Talk:DNA nanotechnology/Archive 1

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At some point you might want to connect with David Bell in the Nanostructures lab at Harvard inre his direct TEM imaging of DNA using high Z (visible) labels. Relevant IMHO to the subject of this article. I'll probably be at the June 15th Wikipedia meeting at the Grafton Pub. if you want to chat about it. Frank Ferguson - fferguson@aol.com Frankatca (talk) 21:15, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

George Church and DNA nanotechnology
Discuss: http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/pers.html http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/DNAlat2.JPG http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/DNA_lattice.JPG —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.96.114.149 (talk) 02:11, 9 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Okay. I had removed the following sentences from the beginning of the History section: "The concept of building lattices out of DNA strands is attributed to George Church in 1977.   Church shared his ideas with crystallographers, including Nadrian Seeman."


 * My concern is that the cited references are essentially personal correspondence which is hosted on George Church's personal website, which makes this a primary source. Wikipedia's policies depreciate primary sources in favor of secondary sources published by reliable third parties (see WP:PRIMARY, but also see WP:SELFPUB for a possible counterpoint).


 * There is certainly room for more details on the discussions leading to Seeman's original work, as long as it is verifiable. If there is a published secondary source about George Church's involvement in the beginnings of DNA nanotechnology, we can absolutely add that.  (As a contrast, it is permissible to state here that Seeman "invented" DNA nanotechnology because that is the exact word used in the cited source, a monograph by a third party.)  It may also be permissible to say something like "The concept of DNA nanotechnology was invented by Nadrian Seeman in the early 1980s,[1] although similar ideas had been proposed prior to that.[2]"  Let me know what you think.  Antony–22 (talk/contribs) 03:06, 9 December 2010 (UTC)