DNA-FISH Probes

Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) is a sensitive and accurate technique that allows the detection of chromosome aberrations. In this method, a single-stranded fluorescent-labeled nucleic acid...

Spirometry Test

The gold standard in lung testing In the same way that blood pressure measurements provide a simple yet effective screening method for cardiovascular disease, spirometry tests can help to unmask t...

Drug Delivery - news, views, blogs

Drug delivery is the method or process of administering a pharmaceutical compound to achieve a therapeutic effect in humans or animals.  Drug delivery technologies are patent protected formulat...

Herpes simplex virus HSV 1 HSV 2 HHV 1 HHV 2

Herpes simplex virus 1 and 2 (HSV-1 and HSV-2), also known as Human herpes virus 1 and 2 (HHV-1 and -2), are two members of the herpes virus family that infect humans. HSV-1 and HSV-2 cause the vira...

Testicular Cancer

Testicular cancer represents only 1 per cent of all cancers in men, but it is the single biggest cause of cancer-related deaths in men aged 15-35 years in the UK. The causes of testicular cancer and...

Lipstick, the Recession and Evolutionary Psychology

In 2008, when many companies reported record declines in sales amidst a global economic recession, L Or al, one of the world s largest cosmetic manufacturers, was somehow immune to the downturn. In fa...

First public data release from BOSS

Now available to the public: spectroscopic data from over 500,000 galaxies up to 7 billion light years away, over 100,000 quasars up to 11.5 billion light years away, and many thousands of other astro...

New spectroscopy method could lead to better optical devices

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] A multi-university research team has used a new spectroscopic method to gain a key insight into how light is emitted from layered nanomaterials and other thin film...

First public data release from biggest spectroscopic sky survey

In what is just the first of three data releases from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), spectra has been published from 535,995 newly observed galaxie...

Troubling levels of toxic metals found in lipstick

A new analysis of the contents of lipstick and lip gloss may cause you to pause before puckering. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health tested 32 different li...

Raman spectroscopic mapping for the analysis of solar radiation induced skin damage

Working with an artificial skin model exposed to simulated solar irradiation, scientists in Ireland used Raman spectroscopic mapping to identify the dermal and stratum corneum layers in samples and di...

Astellas Pharma adopts Advantest’s terahertz spectroscopic imaging system TAS7500

Advantest Corporation today announced that its terahertz spectroscopic imaging system TAS7500, which utilizes Advantest's THz wave technology, has been adopted by Astellas Pharma Inc.

Enzymatic transesterification monitored by an easy‐to‐use Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy method

Transesterification of triglycerides with short chain alcohols is the key reaction in biodiesel production, in addition to other applications in chemical synthesis. However, it is crucial to optimize...

Quantitative Spectroscopic Analysis of Heterogeneous Mixtures: the Correction of Multiplicative Effects Caused by Variations in Physical Properties of Samples.

Spectral measurements of complex heterogeneous types of mixture samples are often affected by significant multiplicative effects resulting from light scattering, due to physical variations (e.g. parti...

Spectroscopic characterization of the chiral structure of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes and the edge structure of isolated graphene nanoribbons.

The chiral structure of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and the edge structure of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) play an important role in determining their electronic and phonon structures. Spect...

Depth-Resolved Blood Oxygen Saturation Assessment Using Spectroscopic Common-Path Fourier Domain Optical Coherence Tomography.

Although spectroscopic optical coherence tomography has been shown to be a promising method for measuring blood oxygen saturation with high spatial resolution and accuracy, there are several technical...

Spectroscopic Ellipsometry analysis of a thin film composite membrane consisting of polysulfone on a porous α-alumina support.

Exposure of a thin polymer film to a fluid can affect properties of the film such as the density and thickness. In particular in membrane technology, these changes can have important implications for...

Potential energy curves, spectroscopic parameters, and spin-orbit coupling: a theoretical study on 24 λ-s and 54 ω States of c2(+) cation.

The potential energy curves (PECs) of 24 Λ-S states and 54 Ω states of the C cation are studied in detail using an ab initio quantum chemical method. All the PEC calculations are made for internucle...