News tagged with chemical imaging
The need for speed
Coherent Raman scattering methods have one key advantage over spontaneous Raman microscopy: speed. The (sub-)microsecond pixel dwell times offered by narrowband CRS imaging methods have initiated a new era ...
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Forensic sleuth probes fate of royal lovers and lion hearts
The French media like to call him the "Indiana Jones of the graveyards", but perhaps a better tag would be the Sherlock Holmes of forensic science.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 24, 2012 |
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Galaxies in the young cosmos
(Phys.org) -- The universe was born about 13.7 billion years ago in the big bang. The Sun and its system of planets formed about five billion years ago. What happened, then, during that long, intervening stretch ...
May 21, 2012 |
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Learning about material integrity from statistical data
Whether it protects space satellites or sequesters nuclear waste, scientists want to understand tiny features that could significantly alter how a material behaves. Locating microscopic defects can be done ...
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Scientists devise new imaging technique for analysis of biological samples
(PhysOrg.com) -- When trying to understand how cells respond to toxins, scientists want to do as little sample preparation as possible. Preparing these cells by immersing them in chemicals or drying them out ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Overcoming cancer drug resistance with nanoparticles
One of the ways in which cancer cells evade anticancer therapy is by producing a protein that pumps drugs out of the cell before these compounds can exert their cell-killing effects. A research team at Northwestern University ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Manchester jet engine project takes FLITES
FLITES (Fibre-Laser Imaging of Gas Turbine Exhaust Species ) aims to establish a world-leading capability to map several exhaust species from aeroplanes using tomographic imaging.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Imaging instruction: Researchers produce 'primer' to guide the use of STORM
(PhysOrg.com) -- Though it was quickly adopted by the scientific community, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics Xiaowei Zhuang worried that researchers using the system of technology ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Nov 28, 2011 |
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Butterfly wings inspire design of water-repellent surface
Researchers mimic the many-layered nanostructure of blue mountain swallowtail wings to make a silicon wafer that traps both air and light.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Advance toward a breath test to diagnose multiple sclerosis
Scientists are reporting the development and successful tests in humans of a sensor array that can diagnose multiple sclerosis (MS) from exhaled breath, an advance that they describe as a landmark in the long ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Spider's double beating heart revealed by MRI
Researchers have used a specialised Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner on tarantulas for the first time, giving unprecedented videos of a tarantula's heart beating.
Jul 01, 2011 |
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Moving microscopic vision into another new dimension
Scientists who pioneered a revolutionary 3-D microscope technique are now describing an extension of that technology into a new dimension that promises sweeping applications in medicine, biological research, ...
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Watching particles' jekyll-to-hyde transformation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether a common atmospheric particle stays in a stable form or twists into something else depends on the amount of water it encounters in the atmosphere, according to scientists at the University ...
Jun 21, 2011 |
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New imaging tech promising for diagnosing cardiovascular disease, diabetes
Researchers have developed a new type of imaging technology to diagnose cardiovascular disease and other disorders by measuring ultrasound signals from molecules exposed to a fast-pulsing laser.
Jun 09, 2011 |
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Cleaning up masterpieces with ... bacteria?
(PhysOrg.com) -- For most people the word bacteria will conjure up either images of nasty microorganisms that we fight against daily by cleaning the spaces around us, or the type of 'good' bacteria doctors ...
Jun 09, 2011 |
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