A Miniature Rainbow

Micropropagation of miniature rose cultivars

A miniature optical breathing sensor

We demonstrate a novel miniature optical breathing sensor based on an Agarose infiltrated photonic crystal fiber interferometer. The sensor detects the variation in relative humidity that occurs between inhaled and exhaled breath. The sensor interrogation system can determine the breathing pattern in real time and can also predict the breathing rate and the breathing status during respiration. ...

Engineering a monomeric miniature protein.

The stability, size, and structure of avian pancreatic polypeptide (aPP) makes it a useful starting point for the design of miniature proteins that bind with high affinity and specificity to DNA1-4 and proteins5-14 and inhibit their interactions, both with high affinity and specificity, both in vitro1-6,8,9,11-14 and in mammalian cells and extracts.7,10 The utility of these molecules in a cellu...

Synthesis of a Miniature Lipoarabinomannan

An analog of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lipoarabinomannan (LAM) has been synthesized containing the characteristic structures of all of its three major components; that is, a mannosylated phosphatidylinositol moiety, an oligomannan, and an oligoarabinan. A highly convergent strategy was developed that is applicable to the synthesis of other LAM analogs. The synthetic miniature LAM should be use...

A Rainbow Inverse Problem

We consider the radiative transfer equation (RTE) with reflection in a three-dimensional domain, infinite in two dimensions, and prove an existence result. Then, we study the inverse problem of retrieving the optical parameters from boundary measurements, with help of existing results by Choulli and Stefanov. This theoretical analysis is the framework of an attempt to model the color of the ski...