News tagged with virus detector

Ultrasensitive detector promises improved treatment of viral respiratory infections

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Vanderbilt chemist and a biomedical engineer have teamed up to develop a respiratory virus detector that is sensitive enough to detect an infection at an early stage, takes only a few minutes ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Portable device can detect viruses in minutes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine being able to detect in just a few minutes whether someone is infected with a virus. This has now become a reality, thanks to a new ultra-sensitive detector that has been developed ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Chaos puts a path on nanoparticles

At just over seven feet tall, Shaquille O’Neal is easy to spot in crowd. But the individual virus structures that give him, and us, a cold aren’t so easy to see.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Physicists develop nano-level sound detector

(PhysOrg.com) -- For a couple of decades now, physicists have known that if a very small laser beam is pointed at a microscopic particle, it could be held in place due to the very small electrical field that ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Proteins caught 'in action' in intact cells using new electron microscopy technique

Proteins are literally the movers and the shakers of the intracellular world. If DNA is the film director, then they are the actors. And much can be learned about cell function – and dysfunction – by watching proteins ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eddies in Einstein's formula

(PhysOrg.com) -- How does a microscopic particle behave in a liquid? New results published in the journal Nature show that Einstein’s formula for describing this situation needs a little adjustment. This w ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Sorting millions of snapshots from the Linac Coherent Light Source

The great thing about SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source is that it churns out incredible volumes of data about things no one has ever seen before, such as snapshots of individual viruses.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Scientists man bioterror front lines post-9/11

(AP) -- Just hours after the first death in the 2001 anthrax attacks, Tom Slezak was told to gather his team, collect his gear and get on a plane.

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

New X-ray camera will reveal big secrets about how chemistry works

Designed to record bursts of images at an unprecedented speed of 4.5 million frames per second, an innovative X-ray camera being built with STFC's world-class engineering expertise will help a major new research ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Viewing the ultra-fast at SSRL: First pump-probe experiments under way

(PhysOrg.com) -- X-rays have been used for more than a century to expose the invisible in many of its forms. When a family doctor studies an X-ray of a broken leg or an agent scans a carry-on bag at an airport ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Biosensors: Hormonal attractions

Estrogen receptor (ER) proteins play a major role in controlling the transcription of genetic information from DNA to messenger RNA in cells. Understanding how ER proteins interact with specific DNA regulatory ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The digital side of biology

Revolutions in science come in waves. One of the epoch-making events in modern biology came in 1995 when J. Craig Venter, an American biologist, decoded the whole genome of the Haemohilus influenzae bacterium ...

Biology / Other

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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