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RAD-tagging technology is demystifying genome sequencing

Take millions of puzzle pieces containing partial words and put them back together into full words, sentences, paragraphs and chapters until the book these random parts came from is rebuilt.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast




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Totally rad: Scientists create rewritable digital data storage in DNA

(Phys.org) -- Scientists from Stanford's Department of Bioengineering have devised a method for repeatedly encoding, storing and erasing digital data within the DNA of living cells.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Celebrities pile into tech startups

Robert DeNiro co-owns restaurants and Jennifer Lopez sells perfume and clothes, but the most coveted job for multihyphenate celebrities these days is something a bit less glitzy and a lot more geeky - tech entrepreneur.

Technology / Business

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mars-bound Curiosity craft adjusts path, tests instruments

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, halfway to Mars, adjusted its flight path today for delivery of the one-ton rover Curiosity to the surface of Mars in August.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Curiosity, the stunt double

With a pair of bug-eyes swiveling on a stalk nearly 8 feet off the ground, the 6-wheeled, 1800-lb Mars rover Curiosity doesn’t look much like a human being.  Yet, right now, the mini-Cooper-sized ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

SwRI-led RAD measures radiation from solar storm

The largest solar particle event since 2005 hit the Earth, Mars and the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft travelling in-between, allowing the onboard Radiation Assessment Detector to measure the radiation a human astronaut ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Curiosity and the solar storm

On Nov. 26th, Curiosity blasted off from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas 5 rocket. Riding a plume of fire through the blue Florida sky, the car-sized rover began a nine month journey to search for signs of life ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

NASA Mars-bound rover begins research in space

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's car-sized Curiosity rover has begun monitoring space radiation during its 8-month trip from Earth to Mars. The research will aid in planning for future human missions to the Red Planet.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Preparing for future human exploration, RAD measures radiation on journey to Mars

The Radiation Assessment Detector, the first instrument on NASA's next rover mission to Mars to begin science operations, was powered up and began collecting data Dec. 6, almost two weeks ahead of schedule. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 6

SAM I am

The Mars Science Laboratory is on its way to the red planet, and its rover Curiosity should touch down next summer. If the mission hits paydirt and comes across organic material, then one instrument in particular ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The road to ultrahigh-resolution X-ray spectrometers

Two recent developments at the Advanced Photon Source explore paths to routine use of sub-meV x-rays to probe low-energy excitations in matter. The first is a remarkable experimental demonstration of an x-ray ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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