SciShow: DNA: Not Just for Life Anymore!

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Content of the Lesson: Our DNA stores the information that makes us who we are, but that's not all it can do! There are applications for DNA that go way beyond its use for life, like storing data and folding it into complicated shapes. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Alisa Sherbow, Silas Emrys, Drew Hart. Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Nazara, GrowingViolet, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Biological computers https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dna-data-storage-is-closer-than-you-think/ https://escholarship.org/uc/item/004485qm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2714485/ https://news.mit.edu/2016/programming-language-living-cells-bacteria-0331 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/dna-could-store-all-worlds-data-one-room https://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6328/950 https://jbioleng.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13036-019-0211-2 Aptamers https://www.basepairbio.com/what-is-an-aptamer https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21720957/ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2018.00041/full https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704523/ https://www.bausch.com/ecp/our-products/rx-pharmaceuticals/rx-pharmaceuticals/macugen-pegaptanib-sodium-injection https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-pharmtox-010716-104558 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.accounts.9b00167 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7730239/ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fchem.2020.00434/full DNA origami https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssynbio.0c00235 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5543475/ https://www.idtdna.com/pages/education/decoded/article/practical-applications-of-dna-origami https://www.nature.com/articles/s43586-020-00009-8 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0927796X19300427 https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/dna-origami-allows-for-3d-printed-dna-bunnies-to-deliver-medication/ https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2020/02/dialogues-in-research-dna-origami-and-labyrinths https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24963790/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26988942/ https://scitechdaily.com/dna-origami-used-by-mit-engineers-to-identify-vaccine-design-rules/ Nanomanufacturing https://www.nature.com/articles/natrevmats201768 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6493/878.full https://engineering.stanford.edu/magazine/article/stanford-scientists-use-dna-assemble-transistor-graphene Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_animation.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:German_microdots_World_War_II_Mexico_Spain.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aptamer_biotin.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Base_pair_GC.svg https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/135765.php?from=353525 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/242138.php https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/84649.php?from=285507 https://www.nature.com/articles/micronano201772/figures/5 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DNA-AuNP0022.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Transbauformen.jpg https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/242287.php https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graphen.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kohlenstoffnanoroehre_Animation.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DNA_nanostructures.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dnaconformations.png


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