Anything but gold - The golden constant revisited

Make it better but don't change anything

With massive amounts of data being generated in electronic format, there is a need in basic science laboratories to adopt new methods for tracking and analyzing data. An electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) is not just a replacement for a paper lab notebook, it is a new method of storing and organizing data while maintaining the data entry flexibility and legal recording functions of paper note...

Transmembrane signaling is anything but rigid.

Kidney cell-specific knockdown: anything but simple.

USING GENE KNOCKOUT STRATEGIES to help define the physiological and/or pathophysiological role(s) of factors produced by specific renal cell types presents substantial challenges. Renal cell-specific gene targeting, involving a Cre recombinase (Cre)-expressing transgene (either constitutively expressed or inducible) and a loxP-flanked (floxed) target allele, has been achieved in vivo in mouse p...

AEZ: Anything-But EaZy in Hardware

We provide the first hardware implementation of AEZ, a third-round candidate to the CAESAR competition for authenticated encryption. Complex, optimized for software, and impossible to implement in a single pass, AEZ poses significant obstacles for any hardware realization. Still, we find that a hardware implementation of AEZ is quite feasible. On Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs, our single-core design ha...

Structural transition of gold nanoclusters: from the golden cage to the golden pyramid.

How nanoclusters transform from one structural type to another as a function of size is a critical issue in cluster science. Here we report a study of the structural transition from the golden cage Au(16)(-) to the pyramidal Au(20)(-). We obtained distinct experimental evidence that the cage-to-pyramid crossover occurs at Au(18)(-), for which the cage and pyramidal isomers are nearly degenerate...