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Northwestern Scientists Explore New Shapes of Microcompartment Shells

In nature and engineering, microcompartments — molecular shells made of proteins that can encapsulate cellular components — provide a tiny home for important reactions. In bacterial organelles, for example, microcompartments known as carboxysomes trap carbon dioxide and convert it into sugar as an energy source.

5 Mar 2011

ASU's Research on Single Molecule Aids Development of Future Nanoscale Devices

In research appearing in a recent issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology, Nongjian “NJ” Tao, a researcher at the Biodesign Institute at ASU, has demonstrated a clever way of controlling electrical conductance of a single molecule, by exploiting the molecule’s mechanical properties.

From Arizona State University 4 Mar 2011

KIT to Submit Proposals for Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) will go into the final round of the Excellence Initiative II with three new and three follow-up proposals.

4 Mar 2011

Illinois Physicists Combine Two Molecular Imaging Technologies to Study DNA Proteins

Illinois researchers have combined two molecular imaging technologies to create an instrument with incredible sensitivity that provides new, detailed insight into dynamic molecular processes.

From University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 4 Mar 2011

New Microfluidic Device Manipulates Age of T Cells to Enhance Cancer Therapy

Manipulation of cells by a new microfluidic device may help clinicians improve a promising cancer therapy that harnesses the body's own immune cells to fight such diseases as metastatic melanoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia and neuroblastoma.

3 Mar 2011

CNSE and Downstate Announce New Program in Nanoscale Medical Applications

In a pioneering initiative that will prepare a new generation of research physicians to be leaders in 21st century health care, the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany and SUNY...

3 Mar 2011

Indiana Scientists Unravel Mystery Behind Main Energy Storage Molecules in Human Body

Indiana University scientists have solved a perplexing mystery regarding one of the body's main energy storage molecules, in the process shedding light on a possible route to treatment of a rare but deadly disease in teenagers.

3 Mar 2011

New Research Shows Nanoparticle Surface Coating Has Great Influence on Immune System

Researchers have over time been able to show that medicine designed at nanoscale offers unprecedented opportunities for targeted treatment of serious diseases such as cancer. However, now research also shows that the ...

3 Mar 2011

Manchester Scientists Use Cutting Edge Techniques to Reveal Shape of Nanospring

Scientists have unravelled the shape of the protein that gives human tissues their elastic properties in what could lead to the development of new synthetic elastic polymers. University of Manchester researchers, work...

3 Mar 2011

Scientists Design Nano-Based Artificial Protocells to Inactivate Deadly Viruses

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Weill Cornell Medical College have designed artificial "protocells" that can lure, entrap and inactivate a class of deadly huma...

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 3 Mar 2011