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While DNA is often idealized as the "molecule of life", it is also a highly sophisticated polymer that can be used for next-generation materials. Beyond the fact that it can store information, further fascinating aspects of DNA are its geometric and topological properties, such as knotting and super-coiling.
E-Mail IMAGE: On the left, a snapshot of the simulated system -- a dense solution of supercoiled plasmid. On the right, a more detailed view of the supercoiled fluid showing entanglements between... view more Credit: © Davide Michieletto, University of Edinburgh and Jan Smrek, University of Vienna While DNA is often idealised as the "molecule of life", it is also a highly sophisticated polymer that can be used for next-generation materials. Beyond the fact that it can store information, further fascinating aspects of DNA are its geometric and topological properties, such as knott...
Poems Are Displayed All Over This City’s Walls to Showcase Unity in Diversity Fodor's 2/3/2021 Bailey Berg © Provided by Fodor's Every day, thousands of people hustle past the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi High School in Sofia, Bulgaria, en route to an Orthodox church of the same name, to nearby metro lines, or to a neighboring shopping district, but few notice the poem stretched across the wall. On either side of an abstract, winged heart are the flags of Hungary and Bulgaria (both horizontal stripes of green, red, and white, but in differing order) with the words of poet Sán...