Calculation of the tunneling magnetoresistance ~TMR! of an epitaxial Fe/MgO/Fe~001! junction is reported. The conductances of the junction in its ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic configurations are determined without any approximations from the real-space Kubo formula using tight-binding bands fitted to an ab initio band structure of iron and MgO. The calculated optimistic TMR ratio is in ex...

Gap junction assembly in the preimplantation mouse embryo is a temporally regulated event, beginning a few hours after the third cleavage during the morphogenetic event known as compaction. Recently, we demonstrated that both mRNA and protein corresponding to connexin43, a gap junction protein, accumulate through preimplantation development beginning at least as early as the 4-cell stage. Using...

During early retinal development, progenitor cells must divide repeatedly to expand the progenitor pool. During G(1) and G(2) of the cell cycle, progenitor cell nuclei migrate back-and-forth across the proliferative zone in a process termed interkinetic nuclear movement. Because division can only occur at the ventricular surface, factors that affect the speed of nuclear movement could modulate ...

We investigate the Josephson effect in SFXSF junctions, where SF is a superconducting material with a ferromagnetic exchange field, and X is a weak link. The critical current Ic increases with the (antiparallel) exchange fields, if the distribution of transmission eigenvalues of the X layer has its maximum weight at small values. This exchange-field enhancement of the supercurrent does not exis...

introduction: in recent dentin adhesive systems etching of enamel/dentin are achieved simultaneously. the objective was to evaluate the microleakage of composite restorations using single bond2 (5th generation), clearfil s3 bond and g bond (7th generation). methods: class v cavities were prepared on  45 extracted intact premolars with gingival margins at the cementoenamel junction and they were...

We report the first concurrent determination of conductance (G) and thermopower (S) of single-molecule junctions via direct measurement of electrical and thermoelectric currents using a scanning tunneling microscope-based break-junction technique. We explore several amine-Au and pyridine-Au linked molecules that are predicted to conduct through either the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOM...

Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein (FMRP) is a regulatory RNA binding protein that plays a central role in the development of several human disorders including Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) and autism. FMRP uses an arginine-glycine-rich (RGG) motif for specific interactions with guanine (G)-quadruplexes, mRNA elements implicated in the disease-associated regulation of specific mRNAs. Here we repor...

Graphene/silicon (G/Si) heterojunction based devices have been demonstrated as high responsivity photodetectors that are potentially compatible with semiconductor technology. Such G/Si Schottky junction diodes are typically in parallel with gated G/silicon dioxide (SiO2)/Si areas, where the graphene is contacted. Here, we utilize scanning photocurrent measurements to investigate the spatial dis...