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Genetic analysis of amniotic fluid shows promise for monitoring fetal development
Researchers have demonstrated the feasibility of focused fetal gene expression analysis of target genes found in amniotic fluid using Standardized NanoArray PCR (SNAP) technology.
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Micro-onions and magnetic ink
Microfluidic systems for the easy production of multiphasic emulsion drops and multishelled polymer capsules.
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Seeing gold in tumors
Researchers at The University of Western Australia and Griffith University's Institute for Glycomics describe how using two imaging techniques allows scientists to see where gold complexes used in potential chemotherapeutic treatments end up in cells.
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New microscope follows single molecules by the millisecond
Researchers can now watch molecules move in living cells, literally millisecond by millisecond, thanks to a new microscope developed by scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany.
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Light unlocks fragrance
At a recent Gordon Research Conference, Anna Gudmundsdottir described the work of her research team, including efforts to build organic magnets, and systems using light to release chemicals, including fragarances.
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Molecular sorting for resource efficiency: new separation and recycling processes
On 20th July 2011 the project "Molecular Sorting for Resource Efficiency", coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT in Pfinztal, Germany, was officially started
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Flowing structures in soft crystals
A liquid does not have to be a disordered bunch of particles: A team of researchers at Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) and the University of Vienna has discovered intriguing structures formed by tiny particles floating in liquids. Under mechanical strain, particle clusters in liquids can spontaneously form strings and dramatically alter the properties of the liquid.
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An octave spanning chip-based optical ruler
New microresonators produce light over a range of more than an octave and are at the same time precisely tunable. This achievement brings a variety of applications into reach, such as optical telecommunications or the precise calibration of spectrographs in astrophysics.
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Wo Elektronen im Stau stehen
Der duennste Draht der Welt, hergestellt aus purem Gold, wird von Physikern der Universitaeten Wuerzburg und Kassel untersucht. Fuer Aufsehen sorgt jetzt seine ungewoehnliche elektrische Leitfaehigkeit: Die Elektronen bewegen sich nicht frei durch den Draht, sondern wie Autos im Stop-and-Go-Verkehr.
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Magnetic nickel nanobowls induce the perfect planar alignment of liquid crystals
Researchers have achieved perfect vertical and planar alignments of liquid crystals using nickel nanoparticles with different morphologies.
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Energy storage: Nanodiscs stack up
The self-assembly of two-dimensional inorganic nanodiscs enhances the capacity of lithium-ion batteries.
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Nanomedicine: Multiplying the possibilities
Tiny bright fluorescent spheres promise to simultaneously provide diagnosis and treatment for multiple targets.
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Metallic glasses: Some kind of order
Atomic clusters in bulk metallic glasses drive crystallization on the nanoscale but prevent it on the macroscale.
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Research team discovers new conducting properties of bacteria-produced nanowires
The discovery of a fundamental, previously unknown property of microbial nanowires in the bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens that allows electron transport across long distances could revolutionize nanotechnology and bioelectronics, says a team of physicists and microbiologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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The nanoscale secret to stronger alloys
Scientists at Berkeley Lab find nanoparticle size is readily controlled to make stronger aluminum alloys.
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Tricolor liquid crystals
Thermal and mechanical stimuli switch the luminescence of a liquid-crystal mixture between three different colors.
August 5, 2011 Read more
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