News tagged with spatial arrangements

To diagnose heart disease, visualization experts recommend a simpler approach

A team of computer scientists, physicists, and physicians at Harvard have developed a simple yet powerful method of visualizing human arteries that may result in more accurate diagnoses of atherosclerosis ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Kinetochores prefer the 'silent' DNA sections of the chromosome

The protein complex responsible for the distribution of chromosomes during cell division is assembled in the transition regions between heterochromatin and euchromatin.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanospheres made of aromatic amino acids: The most rigid organic nanostructures to date

(PhysOrg.com) -- Organic nanostructures are key elements of nanotechnology because these building blocks can be made with tailored chemical properties. Their disadvantage has been that their mechanical properties ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A closer look at ring opening: Electron diffraction studies of photoswitchable molecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- We use a switch to turn lights off and on; however, light can also act as a switch itself, for example when molecules change their structure upon irradiation. Photoswitchable molecules are ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists Build Nanostructures out of Single DNA Strands

(PhysOrg.com) -- With its unique double-helical structure, DNA has the ability to be used as a programmable building material to construct designer nanoscale architectures. Complex DNA architectures could ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5 feature