Update 25.12 Nanotechnology milestone: a general method for designing stable proteins

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** Nanotechnology milestone: a general method for designing stable proteins
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** Foresight Update 25.12 - December 26, 2012
ISSN 1078-9731
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** Nanotech News
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Discuss these news stories at http://foresight.org/nanodot.


** In this issue:
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* Testing and improving scaffolded DNA origami for molecular nanotechnology
(http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3D5473)
* Two types of artificial muscle from nanotechnology
(http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3D5467)
* Optimal bond loads in designing molecular machines
(http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3D5460)
* Arbitrarily complex 3D DNA nanostructures built from DNA bricks
(http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3D5454)
* New strides in understanding mechanochemical reactions
(http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3D5444)
* Nanotechnology milestone: general method for designing stable proteins
(http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3D5439)


** Testing and improving scaffolded DNA origami for molecular nanotechnology
(http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3D5473)
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Scientists at the Technische Universitat Munchen have published two
papers documenting major enhancements to scaffolded DNA origami.


** Two types of artificial muscle from nanotechnology
(http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3D5467)
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Biology uses various types of molecular machines to produce movement, all of
which are candidates to be mimicked for use in nanotechnology. Muscles produce
movement through the contraction of systems of polymers, powered by the release
of chemical energy. Now scientists from France's CNRS have developed an
artificial muscle that produces micrometer-scale movement through the
coordinated action of thousands of individual molecular machines each producing
nanometer-scale movement.


** Optimal bond loads in designing molecular machines
(http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3D5460)
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One issue in designing molecular machine systems to do nanoscale work, such as
molecular manufacturing, is how to transfer energy to implement guided
molecular motions, to move components or to make or break chemical bonds.


** Arbitrarily complex 3D DNA nanostructures built from DNA bricks
(http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3D5454)
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This past May we posted news of a major advance in the toolkit for DNA
nanotechnology. ... a very versatile, rapid, and inexpensive way to assemble
arbitrarily complex 150-nm two-dimensional DNA nanostructures from
42-nucleotide DNA tiles. [Now} another major advance from the same research
group


** New strides in understanding mechanochemical reactions
(http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3D5444)
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Mechanochemistry is the process of using mechanical force to effect bulk
chemical reactions with small (catalytic) amounts of solvent. Although the
process lacks any form of the positional control that is a cornerstone
capability of productive nanosystems, understanding how chemical reactions
proceed under mechanical force will help lessen the gap between current and
future machine-phase synthesis.


** Nanotechnology milestone: general method for designing stable proteins
(http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=3D5439)
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Yet another milestone along the protein design molecular engineering path to
advanced nanotechnology has been reached, thanks to the efforts of the
laboratory of David Baker, one of the 2004 winners of the Foresight Feynman
Prize in Nanotechnology for Theoretical work.

-- Nanodot posts by James Lewis (http://www.foresight.org/about/Lewis.html) and
Stephanie C.


** Foresight Events and News
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** 2012 Foresight Prize Winners Announced
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The winner of the 2012 Feynman Prize for Experiment is the team of Gerhard
Meyer, Leo Gross, and Jascha Repp for their work at IBM Research in Zurich (Dr.
Repp is now at Regensburg University). The winner of the 2012 Feynman Prize for
Theory is David Soloveichik of University of California, San Francisco, for his
general theory of DNA displacement cascades.

For more information : (http://www.foresight.org/about/2012Feynman.html)

The Foresight Institute is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2012
Distinguished Student Award is David Walker, a Ph.D. student at Northwestern
University in Evanston, Illinois.

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Ciao

I think that we could try to define the amino acid of the nanotechnologies
with collaborative contributions considering molecules as well as the
nanotechnologies drug discovery
Before analyzing molecules , you should also try:

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