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Scientists harness logic of 'Sudoku' math puzzle to vastly enhance genome-sequencing capability
Jun 24, 2009 |
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A math-based game that has taken the world by storm with its ability to delight and puzzle may now be poised to revolutionize the fast-changing world of genome sequencing and the field of medical genetics, suggests a new ...
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Genetic Material under a Magnifying Glass
Jan 28, 2008 |
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The genetic alphabet contains four letters. Although our cells can readily decipher our genetic molecules, it isn’t so easy for us to read a DNA sequence in the laboratory. Scientists require complex, highly sophisticated ...
DNA 'tricked' to act as nano-building blocks
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Apr 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- McGill researchers have succeeded in finding a new way to manufacture nanotubes, one of the important building blocks of the nanotechnology of the future. Their building material? Biological DNA.
Researchers develop a structural approach to exploring DNA
Mar 12, 2009 |
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A team led by researchers from Boston University and the National Institutes of Health has developed a new method for uncovering functional areas of the human genome by studying DNA's three-dimensional structure ...
Redefining DNA: Darwin from the atom up
Mar 23, 2009 |
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In a dramatic rewrite of the recipe for life, scientists from Florida today described the design of a new type of DNA with 12 chemical letters instead of the usual four. Presented here at the 237th National Meeting of the ...
Scientists make chemical cousin of DNA for use as new nanotechnology building block
Apr 29, 2008 |
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In the rapid and fast-growing world of nanotechnology, researchers are continually on the lookout for new building blocks to push innovation and discovery to scales much smaller than the tiniest speck of dust.
Backtracking on DNA
Jun 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Accuracy is essential for life, so in converting the information stored in DNA into a form in which it can be used, a high level of precision is required. Dr Tanniemola Liverpool from the ...
The gold standard: researchers use nanoparticles to make 3-D DNA nanotubes
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Jan 01, 2009 |
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Arizona State University researchers Hao Yan and Yan Liu imagine and assemble intricate structures on a scale almost unfathomably small. Their medium is the double-helical DNA molecule, a versatile building ...
Autopsy study links prostate cancer to single rogue cell
Apr 17, 2009 |
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that's all it takes to begin a series of events that lead to metastatic cancer. Now, Johns Hopkins experts have tracked how the cancer process began in 33 men with prostate cancer who died of the disease. Culling information ...
Nanotechnology innovation may revolutionize gene detection in a single cell
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Jan 10, 2008 |
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Scientists at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have developed the world’s first gene detection platform made up entirely from self-assembled DNA nanostructures. The results, appearing in the ...
Kangaroos may hold skin cancer cure: study
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Kangaroos may provide the key to a potential treatment to prevent skin cancer, Australian scientists said Monday.
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