Not exact matches
With ALMA, an international team lead by Yoko Oya, a graduate student of Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, and Nami Sakai, an associate chief scientist of RIKEN, studied the distribution of various organic
molecules around a Solar - type protostar IRAS 16293 - 2422A
at a
high spatial
resolution.
Because «blinking» is precisely tunable,
molecules that are only nanometers apart from each other can be distinguished —
at the
higher resolution end of super-
resolution.
At the beginning of the study, the team struggled to produce a crystal form — needed to obtain data to recreate the
high -
resolution structure — of the receptor bound with AM6538, a stabilizing a
molecule that blocks the receptor's action.
The Illinois scientists had the technological advantage of super
high - speed (
at the pico - second, 1 trillionth of a second) and super
high -
resolution (
at the nano - meter, 1 billionth of a meter) «video cameras» making use of neutrons to take movies of the
molecules.
To gain access to the gene - containing portion of the barley genome
at high resolution, Close and his team identified and sequenced 15,622 BACs or bacterial artificial chromosomes — small fragments of the barley DNA linked to other DNA to constitute a circular
molecule that can replicate and be propagated inside an E. coli bacterial cell, enabling researchers to produce copies of each BAC for DNA sequencing one small piece of the barley genome
at a time.
Lattice light - sheet microscopy: Imaging
molecules to embryos
at high spatiotemporal
resolution
The establishment of a facility for
high -
resolution cryo - electron microscopy will in future give scientists
at Jülich the opportunity to investigate biological
molecules by this relatively new procedure.
At millimetre wavelengths emission from the CO
molecule allows astronomers to obtain
high -
resolution maps of the gas emission from the strong stellar wind generated by the AGB stars.
The list of accomplishments is far too large to fit within one article, but they include: the first search for extraterrestrial intelligence; creation of the Drake equation; discovery of flat galactic rotation curves; first pulsar discovered in a supernova remnant; first organic polyatomic
molecule detected in interstellar space; black hole detected
at the center of the Milky Way; determination of the Tully - Fisher relationship; detection of the first interstellar anion; measurement of the most massive neutron star known; first
high angular
resolution image of the Sunyaev - Zel» Dovich Effect; discovery of only known millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system; discovery of pebble - sized proto - planets in Orion, and the first detection of a chiral
molecule in space.
Beyond our own galaxy, band 3 can be used to image
molecules in nearby galaxies
at high resolution, to probe the cold interstellar medium of galaxies, and to peer into dust - obscured galaxies to observe star formation.