New DNA nanoforms take shape
Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 13:20
in Physics & Chemistry
some no larger than viruseshave been constructed through a revolutionary technique known as DNA origami. Now, Hao Yan, Yan Liu and their colleagues at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute have expanded the capability of this method to construct arbitrary, two and three-dimensional shapes, mimicking those commonly found in nature.