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Chemical Education Today
Nature: What Matters in Nature—DNA, Light–Driven Ion Pumps, and Antimatter
Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon Cannon
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5043

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May 2003
Vol. 80 No. 5
p. 466

Abstract
This report from Nature points the reader to a series of articles commemorating the 50th anniversary of Watson and Crick's elucidation of DNA structure. In addition, a light-powered membrane pump for Ca2+ ions is described that can generate a membrane potential and is reminiscent of photoinduced biological proton pumps. Finally, the column covers an article on the successful generation of cold anti-hydrogen as part of the collaborative ATHENA project at CERN. Scientists are hoping that this simplest of anti-matter will allow them to test the validity of the central theorem in quantum mechanics in the near future.
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*  Citation
Heinhorst, Sabine; Cannon, Gordon. J. Chem. Educ. 2003 80 466.
*  Keywords
Anti-Matter*; Nanotechnology; Nucleic Acids / DNA / RNA; Photochemistry
*  History
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