Chemists reach from the molecular to the real world with creation of 3-D DNA crystals
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 14:15
in Physics & Chemistry
New York University chemists have created three-dimensional DNA structures, a breakthrough bridging the molecular world to the world where we live. The work, reported in the latest issue of the journal Nature, also has a range of potential industrial and pharmaceutical applications, such as the creation of nanoelectronic components and the organization of drug receptor targets to enable illumination of their 3D structures.