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Seeing the unseen with 'super-resolution' fluorescence microscopy

Biology /

created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Thanks to a new "super-resolution" fluorescence microscopy technique, Harvard University researchers have succeeded in resolving the features of cells as miniscule as 20-30 nanometers (nm), an order of magnitude smaller than ...


Measuring molecules to improve drug design

Measuring molecules to improve drug design

Chemistry /

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO has patented an improved microscopy method for measuring the shapes and sizes of proteins which could help scientists create new pharmaceuticals that are a better match for the proteins ...


New imaging method lets scientists 'see' cell molecules more clearly

Biology /

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists have always wanted to take a closer look at biological systems and materials. From the magnifying glass to the electron microscope, they have developed ever-increasingly sophisticated imaging devices.


Light shines for potential early cancer diagnosis technique

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A team led by a Northwestern University biomedical engineer has developed a new optical technique that holds promise for minimally invasive screening methods for the early diagnosis of cancer.


'Silver nanoparticle' microscope may shed new light on cancer, bone diseases

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In a finding that could help speed the understanding of diseases ranging from cancer to osteoporosis, researchers in Utah are reporting development of a new microscope technique that uses “silver nanoparticle” mirrors to ...


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Tension in the nanoworld

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...


New label-free method tracks molecules and drugs in live cells

New label-free method tracks molecules and drugs in live cells

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created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new type of highly sensitive microscopy developed by researchers at Harvard University could greatly expand the limits of modern biomedical imaging, allowing scientists to track the location of minuscule ...


Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...


Can three-photon absorption lead to better bio-imaging?

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 18, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (31) | comments 0

One of the more interesting concepts being looked at in terms of quantum chemistry is that of three-photon absorption (3PA). 3PA works when three photons are simultaneously absorbed in one event. Because three photon absorption ...


A sharper look at malaria

A sharper look at malaria

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 02, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In work that could lead to new ways of detecting and treating malaria, MIT researchers have used two advanced microscopy techniques to show in unprecedented detail how the malaria parasite ...


Femtogram-level chemical measurements now possible

Chemistry /

created Mar 27, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Finding a simple and convenient technique that combines nanoscale structural measurements and chemical identification has been an elusive goal. With current analytical instruments, spatial resolution is too low, signal-to-noise ...


Automated screening process may eventually reduce additional breast cancer surgeries

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the Moores UCSD Cancer Center have developed a rapid, automated image screening process to distinguish breast cancer cells from normal cells. The ...


New imaging technique could promote early detection of multiple sclerosis

New imaging technique could promote early detection of multiple sclerosis

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 27, 2007 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers from Purdue University have studied and recorded how myelin degrades real-time in live mice using a new imaging technique. Myelin is the fatty sheath coating the axons, or nerve cells, that insulate ...


A New Glance on Microscopic Images

A New Glance on Microscopic Images

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A doctoral student at the research center Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany) suggests interpreting the images generated by Kelvin probe force microscopy in a new way. She recently published her ...


Fluorescent nanoparticles serve as flashlights in living cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 10, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Scientists from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have successfully exploited the optical properties of fluorescent nanoparticles to broaden the scope of single-cell microscopy. By using nanoparticles, they succeeded ...