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Researchers shed light on how proteins find their shapes

Researchers shed light on how proteins find their shapes

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have brought together UCSD theoretical modeling and Caltech experimental ...





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Biological electron transfer captured in real time

Biology /

created Mar 03, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Two research teams led by Dr. Michael Verkhovsky and Prof. Mårten Wikström of the Institute of Biotechnology of the University of Helsinki have for the first time succeeded in monitoring electron transfer by Complex I in ...


Precise measurement of phenomenon advances solar cell understanding

Precise measurement of phenomenon advances solar cell understanding

Chemistry /

created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- "One type of solar cell design starts with a chain of chromophores strung between two electrodes," explained Dewey Holten, Ph.D., professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences. "This chain absorbs ...


New Gas Sensor Based on Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

New Gas Sensor Based on Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Argonne Center for Nanoscale Materials staff in the Nanofabrication & Devices Group together with collaborative users from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have fabricated a miniaturized gas sensor using ...


Research measures movement of nanomaterials in simple model food chain

Research measures movement of nanomaterials in simple model food chain

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 31, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 1

New research in Nature Nanotechnology shows that while engineered nanomaterials can be transferred up the lowest levels of the food chain from single celled organisms to higher multicelled ones, the amount ...


'Impossible' Molecular Chain Reaction on Metal is Demonstrated

Chemistry /

created Dec 12, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 2

People said it couldn't be done, but researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Pittsburgh demonstrated a molecular chain reaction on a ...


Mimicking nature, scientists can now extend redox potentials

Mimicking nature, scientists can now extend redox potentials

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- New insight into how nature handles some fundamental processes is guiding researchers in the design of tailor-made proteins for applications such as artificial photosynthetic centers, long-range ...


Spin-polarized electrons on demand

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 2

Many hopes are pinned on spintronics. In the future it could replace electronics, which in the race to produce increasingly rapid computer components, must at sometime reach its limits. Different from electronics, where whole ...


Vibrations key to efficiency of green fluorescent protein

Vibrations key to efficiency of green fluorescent protein

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of biologists and the subject of the 2008 Nobel Prize ...


Spin-polarized electrons on demand

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Many hopes are pinned on spintronics. In the future it could replace electronics, which in the race to produce increasingly rapid computer components, must at sometime reach its limits. Different from electronics, where whole ...


Grains and lamb offer new sources of omega-3

Grains and lamb offer new sources of omega-3

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO research on grains and lamb aimed at developing new dietary sources of long-chain omega-3 oils will be presented at the World Congress on Oils and Fats in Sydney this week.



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