DNA Glue (IMAGE)

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard

DNA Glue

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DNA makes glue programmable because one strand of DNA will stick tightly to a matching partner strand, but only if the two strands have chemical "letters," or nucleotides, that are complementary (A to T, C to G). Gel bricks coated with matching strands of DNA adhere specifically to each other.

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Peng Yin, Wyss Institute

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