News tagged with dna nanostructure

DNA as invisible ink can reversibly hide patterns

(PhysOrg.com) -- While most people know of DNA as the building blocks of life, these large molecules also have potential applications in areas such as biosensing, nanoparticle assembly, and building supramolecular ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

With chemical modification, stable RNA nanoparticles go 3-D

(PhysOrg.com) -- For years, RNA has seemed an elusive tool in nanotechnology research -- easily manipulated into a variety of structures, yet susceptible to quick destruction when confronted with a commonly ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

DNA could be backbone of next generation logic chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a single day, a solitary grad student at a lab bench can produce more simple logic circuits than the world's entire output of silicon chips in a month.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 11, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (33) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Scientists Build Nanostructures out of Single DNA Strands

(PhysOrg.com) -- With its unique double-helical structure, DNA has the ability to be used as a programmable building material to construct designer nanoscale architectures. Complex DNA architectures could ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5 feature

Scientists Use DNA Scaffolding To Build Tiny Circuit Boards

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today, scientists at IBM Research and the California Institute of Technology announced a scientific advancement that could be a major breakthrough in enabling the semiconductor industry to ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 4

DNA molecules can detect pathogens, deliver drugs

(PhysOrg.com) -- First, Cornell researchers created DNA "bar codes" -- strands of the genetic material that quickly identify the presence of different molecules by fluorescing. Now, they have created new DNA ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

The gold standard: researchers use nanoparticles to make 3-D DNA nanotubes

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 ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0