News tagged with laser induced fluorescence

Countering contamination for Mars spacesuits

To search for life on Mars, future astronauts would naturally want to step outside their living habitat for a walk. But the spacesuits keeping them alive might also carry Earth microbes or ingredients of life ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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

A revolutionary breakthrough in terahertz remote sensing

(PhysOrg.com) -- A major breakthrough in remote wave sensing by a team of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers opens the way for detecting hidden explosives, chemical, biological agents and illegal ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jul 11, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 9 | with audio podcast




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In a new microchip, cells separate by rolling away

Cell rolling is a common mechanism cells use to navigate through the body. During inflammation, for example, the endothelial cells that line blood vessels present certain molecules that attract white blood ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Electrons in concert: A simple probe for collective motion in ultracold plasmas

(PhysOrg.com) -- Collective, or coordinated behavior is routine in liquids, where waves can occur as atoms act together. In a milliliter (mL) of liquid water, 1022 molecules bob around, colliding. When a bre ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A single cell endoscope: Researchers use nanophotonics for optical look inside living cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- An endoscope that can provide high-resolution optical images of the interior of a single living cell, or precisely deliver genes, proteins, therapeutic drugs or other cargo without injuring ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Making a light-harvesting antenna from scratch

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes when people talk about solar energy, they tacitly assume that we're stuck with some version of the silicon solar cell and its technical and cost limitations. Not so.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Single Green Fluorescent Protein-expressing cell is basis of living laser device

(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like something out of a comic book or a science fiction movie – a living laser – but that is exactly what two investigators at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jun 12, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Development of a FRET sensor for real-time imaging of intracellular redox dynamics

In work published in the June 2011 issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine, Kolossov, Spring and their co-investigators - a multidisciplinary team within the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois - have ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Where no lab has gone before: Single-Molecule Electrokinetic Traps

(PhysOrg.com) -- To study the behavior of large protein complexes and long DNA chains in solution, researchers use so-called molecular traps. However, earlier traps have proven ineffective when working with s ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Multiplexed capillary isoelectric focusing increases efficiency in protein measurements

The Springer journal Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (ABC) has chosen Oluwatosin O. Dada (34) as the recipient of its Best Paper Award 2010. Dada is the lead author of a paper in ABC on capillary isoele ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Physicists may have observed Hawking radiation for the first time

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1974, Stephen Hawking predicted that black holes emit thermal radiation due to quantum effects, which causes the black holes to lose mass and perhaps ultimately vanish. But despite numerous ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (39) | comments 43 | with audio podcast report

How Do Cells Die? Biophotonic Tools Reveal Real-Time Dynamics in Living Color

Apoptosis, programmed cell death, is essential to normal development, healthy immune system function, and cancer prevention. The process dramatically transforms cellular structures but the limitations of conventional ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 22, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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