News tagged with permeability transition


Mitochondria could be a target for therapeutic strategy for Alzheimer's disease patients

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 05, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A study in the Sept. 21 on-line edition of Nature Medicine describes the function and interaction of a critical molecule involved in cell death in Alzheimer's disease patients. These new findings reveal that blocking this m ...





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Come on in: Nuclear barrier less restrictive than expected in new cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

When it comes to the two basic types of cells, prokaryotes and eukaryotes, compartmentalization is everything. Prokaryotes are evolutionarily ancient cells that only have a membrane surrounding their outer boundary, while ...


Post-Racial? NC State Expert Weighs In On the Current State of Race Relations

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many pundits professed the dawn of a “post-racial” era following the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president.


Metals could forge new cancer drug

Metals could forge new cancer drug

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Drugs made using unusual metals could form an effective treatment against colon and ovarian cancer, including cancerous cells that have developed immunity to other drugs, according to research at the University ...


Hybrid bluegrasses analyzed for use in transition zone

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The transition zone can be one of the most challenging places to maintain high-quality turfgrass; changeable growing conditions in these regions often prove too hot for some grasses and too cold for others. Finding turfgrass ...


Microcapsules like it Hot and Salty

Microcapsules like it Hot and Salty

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 24, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 0

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces have presented a new method with which to precisely control the permeability of microcapsules using the salt content and the temperature of ...


Danish nanowires have great potential

Danish nanowires have great potential

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Danish nanophysicists have developed a new method for manufacturing the cornerstone of nanotechnology research - nanowires. The discovery has great potential for the development of nanoelectronics and highly ...


Tropical Storm Nepartak becoming extra-tropical at sea

Tropical Storm Nepartak becoming extra-tropical at sea

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tropical Storm Nepartak is now speeding in a northeasterly direction in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, where it is becoming extra-tropical and developing frontal qualities.


Pinning Down Superconductivity to a Single Layer

Pinning Down Superconductivity to a Single Layer

Physics / Superconductivity

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 28

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a single layer ...


Scientists Detect 'Fingerprint' of High-Temp Superconductivity Above Transition Temperature

Scientists Detect 'Fingerprint' of High-Temp Superconductivity Above Transition Temperature

Physics / Superconductivity

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of U.S. and Japanese scientists has shown for the first time that the spectroscopic "fingerprint" of high-temperature superconductivity remains intact well above the super chilly temperatures ...


Truth Is Stranger Than Science

Truth Is Stranger Than Science: Discovering true properties of metal oxides

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- To successfully compete in a global marketplace, manufacturers continually search for better materials: faster drying and less hazardous paint, longer-lasting sunscreen, and faster computers. ...



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