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Technology Research News February 11, 2004 |
Scientists brew tree-shaped DNA Researchers from Cornell University have synthesized a new type of DNA that can be used as a nanotechnology building block. |
Technology Research News December 29, 2004 |
DNA Makes and Breaks Particle Clumps Nanotechnology is all about manipulating materials on the molecular scale. Many teams of researchers are using artificial strands of DNA to do so. |
Technology Research News December 15, 2004 |
DNA Makes Nanotube Transistors Researchers have harnessed the self-assembly abilities of DNA to construct field-effect transistors from carbon nanotubes. |
Technology Research News January 12, 2005 Kimberly Patch |
DNA Scheme Builds Computers Researchers have devised a pair of computer architectures that would be built from self-assembling DNA. |
Technology Research News July 28, 2004 |
Chemistry yields DNA fossils The technique could be used to make nanoscale containers, wires, patterns, and chemical catalysts. |
Chemistry World July 4, 2008 Emma Davies |
Creating a Second Genetic Code Japanese researchers have made artificial DNA that acts like the real thing, even forming right-handed duplexes with complementary artificial strands. |
Chemistry World January 2012 |
DNA motors on With the relentless rise of DNA nanotechnology's popularity, Emma Davies explores the role chemistry has played in its success |
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 |
Glow shows individual DNA Researchers have made a type of artificial DNA of that glows when it combines with a specific sequence of natural DNA. In principle, the method could be used to develop DNA chips that directly sense individual DNA molecules. |
Chemistry World July 5, 2011 Mike Brown |
Metallic Pick and Mix with Complexes Scientists in Germany have plucked a metal ion from the middle of a phthalocyanine molecule on a silver surface. The simple method of removal, which employs a scanning tunnelling microscope, could be used to make cheaper molecular storage devices. |
Technology Research News December 3, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
DNA assembles nanotube transistor Scientists have caused a transistor to self-assemble from a test tube concoction of DNA, proteins, antibodies, carbon nanotubes and minuscule specks of silver and gold. The feat shows that it is possible to assemble the smallest of machines and electronic devices by harnessing DNA's properties. |
Technology Research News August 22, 2005 |
DNA Technologies The versatile DNA molecule has proven to be a powerful technological building block. Researchers have developed ways of combining DNA molecules that allow them to carry out computations in test tubes and create two-dimensional patterns and three-dimensional structures at the nanoscale. |
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Smalley & Patch |
DNA Machines Take a Walk Researchers working to form nanoscale machines and materials are increasingly tapping into nature's building blocks. |
Chemistry World July 4, 2010 Hayley Birch |
DNA sticks at flick of switch A new technique that sticks individual DNA molecules to a gold surface works at the flick of an electrochemical switch. |
Technology Research News August 10, 2005 |
DNA process stamps patterns DNA's ability to connect matching strands is at the heart of a stamp that promises to bring mass production to the nanoscale. |
Technology Research News October 22, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
DNA forms nano waffles A method for stitching together strands of DNA yields microscopic waffled sheets and ribbons. The nanostructures make handy building materials that could help bridge the huge technological chasm between the realm of molecules and the merely microscopic. |
Chemistry World October 15, 2014 Andy Extance |
Fluorescent DNA becomes versatile metal detector Researchers at Stanford University in the US have devised a cheap DNA-based system able to detect and identify an unprecedented number of metals in water. |
Technology Research News April 7, 2004 |
DNA folds into paired pyramids Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute have formed strings of DNA that spontaneously fold into a wireframe octahedron, taking a step forward in the quest to use DNA to make nanoscale templates. |
Technology Research News October 6, 2004 |
Chip spots DNA electrochemically A microelectrochemical method of reading DNA chips could be used in portable detectors. It could be use practically in two to five years, according to the researchers. |
Technology Research News April 23, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
DNA motor keeps cranking Researchers have been making DNA perform all sorts of shape-changing tricks in recent years, but the need to add pieces of DNA at every step has made it a bit of a stretch to call these molecules motors. A method that keeps the process humming changes things. |
Chemistry World September 17, 2012 Ian Le Guillou |
Raising the curtain on single-stranded DNA Scientists have created microfluidic devices containing single-stranded DNA 'curtains' for the first time, allowing scientists to study its interactions with proteins in real time. |
Chemistry World April 14, 2011 Laura Howes |
DNA origami yields tiny flask A US group of researchers has made a round bottomed flask from folded up DNA with an internal capacity of just 24000nm 3, which would be enough to hold 800,000 molecules of water. |
Technology Research News January 12, 2005 |
RNA Tiles Form Nanopatterns Researchers have developed a method of coaxing artificial RNA molecules to self-assemble into specific shapes, much like a jigsaw puzzle automatically assembling. The structures could eventually be used as templates for nanochips, nanocircuits and nanocrystals |
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 Kimberly Patch |
DNA Machine Links Molecules Researchers have fashioned a nanomechanical device from DNA that can be programmed to align a series of molecules and fuse them together. The technique could potentially be used to put together designer polymers, encrypt information, and carry out computations. |
Chemistry World November 17, 2010 Jon Cartwright |
DNA origami meets low-cost lithography Chemists in the US have developed an easy way to integrate the 'bottom up' assembly of DNA origami with the 'top down' patterning of low cost lithography. |
Chemistry World May 7, 2014 Emma Stoye |
