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Using graphene oxide to examine molecules in living cells proves popular

Whether indicating the onset of disease or exposure to toxins, the molecular machinery of cells can provide a wealth of information if scientists can track and examine the molecules.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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

Spitzer finds solid buckyballs in space

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, the microscopic carbon spheres ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Scientists learn how to 'out run damage' with imaging technique

Over the decades X-ray crystallography has been fundamental in the development of many scientific fields. The method has revealed the structure and function of many biological molecules, including vitamins, drugs, proteins ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Honeycomb structure responsible for bacteria's extraordinary sense

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers have peered into the complex molecular network of receptors that give one-celled organisms like bacteria the ability to sense their environment and respond to chemical ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Mapping of protein inhibitors facilitates development of tailor-made anticancer agents

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has generated a map over the effects of small drug-like molecules on PARP1 and other similar proteins in the body. This map may explain the mechanism ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scattered light could reveal alien atmospheres

The light scattered off distant worlds could help reveal details about their atmospheres that no other method could uncover, scientists find.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop better control for DNA-based computations

A North Carolina State University chemist has found a way to give DNA-based computing better control over logic operations. His work could lead to interfacing DNA-based computing with traditional silicon-based computing.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New dye could open the door to in vivo applications of fluorescence anisotropy

(PhysOrg.com) -- US scientists have synthesized a polymethine dye that can be used for fluorescence anisotropy imaging in the near-infrared (NIR) spectral range, making new in vivo applications of this technique ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nano-technology uses virus' coats to fool cancer cells

While there have been major advances in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of tumors within the brain, brain cancer continues to have a very low survival rate in part to high levels of resistance to treatment. New research ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Mini-cellulose' molecule unlocks biofuel chemistry

A team of chemical engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered a small molecule that behaves the same as cellulose when it is converted to biofuel. Studying this 'mini-cellulose' molecule reveals for ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New metal catalyst drives hydrogen fuel reaction forwards and backwards

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to driving hydrogen production, a new catalyst built at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory can do what was previously shown to happen only in nature: store energy in hydrogen and release ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bacteria disarmer activates fiber formation in Parkinson's protein

(PhysOrg.com) -- The same substance that hampers the infection capability of bacteria can hasten the fiber formation of the protein that is involved in the development of Parkinson’s disease. The study shows how important ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Video games lead to new paths to treat cancer, other diseases

The cure for cancer comes down to this: video games.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Space diamonds reveal supernova origins

Space diamonds may now be an astrophysicist's best friend.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Magnetic spin on non-magnetic materials

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanotechnologists from the University of Twente's MESA+ and MIRA research institutes have developed a method for incorporating magnetic elements into non-magnetic materials in a highly controlled ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0