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Hoogsteen base pairs: An alternate structure in DNA

Impact: DNA Decoding    February 2, 2011
Reverse Hoogsteen base pairing…..Wikipedia Commons I know some of my biases. One of them is knee-jerk skepticism about taking little-tested scientific results and blowing them up to “…a cure for cancer” or “…revolutionize the electronics industry.” However, like most people I also have a bias to be curious about interesting, if somewhat unusual scientific findings. [...]
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Learning the secrets of spider silk storage and spinning

News: Nanotechnology    May 13, 2010
Science has been trying to learn the secrets of spider silk – and imitate it – for a long time. It’s a worthy goal. Nothing else, artificial or natural, is quite like it. It has five times the tensile strength of steel and triple the strength of the best synthetic fibers. Scientists are beginning to [...]
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