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Nanoneedle is small in size, but huge in applications

Nanoneedle is small in size, but huge in applications

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a membrane-penetrating nanoneedle for the targeted delivery of one or more molecules into the cytoplasm or the nucleus of living cells. ...





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Nanotube-Tipped Probe Developed at Drexel Considered Vital to Cell Treatment

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 06, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Drexel University College of Engineering researchers have successfully developed carbon nanotube-tipped pipettes that could become key to cell biology in-situ DNA sequencing and organelle-targeted drug delivery.


MU engineers develop safer, blast-resistant glass (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

To protect from potential terrorist attacks, federal buildings and other critical infrastructures are made with special windows that contain blast-resistant glass. However, the glass is thick and expensive. Currently, University ...


Nature's strongest glue could be used as a medical adhesive

Nature's strongest glue could be used as a medical adhesive

Other Sciences /

created Apr 11, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 0

A bacterium that lives in rivers, streams and human aqueducts uses nature's strongest glue to stay in one place, according to new research by Indiana University Bloomington and Brown University scientists reported ...


Two-Tone Molecular Printing

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created Oct 18, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanopipette with two chambers produces microstructures made of biomolecules. The emblem of the Cambridge University, a portrait of scientist Isaac Newton, rendered in microscale as a colorful, fluorescing image: are British re ...


Penn engineers create carbon nanopipettes that are smaller than cells and measure electric current

Penn engineers create carbon nanopipettes that are smaller than cells and measure electric current

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 15, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 0

University of Pennsylvania engineers and physicians have developed a carbon nanopipette thousands of times thinner than a human hair that measures electric current and delivers fluids into cells. Researchers ...


Glass Thermometers Still a Safety Hazard

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study by emergency physicians at Children's Hospital Boston provides a wakeup call to parents to get rid of their old glass thermometers. A 12year review of patients seen in Children's emergency department ...


New technique allows scientists to penetrate yeast cells' hard exterior

New technique allows scientists to penetrate yeast cells' hard exterior

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you want to know how a cell responds to a particular chemical, the experiment is simple: Inject it with that chemical. Micropipettes — tiny needles that can puncture a cell and deliver ...


Materials scientists find better model for glass creation

Materials scientists find better model for glass creation

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that includes common window glass.


Light instead of current: Activation of neurons with light by means of semiconductor photoelectrodes

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Understanding the mechanisms by which the brain functions is one of the most complex challenges in science. One important aspect is the electrical conduction of stimuli in nerve cells. In order to study neuronal ...


Corning raises 2Q glass volume forecast again

Technology / Business

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Specialty glass maker Corning Inc. said Tuesday it is getting a big lift from rising sales of flat-screen televisions, most notably in China.



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