Virus As Nano-building Block: Extreme Nature Helps Scientists Design Nano Materials

ScienceDaily (Oct. 16, 2008) — Scientists are using designs in nature from extreme environments to overcome the challenges of producing materials on the nanometre scale. A team from the UK’s John Innes Centre, the Scripps Research Institute in California and the Institut Pasteur in Paris have identified a stable, modifiable virus that could be used as a nanobuilding block.

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'Lost' Miller-Urey Experiment Created More Of Life's Building Blocks

ScienceDaily (Oct. 17, 2008) — A classic experiment proving amino acids are created when inorganic molecules are exposed to electricity isn't the whole story, it turns out. The 1953 Miller-Urey Synthesis had two sibling studies, neither of which was published. Vials containing the products from those experiments were recently recovered and reanalyzed using modern technology. The results are reported in this week's Science.

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