News tagged with laser scanning confocal microscopy

Researchers find cells move in mysterious ways (w/ Video)

Our cells are more like us than we may think. They're sensitive to their environment, poking and prodding deliberately at their surroundings with hand-like feelers and chemical signals as they decide whether ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Study investigates aquatic parasites on fish

Researchers in the Czech Republic, Spain and the United Kingdom have successfully identified the cellular components and mechanisms that play a role in the proliferation of myxozoa, tiny aquatic parasites ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The hidden nanoworld of ice crystals: Revealing the dynamic behavior of quasi-liquid layers

(PhysOrg.com) -- A wide range of phenomena depend on ice – specifically, phase transitions during ice crystal surface melting. In this transition, which occurs near the melting point, the ice surface ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

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

The secret life of millipedes

Male adult helminthomorph millipedes usually have one or two pairs of legs from their seventh segment modified into sexual appendages. These specialized gonopods are used as claspers to hold the female during ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Microscopes borrow tricks from astronomy to see deep into living tissues

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are developing new microscope technologies to enable biologists to see deep within living tissues and observe critical processes involved in basic biology ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

UH researchers helping Pentagon build mind-controlled prosthetics

University of Houston researchers are helping the Pentagon build reliable mind-controlled prosthetic devices that military and civilian amputees can use the rest of their lives.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Seeing Previously Invisible Molecules for the First Time

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Harvard chemists led by X. Sunney Xie has developed a new microscopic technique for seeing, in color, molecules with undetectable fluorescence. The room-temperature technique allows ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Scientists Measure Differences Between Normal and Cancer Cell Surfaces

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists know that cancerous cells and normal cells have different physical features, but the details of these differences, and why they occur, are not well understood. In a recent edition ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0 weblog

New device looks to prevent vision loss in diabetes patients

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Indiana University School of Optometry faculty member's company is nearing completion of a diagnostic camera that could aid in saving the vision of millions of people worldwide.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What is the effect of fluoxetine on mast cell?

Mast cells are now recognized as "granular cells of the connective tissue", whose activation exacerbates allergic immune responses and as key players in the establishment of innate immunity as well as modulators of adaptive ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 23, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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