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Chemistry World August 30, 2006 Tom Westgate |
Lasers Shed Light on Magnetic Resonance A new way of measuring nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in liquid samples could have implications across spectroscopy and imaging, report researchers. |
Chemistry World October 8, 2007 James Mitchell Crow |
MRI Sensitivity Boosted by 10000 Times A technique that significantly boosts the sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging is on the verge of clinical trials which, if successful, could allow doctors to assess the effects of cancer drugs on a tumor within hours. |
Chemistry World November 21, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Magnetic resonance taken to the limit Researchers in the US have taken magnetic resonance imaging to its extreme by developing a technique to detect the spin of a single nucleus. |
Chemistry World January 25, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Catalysis Probed with MRI Scientists have developed a way of peering into a microreactor to watch gases react on a solid catalyst. |
Chemistry World June 12, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
A New Way to Look at the Brain Researchers have for the first time scanned the human brain with positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging simultaneously. The work introduces the possibility of obtaining both highly specific functional data together with anatomical information in a single scan. |
Chemistry World June 18, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Micro-magnets promise colour MRI scans Microscopic magnets could one day brighten up grey-scale magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, according to scientists in the US. |
Chemistry World April 5, 2007 Lionel Milgrom |
Nanoparticles Make Better MRI Images Manganese oxide nanoparticles have been used as contrast agent for magnetic resonance imaging, allowing researchers to see inside living brains in the same detail as dissected tissue under a microscope. |
Chemistry World November 4, 2013 Jennifer Newton |
Moving the goalposts for MRI A new class of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) contrast agents developed by scientists in the UK is promising to deliver clearer images in less time. |
Chemistry World September 25, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
New MRI protein probe Researchers in Japan have invented a new way to detect the presence of proteins in cells and tissues by magnetic resonance imaging. |
Chemistry World January 14, 2009 Hayley Birch |
MRI at the nanoscale US scientists have demonstrated the remarkable power of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by adapting it to create 3D nanoscale pictures of a tobacco mosaic virus. |
Chemistry World October 1, 2014 Philip Ball |
Probing molecules atom by atom A new technique that can 'see' individual spins of electrons and nuclei in single molecules could enable nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy atom by atom. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2013 Neil Savage |
Path Found to a Combined MRI and CT Scanner Omni-tomography could add together the advantages of several medical imaging technologies |
Chemistry World July 28, 2010 Andy Extance |
Molecular interference reveals reactions Scientists can now see atoms reacting on the femtosecond timescale in unprecedented detail, thanks to a laser technique developed at the University of Ottawa. |
Chemistry World February 14, 2011 Rachel Cooper |
Small and sensitive nanoparticles A new highly sensitive nanoparticle contrast agent for imaging in the body stays in the bloodstream longer and is better at targeting tumors than other nanoparticle contrast agents, say Chinese scientists. |
Chemistry World October 25, 2010 |
Dual Purpose Dyes Offer New Imaging Options US researchers have developed a new series of combined fluorescent and chemiluminescent dye compounds that can be stored at low temperatures and then activated to release near infrared light when warmed to body temperature. |
Chemistry World May 24, 2006 |
Detecting Brain Damage Before it Happens An NMR technique under development could help the victims of stroke by detecting brain damage early enough to provide treatment. |
Chemistry World December 21, 2006 Tom Westgate |
Molecular Probe Identifies Patients at Risk of Alzheimer's A new molecule could provide an early warning system for Alzheimer's disease, US researchers hope. |
Chemistry World March 20, 2009 Jon Cartwright |
Medical Probes Get Easy to Spot Scientists in the US have created nano-scale medical probes that are visible via both magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and optical microscopy. |
Chemistry World December 15, 2010 Hayley Birch |
New technique probes electron properties of individual atoms A new, low voltage electron microscopy technique allows scientists to discriminate not just between atoms of different elements but between atoms of the same element in different electronic states. |
The Motley Fool April 23, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
IBM Envisions a Small, Profitable Future A new MRI capability holds great promise for long-term investors. |
Chemistry World July 31, 2008 |
Nanostructures Made Easy Scotland-based chemists have invented a new way to build nanoscale arrays of molecules over a large surface area: a technique that may be key to making nanostructures in sophisticated sensors, catalysts, and tiny computer parts. |
Technology Research News June 1, 2005 |
Magnetic Resonance Goes Nano Researchers have built a nuclear magnetic resonance device that has the potential to overcome the quantum bit limit because it is small enough to fit on a computer chip. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2012 Sylvain Martel |
Magnetic Microbots to Fight Cancer Magnets steer medical microbots through blood vessels |
Chemistry World September 18, 2007 Simon Hadlington |
Researchers See Electrons in a Spin Scientists in the US have successfully measured the spin polarisation state of single atoms adsorbed to a surface, bringing the prospect of quantum computing and spin-based electronics (spintronics) a step closer. |
Chemistry World May 22, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Xenon doubled up with water Creating a water molecule with two noble gas atoms interpolated into its structure sounds an improbable feat, but a international team of researchers now claim to have trapped just such an exotic compound in xenon. |
