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Hairy Roots Show Potential As Biofactories For Medicines, Commercial Products (October 11, 2007) -- Scientists are reporting an advance towards tapping the immense potential of 'hairy roots' as natural factories to produce medicines, food flavorings and other commercial products. The new research ... > full story

New Force-fluorescence Device Measures Nanometer-scale Motion (October 11, 2007) -- A hybrid device combining force and fluorescence has made possible the accurate detection of nanometer-scale motion of biomolecules caused by pico-newton ... > full story

New Giant Molecule Created (October 9, 2007) -- Chemists have synthesized a polyoxometalate with 100 Tungsten and 20 Cerium atoms that has a molar mass of about 30 kilo Dalton. With a maximum diameter of 4.2 nm the inorganic molecule is comparable ... > full story

Artificial Cornea Saves Eyesight (October 9, 2007) -- Every year, in Germany alone, around 7000 people wait for a new cornea to save their eyesight. But donor corneas are in short supply. Researchers have now developed an artificial cornea which is to ... > full story

System To Build Transplant Tissue Created (October 9, 2007) -- Engineers say they have developed a microvascular system that can nourish growing tissues, a step that may one day allow laboratories to grow synthetically engineered tissues for transplants. The ... > full story

Developing A Modular, Nanoparticle Drug Delivery System (October 6, 2007) -- There are two aspects to creating an effective drug: finding a chemical compound that has the desired biological effect and minimal side-effects and then delivering it to the right place in the body ... > full story

Using Catalysts To Stamp Nanopatterns Without Ink (October 2, 2007) -- Using enzymes from E. coli bacteria, chemists and engineers have introduced a hundred-fold improvement in the precision of features imprinted to create microdevices such as labs-on-a-chip. The ... > full story

Scientists Get First Look At Nanotubes Inside Living Animals (September 27, 2007) -- Rice University scientists have captured the first optical images of carbon nanotubes inside a living organism. The researchers fed carbon nanotubes to newly hatched fruit flies. Using a laser, they ... > full story

Palladium And Platinum An Easier Find With New Detection Method (September 26, 2007) -- Finding uses for palladium and platinum--rare precious metals coveted by the automobile, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries as catalysts in chemical reactions-proves easier than finding the ... > full story

Printing With Enzymes Instead Of Ink (September 26, 2007) -- With all the advances in printing technology in recent years, the latest may rise to the top of a list that would make Gutenberg gasp. Scientists are reporting development and testing of a method for ... > full story

Detecting Bird Flu: New Lab-on-chip Identifies H5N1 In Thirty Minutes (September 25, 2007) -- Scientists have developed a miniature device that, if successfully commercialized, could be deployed in affected regions for preemptive surveillance of a nascent avian flu epidemic. The device can ... > full story

Biosensors: When Proteins, Antibodies And Other Biological Molecules Kiss, Biosensor Can Tell (September 25, 2007) -- When biological molecules kiss, a new kind of biosensor can tell: a new and deceptively simple technique can measure the interactions between free-floating, unlabeled biological molecules including ... > full story

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