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WASHINGTON -

A man serving time for rape in a Maryland prison has been transferred to the District after forensic evidence linked him to another crime.

Julius McBride is accused of following a woman out of a store and raping her at gunpoint in the summer of 2012. It is a case that would likely have gone unsolved had it not been for DNA and a computer that discovered the match.

The Fort Washington man is facing charges in D.C. in part because a judge in Maryland ordered the 25-year-old to give up a sample of his DNA and it was entered into the state's DNA databank.

From there, a computer did the rest of the work and matched evidence taken from the victim.

It was early on a Tuesday morning just before 2 a.m. when the victim walked into the Dollar Plus Food Store on Benning Road for a pack of cigarettes.

According to a court affidavit, the woman noticed another shopper inside and the two briefly spoke. She gave the man a cigarette before leaving the store and walking down Benning Road.

Within seconds, the man came up from behind, pulled a handgun and forced the woman up E Street and into a stairwell where he sexually assaulted her.

The woman immediately reported the crime and told police she had never seen the man before.

At the hospital, with what is called a rape kit, evidence was collected. After being analyzed by the D.C. crime lab, it was entered into D.C.'s DNA databank.

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DNA closes violent 2012 Southeast DC rape case

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 09, 2014

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9-Oct-2014

Contact: Kat McAlpine katherine.mcalpine@wyss.harvard.edu 617-432-8266 Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard @wyssinstitute

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have unveiled a new method to form tiny 3D metal nanoparticles in prescribed shapes and dimensions using DNA, Nature's building block, as a construction mold.

The ability to mold inorganic nanoparticles out of materials such as gold and silver in precisely designed 3D shapes is a significant breakthrough that has the potential to advance laser technology, microscopy, solar cells, electronics, environmental testing, disease detection and more.

"We built tiny foundries made of stiff DNA to fabricate metal nanoparticles in exact three-dimensional shapes that we digitally planned and designed," said Peng Yin, senior author of the paper, Wyss core faculty member and Assistant Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School.

The Wyss team's findings, described in a paper titled "Casting Inorganic Structures with DNA Molds," were published today in Science. The work was done in collaboration with MIT's Laboratory for Computational Biology and Biophysics, led by Mark Bathe, senior co-author of the paper.

"The paper's findings describe a significant advance in DNA nanotechnology as well as in inorganic nanoparticle synthesis," Yin said. For the very first time, a general strategy to manufacture inorganic nanoparticles with user-specified 3D shapes has been achieved to produce particles as small as 25 nanometers or less, with remarkable precision (less than 5 nanometers). A sheet of paper is approximately 100,000 nanometers thick.

The 3D inorganic nanoparticles are first conceived and meticulously planned using computer design software. Using the software, the researchers design three-dimensional "frameworks" of the desired size and shape built from linear DNA sequences, which attract and bind to one another in a predictable manner.

"Over the years, scientists have been very successful at making complex 3D shapes from DNA using diverse strategies," said Wei Sun, a postdoctoral scholar in the Wyss' Molecular Systems Lab and the lead author of the paper. For example, in 2012, the Wyss team revealed how computer-aided design could be used to construct hundreds of different self-assembling one-, two-, and three-dimensional DNA nanoshapes with perfect accuracy. It is this ability to design arbitrary nanostructures using DNA manipulation that inspired the Wyss team to envision using these DNA structures as practical foundries, or "molds", for inorganic substances.

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DNA nano-foundries cast custom-shaped metal nanoparticles