Richard Feynman was right: there is plenty of room at the bottom, and the beeping, lumbering trashcans of 1950s science fiction are gradually giving way to micro-droids the size of a speck of dust . . . or even a molecule.
Bio & Medicine
Dec 30, 2010
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Genome sequencing will have a profound effect on our understanding of genetic biology and could usher in a day when doctor and patient are able to review individual genome sequences to fully personalise medical treatment.
Nanophysics
Dec 1, 2010
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Like cats, human cells have a finite number of lives-once they divide a certain number of times (thankfully, more than nine) they change shape, slow their pace, and eventually stop dividing, a phenomenon called "cellular ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 3, 2010
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An Iowa State University team of researchers has developed a type of hybrid proteins that can make double-strand DNA breaks at specific sites in living cells, possibly leading to better gene replacement and gene editing therapies.
Biotechnology
Aug 30, 2010
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Chemists at New York University and China's Nanjing University have created a DNA assembly line that has the potential to create novel materials efficiently on the nanoscale. Their work is reported in the latest issue of ...
Bio & Medicine
May 12, 2010
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In the battle against cancer and other diseases, precise analysis of specific proteins can point the way toward targeted treatments. Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM, Germany), together with Fujitsu ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 22, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Michigan researchers have shown that tension on DNA molecules can affect gene expression---the process at the heart of biological function that tells a cell what to do.
General Physics
Feb 2, 2010
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Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have discovered how a protein long known to be an essential activator of DNA replication actually triggers this process in cells.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 7, 2010
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Researchers report that a single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB), once thought to be a static player among the many molecules that interact with DNA, actually moves back and forth along single-stranded DNA, gradually allowing ...
Biochemistry
Oct 21, 2009
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(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 within ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 6, 2009
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