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About one year ago, a research group made an amazing discovery that turned out to be so important that an entire new field of science was dedicated to it just a few months later. The scientists, from the Rush University Medical Center, in Chicago, found that living cells placed in different cultures tended to synchro... |
20 November 2009
08:32 GMT |
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Experts at the Harvard University have recently developed a new class of tiny optical devices, which is able to handle single cells inside a liquid, using nothing more than the power of photons, the elementary particles that make up light. The new class of optical traps is a part of the same technology created in the... |
26 October 2009
04:03 GMT |
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Until now, the scientific community has assumed that plants, animals and humans develop different mechanisms related to cellular death, but a new paper has revealed that this is not the case. The research, published in the latest issue of the scientific journal Nature Cell Biology (October 11), highlights the fact th... |
12 October 2009
06:20 GMT |
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When bioengineers work in the lab to revert developed cells into their induced pluripotent (iPS) state, they often get a number of new cell colonies, of which only a small portion fits the exact type they are looking for. Just recently, Harvard Stem Cell Institute experts have managed to develop a new method of asses... |
12 October 2009
03:44 GMT |
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Interactions at a cellular level are the things that drive all living things, according to biologists. All cells need to be able to communicate with the outside world, and the way they do that is by exchanging chemicals through their membranes. Regardless of whether we're talking about a brain cell or a single-c... |
29 September 2009
04:36 GMT |
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For a long time, scientists have tried to understand the exact construction and operating mechanism of complex protein structures inside cellular nuclei called nuclear pore complexes (NPC). These intricate structures, made up of as much as 30 individual proteins, are extremely large, and yet remained impenetrable to ... |
31 August 2009
02:58 GMT |
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For many years, experts have tried to gain a better understanding of cancer, of why it appears, and of how it spreads through the human body. In order to do this, they need to be able to observe and to control interactions that occur within a cell, especially at the individual protein level. Recently, breakthroughs h... |
20 August 2009
04:56 GMT |
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Biologists at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) have recently developed a new model for explaining the actions of the billions of molecular “switches” that allow for life to happen inside the human body. Every single action that goes on in a cell or an organ is carefully coordinated via... |
4 August 2009
06:11 GMT |
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Biomedical imaging techniques refer to tracking down particles injected into the human bodies to their destination, and assessing their behavioral patterns. This can be done using fluorescent markers, which are then observed with specialized equipment, designed specifically to track a certain type of marker. Now, exp... |
22 July 2009
06:47 GMT |
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When looking at cancerous cells and their healthy neighbors under the microscope, it's very difficult not to distinguish the two, as everything about their appearance and function is different. But a new research shows that the same simply doesn't hold true for the nanoscale level, where formations as small... |
8 July 2009
18:31 GMT |
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Though geneticists around the world have known about the Fas-apoptosis inhibitory molecule (FAIM) gene for quite some time now, it became recently apparent that they did not know all there was to know about it. Experts from the Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI), in Singapore, have recently identified two new f... |
3 July 2009
05:00 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking, new study conducted at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, German researchers have set the basis for understanding how nanoparticles appear in nature. The work has also yielded cadmium sulphide particles coated in membrane bubbles at the microscopic scale, to be used as &ldqu... |
27 June 2009
07:08 GMT |
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Being able to assess the health of an organism starting from a cellular level has been one of the long-standing dreams in medicine and health care, and it would appear that good things do happen to those who wait (or do serious research instead). After years of study, experts at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Lawr... |
17 June 2009
20:01 GMT |
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According to researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University, in the US, gene regulatory networks in cell nuclei are strikingly similar to cloud computer networks, such as Yahoo! and Google, in their ability to function even if one or more of their nodes are down. This characteristic is essential to cloud computing, as... |
17 June 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Seemingly tired of regular circuits, electronics experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Boston University have created the first cellular circuit in the world, made up entirely out of specially engineered cells. These cells have the ability to record and store the recent events that took place... |
29 May 2009
08:53 GMT |
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Throughout our bodies, cells that conventional medical wisdom places in certain parts of it do not always remain fixed, but rather travel around, accomplishing such important processes as cellular development, tissue regeneration, and even metastasis, in cancer cells. However, over the years, it has proven very diffi... |
