Researchers have created a system that can detect and quantify small and rare biological molecules that are important for detecting disease early.
Bio & Medicine
May 1, 2019
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Researchers at the University of Fribourg's Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) and Hokkaido University in Japan have developed a method to tailor the properties of stress-indicating molecules that can be integrated into polymers ...
Polymers
Apr 24, 2019
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An imaging technique developed at Duke University could make it possible to peer inside cells and watch dozens of different molecules in action at once—by labeling them with short strands of light-up DNA that blink on and ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 12, 2019
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet present a publicly available resource that can accelerate the use of so-called FISH techniques for studying how the genome is spatially organised in the cell nucleus. The new platform, ...
Biotechnology
Apr 12, 2019
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In everyday life, blinking lights can send signals—for example, that a car is going to turn. Now, researchers have engineered tiny "blinkers" that reveal single molecules of RNA or protein inside cells based on the duration ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 13, 2019
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Just as a journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step, the deformations and fractures that cause catastrophic failure in materials begin with a few molecules torn out of place. This in turn leads to a cascade of damage ...
Materials Science
Feb 25, 2019
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Rice University researchers have added a new dimension to their breakthrough technique that expands the capabilities of standard laboratory microscopes.
Optics & Photonics
Feb 14, 2019
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A new method uses fluorescence to detect potentially disease-causing forms of proteins as they unravel due to stress or mutations. A team of researchers from Penn State and the University of Washington reengineered a fluorescent ...
Biochemistry
Feb 13, 2019
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CRISPR is a technique that is revolutionizing biomedical research through high-precision genome editing. However, even though it allows the creation or correction of mutations consisting of a single or few nucleotides with ...
Biotechnology
Feb 8, 2019
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Electrons inside an atom whip around the nucleus like satellites around the Earth, occupying orbits determined by quantum physics. Light can boost an electron to a different, more energetic orbit, but that high doesn't last ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 4, 2019
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