NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
...s of thousands of biological molecules. Electron microscopy has been in use since the 1930s and relies on the ...logical molecules and other tiny objects. Electron microscopy looks at a range of magnifications, from 60 times (the level of an ordinary light microscope) to 1,0...32 new grants made for innovative technology R&D
...Nanomechanical MeasurementsDevelop an atomic force microscopy based platform for high-speed, high-bandwidth quantitative nanomechanical measurements which provides structure-property understanding at the nanoscale in order to accelerate discovery, design, and commercialization of nanomaterials. UOP LLC (D...New method studies living bacterial cells
...mium. The researchers then used X-ray fluorescence microscopy to measure the concentrations of elements in individual cells before and after exposure to the heavy metal. The results indicated that X-ray fluorescence analysis had distinguished living bacterial cells from dead cells for the first time. The analys...Soaking up signal: Endocytosis controls spreading and effective signaling range of Fgf8 protein
...ion of molecularly tagged Fgf8 protein by confocal microscopy serves as one of the first examples of direct visualization of the spread of signaling molecules in an intact animal. The researchers found that spreading of Fgf8 through target tissue is controlled by endocytosis--i.e., internalization of Fgf8 prote...NSF gives 'teeth' to biomaterials research
...als Research Laboratory houses the latest electron microscopy equipment, which enables researchers to view materials at the atomic level. The electron-imaging lab at Clemson offers partnering businesses the resources they need to bring their ideas to life. "A tooth filling is just the beginning of the story," ...Joslin Diabetes Center awards 1st Mary K. Iacocca Faculty Fellowship
...for this fellowship, in part, for his breakthrough microscopy methods of using intra-vital imaging technology, w...in focus of his fellowship will be to set up a new microscopy model at Joslin to view the interaction between islet cells and immune cells to determine why islet ...Tiny exosomes extracted from donor cells may be 'magic bullet' for drug-free transplants
... dye, and methods such as flow cytometry, confocal microscopy and immuno-electron microscopy helped the researchers track their every movement and activity within the mouse. Very quickly and e...Automated scans let scientists track drugs' broad effects on cells
...urs of cell growth, the researchers used automated microscopy to collect some half a million images of the treat...atic comparison between samples, our method brings microscopy into the '-omics' era, like genomics and proteomics," says Mitchison, of Harvard Medical School's In...UCSB makes important advances in studies of retinal detachment
...researchers have specialized using high resolution microscopy techniques to precisely map changes in protein expression and morphology in the cells. ...Scientists discover unique microbe in California's largest lake
...ed with Selker, former director of the UO electron microscopy facility, to compare the cellular structure of the new organism with that of the symbiotic form of Acaryochloris . Blankenship and Olson compared its pigments with those of A. marina , one of the symbiotic species. "Chlorophyll d is a pigment tha...New lensless imaging technique opens door to nanoscale world
...ment and sample handling than do established X-ray microscopy methods. Lensless imaging will be especially powerful at LCLS and other future X-ray free electron lasers being planned in Germany and other countries. X-ray free electron lasers will be 10 billion times brighter than today's brightest synchrotron so...University of Arizona receives IBM grant for massive virtual storage system for life sciences data
... data, including MRI images, genomic sequences and microscopy images. The project has capabilities to scale to petabytes of data and will help the university manage, integrate and access their current repository of digital assets as well as organize and convert non-digitized assets to a digital format. IBM Tota...Study in Royal Society journal on sense of fairness in chimpanzees
...d Professor CA van Blitterswijk Scanning electron microscopy allows for observation of biological samples at ve...ity of using the combination of Raman and electron microscopy in one apparatus for biological studies, which proved to be a very powerful technique. Contact: Dr A...A bug's life: aging and death in E. coli
...ch cell. The researchers used automated time-lapse microscopy to follow all the cell divisions in 94 colonies, each grown from a single fluorescently labeled E. coli cell. In all, the researchers built up a lineage for 35,049 cells in terms of which pole--old or new--each cell had inherited at each division d...Open microfluidic and nanofluidic systems
...hologies as observed by atomic (or scanning) force microscopy (AFM) are shown in Figure 1. When the AFM experiments were first performed, it was not known how to produce a certain liquid morphology since there was no systematic theory for the dependence of this morphology on the materials properties and on the...Plants respond similarly to signals from friends, enemies
...d foe are also remarkably similar. Using high-tech microscopy and florescent imaging techniques that allow for real-time, three-dimensional study in living cells over time, the NC State researchers discovered that the model legume Lotus japonicus responded similarly to signals from both rhizobia, the friends th...Neuronal 'traffic jam' marks early Alzheimer's disease
...d when we looked at those swellings using electron microscopy and biochemical markers, they looked just like the axonal transport blockages we saw in fruit flies." Detailed studies of the neurons revealed what Goldstein termed a "traffic jam" of transport-related proteins, organelles and sac-like vesicles that ...Survivors to revisit the polio scare
... like X-ray crystallography and molecular electron microscopy to obtain detailed, dynamic, 3-D views accurate down to the atom -- of how viruses move, transfer information, and reconfigure themselves to attack their victims. These images are shedding light on many of today's viral scourges, such as HIV, dengue...The transparent organism: EMBLEM and Carl Zeiss give labs a unique look at life
...nates a problem that has plagued three-dimensional microscopy in the past: researchers could obtain excellent resolution in the plane of the microscope slide, but resolution along the direction of the viewer was very fuzzy. In SPIM, a sample is passed through a thin sheet of light, capturing high-quality images......eloped immunohistochemical, molecular and electron microscopy tests for the fungus, along with a range of sampling assays. Using wash water or swabs, tadpoles and frogs can be tested for infection, with the sampling assays detecting even low levels of fungus zoospores," Dr Hyatt says. Many of the workshop sess...