News tagged with microscope technique

'Label-free' imaging tool tracks nanotubes in cells, blood for biomedical research

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have demonstrated a new imaging tool for tracking structures called carbon nanotubes in living cells and the bloodstream, which could aid efforts to perfect their use in biomedical ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Researchers ink nanostructures with tiny 'soldering iron'

Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shed light on the role of temperature in controlling a fabrication technique for drawing chemical patterns as small as 20 nanometers. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Helium raises resolution of whole cell imaging

The ability to obtain an accurate three-dimensional image of an intact cell is critical for unraveling the mysteries of cellular structure and function. However, for many years, tiny structures buried deep inside cells have ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Soil microbes accelerate global warming

More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causes soil to release the potent greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide, new research published in this week's edition of Nature reveals. "This feedback to our changing atmosphere means ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

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, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers develop biological circuit components, new microscope technique for measuring them

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrical engineers have long been toying with the idea of designing biological molecules that can be directly integrated into electronic circuits. University of Pennsylvania researchers ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Study unlocks secrets of plague with stunning new imaging techniques

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a super-resolution microscopy technique that is answering long-held questions about exactly how and why a cell's defenses fail against ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rapid, high-definition chemistry with new imaging technique

With intensity a million times brighter than sunlight, a new synchrotron-based imaging technique offers high-resolution pictures of the molecular composition of tissues with unprecedented speed and quality. ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New microscope produces dazzling 3-D movies of live cells (w/ video)

A new microscope invented by scientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus will let researchers use an exquisitely thin sheet of light -- similar to that used in supermarket bar-code scanners ...

Physics / Soft Matter

created Mar 04, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

New microscope reveals ultrastructure of cells

German researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have developed a new X-ray nanotomography microscope. Using their new system, they can reveal the structures on the smallest components of mammalian cells in ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 19, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Cryo-electron microscope 'sees' atoms for first time

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA researchers report in the April 30 edition of the journal Cell that they have imaged a virus structure at a resolution high enough to effectively "see" atoms, the first published instan ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Scientists Create World's Smallest Snowman (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- David Cox, a scientist in the Quantum Detection group at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, is an expert in nanofabrication techniques. Recently, using the tools of his trade and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Blueprint from the interior of a catalyst

Irregularities in industrial catalysts can inhibit the conversion of crude oil, Utrecht University chemists have concluded. They were the first to provide a detailed blueprint of the interior of a commercially used catalyst ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A New Glance on Microscopic Images

A doctoral student at the research center Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany) suggests interpreting the images generated by Kelvin probe force microscopy in a new way. She recently published her ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

'Silver nanoparticle' microscope may shed new light on cancer, bone diseases

In a finding that could help speed the understanding of diseases ranging from cancer to osteoporosis, researchers in Utah are reporting development of a new microscope technique that uses “silver nanoparticle” mirrors to ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0