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New Method for Measuring Fluorescent Particle Mobility

Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching

(FRAP) is a widely used technique to measure the

mobility and interactions of fluorescently labeled
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Technology Offerings

Endostatin: New Approaches to Treat Angiogenesis Diseases

Endostatin is an antiangiogenic protein first discovered in Folkman's laboratory at Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Boston. The antitumor…

Technology Offerings

Innovative RAGE Inhibitors Target Liver Cancer Treatment

The receptor for advanced glycation-end prod-ucts (RAGE) has been shown to play a central role not only in acute or chronic inflammatory diseases but also in…

Life & Chemistry

A new model — and possible treatment — for staph bone infections

Now, Vanderbilt microbiologist Eric Skaar, Ph.D., MPH, and colleagues have identified a staph-killing compound that may be an effective treatment for…

Studies and Analyses

Urban Trees Reduce Air Pollution, Save Lives: Study Insights

Fine particulate air pollution has serious health effects, including premature mortality, pulmonary inflammation, accelerated atherosclerosis, and altered…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Microfluidic Chip Detects Contaminants in Water and Food

The research, conducted by members of Virginia Tech's Microelectromechanical Systems Laboratory (MEMS) Laboratory in the Bradley Department of Electrical and…

Automotive Engineering

DuPont Advances Lightweighting Solutions for Eco-Friendly Cars

DuPont shows how advanced materials, design and processing converge to help automakers cut CO2 emissions, conserve fuelInnovative technology and material…

Studies and Analyses

Gel vs. Whitening: How Product Organization Affects Choices

“‘Silent strokes’ that cause small areas of brain damage have been tied to memory and thinking problems, but it has been difficult to study these ‘silent…

Earth Sciences

BIOMASS, a Satellite to Monitor World’s Forests, Set for 2020 Launch

Hank Shugart, W.W. Corcoran Professor of Environmental Sciences in the University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Sciences, served on the scientific advisory…

Automotive Engineering

New Solar Car From U-Michigan Has Sleek, Asymmetrical Design

The World Solar Challenge is an 1,800-mile, week-long endurance contest across the continent of Australia that takes place every other fall. The U-M team has…

Environmental Conservation

Researchers Predict Possible Record-Setting Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone,' Modest Chesapeake Bay Oxygen-Starved Zone

The Gulf forecast, one of two announced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, calls for an oxygen-depleted, or hypoxic, region of between…

Life & Chemistry

New Research Backs Genetic ‘Switches’ in Human Evolution

The study, published June 9 in Nature Genetics, provides evidence for a 40-year-old hypothesis that regulation of genes must play an important role in…

Environmental Conservation

The Science of Yellow Snow

Bryan Murray, a PhD candidate at Michigan Tech, and two faculty members, Professor Christopher Webster and Assistant Professor Joseph Bump, studied the effects…

Physics & Astronomy

Scientists Reach Milestone for Quantum Networks

The research, done at the Georgia Institute of Technology, used a new type of optical trap that simultaneously confined both ground-state and highly-excited…

Event News

Exploring Emotions Behind 20th Century Violence Insights

The twentieth century was marked by severe violence. This violent era has been researched and published widely but the impact of emotions in this development…

Life & Chemistry

Less is more: Novel cellulose structure requires fewer enzymes to process biomass to fuel

Improved methods for breaking down cellulose nanofibers are central to cost-effective biofuel production and the subject of new research from Los Alamos…

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