3-D Reconstructions of DNA Segments Connected to Gold Nanoparticles (VIDEO)

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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This video shows techniques that scientists used to produce 3-D reconstructions of shape fluctuations in double-helix DNA segments attached to gold nanoparticles.

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(Credit: Lei Zhang, Dongsheng Lei, Jessica M. Smith, Meng Zhang, Huimin Tong, Xing Zhang, Zhuoyang Lu, Jiankang Liu, A. Paul Alivisatos & Gang "Gary" Ren)

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