13 May 2009
06:00 GMT |
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The thing that sets this fluorescent protein apart from all others that are currently used in similar researches is the fact that the extremophile kind glows not in the visible light spectrum, but in infrared. This means that it also remains visible when deeply immersed inside the cell it's set to reveal to rese... |
8 May 2009
14:31 GMT |
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University of Illinois researchers have recently announced a new medical breakthrough, when they have managed to create a nanoneedle, which is a device that is able to deliver molecules of vaccines, or other chemicals, straight through the cellular wall, either in the cytoplasm, or inside the very nucleus of the cell... |
29 April 2009
05:19 GMT |
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Undergoing a biopsy is always a very complicated or painful process, when doctors use needles to take out a small piece of your liver, brain, lungs, or other organ. However, they are absolutely necessary, as they are the only way for experts to see if cancers or other conditions are developing in a patient. However, ... |
14 April 2009
05:14 GMT |
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Growth factors, or cytokines, protein-signaling agents, are usually the way in which cells communicate with each other, or at least that's what researchers have believed until now. Just recently, a team of experts from the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine (MGH-CEM) have managed t... |
6 April 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Conventional medical knowledge held that while the skin and the bones could heal once they got damaged, some organs such as the heart and the brain could not. It also pinpointed that cells inside the heart and the brain did not regenerate throughout a person's life, and that those who were destroyed never got re... |
3 April 2009
03:40 GMT |
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Silicon may soon find the limit of its efficiency, as miniaturization is starting to take its tall on the nanoscale properties of this wonder material, but if it is on the brink of extinction in computing technology, it may have a promising life ahead in solar cells, now at its beginnings.These solar cells are typic... |
30 July 2007
11:00 GMT |
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A real breakthrough has been made by a team of scientists in the field of solar energy converters. The new discovery is a fuel cell that, for the first time, surpassed the 40% efficiency milestone, the highest efficiency achieved for any photovoltaic device.Using a new technology that combines several innovations to... |
25 July 2007
09:05 GMT |
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Exfoliation is not only a cosmetic technique aimed at removing dead skin cells from the face and body, but it also causes the breaking up particle aggregates in material science and what promises to produce a new generation of solar cells that are much lighter and cheaper than existing models.Researchers, from the C... |
16 July 2007
05:34 GMT |
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Solar cells are regarded as one of the key technologies towards a sustainable energy supply and have already found many applications, mostly in situations where electrical power from the grid is unavailable, such as in remote area power systems, Earth-orbiting satellites and space probes.Recently they have become mo... |
13 July 2007
05:13 GMT |
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A new invention could make fuel cells much more reliable and less expensive, using very small crystal sizes to create cubic zirconia and greatly decreasing the temperature at which fuel cells can operate.Though fuel cells could one day replace the internal combustion engine, there are still some technological proble... |
10 July 2007
11:22 GMT |
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This weekend, Boeing, the largest global aircraft manufacturer by revenue, the second largest by deliveries and the second-largest defense contractor in the world, will unveil the latest creation, the 787-9 Dreamliner, an environmentally friendly aircraft it hopes will revolutionize the industry of air travel.It... |
6 July 2007
11:25 GMT |
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That's exactly what a scientist is doing: she digs for platinum. In fact, she's not even digging, she's just searching for the precious metal in the dust on the roads and she estimates many kilograms of platinum are being sprayed onto streets and roads each year.Platinum comes from an unexpected sourc... |
6 July 2007
09:47 GMT |
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Biodiesel is one of the green alternatives and US production of this fuel is at an all-time high, with new biodiesel plants being constructed in record number. However, there is one problem, the fact that this process is still costly, takes a lot of time and produces toxic byproducts.A new, revolutionary catalyst c... |
3 July 2007
05:37 GMT |
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Many people are beginning to realize that global warming is not going to go away by itself, as engines that burn gasoline emit pollutants, such as carbon dioxide, that cause global warming. The US Department of Energy is very interested in a new proposition that involves using enzyme emulations to transform chemica... |
2 July 2007
08:17 GMT |
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Hydrogen fuel-cell technology sounds almost too good to be true. You combine cheap and plentiful hydrogen and oxygen gas, the fuel cell generates electricity and the by-product is simply water. But there's something more involved.So far, the biggest downside of hydrogen-powered cars is the fact that it is very... |
2 July 2007
03:38 GMT |
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Harvesting solar energy is a clever way to make use of a clean and renewable fuel. You don't need to dig the ground for it, there are no pipes and powerplants, and best of all, it's ecological. Using the roof to produce electricity is a good idea, but many people don't want to use the inaesthetical an... |
21 June 2007
11:44 GMT |
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