Post by skyship on Jan 18, 2010 13:13:13 GMT -5
This sounds like DNA is just material now for
products and the human a great resource.
Well, we have sold our souls, or had them stolen from
us, so the body and dna is just another resource
to be bartered with.
see photos as well:
tinyurl.com/ycrct4p
www.thepowerofgoo.net/2007/05/12/
almost-polymer-of-the-month-may-2007-
dna-with-a-twist/
"
(Almost) Polymer of the month (May 2007): DNA with a twist
The sceptical chymist posted a short interview with Nadrian Seeman today, which reminded me of my DNA-richer days, long ago they seem. If you remember my last comment on DNA-Polymer conjugates you know that DNA can do all sorts of nice things for polymer chemists as well as material scientists. But there is more than that.
Seeman2002
Emulating biology: Building nanostructures from the bottom up
Seeman, N. C. and Belcher, A. M.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 6451-6455 (2002)
10.1073/pnas.221458298
Storhoff1999
Programmed Materials Synthesis with DNA
Storhoff, J. J. and Mirkin, C. A.
Chem. Rev. 99 1849-1862 (1999)
10.1021/cr970071p
And here some neat examples of DNA-toy-structures: Note that the trend seems to go to structures that are either self-assembled (utilizing the inherent programmable structure of DNA) or resemble macroscopic structures. It seems like these structures are actually the smallest ones obtainable in a sensible fashion. OK, one can make a cube-like molecule smaller than with DNA, such as cubane, but with DNA one has a huge toolbox for creating almost any kind of structure. The future will tell if any of these structures are actually useful or not…
Nilsen1997
Dendritic Nucleic Acid Structures
Nilsen, T. W. and Grayzel, J. and Prensky, W.
Journal of Theoretical Biology 187 273-284 (1997)
skyship
products and the human a great resource.
Well, we have sold our souls, or had them stolen from
us, so the body and dna is just another resource
to be bartered with.
see photos as well:
tinyurl.com/ycrct4p
www.thepowerofgoo.net/2007/05/12/
almost-polymer-of-the-month-may-2007-
dna-with-a-twist/
"
(Almost) Polymer of the month (May 2007): DNA with a twist
The sceptical chymist posted a short interview with Nadrian Seeman today, which reminded me of my DNA-richer days, long ago they seem. If you remember my last comment on DNA-Polymer conjugates you know that DNA can do all sorts of nice things for polymer chemists as well as material scientists. But there is more than that.
Seeman2002
Emulating biology: Building nanostructures from the bottom up
Seeman, N. C. and Belcher, A. M.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 6451-6455 (2002)
10.1073/pnas.221458298
Storhoff1999
Programmed Materials Synthesis with DNA
Storhoff, J. J. and Mirkin, C. A.
Chem. Rev. 99 1849-1862 (1999)
10.1021/cr970071p
And here some neat examples of DNA-toy-structures: Note that the trend seems to go to structures that are either self-assembled (utilizing the inherent programmable structure of DNA) or resemble macroscopic structures. It seems like these structures are actually the smallest ones obtainable in a sensible fashion. OK, one can make a cube-like molecule smaller than with DNA, such as cubane, but with DNA one has a huge toolbox for creating almost any kind of structure. The future will tell if any of these structures are actually useful or not…
Nilsen1997
Dendritic Nucleic Acid Structures
Nilsen, T. W. and Grayzel, J. and Prensky, W.
Journal of Theoretical Biology 187 273-284 (1997)
skyship