News tagged with natural fluorescence

Microscope looks into cells of living fish

Microscopes provide valuable insights in the structure and dynamics of cells, in particular when the latter remain in their natural environment. However, this is very difficult especially for higher organisms. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A mitosis mystery solved: How chromosomes align perfectly in a dividing cell

Although the process of mitotic cell division has been studied intensely for more than 50 years, Whitehead Institute researchers have only now solved the mystery of how cells correctly align their chromosomes during symmetric ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 12, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Stanford group creates miniature self-contained fluorescence microscope

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers working at Stanford University have devised a means for building the smallest self-contained fluorescence microscope ever. Weighing just under 2 grams and slightly larger ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Manufacturing method paves way for commercially viable quantum dot-based LEDs

University of Florida researchers may help resolve the public debate over America's future light source of choice: Edison's incandescent bulb or the more energy efficient compact fluorescent lamp. It could be neither.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Texas light bulb bill would skirt federal plan

Texas could soon be in a position to turn the lights off on a federal plan to phase out certain light bulbs.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 56

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

Improving microscopy by following the astronomers' guide star

A corrective strategy used by astronomers to sharpen images of celestial bodies can now help scientists see with more depth and clarity into the living brain of a mouse. Eric Betzig, a group leader at the Howard Hughes Medical ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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

Researchers could use plant's light switch to control cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chandra Tucker shines a blue light on yeast and mammalian cells in her Duke University lab and the edges of them start to glow. The effect is the result of a light-activated switch from a ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 31, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | 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

Breakthrough in nano-optics: Researchers develop plasmonic amplifier

Researchers at the University of Iceland, University of Cologne and the Fraunhofer Institute Jena have demonstrated net optical amplification in a plasmonic waveguide.

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 31, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Spying on a cellular director in the cutting room

Like a film director cutting out extraneous footage to create a blockbuster, the cellular machine called the spliceosome snips out unwanted stretches of genetic material and joins the remaining pieces to fashion a template ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 21, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New technique allows study of protein folding, dynamics in living cells

A new technique to study protein dynamics in living cells has been created by a team of University of Illinois scientists, and evidence yielded from the new method indicates that an in vivo environment strongly ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 28, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers can watch drug activity in a molecule (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Weill Cornell's Scott Blanchard has developed technology that can observe drug activity in a solitary molecule while in motion. The development may lead to newer, safer drug therapies.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists Generate Black Hole Radiation in the Lab

(PhysOrg.com) -- Due to their violent nature and long distance from Earth, black holes and their surroundings are very difficult to study. Currently, the main method to observe a black hole is to use an X-ray ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (35) | comments 11 feature