Scientists find nanowires capable of detecting individual viruses
...ng that the technique could be scaled up to create miniature arrays easily capable of sensing thousands of different viruses. The work was reported in the most recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . "Viruses are among the most important causes of human disease and are of increa...Israeli scientists reveal the plan of a key cellular machine
...ung together like beads on a strand of RNA, each a miniature spliceosome capable of splicing on its own. The connections between the modules tend to be flexible, allowing the position of the units to vary in relation to each other. Thus pinning down a definitive shape and structure for the whole complex has be...Study by Israeli scientists provides insight on DNA code
...ung together like beads on a strand of RNA, each a miniature spliceosome capable of splicing on its own. The connections between the modules tend to be flexible, allowing the position of the units to vary in relation to each other. Thus pinning down a definitive shape and structure for the whole complex has be...Funding to commercialize technologies of UC San Diego engineers tops $1.2 million
...for performance, functionality and the cost of all miniature cameras. With support from DARPA and the U.S. Air ...-performance, multi-functional, and cost-effective miniature imaging systems. Having overcome the major technical hurdles, the focus of Lo's effort under the von......iments with atom chips where the magnetic field of miniature wires is used to manipulate ultracold atoms (H1 2). Tin-Lun (Jason) Ho of Ohio State will discuss surprising developments in fast rotating Bose gases (G2 2). Deborah Jin of NIST/JILA will describe her group's recent experiments with degenerate gases ...BioCDS could hit No. 1 on doctors' charts
...of a CD. "It is these pits which we transform into miniature test tubes," Nolte said. "Each pit can hold a trace quantity of a chemical that reacts to a certain protein found in the blood." Blood contains more than 10,000 proteins that physicians would like to monitor, and Nolte said up to 10,000 tracks on a C...Labs-on-a-chip to detect milk contamination
...Madison has developed a process to make on-demand, miniature sensors for a wide variety of poisons, including naturally occurring contaminants and intentionally introduced toxins. The sensors can be constructed to test for a particular toxin in as little as an hour with test results available in minutes. The W...Bird's eye views earth's magnetic lines
...ite, synthesized by living systems, which act like miniature compass needles. The new experiments reported in the May 13 issue of Nature took advantage of the fact that migratory birds held in "orientation cages" during their normal seasonal migrations use the magnetic field as a source of compass informati...Laser technique used to build micro-polymeric structure on a human hair, without harming it
...way towards applications of MAP in the creation of miniature biodevices, which could include micromanipulators ...hnique also have the potential to be used in other miniature devices, such as optical communications hardware: fiber optics and the hardware that is used to inte...University of Pittsburgh receives NIH funding to develop heart assist device for infants
...involved. The goal of the contract is to develop a miniature centrifugal pump utilizing suspended magnetic levitation technology for use in babies between 5 and 35 pounds. It's conceived that the device could be used for up to six months as a bridge to heart transplantation. In some babies, the device may allo...Crystallographers take note: A synchrotron light source for your home lab
...e determination in their own laboratory with a new miniature synchrotron light source capable of producing high-intensity, tunable, near-monochromatic X-rays. This tabletop device, the Compact Light Source, will soon bring high-flux, high-quality X-rays directly to the university or industrial laboratory--and...Powerful machines are coming in small packages
...oncept that makes this possible also is leading to miniature sensors for detecting chemical and biological toxins, as well as tiny chemical reactors for hydrogen fuel processing or environmental cleanup. In a nutshell, small is powerful. These devices send large amounts of liquid or gas through thousands of m...Immerge reports PERVs most infectious to human cells not part of germ-line DNA of mini-swine
...n cells are not components of the germ line DNA of miniature swine, as previously thought. This is a crucial di...ese viruses are not present in cells and organs of miniature swine destined for clinical use," said Dr Clive Patience, Director of the Safety Program at Immerge....Nanoparticle probes are destined for major new role in medical diagnostics and drug delivery
... peptides, proteins and DNA." By virtue of their miniature size nanoparticles assume special properties that distinguish them from larger particles, including the ability to emit light in different colors and to act as fluorescent tags. This makes them highly suitable as contrast agents for magnetic resonan...Destructive wizardry of Ozz-E3 ligase appears key to building skeletal muscles in embryos and adults
...s the ends of the sarcomere toward each other in a miniature contraction. Thousands of sarcomeres lined up in a row make a myofibril; and large bundles of myofibrils make up a muscle fiber. Muscle fibers work together to form a single muscle, whose ability to contract is based on the accumulated contractions o...Beetles could prove a hit with the aircraft industry
...l focus on understanding the beetle's heart-shaped miniature combustion chamber, which is less than 1 millimetre long. Simulations for a larger chamber around a few centimetres long will then be conducted, in which gases are ignited by raising the chamber's surface temperature. The effect of different shaped n...How many fish in the sea? Census of Marine Life launches first report
...l organisms like many algae and protozoa or krill, miniature relatives of shrimps. Plankton capable of photosynthesis, the phytoplankton, is the grass in the oceanic pasture, converting CO2 gas into 300 billion tons of food for tiny animals like krill that in turn feed the larger animals up the food chain. Th...New chemical process can separate, manipulate carbon nanotubes
... have been proposed for myriad applications - from miniature motors and chemical sensors to molecule-size electronic circuits - their actual uses have been severely limited by an inability to isolate and manipulate nanotubes having different characteristics. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois at Ur...Young sea animals clone themselvescentury-old debate halted
...feed for several months before transforming into a miniature adult. During this time some larvae form an outgrowth -- essentially a ball of tissue -- that pinches-off of the larval body and grows into a second, normal-looking larva--a clone. One of the most remarkable parts about the research is that for more ......s. Further research on how cooperation within such miniature societies evolves should provide both light on intriguing questions and utility in battling social pathogens....