A new study explains how a lemon-shaped virus assembles itself and how the virus ejects the DNA it carries into host cells. …read more Source:: Science
Tag: DNA
Building miniature optical antennas using DNA as a guide
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•Researchers have reported a new highly parallel technique to fabricate precise metallic nanostructures with designed plasmonic properties by means of different self-assembled DNA origami shapes. …read more Source:: Science
A mutational timer is built into the chemistry of DNA
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•Scientists have discovered that DNA contains a kind of built-in timer that clocks the frequency with which mutations occur. They show that DNA bases can shape-shift for a thousandth of …read more Source:: Science
First-of-its-kind chemical oscillator offers new level of molecular control
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•Researchers successfully constructed a first-of-its-kind chemical oscillator that uses DNA components. DNA molecules that follow specific instructions could offer more precise molecular control of synthetic chemical systems, a discovery that …read more Source:: Science
Spaghetti-like, DNA ‘noodle origami’ the new shape of things to come for nanotechnology
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•Scientists have invented a major new advance in DNA nanotechnology. Dubbed ‘single-stranded origami,’ their new strategy uses one long, thin noodle-like strand of DNA, or its chemical cousin RNA, that …read more Source:: Science
Sorting molecules with DNA robots
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•Scientists have programmed a ‘robot’ made of DNA to pick up and sort molecules into predetermined locations. …read more Source:: Science
DNA from Viking cod bones suggests 1,000-year history of European fish trade
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•New research using DNA from the fish bone remains of Viking-era meals reveals that north Norwegians have been transporting — and possibly trading — Arctic cod into mainland Europe for …read more Source:: Science
Unknown virus discovered in ‘throwaway’ DNA
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•A chance discovery has opened up a new method of finding unknown viruses. Researchers have revealed that Next-Generation Sequencing and its associated online DNA databases could be used in the …read more Source:: Science
Longstanding biological mystery of DNA organization now solved
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•Stretched out, the DNA from all the cells in our body would reach Pluto. So how does each tiny cell pack a two-meter length of DNA into its nucleus, which …read more Source:: Science
Scientists replay movie encoded in DNA
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•For the first time, a primitive movie has been encoded in — and then played back from — DNA in living cells. Scientists say it’s a major step toward a …read more Source:: Science