Search results for molecular tubes
Scientists create DNA tubes with programmable sizes for nanoscale manufacturing
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 29, 2008 |
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a simple process for mass producing molecular tubes of identical--and precisely programmable--circumferences. The technological feat may allow ...
Silver is the key to reducing pneumonia associated with breathing tubes
Aug 19, 2008 |
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People have long prized silver as a precious metal. Now, silver-coated endotracheal tubes are giving critically ill patients another reason to value the lustrous metal. In a study published in the Aug. 20, 2008 issue of the ...
The plant cell's corset
Sep 02, 2009 |
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We still have a lot to discover about the mechanism in plants that ensures cell growth in a specific direction. However it is clear that a structure of parallel protein tubes plays an important role. Simon Tindemans investigated ...
Plastic additives leach into medical experiments, research shows
Nov 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry have shown that using plastic lab equipment can skew or ruin the results of medical experiments.
Ultrasonic frogs can tune their ears to different frequencies
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Jul 22, 2008 |
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Researchers have discovered that a frog that lives near noisy springs in central China can tune its ears to different sound frequencies, much like the tuner on a radio can shift from one frequency to another. ...
Researchers effectively treat tumors with use of nanotubes
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 03, 2009 |
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By injecting man-made, microscopic tubes into tumors and heating them with a quick, 30-second zap of a laser, scientists have discovered a way to effectively kill kidney tumors in nearly 80 percent of mice. Researchers say ...
Ovarian Cancer May Mimic Fallopian Tube Formation
Mar 06, 2007 |
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A new study suggests that ovarian cancer cells form by hijacking a developmental genetic process normally used to form fallopian tubes. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Ovarian Cancer ...
Probing the inner secrets of multi-layer carbon nanotubes
Apr 18, 2007 |
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Researchers at the University of Surrey have shown for the first time that knowing the structure of the surface layer of a multi-layer carbon nanotube is not enough to predict its electronic properties. The contribution of ...
Materials scientists tame tricky carbon nanotubes
Sep 18, 2006 |
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Based on a new theory, MIT scientists may be able to manipulate carbon nanotubes -- one of the strongest known materials and one of the trickiest to work with -- without destroying their extraordinary electrical ...
Nanotube's 'tapestry' controls its growth
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 05, 2009 |
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HOUSTON -- (Feb. 5, 2009) -- Rice University materials scientists have put a new "twist" on carbon nanotube growth. The researchers found the highly touted nanomaterials grow like tiny molecular tapestries, ...
Nanotube Construction Set
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Organic nanotubes could make rapid strides as functional nanomaterials in a new approach to nanoelectronics and biomedicine, as they can be made of easily varied and modified building blocks.
Molecule Within a Molecule
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 12, 2006 |
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All children are fascinated by Russian dolls: when the largest outer wooden figure is opened, a second, smaller, nearly identical doll appears. This one can also be opened and so on…. This toy could well have inspired T. ...
World's tiniest test tubes get teensiest corks
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 10, 2006 |
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Now all they need is a really, really small corkscrew. Like Lilliputian chemists, scientists have found a way to “cork” infinitesimally small nano test tubes. The goal is a better way to deliver drugs, for ...
Biologists Unlock Secrets of Plants' Growing Tips
Aug 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologist Magdalena Bezanilla and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have used a technique they call multi-gene silencing to, for the first time, simultaneously silence nine genes in a ...
Argonne 'homegrown' hybrid solar cell aims for low-cost power
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have refined a technique to manufacture solar cells by creating tubes of semiconducting material and then "growing" ...
