News tagged with diffusion pathway

Two-In-One Punch Knocks Out Drug Resistant Cancer Cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer cells, like bacteria, can develop resistance to drug therapy, leading to relapse of disease. One approach showing promise in overcoming multidrug resistance in tumors is to combine two different anticancer ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Abnormal brain circuits may prevent movement disorder

Specific changes in brain pathways may counteract genetic mutations for the movement disorder dystonia, according to new research in the August 5 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Few people who inherit dystonia genes ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Mesquite trees displacing Southwestern grasslands

As the desert Southwest becomes hotter and drier, semi-arid grasslands are slowly being replaced by a landscape dominated by mesquite trees, such as Prosopis velutina, and other woody shrubs, a team of University ...

Biology / Ecology

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Hot attraction in bimetals: A cyano-bridged vanadium-niobium bimetal assembly with a Curie temperature of 210 K

Cyano-bridged bimetal assemblies attract attention because of their magnetic properties such as photomagnetization, humidity-induced magnetization, and nonlinear magneto-optical effect, which make them suitable ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

DNA damage across a cellular barrier depends on barrier thickness

(PhysOrg.com) -- The use of nanoparticles in medicine is ever increasing and it is important to understand the effects these particles might have on human tissues and health in general.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Carving at the nanoscale

Researchers at the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology have successfully demonstrated a new method for producing a wide variety of complex hollow nanoparticles. The work, published this week in Science, applies well known ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Travelling epidemics: Human mobility patterns and their impact on the spread of epidemics

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a globalized world, infectious diseases such as SARS, swine flu or seasonal influenza can be transmitted over the entire planet by travellers. To enable a more effective response to this ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

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Scientists discover dielectron charging of water nano-droplet

Scientists have discovered fundamental steps of charging of nano-sized water droplets and unveiled the long-sought-after mechanism of hydrogen emission from irradiated water. Working together at the Georgia ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists learn how horseweed shrugs off herbicide

As everyone knows, the pharmaceutical industry is struggling to deal with bacteria that have become resistant to common antibiotics. Less well known is the similar struggle in agribusiness to deal with weeds ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New production process for NiO/Ni nanocomposite electrodes for supercapacitors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Conversion to renewable energy sources like wind and sun is only a question of time. Because wind and solar radiation vary in strength, the increase in renewable energy sources will cause ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists investigate an innovative protein family in plants

A team of European researchers has succeeded in revealing how a family of proteins work, which until now remained a mystery, according to a new study published in the journal Nature.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Enzyme helps control extension of cellular tendrils by regulating delivery of supplies needed for growth

The body of the adult fruit fly is covered with hair-like bristles (Fig. 1) that act as sensory organs for detecting tactile stimuli. Each one consists of a single cell that has gradually elongated over the ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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