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DNA Is Blueprint, Contractor And
Construction Worker For New
Structures
Science Daily Feb. 4, 2008
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Northwestern University researchers
report they have used DNA as the
blueprint, contractor and
construction worker to build a
three-dimensional structure out of
gold. Changing the DNA strand's
sequence of As, Ts, Gs and Cs
changes the blueprint, and thus the
shape, of the crystalline structure.
The technique, to be published in
the...
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A Memory Breakthrough
Technology Review Feb. 4, 2008
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Intel announced a research advance
that doubles the storage capacity of
a single phase-change memory cell.
Unlike flash, data can be written to
cells much faster, at rates
comparable to the dynamic and static
random-access memory (DRAM and SRAM)
used in all computers and cell
phones today....
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Direct Sequencing Of DNA, RNA Using
Novel Technique
Science Daily Feb. 3, 2008
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Institute for Analytical Sciences
(Dortmund) scientists have combined
spectroscopy and atomic force
microscopy to create a method for
reading DNA and RNA directly, and
have used it to read RNA. Previous
methods for sequencing DNA are
highly complex, work indirectly, and
require a large sample of genetic
material. In contrast, the new
technique...
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A Miniature Synchrotron:
researchers get a new tool to
determine protein structures
Technology Review Feb. 4, 2008
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Lyncean Technologies researchers
have built a room-sized miniature
synchrotron that produces the same
quality of x-ray beams as
synchrotrons many times larger,
offering scientists a new way to
perform x-ray experiments in their
own labs....
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Finnish patient gets new jaw from
own stem cells
abc.net.au Feb. 2, 2008
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Scientists in Finland have replaced
a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw
with a bone transplant grown inside
his abdomen after being cultivated
from stem cells isolated from his
own fatty tissue. Researchers said
the breakthrough opens up new ways
to treat severe tissue damage and
makes the prospect of custom-made
living spares parts for humans a...
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Dean Kamen's "Luke Arm" Prosthesis
Readies for Clinical Trials
KurzweilAI.net February 2008
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Dean Kamen's "Luke arm"--a
prosthesis named for the remarkably
lifelike prosthetic worn by Luke
Skywalker in Star Wars--came to the
end of its two-year funding last
month. Its fate now rests in the
hands of the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA),
which funded the project....
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