Items tagged with molecules

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Marine Method to Isolate Harmful Chemicals Thursday, April 16th, 2009 - 16:36:43 - Anuradha Menon Scientists studying how marine bacteria move have discovered that a sharp variation in water current segregates right-handed bacteria from their... read more

Make Artificial Blood with Designer Proteins Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 - 16:39:02 - Anuradha Menon No doubt proteins are complex. Most are “large” and full of interdependent branches, pockets and bends in their final folded structure. This... read more

Solar Self-Healing Coatings Sunday, March 15th, 2009 - 12:22:17 - Sarah Gingichashvili Scientists have devised a coating that when scratched heals itself upon exposure to sunlight. The secret of the material lies in using molecules made... read more

Short RNAs Show a Long History Friday, October 3rd, 2008 - 16:20:28 - Anuradha Menon MicroRNAs, the tiny molecules that fine-tune gene expression, were first discovered in 1993. But it turns out they’ve been around for a billion... read more

Radicals Shake Up Molecules in a Tug o' War Friday, July 4th, 2008 - 16:14:56 - Anuradha Menon Until now, it was commonly thought that colliding molecules get the shakes as the result of energy transfer solely from the smashing of the... read more

Quantum Mechanics and 'Blinking' Phenomenon Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 - 22:03:38 - Anuradha Menon A new paper by a team of researchers led by University of Notre Dame physicist Bolizsaar Janko provides an overview of research into one of the few... read more

Avalanche Photodiodes Target Bioterrorism Saturday, June 28th, 2008 - 21:52:17 - Anuradha Menon Researchers have shown that a new class of ultraviolet photodiode could help meet the U.S. military’s pressing requirement for compact, reliable and... read more

Scientists Image A Single HIV Particle Monday, May 26th, 2008 - 12:53:46 - Ehud Rattner A mapmaker and a mathematician may seem like an unlikely duo, but together they worked out a way to measure longitude - and kept millions of sailors... read more

Treating Animals Like Molecules Aids Census Friday, May 16th, 2008 - 08:28:54 - Ehud Rattner Even the shyest, most reclusive animals should now yield their secrets to a new census method that uses automatic cameras to snap photos of passing... read more

New Techniques for Creating Molecular Movies Friday, April 18th, 2008 - 12:26:43 - Iddo Genuth hey may never win an Oscar, but scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed techniques for... read more

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