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Chemistry World October 8, 2014 |
Super-resolution light microscopy wins chemistry Nobel The 2014 chemistry Nobel prize has been given to three pioneers of biomedical imaging, whose work has enabled nanoscale features within cells to be captured in exquisite detail. |
Chemistry World November 1, 2014 |
An interdisciplinary celebration Rather than some biologists being woken up by a call from Stockholm to discover they are chemists, as the old joke goes, this year it was two physicists and a physical chemist. |
Chemistry World October 23, 2014 |
The resolution revolution Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy earned three of its creators a Nobel prize this year. |
Chemistry World October 23, 2014 Mark Peplow |
Two for the price of one Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy gives biologists some of the clearest views of the nanoscale mechanics of living organisms. Three pioneers of the technique -- Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and W E Moerner -- won this year's Nobel prize in chemistry for their work. |
Chemistry World October 23, 2014 Simon Hadlington |
New light microscope creates 3D movies inside living cells A new microscope can produce stunning, high-resolution 3D movies of processes ranging from the movement of single molecules within cells to the growth of an embryo. |
Chemistry World October 8, 2014 |
Live blog: Single molecule spectroscopy wins chemistry Nobel prize The bloggers offer their comments on the developing Nobel Prize story and winners for 2014. |
Chemistry World April 24, 2012 Rebecca Brodie |
Two in one technique for biological imaging A UK based team has combined two methods into a new technique to investigate cell-substrate interactions in biomedical research. |
Chemistry World January 15, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Blowing up brain tissue with swelling polymer delivers sharper images A new microscopic technique that magnifies specimens by blowing them up like a balloon could make it easier to produce high resolution images of cells and tissues. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Jennifer Michalowski |
Have Microscope, Will Travel The Bessel beam plane illumination microscope is a high-speed, high-resolution, three-dimensional imaging technology that gives extraordinarily detailed views of cellular processes in action. |
Chemistry World March 5, 2007 Stefan Hell |
The Million Dollar Microscope How to break the 'impenetrable barrier' of optical microscopy. |
Chemistry World August 13, 2010 James Urquhart |
Zooming in on intermolecular bonds German researchers have captured clear images of intermolecular bonds for the first time using a modified form of scanning tunnelling microscopy. |
Chemistry World July 17, 2008 Ruth Tunnell |
Uncovering the Hidden Nanoworld A new type of x-ray microscope allows scientists to peer inside nanodevices without opening them up. |
Bio-IT World September 16, 2004 Rabiya S. Tuma |
Blinded by the Light Myriad advances in light microscopy are increasing resolution, accelerating confocality, improving detection -- and toying with the laws of nature. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Saswato Das |
Two-Laser Lithography Shrinks Transistors A new microscopy technique gets adapted for chipmaking |
Chemistry World September 17, 2012 Jennifer Newton |
Seeing cells under stress An analytical platform that imposes controlled mechanical strain onto live cells while monitoring changes in cell morphology and molecular signalling has been developed by scientists in Germany. |
Chemistry World November 28, 2007 Tom Westgate |
Molecular Traffic Spied in Nanoscale Tube Network Chemists in Germany have tracked single molecules diffusing through a porous solid for the first time. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2008 Hayley Birch |
Drug uptake rule challenged A study by UK scientists apparently contradicts a 100-year-old rule thought to govern the rate at which molecules cross biological membranes. |
Chemistry World May 12, 2014 David Bradley |
Elemental discoveries at the cellular level A combination of two high-power analytical techniques -- synchrotron radiation microscopy and atomic force microscopy -- has allowed Italy scientists to map vital elements in a single cancer cell. |
Chemistry World January 4, 2007 Henry Nicholls |
Microscopic Lab Investigates Contents of a Cell It's small-scale science that could have a massive impact on research into cell biology. Scientists have produced a microscopic laboratory where they can count individual proteins in a single cell. |
Chemistry World January 23, 2008 James Mitchell Crow |
2008 Wolf Prize Winners Revealed US chemists William Moerner and Allen Bard have jointly been awarded the 2008 Wolf Prize for Chemistry, for their pioneering work on single molecule spectroscopy. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 |
