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Nanoscale Magnetic Material When Sorted on a Lattice Align in Chain Pattern

Physicists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have found out how tiny islands of magnetic material align themselves when sorted on a regular lattice - by measurements at BESSY II. Contrary to expectations, the north and south poles of the magnetic islands did not arrange themselves in a zigzag pattern, but in chains.

16 May 2013

CEA-Leti Announce Success of HELIOS Program

CEA-Leti said today that Europe is strongly positioned to design and manufacture volume silicon photonics devices because of the success of the recently completed HELIOS program. The €8.5 million European Commiss...

From CEA-Leti 14 May 2013

Researchers Optimize Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy to Measure Oxygen Consumption of Individual Cells

How active a living cell is can be seen by its oxygen consumption. The method for determining this consumption has now been significantly improved by chemists in Bochum. The problem up to now was that the measuring electrode altered the oxygen consumption in the cell's environment much more than the cell itself.

14 May 2013

New Infrared-UV Laser Method to Accurately Determine Structure of Proteins

3D structures of biological molecules like proteins directly affect the way they behave in our bodies. EPFL scientists have developed a new infrared-UV laser method to more accurately determine the structure of proteins containing thousands of atoms.

13 May 2013

Researchers Uncover Atomic Structure of Enzyme Linked to Important Lipid Mediator

For the scientific community, it’s been a long time coming - but now for the first time, the atomic structure of the enzyme, sphinogosine kinase 1, SphK1, responsible for an important potent lipid mediator, sphingosine-1-phosphate, has been uncovered by a research team at Amgen in San Francisco.

13 May 2013

Nikon to Distribute CGI Italia’s Oncology-Focused DNA-FISH Probes

Cancer Genetics, Inc.’s (“CGI” or the “Company”) wholly-owned subsidiary, Cancer Genetics Italia, S.r.l. (“CGI Italia”), has entered into an agreement with Nikon Instruments S.p.A. (“Nikon”) for the distribution of oncology-focused DNA Probes intended for fluorescence in situ hybridization (“FISH”) in the Italian market.

9 May 2013

Encouraging Interest in the Development of Automated Fluorescence Microscopy Systems

The trend towards automated high content assays, particularly for systems biology and drug discovery, has stimulated the development of automated fluorescence microscopy systems to image sample arrays. Today’s c...

From John Wiley and Sons - Scientific Publishers 7 May 2013

Huge Advance in Realizing Potential of cryo-EM for Atomic Resolution Imaging

In a recent article in (Li X. et. al. Nature Methods advance online publication, 5 May 2013 doi:10.1038/nmeth.2472) researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) report on the use of a breakthrough new camera and associated methods in the near-atomic-resolution reconstruction of the 700 kDa 20S proteasome protein complex using single particle cryo electron microscopy (cryo-EM).

7 May 2013

New Integrated SR Series Linear Positioning Stage Technology by H2W

H2W introduces an integrated SR series linear positioning stage with an integrated closed loop servo theta stage for two axis linear/rotary motion control applications.

From H2W Technologies 3 May 2013

New Molecular Imaging Technology Enables Study of Interactions between Bio-Metals and Bio-Molecules

Metal elements and molecules interact in the body but visualizing them together has always been a challenge. Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies in Japan have developed a new molecular imaging technology that enables them to visualize bio-metals and bio-molecules simultaneously in a live mouse.

3 May 2013