From the ancient pyramids to modern buildings, various three-dimensional (3-D) structures have been formed by packing shaped objects together. At the macroscale, the shape of objects is fixed and thus dictates how they can ...
Nanophysics
May 17, 2019
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Researchers have created a system that can detect and quantify small and rare biological molecules that are important for detecting disease early.
Bio & Medicine
May 01, 2019
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For biologists everywhere, April 25 is auspicious. It is DNA Day and commemorates the date in 1953 when scientists Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins published seminal scientific papers describing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 26, 2019
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The field of materials science has become abuzz with "metal-organic frameworks" (MOFs), versatile compounds made up of metal ions connected to organic ligands, thus forming one-, two-, or three-dimensional structures. There ...
Biochemistry
Apr 08, 2019
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How could prebiotic information-bearing DNA sequences survive in the face of competition from a vast excess of shorter molecules with random sequences? LMU scientists now show that a relatively simple mechanism could have ...
General Physics
Apr 02, 2019
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All the genome sequences of organisms known throughout the world are stored in a database belonging to the National Center for Biotechnology Information in the United States. As of today, the database has an additional entry: ...
Biotechnology
Apr 01, 2019
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Single-molecule fluorescent measurements provide fresh insights into a process for keeping errors out of our genomes.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 25, 2019
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DNA, which contains the genetic information of an organism, consists of long chains of nucleotides. In order to study the functions based on the sequence of these building blocks, DNA molecules must be inserted in carrier ...
Biotechnology
Mar 19, 2019
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In everyday life, blinking lights can send signals—for example, that a car is going to turn. Now, researchers have engineered tiny "blinkers" that reveal single molecules of RNA or protein inside cells based on the duration ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 13, 2019
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DNA is small. Really, really, small. So, when researchers want to study the structure of a single-stranded DNA, they can't just pull out their microscopes: they have to get creative.
Biotechnology
Mar 07, 2019
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