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Bacteria as factories

Nature Nanotechnology volume 3, pages 707–708 (2008)Cite this article

Producing large quantities of designer DNA nanostructures at low cost has been a long-standing challenge in nanobiotechnology. It is now possible with the aid of bacteria.

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Figure 1: Cloning DNA nanostructures using bacteria and phages.

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  1. Chuan Zhang and Chengde Mao are in the Department of Chemistry at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA. mao@purdue.edu,

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Zhang, C., Mao, C. Bacteria as factories. Nature Nanotech 3, 707–708 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2008.358

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