Swarming Behavior Programmed by DNA Computing (VIDEO)

Hokkaido University

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The movie shows the motility, swarming and dissociation of the flexible (low rigidity) microtubules. The images show the flexible microtubules forming swarms with circular motions (top), and them dissociating in response to the d-DNA input signal (bottom).

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Keya J. J. et al., <em>Nature Communications</em>, Jan. 31, 2018

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