Items tagged with Molecule

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A Camera from a Sheet of Fiber Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 - 09:04:50 - Anuradha Menon Textiles and the fibers that compose them are experiencing a sort of high-tech renaissance lately. Researchers are finding ways to turn silk into... read more

Clues to the Chemical Origins of Life Sunday, June 14th, 2009 - 11:58:49 - Ehud Rattner Chemists in the United States have made an artificial DNA-like molecule that can change its sequence to bind to a DNA template without the help of... read more

Color-Changing Materials React to Force Friday, May 15th, 2009 - 14:49:11 - Anuradha Menon Parachute cords, climbing ropes, and smart coatings for bridges that change color when overstressed are several possible uses for force-sensitive... read more

Molecule of Life Emerges from Slime Thursday, May 14th, 2009 - 14:17:32 - Anuradha Menon Creating life in the primordial soup may have been easier than we thought. Two essential elements of RNA have finally been made from scratch, under... read more

Powering Nano-Sized Machines Friday, April 24th, 2009 - 18:11:20 - Anuradha Menon A new paper published in the May 2009 issue of the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States, Scientific American, asks readers to... read more

Using RNA to Reprogram to Another Cell Type Friday, April 17th, 2009 - 16:33:26 - Anuradha Menon For the past decade, researchers have tried to tweak cells at the gene and nucleus level to reprogram their identity. Now, working on the idea that... read more

New Way to See Single RNA Molecules in Cells Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 - 16:36:09 - Anuradha Menon Biomedical engineers have developed a new type of probe that allows them to visualize single ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules within live cells more... read more

Promiscuous Antibody Targets Cancer Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 - 18:40:00 - Sarah Gingichashvili Researchers have challenged an old immunological dogma — that an antibody can bind to only a single target or antigen — by engineering an antibody to... read more

Galactic Dust Bunnies Contain Carbon Friday, March 13th, 2009 - 18:21:07 - Anuradha Menon Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers have found evidence suggesting that stars rich in carbon complex molecules may form at the center... read more

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