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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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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To grow and spread, cancer cells must evade the immune system. Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital and MIT used the power of nanotechnology to discover a new way that cancer can disarm its would-be cellular attackers ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 18, 2021
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By combining two microscopy methods, EPFL researchers are able to see what is happening inside a cell and on its membrane simultaneously, giving unprecedented insight into the cellular processes that occur during infection, ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 10, 2021
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