Doctors could soon have access to an improved understanding of biological process, thanks to technologies being created to measure the mechanical properties of living cells. This branch of mechanics has been studied only marginally thus far, but that will soon change.
Biologists have largely ignored the role that c... |
22 November 2011
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In order to develop an excellent way of searching for carbon nanotubes, investigators at the Lehigh University are using both a total internal reflection fluorescence microscope (TIRFM) and an atomic-force microscope (AFM) to find these structures in a wide variety of materials.
This is made difficult by the fact... |
29 October 2011
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At this point, the international scientific community has access to a number of methods for analyzing single DNA and protein molecules, as well as their interactions. However, most of these approaches have very high costs, and a low throughput rate. A new approach, developed by scientists at the Harvard University Ro... |
2 June 2010
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Though relatively unknown, wettability is one of the most important properties that researchers need to assess in a variety of chemical and physical processes. This is the property that solid materials have, which dictate how water and other liquids will behave on them. Some may retain water, while others may force t... |
26 April 2010
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in the United States, announce the development of a new, highly-sensitive microscopy technique that is capable of tracking the actions of cellular agents in real-time. The device can watch how special proteins destroy bacterial cells by penetrating their... |
15 March 2010
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A chemistry team based in Denmark announces that it managed to devise a way of attaching single molecules to a DNA origami scaffolding, by observing the chemical reactions via atomic force microscopy (AFM). Their breakthrough could have applications in a large number of scientific fields of research, ranging from bio... |
1 March 2010
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Though only five years old, graphene is already one of the most promising materials in the entire world, mostly because of its peculiar chemical and physical properties. It is one of the strongest materials in the world, and can also conduct electrical current in a very strange way. But working with the material can ... |
28 December 2009
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Measuring the electric charge on single atoms is not something that hasn't been done before, but now researchers from IBM's Zürich research laboratory have improved on their previous work, and shown that atomic force microscopes (AFM) can successfully replace scanning tunneling microscopes (STM) in doi... |
15 June 2009
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