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Visual science journalism’s DNA problem
Your left hand and right hand are mirror-images of each other. You can’t superimpose them completely even after all manner of rotations and translations. Only mirroring them works. The same thing can happen to some molecules. When two molecules are … Continue reading
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Tagged chiral molecules, DNA, double helix, enantiomers, mirror life, science journalism, scientific illustration
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Similar DNA
From an article in Times Now News: Comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi with former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday said both have a similar “DNA” and share a passion for scientific … Continue reading
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Tagged Atal Behari Vajpayee, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, DNA, human genome, Narendra Modi, nuclear test
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Lab test to check for beef works best if meat is uncooked
The technique used to check for a meat’s origins works best when the meat is raw and worst when it is pan-fried. Continue reading
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Tagged beef, cow meat, DNA, DNA polymerase, exponential growth, fluorescence, nucleotides, polymerase chain reaction, Taq polymerase, thermal cycler
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The DNA-based computer that can calculate π
I’m not fond of biology. Of late, however, it’s been harder to avoid encountering it because the frontiers of many fields of research are becoming increasingly multidisciplinary. Biological processes are meshing with physics and statistics, and undergoing the kind of epistemic reimagination that geometry experienced … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract tile assembly model, arXiv, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, DNA, DNA sequencing, Hao Wang, kinetic tile assembly model, Leibniz series, self-assembly, Turing-universal
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