Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2004
...n with electronic devices. "Integration with other microscale structures such as electronic systems would make possible communication between manmade devices and solution-based reaction systems," Doktycz said. "Copying the scale of biological systems will lead to an effective interface to them." Initially, this...ORNL project earns top honor from Southeast tech transfer group
...lence in technology transfer were the MicroTrap MS microscale ion-trap mass spectrometer and the miniature calif.... The microtrap mass spectrometer is a microscale ion trap device that can analyze the composition of a substance through miniature chemical sensing t...Catalyst support structures facilitate high-temperature fuel reforming
... occur. While the demonstration was performed on a microscale reformer, the material could be used for large-scale reformers, Kenis said, with improvements in the fabrication processes....Picking particles faster than one at a time
...ctional changes in cellular constituents, from the microscale (millionths of a meter) to the nanoscale (billionths of a meter), comes ever closer to reality....Toxicology-on-a-chip tool readies for market
...me catalysis with cell-based screening on a single microscale chip. The drug candidates are added to a chip containing approximately 2,000 combinations of the eight enzymes used in human liver metabolism and then sandwiched with a slide of human organ cells in order to detect toxic reactions to the compound. Wh...Biggest physics meeting of the year
...sistors (B43.10), serial crystallography (A29.11), microscale synthetic swimmers (B29.2), plastic-explosive-degrading enzyme (P26.4), Cooper-pair molasses (Z39.11), double electromagnetically induced transparency (N43.1), vortex-phase qubits (B43.13), novel skin cream (C1.131), and antimicrobial coatings for me...UC Davis, Lawrence Livermore researchers
...he UC Davis researchers collaborated to create the microscale system in bacteria that produced the 14C- B12 compound and evaluated absorption in a human subject. The team included nutritional biochemists Stephen R. Dueker and Colleen Carkeet at the School of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, who worked w...Keck Futures Initiative announces grant recipients
...75,000 These researchers will use state-of-the-art microscale technology to measure and compare cellular events and white blood cell genomic expression in IN VITRO human models of infection and inflammation. Nitric oxide is an important mediator of white blood cell function in the pathogenesis and host defense ...Microchannels, electricity aid drug discovery, early diagnosis
...als by establishing an electrical current across a microscale channel, said Chang Lu, a Purdue University biological engineer. The Purdue system is different from current techniques that use electricity for drug delivery and cell analysis. The new technique handles one cell at a time and uses a common DC power ...$18 million grant will boost ASU research into mysteries of fatal diseases
...croscale Life Sciences Center's focus is on use of microscale technology innovation to solve mysteries about cell growth and death, answers that will reveal crucial knowledge about cancer, heart disease and strokes the leading fatal diseases in the United States. It is developing miniature automated systems ...Fossilized liquid assembly: Nanomaterials research tool
...cal topology: macroscale structures assembled from microscale components of varying sizes. Borrowing a page from nature's playbook, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel platform for the self-assembly of experimental hierarchical surfaces in a fluid. The...Weather forecasting technique wins top prize in 2006 Collegiate Inventors Competition
...a successful business focused on microclimates and microscale weather forecasting. At the University of Oklahoma, Haugland received his bachelors degree in 2001, his masters degree in 2002, and his Ph.D. in May of 2006. Graduate winners Craig Hashi, 24, and YiQian Zhu, 31, have been recognized for their in...The power of one: A simpler, cheaper method for cell fusion
...wer other laboratory equipment. And because of its microscale dimensions, Lu said his technology requires significantly smaller sample volumes. "This could be very important," he said. "For example, if you had to supply cells from your own body or from another live organism, you would want to take as few as p...Rensselaer licenses microscope technology to Thorlabs
...for observing live microorganisms or in monitoring microscale industrial processes. Rensselaers technology will initially be marketed by Thorlabs as a benchtop instrument for biological laboratories and microrobotics research. In the future, it could be used in industrial quality assurance and automated medic...AGU Journal highlights -- February 23, 2007
...e strong. Through analysis of vertical profiles of microscale velocity distribution, the authors detect intense, turbulent mixing throughout the observed water depth along the Izu-Ogasawara Trough, which runs parallel to the Izu-Ogasawara Ridge. In contrast, the Aleutian and Hawaiian ridges hosted only light to...Super small nanoelectrodes can probe microscale environments
.... -- Investigating the composition and behavior of microscale environments, including those within living cells, could become easier and more precise with nanoelectrodes being developed at the University of Illinois. "The individual nanotube-based probes can be used for electrochemical and biochemical sensing,"...Nanotextured implant materials: blending in, not fighting back
...most of the materials used in implants, which have microscale texture, but are nearly smooth at the nanoscale. When the researchers changed the surface texture of implant materials to better match the natural texture of the endothelium, they found that endothelial cells quickly colonized the foreign surfaces,......terizing its structure, studying its nanoscale and microscale assembly, and benchmarking it for applications," Epps said. Growing up near Richmond, Va., Epps said he was always interested in math and science. Although his father is a retired chemistry professor and his mother is an accounting professor, they ...