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• 1996 Mars rock may harbor fossilized microbes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  London, November 28 (ANI): Scientists studying a chunk of Mars rock that was found in Antarctica in 1996, have determined that it may show signs of life, in the form of fossilized microbes.In 1996, David McKay of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texax, and colleagues proposed that that a chunk of Mars rock ...
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• Novel Techniques for In-Situ Nanomechanical Testing in the Electron Microscope (materialstoday)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 154
  The combination of traditional nanomechanical test instruments with complementary techniques has generated innovative ways to characterize nanoscale materials. In particular, simultaneously pairing the high sensitivity of nanoindentation with the high spatial resolution of electron microscopy creates a powerful tool ...
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• Art in Microscopy

  
  Migrations — Authority: 414
  Via Alex at Transcription and Translation , I see that Olympus has announced the winners to its 2009 BioScapes competition . Check them out… here’s my favorite: By Dr. Alexis Lomakin Credit: Dr. Alexis Lomakin – Kursk, Russia Specimen: Xenopus melanophore with microtubules Technique: Confocal ...
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• Herpes Never Sleeps

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Enlarge ImageBusybody. A new study suggests HSV-2, seen here as orange particles, is constantly active even when patients dont have symptoms. Credit: Dennis Kunkel Microscopy Inc./Visuals Unlimited, Inc. Genital herpes comes and goes--at least thats what it looks like to patients. But a mathematical model published in ...
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• bioscapes

  
  edgargonzalez.com — Authority: 141
  Los ganadores del concurso olympus Bioscapes, realmente espectaculares (sigue leyendo para ver el resto)    Olympus BioScapes Competition Winners (9 Images) © Gist Croft and Mackenzie Weygandt, Columbia University and Project ALS, New York, N.Y. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, also known ...
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• Celebrating all thing small

  
  The Art of Science — Authority: 126
  Deadly tentacle of a Portuguese man-of-war stands out as a delicate pink ribbon containing toxin-filled beads. Alvaro Migotto I thought I’d posted on this already, but there are SO MANY small photo competitions these days…sheesh! Small is big, or something: 10 Scientific American Magazine Bioscapes Photo ...
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• PI nano1×3 XY, XYZ Nanopositioning Stages for Super Resolution Microscopy

  
  EDA Geek — Authority: 137
  PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P., the inventor of Piezo-Z focusing systems, has added two new multi-axis stages for super-resolution microscopy applications, providing highly accurate motion with sub-nanometer resolution over travel ranges of 200 µm in XY and XYZ. The new PI nano1×3[TM] series XY and XYZ nanopositioning ...
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• Beautiful nature image — the scales of a moth

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 439
  Looks like wrapping paper ribbon . Mr. David Millard Sunset moth wing scales. David Millard, Austin, Tex., U.S.A.
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• New discovery can speed up development of Parkinson’s drugs

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Nov 19 (ANI): Scientists from Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research have made a novel discovery that can speed up the development of more effective Parkinson’s drugs.People with Parkinson’s Disease suffer from muscle rigidity, tremor, a slowing of physical movement and, in extreme cases, a ...
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• One-month diesel exhaust inhalation produces hypertensive gene e...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Background - Exposure to diesel exhaust (DE) is linked to vasoconstriction, endothelial dysfunction, and myocardial ischemia in compromised individuals. Objective - We hypothesized that DE inhalation would cause greater inflammation, hematological alterations, and cardiac molecular impairment in spontaneously ...
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• Small, beautiful and additive-free

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  (National Research Council of Canada) The National Research Council Canada recently helped Olympus, a world leader in advanced optical microscopy and medical imaging, to design and commercialize a coherent anti-stokes raman scattering (CARS) microscope.
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• New Nanocrystalline Diamond Probes Overcome Wear (redOrbit)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 154
  Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have developed, characterized, and modeled a new kind of probe used in atomic force microscopy (AFM), which images, measures, and manipulates matter at the nanoscale.Using diamond, researchers made a much more durable ...
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• Free Microscopic World Poster

  
  Freenology - Free Samples, Magazines, Stuff, Money, What? — Authority: 154
  www.asm.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=91062 -email: educationresources@asmusa.org and include in the subject line, “microscopy poster request”.
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• FREE Scanning Electron Micrographs of Just About Anything

  
  Heaving Dead Cats — Authority: 416
  An interesting offer from ASPEX November 10, 2009 2:54 PM – by PZ Myers I had my doubts about this; I got an offer from ASPEX corporation to let people get free scanning electron micrographs of just about anything. They make a desktop SEM , and all you have to do is fill out a form and mail it in ...
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• New nanocrystalline diamond probes overcome wear (EurekAlert!)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 154
  Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have developed, characterized, and modeled a new kind of probe used in atomic force microscopy, which images, measures, and manipulates matter at the nanoscale. Using diamond, researchers made a much more durable probe ...
  2 weeks ago

• Engineers Image Nanostructure Of A Solid Acid Catalyst And Boost Its Catalytic Activity (redOrbit)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 154
  A new view of an old problemThe Lehigh-Rice team attributes much of its success to the use, for the first time on tungstated zirconia catalysts, of aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and its integration with three optical spectroscopic techniques—Raman, infrared and ...
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• Cellphones adapted into microscopes (Is there an app for that?)

  
  The Knight Shift — Authority: 140
  Using software he developed and about $10 of standard off-the-shelf parts, a solid-thinkin dude named Aydogan Ozcan has converted camera-equipped cellphones into rather powerful microscopes.When set up with the package, a cellphone like the Samsung model in the photo can image blood cells and bacteria. The phones can ...
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• How an Engineer Turned a Cellphone Into a Microscope [del.icio.us]

  
  Blah, Blah! Technology — Authority: 424
  Now an engineer, using software that he developed and about $10 worth of off-the-shelf hardware, has adapted cellphones to substitute for microscopes.
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• Scans after LASIK. Keratocyte density. “… program was tested on scans from 16 other normal volunteers and 17 volunteers 3 years after LASIK.”

  
  LASIK Eye Surgery — Authority: 130
  Researchers from Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, in Rochester, Minnesota, have reported that they have: “… developed a program to determine cell densities in images from the ConfoScan 4 (Nidek, Inc., Freemont, CA) confocal microscope and compared densities to those determined ...
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• Solar cells from donuts and tea – energy crisis solved?

  
  LOW COST LAPTOP — Authority: 141
  Yes I know - this has not got anything to do with mobile computing (sorry), and No, its not an april hoax at all - but I simply had to write about it.. as you can see on the youTube video below, this guy actually makes a small (and inefficient but still amazing) solar panel at home - from donuts, "starbucks passion" ...
  3 weeks ago

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