 Electron microscopy enters the picometer scale 16 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Jülich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacings down to a few picometres using new methods in ultrahigh-resolution electron microscopy. This makes it possible to find out decisive parameters ... | |
 Stem Cell Chicken and Egg Debate Moves to Unlikely Arena: The Testes July 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Logic says it has to be the niche. As air and water preceded life, so the niche, that hospitable environment that shelters adult stem cells in many tissues and provides factors necessary to keep them young ... | |
 N.M. cavers chart unique 'snowy' river of crystals July 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Hundreds of feet beneath Earth's surface, a few seasoned cave explorers venture where no human has set foot. Their headlamps illuminate mud-covered walls, gypsum crystals and mineral deposits. The ... | |
Researchers grow human blood vessels in mice from adult progenitor cells July 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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For the first time, researchers have successfully grown functional human blood vessels in mice using cells from adult human donors — an important step in developing clinical strategies to grow tissue, researchers report in ... | |
Microbes beneath sea floor genetically distinct July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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Tiny microbes beneath the sea floor, distinct from life on the Earth's surface, may account for one-tenth of the Earth's living biomass, according to an interdisciplinary team of researchers, but many of these minute creatures ... | |
 Ancient Egyptian boat to be excavated, reassembled July 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists ... | |
Cranberry juice creates energy barrier that keeps bacteria away from cells, study shows July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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For generations, people have consumed cranberry juice, convinced of its power to ward off urinary tract infections, though the exact mechanism of its action has not been well understood. A new study by researchers at Worcester ... | |
 Engineers Prove Graphene is the Strongest Material July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research scientists at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science have achieved a breakthrough by proving that the carbon material graphene is the strongest ... | |
 Portuguese team makes first paper based transistor July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Elvira Fortunato and colleagues from the Centro de Investigação de Materiais (Cenimat/I3N), at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, made the first Field Effect ... | |
Toxic chemicals found in common scented laundry products, air fresheners July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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A University of Washington study of top-selling laundry products and air fresheners found the products emitted dozens of different chemicals. All six products tested gave off at least one chemical regulated as toxic or hazardous ... | |
 Scientists identify cells for spinal-cord repair July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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A researcher at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has pinpointed stem cells within the spinal cord that, if persuaded to differentiate into more healing cells and fewer scarring cells following ... | |
Licking your wounds: Scientists isolate compound in human saliva that speeds wound healing July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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New research in the FASEB Journal raises expectorations for people with chronic wounds
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Nanoparticles Detect Telomerase Activity 14 hours ago | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Telomerase, an enzyme that prevents chromosomes from shortening when they divide, is widely suspected of playing a key role in making cancer cells immortal. Though researchers have developed a variety of methods for measuring ... | |
 'Nanonet' circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits on plastic sheets for applications including ... | |
 Dutch researchers take flight with three-gram 'dragonfly' July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- On Wednesday 23 July, TU Delft will be presenting the minute DelFly Micro air vehicle. This successor to the DelFly I and II weighs barely 3 grams, and with its flapping wings is very similar ... | |
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