dna strands

(Kiel University) Researchers at Kiel University have succeeded in showing that DNA strands differ in their light sensitivity depending on their base sequences.

Their results are reported by Nina Schwalb and colleagues in the current issue of the journal Science appearing on Oct. 10, 2008.

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) Researchers from NIST and Cornell University have developed a new fabrication technique called 'nanoglassblowing' that creates nanoscale fluidic devices to isolate and study single molecules in solution, including individual DNA strands.

(Weizmann Institute of Science) Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science demonstrate that a mathematical concept called recursion can be applied to constructing flawless synthetic DNA molecules.

The ideal molecules are created in successive rounds in which faultless segments are lifted from longer, error-containing DNA strands and assembled anew.

(Emory University) A consortium of scientists has discovered new non-histone targets for one enzyme previously believed to modify only histones -- the group of proteins that creates tightly bundled packages of DNA strands.

A consortium of scientists has discovered new non-histone targets for one enzyme previously believed to modify only histones -- the group of proteins that creates tightly bundled packages of DNA strands.

A team led by Guenter von Kiedrowski at the Ruhr University in Bochum has made a dodecahedron from DNA building blocks.

These objects are formed in a self-assembly process from 20 individual trisoligonucleotides, building blocks consisting of a "branching junction" and three short DNA strands.