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04-26-2011
Stanford researchers have developed a new biosensor microchip that could significantly speed up the process of drug development. The microchips, packed with highly sensitive "nanosensors," analyze how proteins bind to one another, a critical step for evaluating the effectiveness and possible ...
09-01-2010
Radioactive decay rates, thought to be unique physical constants and counted on in such fields as medicine and anthropology, may be more variable than once thought. A team of scientists from Purdue and Stanford universities has found that the decay of radioactive isotopes fluctuates in synch ...
06-07-2010
Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded Professors Mark L. Brongersma of Stanford University and Stefan A. Maier of Imperial College London are investigating new applications for terahertz sensors. Based on their research, these sensors could be used for improving optical sources, ...
06-23-2009
A group of scientists led by Bengang Xing, at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in collaboration with Zhen Cheng and colleagues at Stanford University Medical Centre, California, have developed a photoactivable bioluminescent probe for imaging luciferase activity in live cells. ...
The $420 million Linac Coherent Light Source will snap photos at the molecular level of everything from proteins to semiconductor materials
04-24-2009
After years of design and construction, the world's brightest X-ray machine has come to life at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in the hills near Stanford University. The mile-long machine produces a laser beam made of X-rays instead of visible light. Its laser bursts are so bright ...
04-16-2009
Scientists in Germany and the US generate highly oxidised diiron complexes that further our understanding on metalloenzymes in nature. Oxidised diiron species are used in nature in the active sites of several metalloenzymes, such as methane monooxygenase and ribonucleotide ...
03-13-2009
Ever since the Bronze Age, humans have experimented with combining different metals to create alloys with properties superior to either metal alone. But not all metals readily form alloys - for some pairs of elements the atoms are too dissimilar. Now researchers in an international team have ...
12-02-2008
A study describing how cells within blood vessel walls move en masse overturns an assumption common in the age of genomics — that the proteins driving cell behavior are doing so much multitasking that it would be near impossible to group them according to a few discrete functions. But now ...
New tool allows for higher sensitivity at reduced complexity and cost
11-14-2008
Scientists at Stanford University and Japan's National Institute of Informatics have created a new highly sensitive infrared spectrometer. The device converts light from the infrared part of the spectrum to the visible part, where the availability of superior optical detectors results in ...
10-10-2008
A family of cancer-fighting molecules helps blood stem cells in mice decide when and how to divide, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Blocking the molecules’ function spurs the normally resting cells to begin proliferating strangely - making too much of one kind ...
