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Stable Thanks to Dynamics - DNA Component Resists UV Radiation

Stable Thanks to Dynamics - DNA Component Resists UV Radiation

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Complex computer simulations have, for the first time, allowed scientists to examine in detail the processes that help to ensure the stability of DNA when exposed to UV light. The findings, ...





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Can genetic information be controlled by light?

Chemistry /

created Oct 10, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Researchers at Kiel University have succeeded in showing that DNA strands differ in their light sensitivity depending on their base sequences. Their results are reported by Nina Schwalb and colleagues in the current issue ...


Modified proteins add colour to research

Modified proteins add colour to research

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created Jul 25, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The subtleties between shades of celery or wasabi green sounds like a debate for an interior designer, but University of Alberta PhD student Huiwang Ai has been exploring those differences ...


Quantum dot-based assays to offer new ways to understand cell biology

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created Jul 07, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Evident Technologies and Upstate announced that they have signed an agreement to produce quantum dot-based products for the life science industry under an agreement signed today. Terms and conditions of the agreement have ...


Researchers Develop New Procedure to Synthesize Quantum Dots

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created Apr 04, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) researchers in the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology have developed a new procedure for the synthesis of “quantum dots,” as published March 31, 2006 on the ...


FSU researchers make observing cell functions easier

FSU researchers make observing cell functions easier

Physics / General Physics

created May 08, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Now that the genome (DNA) of humans and many other organisms have been sequenced, biologists are turning their attention to discovering how the many thousands of structural and control genes -- the “worker ...


New paper offers insights into 'blinking' phenomena

New paper offers insights into 'blinking' phenomena

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 01, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (26) | comments 0

A new paper by a team of researchers led by University of Notre Dame physicist Bolizsár Jankó provides an overview of research into one of the few remaining unsolved problems of quantum mechanics.


New Study Sheds Light On 'Dark States' In DNA

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created Jan 08, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Chemists at Ohio State University have probed an unusual high-energy state produced in single nucleotides -- the building blocks of DNA and RNA -- when they absorb ultraviolet (UV) light.


Thin films of silicon nanoparticles roll into flexible nanotubes

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created Jun 14, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

By depositing nanoparticles onto a charged surface, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have crafted nanotubes from silicon that are flexible and nearly as soft as rubber. "Resembling miniature s ...


'Smart' nanoprobes light up disease

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created Aug 01, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Quantum dots programmed to glow in presence of enzyme activity Researchers from Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN) have developed a "smart" beacon hundreds of times smaller than ...


Scientists develop novel multi-color light-emitting diodes

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created May 18, 2005 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of University of California scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed the first completely inorganic, multi-color light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on colloidal quantum dots encapsulated in a gallium ...



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