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Science
Nanoparticles Can Rip Your DNA Apart Without Ever Touching It
11:40AM Rosa Golijan | If I could visualise nanoparticles, I’d think of them as crime bosses because apparently they can mess with DNA without ever having direct interaction. Like a true godfather, a nanoparticle commands obeying molecules to do the dirty work. More »
Science
Scientists Mapping Out 10,000 Animal Genomes For “Genetic Zoo”
2:00PM Rosa Golijan | On the tail-end of news that all of the HIV genome and 98% of the pig genome has been decoded, scientists are announcing that they’ve got a plan to collect and sequence the DNA of 10,000 vertebrate species. More »
Design
DNA-Inspired Closet Is As Space-Efficient As It Is Twisted
10:40AM Rosa Golijan | Irina Alexandru’s design is more of a coat hanger than a closet, but it’s intended to allow for the maximum amount of clothing hangers in the smallest amount of space. I just plain like the curvy double helix design. [Core77]
Design
Customise Your iPhone With Your Own DNA
1:42AM Jesus Diaz | As if my iPhone didn’t have enough of my DNA in the form of grease fingerprints, dead skin cells and other precious bodily fluids, now I can add some more of it in wallpaper form. More »
Hardware
IBM Examining Microchips Built On DNA “Oragami” Nanostructures
7:30AM Jack Loftus | From the “at least 10 years out” category of microchip fabrication comes word that IBM is working to reduce future costs and microchip sizes by using DNA. That’s correct, the building blocks of life could one day contribute to your virtual reality headshot in Halo 28: Master Chief Comes Back From the Dead for the 12th Time. More »
Science
Genome Sequencing Gets 99.9833% Price Cut
11:20AM Rosa Golijan | Dr. Quake of Stanford University only needed $US50,000 and a month’s time to complete a genome sequencing process which previously took $US300 million, over 250 people, and several years. How cheap would Windows 7 be with this guy’s cost-cutting? More »
Science
Secret of Eternal Life, Better Sex Found in Mammoth Graveyard
9:40PM Jesus Diaz | Get ready for eternal life and better sex: Russian scientists working on a Siberian mammoth graveyard have found unknown bacterium DNA which, according to preliminary lab results, effectively extends mice’s life-as well as other things. More »
Science
DNA Strands Converted Into Tiniest Fibre Optic Cables For Optical Computing
1:45AM John Mahoney | Future optical computers that use light instead of electricity will need nano-scale pipes to transfer photons–analogues to the individual transistor’s in a traditional circuit. And for that, scientists for the first time have used human DNA to build the smallest fibre optics cables yet created. And as is typical with organic computers, said cables are capable of assembling themselves.
Random Stuff
Craigslist Armoured Truck Thief Gets Nabbed
3:15AM Sean Fallon | You may recall a story a couple of months ago about a man who successfully robbed an armoured car by hiring decoys on Craigslist, then fled the scene by floating down the Skykomish River in Washington on a inner tube. It’s a great heist story—straight out of the climactic scene in the Thomas Crown Affair. However, unlike Pierce Brosnan, this criminal won’t be jetting off to live out the rest of his days with some insurance investigating MILF. The culprit was nabbed by police this week outside of a Target store using good old fashioned DNA evidence. It was almost the perfect crime. [SeattlePi via Wired] More »
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