Scientists use alfalfa plants to harvest nanoparticles of gold
...ssion electron microscopy. The advantage electron microscopes offer over light microscopes is about a thousand-fold increase in resolution and a hundred-fold increase in the depth of field. A......site will be transformed into an outdoor lab, with microscopes to examine specimens, computers to log finds, and display areas to show participants samples of what has been found. At the Wolf Lake headquarters, the public will be able to participate for free in many activities, including: tours, hikes, demonstra...Living in a glass house: Ocean organism's novel dwelling helps Earth's atmosphere
... have been a source of fascination since the first microscopes of the 1600s allowed scientists to sketch their intricate glass cases in pen and ink. The tough porous shells also have a variety of commercial uses. Swimming pool owners commonly use diatomaceous earth, which is rich with old diatom shells, to filte...NSF establishes center for biophotonics at UC Davis
...tists at UC Davis and LLNL are already testing new microscopes that can more clearly distinguish cancerous and healthy tissue. Plans are under way to develop a hand-held pathogen detection unit to immediately identify the presence of potentially infectious agents, from anthrax to smallpox. "The biophotonics fie......focal spot to more than 1,000. Internal reflection microscopes have managed to reduce the number of molecules to about 100. But because this number is still far too high to detect individual molecules, significant dilution of samples is required. The Webb group has discovered a way around these limitations, and ...iScope, you scope, we all scope a mouse brain
...om dusk till dawn. The trio of hefty, slide-filled microscopes will soon be plugged into the internet to help researchers study the mouse brain, free of the logistical problems associated with borrowing from a traditional lending library. The iScope project is described today at the American Association for the ...Carnegie Mellon, NASA to develop robot illustrating how to seek life on distant planets
...rom NASA to develop fluorescent dyes and automated microscopes that the robot will eventually use to locate various forms of life. The project falls under NASA's Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets or ASTEP program, which concentrates on pushing the limits of technology in harsh environmen...Gene therapy grows new auditory hair cells in mammals
...inoculation, U-M scientists used scanning electron microscopes to examine inner ears from both sets of animals. In experimental guinea pigs that received the Math1 gene, scientists found new hair cells growing in areas where hair cells are typically absent. No new hair cells were found in the control animals. "T...Whats next as biology, math combine forces, reciprocate in discovery
...at noon in Room 110 at NSF. According to Cohen, as microscopes did in the 17th century, mathematics (by its treatment of biological data) is revealing a world formerly invisible. Conversely, "biology can stimulate the creation of new realms of mathematics," much as the pursuit of physical problems centuries ago...Giant bloom fades, science continues
... surface. She will use light and scanning electron microscopes to look for stomata, the tiny pores that control water loss from leaves. The pattern or distribution of stomata might be useful for understanding the heating and water loss observed with the other instruments, Jernstedt said. Researchers also took pi...DNA profiling is subject of two-day expert forum at Wright State
...rt TV, DNA experts have come out from behind their microscopes and into the public's eye. Nearly a dozen of the country's leading DNA experts will meet Friday and Saturday, Aug. 2930, at Wright State University for "The Statistics of DNA Profiling," an expert forum co-sponsored by Forensic Bioinformatics Service...Lasers create new possibilities for biological technology
...ging that fits on a desktop," Murnane said. "Such microscopes could visualize processes happening within living cells, or perhaps even allow scientists to understand how pharmaceuticals function in detail." A paper on the subject by graduate student Emily Gibson, physics Professor Henry Kapteyn, Murnane, Ariel...Researchers find mechanism bacteria use to target specific chemical contaminants
...tions between the surfaces of two substances. Such microscopes use an ultra-sensitive probe that can detect attractive and repulsive forces. The researchers placed a small amount of S. oneidensis on the probe, which also acts as a cantilever, and a sample of iron oxide near the probe. A beam of laser light was t...Microscopes provide new view for tissue engineering
... (NIST) scientists describe a novel combination of microscopes that can peer deep into tissue-engineering scaffolds and monitor the growth and differentiation of cells ultimately intended to develop into implantable organs or other body-part replacements. The new dual-imaging tool provides a much needed capabili...Telescience recognized for facilitating biomedical research on a global network
...ical research since the 1970s, yet access to these microscopes is vital for the study of disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease as well as mental retardation. To offset this obstacle, and improve speed and accessibility to microscopic data, the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research ...New DVD 'virtual' microscope at UNC-Chapel Hill
...in their teaching microscopes. UNC has hundreds of microscopes that are at least 30 years old, difficult to maint...h uneven tissue slide quality, and an aging set of microscopes with which to view these slides, conspire to reduce quality teaching time. We decided avirtual forma...Researchers model embryo implantation and tumour metastasis in fruit flies
...imaging studies with the state-of-the-art confocal microscopes in the Sick Kids Research Institute's Imaging Facility acquired with support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Innovation Trust. Looking for a marker that would enable him to see live cells - particularly those of the extraemb...3-D micro-imaging technology licensed to Carl Zeiss Jena
... Carl Zeiss have been manufacturing confocal laser microscopes incorporating multiphoton technology. Additionall...day, Carl Zeiss stands for high-end laser scanning microscopes that are benchmark solutions for advanced applications in 3-D microscopy," Simon said. "Joining our ...European researchers tackle mitosis
...the cells undergoing division, using sophisticated microscopes developed by Rainer Pepperkok, Jan Ellenberg and Leica Microsystems. Several hundred thousand movies will be produced, filming each group of cells over a 48-hour period, to capture the full impact of silencing particular genes. The task of analyzing ......titute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Neutron microscopes might eventually offer certain advantages over optical, X-ray and electron imaging techniques such as better contrast for biological samples. Described in the July 19 issue of Applied Physics Letters, the imaging process involves hitting a sample wit...