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Distinguishing Single Cells With Nothing But Light

Distinguishing Single Cells With Nothing But Light

Physics / Optics & Photonics

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

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Rochester have developed a novel optical technique that permits rapid analysis of single human immune cells using only light.





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Seeing the unseen with 'super-resolution' fluorescence microscopy

Biology /

created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Thanks to a new "super-resolution" fluorescence microscopy technique, Harvard University researchers have succeeded in resolving the features of cells as miniscule as 20-30 nanometers (nm), an order of magnitude smaller than ...


A guide to the invisible: Doubling the fluorescence microscopy resolution (w/Video)

Chemistry / Other

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A crucial tool in the evolution of scientific capability in bioscience, the fluorescence microscope has allowed a generation of scientists to study the properties of proteins inside cells. Yet as human capacity ...


Cancer rejection: Scientists discover crucial molecule

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Researchers at the Centenary Institute in Sydney have discovered a molecule on the surface of immune cells which plays a critical role in cancer rejection.


Scientists film inner workings of the immune system

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 03, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (44) | comments 5

Forget what's number one at the box office this week. The most exciting new film features the intricate workings of the body, filmed by scientists using ground-breaking technology.


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

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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 ...


Structure mediating spread of antibiotic resistance identified

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists have identified the structure of a key component of the bacteria behind such diseases as whooping cough, peptic stomach ulcers and Legionnaires' disease. The research, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Biotechnology ...


High throughput microscopy quantifies regulation of estrogen receptor

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 28, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High throughput microscopy that uses robots and special microscopes and techniques to generate thousands of images of a cell in a short time enabled researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston to describe how the ...


Brain structure assists in immune response (Video)

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created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

For the first time, a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine have imaged in real time the body's immune response to a parasitic infection in the brain.


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 ...


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 ...



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