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DNA can do many things build organisms, implicate criminals, store Shakespearean sonnets. Now, it can illuminate the complex biomolecular architecture of a cell.

By attaching colored, fluorescent tags to short stretches of DNA, a team at Harvard Universitys Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has developed an imaging system that can resolve structures less than 10 nanometers apart.

Inside each cell in your body, a startling array of molecular machinery is whirring and humming, from the tiny factories that assemble proteins, to the furnaces that produce energy, to the skeletal fibers that help cells move and maintain their shape. Watching how these myriad operations work together and how the system breaks down has been both a research goal and a technology bane.

It wasnt until good light microscopes first switched on in the early 19th century that scientists recognized that plant and animal tissues were aggregates of cells. But peering further inside those cells was hard. Colorless and semi-transparent, the cells stymied even the most powerful microscopes of the time, which couldnt resolve their inner structures. So, scientists began using a variety of stains and dyes to color the cells ingredients. Over decades, as microscopists and physicists struggled to harness and redirect photons, they eventually turned to fluorescent stains as a means of marking these intracellular molecules.

But these technologies were limited in their ability to resolve structures more than 200 nanometers apart, because light cannot illuminate anything smaller than its own wavelength.

Recently, the Wyss team figured out how to overcome this limit inexpensively, and using normal light microscopes rather than electron or photon imaging. The method takes advantage of DNAs ability to bind to complementary versions of itself kind of like a molecular handshake. The team begins with short, specific sequences of DNA. These sequences are then attached to molecules, called antibodies, that recognize specific proteins or cellular structures. So, when the antibodies find and bind to their protein targets say, the proteins making up the cells skeleton theyre carrying along their DNA flags.

Next, the team introduces free-floating, complementary DNA sequences to the cell sequences that carry a fluorescent tag. These are the sequences that will recognize and bind to the flags flown by the antibodies attached to the cells skeletal proteins. When these introduced DNA sequences find their partners and shake hands, the binding activates those fluorescent tags, causing them to blink on and off. By tweaking and recording this blinking, the team is able to resolve the positions of particular molecules even those that are as close as 10 nanometers apart.

As reported Feb. 2 in Nature Methods, repeating the process with different complementary DNA sequences lets scientists assemble an ultra-sharp composite image of multiple cellular components. Now, instead of struggling to understand how cells are put together, the challenge is using the method to gauge how cells respond to things like environmental stresses or therapeutic drugs.

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UK-based DNA Filmsis entering television with the launch of DNA TV Limited, a new venture set up in partnership with the Fox Networks Group. The new UK-based independently owned and operated company will work with British writing, producing and directing talent to create dramas, comedy and limited-run event series for UK and international broadcasters. FNG will have a first-look to co-finance and distribute the DNA TV Limiteds projects on Fox, FX Networks and The National Geographic Channels in the U.S. as well as the 300+ Fox International Channels.

This marks FNGs first ever first-look pact. It stems from the long-standing relationship between DNA Films CEO Andrew Macdonald and FNG chairman and CEO Peter Rice who previously worked together on the film side. DNA Filmss 28 Days Later became one of the first big hits for For Searchlight after Rice took over the specialty film division. It led to a five-year, $50-million joint production and distribution deal between the two companies. Now Rice and Macdonald are making a similar arrangement on the TV side. Having worked closely with Peter when he was at Fox Searchlight, we are delighted to have Fox Networks Group in our corner, said Macdonald. Added Rice, Over the years the team at DNA has demonstrated a remarkable gift for developing strong, well-written material and managing productions with tremendous production values. Macdonald, with producing partner Allon Reich, will spearhead DNAs TV venture with help on the FNG from Eric Schrier, President, Original Programming for FX Networks and FX Prods. DNAs film credits also include The Last King Of Scotland and Notes On A Scandal, and its current slate features an adaptation of Thomas Hardys Far From The Madding Crowd and writer/director Alex Garlands thriller Ex Machina.

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Three men have been arrested thanks to DNA evidence that was collected at burglaries that occurred last year.

Detectives from the Fair Lawn Police Department collected DNA at burglaries that occurred in the summer that recently came back to identify the suspects.

Detective Jeff Welsh conducted an investigation on a burglary that occurred on July 16 at a residence on Oak Street. Evidence in the home that helped obtain DNA linked Osvaldo Rodriguez, 38, of Newark, to the burglary, according to a press release from Sgt. Brian Metzler of the Fair Lawn Police Department.

When the DNA match was found Rodriguez was already being held in Bergen County Jail for charges related to an October burglary. Rodriguez was arrested on Oct. 17 after Officer Nicholas Snyder found him on 33rd Street and 12th Avenue in Paterson with proceeds from a burglary that had occurred at a residence on 1st Street.

Rodriguez was charged on Jan. 9 with the second burglary and theft charges, according to police. Bail was set at $50,000.

Detective Peter Yuskaitis arrested Glen Rojas, 26, of Clifton, on Jan. 28 after DNA evidence that was found by the initial officers on scene linked him to a burglary at a residence on 26th Street that occurred on Aug. 12. Rojas was charged with burglary and theft, police said. He was sent to Bergen County Jail on $50,000 bail.

Detective Jeff Welsh arrested George Wayman, 33, of Newark, on Feb. 1 after DNA evidence was found by Welsh that linked Wayman to a burglary at a residence on Oak Street that occurred on July 23. Wayman was charged with burglary and theft, according to police. He was sent to Bergen County Jail on $10,000 bail with a 10-percent option.

The Fair Lawn Police Department is reminding residents to lock their windows and doors on their homes and vehicles to help prevent against burglary and theft to their personal property.

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