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Physicists Transmit Light through Opaque Materials

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 18, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (47) | comments 6

No matter how thick an opaque "scattering material" is, physicists have shown how to weave light through tiny open channels in the material, so that the light passes through on the other side.





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Modeling Cell 'Doors' Could Aid Drug Development

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 18, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

To open the door for better medicines, University of Pittsburgh assistant professor Michael D. Grabe thought he first needed to open the 'doors,' or channels, that allow for passage in and out of cells to see what science ...


Revolution in understanding of ion channel regulation

Biology /

created Jan 30, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A study at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago published this week in the online version of Biophysical Journal proposes that bubbles may control the opening and closing of ion channels. This new understanding of the ...


Anti-dandruff compound may help fight epilepsy

Medicine & Health / Research

created Apr 27, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that the same ingredient used in dandruff shampoos to fight the burning, itching and flaking on your head also can calm overexcited nerve cells inside your head, making it a potential ...


Novel study finds proton channels inhibit the release of histamine during allergic reactions

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 29, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Inhibiting the proton currents in basophils, a rare type of white blood cell, can stop the release of histamine and could provide a new target for allergy and asthma drugs according to a new study by researchers at Rush University ...


Breakthrough could help combat superbugs

Biology /

created Aug 29, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have worked out a key mechanism that protects bacteria against stress in a major discovery that could lead to new ways of killing superbugs like C. difficile and MRSA.


Nervy research: Researchers take initial look at ion channels in a model system

Nervy research: Researchers take initial look at ion channels in a model system

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

Before one of your muscles can twitch, before the thought telling it to flex can race down your nerve, a tiny floodgate of sorts -- called an ion channel -- must open in the surface of each cell in these organs ...


Migraine mutations reveal clues to biological basis of disorder

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 30, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 4

Fifteen percent to 20 percent of people worldwide suffer from migraines – excruciating headaches often presaged by dramatic sensations, or "auras." By studying a rare, inherited form of migraine, researchers at Vanderbilt ...


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 ...


Site used by sodium to control sensitivity of certain potassium ion channels

Biology /

created Sep 18, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have uncovered how sodium is able to control specific potassium ion channels in cells, according to new study findings published online this week in Nature Ch ...


Researchers catch ion channels in their opening act

Chemistry /

created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Each thought or action sends a million electrical signals pulsing through your body. At the heart of the process of generating these electrical impulses is the ion channel.



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