Protein reactions identified with subatomic resolution

08-Oct-2015 - Using subatomic resolution, researchers have gained insights into the dynamic modus operandi of two switch proteins which are responsible for the import of compounds into the nucleus and for cell growth. The team headed by Prof Dr Klaus Gerwert from the Department of Biophysics at the ...

The structural memory of water persists on a picosecond timescale

Long-lived sub-structures exist in liquid water as discovered using novel ultrafast vibrational spectroscopies

22-Sep-2015 - A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Mainz, Germany and FOM Institute AMOLF in the Netherlands have characterized the local structural dynamics of liquid water, i.e. how quickly water molecules change their binding state. Using innovative ultrafast ...

Researchers observe thousands of protein switches

14-Sep-2015 - Each cell comprises approximately 12,000 proteins, which act like small machines to carry out various cellular processes. Researcher of the MPI of Biochemistry in Martinsried developed the method ‘EasyPhos’ to identify the activity of these proteins on a global scale. Using this technology, they ...

ORNL chemical sampling interface features simplicity, speed

28-Aug-2015 - In mere seconds, a system developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory can identify and characterize a solid or liquid sample, providing a valuable tool with applications in material science, forensics, pharmaceuticals, biology and chemistry. The device and technique is ...

Ocean Optics Appoints Service and Operations Manager of its EMEA Office

Zimon Norlin to lead manufacturing, service and logistics in Europe, Middle East, Africa

31-Jul-2015 - Ocean Optics has increased support for its expanding EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) business with the appointment of Zimon Norlin to the position of EMEA Service and Operations Manager. Norlin will be charged with growing regional access to Ocean Optics’ spectroscopy products and applications ...

An elusive molecule -- finally revealed

A long-standing chemistry puzzle has been solved

16-Jul-2015 - Scientists at the University of Arizona have discovered a mysterious molecule with a structure simple enough to make it into high school textbooks, yet so elusive that chemists have argued for more than a century over whether it even exists. And, like so many important discoveries in science, ...

New technique for 'seeing' ions at work in a supercapacitor

24-Jun-2015 - Researchers from the University of Cambridge, together with French collaborators based in Toulouse, have developed a new method to see inside battery-like devices known as supercapacitors at the atomic level. The new method could be used in order to optimise and improve the devices for real-world ...

Ocean Optics Appoints Vice President Technology

Steven Frey to lead the development of new optical measurement technologies

02-Jun-2015 - Ocean Optics has appointed Steven Frey to the position of Vice President of Technology.In his new role, Frey will drive the development of technologies for next generation applications of miniature spectroscopy. He will lead the company’s team of design and applications engineers in developing ...

New test detects drug use from a single fingerprint

20-May-2015 - Led by the University of Surrey, a team of researchers from the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NL), the National Physical Laboratory (UK), King’s College London (UK) and Sheffield Hallam University (UK), used different types of an analytical chemistry technique known as mass spectrometry to ...

Scientists join forces to reveal the mass and shape of single molecules

04-May-2015 - A microscopic tool, more than 1000 times thinner than the width of a single human hair, uses vibrations to simultaneously reveal the mass and the shape of a single molecule - a feat which has not been possible until now.The work was led by Professor John Sader at the University of Melbourne's ...