Nature’s photocopiers caught ‘doodling’ – and scientists say it could revolutionise how DNA is written (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

Nature’s photocopiers caught ‘doodling’ – and scientists say it could revolutionise how DNA is written

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Nanoscale view of several interwoven fragments of ‘doodled’ DNA (orange and white strands) imaged on a near perfectly flat mica surface (shown in blue) using a custom high-speed atomic force microscope built at the University of Bristol.

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Thomas Gorochowski

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