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UV light is not all bad for DNA

A bright, sunny summer day, no sunscreen, and there it is: you got a sunburn. On their way to self-destruction, your skin cells’ DNA has been damaged by the solar ultraviolet (UV) light. Absorbing UV, some DNA bases undergo a chemical reaction, called photocyclization, linking... click to read more

Quentin Laurent | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at McGill University, Canada

Tyler Brown | PhD student at McGill University

DNA

Nanotechnology

chemistry

Reading time 3 min

published on Apr 26, 2023

How an artificial intelligence bends a single molecule

Molecules, which are collections of tightly bound atoms, are all around in everyday life. For example, you can read this article because the light impinging on your retina drives a molecule called retinaldehyde to bend into a new 3D structure. This fine-tuning in the molecule's... click to read more

Christian Wagner | Group Leader at Peter-Grünberg Institute (PGI-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany

Klaus-Robert Müller | Professor at Machine Learning Group, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

F. Stefan Tautz | Professor at Peter-Grünberg Institute (PGI-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany

robotics

artificial intelligence

Nanotechnology

molecules

scanning probe microscopy

Reading time 4.5 min

published on Jul 9, 2021