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DNA gripped in nanopores
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 14, 2009 |
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Molecular biologists, including the cool dudes from CSI, use gel electrophoresis to separate DNA fragments from each other in order to analyze the DNA. A team of researchers under the leadership of Vici winner Serge Lemay, ...
Nanoscopic static electricity generates chiral patterns
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Feb 02, 2009 |
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In the tiny world of amino acids and proteins and in the helical shape of DNA, a biological phenomenon abounds.
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Discovered after 40 years: Moon dust hazard influenced by Sun's elevation
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 17, 2009 |
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In the 1960s and 1970s, the Apollo Moon Program struggled with a minuscule, yet formidable enemy: sticky lunar dust. Four decades later, a new study reveals that forces compelling lunar dust to cling to surfaces ...
Crammed with charged DNA, pressure rises inside virus
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Jun 05, 2007 |
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It could be an artist’s depiction of someone’s stomach before and after a rather decadent meal. But it is a 3-D cryoelectron microscope reconstruction of the cross-section of a virus, before and after cramming ...
Cheaper Color Printing by Harnessing Ben Franklin's Electrostatic Forces
Nov 13, 2006 |
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Recent advances in the basic science of electrostatics could soon lead to color laser printers that are cheaper and up to 70 percent smaller than current models, a physicist reports at this week's AVS International Symposium ...
Molten Proteins: Surface-modified liquid protein with liquid-crystalline properties
Aug 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Proteins are solids. When heated they do not melt; instead, they decompose or sublime directly to the gas phase at low pressures. They cannot be converted into a liquid form unless they are dissolved in a ...
New electrostatic-based DNA microarray technique could revolutionize medical diagnostics
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Jun 30, 2008 |
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The dream of personalized medicine — in which diagnostics, risk predictions and treatment decisions are based on a patient's genetic profile — may be on the verge of being expanded beyond the wealthiest of ...
Carbon Nanotube Windmills Powered by 'Electron Wind'
Jul 08, 2008 |
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Theoretical physicists from Lancaster University in the UK have designed a nanomotor that operates by a novel mechanism: an electron wind.
Fast AFM probes measure multiple properties of biomolecules or materials simultaneously
Apr 16, 2008 |
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New research demonstrates that novel probe technology based on flexible membranes can replace conventional atomic force microscopy (AFM) cantilevers for applications such as fast topographic imaging, quantitative ...
Electrostatic surface cleaning
Oct 07, 2009 |
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It's often the little things that count in industrial manufacturing processes. Particles less than half the diameter of a hair in size can significantly impair quality in production. For example, there should ...
Side-to-side shaking of nanoresonators throws off impurities
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 13, 2007 |
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Tiny vibrating silicon resonators are of intense interest in nanotechnology circles for their potential ability to detect bacteria, viruses, DNA and other biological molecules.
Desktop device generates and traps rare ultracold molecules
Dec 12, 2007 |
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Physicists at the University of Rochester have combined an atom-chiller with a molecule trap, creating for the first time a device that can generate and trap huge numbers of elusive-yet-valuable ultracold ...
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