Concrete fractures that are invisible to the naked eye stand out in images produced through a technique created at Rice University.
Materials Science
Jan 25, 2022
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A protein known as Lefty pumps the brakes as human embryos begin to differentiate into the bones, soft tissues and organs that make us.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 25, 2022
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Researchers have developed a new, focus-free technique for creating chemical maps using X-ray fluorescence. The approach offers fast, high-resolution measurements, which could be useful for analyzing chemical composition ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 13, 2022
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To fight infections and heal injuries, immune cells need to enter tissue. They also need to invade tumors to fight them from within. Scientists from the Siekhaus group at the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 6, 2022
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Protein assembly is essential for the formation of ordered biological structures, but imagine engineering one. This is exactly what researchers at Tokyo Tech have now accomplished with protein needles. By regulating the tip-to-tip ...
Bio & Medicine
Jan 6, 2022
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Fluorescence light microscopy has the unique ability to observe cellular processes over a scale that bridges four orders of magnitude. Yet, its application to living cells is fundamentally limited by the very rapid and unceasing ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 13, 2021
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A genetically encoded "live-cell" probe designed by researchers from Tokyo Tech has been able to identify phosphorylated Ser2 in the enzyme RNA polymerase II, subsequently identifying sites of the elongation phase of active ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 2, 2021
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Fluorophores, a chemical compound that can emit light, can be used as fluorescent labels for bioimaging, and fluorescent probes to detect a wide range of chemical species and physical parameters.
Materials Science
Nov 29, 2021
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Fruit flies (Drosophila) are important model organisms for biological research. Molecular tools exist that can turn on (or induce) gene expression in fruit flies, allowing researchers to learn more about the functions of ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 26, 2021
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Optical imaging is useful to investigate the structure and function of cellular genomes, but it is nevertheless challenging to image the immensely convoluted and irregular compacted DNA polymer. In a new report now published ...
