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Researchers use nanoscale transistors to study single-molecule interactions

An interdisciplinary team from Columbia University that includes electrical engineers from Columbia's Engineering School, together with researchers from the University's departments of Physics and Chemistry, has figured ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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IBM Research Aims to Build Nanoscale DNA Sequencer (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to build a nanoscale DNA sequencer, IBM scientists are drilling nano-sized holes in computer-like chips and passing DNA strands through them in order to read the information contained ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Metal sheets with DNA framework may enable nanocircuits

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using DNA not as a genetic material but as a structural support, Cornell researchers have created thin sheets of gold nanoparticles held together by strands of DNA. The work could prove useful ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Scientists control complex nucleation processes using DNA origami seeds

The construction of complex man-made objects--a car, for example, or even a pizza--almost invariably entails what are known as "top-down" processes, in which the structure and order of the thing being built ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Ultrasensitive biosensor promising for medical diagnostics

(Phys.org) -- Researchers have created an ultrasensitive biosensor that could open up new opportunities for early detection of cancer and "personalized medicine" tailored to the specific biochemistry of individual ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Graphene and DNA: 'Wonder material' may hold key to fast, inexpensive genetic sequencing

(PhysOrg.com) -- Look at the tip of that old pencil in your desk drawer, and what you'll see are layers of graphite that are thousands of atoms thick. Use the pencil to draw a line on a piece of paper, and ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers increase speed of single-molecule measurements

As nanotechnology becomes ever more ubiquitous, researchers are using it to make medical diagnostics smaller, faster, and cheaper, in order to better diagnose diseases, learn more about inherited traits, and ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Researchers develop better control for DNA-based computations

A North Carolina State University chemist has found a way to give DNA-based computing better control over logic operations. His work could lead to interfacing DNA-based computing with traditional silicon-based computing.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists develop biological computer to encrypt and decipher images

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in California and the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology have developed a "biological computer" made entirely from biomolecules that is capable of deciphering ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Reading life’s building blocks: Researchers develop tools to speed DNA sequencing

Scientists are one step closer to a revolution in DNA sequencing, following the development in a Harvard lab of a tiny device designed to read the minute electrical changes produced when DNA strands are passed ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

IBM reveals five innovations that will change our lives in the next five years (Update)

Today IBM formally unveiled the sixth annual “IBM 5 in 5" (#ibm5in5) – a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (25) | comments 27 | with audio podcast

Mimicking cells with transistors

As the world has become less analog and more digital -- as tape decks and TV antennas have given way to MP3 players and streaming video -- electrical engineers’ habits of thought have changed, too. In ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

A $1000 genome could be reached by 2013

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new report published in the journal Nature describes the new machine created by Jonathan Rothberg of Ion Torrent Systems which uses semiconductors to decode DNA and takes them one step c ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Let's get physics-al: Computing will continue to evolve into the future

Will the future bring us the teleportation devices of "Star Trek" or the sinister machines of the "Matrix"? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku of the City College of New York says that many of the things that were once the ...

Other Sciences / Other

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