And a new prototype device can display a fluorescent letter in the presence of
nucleic acid sequences from the Ebola virus or the closely - related Marburg virus: «E» for Ebola or «M» for Marburg.
Not exact matches
To start, she used a cotton swab to get a sample of cells
from her cheek, boiled them in a test tube in her kitchen to free the DNA, then added primers,
nucleic acids that mark the part of the
sequence.
Modern molecular technologies (genomics and other omics), through comparing
nucleic acid and amino
acid sequences across living species, are enabling the identification of genetic components and patterns stingily conserved by evolution,
from those in which times of evolutionary branching of the tree of life can be inferred.
In addition to Orgel and Ghadiri, authors on the paper, entitled «Self - Assembling
Sequence - Adaptive Peptide
Nucleic Acids,» are Yasuvuki Ura, John Beierle, and Luke Leman, all
from The Scripps Research Institute.