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Published online 1 May 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020429-5
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DNA construction business
DNA could help build nanomachines made of DNA.
Self-assembling rods and girders of DNA could help shrink engineering to the scale of individual molecules.
Dorothy Erie of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-workers have made frayed wires from single strands of DNA bundled into clumps about 2 millionths of a millimetre (nanometres) wide and between 5 and 200 nanometres long1.
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