News tagged with red fluorescence

Countering contamination for Mars spacesuits

To search for life on Mars, future astronauts would naturally want to step outside their living habitat for a walk. But the spacesuits keeping them alive might also carry Earth microbes or ingredients of life ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Nanomedicine: ending 'hit and miss' design

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the promises of nanomedicine is the design of tiny particles that can home in on diseased cells and get inside them. Nanoparticles can carry drugs into cells and tag cells for MRI and other diagnostic ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Transparent zebrafish a must-see model for atherosclerosis

We usually think of fish as a "heart-healthy" food. Now fish are helping researchers better understand how heart disease develops in studies that could lead to new drugs to slow disease and prevent heart ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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New microscope may take the 'ouch' out of blood tests

If the sight of a needle makes you squeamish, researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology are developing a new optical microscope for viewing blood cells that could do away with conventional ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Newly modified nanoparticle opens window on future gene editing technologies

The scientific and technological literature is abuzz with nanotechnology and its manufacturing and medical applications. But it is in an area with a less glitzy aura—plant sciences—where nanotechnology ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Totally rad: Scientists create rewritable digital data storage in DNA

(Phys.org) -- Scientists from Stanford's Department of Bioengineering have devised a method for repeatedly encoding, storing and erasing digital data within the DNA of living cells.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

New microscope uses rainbow of light to image the flow of individual blood cells

Blood tests convey vital medical information, but the sight of a needle often causes anxiety and results take time. A new device developed by a team of researchers in Israel, however, can reveal much the same ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pollination with precision: How flowers do it

Pollination could be a chaotic disaster. With hundreds of pollen grains growing long tubes to ovules to deliver their sperm to female gametes, how can a flower ensure that exactly two fertile sperm reach every ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brighter, smaller probes to uncover the secret lives of proteins

(Phys.org) -- Imagine tracking a deer through a forest by clipping a radio transmitter to its ear and monitoring the deer’s location remotely. Now imagine that transmitter is the size of a house, and ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Quantum dots brighten the future of lighting

(Phys.org) -- With the age of the incandescent light bulb fading rapidly, the holy grail of the lighting industry is to develop a highly efficient form of solid-state lighting that produces high quality white ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Turing was right: Two proteins fit decades-old prediction

Today, Alan Turing is best known as the father of modern computer science, but in 1952 he sketched out a biological model in which two chemicals — an activator and an inhibitor — could interact to ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New fluorescent biosensor reveals mechanism critical to immune system amplification

Using a new fluorescent biosensor they developed, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered how a key set of immune cells exchange information during their coordinated assault on invading pathogens. The immune ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fishermen blast premier dive sites off Indonesia

(AP) -- Coral gardens that were among Asia's most spectacular, teeming with colorful sea life just a few months ago, have been transformed into desolate gray moonscapes by fishermen who use explosives or ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4


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