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Synthetic gene circuit allows precise dosing of gene expression

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have crafted a gene circuit that permits precise tuning of a gene's expression in a cell, an advance that should allow for more accurate analysis of the gene's role in normal and abnormal cellular function.





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A 'cloaking device' -- it's all done with mirrors

A 'cloaking device' -- it's all done with mirrors

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (16) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Somewhat the way Harry Potter can cover himself with a cloak and become invisible, Cornell researchers have developed a device that can make it seem that a bump in a carpet -- or, indeed, ...


EPIC: Building the Perfect Chip

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 07, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Three years ago a team from Bell Labs took on a very daunting challenge – put an optical networking system on a commercially manufactured silicon chip, load it with a smorgasbord of sophisticated opto-electronic devices in ...


New technology identifies warped fingerprints at warp speed

New technology identifies warped fingerprints at warp speed

Technology / Other

created Oct 01, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a means of identifying partial, distorted, scratched, smudged, or otherwise warped fingerprints in just a few seconds.


Fingerprint technology beats world's toughest tests ... including 100s of builders' thumbs

Fingerprint technology beats world's toughest tests... including 100s of builders' thumbs

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Technology developed by the University of Warwick that can identify partial, distorted, scratched, smudged, or otherwise warped fingerprints in just a few seconds has just scored top marks in the world's two ...


New Atlas to Reveal Landscape and Undiscovered Archeological Sites in 3-D

New Atlas to Reveal Landscape and Undiscovered Archeological Sites in 3-D

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 30, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New methods developed at the University of Arkansas will make decades-old satellite imagery readily available to archeologists and others who need to know what a landscape looked like before ...


Infineon Ships Industry's First CMOS RF Switches with GaAs Performance

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 04, 2008 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Today Infineon Technologies announced it is shipping in volume the world’s first RF switches that are manufactured in a CMOS-based process on silicon wafers and offer the equivalent performance of RF switches manufactured ...


True or False? How Do We Know?

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Sep 21, 2006 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Innocent or guilty? A jury's finding can depend on the recollection of an eyewitness to crime, but memory is a tricky thing. In the past 20 years, the notion of false memory has moved from the psychology laboratory to the ...


Sleight of hand and sense of self

Sleight of hand and sense of self

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 27, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- An illusion that tricks people into believing a rubber hand belongs to them isn’t all in the mind, Oxford University researchers have found. They have observed a physical response as well, ...


Inexpensive 'adaptive optics' achieved by Sandia's optical clamp

Inexpensive 'adaptive optics' achieved by Sandia's optical clamp

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 03, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The ingenious system called adaptive optics, known for its computer control of subdivided, individually angled mirrors, is an efficient but expensive way to correct distortions in laser beams. The mirrors ...


Friction force differences could offer a new means for sorting and assembling nanotubes

Friction force differences offer new means for manipulating nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanotubes and nanowires are promising building blocks for future integrated nanoelectronic and photonic circuits, nanosensors, interconnects and electro-mechanical nanodevices. But some fundamental ...



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