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Adjusting acidity with impunity

Adjusting acidity with impunity

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- How do individual cells or proteins react to changing pH levels? Researchers at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have developed a technique ...


Light-generating transistors to power labs on chips

Light-generating transistors to power labs on chips

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- What started out as 'blue-sky' thinking by a group of European researchers could ultimately lead to the commercial mass production of a new generation of optoelectronic components for devices ...


Probing Question: Is forensic science on TV accurate?

Probing Question: Is forensic science on TV accurate?

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Turn on the television any evening and you're apt to see a scene such as this: Five crime scene investigators, or CSIs, return to the crime scene at night to follow up on some leads. CSI Kathryn Willows looks ...


Engineering professor creates mobile lab for testing bridges

Engineering professor creates mobile lab for testing bridges

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Civil engineering students at the University of Rhode Island will soon take to the roadways to apply what they have learned in the classroom in real-world analyses of bridges, buildings and ...


Researchers create first transgenic prairie voles

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have successfully generated the first transgenic prairie voles, an important step toward unlocking the genetic secrets of pair bonding. The future ...


Game Theory: Researchers examine what makes video games click with players -- or not

Game Theory: Researchers examine what makes video games click with players -- or not

Technology / Software

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Every Friday afternoon, the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab opens its doors to anyone who wishes to drop by and play. On one such recent day, Jason Begy, a graduate student in the Comparative Media Studies program ...


'No muss, no fuss' miniaturized analysis for complex samples developed

'No muss, no fuss' miniaturized analysis for complex samples developed

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The goal of an integrated, miniaturized laboratory analysis system, also known as a "lab-on-a-chip," is simple: sample in, answer out. However, researchers wanting to use these microfluidic devices to analyze ...


Sensor biochips could aid in cancer diagnosis and treatment

Sensor biochips could aid in cancer diagnosis and treatment

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It is very difficult to predict whether a cancer drug will help an individual patient: only around one third of drugs will work directly in a given patient. Researchers at the Heinz Nixdorf Chair for Medical ...


Researchers develop new lab-on-a-chip technique

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at the University of Toronto have developed a new "lab-on-a-chip" technique that analyses tiny samples of blood and breast tissue to identify women at risk of breast cancer much more quickly than ever before.


Lab-on-a-Chip Performs 1,000 Chemical Reactions At Once

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Flasks, beakers, and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in medicinal chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a benchtop, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer and instantly run thousands ...


LEGO toy helps researchers learn what happens on nanoscale

LEGO toy helps researchers learn what happens on nanoscale

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Johns Hopkins engineers are using a popular children's toy to visualize the behavior of particles, cells and molecules in environments too small to see with the naked eye. These researchers are arranging little ...


Scientists control living cells with light; advances could enhance stem cells' power

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

University of Central Florida researchers have shown for the first time that light energy can gently guide and change the orientation of living cells within lab cultures. That ability to optically steer cells could be a major ...


Space Porch Open for Business

Space Porch Open for Business

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The International Space Station has a new "engawa" -- and it's open for business.


New microchip technology performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once

New microchip technology performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flasks, beakers and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a bench top, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer ...


'Microfluidic Palette' May Paint Clearer Picture of Biological Processes

'Microfluidic Palette' May Paint Clearer Picture of Biological Processes

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The masterpieces that spring from the talents of Rembrandt, Van Gogh and other artists often begin with the creation of a gradient of colors on a palette. In a similar manner, researchers ...