New live action microscopy lets scientists follow the first days of a zebrafish embryo's development The promise of live embryo imaging is unquestionable. Light-sheet microscopy will allow scientists for the first time to describe in detail the processes of development in complex vertebrates |
Chemistry World January 10, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Amino acid residues give away bloodstain's age Chemists in the US have developed a quick and simple way to find out how old bloodstains are using natural fluorescence measurements. |
Chemistry World September 18, 2011 James Mitchell Crow |
Zeolites under the fluorescence microscope Bert Weckhuysen and his colleagues at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in collaboration with US chemical company Albemarle, have shown that confocal fluorescence microscopy can be used to probe the properties and performance of zeolites, arguably the most important industrial catalysts. |
Chemistry World March 7, 2006 Jon Evans |
Brownian motion slips into reverse An electrical device for suppressing Brownian motion has been used to trap proteins, viruses and semiconductor nanocrystals. |
Chemistry World November 2009 Bibiana Campos-Seijo |
Editorial: Ringing in the Nobels This year the chemistry prize seems to have once again caused a bit of a commotion. The criticism? Well, some in the scientific community have suggested that the research had too strong a biological focus. |
Chemistry World March 7, 2012 Phillip Broadwith |
Polymer thermometer picks out cell's hotspots Mapping the temperature differences in different portions of living cells is now possible thanks to a fluorescent polymer thermometer developed by Japanese scientists. |
Chemistry World April 2, 2009 Ned Stafford |
Fluorescent probes take screening to next level Researchers have developed a new high-throughput screening technique that could shed light on the biochemical activities of numerous proteins about which little is currently known. |
Chemistry World March 23, 2015 Philip Ball |
Simple chemistry mimics animals' predator spotting method Some animals, from fish to cats to humans, use edge detection to decode their visual environment: they identify some objects just by their outline. |
Chemistry World July 6, 2007 Michael Gross |
Predicting How Proteins Fold Researchers in Italy and the UK have now developed a computational approach that can simulate the folding of membrane proteins in atomic detail. |
Chemistry World September 3, 2013 William Bergius |
Better separations with more permeable membranes There is usually a trade-off between selectivity and liquid permeability when making an ultrafiltration membrane but new research from scientists in the US suggests this doesn't have to be the case. |
Chemistry World October 30, 2007 Jayaraman Killugudi |
Glowing Future for Nanotubes A team of scientists from India and Japan have been the first to make a bundle of nanotubes glow, paving the way for their use as chemical sensors or in optoelectronics. |
Industrial Physicist Jennifer Ouellette |
Seeing with Sound Acoustic microscopy is making inroads into areas such as materials characterization, biology, and medical diagnosis, and giving researchers yet another valuable tool in their imaging arsenal. |
Bio-IT World July 2005 Stan Schwartz |
Trends in Digital Bioscience Imaging The author, a Nikon VP, reviews the improvements in digital imaging that have been achieved over the last 30 years. A new set of research tools is aimed at solving the bottlenecks commonly found in the drug discovery laboratory. |
Chemistry World November 5, 2013 |
A close look at microscopy Atomic force microscopy is widely used in materials science and is beginning to be adopted in life science too. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Robert Tjian |
Biomolecular Crowdsourcing A generation of web-savvy entrepreneurs has found a relatively cheap and effective approach to solving complex problems and soliciting ideas: toss out a challenge into a vibrant digital community and watch what happens. |
Chemistry World December 5, 2007 Jonathan Edwards |
Water Cleaning Membrane Shows Hybrid Vigour Scientists in the US have combined naturally-occurring channel proteins with a new polymer to create a membrane that could be used to deliver drugs or purify water. |
Chemistry World October 7, 2015 |
Live blog: Unravelling DNA repair mechanisms takes chemistry Nobel Our live blog explains the vital statistics of the Nobel chemistry prize and the countdown to the award announcement. |
Chemistry World July 5, 2010 Jon Cartwright |
Imaging technique sees conversion of biomass to sugar The technique, called stimulated Raman scattering microscopy, is better than others because it can give quantitative readings of the species present. |