December 18, 2008
When I look around my office, almost everything I see is either a person, a plant, or the product of machines. If you’re facing a computer screen, very likely your surroundings are similar.
The Forge of Vulcan(detail)
Diego Velázquez
But where did these productive machines come from? With varying degrees of human help, they were themselves made by [...]
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December 15, 2008
Deep-etch image of cytoskeleton, with origami inset (upper left)
“Three-dimensional reconstruction of the membrane skeleton at the plasma membrane interface by electron tomography” N Morone et al. JCB, 174:6, 851–862 (2006).
(Inset) “Folding DNA to create nanoscale shapes and patterns”
PWK Rothemund,Nature, 440:297–302 (2006). [pdf]
In an earlier post I mentioned that researchers have been hampered by difficulties with [...]
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