Protein-carbohydrate interactions play a crucial role in many biological processes such as cell-cell recognition and receptor-ligand interactions and catalysis. This thesis explores the possibilities of engineering the protei-carbohydrate interactions between carbohydrate-binding proteins and their ligands.
Jul 5th, 2010
Read moreA team of researchers at the University of South Australia have developed and patented new technology that allows for enhanced delivery of cosmetics and drugs through the skin.
Jul 5th, 2010
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Using super-high pressures similar to those found deep in the Earth or on a giant planet, Washington State University researchers have created a compact, never-before-seen material capable of storing vast amounts of energy.
Jul 4th, 2010
Read moreBuilding on last year's popular webinars on the regulation of nanotechnology, Keller and Heckman and NanoReg are pleased to announce Nanotechnology Today 2010, a series of four new webinars designed to address important regulatory issues and the challenges associated with the safe development of nano-enhanced products.
Jul 2nd, 2010
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Carl Zeiss hosts the international competition for upcoming engineers.
Jul 2nd, 2010
Read moreResearchers have built a thermal-powered insectlike robot with hundreds of tiny legs.
Jul 2nd, 2010
Read moreScientists of the University of Freiburg and the University of Frankfurt have elucidated the architecture of the largest protein complex of the cellular respiratory chain. They discovered an unknown mechanism of energy conversion in this molecular complex. The mechanism is required to utilize the energy contained in food.
Jul 2nd, 2010
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New work from the Institute of Food Research has shown how sugar beet pectin acts as an efficient emulsifier, using a technique that could be used to unravel in the finest detail how such important food ingredients work.
Jul 2nd, 2010
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Wissenschaftler der Universitaeten Freiburg und Frankfurt haben die Architektur des groessten Proteinkomplexes der zellulaeren Atmungskette aufgeklaert. Sie entdeckten einen bisher unbekannten Mechanismus der Energieumwandlung in diesem molekularen Komplex.
Jul 2nd, 2010
Read moreScience fiction has nothing over quantum physics when it comes to presenting us with a labyrinthine world that can twist your mind into knots when you try to make sense of it. A team of Arizona State University researchers, however, believe they've opened a door to a clearer view of how the common, everyday world we experience through our senses emerges from the ethereal quantum world.
Jul 2nd, 2010
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Single water molecules can now be sliced into different atomic components, thanks to the electronic properties of ultrathin oxide films.
Jul 2nd, 2010
Read morePowerful new microscopes able to resolve DNA molecules with visible light, superfast computers that use light rather than electronic signals to process information, and Harry Potteresque invisibility cloaks are just some of the many thrilling promises of transformation optics.
Jul 1st, 2010
Read moreThe NanoBusiness Alliance today issued a Position Statement on Nanomaterials Product Sustainability, which reflects NanoBusiness Alliance members' enduring commitment to managing effectively the environmental, health, and safety (EHS) implications of nanotechnology.
Jul 1st, 2010
Read moreAt Semicon West, Leti will highlight some of its latest research findings and key programs for the semiconductor industry, including maskless lithography, FDSOI and 3D integration.
Jul 1st, 2010
Read moreA new shape memory alloy with up to now unprecedented functional stability was developed by researchers from the Institute for Materials at the Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum in cooperation with researchers from the USA and Japan.
Jul 1st, 2010
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Nongjian Tao, a researcher at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University has hit on a new way of making graphene, maximizing the material's enormous potential, particularly for use in high-speed electronic devices.
Jul 1st, 2010
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