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Light Eye
01-10-2007, 11:07 AM
dear friends,

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070109142101.htm

be well, be love.

david

new study sheds light on 'dark states' in dna

science daily ? chemists at ohio state university have probed an unusual
high-energy state produced in single nucleotides -- the building blocks of dna
and rna -- when they absorb ultraviolet (uv) light.

this is the first time scientists have been able to probe the "dark" energy
state -- so called because it cannot be detected by fluorescence techniques used
to study other high-energy states created in dna by uv light.

the study suggests that dna employs a variety of means to dissipate the energy
it absorbs when bombarded by uv light.


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