoughts about the future?

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It's natural to have worries and fears about the future. Just don't let them control you or stop you from pursuing your goals.

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Don’t Buy Tekken 7 Just For It’s Weak PSVR Support – UploadVR

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If I couldnt get into Tekken even in its mid-90s heyday, theres little chance the seventh entry in the main series was going to grab me either. When the game was announced for consoles in late 2015 developer/publisher Namco Bandai had my apathy. When the company announced a VR mode, it had my curiosity. Now Tekken 7s available, it has my attention.

Or at least it did for about five seconds.

Calling Tekken 7s VR mode half-baked is an insult to anyone thats ever got halfway through the baking process. There was plenty of potential for something interesting here; maybe not the first-person spin-off mode that immediately springs to mind, but instead to create a new kind of spectatorship for the Iron Fist tournament. Imagine if you will the Smash Bros-like setup in which a crowd cheers as if watching from afar. With Tekken 7s VR support we could have actually been in the crowd.

Sadly, all thats here is an extremely basic training mode set on one stage in which you can practice moves against an opponent that wont fight back. The games entire roster is available to choose from and you can slow the action down to appreciate the animations and techniques displayed by the fighters, but there really isnt all that much to talk about here.

Even with this bare bones integration Tekken 7s PSVR support manages to cause the stomach to stir. The camera will latch onto your character, following them back and forth. Occasionally theyll get off-center when executing a grab move, and then the screen lurches to catch back up with them upon completion. Why not just set the camera at a suitable position on the map to allow you to see all of it with the twist of your head?

I did have a little fun pretending to be some sort of fighting photographer and walking right up to my camera for a close-up of the action at least.

Also included in the underwhelming package is a 3D character viewer, which is about as exciting as it sounds. It was a little intimidating to stand in front of Street Fighter guest star Akuma as if he were really there (how does Ryu ever stand up to that guy?), but I had no interest in cycling through each character just to say Huh, cool.

Im honestly a little surprised given Tekken producer Katsuhiro Haradas fondness of the technology. Hes behind the elusive Summer Lesson, released on PSVR only in Asian territories, and Id have thought hed have plenty of ideas about how to implement it in Tekken 7. Maybe this is just a case of running up against the technical limitations of the PS4 and having to settle for something much less satisfying, or maybe the development team just forgot it had promised VR support until the last second.

Tekken 7s PSVR support was a golden opportunity to attract a new wave of fans to the long-established fighting series, and set the standards for a genre largely unexplored in the realms of VR. Instead its the single biggest example of unnecessarily tacking on VR support weve seen so far. Maybe next time.

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Venezuela blocking medicine, humanitarian aid from US groups – Fox News

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For the last two years Norma Camero Reno has been shipping a steady supply of desperately needed medicines from the United States to Venezuela. Reno and other members of her nonprofit, Move Foundation, pack painkillers, cold medicines and other supplies to be distributed to hospitals, health clinics and churches throughout the beleaguered nation.

Two weeks ago, however, that all changed.

Reno, a Venezuelan-born, Tampa-based lawyer and founder of the foundation, said that for years her organization faced very little pushback from the government of Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro when sending packages of food and medicine to the country. But when she arrived in the small, Venezuelan coastal city of Barcelona two weeks ago, Reno discovered that none of the recent medicine shipments had made it to her contacts in the country.

While the group has in the past had to deal with Venezuelan officials confiscating food shipments, this was the first time that medicine has been stopped from being delivered.

They are stopping everything from going in, Reno told Fox News. They are taking everything for themselves.

Venezuelans have struggled in recent years to get their hands on all types of medical supplies from over-the-counter painkillers to infection-fighting antibiotics as the country grapples with widespread shortages and soaring inflation rates brought on by economic mismanagement from the socialist government in Caracas. The lack of equipment like respirators has become so dire thatbabies are dying in maternity wardsfrom commonplace infirmities that are now considered life-threatening.

