This bacterium gets paid in gold

Harvesting solar fuels through a bacterium's unusual appetite for gold

11-Oct-2018 - A bacterium named Moorella thermoacetica won't work for free. But UC Berkeley researchers have figured out it has an appetite for gold. And in exchange for this special treat, the bacterium has revealed a more efficient path to producing solar fuels through artificial photosynthesis. M. ...

Molecular imaging hack makes cameras 'faster'

18-Nov-2016 - A new Rice University technique grabs images of chemical processes that happen faster than most laboratory cameras are able to capture them. The technique, super temporal resolution microscopy (STReM), allows researchers to view and gather useful information about fluorescing molecules at a frame ...

From super to ultra-resolution microscopy

07-Jul-2016 - Proteins mostly do not work in isolation but rather make up larger complexes like the molecular machines that enable cells to communicate with each other, move cargo around in their interiors or replicate their DNA. Our ability to observe and track each individual protein within these machines is ...

Major innovation in molecular imaging delivers spatial and spectral info simultaneously

Berkeley Lab scientist invents technique to combine spectroscopy with super-resolution microscopy

19-Aug-2015 - Using physical chemistry methods to look at biology at the nanoscale, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researcher has invented a new technology to image single molecules with unprecedented spectral and spatial resolution, thus leading to the first "true-color" ...

Nanotube coating helps shrink mass spectrometers

27-Mar-2014 - Nanotechnology is advancing tools likened to Star Trek's "tricorder" that perform on-the-spot chemical analysis for a range of applications including medical testing, explosives detection and food safety. Researchers found that when paper used to collect a sample was coated with carbon nanotubes, ...

New microchip technology performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once

Technique may accelerate drug discovery for cancer, other diseases

05-Aug-2009 - Flasks, beakers and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a bench top, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer and instantly run thousands of chemical reactions, with results - literally shrinking the lab down to the ...

Bruker Daltonik Receives ISO 13485 Certification for Development, Manufacturing and Distribution of Mass Spectrometry Systems

23-Apr-2008 - Bruker Daltonics announced that it has received EN ISO 13485 certification for its German operations. This ISO 13485 certification is an important milestone in the development of the Bruker Daltonics in vitro diagnostics (IVD) business, particularly in the fields of clinical proteomics, clinical ...

Rice scientists unveil 'nanoegg'

Asymmetric particles focus light in unique way

25-Jul-2006 - Contact: Jade BoydResearchers at Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) have unveiled the "nanoegg," the latest addition to their family ultrasmall, light-focusing particles. A cousin of the versatile nanoshell, nanoeggs are asymmetric specks of matter whose striking optical ...

Bruker Daltonics Obtains Russian Medical Device Registration for all Flex(TM)-Series MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometers

27-Apr-2006 - Bruker Daltonics Inc. announced that it has obtained registration of its complete MALDI-TOF product line of microflex(TM), autoflex(TM) TOF or TOF/TOF, and ultraflex(TM) TOF/TOF mass spectrometers, as well as of its ClinProRobot(TM) sample preparation platform, as medical devices from the ...

Agilent Technologies acquires Molecular Imaging and its atomic force microscopy technology

Acquisition strengthens Agilent's nanomeasurements portfolio

01-Dec-2005 - Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that it has acquired privately held Molecular Imaging Corp., a developer and manufacturer of nanotechnology measurement tools. Financial details were not disclosed. Based in Tempe, Ariz., Molecular Imaging is known for its atomic force microscopes (AFMs), the ...