News tagged with processing method

Non-invasive intracellular 'thermometer' with fluorescent proteins created

A team from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) has developed a technique to measure internal cell temperatures without altering their metabolism. This finding could be useful when distinguishing healthy ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Workforce from the digital cloud

By means of cloud computing, enterprises can access scalable computing power and storage capacity. A people cloud, by contrast, supplies a scalable number of workers via the internet. It is used when non-automated tasks are ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A computer system allows a machine to recognize a person's emotional state

The system created by these researchers can be used to automatically adapt the dialogue to the user's situation, so that the machine's response is adequate to the person's emotional state. "Thanks to this ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

Miniature 'wearable' PET scanner ready for use (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, and collaborators have demonstrated the efficacy of a "wearable," portable PET ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | 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 imaging advance illuminates immune response in breathing lung

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fast-moving objects create blurry images in photography, and the same challenge exists when scientists observe cellular interactions within tissues constantly in motion, such as the breathing ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers use novel sperm stem-cell technique to produce genetically modified rats

For two decades, the laboratory mouse has been the workhorse of biomedical studies and the only mammal whose genes scientists could effectively and reliably manipulate to study human diseases and conditions.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New mathematical model aids Big Bang supercomputer research

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have made many discoveries about the origins of our 13 billion-year-old universe. But many scientific mysteries remain. What exactly happened during the Big Bang, when rapidly evolving ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 05, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (19) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Low-cost solution processing method developed for CIGS-based solar cells

Though the solar industry today predominately produces solar panels made from crystalline silicon, they remain relatively expensive to make. New players in the solar industry have instead been looking at panels that can harvest ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scientists develop first fully automated pipeline for multiprotein complex production

Most cellular processes are carried out by molecular machines that consist of many interacting proteins. These protein complexes lie at the heart of life science research, but they are notoriously hard to study. Their abundance ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Manufacturing inefficiency: Study sees 'alarming' use of energy, materials in newer manufacturing processes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Modern manufacturing methods are spectacularly inefficient in their use of energy and materials, according to a detailed MIT analysis of the energy use of 20 major manufacturing processes.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0