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Another dimension for DNA art

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Many of nature's intricate nanostructures self-assemble from subunits. Efforts to mimic these assembly processes enter a new phase with a method to design and build three-dimensional DNA nanostructures.

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Figure 1: DNA sculpture.

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  1. Thomas H. LaBean is in the Departments of Computer Science, Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA. thomas.labean@duke.edu,

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LaBean, T. Another dimension for DNA art. Nature 459, 331–332 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/459331a

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