A million times faster: DNA nanotechnology could speed up pharmaceutical development while minimizing costs
A new tool speeds up development of vaccines and other pharmaceutical products by more than 1 million times while minimizing costs.
A new tool speeds up development of vaccines and other pharmaceutical products by more than 1 million times while minimizing costs.
Bio & Medicine
Apr 4, 2022
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When it comes to matching simplicity with staggering creative potential, DNA may hold the prize. Built from an alphabet of just four nucleic acids, DNA provides the floorplan from which all earthly life is constructed.
Nanophysics
May 7, 2018
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For the past few decades, scientists have been inspired by the blueprint of life, DNA, as the shape of things to come for nanotechnology.
Nanophysics
Dec 14, 2017
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The green sulfur bacterium makes its home in the chilly waters of the Black Sea. To eke out its lonely existence, this life form scavenges energy from the feeble sunlight available to it at a depth of over 250 feet.
Materials Science
Nov 13, 2017
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Using molecules of DNA like an architectural scaffold, Arizona State University scientists, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Michigan, have developed a 3-D artificial enzyme cascade that mimics an important ...
Bio & Medicine
May 25, 2014
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In a new discovery that represents a major step in solving a critical design challenge, Arizona State University Professor Hao Yan has led a research team to produce a wide variety of 2-D and 3-D structures that push the ...
Bio & Medicine
Mar 21, 2013
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Two major barriers to the advancement of DNA nanotechnology beyond the research lab have been knocked down. This emerging technology employs DNA as a programmable building material for self-assembled, nanometer-scale structures. ...
Bio & Medicine
Dec 13, 2012
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A team of scientists from Columbia University, Arizona State University, the University of Michigan, and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have programmed an autonomous molecular "robot" made out of DNA to ...
Bio & Medicine
May 12, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have shown in the laboratory that metal nanoparticles damaged the DNA in cells on the other side of a cellular barrier. The research, by the University of Bristol, is published online this week ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 5, 2009
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Most people are familiar with the DNA double-helix. Its twisted ladder shape forms because the long pieces of DNA that make up our genome are exactly complementary—every adenine paired to a thymine, and every cytosine paired ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 18, 2024
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