Bacterium survives unnatural DNA transplant The first organism that can grow and replicate with an unnatural base pair in its DNA -- giving the cell six nucleotides instead of the usual four -- has been created by scientists in the US. |
Chemistry World February 11, 2011 David Barden |
Waking up to new possibilities in imaging UK researchers have used a cage-like molecule to smuggle metal ions into cells, which could improve medical imaging. |
Technology Research News March 24, 2004 |
DNA has nano building in hand Researchers from Ludwig Maximilians University in Germany have built a simple molecular machine from DNA that can bind to and release single molecules of a specific type of protein. |
Chemistry World August 23, 2011 Josh Howgego |
Expanded genetic alphabet could spell out new genes Chemists have created an artificial genetic code capable of evolving to produce new genes. The code consists of six bases, rather than the standard four, and could form the basis of randomly mutating synthetic life. |
Chemistry World January 30, 2008 Jonathan Edwards |
DNA Helps Nanoparticles Crystallize Two papers in Nature have each shown a simple way to build designer crystals from nanoparticles, using DNA as 'glue'. Both methods show promise as a cheap way of mass-producing complex materials like photonic crystals. |
Chemistry World May 30, 2012 Jon Cartwright |
Tiny buckyball grown around metal atom An international team of researchers has observed the smallest fullerene to form spontaneously to date using metal atoms for stabilization. |
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
DNA in nanotubes sorts molecules Researchers have made a synthetic membrane that recognizes certain biochemical molecules and allows them to pass through. The method could be used to make biological sensors like those needed for genetics research, and to sort biological molecules, |
Chemistry World April 15, 2010 Simon Hadlington |
Lead joins the aromatic ring club Scientists in Japan have successfully incorporated an atom of lead into an aromatic molecule - the heaviest metal so far to be 'aromatised'. |
Technology Research News December 3, 2003 |
Molecule does two-step Duke University researchers have found a way to make a molecule react only when it has been hit by two photons of ultraviolet light, making the molecule a controllable switch. The molecule could eventually be used in optical storage devices and in biochips. |
Chemistry World January 30, 2011 Mike Brown |
Electrons charge down DNA molecular wire US researchers have shown for the first time that a 34nm long DNA strand can be used as a molecular wire to conduct electricity. |
Chemistry World January 15, 2010 Kate McAlpine |
Capturing carbon with copper A team of researchers in the Netherlands have devised a trap that can pull carbon dioxide out of the air. |
Chemistry World October 24, 2008 Hayley Birch |
Proteins swap partners UK researchers have discovered that proteins which use metal cofactors can be surprisingly promiscuous metal binders, happily taking up the 'wrong' metal. |
Chemistry World March 24, 2009 Karen Harries-Rees |
Alkali metals reveal a taste for clam Researchers have discovered a chemical curiosity, alkali metals that prefer aromatic surfaces to water and form clam-like structures. |
Chemistry World March 15, 2010 James Urquhart |
All aboard the DNA nanotube Cargo-carrying DNA nanotubes that can rapidly release their load on demand have been made for the first time by Canadian researchers. |
Chemistry World July 4, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Why is silver deposition so fast? Researchers appear to have solved one of electrochemistry's more baffling mysteries: why it is that metal ions deposit onto an electrode at an apparently unfeasibly fast rate. |
Chemistry World August 9, 2012 Jon Cartwright |
'Genetic code' guides nanoparticle growth Researchers in the US and China have demonstrated that DNA can also be used as a blueprint for the creation of non-biological structures. Their 'genetic code' could pave the way for tailored nanoparticles -- fit for use as catalysts, or in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. |
Industrial Physicist |
Biomimetic Nanotechnology Although biomimetic nanotechnology is in its infancy, with no applications yet reaching commercialization, the barriers in some cases lie mainly in scaling up production processes to industrial levels. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2012 Emily Waltz |
Reading and Writing a Book With DNA Researchers are storing digital information in the form of DNA, but is it practical? Which will get us control of massively large data: electronic or molecular memory? |
Chemistry World July 22, 2011 Kate McAlpine |
Self-assembling DNA structures carve out a niche Researchers have used DNA nanostructures to create raised ridges and tiny trenches in silicon dioxide using an etching technique. |
Technology Research News June 29, 2005 |
Self-assembly: the natural way to make things In biology, there are a few different ways DNA molecules can be replicated and combined. |
Chemistry World May 15, 2006 Jon Evans |
Selective DNA Crystals A molecular biologist has developed a molecular sieve using a DNA crystal with nanoscale channels. |
Chemistry World February 28, 2010 Jon Cartwright |
Reactions on DNA origami watched with AFM Chemists in Denmark have for the first time imaged chemical reactions on a DNA origami scaffold so that they can precisely attach single molecules, involving atomic force microscopy. |
Chemistry World January 17, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Molecular Magnets of Mystery Researchers have discovered a new class of molecular magnets which work above room temperature. But why the magnets work, and what their structures are, remains a perplexing mystery. |
Chemistry World November 7, 2013 Polly Wilson |
Hydrogen adopts alkali metal position For the first time, scientists have shown that hydrogen can stand in for alkali metals in typical alkali metal structures. |
Science News April 24, 2004 |
DNA Day An ivitation to commemorating the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the description of DNA's structure as a double helix in 1953. |
Chemistry World May 30, 2006 Michael Gross |
A Physiological Role for Healthy Prions Researchers have shown that the healthy version of the scrapie pathogen helps maintain the optimum concentration of copper ions in the cell. |