Worldwide, millions of people suffer from Parkinson’s disease, and they gradually lose
contro... | Using thin section petrology, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy
and x-... |
Cell-based assays can enable pharmaceutical manufacturers to determine
the efficacy and toxicity of... | Escherichia coli swim from site to site in search of food,
using several helical flagella (typicall... |
Diseases such as glaucoma and retinitis pigmentosa progressively
destroy eye tissue, causing patien... | Drug-inhibiting antidotes are important for preventing unwanted side
effects caused by overdosing, ... |
Hypoperfusion,
or inadequate blood flow to tissues and organs, is life-threatening and a leading
c... | It
took three years of toil, millions of images and a considerable fortune for researchers
at the ... |
JPK Instruments AG of Berlin, an atomic force microscope supplier
for life sciences and soft matter... | Optopod Ltd., a spinoff company of
the University of Kent in the UK, has invented a method, based o... |
Nikon UK Ltd. at Kingston upon Thames
has unveiled a demonstration imaging suite that houses confoc... | SensL, a provider of low-light photon
detection sensors and modules, has announced a global expansi... |
Cambridge Research & Instrumentation Inc. (CRi) of Woburn, Mass., and Invitrogen Corp. of Carlsb... | Applied Imaging Corp. of San Jose,
Calif., has announced that it will be acquired by Genetix Group,... |
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Co.) of Franklin
Lakes, N.J., has signed an agreement to acquire the 93.5... | SpectRx Inc. of Norcross, Ga., has
received a fifth grant worth $690,000 from the National Cancer I... |
Palomar Medical Technologies Inc. of
Burlington, Mass., has announced that it will move forward to ... | Gamma Medica-Ideas has been awarded
a $100,000 grant to develop a SPECT/MRI small-animal imaging sy... |
Bone health analysis software developed
by researchers at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics ... | Affymetrix Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif.,
and Partners HealthCare of Boston, Mass., have entered into... |
The CAO Group, manufacturers of high-brightness LEDs, displays, and medical, dental and forensic dev... | Dendritic Nanotechnologies of Mount
Pleasant, Mich., known for its special class of nanostructures ... |
RapidScan
As might be expected of living things, cells don’t sit still.
They fidget, changing shape and... | Looking at variations in membrane composition is of interest to structural
biologists. However, inv... |
In war, it is important to know your enemy. The same is true when fighting disease,
especially a de... | How well do you know your quantum dots? Those that behave well in solution may act differently
in l... |
Like a superhero with a secret identity and hidden powers, ordinary
matter has normally unseen prop... | To gain a better understanding of the biochemical processes that occur at or near cell membranes,
s... |
Researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston have developed a method for studying the orientation... | Understanding the dynamics of the interaction between myosin and
actin during muscle contraction is... |
Imagine
a genomics or proteomics microarray that can be analyzed with surface-enhanced Raman
scatt... | Research