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New 'microcapsules' put more medication into the bloodstream to treat disease

New 'microcapsules' put more medication into the bloodstream to treat disease

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists are reporting a potential solution to a problem that limits the human body’s ability to absorb and use medications for heart disease, Type-2 diabetes, cancer and other conditions. It is a “nano-hybrid ...





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Tiny Test Tube Experiment Shows Reaction Of Melting Materials at the Nano Scale (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have conducted a basic chemistry experiment in what is perhaps the world's smallest test tube, measuring a thousandth the diameter of a human hair.


Nanochemistry in Action

Nanochemistry in Action

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) as a test tube, scientists can explore chemistry at the nanoscale, which involves some unique effects. Nanotubes provide a confined, one-dimensional ...


New insights into health and environmental effects of carbon nanoparticles

New insights into health and environmental effects of carbon nanoparticles

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Carbon nanoparticles are widely used in medicine, electronics, optics, materials science and architecture, but their health and environmental impact is not fully understood.


Searching for Alien Life, on Earth

Searching for Alien Life, on Earth

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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

If you spend an afternoon walking along the muddy shore of Mono Lake, with the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada mountains looming majestically in the background, you’ll no doubt discover, as others have ...


New explanation for nature's hardiest life form

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Got food poisoning? The cause might be bacterial spores, en extremely hardy survival form of bacteria, a nightmare for health care and the food industry and an enigma for scientists. Spore-forming bacteria, present almost ...


Infectious, test tube-produced prions can jump the 'species barrier'

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created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2

Researchers have shown that they can create entirely new strains of infectious proteins known as prions in the laboratory by simply mixing infectious prions from one species with the normal prion proteins of another species. ...


'Motorized' DNA opens door to autonomous molecular experiments

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the same protein molecule that scientists have used for decades to copy genetic material, researchers have developed a molecular motor for propelling DNA.


Researchers reconstitute enzyme that synthesizes cholesterol drug lovastatin

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have for the first time successfully reconstituted in the laboratory the enzyme responsible for producing the blockbuster cholesterol-lowering ...


INL engineers tackle graphite challenge with innovative new device

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Employees at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory recently reached an important milestone in developing the nation's next generation of nuclear reactors by the completion of the first of six planned Advanced ...


Scientists in Japan design first optical pacemaker for laboratory research

Physics / General Physics

created May 28, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 0

The world's first optical pacemaker is described in an article published today in Optics Express, the Optical Society’s open-access journal. A team of scientists at Osaka University in Japan show that powerful, but very s ...



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