News

The Economist5h
A new project aims to synthesise a human chromosome
The Synthetic Human Genome, or Syn HG, a project launched on June 26th, aims to change that. Funded partly by Wellcome, a ...
C&EN2d
Measurement of Electrostatic Properties of DNA-Carbon Nanotube Hybrids by Capillary Electrophoresis | The Journal of Physical Chemistry C - ACS Publications
The unique structure and properties of DNA-wrapped single-walled carbon nanotubes (DNA-CNTs) allow solution phase sorting of nanotubes by length and chirality, and enable many fundamental studies and ...
C&EN7d
A Novel Small Molecule That Alters Shelterin Integrity and Triggers a DNA-Damage Response at Telomeres | Journal of the American Chemical Society - ACS Publications
We describe a novel synthetic small molecule which shows an unprecedented stabilization of the human telomeric G-quadruplex with high selectivity relative to double-stranded DNA. We report that this ...
IEEE7d
Investigation Into the Effects of Nucleotide Content on the Electrical Characteristics of DNA Plasmid Molecular Wires - IEEE Xplore
In this study, we investigate the effect of nucleotide content on the conductivity of plasmid length DNA molecular wires covalently bound to high aspect-ratio gold electrodes. The DNA wires were all ...