Social media has erupted with pleas from many Venezuelans for groups to send prescription medicines to fight illnesses from diabetes to cancer.

Amid the shortages, the Maduro administration has banned numerous items sent to the country from aid agencies and families living abroad. Along with firearms, gas masks and bullet-proof vests, Venezuela has banned innocuous items like antacids, latex gloves, Gatorade and Neosporin.

Along with Move, numerous other organizations have been thwarted in their attempts to send supplies to hungry and ill Venezuelans. Many of the items that the nonprofit Sanando, which has operated in Venezuela for over 10 years, sends to the country are now banned. Caritas, an international NGO linked to the Catholic Church,told Fusionthat it has tried three times in the past month to get an import permit to bring medicines and food into Venezuela, but has so far been ignored.

Lilian Tintori, the wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lpez, wrote a letter last week to Maduro, urging the Venezuelan leader to open a humanitarian channel to allow civil society groups to bring medical supplies into the country.

You can open a humanitarian channel that will enable international aid to reach those who most need it, Tintori said during a press conference. This is something that will help Venezuelans, and is separate from politics.

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a meeting at the National Electoral Council (CNE) where he presented his proposal to set up a National Constituent Assembly, in Caracas, Venezuela May 3, 2017. (REUTERS/Marco Bello)

Home to the worlds largest oil reserves, Venezuela was for decades an economic leader in the western hemisphere and, despite a massive gap between rich and poor, was a major destination for neighboring Colombians and other Latin Americans fleeing their less prosperous and more troubled homelands.

But in 1999 with the rise to power of late leader Hugo Chvez whose social and economic reforms initially endeared him to the poor but also set up an unsustainable system of state spending Venezuelas economy began to creep toward a crisis.

The situation has been exacerbated by Maduro, Chvezs successor, who took power in 2013, and by a plunge in global oil prices in 2015.

A widespread protest movement in cities across the country against the Maduro regime has entered its third month and claimed more than 60 lives amid a violent government crackdown.

Reno told Fox News that her organization has at the moment halted its medical supply shipments to Venezuela as they dont want the goods ending up in Venezuelan government hands.

We are not going to be able to send anymore boxes until something happens, she said.

The something she is referring to is the July election that will choose the 545 delegates to a special convention charged with rewriting Chavez's 1999 constitution. Reno said that if pro-government forces win the bulk of the delegates, she will have to stop sending supplies altogether.

I am going to quit because it takes too much money and time to be giving supplies to have them taken by those thieves, she added.

A masked protester holds a placard that reads in Spanish: "Liberty" during clashes with government security forces in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, May 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Prospects that things will improve in July arent looking good. Last Friday was the deadline for candidates to register for the July election, but the opposition has all but ruled out participating in what it considers a ploy by officials to avoid elections the government would surely lose. The U.S. and several foreign governments have also condemned the proposal for a new charter as anti-democratic.

"Any participation in this process is an act of complicity with the constitutional fraud and whoever partakes will be declared a cohort of the fraud, coup, repression and assassination of Venezuelans who have fallen in the peaceful protests for the sole reason they were exercising their legitimate right to demonstrate," the opposition Democratic Unity alliance said in a statement this week.

Polls taken before the protests kicked off this spring show that around 80 percent of Venezuelans favored Maduro's removal this year. Experts contend that if the opposition was to compete and win the election, or even come close in polling and gain the support of a growing number of disaffected government supporters, it would have an almost unfettered hand to remove Maduro and purge the courts and other institutions stacked with loyalists.

"I think the opposition is making a big mistake," Francisco Rodriguez, chief economist at New York-based Torino Capital, who helped mediate Vatican-sponsored talks last year between the opposition and government, told The Associated Press. "The only way you can win an election with 20 percent support is getting your opponent to not participate, which is essentially what's happening."

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ProHealth Care to provide sports medicine services at Carroll University – BizTimes.com (Milwaukee)

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ProHealth Care has been selected to be the provider of sport medicine services to Carroll Universitys student athletes, faculty, coaches and staff.