Technology Research News June 2, 2004 |
Buckyballs Gain Smaller Kin Researchers from Xiamen University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have constructed a smaller version of the buckyball or C60 fullerene molecule, a spherical cage of carbon atoms. |
Industrial Physicist Eric J. Lerner |
News Briefs Detecting a Single Spin... Handheld Chem Lab... Superprisms... Growing Nanotrees... |
Chemistry World November 5, 2007 Ned Stafford |
Joining up Nanocircuits A team of scientists have covalently bonded strings of porphyrin molecules on a gold surface -- a step forward in the quest to develop nano-electronics. |
Chemistry World October 13, 2011 Phillip Broadwith |
Following Electrons' Chemical Reaction Quickstep The oscillating electronic states of molecules nearby and passing through a conical intersection can now be probed directly. |
Chemistry World May 29, 2015 Andy Extance |
Noble gas joins I -hole interaction crowd Despite noble gases' characteristic unreactivity, Spanish chemists have calculated that molecules containing xenon can interact non-covalently through what they've called 'aerogen bonding'. |
Chemistry World April 4, 2012 Jon Evans |
Novel mass sensor is off the scale Spanish scientists have produced the world's most sensitive set of scales that should be capable of weighing a single proton. |
Chemistry World April 1, 2014 Melanie Britton |
Paul Lauterbur and the invention of MRI This book, written by Lauterbur's wife, Joan Dawson, is an interesting and often touching account of his life and of the discovery and development of MRI. |
Chemistry World July 2, 2013 Jeanne Therese Andres |
Mapping receptors in the brain Scientists from the UK and Germany have developed new compounds that target and bind to brain proteins linked to serious neurological disorders. |
Technology Research News October 20, 2004 |
Molecules positioned on silicon Dubbed multi-step feedback control lithography, this new fabrication process could eventually be used to construct prototype molecular electronic devices for future technologies in areas like consumer electronics and biomedical diagnostics. |
CIO December 1, 2002 Sarah D. Scalet |
When Every Molecule Counts A group of electrical engineers at Purdue University hope that their research could lead to ultrasensitive sensors capable of detecting a single molecule of a biological agent or chemical pollutant. |
Popular Mechanics March 2003 Paul Eisenstein |
World's Most Powerful Magnet The "magnetar," or magnetic neutron star known as Soft Gamma Repeater 1806-20, is the most powerful known magnetic object in the universe. While it's unlikely anything man-made will ever come close to the power of a magnetar, it's not for lack of trying. |
Chemistry World May 27, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
Unusual H-bond patterns revealed in single molecule image Researchers in the US have used a scanning tunnelling microscope to produce the latest images of structure and bonding in a single molecule, by sensing the molecule's local potential energy landscape. |
Chemistry World July 20, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
New type of chemical bond around dwarf stars The work, led by Trygve Helgaker at the University of Oslo in Norway, not only provides insights into fundamental aspects of electronic interactions with magnetic fields, but also sheds light on the exotic chemistry that exists in stellar environments. |
Chemistry World March 31, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Giving molecules a stretch A simple way to stretch small molecules and measure the forces at play has been developed by researchers in the US. |
Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley |
Blood, Light, and Water Two molecules that occur naturally in blood have been engineered by scientists to use sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. |
Chemistry World February 4, 2011 Harriet Brewerton |
Transplant tracking Magnetic nanoparticles could be used to track neural stem cells after a transplant in order to monitor how the cells heal spinal injuries, say UK scientists. |
Scientific American August 2006 Mihail C. Roco |
Nanotechnology's Future Over the next two decades, this new field for controlling the properties of matter will rise to prominence through four evolutionary stages. |
Chemistry World January 8, 2014 Philip Ball |
We choose to go to the muon Chemists Mohammad Goli and Shant Shahbazian posit two new light elements. They are muonium (Mu), in which an electron orbits a positively charged muon ( +), and muonic helium (He ), in which an electron orbits a 'nucleus' consisting of an alpha particle and a negative muon. |
Technology Research News September 10, 2003 |
Gold speck highlights molecules How do you sense what is happening at the scale of molecules? Researchers have found a way to detect the very small spectral shifts that occur when the light scattering off a single gold nanoparticle interacts with molecules. |
Chemistry World November 21, 2006 Victoria Gill |
Side-Effect-Free Chemotherapy Scientists have now developed an enzyme with the potential to eliminate the extreme fatigue, sickness and hair loss that result from this cell damage and strike fear into the hearts of cancer patients. |
Chemistry World November 22, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Bonding under pressure An unusual compound of xenon and hydrogen has been made under high pressure by researchers in the US. |
Chemistry World June 13, 2007 Victoria Gill |
Europe Running Out of Time to Address 'Threat' to MRI The European Commission has told scientists it is not yet ready to change proposed European physical agents legislation, criticized by scientists for posing a 'serious threat' to legislation on medical imaging. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2013 Eliza Strickland |
A Wiring Diagram of the Brain Advances in medical imaging allow the Human Connectome Project to map neural connections |
Technology Research News June 29, 2005 |
Self-assembly: the natural way to make things In biology, there are a few different ways DNA molecules can be replicated and combined. |
Chemistry World December 23, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Opening the gate for molecular electronics Chemists in Korea and the US have shown that the current running through a transistor made of a single molecule can be regulated by tweaking its molecular orbital energies. |