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November 5, 2009
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Good Morning,
A study led by U.S. scientists has found a possible ingre-
dient to a new bio-based glue; spider webs. Read all about
this study in the first article.
Until Tomorrow,
Erin
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Spider glue may spin biobased adhesives
LARAMIE, Wyo. - U.S. scientists have analyzed the sticky
substance in spider webs and say their findings might lead
to development of a new generation of bio-based adhesives.
The University of Wyoming researchers say their findings are
an advance toward bio-based "green" adhesives and glues that
could replace existing petroleum-based products for a range
of uses. Omer Choresh and colleagues note much research has
been done on spider web silk, but scientists know compara-
tively little about the glue that coats the silk threads and
is among the world's strongest biological glues. Past studies
revealed that spiders make web glue from glycoproteins, or
proteins with bits of sugar attached. The new study identi-
fied two new glycoproteins in the glue and showed that dom-
ains of those proteins were produced from opposite strands
of the same DNA. "Once the cloned genes are over expressed
in systems such as insect or bacterial cell cultures, large-
scale production of the glycoprotein can be used to develop
a new bio-based glue for a variety of purposes," the resear-
chers said. A report on the study appears in the journal
Biomacromolecules.
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Scientists create first sound hyperlens
BERKELEY, Calif. - U.S. government scientists say they have
developed the world's first acoustic hyperlens for ultrasound
and underwater sonar devices. Researchers at the U.S. Depart-
ment of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory said
their acoustic hyperlens provides an eightfold boost in the
magnification power of sound-based imaging technologies. The
device also resolves details smaller than one-sixth the
length of the waves themselves, bringing into view much
smaller objects and features. "We have successfully carried
out an experimental demonstration of an acoustic hyperlens
that magnifies sub-wavelength objects by gradually converting
evanescent waves into propagating waves," said Xiang Zhang,
who led the study. "Our acoustic hyperlens relies on
straightforward cutoff-free propagation and achieves deep
sub-wavelength resolution with low loss over a broad frequ-
ency bandwidth." The study that included Jensen Li, Lee Fok,
Xiaobo Yin and Guy Bartal appears in the journal Nature
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Galaxy cluster smashes distance record
MILAN, Italy - Astronomers say data from the U.S. space
agency's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes
have identified the most distant galaxy cluster yet found.
The galaxy cluster -- known as JKCS041 -- is located about
10.2 billion light years from Earth and beats the previous
record holder by about a billion light years. Astronomers
say galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound
objects in the universe and finding such a large structure
at such a very early epoch can reveal important information
about how the universe evolved. "This object is close to the
distance limit expected for a galaxy cluster," said Stefano
Andreon of the National Institute for Astrophysics in Milan,
Italy, who led the study. "We don't think gravity can work
fast enough to make galaxy clusters much earlier." Study
co-author Ben Maughan of Britain's University of Bristol
added: "This discovery is exciting because it is like finding
a Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil that is much older than any other
known, One fossil might just fit in with our understanding of
dinosaurs, but if you found many more, you would have to
start rethinking how dinosaurs evolved. The same is true for
galaxy clusters and our understanding of cosmology." The
research is to appear in an upcoming issue of the journal
Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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