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Researchers Develop New Tool to Determine How Nanoparticles React with Cells

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a method for predicting the ways nanoparticles will interact with biological systems – including the human body. Their work could have implications f...

From North Carolina State University 16 Aug 2010

Harvard University Researchers Develop New NanoFETs to Probe Inside Cells

Chemists and engineers at Harvard University have fashioned nanowires into a new type of V-shaped transistor small enough to be used for sensitive probing of the interior of cells.

13 Aug 2010

IU Bloomington Acquires New Laser-Equipped Microscope for Biological Research

A new laser-equipped microscope at IU Bloomington's Light Microscopy Imaging Center makes it possible to examine biological samples with unprecedented detail in three dimensions.

12 Aug 2010

Molecular Design Made to Measure

Biomolecules such as peptides and nucleic acids can nowadays be synthesised relatively quickly and inexpensively. In addition, great progress has been made in the development of methods enabling the directed mutagenesis ...

10 Aug 2010

Living Cells Made To Fluoresce Using Nanotechnology

Individual molecules and their dynamics can also be made visible in living cells using conventional fluorophores at a resolution of around 20 nanometers. How this is done is being revealed for the first time by researche...

10 Aug 2010

Bioengineers Discover ePop Circuit Using Microscope

Under the microscope, the bacteria start dividing normally, two cells become four and then eight and so on. But then individual cells begin "popping," like circus balloons being struck by darts. This phenome...

10 Aug 2010

Scientists Identify Molecular Mechanism that Maintains Important Feature of Spindle

During cell division, microtubules emanating from each of the spindle poles meet and overlap in the spindle’s midzone. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, have uncovered the molecular mechanism that determines the extent of this overlap.

6 Aug 2010

First Gold Nanoparticles-Enhanced Biochip for DNA Detection

DNA microarrays are one of the most powerful tools in molecular biology today. The devices, which can be used to probe biological samples and detect particular genes or genetic sequences, are employed in everything from forensic analysis to disease detection to drug development.

4 Aug 2010

New Microfluidic Image Cytometry Platform Marks Advance in Molecular Diagnostics

New technologies for the diagnosis of cancer are rapidly changing the clinical practice of oncology. As scientists learn more about the molecular basis of cancer, the development of new tools capable of multiple, inexpensive biomarker measurements on small samples of clinical tissue will become essential to the success of genetically informed and personalized cancer therapies.

4 Aug 2010

Scientists Develop New Technique to Tag Proteins of Interest

Scientists hoping to understand how cells work may get a boost from a new technique to tag and image proteins within living mammalian cells. The new technique, developed by a research team led by University of Illino...

4 Aug 2010