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Transport behavior of E. coli varies depending on manure source

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Escherichia coli is a commonly used indicator organism for detecting the presence of fecal contamination in drinking water supplies. The importance of E. coli as an indicator organism has led to several studies looking at th ...





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Controlling the electronic surface properties of a material

Controlling the electronic surface properties of a material

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (14) | comments 0

A recent breakthrough by researchers at the Swiss Nanoscience Institute sees for the first time the creation of thin films with controllable electronic properties. This discovery could have a large impact ...


Measuring and modeling blood flow in malaria

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When people have malaria, they are infected with Plasmodium parasites, which enter the body from the saliva of a mosquito, infect cells in the liver, and then spread to red blood cells. Inside the blood cells, the parasites ...


Small nanoparticles bring big improvement to medical imaging

Small nanoparticles bring big improvement to medical imaging

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

If you're watching the complex processes in a living cell, it is easy to miss something important—especially if you are watching changes that take a long time to unfold and require high-spatial-resolution ...


Scientists discover giant Rydberg atom molecules

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 4

A group of University of Oklahoma researchers led by Dr. James P. Shaffer, Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, have discovered giant Rydberg molecules with a bond as large as a red blood cell. Determining ...


Nanocrystals reveal activity within cells

Nanocrystals reveal activity within cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created bright, stable and bio-friendly nanocrystals that act as individual investigators of activity within ...


Major advance in cell reprogramming technology

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a paper publishing online April 23rd in Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press journal, Dr. Sheng Ding and colleagues from the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, report an important step forward in the race to mak ...


Micropatterned material surface controls cell orientation

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cells could be orientated in a controlled way on a micro-patterned surface based upon a delicate material technique, and the orientation could be semi-quantitatively described by some statistical parameters, as suggested ...


Echoes of phlogiston in stem cell biology

Biology / Other

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Before it was learned that matter burns by taking up oxygen, most chemists sought to explain combustion as the release of a mysterious substance, which they named "phlogiston". Phlogiston theory was a conceptual breakthrough ...


Understanding mechanical properties of silicon nanowires paves way for nanodevices

Understanding mechanical properties of silicon nanowires paves way for nanodevices

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Silicon nanowires are attracting significant attention from the electronics industry due to the drive for ever-smaller electronic devices, from cell phones to computers. The operation of these future devices, ...


Research isolates liver cancer stem cells prior to tumor formation

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Penn State College of Medicine researchers, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Southern California, have taken an important step in understanding the role of stem cells in development of liver cancer. Using ...



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