Showing papers by "Tanya Prozorov published in 2018"
TL;DR: Comparisons of bone material properties for lines of hens created by divergent selection to have high and low bone strength and housed in either individual cages, with restricted mobility, or in an aviary system, with opportunity for increased mobility show improvement of bone biomechanics.
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TL;DR: The mechanism of DNA-templated nanoparticle nucleation remains elusive as discussed by the authors, and fundamental understanding is lacking on how the DNA template dictates nanoparticle formation, attachment, growth and ultimately, functional properties.
Abstract: Bio-inspired synthetic methods offer room-temperature pathways to a variety of functional nanostructures with shapes and sizes not realizable via conventional inorganic chemical techniques. For example, DNA origami has been used as a scaffold to create nanoelectronic devices. Among the advantage of DNA-based technologies are low-cost, unprecedented highly-controlled assembly and sitespecific binding ability. The majority of published work on recent advances in DNA metallization focuses on either site-specific attachment of discrete metallic nanostructures to the biotemplate [1], electroless plating [2], or by seeding the DNA strands prior to folding to create a starting point for metallic growing [3]. Single-step in situ metallization to form continuous nanometer-size metallic surfaces is an alternative pathway. While significant effort has focused on constructing and applying robust templates suitable for metallization, the mechanism of DNA-templated nanoparticle nucleation remains elusive. Fundamental understanding is lacking on how the DNA template dictates nanoparticle formation, attachment, growth, and ultimately, functional properties.
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