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DNA molecules can detect pathogens, deliver drugs

DNA molecules can detect pathogens, deliver drugs

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- First, Cornell researchers created DNA "bar codes" -- strands of the genetic material that quickly identify the presence of different molecules by fluorescing. Now, they have created new DNA ...


Nanotubes Sniff Out Cancer Agents in Living Cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A multidisciplinary team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed carbon nanotubes that can be used as sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells. The ...


Scientists Discover An Ancient Odor-Detecting Mechanism in Insects

Scientists Discover An Ancient Odor-Detecting Mechanism in Insects

Biology /

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1913 Theodore Roosevelt added cartographer to his resume when he and his crew ventured up an unspeakably dangerous and uncharted tributary named the River of Doubt. Now, on a charting expedition ...


A new test for a deadly fungal infection in patients with damaged immune systems

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A quicker, cheaper and more accurate test for deadly Aspergillus fumigatus fungal infections in patients with damaged or suppressed immune systems was described today, (Thursday 2 April) at the Society for General Microb ...


Nanotubes sniff out cancer agents in living cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 14, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

MIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells.


New security and medical sensor devices made possible by metallic nanostructures

New security and medical sensor devices made possible by metallic nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have designed tiny new sensor structures that could be used in novel security devices to detect poisons and explosives, or in highly sensitive medical sensors, according to research ...


Scientists Give a Hand(edness) to the Search for Alien Life

Scientists Give a Hand(edness) to the Search for Alien Life

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (31) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Visiting aliens may be the stuff of legend, but if a scientific team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is right, we may be able to find extraterrestrial life even ...


PNNL chemist earns NIH New Innovator Award

PNNL chemist earns NIH New Innovator Award

Chemistry / Other

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An analytical chemist at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized with a National Institutes of Health Director's New Innovator Award. The award will support Wei-Jun ...


The Orion Nebula

Michigan Astronomer to Search in Space for Precursors of Life

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Many of the organic molecules that make up life on Earth have also been found in space. A University of Michigan astronomer will use the Herschel Space Observatory to study these chemical compounds in new ...


Researcher discover two highly complex organic molecules detected in space

Researcher discover two highly complex organic molecules detected in space

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, Germany, Cornell University, USA, and the University of Cologne, Germany, have detected two of the most complex ...


Prototype NIST Method Detects and Measures Elusive Hazards

Prototype Method Detects and Measures Elusive Hazards

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has demonstrated a relatively simple, inexpensive method for detecting and measuring elusive hazards such as concealed explosives ...


Specialized polymer used to detect nerve agents, toxic chemicals for air monitoring in emergencies

Specialized polymer used to detect nerve agents, toxic chemicals for air monitoring in emergencies

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique polymer that allows sensors to detect nerve agents and other toxic industrial chemicals in the air is now available to companies developing chemical detectors for emergency personnel, ...


Faster, cheaper DNA sequencing method developed

Faster, cheaper DNA sequencing method developed

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 20, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (25) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Boston University biomedical engineers have devised a method for making future genome sequencing faster and cheaper by dramatically reducing the amount of DNA required, thus eliminating the ...


Nanostructured Integrated Circuit Detects Type and Severity of Cancer

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of investigators from the University of Toronto have used nanomaterials to develop an inexpensive microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that ...


Astronomers do it Again: Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet

Astronomers do it Again: Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Peering far beyond our solar system, NASA researchers have detected the basic chemistry for life in a second hot gas planet, advancing astronomers toward the goal of being able to characterize ...