New antibiotics could come from a DNA binding compound that kills bacteria in 2 minutes
... as MRSA." The compound [Fe2L3]4+ is an iron triple helicate with three organic strands wrapped around two iron centres to give a helix which looks cylindrical in shape and neatly fits within the major groove of a DNA helix. It is about the same size as the parts of a protein that recognise and bind with part...Motor proteins may be vehicles for drug delivery
...l. "Think of it as a freight train at the molecular level," said William Hancock, associate professor of bioengineering, Penn State. "And it runs on cylindrical tracks -- or microtubules -- made of many protein subunits meshed together into a long polymer that is one ten thousandth the diameter of hair." Ha...Nanoparticles trigger cell death?
...he research that certain cell cultures are not affected when exposed to fullerenes, i.e. nano-sized molecules that consist of spherical, ellipsoid, or cylindrical arrangement of carbon atoms. Cells are also not affected when exposed to gallic acid, an organic acid that is found in almost all plants and, for inst...LabBits: A media tip sheet from the MBL in Woods Hole
...ers is still a biological mystery. The salamander isn't the only animal with this regenerative ability. Take the sea squirt, Ciona intestinalis, a cylindrical marine creature about the size of a small cucumber that regularly loses its siphons, or feeding tubes, to hungry predators. At the base of each siphon...Integrated tube cap design simplifies access to medication
... Many vitamin pills and tablets such as pain killers are packaged today in cylindrical tubes with a cork-like cap. This will often incorporate some form of desiccant to protect the contents against moisture, while a simple mechanical spr...TGrid 5.0 Advances Automatic, High-Quality Meshing Tools for Increased Productivity
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Description: Codman Hakim Programmable valve cylindrical with PrechamberInline offers the ability to optimize the opening pressure of a shunt system before and after implantation. A shunted patient's condition will often change over the course of their treaent....Codman Hakim Programmable Valve (CHPV), Cylindrical
Description: Codman Hakim Programmable valve cylindrical offers the ability to optimize the opening pressure of a shunt system before and after implantation. A shunted patient's condition will often change over the course of their treaent....Integra Epilepsy Strip Electrodes
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...less than a micrometer in size. Back in 1878 Lord Rayleigh, a professor of experimental physics at Cambridge University, discovered that a smooth, cylindrical jet of liquid emerging from an orifice spontaneously breaks up to form a train of spherical droplets. In the late 1990s, physicist Alfonso Gan-Calvo o...Laughing hyenas, wailing levees, the sound of cheese and blaring bagpipes
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...e data meant reducing the movement of each cell to a vector, and then analyzing that vector not just along its x, y, and z axes, but by looking at its cylindrical coordinates. "The spreading has both an angular and a radial component," Stathopoulos notes. What the data showed was that the mesodermal cells mo...Why the 'perfect' body isn't always perfect
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... systems that respond to forces in a manner similar," said Engler. The long bones of the human skeleton are another example, where their elongated and cylindrical form optimizes the distribution of body weight while remaining very light. Thinking Wide Engler hopes that the observations and connections h...New research field promises radical advances in optical technologies
...irst hyperlens, proposed independently by Evgenii Narimanov at Princeton and Nader Engheta at the University of Pennsylvania and their co-workers, was cylindrical in shape. Transformation optics, however, enables a hyperlens in a planar form, which is important because you could just simply add this flat hyperle...True properties of carbon nanotubes measured
...imental measurements of the mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes that directly correspond to the theoretical predictions. Carbon nanotubes are cylindrical structures usually less than 30 nanometers in diameter and several microns long. Their small size makes them very strong but at the same time quite di...'Nanosculpture' could enable new types of heat pumps and energy converters
...composite nanorods with branching, wherein each nanorod consists of two materials a single-crystal bismuth telluride nanorod core encased in a hollow cylindrical shell of single-crystal bismuth sulfide," said G. Ramanath, professor of materials science and engineering at Rensselaer and director of the universit...384 Well Microarray Cylindrical from ABgene
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