News tagged with cell cluster

Small defects mean big problems for industrial solar cells

Nanoscale clustering of metal impurities at intragranular dislocations within industrial mc-Si solar cells have been observed by users from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working with the Center ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Synthetic cells: Ion exchange leads to complex cell systems with inorganic membranes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Our body consists of individual organs that are made of cells, which in turn contain a number of separate organelles. Biological function cannot be maintained if there are no separate compartments, ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Brookhaven Lab chemists receive patents for fuel-cell catalysts

Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have received three patents for developing catalysts to accelerate chemical reactions in fuel cells. The newly patented catalysts, ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Splitting fluorescent protein helps image clusters in live cells

Half a protein is better than none, and in this case, it's way better than a whole one. A Rice University lab has discovered that dividing a particular fluorescent protein and using it as a tag is handy for analyzing the ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers show how to divide and conquer 'social network' of cells

On Noah's Ark animals came in twos: male and female. In human bodies trillions of cells are coupled, too, and so are the molecules from which they are composed. Yet these don't come in twos, they are regrouped ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Second gene linked to familial testicular cancer

Specific variations or mutations in a particular can gene raise a man's risk of familial, or inherited, testicular germ-cell cancer, the most common form of this disease, according to new research by scientists at the National ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1