Molecular Attraction X

Channel-facilitated molecular transport across membranes: attraction, repulsion, and asymmetry.

Transport of molecules across membrane channels is investigated theoretically using exactly solvable discrete stochastic site-binding models. It is shown that the interaction potential between molecules and the channel has a strong effect on translocation dynamics. The presence of attractive binding sites in the pore accelerates the particle current for small concentrations outside the membrane...

Some Molecular Collision Integrals for Point Attraction and Repulsion Potentials.

X. Molecular Beams*

Three kinds of research are pursued in the molecular beam laboratory: 1. High-precision studies of atomic and molecular hyperfine structure, an example being the recent discovery and measurement of an octopole interaction in the bromine atom. 2. The development of atomic frequency standards by using atomic and molecularbeam techniques. The carbon monoxide electric resonance studies and the ammo...

Fatal attraction

L ook carefully at a solitary animal and you will find that it is not so alone after all. Animals play host to entire ecosystems that teem with diverse life. Some of the microbes that live on (or in) animals are beneficial to their host. However, these microbes' more sinister brethren, parasites and pathogens, cause damage and disease. Between these two extremes is a class of organisms that, it...

Fetal Attraction

Parents and health care practitioners alike cringe at the mere thought of exposing children to agents associated with cancer. For this reason, the medical world has traditionally shied away from administering prenatal X rays, long known to increase the risk of childhood leukemia. But little research has examined the effects of diagnostic X rays after birth, which are commonly prescribed by doct...