Brown University engineers have developed a new technique to help researchers understand how cells move through complex tissues in the body. They hope the tool will be useful in understanding all kinds of cell movements, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 29, 2016
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An interdisciplinary team of researchers at North Carolina State University has developed a composite material that emits light and heat when exposed to specific wavelengths of radiation and that can be customized to have ...
Materials Science
Feb 23, 2016
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563
Simple physics may play a larger role than previously thought in helping control key bodily processes such as how the body fights infection.
General Physics
Feb 8, 2016
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Researchers have developed a new way to use atomic force microscopy to rapidly measure the mechanical properties of cells at the nanometer scale, an advance that could pave the way for better understanding immune disorders ...
Nanophysics
Dec 17, 2015
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105
A University of Maryland-led team of researchers has developed an optical microscopy technique capable of shedding new light on how the mechanical properties of cells change in the course of aging, injury healing and disease ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 8, 2015
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896
A microscope being developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will allow scientists studying biological and synthetic materials to simultaneously observe chemical and physical properties on and ...
Nanophysics
Aug 10, 2015
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Researchers who developed a high-speed form of atomic force microscopy have shown how to image the physical properties of live breast cancer cells, for the first time revealing details about how deactivation of a key protein ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 30, 2015
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88
Researchers from Wake Forest University and the University of Utah are the first to successfully fabricate halide organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite field-effect transistors and measure their electrical characteristics at ...
Materials Science
May 5, 2015
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39
Mommy, where do intestinal stem cells come from? All right, it's not likely a kindergartner would ask such a question. But evolutionary biologists want to know.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 10, 2015
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69
The performance of mobile phone cameras and solar cells could be boosted by "nano-earthquakes", researchers have found.
Optics & Photonics
Mar 12, 2015
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