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Nature 445, 366-367 (25 January 2007) | doi:10.1038/445366a; Published online 24 January 2007
Open Innovation Challenges
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Direct Molecular Detection of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
This Challenge is looking for novel approaches to protein and nucleic acid detection. This is an Id...
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Optimizing Sub-cellular Localization Tags
The Seeker is looking for methods to optimize sub-cellular localization tags for protein expression....
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The Universe's quantum monkeys
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BOOK REVIEWED-Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos
by Seth Lloyd
Alfred A. Knopf/Jonathan Cape: 2006. 240 pp. $25.95, £18.99
A little less than 14 billion years ago, a huge explosion gave birth to the Universe, and once it sprang into existence, the Universe began computing. The positions, velocities and internal states of every elementary particle, every atom and molecule, indeed every single physical entity register bits of information.
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