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Rhenium-Based Complex Trapped Inside Zeolite Can Warn About Dangerous Fumes

Rice University scientists took a lesson from craftsmen of old to assemble microscopic compounds that warn of the presence of dangerous fumes from solvents.

8 Oct 2013

Biologists Develop Novel Method to Visualize Activity of Genes in Single Cells

Biologists of the University of Zurich have developed a method to visualize the activity of genes in single cells. The method is so efficient that, for the first time, a thousand genes can be studied in parallel in ten thousand single human cells. Applications lie in fields of basic research and medical diagnostics. The new method shows that the activity of genes, and the spatial organization of the resulting transcript molecules, strongly vary between single cells.

7 Oct 2013

Researchers Study Ions in Sodium-Potassium Pump

It's not visible to the naked eye and you can't feel it, but up to 40 per cent of your body's energy goes into supplying the microscopic sodium-potassium pump with the energy it needs. The pump is constantly doing its job in every cell of all animals and humans. It works much like a small battery which, among other things, maintains the sodium balance which is crucial to keep muscles and nerves working.

7 Oct 2013

Novel Microscope Utilizes Neutrons for Creating High-Resolution Images

Researchers at MIT, working with partners at NASA, have developed a new concept for a microscope that would use neutrons — subatomic particles with no electrical charge — instead of beams of light or electron...

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 7 Oct 2013

Harvard's Wyss Institute Team Receives NIH Grant to Develop DNA-Based Microscopy Method

A team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has been awarded a special $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an inexpensive and easy-to-use new microscopy method to simultaneously spot many tiny components of cells.

5 Oct 2013

Researchers Explore Photosynthesis Using a Range of Microscopy and Visualization Techniques

EPFL scientists have used powerful imaging techniques to support a study that sheds light on photosynthesis.

3 Oct 2013

Soft Material Study Using TEM Through Unique Graphene Liquid Cell

Autumn is usually not such a great time for big special effects movies as the summer blockbusters have faded and those for the holiday season have not yet opened. Fall is more often the time for thoughtful films about small subjects, which makes it perfect for the unveiling of a new movie produced by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 3 Oct 2013

NIH Awards $3.5 M for Advancing Single-Cell Label-Free Photoacoustic Microscopy for Cancer Detection

Cancer researchers have been limited by current imaging technology in their ability to detect not only structure and function of tumors, but also tumor cell circulation. A technology proposed by Lihong Wang, PhD, at Washington University in St. Louis, may hold the key to reaching this goal.

1 Oct 2013

Wireless Technology Inspires New Fluorescence Imaging Using Radiofrequency-Tagged Emission Microscopy Technique

Fluorescence imaging is the most widely used method for analyzing the molecular composition of biological specimens. Target molecules, when they are present, can be "tagged" with a fluorescent label and made visible.

From University of California, Los Angeles 27 Sep 2013

Scientists Utilize Single-Molecule Florescence Microscopy to Study Transformer-Like Spliceosome

Certain diseases such as cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy are linked to genetic mutations that damage the important biological process of rearranging gene sequences in pre-messenger RNA, a procedure called RNA splicing.

27 Sep 2013