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Miniaturized DNA Sewing Machines
Roland Piquepaille writes "Japanese researchers have found a way to build long threads of DNA using miniaturized hooks and bobbins. In fact, they've demonstrated how to manipulate delicate DNA chains without breaking them. They've designed these laser-directed microdevices to pick up and manipulate individual molecules of DNA. The scientists have used optical tweezers to catch and move these microdevices, which could be used in the future to detect genetic disorders such as Down syndrome." Here's a link to the journal article.
Filed under the ever growing folder labeled "It works because of lasers".
Shark-directed laser micro devices.
Here it is, fixed for you.
That was funny.... just wait till there is a PERL mod for that API. Freakenstein, here we come.
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There won't be a Perl mod; when you use hooks and bobbins, it's sewing.
You only use Perl when knitting.
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
Today it's Downs Syndrome free, tomarrow it's, "Can I get a medium #1 with blond hair blue eyes, here's 1 egg and a table spoon of semen" "Thank you, your order number is 42".
What's wrong with that? Are we on the slippery slope to...healthy, good looking children? Oh noes! The horror!
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
So can we create the girl from 5th element now!
Take out the explanations and you're actually at a rather normal political speech.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Sorry I have a corky sense of humor