News tagged with 3d structures

Research on vitamins could lead to the design of novel drugs to combat malaria

New research by scientists at the University of Southampton could lead to the design of more effective drugs to combat malaria.

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New tool enhances view of muscles

Simon Fraser University associate professor James Wakeling is adding to the arsenal of increasingly sophisticated medical imaging tools with a new signal-processing method for viewing muscle activation details that have never ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

DNA motor programmed to navigate a network of tracks

Expanding on previous work with engines traveling on straight tracks, a team of researchers at Kyoto University and the University of Oxford have successfully used DNA building blocks to construct a motor ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

How the brain computes 3D structures

The incredible ability of our brain to create a three-dimensional (3D) representation from an object's two-dimensional projection on the retina is something that we may take for granted, but the process is not well understood ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Light-controlling artificial diamond structures could lead to optical computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to make computer chips even faster than those of today, many researchers have recently been investigating the possibility of optical computing. In an optical computer, information ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Team develops method for creating 3D photonic crystals

Dutch researchers at the University of Twente's MESA+ research institute, together with ASML, TNO (the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) and TU/e (Eindhoven University of Technology) ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Manufacturing microscale medical devices for faster tissue engineering

In the emerging field of tissue engineering, scientists encourage cells to grow on carefully designed support scaffolds. The ultimate goal is to create living structures that might one day be used to replace ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Force of acoustical waves tapped for metamaterials

A very simple bench-top technique that uses the force of acoustical waves to create a variety of 3D structures will benefit the rapidly expanding field of metamaterials and their myriad applications -- including "invisibility ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Fundamental forces in protein structure revisited

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists from Bristol have joined forces with colleagues from America to unravel one of the fundamental problems of molecular biology, paving the way for better engineering of biological ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chemists Reach from the Molecular to the Real World with Creation of 3-D DNA Crystals

(PhysOrg.com) -- New York University chemists have created three-dimensional DNA structures, a breakthrough bridging the molecular world to the world where we live. The work, reported in the latest issue of ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

World's smallest periscopes

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Vanderbilt scientists have invented the world's smallest version of the periscope and are using it to look at cells and other micro-organisms from several sides at once.

Biology /

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Researchers Create Microscope With 100 Million Times Finer Resolution Than Current MRI

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM Research scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with volume resolution 100 million ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 8