News tagged with experimental technique

Study demonstrates cells can acquire new functions through transcriptional regulatory network

Researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center (OSC) have successfully developed and demonstrated a new experimental technique for producing cells with specific functions through the artificial reconstruction of transcriptional ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Swimming jellyfish may influence global climate

Swimming jellyfish and other marine animals help mix warm and cold water in the oceans and, by increasing the rate at which heat can travel through the ocean, may influence global climate. The controversial idea was first ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

New technique offers enhanced security for sensitive data in cloud computing

Researchers from North Carolina State University and IBM have developed a new, experimental technique to better protect sensitive information in cloud computing – without significantly affecting the system's ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The brain knows what the nose smells, but how? Researchers trace the answer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Professor of Biology Liqun Luo has developed a new technique to trace neural pathways across the brain. He has mapped the path of odor signals as they travel to the higher centers of a mouse ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New technique could eliminate inherited mitochondrial disease

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed an experimental technique with the potential to prevent a class of hereditary disorders passed on from mother to child. The technique, as yet conducted ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New statistical technique improves precision of nanotechnology data

A new statistical analysis technique that identifies and removes systematic bias, noise and equipment-based artifacts from experimental data could lead to more precise and reliable measurement of nanomaterials ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers shed light on how proteins find their shapes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have brought together UCSD theoretical modeling and Caltech experimental ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0