News tagged with fluorescence microscopy

Imaging study shows HIV particles assembling around its genome

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

Nov 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The genesis of one the planet's most lethal viruses, HIV, has been caught on tape. New imaging experiments show individual HIV genomes -- strands of RNA — docking on the inner membrane of an infected cell ...

Hoping for a fluorescent basket case: How HIV is assembled and released from infected cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

Nov 12, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Although recent advances have raised hopes that a protective vaccine can be developed, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) remains a major public health problem. Much has been learned about HIV-1, the virus that causes ...

Small nanoparticles bring big improvement to medical imaging

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Nov 18, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 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 ...

New nanocrystalline diamond probes overcome wear

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

Nov 10, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have developed, characterized, and modeled a new kind of probe used in atomic force microscopy (AFM), which images, measures, ...

Identifying Molecules in Infrared Could Lead to New Medicines

Chemistry / Biochemistry

Oct 27, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An interdisciplinary team of researchers has created a new, ultra-sensitive technique to analyze life-sustaining protein molecules. The technique may profoundly change the methodology of biomolecular ...

Invention will help speed development of drug treatments for heart failure

Medicine & Health / Research

18 hours ago | not rated yet | 0

Research conducted by University of Minnesota scientists, in collaboration with Celladon Corporation, has led to the invention of technology to more rapidly identify compounds for the treatment of heart failure.

Imaging a catalyst one atom at a time

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Nov 09, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from Lehigh ...

Unique Uranium Source in Naturally Bioreduced Sediment

Space & Earth / Environment

Nov 18, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A recently published Pacific Northwest National Laboratory study of a naturally bioreduced sediment sample from a former uranium mill tailings site reveals insights that enhance understanding ...

Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics

Physics / Condensed Matter

Nov 13, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon the piezoelectric effect. A lead-free alternative to the current ...

Scientists obtain clearer view of how eye lens proteins are sorted

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

Nov 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

New research reveals how proteins that are critical for the transparency of the eye lens are properly sorted and localized in membrane bilayers. The study, published by Cell Press in the November 3rd issue of Biophysical Jo ...

Scientists witness nature's complexity unfold in self-assembling quasicrystals

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Oct 31, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (17) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just a few decades ago, scientists believed that all ordered matter consists of self-repeating building blocks -- atoms, ions or molecules. In this view, the ordinary solids of everyday life ...

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