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Nano-Probes Stay Inside a Cell's Nucleus for Days
Roland Piquepaille writes "Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) have developed fluorescent and stable nano-probes which can stay inside a cell's nucleus for hours or even days. According to this LBL news release, this will help biologists to better understand nuclear processes that evolve slowly, such as DNA replication, genomic alterations, and cell cycle control. This research was partially based on previous investigations about quantum dots. Now, the researchers want to tailor their quantum dots, which emit different colors depending on their sizes, to check specific chemical reactions inside nuclei, such as how proteins help repair DNA after irradiation. Read more for other details and references and to see how a nano-sized probe is entering a cell's nucleus."
One step closer to Borg technology. Awesome.
That's not news. My girlfriend been telling me I've a nano-sized probe for years, now.
"such as DNA replication"
Genetic pr0n? Sure tells us a lot about the minds of scientists.
..medichlorians.
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Put freakin' laser-beams on the heads of those nano-probes and have them kill cancer?
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...fluorescent and stable nano-probes which can stay inside a cell's nucleus for hours or even days.
Now we can mod our heads to match our PC cases!
[i]this will help biologists to better understand nuclear processes[/i]
Nucular - it's nucular.
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It's a well known fact that new technologies don't catch up until they can be used for pr0n.
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
Imagine getting some that fluoresce under 'black light' and putting those suckers in your epidermal/dermal cells! You'd be the hit of the club scene changing colors and glowing!
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Does that mean we can't use any "welcome our microscopic fluorescent overlords" jokes?
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