News tagged with biological sensors


DNA-Based Assembly Line for Nano-Construction of New Biosensors, Solar Cells

DNA-Based Assembly Line for Nano-Construction of New Biosensors, Solar Cells (w/Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Building on the idea of using DNA to link up nanoparticles — particles measuring mere billionths of a meter — scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have ...


Hollow gold nanospheres show promise for biomedical and other applications

Hollow gold nanospheres show promise for biomedical and other applications

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 22, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new metal nanostructure developed by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has already shown promise in cancer therapy studies and could be used for chemical and biological ...





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Light used to map effect of neurons on one another

Light used to map effect of neurons on one another

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Harvard University have used light and genetic trickery to trace out neurons' ability to excite or inhibit one another, literally shedding new light on the question of how neurons ...


Californians -- and their cell phones -- will help computer scientists monitor air pollution

Californians -- and their cell phones -- will help computer scientists monitor air pollution

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

You want to go for a run, but you don't want to run in polluted air that might aggravate your asthma. University of California, San Diego computer scientists are creating a network of environmental sensors ...


New laser -- it's a gas, gas, gas... sensor

New laser -- it's a gas, gas, gas... sensor

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of optical sensors is enabling the development of robust, long-lasting, lighting-fast trace gas detectors for use in a wide range of industrial, security and domestic applications.


Magnetic Nanotags Spot Cancer in Mice Earlier Than Current Methods

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Searching for biomarkers that can warn of diseases such as cancer while they are still in their earliest stage is likely to become far easier thanks to an innovative biosensor chip developed by Stanford University ...


Switching Gears to Greener Transportation

Switching Gears to Greener Transportation

Technology / Energy

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Automakers around the world continue to slowly infuse their cars and trucks with greener, more efficient technology, but researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute contend that technology alone will not ...


Robot fish could monitor water quality

Robot fish could monitor water quality

Electronics / Robotics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Nature inspires technology for an engineer and an ecologist teamed up at Michigan State University. They're developing robots that use advanced materials to swim like fish to probe underwater environments.


Cancer research gets physical

Cancer research gets physical

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer research has traditionally been the realm of biologists, and, more recently, engineers. Now, physicists are getting in on the action.


Smart Hand Project

Robotic Hand That Senses Touch (w/ Video)

Electronics / Robotics

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 10 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Italy, the Smart Hand project has given patient, Robin af Ekenstam (see video) the sense of touch in ...


Scientists bend nanowires into 2-D and 3-D structures

Scientists bend nanowires into 2-D and 3-D structures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, scientists have determined how to introduce kinks into arrow-straight nanowires, transforming them into zigzagging two- and three-dimensional ...


The food-energy cellular connection revealed

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Our body's activity levels fall and rise to the beat of our internal drums—the 24-hour cycles that govern fundamental physiological functions, from sleeping and feeding patterns to the energy available to our cells. Whereas ...



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