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Scientists Observe How Ribosome Performs Precise Mechanical Movements for Genetic Code Translation

Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have trapped the ribosome, a protein-building molecular machine essential to all life, in a key transitional state that has long eluded researchers.

29 Jun 2013

Sophisticated Imaging Techniques Help Observe Protein Origami

Scientists using sophisticated imaging techniques have observed a molecular protein folding process that may help medical researchers understand and treat diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Lou Gehrig’s and cancer.

29 Jun 2013

H2W Launches Four Axis Positioning Gantry for High Vacuum Wafer Processing Applications

H2W introduces a fully vacuum compatible four axis (XYθZ) positioning gantry.

From H2W Technologies 28 Jun 2013

Advanced Extreme-Ultraviolet Microscope to go Online at Berkeley Lab

The world’s most advanced extreme-ultraviolet microscope is about to go online at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), and the queue of semiconductor companies waiting to use it already stretches out the door.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 26 Jun 2013

JPK Instruments Report Successful NanoBioVIEWS Meeting in Berlin

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, report on the success of the fifth international symposium on the applications of optical tweezers and related technologies in the life sciences.

From Bruker BioAFM 26 Jun 2013

Novel Self-Assembling Materials Created Using DNA-Coated Colloids

DNA-coated colloids have been used to create novel self-assembling materials in a breakthrough experiment by EPFL and University of Cambridge scientists.

25 Jun 2013

Four Different NMR Spectroscopy Techniques Help Crack Key Protein Interaction

A key protein interaction, common across all forms of life, had eluded scientists’ observation until a team of researchers cracked the case by combining data from four different techniques of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

25 Jun 2013

Phenom World Releases Next Generation Phenom ProX Desktop SEM

With the introduction of the next generation Phenom ProX desktop SEM, Phenom-World confirms its position in the top of the high-end table top for SEM imaging and analysis. With a magnification range up to 100,000x and resolution of 17nm the Phenom ProX delivers more detailed information than ever before.

From Thermo Fisher Scientific Phenom-World BV 25 Jun 2013

Sugar Solution Combined With Fluorescence Microscopy Delivers Detailed Mouse Brain Images

The team from the RIKEN Center for Developmental biology reports their finding today in Nature Neuroscience.

24 Jun 2013

Engineered Microscopic Probes Light Up Synapses in Living Neuron in Real Time

Oscar Wilde called memory “the diary that we all carry about with us.” Now a team of scientists has developed a way to see where and how that diary is written.

20 Jun 2013