<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fe7695b6-e175-4023-9408-7f49a1c11cb6/DBFB2F46-79D4-4646-8A02-8AA891F86D98/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nyunews.com/news/university/a_robot_so_tiny_it_can_alter_dna_code-1.1592386" href="http://www.nyunews.com/news/university/a_robot_so_tiny_it_can_alter_dna_code-1.1592386" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nyunews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nyunews.com/news/university/a_robot_so_tiny_it_can_alter_dna_code-1.1592386">A robot so tiny it can alter DNA code</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nyunews.com/news/university/a_robot_so_tiny_it_can_alter_dna_code-1.1592386">Max Behrman </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nyunews.com/news/university/a_robot_so_tiny_it_can_alter_dna_code-1.1592386">March 2, 2009</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nyunews.com/news/university/a_robot_so_tiny_it_can_alter_dna_code-1.1592386"><DIV> After years of research, a team of chemists from NYU and China’s Nanjing University has created a two-armed nanorobot with the ability to alter and exchange pieces of genetic code. The catch? Their device has to be small enough to work on a molecular scale.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nyunews.com/news/university/a_robot_so_tiny_it_can_alter_dna_code-1.1592386"><DIV> Built from DNA, the new nanorobot measures approximately 150 x 50 x 8 nanometers. And that’s tiny: a nanometer is a billionth of a meter.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nyunews.com/news/university/a_robot_so_tiny_it_can_alter_dna_code-1.1592386"> Hongzhou Gu, a fifth-year chemistry graduate student, said that one of the researchers’ goals is to create larger arrays accessible to the device.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nyunews.com/news/university/a_robot_so_tiny_it_can_alter_dna_code-1.1592386"><DIV> That manipulation of molecules therefore facilitates the conception of new DNA structures, allowing for the manufacturing of never-before-seen synthetic materials. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nyunews.com/news/university/a_robot_so_tiny_it_can_alter_dna_code-1.1592386">The arms, called cassettes, store different pieces of information; while DNA has previously filled that niche, other species such as proteins and chemical components could theoretically be placed in the arms.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nyunews.com/news/university/a_robot_so_tiny_it_can_alter_dna_code-1.1592386">molecular assembly lines</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DBFB2F46-79D4-4646-8A02-8AA891F86D98/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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