News tagged with microscopic spectroscopy


Nanoscopic changes to pancreatic cells reveal cancer

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A team of researchers in Chicago has developed a way to examine cell biopsies and detect never-before-seen signs of early-stage pancreatic cancer, according to a new paper in the Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters. Though ...





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A 650-million-year-old fossil from Kazakhstan

Scientists see inside rocks in 3D, implications for finding life on Mars

Other Sciences /

created Jan 31, 2006 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (28) | comments 0

UCLA paleobiologist J. William Schopf and colleagues have produced 3-D images of ancient fossils -- 650 million to 850 million years old -- preserved in rocks, an achievement that has never been done before.


Identifying Molecules in Infrared Could Lead to New Medicines

Identifying Molecules in Infrared Could Lead to New Medicines

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 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 ...


Nanotechnology goes out on a wing

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 31, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (16) | comments 0

What does a colorful and noisy backyard insect have to do with nanotechnology? Plenty, according to Jin Zhang and Zhongfan Liu, both professors at Peking University.


White-light laser is basis of new optical tweezers and microscope

Physics /

created May 27, 2005 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Penn State engineers have used a "white-light laser" to produce a new type of optical "tweezers" that not only traps, holds and moves microscopic objects but also can perform characterization of the object via spectroscopy ...


A little magic provides an atomic-level look at bone

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study using solid-state NMR spectroscopy to analyze intact bone paves the way for atomic-level explorations of how disease and aging affect bone. The research by scientists at the University of Michigan ...


Northwestern chemist investigates lost reds in Homer painting

Chemistry /

created Jun 11, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More than 30 years ago, when Northwestern University chemist Richard Van Duyne developed a powerful new sensing technique, he never thought he would be using it to learn more about treasures in the Art Institute of Chicago's ...


Diagnosing skin cancer without a biopsy

Diagnosing skin cancer without a biopsy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent Montana State University master's graduate is working with doctors at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Tennessee to build a handheld laser microscope that could someday reduce the number ...


Handheld laser microscope to help diagnose skin cancer without a biopsy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

A recent Montana State University master's graduate is working with doctors at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Tennessee to build a handheld laser microscope that could someday reduce the number of biopsies needed to diagnose ...


Physicists Unlock Mysteries of the DVD-RAM

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 11, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (40) | comments 0

DVD technology is by no means new, but that doesn’t mean that we know everything about the way that these devices store our movies and data. New research conducted by scientists at North Carolina State University has provided ...


Researcher studies the universe through quantum electrodynamics

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fundamental constants, such as the standards for length and mass, are a given in our society. However, research has shown that these constants might be changing slightly with the expansion of the universe.



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