News tagged with stickiness
A sticky business -- how cancer cells become more 'gloopy' as they die
Mar 15, 2009 |
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The viscosity, or 'gloopiness', of different parts of cancer cells increases dramatically when they are blasted with light-activated cancer drugs, according to new images that provide fundamental insights into how cancer ...
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Scientists develop DNA origami nanoscale breadboards for carbon nanotube circuits
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 10, 2009 |
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In work that someday may lead to the development of novel types of nanoscale electronic devices, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology has combined DNA's talent ...
Stem cell therapy may offer hope for acute lung injury
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have shown that adult stem cells from bone marrow can prevent acute lung injury in a mouse model of the disease.
From nature, robots
Sep 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To a robot designer like Sangbae Kim, the animal kingdom is full of inspiration. "I always look at animals and ask why they are the way they are," says Kim, an assistant professor of mechanical ...
Invasive mussel may inspire new adhesive
Aug 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The green mussel is known for being a notoriously invasive fouling species, but scientists have just discovered that it also has a very powerful form of adhesion in its foot, according to ...
Scientist finds alternate explanation for dune formation on Titan
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 25, 2009 |
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A new and likely controversial paper has just been published online in Nature Geoscience by LSU Department of Geography and Anthropology Chair Patrick Hesp and United States Geological Survey scientist David ...
The buzz on an amazing new mosquito repellent: Will it fly?
Aug 16, 2009 |
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After searching for more than 50 years, scientists finally have discovered a number of new mosquito repellents that beat DEET, the gold standard for warding off those pesky, sometimes disease-carrying insects. ...
Planet Facebook: Is social-networking site a phenomenon or a fad?
Jun 24, 2009 |
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Is Facebook a phenomenon -- or a fad? Even as it has grown to more than 200 million users and become the global leader in social-networking Web sites, many people see it as just a nifty way for people to share ...
TRAPping proteins that work together inside living cells
Jun 15, 2009 |
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DNA might be the blueprint for living things, but proteins are the builders. Researchers trying to understand how and which proteins work together have developed a new crosslinking tool that is small and unobtrusive ...
Easily grossed out? You're more likely a conservative
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Are you someone who squirms when confronted with slime, shudders at stickiness or gets grossed out by gore? Do crawly insects make you cringe or dead bodies make you blanch?
Researchers reveal six new genome sequences and fundamental insights to the Candida fungus family
May 25, 2009 |
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An international research collaboration coordinated by UCD (University College Dublin) researchers and involving scientists at 21 institutes including the genome sequencing centres in the Wellcome Trust Sanger ...
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