A non-invasive intracellular 'thermometer' with fluorescent proteins has been created

Source: Nanotech Now

Temperature controls many of the cell's life processes, such as splitting and metabolism. A European research team led by the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), which has the Severo Ochoa mark of excellence, has published a non-invasive method t ...
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DNA Memory: Rewritable Bit Storage Within Chromosome Of Living Cell Demonstrated

Source: The Huffington Post

Engineers have invented a way to store a single rewriteable bit of data within the chromosome of a living cell--a kind of cellular switch that offers precise control over how and when genes are expressed. For three years, Jerome B ...
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Pioneer in Reproduction Research Award Bestowed on 'Yana'

Source: Hawaii Reporter

- Professor Emeritis Ryuzo "Yana" Yanagimachi, the UH Manoa researcher who laid the scientific foundation for lab-assisted human reproduction (in vitro fertilization), is the 2012 recipient of the Pioneer in Reproduction Research ...
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PAIRing Up Cargo Proteins

Source: PLos BIology

Towards a cellular “Traffickome.” Systematic analysis of cargo receptors (CRs) demonstrates the rules governing specificity versus promiscuity in ER exit. All newly made proteins destined to be secreted from our cells or to function at the ce ...
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A Systematic Approach to Pair Secretory Cargo Receptors with Their Cargo Suggests a Mechanism for Cargo Selection by Erv14

Source: PLos BIology

A systematic approach to visualize proteins exiting the endoplasmic reticulum paired with their cargo receptors identifies novel cargo for known receptors and reveals the mechanism of one conserved receptor, Erv14. The endoplasmic reticul ...
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Guess What's Cooking in the Garage

Source: Popular Science

The next big breakthrough in synthetic biology just might come from an amateur scientist On Fillmore Street in San Francisco, in that stretch that’s still mostly boho coffee joints with a head shop and an art gallery or two, I met Mer ...
Full article at: Popular Science  More like this  4 days ago, 2:27pm CDT

Bioengineers create rewritable digital data storage in DNA

Source: Kurzweilai

Under ultraviolet light, petri dishes containing cells glow red or green depending upon the orientation of a specific section of genetic code inside the cells' DNA. The section of DNA can be flipped back and forth using the RAD technique ...
Full article at: Kurzweilai  More like this  4 days ago, 6:56am CDT

Rewritable DNA for digital data storage

Source: Chemistry World

Drew Endy and colleagues at Stanford University engineered a gene sequence containing a section of DNA that can exist in two opposite orientations - each giving rise to a different gene product - and incorporated it into cells ...
Full article at: Chemistry World  More like this  4 days ago, 4:29am CDT