News tagged with biomembrane
Progress Toward Artificial Cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- In cosmetics, lipid vesicles, also known as liposomes, effectively transport ingredients through the skin. However, they are also used to encapsulate pharmaceuticals and release them at the intended point ...
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Nano-tech makes medicine greener
Over the last 5 years the Bionano Group at the Nano-Science Center and the Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology at the University of Copenhagen has been working hard to characterise and test how molecules react, combine ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 03, 2011 |
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How biological capsules respond under stress
Cosmetics and pharmaceutical drug delivery systems could be improved thanks to a new method developed to precisely measure the capability of capsule-like biological membranes to change shape under external stress. This work ...
Oct 28, 2011 |
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How wet is water's surface? Some water molecules split the difference between gas and liquid
(PhysOrg.com) -- Air and water meet over most of the earth's surface, but exactly where one ends and the other begins turns out to be a surprisingly subtle question.
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Antibiotic progress for disease that causes half a million deaths a year
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are making progress in their quest to find an improved antibiotic for a strain of meningitis that results in over half a million deaths a year worldwide. The fungal disease Cryptococcal ...
Apr 11, 2011 |
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Finding genes that control mind and behavior
The highly sophisticated abilities of humans, such as memory, learning, cognition and thought, are achieved in the brain as a result of dramatic evolutionary development. Personality, preference, behavioral ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 01, 2010 |
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The dance of hot nanoparticles
(PhysOrg.com) -- "Brownian motion is a very old concept," Klaus Kroy tells PhysOrg.com. "The laws explaining it were formulated more than a century ago by Albert Einstein. However, we are finding some intere ...
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Mathematical model gives clearer picture of physics of cells, organelles
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cells are filled with membrane-bound organelles like the nucleus, mitochondria and endoplasmic reticula. Over the years, scientists have made much progress in understanding the biomolecular details of how ...
Dec 08, 2008 |
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Crossing scientific boundaries to understand the rejection of drugs
A physicist from The University of Nottingham and a mathematical modeller from The University of Southampton are joining forces in the hope of answering a biological mystery — how do our bodies reject some of the drugs that ...
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Dec 01, 2008 |
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Unsuccessful drug against anxiety opens a novel gateway for the treatment of cancer
Unsatisfying drug for anxiety reveals scientists a promising novel anti-cancer drug target. Cancer cells have multiple ways to avoid apoptosis, programmed cell death the means by which organisms deal with defective cells. ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 04, 2008 |
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Cellular Construction Methods Emulated
Not only is our body made of individual organs, our cells themselves are made of tiny organelles, a variety of separate compartments that fulfill different tasks. Such functional, nanostructured systems would also be useful ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 05, 2008 |
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