Gout in postmenopausal women can ... We thank Dr K Ea for providing photos of monosodium urate crystals detected by compensated polarized-light microscopy. P Richette is a Rheumatologist and ...

Leucophores, which form uric acid crystals ... cryogenic electron microscopy (cryoEM) and micro-Raman spectroscopy revealed that the leucosome structures consist of one-dimensional uric acid ...

Physicists at ETH Zurich have developed a lens that can transform infrared light into visible light by halving the wavelength ...

As fast as modern electronics have become, they could be much faster if their operations were based on light, rather than ...

A swollen toe is a key sign of gout, a type of arthritis. But your ankle is at risk too. Here's what gout symptoms in an ...

Urine microscopy ... crystals can be seen in urinary sediment. They can be classified as common, pathologic and drug-associated. The finding of calcium oxalate, calcium phosphate or uric acid ...

Polarized light passing through sugar water reveals beautiful colors. White light is made up of all the colors in the rainbow. When polarized white light passes through a sugar solution, each color’s ...

Polarizing sunglasses cut road glare better in some positions than in others. When light reflects from water, asphalt, or other nonmetallic surfaces, it becomes polarized—that is, the reflected light ...

Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4935, and Department of Structural Biology, Abbott Laboratories, 100 Abbott ...