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rssNanoscale device may reveal spin-dependent fundamental forces and provide new methods of characterizing torque-generating molecules and DNA strands
11-04-2008
Researchers at Boston University working with collaborators in Germany, France and Korea have developed a nanoscale torsion resonator that measures miniscule amounts of twisting or torque in a metallic nanowire. This device, the size of a speck of dust, might enable measurements of the ...
For the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP
10-08-2008
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2008 jointly to Osamu Shimomura, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA, USA and Boston University Medical School, MA, USA, Martin Chalfie, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA and Roger ...
New technique may help identify ways to predict and prevent deadly disease
03-18-2008
A team of researchers in Bedford, Mass. has developed a way of examining brain tissue with near-infrared light to detect signs of Alzheimer's disease. In the March 15 issue of the journal Optics Letters, published by the Optical Society of America, the team describes how they used optical ...
03-14-2005
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (UT Southwestern), and SEQUENOM, Inc. report the discovery of a genetic variation that is the strongest known risk factor associated for age-related macular ...
