Ribbon-like DNA Tile Crystals (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Ribbon-like DNA Tile Crystals

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The first three seeds each present a distinct pattern (000000, 100001, or 011010) and were incubated with a set of tiles that copy the pattern from layer to layer; the fourth seed was incubated with a set of tiles that constructs each diagonal layer to represent a binary number one larger than the previous layer. Some errors occur.

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Credit: Caltech/Winfree, Rothemund, Barish, Schulman

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