Adventures in Synthetic Biology

Well, this is pretty cool.Adventures in Synthetic Biologyis a comic that appears on theNature website. A comic in a scientific journal? If that doesn’t legitimize the artform, I don’t know what does. It was drawn by Chuck Wadey and written by Drew Endy and Isodora Deese from the MIT Synthetic Biology Working Group. They even explain the process of creating a scientific comic in a the comic project wiki.

jtotheizzoe: DNA Lego Bricks To Produce Nano-sculptures But using tiny loops of DNA as “bricks”, Harvard (of course) scientists have developed a Lego-like set of nucleic acid building blocks. The sequences in each loop only stick to certain neighbors in certain orientations, just like real Legos. Those rules are defined by all the standard base-pairing rules that you learned in biology class. You can see some of the shapes that they’ve developed above. DNA molecules are the building blocks of life, of course, but this take that to a new level. Take a look at some previous DNA construction projects: DNA origami and a DNA “genotypeface”. Ed Yong digs deep into the blocks at Not Exactly Rocket Science.
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jtotheizzoe:

DNA Lego Bricks To Produce Nano-sculptures

But using tiny loops of DNA as “bricks”, Harvard (of course) scientists have developed a Lego-like set of nucleic acid building blocks. The sequences in each loop only stick to certain neighbors in certain orientations, just like real Legos. Those rules are defined by all the standard base-pairing rules that you learned in biology class. You can see some of the shapes that they’ve developed above.

DNA molecules are the building blocks of life, of course, but this take that to a new level. Take a look at some previous DNA construction projects: DNA origami and a DNA “genotypeface”.

Ed Yong digs deep into the blocks at Not Exactly Rocket Science.

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tondton:

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