1. Thom LaBean is in the Departments of Computer Science and Chemistry, 329 Gross Chemistry Building, Box 90345, Duke University, Durham North Carolina, 27708, USA.
   e-mail: thomas.labean@duke.edu

Abstract

Since the 1940s DNA has been known as the genetic material connected to heredity, and from the early 1980s it has also been considered as a potential structural material for nanoscale construction. Now, a hydrogel made entirely of DNA brings this molecule into the realm of bulk materials.

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