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Nature Materials 7, 98 - 100 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nmat2110

Biomolecular assembly: Dynamic DNA

William Shih1

  1. William Shih is in the Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Research Institute, Smith Building, 44 Binney Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
    e-mail: william_shih@dfci.harvard.edu


Building blocks of DNA self-assemble into nanostructures in a kinetically controlled way. The versatile molecular system can be programmed to perform diverse dynamic functions.

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