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Researchers Demonstrate Stocastic Resonance at Nanometric Level

A team of researchers at the Freie Universität Berlin, co-ordinated by José Ignacio Pascual (current leader of the Nanoimagen team at CIC nanoGUNE), have developed a method that enables efficiently using the random movement of a molecule in order to make a macroscopic-scale lever oscillate. The research was published in Science.

23 Nov 2012

New Electron Microscopy Study Helps Understand Replication Mechanism of Flu Viruses

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made a major advance in understanding how flu viruses replicate within infected cells. The researchers used cutting-edge molecular biology and electron-microscopy techniques to “see” one of influenza’s essential protein complexes in unprecedented detail. The images generated in the study show flu virus proteins in the act of self-replication, highlighting the virus’s vulnerabilities that are sure to be of interest to drug developers.

From The Scripps Research Institute 23 Nov 2012

New Report on Global Market for Flow Cytometry and Hematology

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Future Horizons in the Global Hematology and Flow Cytometry Market: Supplier Shares and Sales Forecasts for 40 Tests by Country" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 23 Nov 2012

Gold Nanoprobes Beam Brightly to Identify Target Tissue Location

Called BRIGHTs, the tiny probes described in the online issue of Advanced Materials on Nov. 15, bind to biomarkers of disease and, when swept by an infrared laser, light up to reveal their location.

21 Nov 2012

International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics to Host Symposium for School Students

The International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science announced that it will host a symposium for high school students as a joint project of Japanfs 6 WPI research centers.

20 Nov 2012

Nanoscale Study of Hydrogen Embrittlement in Metals

Hydrogen, the lightest element, can easily dissolve and migrate within metals to make these otherwise ductile materials brittle and substantially more prone to failures.

20 Nov 2012

Bruker Launches Small- and Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering System for Nanomaterials Research

At the International Small-Angle Scattering Conference, Bruker today announced the launch of the N8 HORIZON Small- and Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS and WAXS) system for materials research applications.

19 Nov 2012

Microfluidic Pressure Probe Helps Understand Mechanism of Venus Fly Trap's Leaf Snapping

Plants lack muscles, yet in only a tenth of a second, the meat-eating Venus fly trap hydrodynamically snaps its leaves shut to trap an insect meal. This astonishingly rapid display of botanical movement has long fascinated biologists. Commercially, understanding the mechanism of the Venus fly trap's leaf snapping may one day help improve products such as release-on-command coatings and adhesives, electronic circuits, optical lenses, and drug delivery.

17 Nov 2012

Cheerios Effect Study Provides Insights into Nanoscale Engineering Processes

Small floating objects change the dynamics of the surface they are on. This is an effect every serious student of breakfast has seen as rafts of floating cereal o's arrange and rearrange themselves into patterns on the milk. Now scientists have suggested that this process may offer insight into nanoscale engineering processes.

17 Nov 2012

New Study Shows Heat Flows Like Waves in Nanostructures

Thermoelectric devices, which can harness temperature differences to produce electricity, might be made more efficient thanks to new research on heat propagation through structures called superlattices.

16 Nov 2012