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Engineers Using Popular Children's Toy to Visualize Behavior of Particles, Cells and Molecules

Johns Hopkins engineers are using a popular children's toy to visualize the behavior of particles, cells and molecules in environments too small to see with the naked eye. These researchers are arranging little LEGO pieces shaped like pegs to re-create microscopic activity taking place inside lab-on-a-chip devices at a scale they can more easily observe.

25 Aug 2009

Nano-Sizing System Enables Rapid Size Determination of Quantum Dots and Nanoparticles

Paraytec Ltd. has announced a new application note that demonstrates how its ActiPix HT Nano-Sizing System has been used to rapidly determine the hydrodynamic radius of a series of quantum dot and nanoparticle samples.

25 Aug 2009

EMBL-EBI Awarded BBSRC Funding to Dramatic Increase Data Storage and Handling Capacity

The UK has made its first substantial commitment to a major emerging pan-European science project with a £10M investment (25 August) by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). BBSRC h...

25 Aug 2009

QImaging Introduces EXi Aqua Bio-Imaging Microscopy Camera

QImaging, a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance, easy-to-use digital cameras for life science and industrial applications, has announced the release of the EXi Aqua Bio-imaging Microscopy Camera.

24 Aug 2009

Using New Iowa State Supercomputer for Materials and Nanotechnology Research

Srinivas Aluru recently stepped between the two rows of six tall metal racks, opened up the silver doors and showed off the 3,200 computer processor cores that power Cystorm, Iowa State University's second supercomputer.

22 Aug 2009

Software Calculates and Displays 3D Models of Complex Proteins

What are the causes of illness? How can the effect of medication be improved? Molecular biologists can now gain new insights by the virtual simulations generated with a new type of software.

21 Aug 2009

Quantify Life with the New Leica TCS SMD Series

The new Leica TCS SMD Series also provides the ability to perform the newer and more precise verification methods for molecule concentrations and interactions, FCCS (fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy) and FLCS (fluorescence lifetime correlation spectroscopy).

From Leica Microsystems GmbH 21 Aug 2009

High Energy Synchrotron Unveils Long-Hidden Wyeth Painting

Stubborn layers of paint had kept them hidden for several decades, but the bluish, purplish and reddish hues of a 1919 painting by 20th-century artist N.C. Wyeth have finally come to light, thanks to cutting-edge technologies developed at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS).

20 Aug 2009

Density Profiles of Ultracold Atomic Gases Reveal Secrets of Quantum Phase Transitions

Transitions are exciting. And at temperatures close to absolute zero, studying the transition from one quantum phase to another tantalizes physicists looking for a deeper understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe.

20 Aug 2009

$11.3 Million Enables New Types of Scientific Inquiry

A lot! Scientists using the powerful beam lines at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source in recent years have conducted breakthrough research on platinum-nickel alloys as a catalyst for fuel cells, made a discovery about the Ebola virus structure that could lead to a vaccine, and crafted a new technique for guiding self-assembly of nanostructures that should open up vistas for entirely new applications.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 19 Aug 2009