News tagged with molecular mechanics


Nanoneedle is small in size, but huge in applications

Nanoneedle is small in size, but huge in applications

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a membrane-penetrating nanoneedle for the targeted delivery of one or more molecules into the cytoplasm or the nucleus of living cells. ...





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World's smallest incandescent lamp

World's smallest incandescent (nano)lamp with carbon nanotube filament

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (12) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to explore the boundary between thermodynamics and quantum mechanics -- two fundamental yet seemingly incompatible theories of physics -- a team from the UCLA Department of Physics ...


Magnetic tweezers unravel cellular mechanics

Magnetic tweezers unravel cellular mechanics

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 14, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

By injecting tiny magnetic beads into a living cell and manipulating them with a magnetic ‘tweezer’, scientists of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, succeed in getting to know more about the mechanics ...


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Michigan Tech Team Models Molecular Transistor

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electronic gadgetry gets tinier and more powerful all the time, but at some point, the transistors and myriad other component parts will get so little they won't work. That's because when ...


Breakthrough could lead to new antimicrobial drugs

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

After 25 years of painstaking studies - led by Professor Ian Booth at the University of Aberdeen and Dr Tarmo Roosild at Nevada Cancer Institute in Las Vegas - scientists have figured out the mechanics of 'channels' in bacteria ...


Penn researchers show that protein unfolding is key for understanding blood clot mechanics

Protein unfolding is key for understanding blood clot mechanics: study

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Fibrin, the chief ingredient of blood clots, is a remarkably versatile polymer. On one hand, it forms a network of fibers -- a blood clot -- that stems the loss of blood at an injury site while remaining ...


Scientists use math modeling to predict unknown biological mechanism of regulation

Scientists use math modeling to predict unknown biological mechanism of regulation

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A team of scientists, led by a biomedical engineer at The University of Texas at Austin, have demonstrated - for the first time - that mathematical models created from data obtained by DNA microarrays, can ...


Molecular machines drive plasmonic nanoswitches

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Plasmonics -- a possible replacement for current computing approaches -- may pave the way for the next generation of computers that operate faster and store more information than electronically-based systems and are smaller ...


Software speeds up molecular simulations

Software speeds up molecular simulations

Chemistry /

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether vibrating in place or taking part in protein folding to ensure cells function properly, molecules are never still. Simulating molecular motions provides researchers with information ...


Cholesterol-reducing drugs may lessen brain function

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Research by an Iowa State University scientist suggests that cholesterol-reducing drugs known as statins may lessen brain function.


Modified proteins add colour to research

Modified proteins add colour to research

Chemistry /

created Jul 25, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The subtleties between shades of celery or wasabi green sounds like a debate for an interior designer, but University of Alberta PhD student Huiwang Ai has been exploring those differences ...



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