'Knot' Your Average Nanostructure: Single-Stranded Molecules that Fold into Big Shapes (image)

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Caption

Model of unravelling ssOrigami under simulated gravity. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 15 December 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by D. Han at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, and colleagues was titled, 'Single-stranded DNA and RNA origami.'

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D. Han et al., Science (2017)

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