Daniel Moore

This morning, I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation before my committee and others. I am now Dr. Daniel F. Moore, Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering.

My talk was on "Novel ZnS Nanostructures" focusing on the synthesis and growth mechanisms of one-dimensional ZnS nanostructures.

Spelling change. Thanks KTD.

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DNA computing targets West Nile Virus, other deadly diseases from PhysOrg.com

Researchers say that they have developed a DNA-based computer that could lead to faster, more accurate tests for diagnosing West Nile Virus and bird flu. Representing the first "medium-scale integrated molecular circuit," it is the most powerful computing device of its type to date, they say.
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The JASON report on the idea of DNA computing is pretty enlightening, even though it was published over 10 years ago. It found that DNA computing would probably be too slow to be generally useful (that is, in everyday personal use), but it would be useful for "applications where exhaustive search is the only solution."

DNA appears to be well-suited for computations that can be programmed to utilize a low number of operations in a highly parallel fashion. It works best at present for problems where an exhaustive search is the only alternative; it does not appear to be advantageous when this is not the case. The question is can the approach be extended to 'useful' problems, or not?

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