A*STAR PATENTS

A memory device includes a metal oxide material disposed between and in electrical contact with first and second conductive electrodes, and an electrical current source configured to apply one or more electrical current pulses through the metal oxide material. For each of the one or more electrical current pulses, an amplitude of the electrical current increases over time during the electrical current pulse to form a conductive filament in metal oxide material.

A novel class of structurally and functionally related isolated Heparan sulphate is disclosed. The novel class of Heparan sulphates has been found to bind FGF2 and enhance the proliferation of stem cells while maintaining their pluripotency/multipotency.

Methods are provided for extracting DNA-compaction proteins from biological samples.

There is provided an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) system including a plurality of gate-ways interconnected by a network comprising a plurality of subnets based on one or more types of networking protocols, each of the plurality of gateways communicatively coupled to or integrated in a metering device; and a concentrator connected to the network for receiving metering data from the metering devices. The concentrator and the plurality of gateways each defines a communication node in the network. In particular, each of the gateways is configured to store a route information comprising at least a primary route information and is operable to route uplink data received based on the route information, the primary route information indicating a predetermined one of the communication nodes for the gateway to route the uplink data to next as a first priority.

A method of purifying a desired protein from a preparation includes providing the preparation in a form having less than about 5% of the chromatin residing in the original production medium, contacting the preparation with a nonionic organic polymer in an amount sufficient to cause the desired protein to precipitate or adsorb on a nonionic hydrophilic surface, and adjusting a salt concentration before or during the contacting step, the adjusting step providing a sufficient salt concentration to produce a conductivity greater than physiological conductivity.

According to embodiments of the present invention, an oscillator is provided. The oscillator includes a switched capacitor circuit arrangement configured to generate a predetermined voltage, a transconductance-capacitor filter configured to receive the predetermined voltage and a reference voltage, and to generate an output filter voltage based on a differential result between the predetermined voltage and the reference voltage, wherein a value of the output filter voltage is variable in response to the differential result, and a period control circuit arrangement configured to receive the output filter voltage, and further configured to generate an oscillator signal, wherein a period of the oscillator signal is variable in response to the value of the output filter voltage, wherein the oscillator is configured to control the switched capacitor circuit arrangement based on the oscillator signal to generate the predetermined voltage to be matched to the reference voltage.

Various aspects of this disclosure provide a recording medium for heat-assisted-magnetic-recording (HAMR). The recording medium may include a substrate. The recording medium may further include a recording layer. The recording medium may also include a thermal control layer between the recording layer and the substrate. The thermal control layer may have a thermal conductivity that increases with increasing temperature.

An apparatus, methods and a system for cuffless blood pressure monitoring are provided. The system includes an optical BCG sensor, a PPG sensor, a transceiver and a signal processing device. The BCG sensor optically couples to the subject, acquires BCG signals from the subject, and optically transmits the subject's BCG signals. The PPG sensor optically couples to the subject for acquiring PPG signals from the subject and optically transmits the acquired subject's PPG signals. The transceiver is coupled to the BCG sensor and the PPG sensor for receiving the BCG signals and the PPG signals and generating a BCG electronic signal from the subject's BCG signals and a PPG electronic signal from the subject's PPG signals. And the signal processing device is coupled to the transceiver for receiving the BCG electronic signal and the PPG electronic signal and for monitoring the subject's blood pressure in response to predetermined BCG indicia of the BCG electronic signal and predetermined PPG indicia of the PPG electronic signal.

Disclosed are antimicrobial peptides. Also disclosed are methods of treating bacterial infection and fungal infection and a method of removing biofilm. Also disclosed is the use of these peptides.

Heparan sulphate HS7 is disclosed, together with the use of HS7 in the growth and/or development and/or regeneration of tissue.