ProHealth Care is expected to serve more than 550 student athletes, faculty and staff members, including those involved in 22 NCAA Division III teams, under a new exclusive agreement with the university.

The ProHealth services will help us continue to compete at the highest level possible and ensure that our athletes remain at the top of their game, said Joe Baker, director of intercollegiate athletics at Carroll University.

ProHealth will provide sports medicine physicians, physical therapists and athletic trainers who will help Carroll athletes and prevent sports injuries. They also will provide initial treatment for athletic injuries, as well as rehabilitation and reconditioning services for injured athletes.

Their expertise and services made sense for us to pursue this contract with ProHealth for the foreseeable future, said Michael Schulist, assistant athletics director for media relations, operations and marketing at Carroll University. They will provide therapy and health care services to our student athletes, which is a huge boost to the area. It will give our student athletes a lot of extra attention for minor injuries and recommending surgery if needed based off of ProHealth Cares experience.

Previously, the university contracted with Aurora Health Care for its sports medicine services.

Providing these services to Carroll University is a natural extension of our sports medicine program, said Julie Jackson, ProHealth Cares vice president of operations. Our team is highly trained in multi-level care that includes prevention, diagnosis, emergency care and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions.

ProHealth provides sports medicine services to St. Johns Northwestern Military Academy in Delafield, as well as a host of high schools in Waukesha County.

ProHealth Care has been selected to be the provider of sport medicine services to Carroll Universitys student athletes, faculty, coaches and staff.

ProHealth Care is expected to serve more than 550 student athletes, faculty and staff members, including those involved in 22 NCAA Division III teams, under a new exclusive agreement with the university.

The ProHealth services will help us continue to compete at the highest level possible and ensure that our athletes remain at the top of their game, said Joe Baker, director of intercollegiate athletics at Carroll University.

ProHealth will provide sports medicine physicians, physical therapists and athletic trainers who will help Carroll athletes and prevent sports injuries. They also will provide initial treatment for athletic injuries, as well as rehabilitation and reconditioning services for injured athletes.

Their expertise and services made sense for us to pursue this contract with ProHealth for the foreseeable future, said Michael Schulist, assistant athletics director for media relations, operations and marketing at Carroll University. They will provide therapy and health care services to our student athletes, which is a huge boost to the area. It will give our student athletes a lot of extra attention for minor injuries and recommending surgery if needed based off of ProHealth Cares experience.

Previously, the university contracted with Aurora Health Care for its sports medicine services.

Providing these services to Carroll University is a natural extension of our sports medicine program, said Julie Jackson, ProHealth Cares vice president of operations. Our team is highly trained in multi-level care that includes prevention, diagnosis, emergency care and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions.

ProHealth provides sports medicine services to St. Johns Northwestern Military Academy in Delafield, as well as a host of high schools in Waukesha County.

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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. The Greenbrier and WVUMedicine announced Monday they have entered a partnership for medical care delivery for the resorts athletic events and training camps.

According to a news release, a WVU Medicine sports medicine physician will be on site during all athletic events. This includes The Greenbrier Classic, which is scheduled for July 3 though July 9.

In addition, anyone requiring specialty care will be transported to J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown.

Two great organizations are combining resources to ensure the professional athletes involved in sporting events at The Greenbrier have access to excellent medical services, said David Darden, administrator of the Greenbrier Clinic. The affiliation with WVU Medicines Sports Medicine program affords us the opportunity to continue the delivery of excellence at The Greenbrier.

When people visit The Greenbrier, they expect the best, and the same is true of those who seek out WVU Medicine for their medical care, said Albert Wright, president and CEO of the WVU Medicine-West Virginia University Health System. We are honored to have been chosen as The Greenbriers exclusive medical provider, and we look forward to growing this relationship long into the future.

Dr. Brenden Balcik, a WVU Medicine emergency medicine and sports medicine physician, was also announced as medical director for the July golf tournament.

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