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Technology Research News September 24, 2003 |
Glow shows individual DNA Researchers have made a type of artificial DNA of that glows when it combines with a specific sequence of natural DNA. In principle, the method could be used to develop DNA chips that directly sense individual DNA molecules. |
Science News September 21, 2002 Ivars Peterson |
DNA's Error-Detecting Code Chemist Donall A. Mac Donaill of Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, has now shown that patterns inherent in the chemical makeup of DNA correspond to a digital error-detecting code. |
Technology Research News August 22, 2005 |
DNA Technologies The versatile DNA molecule has proven to be a powerful technological building block. Researchers have developed ways of combining DNA molecules that allow them to carry out computations in test tubes and create two-dimensional patterns and three-dimensional structures at the nanoscale. |
Technology Research News April 23, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
DNA motor keeps cranking Researchers have been making DNA perform all sorts of shape-changing tricks in recent years, but the need to add pieces of DNA at every step has made it a bit of a stretch to call these molecules motors. A method that keeps the process humming changes things. |
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 Kimberly Patch |
DNA Machine Links Molecules Researchers have fashioned a nanomechanical device from DNA that can be programmed to align a series of molecules and fuse them together. The technique could potentially be used to put together designer polymers, encrypt information, and carry out computations. |
Technology Research News August 27, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
DNA plays tic-tac-toe In addition to its natural role as the blueprint of life, DNA has been tapped to compute and to form nanoscale machines. A new type of DNA logic is aimed at marrying these artificial functions to make control circuits for nano machines. The first result is an unbeatable tic-tac-toe player. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2012 Emily Waltz |
Reading and Writing a Book With DNA Researchers are storing digital information in the form of DNA, but is it practical? Which will get us control of massively large data: electronic or molecular memory? |
Chemistry World January 2012 |
DNA motors on With the relentless rise of DNA nanotechnology's popularity, Emma Davies explores the role chemistry has played in its success |
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
DNA in nanotubes sorts molecules Researchers have made a synthetic membrane that recognizes certain biochemical molecules and allows them to pass through. The method could be used to make biological sensors like those needed for genetics research, and to sort biological molecules, |
Chemistry World August 23, 2011 Josh Howgego |
Expanded genetic alphabet could spell out new genes Chemists have created an artificial genetic code capable of evolving to produce new genes. The code consists of six bases, rather than the standard four, and could form the basis of randomly mutating synthetic life. |
Technology Research News December 29, 2004 |
DNA Makes and Breaks Particle Clumps Nanotechnology is all about manipulating materials on the molecular scale. Many teams of researchers are using artificial strands of DNA to do so. |
Chemistry World April 3, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
DNA Read in a Trice The prospect of treatments that are tailored to fit an individual's genetic makeup is a step closer thanks to technology unveiled by US scientists. |
Technology Research News March 24, 2004 |
DNA has nano building in hand Researchers from Ludwig Maximilians University in Germany have built a simple molecular machine from DNA that can bind to and release single molecules of a specific type of protein. |
Chemistry World September 23, 2009 Simon Hadlington |
Direct route to RNA sequences Scientists in the US appear to have cracked a major problem in molecular biology: how to sequence single molecules of RNA directly. |
Technology Research News May 5, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
DNA Bot Targets Cancer Researchers from Israel have constructed a molecular-size computer that is programmed to find signs of cancer cells, and when they are present, dispense DNA molecules designed to eradicate those cells. |
Chemistry World February 22, 2009 Phillip Broadwith |
Reading DNA Base by Base A technique to electrically detect individual DNA bases cut from a single strand of DNA has been developed by researchers in the UK. |
Chemistry World May 7, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Bacterium survives unnatural DNA transplant The first organism that can grow and replicate with an unnatural base pair in its DNA -- giving the cell six nucleotides instead of the usual four -- has been created by scientists in the US. |
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Smalley & Patch |
DNA Machines Take a Walk Researchers working to form nanoscale machines and materials are increasingly tapping into nature's building blocks. |
Chemistry World March 4, 2015 Thadchajini Retneswaran |
Computational chemists unpick adenine -- thymine bias A chemical model has been created to investigate the evolution of guanine -- cytosine coding regions and found that certain spontaneous mutations are more likely to arise at specific regions of DNA. |
CIO July 1, 2002 Ben Worthen |
Cellular Processing The latest computer to come out of the University of Southern California isn't newsworthy for its small size or computational power. It's notable because it is made from DNA, the microscopic acids that reside in every cell and are responsible for all life. |
Chemistry World April 18, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
First DNA rotaxane Rotaxanes are dumbbell-shaped molecules encircled by a molecular hoop that can move unhindered along the axle, trapped by the bulky stoppers at either end. These could be useful components in molecular machines. |
Technology Research News June 29, 2005 |
Self-assembly: the natural way to make things In biology, there are a few different ways DNA molecules can be replicated and combined. |
Chemistry World January 31, 2008 Michael Gross |
A DNA Crane for Molecular Building Sites Researchers in Germany have developed a DNA-based crane that can pick up molecules from a depot and deposit them precisely at a target site. |
Chemistry World March 8, 2010 Lewis Brindley |
Molecular midwives helped birth of DNA 'Molecular midwives' - are compounds that played a crucial role in combining small nucleotide fragments into the first genetic polymeric material. |
