Our cells' ability to move ions through their membranes and to only allow for a certain type of ions either in or out is arguably one of the most important set of traits it has. In charge of letting various chemicals through are structures inside the membrane known as ion channels, which display a property calle... |
27 November 2009
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Detecting extremely small molecules that have no fluorescence is very difficult to accomplish, especially if you don't know what you're looking for. Scientists at the Harvard University have recently managed to break this limitation, when a team led by expert X. Sunney Xie has created a new microscopic tech... |
23 October 2009
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Over the past couple of years, experts have successfully used an innovative, new imaging technique called L.I.F.E. to probe the Antarctic underground for signs of life. Their quests have been successful, and the new technology has been proven to function very accurately. Now, taking that research one step further, sc... |
2 October 2009
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Experts from the Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories have recently managed to bring the goal of creating fully functional, mature red blood cells from stem cells a bit closer. They designed a line of human embryonic stem cells (hESC) to become fluorescent only when it is differentiated into RBCs, and then wa... |
24 August 2009
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Researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health have taken another step in turning science-fiction into reality, when they have recently announced the creation of a new viewing technique, which is able to combine light with sound to look inside living creature... |
1 July 2009
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An inter-disciplinary team from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin, comprised of chemists and anesthesiologists, has devised a new model of discovering how anesthetics spread through the human body when people “go under.” The new technique makes use of a fluorescent compound, w... |
6 April 2009
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How can one bond two DNA strands without breaking them? Well, by using a micro-sized DNA sewing machine of course! An article published in the Royal Society of Chemistry Journal Lab on a Chip has recently detailed an invention created by Japanese scientists which allows researchers to bond and manipulate individual D... |
14 July 2008
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Most of the modern light sources today are still represented by incandescent light bulbs, which haven't evolved a great deal ever since they were first invented. Basically, typical incandescent light bulbs have a less than 10 percent efficiency, the remaining 90 percent of energy being dissipated in the surround... |
1 July 2008
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Electron guns are devices often used by CRT "cathode ray tube" displays in order to produce light on a phosphorus-coated glass screen. This is how CRTs work. The electron gun generates a beam of electrons which is targeted at the screen. The beam can be deflected on all three axes by the image driver with the help of... |
17 May 2008
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Black lights may occasionally be disguised into traditional lighting sources such as incandescent light bulbs or fluorescent tubes, but they function and have different roles than those of ordinary lighting sources. Black lights are mostly used in order to make certain substances or objects 'glow in the dark... |
16 April 2008
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The beautiful northern lights, or Aurora Borealis as they are commonly known, are usually triggered in the northern regions of the Earth, as electrically charged particles originating in the solar winds are captured by the planet's magnetic field and drawn towards the general regions of the poles. These electric... |
12 December 2007
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When we put together genes from 2-3 species, the results can be astonishing. But fantasist hybrid mutants like the "Ninja Turtles" would be of no use. Instead, this method was employed by a team at Temple University School of Medicine, which has made a new biosensor that finds explosives and could be employed for che... |
9 May 2007
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Every material exposed to high-intensity light will degrade over time. White paper turns yellow, dyes bleach and fade, and molecules that fluoresce when struck by a laser - as the chemical in the present study does - stop fluorescing. Until recently, that degradation in response was thought to be irreversible.Physici... |
10 April 2007
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Fluorescence is a luminescence that is mostly found as an optical phenomenon in cold bodies, in which the molecular absorption of a photon triggers the emission of another photon with a longer wavelength.The energy difference between the absorbed and emitted photons ends up as molecular vibrations or heat. Usually t... |
31 March 2007
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Psychopath minds, give it up!Even the vasectomy or lack of sperm cells won't save your butt from jail now ... A new DNA analysis technique will allow individual detection even in semen samples with no sperm cells, in cases of sexual assault. In fact, the main problem of forensics trying to fingerprint the DNA o... |
8 March 2007
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