«He identified a type
of molecular sensor, which programmed T cells isolated from human blood with customized instructions for thwarting attack.
A model is showing the charge transfer (e --RRB- mechanism of Rhodamine B molecules (top) interacting with N - doped graphene (bottom sheet) when excited with different laser lines, which leads to ultrasensitive
molecular sensor with N doped graphene.
They are molecules designed and produced at Florida State University as new functional materials that have a wide range of applications
from molecular sensors to light - controlling devices.
I have higher hopes for the Metabolomx test, which has 130
different molecular sensors printed on a postage - stamp - size piece of plastic.
Researchers also mused about creating a «placenta on a chip» that would mimic the tissue in the lab or
developing molecular sensors that could monitor the placenta throughout pregnancy.
In parallel, researchers will need to
devise molecular sensors that that can reliably register changes in electrical or chemical activity, as well as drive such changes, with single - neuron precision and in real time.
But now, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have devised a
new molecular sensor that can detect MS at its earliest stages — even before the onset of physical signs.
Concretely, based on basic research on nanoscale materials, such as atomic and molecular transport and chemical reaction processes, polarization and excitation of charge and spin and superconducting phenomena, we are conducting research on atomic switches, artificial synapses, molecular devices, new quantum bits, neural network - type network circuits, next - generation devices, high sensitivity
integrated molecular sensors and other new applied technologies.
«It's surprising to see the
same molecular sensor doing two different things, like a combination smoke / carbon monoxide alarm,» says Dr. Blackwell, senior author on a paper published today in the Molecular Cell journal and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School.
Neurobiologists have sniffed out how the nose uses relatively few kinds
of molecular sensors to discriminate among thousands of odors.
The researchers therefore created molecules that themselves act as measuring devices; each of
the molecular sensors made by the team works as a nano - force metre.
The «molecular» balance does not compare weights but rather two electric fields that act on the mobile electron of
the molecular sensor: the first is the field of a nanostructure being measured, and the second is a field surrounding the tip of the microscope, which carries a voltage.
That is where it blocked a protein known as VEGF from connecting with
a molecular sensor, named Nrp1, which is found on the surface of the neurons.
The scientists created
a molecular sensor for BDNF and showed that mimicking the signal associated with learning caused the release of BDNF from the receiving end of the synapse.
The key technologies that enabled this finding included
a molecular sensor that the group developed to track activity of TrkB, and microscopes that allowed them to visualize a single spine in the area of living mouse brain tissue, all in real time.
In principle, the researchers could replace
the molecular sensor to measure biomarkers other than calcium.