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Membrane filters are key to future of public water supply, scientists say
Apr 21, 2009 |
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As municipalities across the United States reduce their dependence on groundwater sources to mitigate environmental impacts like subsidence and flooding, there is a growing need for better purification processes to keep contaminants ...
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Scientists develop the world's thinnest balloon
Aug 11, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in New York are reporting development of the world's thinnest balloon, made of a single layer of graphite just one atom thick. This so-called graphene sealed microchamber is impermeable ...
New filtering technology has environmental, industrial applications
Nov 18, 2008 |
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Materials engineers have created a new type of membrane that separates oil from water and, if perfected, might be used for environmental cleanup, water purification and industrial applications.
Water Filtration Technique Removes Dangerous Freshwater Algae Toxins
Aug 24, 2006 |
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A water filtration technique that normally cleans up agricultural chemicals is also effective at removing a toxin secreted by algae found in lakes and rivers, an Ohio State University study has found.
Chemical energy influences tiny vibrations of red blood cell membranes
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Much like a tightly wound drum, red blood cells are in perpetual vibration. Those vibrations help the cells maintain their characteristic flattened oval or disc shape, which is critical to ...
Flat bacteria in nanoslits
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Aug 17, 2009 |
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It appears that bacteria can squeeze through practically anything. In extremely small nanoslits they take on a completely new flat shape. Even in this squashed form they continue to grow and divide at normal speeds. This ...
New insight in nerve cell communication
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Communication between nerve cells is vital for our bodies to function. Part of this communication happens through vesicles containing signalling molecules called neurotransmitters. The vesicle fuses with the ...
Study shows how disruption of spectrin-actin network causes lens cells in the eye to lose shape
Sep 14, 2009 |
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A network of proteins underlying the plasma membrane keeps epithelial cells in shape and maintains their orderly hexagonal packing in the mouse lens, say Nowak et al. The study will appear in the September ...
Scientists obtain clearer view of how eye lens proteins are sorted
Nov 03, 2009 |
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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 ...
Nanoresearchers challenge dogma in protein transportation in cells
Sep 21, 2009 |
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New data on signaling proteins, called G proteins, may prove important in fighting diseases such as cardiovascular, neurodegenerative disorders, and cancer. For many decades scientists have puzzled on "How ...
Monash study suggests rainwater is safe to drink
Nov 04, 2009 |
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A world first study by Monash University researchers into the health of families who drink rainwater has found that it is safe to drink.
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