Origami-like Nanostructures Made from DNA (IMAGE)

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Origami-like Nanostructures Made from DNA

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Scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen and Harvard University have thrown the lid off a new toolbox for building nanoscale structures out of DNA, with complex twisting and curving shapes. In the Aug 7 issue of the journal Science, they report a series of experiments in which they folded DNA, origami-like, into 3-D objects including a beach ball-shaped wireframe capsule just 50 nanometers in diameter.

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H. Dietz, TUM Dept. of Physics, all rights reserved.

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