Image of the interface of cell (blue) and nanopillar shows cell membranes wrapped around the pillar.
A Stanford research team uses glowing nanopillars to give biologists, neurologists and other researchers a deeper, more precise look into living cells. BY ANDREW MYERS As words go, evanescent doesn't see enough use. It is an artful term whose beauty belies its true meaning: fleeting or dying out quickly. James Dean was evanescent. The last rays of a sunset are evanescent. All that evanesces, however, is not lost, as a team of Stanford researchers demonstrated in a recent article in The Proceedings of the National Academies of Science . In fact, in the right hands, evanescence can have a lasting effect.
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