Tiny rounded nanostructures made of DNA (IMAGE)

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Tiny rounded nanostructures made of DNA

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No bigger than a virus, each of these nanostructures was built using new software that lets researchers design objects out of concentric rings of DNA. Models (top) shown alongside electron microscope images of the actual objects (bottom).

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Courtesy of Raghu Pradeep Narayanan and Abhay Prasad, Yan lab, Arizona State University.

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Please credit Raghu Pradeep Narayanan and Abhay Prasad, Yan lab, Arizona State University.

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