A Molecular Circuit Regenerator to Implement Iterative Strand Displacement Operations

The predictable chemistry of Watson–Crick base-pairing imparts a unique structural programmability to DNA, enabling the facile design of molecular reactions that perform computations. However, many of the current architectures limit devices to a single operational cycle. Herein, we introduce the design of the “regenerator”, a device based on coupled enthalpic and entropic reactions that permits the regeneration of molecular circuit components.     

The Challenge of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Abstract

Functional magnetic resonance imaging of the human brain in action presents large statistical and computational challenges. Here we describe those challenges and provide references to a number of other papers where detailed methods developed to meet them are reported. The first seven sections of this paper were written in 1995 when our work was in its infancy. The last four sections were written more recently, to update the earlier sections and to show the directions we have gone and the directions we intend to go.     

An Efficient Straightforward Synthesis of (-)-Bulgecinine

(-)-Bulgecinine 1, a component of the antibiotic bulgecins, was efficiently synthesized from (S)-pyroglutaminol2.