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Nanomolecular Gravitational Interactions Causing Incrased Probability of Birth Defects in Humans During Period from Conception to Early Fetus Formation

Vezzoli G.C., The Franklin Institute of Technology, US

It is found that small decreases in gravity that are caused by planet syzygy, full moon presence, and cosmogonic events of deep space can cause a sufficient change in gravitational interactions to affect the nucleons [...]

11-cis-Retinal Protonated Schiff Base: The effect of environment and solvent on the chromophore of rhodopsin

Entel P., Sugihara M., Buß V., Elstner M., Frauenheim Th., Gerhard-Mercator-Universität, DE

Recently the structure of rhodopsin was determined from the X-ray diffraction data extending to the resolution of 2.8 A. We have studied the effects of amino acids and of water using A density functional based [...]

Modeling of the Deformation of Living Cells Induced by Atomic Force Microscopy

Rudd R.E., McElfresh M., Baesu E., Balhorn R., Alleny M., Belak J., Lawrence Livermore National Lab., US

We describe finite element modeling of the deformation of living cells by atomic force microscopy (AFM). Cells are soft systems, susceptible to large deformations in the course of an AFM measurement. Often the local properties, [...]

Molecular, Surface and Continuum Issues in the Capture of Bacteria Particles by Solid Aerosols

Kohlberg I., Boezer G., Greer W., Good R., Institute for Defense Analyses, US

In this study, we develop the design parameters required to remove airborne biological particles by impact with scavenging aerosols. The conditions for capturing air-borne biological particles for a head-on collision are deter-mined as a function [...]

Structure-function study of Porins

Chen D.P., Tang J., Eisenberg R.S., Rush Medical College, US

Single channel current-voltage (IV) relations were measured from proteins that form channels across the outer membranes of Gram-negative bacteria-porins and their mutants in solutions of KCl. The wild-type porins and some of their specific mutants [...]

Combining Computational Chemistry and Computational Electronics to Understand Protein Ion Channels

van der Straaten T., Varma S., Chiu S-W, Tang J., Aluru N.R., Eisenberg R.S., Ravaioli U., Jakobsson E., University of Illinois, US

Nanoscale computational engineering can be achieved by combining atomic and molecular scale methods of computational chemistry with coarser-grained continuum theories used in computational electronics. Each computational discipline is quite different; yet both must give the [...]

Month: April 2002

Nanomolecular Gravitational Interactions Causing Incrased Probability of Birth Defects in Humans During Period from Conception to Early Fetus Formation

11-cis-Retinal Protonated Schiff Base: The effect of environment and solvent on the chromophore of rhodopsin

Modeling of the Deformation of Living Cells Induced by Atomic Force Microscopy

Molecular, Surface and Continuum Issues in the Capture of Bacteria Particles by Solid Aerosols

Structure-function study of Porins

Combining Computational Chemistry and Computational Electronics to Understand Protein Ion Channels

Structure and Environment Influence in DNA Conduction

Towards a Reliable Model of Ion Channels: Three-dimensional simulation of ionic solutions

Docking and Drug Discovery

Biotechnology and Drug Discovery: Two Years Into the Third Millennium