Technology Research News July 2, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
DNA makes nano barcode Sheets of DNA that form a barcode pattern could make reading answers generated from DNA computing a lot easier. The method may also make it possible to construct electronics components molecule-by-molecule. |
Chemistry World February 27, 2006 Michael Gross |
A DNA Switch for RNA Folding Researchers have equipped a large RNA domain with a DNA switch, which they say can fold or unfold the RNA molecule at will. |
Technology Research News December 3, 2003 |
Molecule does two-step Duke University researchers have found a way to make a molecule react only when it has been hit by two photons of ultraviolet light, making the molecule a controllable switch. The molecule could eventually be used in optical storage devices and in biochips. |
Technology Research News December 3, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
DNA assembles nanotube transistor Scientists have caused a transistor to self-assemble from a test tube concoction of DNA, proteins, antibodies, carbon nanotubes and minuscule specks of silver and gold. The feat shows that it is possible to assemble the smallest of machines and electronic devices by harnessing DNA's properties. |
Technology Research News February 11, 2004 |
Scientists brew tree-shaped DNA Researchers from Cornell University have synthesized a new type of DNA that can be used as a nanotechnology building block. |
Technology Research News February 25, 2004 |
Nanowires spot DNA mutation Nanowire sensors could eventually be built into labs-on-a-chip that could be used for medical diagnostics and pathogen detection in the field, and for drug discovery. |
Chemistry World November 13, 2015 Cathy Sorbara |
Hitching a ride on DNA In the congested intracellular environment, scientists in the Netherlands and the US have found a way for molecules to maneuver through the crowds and arrive at their destination faster. |
Technology Research News December 15, 2004 |
DNA Makes Nanotube Transistors Researchers have harnessed the self-assembly abilities of DNA to construct field-effect transistors from carbon nanotubes. |
Technology Research News August 25, 2004 |
DNA Copier Uses Little Power Today's laboratory DNA detectors require a lot of energy. Researchers have devised a method that copies the way DNA is replicated biologically in order to avoid the energy-intensive heating and cooling process. |
Chemistry World May 16, 2007 Tom Westgate |
DNA Photography It is a technology that is fast disappearing in the digital age. But black and white photography is more than an archaic art-form to a team of German chemists who have used it as the basis for a simple method of detecting labeled DNA molecules at attomole levels. |
Reactive Reports Issue 54 David Bradley |
Hula-Hoop DNA Amplification Periodic nanostructures made of gold nanoparticles and long DNA strands with repeated sequences have been prepared by using a technique known as "rolling circle amplification" or the "hula-hoop" technique. |
Chemistry World November 29, 2010 James Mitchell Crow |
DNA readers ratchet closer Rapid, cheap DNA sequencing has just edged a step closer, thanks to a new technique to control the motion of single DNA strands as they pass through a protein nanopore 'reader'. |
Chemistry World October 7, 2011 Sarah Farley |
Detecting diseases with DNA sensors DNA sensors detect pathogenic and genetic diseases by binding to target DNA strands that are related to the disease and giving a signal that shows how much of the DNA is present. |
Technology Research News January 29, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Data stored in live cells Every type of storage media -- from stone to paper to magnetic disks -- is subject to destruction. Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are tapping forces of nature to store information more permanently. |
Chemistry World January 24, 2013 Laura Howes |
Shall I compare thee to a strand of DNA? For billions of years DNA has been life's data storage medium. Now, scientists have used DNA to code and store their media and information, from all of Shakespeare's sonnets to an audio recording of Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream' speech. |
Chemistry World April 25, 2006 Jon Evans |
DNA Sequencing Reaches the Space Age The smallest ever DNA sequencer, only 10cm in diameter, comprises a complex network of microscopic pumps, valves, heaters and electrophoresis channels, many of which were initially developed for use in a device to detect life on Mars. |
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2011 |
DNA Curtains How proteins behave in such a crash test gives scientists data about their structural integrity, how they attach to DNA, and how they behave in a cell. |
Chemistry World October 13, 2015 Simon Hadlington |
DNA movement through motor proteins measured Researchers have adapted a method for DNA sequencing to measure directly and with exquisite sensitivity the movement of a single molecule of DNA as it is drawn through specialized motor proteins. |
Chemistry World November 2006 Bea Perks |
Call That Chemistry? This year's Nobel prize in chemistry was a tour de force for crystallography, underscoring the vital role chemistry plays across the sciences. |
Chemistry World March 1, 2011 Catherine Bacon |
Unravelling chromosomes Danish scientists have used a micro device to isolate centimetre-long portions of human DNA to help study the genetic make-up of diseased cells. |
Chemistry World June 18, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Chemical speed-dating even faster Researchers in the US have adapted a DNA amplification technique to develop a simpler way to rapidly screen chemical reactions. |
Chemistry World January 20, 2011 James Urquhart |
SNPs on display DNA origami and atomic force microscopy have been combined to reliably detect and image single nucleotide polymorphisms, the most common form of genetic variation in the human genome. |
Chemistry World July 4, 2008 Emma Davies |
Creating a Second Genetic Code Japanese researchers have made artificial DNA that acts like the real thing, even forming right-handed duplexes with complementary artificial strands. |
Chemistry World July 18, 2014 Melissae Fellet |
Molecular computer calculates Ebola diagnosis A molecular computer could one day simplify analysis of biomedical assays like those used to diagnose Ebola, researchers say. |
Technology Research News January 12, 2005 Kimberly Patch |
DNA Scheme Builds Computers Researchers have devised a pair of computer architectures that would be built from self-assembling DNA. |
IEEE Spectrum July 2010 Prachi Patel |
Computing the Neanderthal Genome New software helped decode the DNA of our stone-age cousins |