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Measuring molecules to improve drug design

Measuring molecules to improve drug design

Chemistry /

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO has patented an improved microscopy method for measuring the shapes and sizes of proteins which could help scientists create new pharmaceuticals that are a better match for the proteins ...





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Capturing replication strategies used by SARS viruses in their bid to spread

Biology /

created Sep 16, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Just over five years ago, an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-coronavirus killed over 750 people. SARS (corona)virus, a positive-stranded RNA virus, replicates in the cytoplasm of host cells, attaching ...


New label-free method tracks molecules and drugs in live cells

New label-free method tracks molecules and drugs in live cells

Biology /

created Dec 18, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new type of highly sensitive microscopy developed by researchers at Harvard University could greatly expand the limits of modern biomedical imaging, allowing scientists to track the location of minuscule ...


Can Taurine be a potent antioxidant drug in the future?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 19, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Taurine is a potent antioxidant with hepatoprotective effects. Organelle based changes in hepatocytes after taurine treatment in experimental liver fibrosis were searched systematically and organelle injury scores decreased ...


New nanocrystalline diamond probes overcome wear

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 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, ...


Measuring calcium in serpentine soils

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Serpentine soils contain highly variable amounts of calcium, making them marginal lands for farming. Successful management of serpentine soils requires accurate measurement of the calcium they hold. Research published this ...


Ultrafast electron microscopy reveals switchable nanochannels in materials

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 05, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Microscopic fissures in a tiny crystal open and close—on command. Researchers led by Ahmed H. Zewail successfully used ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM) to observe nanoscopic structures at their “exercises”, as they report ...


Super-Resolution X-ray Microscopy unveils the buried secrets of the nanoworld

Super-Resolution X-ray Microscopy unveils the buried secrets of the nanoworld

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 17, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

A novel super-resolution X-ray microscope developed by a team of researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and EPFL in Switzerland combines the high penetration power of x-rays with high spatial resolution, ...


A New Glance on Microscopic Images

A New Glance on Microscopic Images

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A doctoral student at the research center Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany) suggests interpreting the images generated by Kelvin probe force microscopy in a new way. She recently published her ...


FSU researchers make observing cell functions easier

FSU researchers make observing cell functions easier

Physics / General Physics

created May 08, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Now that the genome (DNA) of humans and many other organisms have been sequenced, biologists are turning their attention to discovering how the many thousands of structural and control genes -- the “worker ...


Nanoscopic static electricity generates chiral patterns

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In the tiny world of amino acids and proteins and in the helical shape of DNA, a biological phenomenon abounds.



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