Diatom (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Diatom (1 of 2)

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Base-pairing properties of DNA were used to construct tiny structures that accumulated a silica outer skeleton similar to shell-building organisms known as diatoms.

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Courtesy of the Yan Lab.

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