Research Update: Mesoporous sensor nanoarchitectonics

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Nanoarchitectonics with Porphyrin Functionalized DNA

DNA is well-known as bearer of the genetic code. Since its structure elucidation nearly seven decades ago by Watson, Crick, Wilkins, and Franklin, much has been learned about its detailed structure, function, and genetic coding. The development of automated solid-phase synthesis, and with it the availability of synthetic DNA with any desired sequence in lengths of up to hundreds of bases in the...

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Rats selectively bred for their tendency to drink large or small quantities of alcohol are a useful model for investigators examining the possible neurobiological processes underlying alcoholism. Studies with the alcohol-preferring (P) and alcoholnonpreferring (NP) and the high-alcohol-drinking (HAD) and low-alcohol-drinking (LAD) pairs of rat lines developed at Indiana University have illustra...

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Heavy alcohol consumption over long periods of time can result in severe liver damage, including death of liver cells (i.e., hepatocytes). Two mechanisms— apoptosis and necrosis—can contribute to hepatocyte death. In apoptosis, the affected cell actively participates in the cell death process, whereas in necrosis the cell death occurs in response to adverse conditions in the cell’s environment....

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1. GlaxoSmithKline Australia Post Graduate Support Grant 2. NHMRC Announces New Partnership Projects Scheme 3. Grants, Scholarships And Fellowships for Research into Motor Neurone Disease 4. NSW Cancer Research Institute Grants and Fellowships 5. 2008 Australian Development Research Awards/Grants 6. The Australian Academy Of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) Crawford Fund Agricultur...