News tagged with molecular tubes


Scientists create DNA tubes with programmable sizes for nanoscale manufacturing

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 29, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a simple process for mass producing molecular tubes of identical--and precisely programmable--circumferences. The technological feat may allow ...





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Silver is the key to reducing pneumonia associated with breathing tubes

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 19, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

People have long prized silver as a precious metal. Now, silver-coated endotracheal tubes are giving critically ill patients another reason to value the lustrous metal. In a study published in the Aug. 20, 2008 issue of the ...


The plant cell's corset

Biology / Plants & Animals

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

We still have a lot to discover about the mechanism in plants that ensures cell growth in a specific direction. However it is clear that a structure of parallel protein tubes plays an important role. Simon Tindemans investigated ...


Plastic additives leach into medical experiments, research shows

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created Nov 10, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry have shown that using plastic lab equipment can skew or ruin the results of medical experiments.


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Ultrasonic frogs can tune their ears to different frequencies

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created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 5

Researchers have discovered that a frog that lives near noisy springs in central China can tune its ears to different sound frequencies, much like the tuner on a radio can shift from one frequency to another. ...


Researchers effectively treat tumors with use of nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0

By injecting man-made, microscopic tubes into tumors and heating them with a quick, 30-second zap of a laser, scientists have discovered a way to effectively kill kidney tumors in nearly 80 percent of mice. Researchers say ...


Ovarian Cancer May Mimic Fallopian Tube Formation

Ovarian Cancer May Mimic Fallopian Tube Formation

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 06, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new study suggests that ovarian cancer cells form by hijacking a developmental genetic process normally used to form fallopian tubes. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Ovarian Cancer ...


Probing the inner secrets of multi-layer carbon nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 18, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Surrey have shown for the first time that knowing the structure of the surface layer of a multi-layer carbon nanotube is not enough to predict its electronic properties. The contribution of ...


Materials scientists tame tricky carbon nanotubes

Materials scientists tame tricky carbon nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 18, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (32) | comments 0

Based on a new theory, MIT scientists may be able to manipulate carbon nanotubes -- one of the strongest known materials and one of the trickiest to work with -- without destroying their extraordinary electrical ...


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Nanotube's 'tapestry' controls its growth

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

HOUSTON -- (Feb. 5, 2009) -- Rice University materials scientists have put a new "twist" on carbon nanotube growth. The researchers found the highly touted nanomaterials grow like tiny molecular tapestries, ...


Nanotube Construction Set

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 14, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Organic nanotubes could make rapid strides as functional nanomaterials in a new approach to nanoelectronics and biomedicine, as they can be made of easily varied and modified building blocks.



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