DNA nanotechnology: a curiosity or a promising technology?

DNA nanotechnology: a curiosity or a promising technology?

DNA nanotechnology, the design and self-assembly of artificial nucleic acid-based structures or systems, has developed with breathtaking pace in recent years. The technology offers an unparalleled ability to control structure and function at the molecular level and the sizes of the structures are expanding towards the micrometer domain. The question is whether the technology offers solutions to...

Nanotechnology: a promising new technology--but how safe?

Nanomaterials--a wide variety of materials with a diameter of less than 100 nm--have unique properties. Nanotechnology is being promoted as the technology that will drive the next industrial revolution. Nanomaterials may have unique biological activities, but little research has been undertaken to investigate their potential effects on human health and the environment. Many seminal reports have...

Carbon and terahertz nanotechnology: a promising alliance.

Kinetoplast DNA: A Promising Drug Target for Treatment of Leishmaniasis

Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne zoonotic disease caused by various species of the genus Leishmania, (trypanosomatidae family) that is transmitted by phlebotomine sandflies. The disease can present in a range of clinical forms, including dermal lesions, metastasis mucocutaneous forms, and fatal visceral forms. In this non-systematic review, we aimed at introducing the role of kinetoplast DNA (kD...

f/sla from learner perspectives: a social activity or a cognitive process

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...