News tagged with silicon nitride
Physicists use graphene to decode DNA
Genome sequencing will have a profound effect on our understanding of genetic biology and could usher in a day when doctor and patient are able to review individual genome sequences to fully personalise medical ...
Dec 01, 2010 |
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Scientists develop method for detecting microRNA from living cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new electronic method for detecting microRNA isolated from living cells. MicroRNAs are a class of small biomolecules that control ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 26, 2010 |
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Nano 'pin art': NIST arrays are step toward mass production of nanowires
NIST researchers grow nanowires made of semiconductors -- gallium nitride alloys -- by depositing atoms layer-by-layer on a silicon crystal under high vacuum. NIST has the unusual capability to produce these ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 30, 2010 |
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Fast Transistors Could Save Energy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Transistors, the cornerstone of electronics, are lossy and therefore consume energy. Swiss esearchers from the ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne have developed transistors targeting high switching ...
Apr 20, 2010 |
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Rapid, Inexpensive DNA Sequencing Moves Closer to Reality
As efforts such as The Cancer Genome Atlas and others generate vast quantities of information about the genetic makeup of different types of cancer, it is becoming increasingly clear that such information has great potential ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 19, 2010 |
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Adjusting acidity with impunity
(PhysOrg.com) -- How do individual cells or proteins react to changing pH levels? Researchers at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have developed a technique ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Dec 22, 2009 |
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New nanocrystalline diamond probes overcome wear
Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have developed, characterized, and modeled a new kind of probe used in atomic force microscopy (AFM), which images, measures, ...
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Two chips in one: Researchers combine microprocessor materials
(PhysOrg.com) -- An MIT team led by Tomás Palacios, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has succeeded in combining two semiconductor materials, silicon ...
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Optical chip detects blood molecules
(PhysOrg.com) -- A portable 'lab on a chip' that can identify target molecules in blood samples has been created by European researchers. It is being used to measure fertility hormones and detect the genes ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Aluminum-oxide nanopore beats other materials for DNA analysis
Fast and affordable genome sequencing has moved a step closer with a new solid-state nanopore sensor being developed by researchers at the University of Illinois.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Scientists Measure Differences Between Normal and Cancer Cell Surfaces
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists know that cancerous cells and normal cells have different physical features, but the details of these differences, and why they occur, are not well understood. In a recent edition ...
May 05, 2009 |
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