First ever real time film of DNA-enzyme interaction

For the first time scientists have been able to film, in real-time, the nanoscale interaction of an enzyme and a DNA strand from an attacking virus. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have used a revolutionary Scanning Atomic Force Microscope in Japan to produce amazing footage of a protective enzyme unravelling the DNA of a virus trying to infect a bacterial host.

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Science & Technology

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• biotechnology
• biology
• science
• enzyme
• cambridge
• microscope
• DNA
• genetic
• virus
• bacteria
• bbsrc
• research

[SILKWORM777]

when was this? date?

[bbsrcmedia]

The research was originally published, with the video alongside, on July 23, 2007 in the journal The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 10.1073/pnas.0700483104

[jayjaypen2]

Could you please give a fuller explanation of what we're seeing - and write it in a simplified form so that my fifth Grade students would be able to understand. Thanks so much.

[SunnyShawFilms]

i thought science was way beyond this

[warriors41]

Everybody Dance!

[zenithar6666]

HOLY SHIT, mind numbing!! its actaully happnes, ive read about it, seen cg videos, heard models and even imagined, it, but to see it is unreal..

just think about the future when we can go closer adn see teh 3 3d structure of such enzymes in crystal clarity..

[avelione]

disco DNA!

[greiteneis]

IMPRESSIVE! Thank you so much for your work. I have some sort of idea of how much work was expended getting this real-time, nanoscale video footage. If people only understood what this video is actually recording your video would have a 500,000,000 hits. Well Done!

[19Tranc3r92]

JEZUZ!! THATA IS SO AWESOME!! CONGRATS!!

[yaowamarn0812617544]

it's look like little rope

[avelione]

Was this in the real time speed or is it much faster or slower than the original ?