News tagged with rod system
Quantum Rod System May Safely 'Sneak' Drugs, Diagnostics into Brain
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique nanoparticle system developed by University at Buffalo scientists takes advantage of the versatility of bioconjugated quantum rods to ferry novel diagnostic and therapeutic agents ...
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Molecular Hula Hoop: Spinning motion of a molecular rotor detected
Jul 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Humans have long been trying to make the dream of nanoscopic robots come true. The dream is, in fact, taking on some aspects of reality. Nanoscience has produced components for molecular-scale ...
Perfect Vision But Blind To Light
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Jun 11, 2008 |
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Mammals have two types of light-sensitive detectors in the retina. Known as rod and cone cells, they are both necessary to picture their environment. However, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological ...
HIV tamed by designer 'leash'
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Researchers have shown how an antiviral protein produced by the immune system, dubbed tetherin, tames HIV and other viruses by literally putting them on a leash, to prevent their escape from infected cells. The insights reported ...
Penn scientists discover cells reorganize shape to fit the situation
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Nov 24, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Flip open any biology textbook and you're bound to see a complicated diagram of the inner workings of a cell, with its internal scaffolding, the cytoskeleton, and how it maintains a cell's ...
Teaching Nano to Swim
Oct 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ayusman Sen, head of the Department of Chemistry at Penn State, makes tiny, metallic objects do something extraordinary -- he makes them swim. Sen's work is driven by catalysis, the chemical phenomenon whereby ...
First Look at the 'Birth' of a Retina Cell
May 05, 2006 |
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Scientists at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center have gained new insight into the way an embryonic retina cell develops and then commits itself to a specific role. They have observed a small window of opportunity ...
Heat Switch for Fuel Filler Flaps
Jul 10, 2008 |
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Just in time – the car coasts into the gas station on its last drop of fuel. In order to fill the tank, the driver first has to release the fuel filler flap, usually by pushing a button inside the vehicle. ...
Scientists deconstruct process of bacterial division
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Apr 17, 2008 |
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Duke University researchers have made a major advance in understanding how bacteria divide. This could lead to new antibiotic treatments that prevent dangerous bacteria from multiplying.
Small evolutionary shifts make big impacts, study finds
May 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the developing fetus, cell growth follows a very specific schedule. In the eye's retina, for example, cones -- which help distinguish color during the day -- develop before the more light-sensitive ...
Teeny-tiny X-ray vision
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 28, 2009 |
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The tubes that power X-ray machines are shrinking, improving the clarity and detail of their Superman-like vision. A team of nanomaterial scientists, medical physicists, and cancer biologists at the University of North Carolina ...
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