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In a major collaborative effort, researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center have for the first time eliminated replication-competent HIV-1 DNA – the virus responsible for AIDS – from the genomes of living animals. The study marks a critical step toward the development of a possible cure for human HIV infection.
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have pioneered cutting-edge methods to study the formation of calcium carbonate in saline water. Their results suggest that we may have been overestimating how fast calcium carbonate forms in saline environments.
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have pioneered cutting-edge methods to study the formation of calcium carbonate in saline water. Their results suggest that we may have been overestimating how fast calcium carbonate forms in saline environments.
Researchers have presented an update to their original nanoscale device for intracellular recording, the first nanotechnology developed to record electrical chatter inside a living cell. The scientists have used many copies of the updated nanoscale device to record intracellular signals in neural and cardiac cells in culture with the same level of precision as the device’s biggest competitor: patch clamp electrodes.
Researchers have presented an update to their original nanoscale device for intracellular recording, the first nanotechnology developed to record electrical chatter inside a living cell. The scientists have used many copies of the updated nanoscale device to record intracellular signals in neural and cardiac cells in culture with the same level of precision as the device’s biggest competitor: patch clamp electrodes.
A multidisciplinary team at Northwestern University and the University of Tennessee have developed a new technique, called variable temperature liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy, that allows researchers to examine nanoscale tubular materials while they are "alive" and forming liquids -- a first in the field.
A multidisciplinary team at Northwestern University and the University of Tennessee have developed a new technique, called variable temperature liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy, that allows researchers to examine nanoscale tubular materials while they are "alive" and forming liquids -- a first in the field.
Plant leaves are superhydrophobic, that is, they repel water and cleanse themselves from dust particles. Inspired by such natural designs, a team of researchers at Texas A&M University has developed an innovative way to control the hydrophobicity of a surface to benefit the biomedical field.
Plant leaves are superhydrophobic, that is, they repel water and cleanse themselves from dust particles. Inspired by such natural designs, a team of researchers at Texas A&M University has developed an innovative way to control the hydrophobicity of a surface to benefit the biomedical field.
Transitions from one state of matter to another—such as freezing, melting or evaporation—start with a process called "nucleation," in which tiny clusters of atoms or molecules (called "nuclei") begin to coalesce. Nucleation plays a critical role in circumstances as diverse as the formation of clouds and the onset of neurodegenerative disease. A UCLA-led team has gained a never-before-seen view of nucleation—capturing how the atoms rearrange at 4-D atomic resolution (that is, in three dimensions of space and across time).
