News tagged with tiny molecules
Scaling the wall of deafness
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Despite modern medicine, one in 1,000 American babies are born deaf. The numbers increase markedly with age, with more than 50% of seniors in the United States experiencing some form of hearing loss.
UCSF team closer to creating safe embryonic-like stem cells
Apr 12, 2009 |
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A team of UCSF researchers has for the first time used tiny molecules called microRNAs to help turn adult mouse cells back to their embryonic state. These reprogrammed cells are pluripotent, meaning that, like embryonic stem ...
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Single-Molecule Magnets Open New Door for Information Technology
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research by scientists in Italy and France shows that that single molecules have the ability to store information via their magnetic state. Their work is a first step toward a new generation ...
Step forward for nanotechnology: Controlled movement of molecules
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Scientists in the United Kingdom are reporting an advance toward overcoming one of the key challenges in nanotechnology: Getting molecules to move quickly in a desired direction without help from outside forces. Their achievement ...
Powerful new 'molecular GPS' helps probe aging and disease processes
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Scientists in Michigan are reporting the development of a powerful new probe for identifying proteins affected by a key chemical process important in aging and disease. The probe works like a GPS or navigation system for ...
Super-sized tiny proteins
Aug 21, 2009 |
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What are the causes of illness? How can the effect of medication be improved? Molecular biologists can now gain new insights by the virtual simulations generated with a new type of software.
New Nanochemistry Technique Encases Single Molecules in Microdroplets
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Inventing a useful new tool for creating chemical reactions between single molecules, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have employed microfluidics -- the manipulation ...
Scientists make quantum leap in developing faster computers
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have created a molecular device which could act as a building block for future generations of superfast computers.
Scientists create metal that pumps liquid uphill
Jun 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In nature, trees pull vast amounts of water from their roots up to their leaves hundreds of feet above the ground through capillary action, but now scientists at the University of Rochester ...
Atomic force microscope research could lead to better health care
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Where biology, chemistry and physics intersect, a Kansas State University professor expects to find applications to improve human health.
White blood cells move like millipedes, scientists show
May 04, 2009 |
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How do white blood cells - immune system 'soldiers' - get to the site of infection or injury? To do so, they must crawl swiftly along the lining of the blood vessel - gripping it tightly to avoid being swept away in the blood ...
Scientists Create Smallest Ever Droplet of Acid, Solve Ozone Puzzle
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In its atomic form, chlorine can destroy vast quantities of ozone. But exactly how chlorine is created in the ultracold conditions of the stratosphere has puzzled scientists. Now, a team of ...
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