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Nanoimaging in 3-D

Nanoimaging in 3-D

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- As technology shrinks ever smaller, interest in objects and devices on the nanoscale becomes more apparent. However, visualizing these objects in three dimensions comes with special challenges. ...


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Tension in the nanoworld

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...


Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...


Naturally fluorescent molecules may serve as cancer biomarker

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

Excess amounts of a naturally fluorescent molecule found in all living cells could serve as a natural biomarker for cancer, according to bioengineers.





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Scientists gain new understanding of disease-causing bacteria

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

A team of scientists from The Forsyth Institute, the University of Connecticut Health Center, the CDC and the Wadsworth Center, have used state-of-the-art technology to elucidate the molecular architecture of Treponema pallidum, ...


Scientists get up close to bacteria's toxic pumps

Scientists get up close to bacteria's toxic pumps

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

Scientists are building a clearer image of the machinery employed by bacteria to spread antibiotic resistance or cause diseases such as whooping cough, peptic stomach ulcers and legionnaires' disease.


Study shows new brain connections form rapidly during motor learning

Study shows new brain connections form rapidly during motor learning

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New connections begin to form between brain cells almost immediately as animals learn a new task, according to a study published this week in Nature. Led by researchers at the University of Cal ...


Early protein processes crucial to formation and layering of myelin membrane

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New findings from an international team of researchers probing the nerve-insulating myelin sheath were bolstered by the work of Boston College biologists, who used x-rays to uncover how mutations affect the structure of myelin, ...


Small nanoparticles bring big improvement to medical imaging

Small nanoparticles bring big improvement to medical imaging

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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

If you're watching the complex processes in a living cell, it is easy to miss something important—especially if you are watching changes that take a long time to unfold and require high-spatial-resolution ...


Imaging study shows HIV particles assembling around its genome

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The genesis of one the planet's most lethal viruses, HIV, has been caught on tape. New imaging experiments show individual HIV genomes -- strands of RNA — docking on the inner membrane of an infected cell ...


Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics

Researchers take the lead out of piezoelectrics

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

There is good news for the global effort to reduce the amount of lead in the environment and for the growing array of technologies that rely upon the piezoelectric effect. A lead-free alternative to the current ...


Scientists develop DNA origami nanoscale breadboards for carbon nanotube circuits

Scientists develop DNA origami nanoscale breadboards for carbon nanotube circuits

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

In work that someday may lead to the development of novel types of nanoscale electronic devices, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology has combined DNA's talent ...


Imaging a catalyst one atom at a time

Imaging a catalyst one atom at a time

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from Lehigh ...


Scientists are first to 'unlock' the mystery of creating cultured pearls from the queen conch

Scientists are first to 'unlock' the mystery of creating cultured pearls from the queen conch

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

For more than 25 years, all attempts at culturing pearls from the queen conch (Strombus gigas) have been unsuccessful—until now. For the first time, novel and proprietary seeding techniques to produce beaded ...



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