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Functionalized graphene oxide plays part in next-generation oil-well drilling fluids

Graphene's star is rising as a material that could become essential to efficient, environmentally sound oil production. Rice University researchers are taking advantage of graphene's outstanding strength, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Shocking new way to create nanoporous materials revealed

Scientists have developed a new method of creating nanoporous materials with potential applications in everything from water purification to chemical sensors.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 27, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Aiming to boost electronics performance, researchers capture images of sub-nano pore structures for the first time

(PhysOrg.com) -- Moore's law marches on: In the quest for faster and cheaper computers, scientists have imaged pore structures in insulation material at sub-nanometer scale for the first time. Understanding ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers create novel nanotechnique to sequence human genome

Since the human genome was sequenced six years ago, the cost of producing a high-quality genome sequence has dropped precipitously. More recently, the National Institutes of Health called for cutting the cost ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Researchers construct a device that mimics one of nature's key transport machines

(PhysOrg.com) -- To help protect its genes, a cell is highly selective about what it allows to move in and out of its nucleus. Yet that choosiness is regulated by just a thin barrier, perforated with tiny ...

Biology /

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Copy of the genetic makeup travels in a protein suitcase

Scientists from the Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Bonn have succeeded for the first time in the real time filming of the transport of an important information carrier in biological ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research reveals novel transport mechanism for large ribonucleoproteins

The movement of genetic materials, such as RNA and ribosomes, from the nucleus to the cytoplasm is a critical component in a cell's ability to make the proteins necessary for essential biological functions. Until now, it ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

On the move for repair

Scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have elucidated mechanisms that control DNA movement in the nucleus. They found that DNA with double-strand breaks moves more than undamaged ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tiny reader makes fast, cheap DNA sequencing feasible

Researchers have devised a nanoscale sensor to electronically read the sequence of a single DNA molecule, a technique that is fast and inexpensive and could make DNA sequencing widely available.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers print live cells with a standard inkjet printer

Researchers from Clemson University have found a way to create temporary holes in the membranes of live cells using a standard inkjet printer. The method will be published in JoVE, the Journal of Visualize ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research shows how the body senses a range of hot temperatures

The winter sun feels welcome, but not so a summer sunburn. Research over the past 20 years has shown that proteins on the surface of nerve cells enable the body to sense several different temperatures. Now scientists have ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers find new evidence on how cholesterol gets moved from HDLs to LDLs

Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have found new evidence to explain how cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) mediates the transfer of cholesterol from "good" high ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

'Shish kebab' structure provides improved form of 'buckypaper'

Scientists are reporting development of a new form of buckypaper, which eliminates a major drawback of these sheets of carbon nanotubes -- 50,000 times thinner than a human hair, 10 times lighter than steel, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Discovery of extremely long-lived proteins may provide insight into cell aging

One of the big mysteries in biology is why cells age. Now scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that they have discovered a weakness in a component of brain cells that may explain ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (13) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dry conditions spurred advanced photosynthesis

The need to conserve water played a vital role in driving plants to evolve a specialised form of photosynthesis, scientists have shown.

Biology / Evolution

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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