image: Optical texture of the uniaxial columnar liquid crystal phase of certain short DNA segments. This image relates to an article that appeared in the November 23, 2007, issue of the journal Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Michi Nakata and colleagues at University of Colorado, Boulder, in Boulder, Co., was titled "End-to-End Stacking and Liquid Crystal Condensation of 6- to 20 -- Base Pair DNA Duplexes." view more
Credit: Image courtesy of Giuliano Zanchetta, University of Milan