It would appear from the abstract: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp7112297
that you are on the right track. These spherulites appear to reach out and touch. Terry On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 12:22 AM, leaking pen <itsat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Exactly. the more i think of it, the more i wonder also... a lot of > dna movement in liquids , the charge and polarity, is based on the > final few bps on each end. I wonder if same bp ends but different > strands would end up together... > > that or size in general. you know, the same thing that makes western > blots work. > > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:08 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: >> In reply to leaking pen's message of Sat, 23 May 2009 10:15:40 -0700: >> Hi, >> >> I think you are almost on the right track. There was recently a >> demonstration of >> how water molecules could align with one another to a depth of hundreds of >> thousands of molecules away from a surface. In so doing they form a >> dielectric >> layer(*) that has the effect of "communicating" the charge from one side to >> the >> other. The implication is that the charge pattern along the DNA strand would >> be >> thus communicated and the strands most likely to be attracted, would be those >> with the closest matching opposite charges IOW with the "matching" pattern. >> >> * In a capacitor, the presence of a dielectric effectively reduces the >> distance >> between the plates. >> >>>Umm, if we are talking nanometer distances... water is, due to >>>naturally h+ and oh - dissasociation, going to have pockets of charge. >>> mighten they not be moving towards each other, but towards the same >>>patch of water? >> [snip] >> Regards, >> >> Robin van Spaandonk >> >> http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html >> >> > >
