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Carbon nanotubes show promise for high-speed genetic sequencing

Carbon nanotubes show promise for high-speed genetic sequencing

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

(PhysOrg.com) -- Faster sequencing of DNA holds enormous potential for biology and medicine, particularly for personalized diagnosis and customized treatment based on each individual's genomic makeup. At present ...


Carbon nanotubes show promise for high-speed genetic sequencing

Carbon nanotubes show promise for high-speed genetic sequencing (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 31, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Faster sequencing of DNA holds enormous potential for biology and medicine, particularly for personalized diagnosis and customized treatment based on each individual's genomic makeup. At present however, ...


Scientists identify key factor that controls HIV latency

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes of Virology and Immunology (GIVI) have found another clue that may lead to eradication of HIV from infected patients who have been on antiretroviral therapy. A real cure for HIV has ...


DNA template could explain evolutionary shifts

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jun 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Rearrangements of all sizes in genomes, genes and exons can result from a glitch in DNA copying that occurs when the process stalls at a critical point and then shifts to a different genetic template, duplicating and even ...


Covering the bases: Quantum effect may hold promise for low-cost DNA sequencing, sensor applications

Covering the bases: Quantum effect may hold promise for low-cost DNA sequencing, sensor applications

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

A ghostly property of matter, called quantum tunneling, may aid the quest for accurate, low-cost genomic sequencing, according to a new paper in Nature Nanotechnology Letters by Stuart Lindsay and his collab ...