Unexpected carbon composition discovered in world's oldest diamonds (04 Jul 2008) Did life on earth begin earlier than we have hitherto believed? billion years ago. Up to now, scientists have assumed that the first livingcells... the question of how this unexpected carbon composition arose." The presence of living...
Nanoreactors for Reaction Cascades (21 Aug 2007) Nanoscopic bubbles with plastic membrane and built-in enzymes for multistep one-pot reactions Livingcells are highly complex synthetic machines: Numerous multistep reactions run simultaneously side by side and with unbelievable efficiency and specificity. For these mainly enzymatic reactions to work so well collectively, nature...
From Microscopy to Nanoscopy (14 Aug 2007) Photoswitchable rhodamine amides for high-resolution optical 3D far-field microscopy samples such as livingcells. Until fairly recently, the resolution of light... to observe the interior of whole, or even living, cells. The use of fluorescent dyes...
Layer-by-layer light microscopic nanoscale images of cells and without having...
Pairing Nanoparticles with Proteins (29 Jun 2007) New ways to tag, engineer molecules for energy conversion, drug delivery, and medical imaging of livingcells and whose dysfunction often leads to disease. With added... have characterized how this virus binds to the human cells it infects, and have... drugs to specific target cells, such as those that make up tumors. One key...
New Methods for Screening Nanoparticles (23 Aug 2006) of livingcells are then exposed to varying doses of carbon nanoparticles over... interact with human cells following exposure for various times and doses. This has led to the visualization of how human cells interact with some specific types...
New and improved right to the last drop (28 Jul 2006) Trapping enzymes in silica beads " to the way livingcells maintain water content and could provide biologists...
Researchers get their teeth into artificial dental enamel (26 Jul 2006) A natural fix to avoid metal fillings enamel and supports the growth of livingcells. As such it might one day be used... dente" and a slurp by protecting the living tooth within and making it hard enough to bite through most foods. Cells, known as ameloblasts, build the dental...
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