Chemists reach from the molecular to the real world with creation of 3-D DNA crystals
Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 07:28
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 organisation of drug receptor targets to enable illumination of their 3D structures...