Or how you can take a strand of hair and can get someone's whole drug history.
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Could a strand of DNA be spliced open at a precise location at the beginning of a gene?
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It combines a strand of standard plastic with a layer made from a "smart" material that can absorb water.
The organisms are microscopic, thinner than a strand of human hair, but in large numbers they make seawater cloudy.
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It's the manipulation of manufactured materials measuring less than 100 nanometers, or a thousandth the width of a strand of hair.
"First class" pertains to body parts of saints--a fingernail of the Apostle Paul, say, or a strand of the Virgin Mary's hair.
At that size, about 15 of the maps could be wrapped end to end long-ways around a strand of human hair, by our math.
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So if you plan on stringing a strand of career pearls, you need to teach people who you are and how to treat you from the very beginning.
The young Romanian immigrant hid the message "June 6 Invasion: Normandy" inside a strand of DNA. "It creates a new branch that the field can expand into, " Risco said.
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He and his team of 24 graduate students are the world's leaders in building "nanowires, " whiskers of semiconductors so thin you could bundle 20 million inside a strand of 2-lb.
What is known is that there are often active zones of DNA transcription within a nucleus that seem to be much bigger than the width of a strand of DNA and its associated proteins.
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While the iPad and its kin are making waves today, we can't wait to see the next generation of devices that implement Sony's new energy-efficient OLED displays, which are thinner than a strand of human hair.
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The GenVault plate, the size of an index card and slightly thicker, contains 384 tiny wells, each lined on the bottom with special paper and prefilled with a strand of synthetic rice DNA, varying in length and sequence.
They persuaded the festival to screen a strand of Sherlock Holmes films - a rare chance to compare and contrast some very different screen portrayals, from the recent thriller Reichenbach Falls to Buster Keaton and Douglas Fairbanks' take on the pipe smoking detective.
Some revolutionaries were slighted by the scientific establishments of their time--like Rosalind Franklin's exclusion from sharing in the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA. Described by her peers as a "genius, " she exposed herself to massive amounts of radiation to try to get the best possible X-ray photograph of a strand of DNA, dying of cancer at 37.
Before the fence was built, all that separated that stretch of Mexico from California was a single strand of cable that demarcated the international border.
Wizards at Lucent and Nortel can zap--in one second--6 trillion bits of information down a fiber strand the width of a human hair.
Of the two labs, Fujitsu achieved the fastest transmission rate of 1.1 terabits per second, which were sent 150 kilometers over a single strand of optical fiber.
"The publicity wasn't so great, " says Langer, thoughtfully twisting and pulling at a stray strand of hair.
Farther east, a different strand of far-right thinking dominates in countries like Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, he said.
Farther east, a different strand of far-right thinking dominates in countries such as Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, he said.
On the double helix that comprised the Os in Google, a small section of a strand crossed another at the wrong spot.
Instead of casting itself as the antagonist, Infocious chose to become a vital character in another strand of the story, with a product called LingoSpot.
Like the copper cable, it would be buried in the ground--but a strand the diameter of a human hair could carry thousands of times more information than the copper wire.
He took a seat on the second strand of ropes, where his head was level with mine, and beckoned me in with a brisk wave of gloves.
At one point, he came upon a five-strand run of barbed wire healed into the bodies of live oaks, and he slowed, took a breath, and stopped the car.
Transcriptors substitute DNA for semiconductors and RNA for the electrons in traditional transistors -- essentially, the transcriptor controls the flow of a specific RNA protein along a DNA strand using tailored combinations of enzymes.
Milan Stojanovic at Columbia University is building circuits using a different form of strand displacement based on catalytic DNA strands, also known as deoxyribozymes or DNAzymes.
In a brief statement, Scotland Yard said that Tuesday's arrest was under a specific sub-strand of the investigation, Operation Kalmyk, which has been looking at computer hacking offences in relation to suspected business espionage.
Greg Nannup, owner of Indigenous Tours WA, was embarking on a swirling, multi-strand tale of whale beachings, child spirits and rainbow serpents.
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