A team of researchers at Columbia University has developed a way to allow DNA strands to store more data. In their study, published in the journal Science, the group applied a small amount of electricity to DNA strands to ...
A team of researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has found evidence of genomic changes in ...
According to current estimates, the amount of data produced by humans and machines is rising at an exponential rate, with the digital universe doubling in size every two years. Very likely, the magnetic and optical data-storage ...
Biotechnology
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Medications often have unwanted side-effects. One reason is that they reach not only the unhealthy cells for which they are intended, but also reach and have an impact on healthy cells. Researchers at the Technical University ...
Bio & Medicine
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Scalable nanoparticle-based computing architectures have several limitations that can severely compromise the use of nanoparticles to manipulate and process information through molecular computing schemes. The von Neumann ...
New international research led by Monash University scientists has changed our understanding of the evolutionary processes that can lead to the rapid emergence of new species.
Ecology
Aug 27, 2020
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Chemical lesions in the genetic material DNA can have catastrophic consequences for cells, and even for the organism concerned. This explains why the efficient identification and rapid repair of DNA damage is vital for survival. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 27, 2020
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Current sequencing techniques lack the sensitivity to detect rare gene mutations in a pool of cells, which is particularly important, for example, in early cancer detection. Now, scientists at KAUST have developed an approach, ...
Biotechnology
Aug 26, 2020
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When large forces act on a heavy beam, for example, in bridge construction, the beam will be slightly deformed. Calculating the relationship between forces, internal stresses and deformations is one of the standard tasks ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 5, 2020
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On the DNA assembly line, two proofreading proteins work together as an emergency stop button to prevent replication errors. New research from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 16, 2020
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