Comments on: (Almost) Polymer of the month (May 2007): DNA with a twist http://www.thepowerofgoo.net/2007/05/12/almost-polymer-of-the-month-may-2007-dna-with-a-twist/ exploring high-performance soot and other interesting polymers Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:47:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: kayesdee http://www.thepowerofgoo.net/2007/05/12/almost-polymer-of-the-month-may-2007-dna-with-a-twist/#comment-416 kayesdee Sun, 13 May 2007 16:54:47 +0000 http://www.thepowerofgoo.net/2007/05/13/almost-polymer-of-the-month-may-2007-dna-with-a-twist/#comment-416 <p>Andrew, admit it: a traditional chemistry lab will never even want to do this! If you play with DNA, you are actually playing on a supramolecular level that is never in the range of traditional chemistry labs.</p> <p>Seriously: as long as longer DNA-molecules can only be prepared either with special robots or via biological methods (and I don't see this changing any time soon) this is where things will happen. And as such far away from traditional chemistry.</p> <p>Even though most biologists or biochemists would probably not feel comfortable at that level. So that leaves them in the same boat with those chemists... ;)</p> Andrew, admit it: a traditional chemistry lab will never even want to do this! If you play with DNA, you are actually playing on a supramolecular level that is never in the range of traditional chemistry labs.

Seriously: as long as longer DNA-molecules can only be prepared either with special robots or via biological methods (and I don’t see this changing any time soon) this is where things will happen. And as such far away from traditional chemistry.

Even though most biologists or biochemists would probably not feel comfortable at that level. So that leaves them in the same boat with those chemists… ;)

]]> By: andrewsun http://www.thepowerofgoo.net/2007/05/12/almost-polymer-of-the-month-may-2007-dna-with-a-twist/#comment-414 andrewsun Sun, 13 May 2007 15:32:33 +0000 http://www.thepowerofgoo.net/2007/05/13/almost-polymer-of-the-month-may-2007-dna-with-a-twist/#comment-414 <p>These all sounds good but the DNA techniques are too biology-oriented for a traditional chemistry lab to acquire.</p> These all sounds good but the DNA techniques are too biology-oriented for a traditional chemistry lab to acquire.

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