News tagged with domain


Proof of Principle for Domain-Wall Applications

Domain walls that conduct electricity

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 1

The logic and memory functions of future electronic devices could shrink dramatically - to one or two nanometers (billionths of a meter) instead of the many tens of nanometers that characterize today's most ...


Researchers Can Detect Tunnel Excavation With Fiber Optic Cables

Researchers Can Detect Tunnel Excavation With Fiber Optic Cables

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the same type of fiber optic cables used in telecommunications systems, researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a way to detect and pinpoint the excavation ...


Researchers discover 'on switch' for cell death signaling mechanism

Biology /

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have determined the structure of the interactions between proteins that form the heart of the death inducing signaling complex (DISC), which is responsible for ...


Cell Division

Researchers gain new insight on wonder of cell division

Biology /

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Biologists have discovered a mechanism that is critical to cytokinesis -- nature's completion of mitosis, where a cell divides into two identical daughter cells.


Newly-discovered mechanism can explain the Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 24, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from Uppsala University have discovered a mechanism that silences several genes in a chromosome domain. The findings, published in today's on-line issue of Molecular Cell, have implications in understanding the hu ...


Iris of Eye with Model of GAF Domain

Atomic-resolution views suggest function of enzyme that regulates light-detecting signals in eye

Chemistry /

created Oct 07, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

An atomic-resolution view of an enzyme found only in the eye has given researchers at the University of Washington (UW) clues about how this enzyme, essential to vision, is activated. The enzyme, phosphodiesterase ...



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